Posts From Best Classic Bands Staff
1967 in Rock Music: One Amazing Year
It was one amazing year for rock, pop and soul music. Here are some of the highlights when FM “underground” radio was starting to overtake AM Top 40
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Doobie Brothers’ 50th Anniversary Tour to Continue Without Tom Johnston
Their big 50th anniversary celebration was originally delayed for 15 months due to the pandemic. They were finally inducted into the Rock Hall in 2020
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Foo Fighters Introduce New Drummer as Busy 2023 Begins
The band is ready to begin a tour and releasing their first album since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022
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Stephen Stills, Neil Young Share the Stage: 2016
The 3x bandmates performed at Stills’ annual benefit. We’ve got great videos of many of their favorites including “For What It’s Worth” and “Heart of Gold”
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Donna Summer Documentary, ‘Love To Love You,’ Arrives
The “Queen of Disco” was in the right place at the right time when she teamed with producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte
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Gilda Radner Documentary, ‘Love, Gilda’: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry
The beloved comedian became a cultural icon the moment audiences first laughed with her on the 1975 debut episode of Saturday Night Live
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Listen to an Early Extended Version of Pete Townshend’s ‘Baba O’Riley’
A 45th anniversary expanded edition of The Who founder’s 1972 debut solo album features a nearly 10-minute instrumental version of the Who’s Next classic
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Paul Simon Returns With New Musical Work, ‘Seven Psalms’
“This is a journey, for me, to complete,” Simon says. “This whole piece is really an argument I’m having with myself about belief, or not.”
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Dire Straits’ ‘Sultans of Swing’: An Unlikely Hit
They were playing a kind of old-school Dylanesque rock that radio stations assumed fans no longer cared for. Then the fans told them otherwise.
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Andy Rourke, The Smiths Bassist, Dies at 59
Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr called former bandmate Rourke “a kind and beautiful soul…and a supremely gifted musician.”
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