Nebraska natives Denny Zager and Rick Evans themselves proved to be one-hit wonders. “In the Year 2525” is the only song they ever released that made it into the Top 100. MPR News helps you ...

Denny Zager was born and raised in Wymore, Neb. (not a hot bed of popular music). Denny met a guy named Rick Evans at a talent contest at Wesleyan University in Lincoln in 1962 and offered him a ...

Zager and Evans was a four-piece Lincoln group that was fronted by singer/guitarists Denny Zager and Rick Evans and included drummer Dave Trupp and bassist Mark Dalton. Written by Evans and ...

Rick Evans died in February of 2018, but Denny Zager continues to tinker with guitars at his music shop in Lincoln, Nebraska. After touring the world, Zager retired, partly because playing the ...

Or maybe this is just another case of history being stupid. Maybe both! Denny Zager and Rick Evans were Wisconsin kids who met at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1962, and they played music ...

Somehow, in the midst of all this, Nebraskans Denny Zager and Rick Evans managed to top the Billboard pop charts for six weeks during the summer of 1969 with their single “In the Year 2525 ...

The song became part of the soundtrack of its time. Rick Evans had written “In the Year 2525” five years before he and Denny Zager (of Lincoln) recorded it. It sold so rapidly here that it ...

Almost 55 years ago this month, a song by Denny Zager and Rick Evans peered into the future and found it to be perilous. The song, recorded in one take in a field near Odessa - yes, just west of ...

In the Year 2525," Zager and Evans, 1969 Almost 55 years ago this month, a song by Denny Zager and Rick Evans peered into the future and found it to be perilous. The song, recorded in one take in ...

In the midst of all this somehow Nebraskans Denny Zager and Rick Evans managed to top the Billboard pop charts for six weeks during the summer of 1969 with their single “In the Year 2525 ...

In the Year 2525," Zager and Evans, 1969 Almost 55 years ago this month, a song by Denny Zager and Rick Evans peered into the future and found it to be perilous. The song, recorded in one take in ...