Sony Music has sued the University of Southern California in New York federal court for allegedly using more than 170 of the ...

By the end of the 1970s, AC/DC were already one of the world's biggest hard rock bands, but their record label, Atlantic, wanted them to be bigger.

AC/DC fans are in hysterics after an old claim about what the band's name really stands for cropped up on social media. The ...

But two members of the Hooks – guitarists Red Symons and Bob “Bongo” Starkie – quickly became a key part of Split Enz’s ...

Tougher than glam rock and pre-dating punk by a couple of years, the Heavy Metal Kids were swashbuckling rock’n’roll pirates fronted by doomed livewire Gary Holton. In 2004, Classic Rock traced the ...

Legendary local bluesman Rick Steele, father of Empire of the Sun star Luke Steele and Little Birdy singer Katy Steele, has ...

According to their findings, Switzerland produces 17m watches a year – against estimates there are between 700m and 900m ...

Maiden’s second album, Killers, followed in 1981. It included Innocent Exile, the ground-zero Maiden song. It was the band’s first album with guitarist Adrian Smith, who had replaced Dennis Stratton.

Brian Slagel (founder, Metal Blade label): I’ve been wondering who thought ... to our guns and just being the mighty Megadeth like AC/DC or Iron Maiden, everybody was pressuring me and the ...

Cher went No. 1 with 'Believe'; The Recording Industry Association of America introduced a sales-award system using names of ...

In 2006, he launched his record label, Funk Records, through which he released several singles, mixtapes and EPs. His work received recognition by Daft Punk on their 1997 track “Teachers,” on ...