Through the first few decades of television, the last piece of music late-night viewers heard was “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a station signed off. That changed thanks in large part to Burt ...

As American TV viewers sat down to watch long-running music show The Midnight Special on March 4, 1977, they were about to watch something no television viewer had ever seen before: a group of rising ...

If you were a teen in the ‘70s and your parents were cool enough to let you stay up to watch ‘The Midnight Special,’ you knew you had something to brag about at school on Monday. Now after more than ...

Producer Burt Sugarman announced today’s launch of the Midnight Special YouTube channel, noting that the channel will make available performances that have not been seen in nearly 50 years (at least ...

The Midnight Special, the once hugely popular music program that featured such now legendary performers of the 1970s and early ’80s as David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John and too many others to list, ...