Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
Eagles Release Career-Spanning ‘To The Limit’ Collection
The set combines their greatest hits with beloved album tracks and classic live performances
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Best Weekly Singles Chart of All-Time: April 1969 Edition
Let these great songs from CCR, the Zombies, Glen Campbell, Edwin Starr, the 5th Dimension, an overlooked track from Steppenwolf and more, bring you back
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Emerson, Lake & Powell Gets ‘The Complete Collection’
The 3-CD set includes the band’s one and only studio release, bonus tracks, their live album, and rehearsals
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1965 NME Concert Dream Lineup: Beatles, Stones, Kinks + more
Our Classic Video is like your own time machine with an incredible lineup of British Invasion acts performing at one concert
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Radio Hits of 1970: Take a Second Look
Several pop culture touchstones debuted this year, and some of the year’s biggest singles included hits by a slew of one-hit-wonders plus some all-time classics
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Radio Hits in April 1971: Give ’em a Hand
Songs from the Grass Roots, Marvin Gaye, Three Dog Night will bring you back. And when’s the last time you heard “Chick-A-Boom”?
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1972: The Year in Rock Music
In 1972 the music scene was increasingly dominated by new arrivals like Elton John, David Bowie and Eagles. But many ’60s favorites still hung around.
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Doobie Brothers’ ‘Long Train Runnin’: Won’t You Boogie Down?
Some fans who have heard the tune 100s of times think it’s called “Without Love” since those words are repeated many times. The unusual way it became a song
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Mad Magazine: Required Reading For Generations
Many of Mad’s articles exposed staples of American culture—nothing and no one was safe from its pointed humor, from hit movies to products to the media.
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Insider Has New Book, Based on Interviews With The Beatles and Their Inner Circle
“There was never any effort on my part to make it negative and nobody’s ever questioned that it was true,” says Peter Brown, the former COO of Apple Corps Ltd., of ‘All You Need is Love: An Oral History of the Beatles’
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