From major chart success to a later career guiding other artists, the musician's influence has stretched across decades of rock history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a member of the hit-making, late-'60s pop-rock group the Grass Roots, guitarist Creed Bratton lived the life of a king. But as ...

The band that recorded the song had replaced another set of players who had been using the same name. And the song in question was written for yet another band, only to be pilfered by an enterprising ...