12 Influential Early MTV Videos
Remember when the cable channel played music? Billboard‘s first video editor saw all the early videos and selects the significant clips.
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Bruce Springsteen’s ‘No Nukes’ Concert: The Boss Proves It All Night
If anyone has doubts that this is one of the greatest live bands in the history of rock, ‘The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts’ should decimate them.
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The Stills-Young Band One-Off Album: ‘Long May You Run’
The 1976 release is an outlier, a stopgap that is often overlooked. But there are treasures in it.
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10 Underrated Bee Gees Songs
What these tracks share is a place in a catalog deep enough to make even successful songs easy to overlook.
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Cat Stevens Returns After 40 Years: 2016 Review
The acclaimed singer-songwriter returned to New York City after a 40-year absence to perform a stunning career retrospective.
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Susanna Hoffs, Bangles Co-Founder, Releases 2026 Solo Album, ‘The List’
The album, she says, “is what happens when an artist and her closest friends gather around the kitchen table and share the stories that define one’s life.”
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Lita Ford: Queen of the Rock Guitar
The founding member of the all-female punk band, the Runaways, enjoyed solo success a decade later. “The Queen of the Rock Guitar” still rocks.
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The Roches Get 3-CD Collection, ‘The Warner Bros./Rykodisc Albums’
Sisters Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy pushed the boundaries of so-called “folk music.” Their songs were personal, funny, vulnerable, witty, sad, joyful, and utterly original as they bared their hearts and souls in striking harmony.
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Tom Petty 50th Anniversary Box Set Traces the Heartbreakers’ Early Years
Origins 1971-1978 digs into the vaults to trace the sonic formation of the band.
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Moving To the Grooving: The Wild Cherry Smash, ‘Play That Funky Music’
The 1976 song’s fresh sound, with its recurring horn riff and outrageous lyrics, came from a midwestern rock band.
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