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I went to see him backstage, and he’s like, ‘You know, you’ve ruined my life… every show, people bring cowbells for the curtain call and bang them.'” ...

NBC's archetypal comedy program "Saturday Night Live" should have died in 1985, a decade after a volcanic debut that launched ...

The members of Blue Öyster Cult and the song's producers debate the identity of the real Bruce Dickinson in the documentary "SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night." ...

“More Cowbell” made it all but impossible to listen to the song “Don’t Fear the Reaper” without hearing the consistent percussion rumbling away in the background. The writer and star of ...

He doesn’t need more cowbell. “Saturday Night Live’s ... the fictional process of Blue Oyster Cult recording their hit song, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” Ferrell plays an overzealous ...

When it comes to the most famous use of a cowbell as a musical instrument, ever since the iconic “More Cowbell” sketch ... actually be any cowbell on the song at all. That said, Murray Krugman ...

In Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, Questlove mines the archive of musical performances, while the four-part series SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night dives into the show's creative process.

(SOUNDBITE OF BLUE OYSTER CULT SONG, "(DON'T FEAR ... As soon as he delivers that first line - I could use a little more cowbell - and that gets a huge laugh, I'm like, oh, they're in, they ...