Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
Jim Croce: What Might Have Been
In 15 months, the singer-songwriter delivered many pop hits about some memorable characters. His career ended tragically on the brink of stardom.
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How Jimmy Page Got His Legendary Guitar Case Back
A teenaged fan goes to see his favorite band perform in 1972 and, incredibly, obtains a discarded case. Nearly 50 years later, he reunites it with its owner.
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Elvis Presley: What They Said About the King
Who did the King influence? Oh, just the Beatles, Stones, the Who, Springsteen, Bowie, Elton John and countless others. Read about it, in their own words
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Radio Hits in January 1969: Don’t Break My Heart
Seven months before the Woodstock festival, future classic rock hits from CCR and the Doors were side-by-side with songs by the Bee Gees, Sammy and Sly.
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Bill Murray Opens Concert Tour With ‘Like a Rolling Stone’
Never one to shy away from an open microphone to sing, he’s teaming up with Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia (aka “Blood Brothers”) to perform a series of shows.
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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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Butch Cassidy, ‘Raindrops,’ and the Bicycle Scene
The 1969 Western has a special place in the hearts of movie fans for its cast, the romanticizing of its outlaw stars and that scene with Newman and Ross
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Wayne Osmond of Family Singing Group, the Osmonds, Dies
The original quartet catapulted to fame when they were joined by younger sibling Donny on the 1971 #1 hit “One Bad Apple.”
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Captain & Tennille: Married ’70s Hitmakers
The couple scored with such hits as the #1 singles “Love Will Keep Us Together” (1975) and “Do That To Me One More Time” (1979)
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