The unpredictability of what makes a hit is something that has continued to perplex the music industry, as these songs prove.

Aaliyah was a Grammy-nominated singer with major hits in the late '90s and early '00s, including "Try Again," "Miss You ... The Jimi Hendrix Experience, saw major success with three albums ...

Scorpions are one of the longest-running bands in music, with a career that stretches back nearly 60 years. In 2004, as they ...

These one-hit wonders were highly successful, just not in the USA. It was one of over a dozen top-twenty singles Bush ...

There's no rhyme or reason for why a band hits the big time, but some artists end up having far more talent than any of their ...

Late 1965 was a transformative time for The Beatles - their album 'Rubber' Soul ... the flat which Ringo later rented out to guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, before evicting him.

In the spring of 1979, The Cure made their first album with ... the exception of a cover of “Foxy Lady,” from the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s landmark 1967 debut Are You Experienced.

By that I mean that Darryl [Way, violin/vocals] and Francis [Monkman, guitar/keyboards] were heavily into the sounds coming from the West Coast of America, and also people like Jimi Hendrix. You add .

“The Jimi Hendrix Experience jumped onto this tiny little stage, which was completely consumed with two stacks of Marshalls and Mitch’s drum kit in the middle. All you can say is that everyone ...

Production manager-author-music archivist John McDermott never saw Jimi Hendrix perform live, but as a wearer of many hats for the Experience ... “Whether it’s an album package, documentaries ...

The letters cover ... Jimi Hendrix, before evicting him. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were staying there when they were arrested for drug possession, and posed naked there for the ‘Two Virgins’ album.