Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
Five Easy Pieces: The Diner Scene
“I’d like a plain omelette… and wheat toast.” Simple enough, right? Well, if you’re having a bad day, this classic scene with Jack Nicholson will put things in perspective for you.
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David Cassidy in Critical Condition: Organ Failure
The ’70s teen idol of ‘Partridge Family’ fame is in a Florida hospital with unspecified organ failure. He retired from performing this year due to dementia.
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Watch Steve Winwood and Tedeschi Trucks Band Perform a Sly Stone Medley
The legend joined his hosts for a pair of shows before starting his own brief solo tour.
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Watch 1000 Musicians Perform ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
Months after Rockin’ 1000 produced their incredible 2016 tribute to David Bowie, they did it again with the release of Nirvana’s huge hit.
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The Who Perform ‘Barbara Ann’ Live in the Studio
We’ve got a Classic Video two-fer of The Who performing “Barbara Ann” for you: goofing around in the studio in the late ’70s and on TV in 1966
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Freddie Mercury Showcase: Queen’s ‘Somebody to Love’
By 1976, they were bona fide rock stars and produced their fifth album, A Day at the Races, themselves. Sing along to a song by a band hitting their stride
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Canceled: When U2’s Bono Had a ‘Complete Loss of Voice’
Five songs into their performance in Berlin on September 1, 2018, Bono told the audience: “Something has happened… and I think we cannot go on”
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Watch The Doors’ Spectacular ‘Light My Fire’ at 1970 Isle of Wight
The band hit the stage at 2 a.m. The legendary festival also featured such classic rock stars as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Chicago, Free, and many more
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Is This David Crosby’s Earliest Solo Recording?
A rare live track by the future Byrds member and singer-songwriter legend, recorded in a Colorado club in 1961, surfaced in 2016
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Nick Lowe’s Solo Debut: ‘So it Goes’
The bassist-vocalist of pub-rock group Brinsley Schwarz was hardly a household name. But his debut 45 for Stiff Records got his solo career moving
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