Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
The Stray Cats Cancel 2025 Tour Due to Brian Setzer’s ‘Serious Illness’
Setzer (guitar, vocals), Lee Rocker (upright bass, vocals) and Slim Jim Phantom (drums, vocals) were about to begin a month-long run.
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Filmmaker, Journalist Cameron Crowe Sets Book Tour For Memoir, ‘The Uncool’
The writer and/or director of such acclaimed films as Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Jerry Maguire, and Almost Famous, was an unlikely rock and roll insider at age 15.
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Bruce Springsteen Releases Expanded ‘Holy Grail’ Edition of ‘Nebraska’
The 5-disc set, timed to the release of the feature film Deliver Me From Nowhere, includes The E Street Band’s fabled “Electric Nebraska” sessions and solo outtakes from the era.
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Rocking the Charts: The Top Albums of October 1981
Though Top 40 programmers stubbornly played songs by A/C acts, the top slots on the U.S. sales chart were dominated by rock acts.
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Little Feat’s ‘The Last Record Album’ Gets Deluxe Treatment
“This was the moment when the full range of their songwriting voices stepped forward.”
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Radio Hits in October 1978: Kenny and Stevie Were Doin’ It
The Stones, The Who, Bob Seger, Billy Joel and Foreigner were all in the Top 10 this week but rock’s days were numbered in that format.
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When Eddie Van Halen Won the Internet With Family Photos
In 2019, a week after reports of health issues arose, the guitar legend appeared in a series of photos that elevated him to heights he likely never imagined.
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Elton John’s ‘Captain Fantastic’ Gets 50th Anniversary Editions
During his remarkable run of success with lyricist Bernie Taupin, the 1975 album became the first in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
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Bruce Springsteen Biopic ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Opens
“If some fans go in expecting the equivalent of a greatest hits package, think again. [The film] is the real deal, an intelligent, deliberately paced journey into the soul of an artist.”—Deadline
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Dave Ball, of UK Synth-Pop Duo Soft Cell (‘Tainted Love’), Dies at 66
Along with singer Marc Almond, the pair achieved worldwide fame in 1981 with the smash single.
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