The mid-'80s wasn't the greatest period of Pat Smear’s career. He’d achieved acclaim for his rhythm guitar work with Los Angeles punk band the Germs, but the group had split in 1981. Later, he’d go on ...

Over the course of a long and prolific career, Prince wrote songs on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who knows anything about Prince, though, knows that he was particularly concerned with what was ...

Prince and Stevie Nicks were just friends, but the Fleetwood Mac star has said she thinks the “Purple Rain” singer wanted them to be lovers. “Prince and I were just friends,” Nicks told Harper’s ...

It’s now been over a month and a half since Prince was taken from us way, way too soon. While I imagine fans will be reeling from the loss of the Purple One for the rest of their lives — I know I will ...

The first Prince song I ever heard was “When Doves Cry.” It was 1984 and my family had just moved overseas to Germany. As we all rode a big army-green bus from one base to the next in search of school ...

After releasing his masterpiece Purple Rain, Prince returned in 1985 with Around The World In A Day. Bold and defiant, the singer, later known as an unpronounceable symbol, refused to release a ...