Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
David Lee Roth Announces 2026 Tour
The 71 year-old’s 2025 run was comprised of Van Halen songs like “Panama” and “Dance the Night Away,” along with their covers of “You Really Got Me” and “Oh, Pretty Woman.”
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Thin Lizzy’s ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’: Them Cats Are Crazy
The anthemic call-and-response chorus, sung repeatedly over a twin-Les Paul guitar riff, has to rank as one of rock’s all-time greatest earworms.
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Radio Hits of January 1965: British Invasion
Songs from the Dave Clark Five, Zombies and more. And demand for the Beatles on Top 40 was so great that radio DJs played both sides of their singles.
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Peter Gabriel Surprises With 2026 Album, o\i
As with its 2023 predecessor, i/o, the classic rock legend will share a new track on each full moon.
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When Mets Fans Serenaded Billy Joel With ‘Piano Man,’ He Sang, Too
The local legend sang the National Anthem before Game 3 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field.
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Musician Deaths of 2025
Many of our favorite recording artists, as well as other celebrities, were taken from us in 2025. We pay our respects.
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‘Twilight Zone’ Original Episodes: True Classics
From the 4 repeating notes of its theme music to its tales of the supernatural, few television series have reshaped the medium as much as Rod Serling’s classic program.
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‘Gilligan’s Island’: An Appreciation
Only one of the seven stranded castaways is still with us. We look back at the ’60s TV sitcom.
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Best Boxed Sets, Collections & Reissues of 2025
This year’s archival releases include rarities from Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead and others.
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McCartney, Queen, The Who Headline 4 Spectacular Nights in 1979
Over the course of 4 nights during the Christmas holiday, a Who’s Who of British rock stars performed to raise money for war-torn Cambodia.
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