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The Cars' debut performance was a 1976 New Year's Eve gig at a New Hampshire Air Force base. This version of “My Best Friend's Girl” from a couple years later shows what the band's live shows looked like before they graduated to much bigger venues...

Foreigner's Mick Jones celebrates a birthday today! Here's a recent performance from the Grammy Museum of the band's hit “Waiting For A Girl Like You”:

Lars Ulrich celebrates his birthday today! You'll see plenty of the Metallica drummer in this live performance of “For Whom The Bell Tolls.”

On this day in 1989, Phil Collins' "Another Day In Paradise" started a 4-week run at #1 on the US singles chart, making it his 7th US solo #1.

On this day in 1987, Pet Shop Boys' "Always On My Mind" took the #1 spot on the UK singles chart. This third #1 single was first performed on "Love Me Tender," a TV special commemorating the tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. Their performance was so well-received that the group decided to record the song and release it as a single.

On this day in 1984, Duran Duran appeared on the "Razzmatazz Solid Gold Christmas Special," along with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Big Country, Ultravox, Paul Young and Wham! Duran Duran had recently announced their 3rd single "The Reflex" from the album, SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER.

Rhino wishes Mike Mills of R.E.M. a very happy birthday! In this video to “What's The Frequency, Kenneth,” we'll give him best-dressed honors...

Happy birthday to former Doobie Brother Jeff Baxter! The man's 'stache is almost as impressive as his guitar playing...

On this day in 1975, CHICAGO IX - CHICAGO's GREATEST HITS started a five-week run at #1 on the US album chart. This made it Chicago's fifth #1 album. Here they are in the 70s performing the album's featured single, "I've Been Searchin' So Long."

Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sometimes in the Raw The Chili Peppers were medium Hot back in 1990. Like “Pink Hot.” They’d been on EMI Records but that deal was over. So they put themselves out on the industry’s “Availables” menu, and record labels bid with gusto. Warner Bros. Records bid high, but were outbid by Sony/Epic, Warners’ biggest rival. At Warner, that loss made us feel a bit less Hot. Warner’s head Mo Ostin phoned one of t