The Ed Sullivan Show was a classic piece of American television and the longest-running variety series, from 1948 to 1971. Every Sunday night, the show would feature some form of entertainment act, ...

When members John and Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty — musicians who’d all played in other bands, sometimes with each other — formed their group in the mid 60s, they named themselves ...

The Mamas and the Papas—the famed folk-rock group who helped to solidify the lush Laurel Canyon sound—only lasted a few years. They were major figures in the 1960s counterculture movement, but they ...