Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
Meat Loaf Tributes Led By Singer Ellen Foley
Alice Cooper, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cher, and Brian May are also among the many celebrities who shared memories of the larger-than-life performer
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Australia’s Hoodoo Gurus Releasing 10th Album, ‘Chariot of the Gods’
Celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2021, the band has won a slew of awards at home, and has racked up a string of multi-platinum albums
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Jazz Fest 2022 Announces Star-Studded Lineup Led By The Who
The annual festival had been kayo’d two years in a row due to the pandemic. It will have been 2 1/2 years since The Who performed a full concert
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Singer-Songwriter Robert Earl Keen, 66: ‘I’m Quitting the Road While I Still Love It’
Despite releasing over a dozen albums since 1984 and his years as a road warrior, he never had commercial success. But the Texan had the respect of his peers
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John Lodge Releases Live Album of Moody Blues Faves
The legendary bass player, songwriter and vocalist performs such classics as “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)” and “Ride My See-Saw”
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Fred Parris, Who Led and Wrote the Five Satins’ ‘In the Still of the Night,’ Dies
“I started writing songs, which I really hadn’t planned on doing. I heard the other songs that groups were recording and I just tried my hand at it”
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Country Legend Merle Haggard Gets New Biography
Author Marc Eliot’s research for The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard included more than 100 new interviews
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Dixie Cups Member Rosa Lee Hawkins—of ‘Chapel of Love’ Fame—Dead at 76
The group, consisting of two sisters and a cousin, knocked the Beatles out of the #1 spot and returned to the charts with “People Say” and “Iko Iko.”
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Bob Saget, Known For TV’s ‘Full House’ and ‘Blue’ Humor, Dies
Though he was best known for his role as Danny Tanner, “America’s Dad,” on the long-running TV sitcom, he also did raunchy stand-up comedy
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Calvin Simon, Rock Hall Member With P-Funk, Dies
He formed a doo-wop quintet with George Clinton called the Parliaments and they eventually evolved into the collectives known as Parliament-Funkadelic
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