Rock and Culture Anniversaries

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

First single with Don Felder helped them court a rock AM-radio audience.

They were already at a crossroads after just one jammy studio project.

Future hit actually began life along a lonesome country highway outside Montgomery, Alabama.

This collaboration with John Lennon grew out of worries about becoming a prisoner to celebrity.

Every element of this wry narrative about a gold digger's empty life unfolds with a writerly knack for detail.

"The Power of Love" became their first chart-topping smash, but it didn't exactly begin with lofty expectations.

Without it, they might never have rebounded from crushing disappointment to complete 'Abbey Road.'

Chaffing at their country-rock roots, they regrouped to construct a "nasty track with pretty vocals."

Keyboardist "cut the ice" in the studio, allowing the group to ditch the drama and focus on music.

Sessions for 1975's 'Hearts' began with pulling this future chart-topping song off the trash heap.

At the time, he said the long delay was the "worst thing that ever happened to me."