Dear Jerry: My recollection is that there were many more instrumental hits in the 1960s before the British Invasion than after, when singing groups became hot. How did the success of those bands ...

Linda Ronstadt is no one-hit wonder. Technically, her old band, The Stone Poneys, would be considered one-hit wonders. The baroque pop folk group only scored one major hit back in the 1960s, and that ...

The UB-2, a Danelectro six-string bass, proves that the right marketing strategy can not only change a company’s product sales. It can also completely change a musical landscape, like this unique ...

Jerry Cole, a guitarist and songwriter who released several surf music albums in the 1960s and recorded with prominent bands such as the Beach Boys and the Byrds, died of a heart attack May 28 at his ...

LONDON — John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90. A ...