When the Steelyard “Sugartooth” McDan Tour brought Steely Dan and Michael McDonald to town, it did more than put two great musical acts on the same stage during the same night at Cricket Pavilion. It created a reunion that turned back the clock 32 years.

Do you hate your job? Do you never have fun with what you do for a living? If so, then you probably envy John Fogerty.

Does it seem possible for a band to be together for a total of two years, record only three albums, have just one single in the top 10 of the charts and still gain induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The official introduction of the Beatles to America on the Ed Sullivan Show, and the ensuing months of intense, hysterical “Beatlemania,” was a big event – an event I experienced through the eyes and ears of a 14-year-old rock and roll lover.

Two years after the Beatles broke up and went on to their respective solo careers, another musical “invasion” came to our shores from England.

When Ringo Starr stood behind the microphone with the All Starr Band at the Dodge Theater tonight and opened his show with “It Don’t Come Easy,” a listener had to wonder if that statement has much truth for him.

If the Eagles came to America West Arena to sing for their supper last night, they deserved a banquet.

It is a small nation in the eastern hemisphere, best known for golf, kilts, sheep and the Loch Ness Monster.

With a population of a paltry five million, it is overshadowed by its southern neighbor, England, which has produced a multitude of rock and roll legends.