BEST CLASSIC BANDS – CELEBRATING THE ARTISTS, MUSIC AND POP CULTURE OF THE CLASSIC ROCK ERA
Peter Max, Artist Whose Use of Vibrant Colors Became Synonymous With Pop Culture, Dies
One of his most frequent subjects was the Statue of Liberty, which he first tackled in 1976 for the U.S. bicentennial.
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Bad Company Co-Founder Simon Kirke on the Band’s Members and Their #1 Debut Album
“The buzz was pretty incredible from the get-go. We wanted to get back to more muscular, stripped-down, bluesy rock ’n’ roll.”
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Sugarloaf Sings About a ‘Green-Eyed Lady’
The band was best known for the 1970 hit and another Top 10 single, “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” (1974). Lead singer Jerry Corbetta died in 2016
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A 1966 Concert Album Showcases Embryonic Grateful Dead: Review
The 2026 release preserves a Fillmore Auditorium show from only about a year after the group (then called the Warlocks) played its first gig at a pizza parlor.
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2016’s Beatles Documentary, ‘Eight Days a Week’: Review
The 2016 film is “a nonstop rush of adrenaline, a comfort-food feast of melodic guitars and impeccable harmonies, unbridled creativity and boundless artistic determination, cheeky wit and newness and wonder and youth. And screams—lots of screams.”
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Bob Dylan 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue 39-Disc Box Set Coming
The massive collection “fully captures this tour alongside a stellar company of backing musicians and guest artists,” according to an announcement.
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RIP – Rock In Perpetuity
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Peter Max, Artist Whose Use of Vibrant Colors Became Synonymous With Pop Culture, Dies
One of his most frequent subjects was the Statue of Liberty, which he first tackled in 1976 for the U.S. bicentennial.
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Pair of Stevie Nicks-Themed Books Released in 2026
The singer and songwriter, born May 26, 1948, became the first woman to have been inducted twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Crosby/Nash ‘Wind On the Water’: And Then There Were Two
In 1975, with CSN&Y in limbo once again, the two banded together to make a followup to their debut as a duo. They landed their 2nd Top 10 LP.
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New Book Peeks Inside Beatles Manager Brian Epstein’s Address Book. No, Really!
The book is described as “a remarkable fusion of biography and detective story, offering a vivid portrait of The Beatles’ inner circle.”
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15 Classic Rock Songs That Defined 1971
There’s a strong case that the year was Ground Zero for classic rock’s greatness.
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Alice Cooper to Publish New Memoir: ‘Devil on My Shoulder’ Charts His ‘Evilution’
“The story of Alice Cooper has become a tangle of embellishments, elaborations and outright fabrications, that I think it’s time to sort reality from myth,” he said.
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Remember Crazy Eddie, the “Insaaane” Music Retailer?
The chain’s TV ads with the crazy pitch man were so ubiquitous in the New York metropolitan area, Dan Aykroyd spoofed them on Saturday Night Live.
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‘I Really Should Be Back at School’: 15 September Songs
September as metaphor can symbolize change, separation, reunion, a lost love, a new beginning, the passage of time, the process of aging.
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