Best Classic Bands | Greg Brodsky, Author at Best Classic Bands

The Number One Singles of 1972: Nothing But Blue Skies

Three songs stayed at the top for four weeks or more. And thus, no less than 30 singles reached #1 that year. Listen to some great vocals

FEATURES: Points of View

Woodstock 50 Debacle: No Peace. No Love. No Music

A 50th anniversary doesn’t just sneak up on you. So how did the plans for a worthy celebration of the 1969 festival fall apart?

FEATURES: Spotlight Feature

A Tribute to a Loyal Reader Who We Nicknamed ‘The Grim Reaper’

For years, Best Classic Bands reader Ric Allen Niedzinski would message us with news of a musician’s death

The Scene: How the Song Came to Be

Gordon Lightfoot’s Tale of a Ship’s Crew and Its Captain

The singer-songwriter had a string of big hits including 1976’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” based on a true story of a doomed freighter

FEATURES: Spotlight Feature

Dana Petty is Selling Her 1965 Ford Mustang Bought By Her Husband, Tom Petty—Exclusive

In this exclusive interview, Dana Petty shares the story of her “incredible surprise” when the red convertible rolled up their driveway one Christmas morning

FEATURES: Through The Lens

Woodstock ’69 Through the Lens of Photographer Henry Diltz

He shares his story of the weeks leading up to the legendary festival and of the event itself. “I had the Golden Pass. I was working for the producer”

FEATURES: Interviews

Ian Anderson on the Past, Present and Future of Jethro Tull

We talked to the legend about the new album, RökFlöte, the demand that Tull faced in its first decade with the constant cycle of writing, recording and touring, and his own mortality