BEST CLASSIC BANDS – CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA
10 Seminal Hard Rock Albums
Albums from Deep Purple, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and The Who are all significant benchmarks in the birth of the genre.
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Talking Heads’ Adventurous ‘Fear of Music’ Gets Super Deluxe Edition
The set includes a new remaster of the original album, a trove of rarities, and two complete concerts from the album’s tour.
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Remember The Tokens of ‘Lion Sleeps Tonight’ Fame?
Their most famous song was originally a hit in Africa, then found its way to American folk singers and finally went to #1 on the Hot 100
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Carl Perkins & Friends (Clapton, Harrison, Starr, Edmunds) Gets 40th Anniversary Edition
Produced and directed by Edmunds, the 1985 session is a celebration of the music that helped shape rock ‘n’ roll.
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U2 Shares New Song Recorded With Dolly Parton
They’ll be promoting Carnaval De Luz, their first album of new material in nine years.
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Original ‘Star Wars’ Film Coming to IMAX for 50th Anniversary
The movie, made for an estimated $11 million, had its theatrical debut on May 25, 1977. With several previous re-releases, it has earned an estimated $775.4 million at the worldwide box-office.
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10 Seminal Hard Rock Albums
Albums from Deep Purple, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and The Who are all significant benchmarks in the birth of the genre.
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Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention’s Groundbreaking ‘Freak Out!’ Expanded: Review
The 1966 album now regularly shows up on lists of the most noteworthy records of the rock era.
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When Neil Young Found a Neil Young Bootleg
What happened way back in 1971 when a rock star went record shopping and found a bootleg of his own music? It wasn’t pretty, but it’s fascinating.
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‘Play Misty For Me’: The Clint Eastwood Stalker
“You ever find yourself completely smothered by somebody,” his character asks a friend. Jessica Walter’s Evelyn arrived 16 years before Fatal Attraction.
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Duran Duran Drummer Roger Taylor Retires
He played on the band’s era-defining early records, then returned for the celebrated reunion of the original line-up.
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Tom Petty 50th Anniversary Box Set Traces the Heartbreakers’ Early Years
Origins 1971-1978 digs into the vaults to trace the sonic formation of the band.
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The 10 Number One Albums of 1976: Alive and Well
Of the hundreds of albums that charted in a great year for rock, only 10 topped the sales chart. We look at big titles from Eagles, Wings and Frampton.
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‘Diana Ross & the Supremes Join the Temptations’: When Motown’s His & Hers Cadillacs Met Again
The LP was a perfect indicator of Motown’s growth, offering proof that Berry Gordy’s operation was quickly becoming a major Black-owned business.
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