Posts From Jeff Tamarkin
Scott McKenzie and That Song About ‘San Francisco’
It was a song of its time, inviting “gentle people” to wear flowers in their hair and migrate to California. Many thousands took his advice.
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Journey and the Final Scene of The Sopranos
One of the most highly anticipated, and nerve-wracking, episodes in TV history was the finale of this classic crime show. The music was supplied by Journey.
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Peter Frampton Interview: Still Very Much Alive!
He recorded one of the best-selling albums in history, and he’s proud of it. But what really makes him happy is being acknowledged as a great guitarist.
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Tina Turner After Ike: The ’80s Comeback
She may not perform again, but she will long be remembered as one of the most sensational, daring and courageous women in the world of rock ’n’ roll.
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Sonny & Cher’s ‘The Beat Goes On’ (& On & On)…
A breakdown of the way things used to be vs. the inevitable winds of change, it gave them their third major hit. But some things, it seemed, never changed.
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The Great Lost Rock Festival of 1969
In a way better than Woodstock? Atlantic City Pop Festival – two weeks before the famed fest in Upstate NY – had a more diverse line-up, and really rocked.
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Marianne Faithfull Interview: As Years Go By
We first heard her as one of the women of the British Invasion. When she came back to our attention more than a decade later, she’d changed entirely.
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Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen’s ‘Typewriter Tape’
Before they became rock icons, Janis and the Jefferson Airplane guitarist played acoustic blues. Here’s the tale of their fascinating 1964 duets.
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Remembering Joe Cocker: Rock’s Soulful Interpreter
Cocker’s gift was that among all the British R&B belters, he may have been the most ballsy + uninhibited of them all and an outstanding interpreter of songs
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The Grass Roots: A Name in Search of a Band
Rarely absent from the charts for several years, they created songs that were unlike one another, even while sounding undeniably like the Grass Roots.
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