Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
Troubled Times For Journey: Neal Schon
The co-founder is none-too-pleased with recent actions that band members Cain, Valory and Pineda have done, fueling rumors that changes are afoot
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Sept 1, 2016: Freddie Mercury Honored in London
To commemorate what would have been his 70th birthday, a commemorative blue plaque was affixed to his first London home, presented by the English Heritage charity
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Sept 1, 2011: Green Day Singer Booted Off Plane
Even the biggest rock stars can suffer those WTF? moments. It happened to Billie Joe Armstrong. “Pull your pants up or you’re coming off the plane!”
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Aug. 30, 1969: Texas International Pop Festival
The last big summer rock festival of 1969 took place near Dallas and featured a lineup that included Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and Santana
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August 30, 1976: City Riots Inspire Clash Song
Joe Stummer and Paul Simonon of the punk band The Clash get caught up in the Notting Hill Carnival Riot on this day, and it inspires their first single.
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August 29, 1987: Los Lobos Hits #1 with ‘La Bamba’
Three weeks atop the Hot 100 with their soundtrack single from the Ritchie Valens biopic helped boost the profile of one of American music’s finest bands
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August 29, 2016: Phil Collins Performs at US Open
“I can now tell people I’ve played the US Open,” the longtime Genesis singer-drummer joked. It soon led to a burst of new tours
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When Bob Dylan Got The Beatles High
Dylan didn’t just have a musical influence on The Beatles. When they first met, he also turned them onto marijuana. “We got high and laughed our asses off.”
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Remembering Stevie Ray Vaughan
Recently sober and enjoying a creative and personal blossoming, the guitarist, singer and songwriter died in a helicopter accident at just 35
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