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Rod Stewart, Jools Holland Release Lively ‘Swing Fever’ Album
It’s been Stewart’s dream of making an album of the songs that were, in many ways, the rock ‘n’ roll of their day
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John ‘Duff’ Lowe, Bandmate of McCartney, Lennon and Harrison in The Quarrymen, Dies
In 1958, the group—Lennon, McCartney, George Harrison, drummer Colin Hanton, and Lowe, on piano—recorded a pair of songs in Liverpool. Lowe retained the only copy
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Average White Band’s Surprise #1: ‘Pick Up the Pieces’
The Scottish band got their big break as the opening act on Clapton’s 1973 comeback tour. A year later, this instrumental single failed to chart in the U.K.
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Mick Jones of Foreigner Reveals Parkinson’s Battle
The guiding force since its start as a British-American rock band in 1976 has explained why he’s no longer touring with them
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David Libert, Founding Member of ’60s Group The Happenings, Dies
He formed the popular group with fellow high school classmates from Paterson, NJ, and later went on to a successful career as a manager
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Time to Cut Loose: ‘Footloose’ Turns 40
The movie musical was made for $7.5 million and earned $80 million at the box-office, good enough to make it 1984’s seventh highest-grossing film
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AC/DC Adds Dates to ‘Power Up’ Tour
It’s their first tour since 2016 and is named for their 2020 studio album
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Legendary Musicians The Immediate Family Release New Album
The studio and touring musicians have performed with a Who’s Who of classic rock.
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Remembering ’60s Guitar Hero Michael Bloomfield
Around the same time that Clapton and Page were getting their names known around London, and before anyone knew about Jimi, America had a homegrown guitar hero of its own
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Paul McCartney & Wings ‘Band on the Run’ Gets 50th Anniversary Edition
McCartney said: “This is ‘Band On the Run’ in a way you’ve never heard before.”
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