In addition to soaring vocals, searing guitar licks, and heavy drums, the biggest stars of rock occasionally turn things over to a sax player and let them rip.

We separate the fact from fiction as to who exactly laid down the saxophone riff for Gerry Rafferty's immortal 'Baker Street' ...

When you think of classic rock songs, a few instruments immediately come to mind. Heavy bass, walloping drums, shrieking guitars, and vocalists who sing like lightning bolts from the top of a giant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 1978, Gerry Rafferty's song "Baker Street" became a top-five hit in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the ...

Courtney Love reckons the saxophone 'doesn't belong in rock'n'roll'. She's wrong: it brings the music to life The problem is in part aesthetic. The saxophone does not look wildly rock'n’roll; rather ...

Bobby Keys bathed with a French model in a tub of Dom Perignon champagne. As film cameras rolled, he and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones gleefully threw a television set from a hotel balcony. He ...

Bruce Springsteen is currently in the middle of a world tour with E Street Band, their first without saxophonist Clarence Clemons. “The Big Man” passed away one year ago today from complications ...

"Saxophones are becoming this thing. I began to see a pattern forming. That's why we did it early. Next year everyone's gonna have a saxophone on their record because saxophones are just cool." Those ...

One of Bill Clinton's saxophones from the 1993 inauguration -- pictured on the left -- is headed to auction. Guernsey's; Getty A saxophone that former president Bill Clinton played at his inaugural ...