Rock and Culture Anniversaries

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

Our list tends to focus more on the rootsy side of the Allman Brothers Band's sound – and that's fitting.

Even three of the people involved with the original session returned to this song over the years.

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

He was a guitar god with one of rock's fastest-rising young bands and she was a sitcom star with a squeaky-clean image.

A murder at this show effectively brought the peace-and-love ethos of the '60s to a jarring end.

He didn't roll over and play dead when the famous advice columnist criticized "Cold Ethyl."

This disaster's origins can be traced in part to the practice of general admission seating.

There's no escaping the apocalyptic nature of one of the band's best albums.

Two legends grew up around this 1974 appearance with Elton John. One was true, but the other was not.

This falls somewhere between the band's synth-driven era and their guitar-heavy sound in the late '90s.

He is alive and well, but a well-placed rumor had some thinking otherwise.