Posts From Greg Brodsky

Only 1 Album Can Be the Best-Selling Rock LP of All-Time

Six weeks after burying their lead singer, AC/DC had a new frontman and a staggering task: script a suitably epic album to turn tragedy into triumph

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The Doobie Brothers’ ‘China Grove’: Admit It, You Don’t Know the Lyrics

The band’s Tom Johnston credits the lyrics’ imagery to a fellow musician for helping start “the thinking process with this wacky sheriff, samurai swords, and all that”

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Mark Lindsay, Hal Blaine and the Raiders’ #1 Hit, ‘Indian Reservation’

Our interview with the star about the legendary drummer who made magic happen at the recording session and the single’s unusual path to success

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Creedence ‘Green River’: Admit It, You Don’t Know the Lyrics

John Fogerty’s lyrics have a creative imagery and he has a unique way of pronouncing them. You’ve sung along dozens of times but do you know the words?

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10cc Co-Founder Graham Gouldman Interview: Tour, Those Hits

Our conversation with the legendary songwriter on the eve of the band’s first U.S. concerts in decades

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When Robbie Robertson Reunited With The Band Photographer Elliott Landy

At the U.S. premiere of the documentary, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, the musician offered his praise: “He was part of the family”

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Kinky Friedman, Musician and Raconteur Known For Satire, Dies

The satirist, whose onetime band was called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, toured with Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue

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When Jeff Beck Previewed a New Album at Electric Lady Studios

The guitar great played and talked about his forthcoming LP at a private listening party at the Greenwich Village studio of another guitar legend

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The Number One Albums of 1971: 14 Stories

The year was marked by great releases by the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, and others. But the sales chart was dominated by a singer-songwriter

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Tributes to Willie Mays, Baseball’s ‘Say Hey Kid’

He was long considered baseball’s unofficial Greatest Living Player

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