Posts From Greg Brodsky
10cc “I’m Not in Love”: Well, My High School Self Was, Actually
Best Classic Bands’ founder tells how the hit song always brings him back to the spring of his senior year, and how five decades later he got its co-writer, Graham Gouldman, to tell him how it came to be.
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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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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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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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Tributes to Willie Mays, Baseball’s ‘Say Hey Kid’
He was long considered baseball’s unofficial Greatest Living Player
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary: 2017 Review
Celebrating 40 years, the band performed a career-spanning, polished set to their adoring fans, which highlighted their remarkable musicianship
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‘Brats’ Film Review: Andrew McCarthy Revisits The Brat Pack
A 1985 New York magazine cover story coined the phrase. “I felt like I had lost control of the narrative of my career”
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Mark James, Songwriter of ‘Suspicious Minds’ and Other Hits, Dies
He also co-wrote “Always on My Mind,” a #1 hit for Willie Nelson that won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year
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Waddy Wachtel on Touring With Stevie Nicks
The guitarist has been a first-call Los Angeles-based session and touring musician for many of the biggest artists of the rock era.
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