Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
Beatles’ Insider Ken Mansfield, Witness to Their Rooftop Concert, Dies
The U.S. manager for Apple Records, and music producer, later wrote a book on the days leading up to the Beatles’ monumental rooftop concert
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Richie Furay, Timothy B Schmit Deliver at 2018 Poco Show
The country rock star was celebrating the 50th anniversary of Poco. At the Troubadour in West Hollywood, he was joined by his one-time bandmate
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Paul McCartney Career-Spanning 7″ Singles Box Is Sold Out
The 7” Singles Box, limited to just 3000 copies, includes 163 tracks totaling over 10 hours of music. Have a listen to the mono remaster of several favorites
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Rolling Stones Mono LP Box Coming in Limited Color Edition
The collection contains the entirety of their 1960s recorded output with 186 tracks spread across 16 180-gram LPs, in a plethora of colors
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Peter Asher Is Subject of New Biography, Weeks After Recovering From Emergency Brain Surgery
The producer, artist manager and recording artist (as part of the British Invasion duo Peter and Gordon) was instrumental in the success of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt
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Bruce Springsteen Shows Soulful Side on New Covers Album
“I wanted to make an album where I just sang. And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the 60s and 70s?”
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Nik Turner, Original Hawkwind Member, Dies
The multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer was there at the beginning and played on the band’s first seven albums.
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The Boomtown Rats Mourn Founder and Lead Guitarist, Garry Roberts
The Irish rock band enjoyed five Top 5 U.K. hits including a pair of #1s: “Rat Trap” and “I Don’t Like Mondays”
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HBO Shares Official Trailer For Rock Hall Class of 2022 Broadcast
The ceremony included a whopping 14 inductees, including Dolly Parton, Pat Benatar, Judas Priest, and Carly Simon with a star-studded lineup of presenters
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Roger Waters Shares More 2023 Dates
The Pink Floyd singer-songwriter-bass guitarist is playing in the round for the first time in a tour delayed two full years
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