Rock and Culture Anniversaries

It's humorously titled after his familiar stage introduction, "… on tonsils and sneakers, I'm 'Lonesome' Dave."

His arrival led to critically lauded triumphs like '2112' and multiplatinum smashes like 'Moving Pictures.'

Hopes for a global resurgence ended in Arizona after 80 tense concerts.

One album and a tour, then it was over.

Success was born out of getting-reacquainted sessions held in early 1988 in Barbados.

Personality conflicts were suddenly made public on live national television.

It was no accident the band and director Jonathan Demme found each other.

The tragedy cast a long shadow on the rock world and, in the days that followed, that shadow only lengthened.

Richard Ramirez spent a portion of 1984 and '85 committing a string of unspeakable crimes under cover of darkness.

Future Led Zeppelin star actually got his solo start decades before 1988's 'Outrider.'