Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
Radio Hits of May 1966
This week’s playlist on NYC’s Top 40 powerhouse 77WABC featured a typically great combination of pop, rock and soul at the top of the chart
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Geezer Butler: ‘I’m Up For a Black Sabbath Reunion Show’
Things are heating up as Ozzy, Tony Iommi and now, Geezer Butler, have said they want to do it. They still need Bill Ward
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The Doors’ ‘Love Her Madly’ – Perfection
An early review of the song described it as a “terrific new rocker… sounds like it will rank among their best single songs.” They were right
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Jane’s Addiction, Love And Rockets Set 2024 Co-Headlining Tour
For Love And Rockets, the 2024 North American run follows their 2023 tour, their first in 15 years
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Gladys Knight: Checking Off All the Boxes
The singer has checked off just about every box imaginable in her acclaimed career with plenty of #1 records and numerous honors
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Phil Hartman Was ‘The Glue’ During His SNL Career
He began his career as an album cover designer. His SNL castmates referred to him as “the glue” because “he kind of held the show together”
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Gregg Allman, Music Legend, 1947 – 2017
“It is with deep sadness that we announce that Gregg Allman, a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, passed away peacefully at his home in Savannah, Georgia”
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Doug Ingle, Last Original Member of Iron Butterfly, and Singer-Writer of ‘In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida,’ Dies
The organist had been the last surviving original member of the American rock band
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‘The Beach Boys’ Documentary Arrives on Disney+
The 2024 film traces the group from their humble family beginnings and features never-before-seen footage and all-new interviews with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, and Bruce Johnston
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Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Surprise at Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Concert
The benefit concert, Celebrating Gordon Lightfoot, was held at Toronto’s Massey Hall in 2024, roughly a year after his passing
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