A stellar debut single is either a blessing or a curse. For these artists, it proved to be the latter. Read about the bands that peaked with their first single.

Barry Goudreau, who joined American rock outfit Boston as one of its original guitar players alongside group founder Tom ...

Boston's cofounding guitarist was sidelined on record by Scholz's desire to go it alone. "But we had tremendous success," he ...

The now-famous 100-year-old charity walker Captain Tom Moore was set to get a birthday present from a Perth band who thought his efforts to net £29 million for NHS charities was beyond amazing.

“I moved to Los Angeles and met this girl, who has now been my wife for 50-some years, and she lived next door to Lowell,” Tackett told the Boston Herald ... Feat — a band with no ...

Tom Crowley fired a no-hitter, striking out 14 as Whitman-Hanson defeated New Bedford in a nonleague baseball contest, 7-0. Aidan Murphy tossed a complete game, allowing one run while striking out ...

The band consists of Radio 2 Folk Award winners Martin Simpson and Nancy Kerr, Scottish guitarists Finlay Napier and Alex Hunter, and Devonshire drummer Tom A Wright. Three songs demonstrate the ...

The Boston band released “Fake Flowers At Sunset” with the Silver Jews’ Cassie Berman, and now they’re sharing “Crush All Night” with Sad13, the project of Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie ...

The song’s success helped to establish the band as one of the premier acts of the 1970s and paved the way for their future success. CIRCA 1976: (L-R) Brad Delp, Sib Hashian, Tom Scholz (top), Barry ...

"We knew it the first time we heard it. Maurice Starr, our producer and songwriter, had written it for another local Boston band at the time but they never did anything with it," says Danny.

so they changed it to Mudcrutch -- but it was his band Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers that finally broke through with "Breakdown," the biggest hit from their 1976 self-titled album. Petty made more ...