Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff

Bob Dylan’s Entire Catalog of Recorded Music Acquired By Sony Music

“Columbia Records [has] been nothing but good to me for many, many years and a whole lot of records. I’m glad that all my recordings can stay where they belong”

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Steve Perry on Journey Departure: ‘I Was Burned Out’

In a 2018 interview, he said, “I knew it was going to be a painful to walk away, but sometimes you just have to take care of yourself, even if it hurts to do so”

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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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