BEST CLASSIC BANDS – CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA
Lovin’ Spoonful: ‘Complete Recordings 1965-1969’ Box Set Due
The set includes all of the band’s studio albums, plus two soundtracks, solo works and rarities.
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10 Grammy Best New Artist Winners & Losers
Some of the winners will make you shake your head. You won’t believe who beat out Boston.
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Steppenwolf, The Debut Album: Heavy Metal Thunder
If it had given us nothing more than “Born to Be Wild,” it would still be a classic. But there was a lot more to the mostly Canadian band’s first LP.
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Lucinda Williams’ Topical ‘World’s Gone Wrong’: Review
She clearly attempts to find solace in music, but can’t forget the world’s troubles, at least not on this album.
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Bruce Springsteen Pulls No Punches in New Protest Song, ‘Streets of Minneapolis’
He shares his disdain for President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security, while paying tribute to the two shooting victims.
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10 Grammy Award Hits & Mistakes For Album of the Year
“And the winner is…” often leads to a lot of head shaking. We’ve identified some that were well-deserved and others that didn’t make sense.
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Lovin’ Spoonful: ‘Complete Recordings 1965-1969’ Box Set Due
The set includes all of the band’s studio albums, plus two soundtracks, solo works and rarities.
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Billy Preston Documentary, ‘That’s the Way God Planned It,’ Coming
In addition to working with the Beatles, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and others, Preston also scored several best-selling hits as a solo artist.
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The Number One Singles of 1973: Each One Has a Story
A great year for chart-topping singles included some of the era’s biggest stars as well as some forgotten classics.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer ‘Welcome Back My Friends’ is Latest in Fan Memories Book Series
The 352-page softcover book, with hundreds of photos, includes anecdotal stories from 370 ELP fans.
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Lou Gramm Sets New Studio Album, ‘Released’
The iconic voice of Foreigner will also be touring to support the LP.
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Remembering Melanie Who Helped Define a Generation at Woodstock
Born Melanie Safka in Queens, NY, at 22 years-old and essentially an unknown, she performed a star-making set at the 1969 festival.
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Talking Heads’ Demos & Live Collection, ‘Tentative Decisions,’ Due
Their earliest years are being explored with an unprecedented look at the rapid evolution of the original trio—David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth—through a trove of newly unearthed recordings.
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Eagles ‘Greatest Hits’: Biggest U.S. Album of All-Time
Not only is the 1976 collection the overall top-seller in the States, their ‘Hotel California’ is in third place.
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