Posts From Jeff Tamarkin
Cynthia Plaster Caster, Groupie Who Made Art From Rockers’ Genitals, Dead at 74
Using a substance utilized for dental molds, she immortalized rockers’ “junk,” with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon and other musicians posing for posterity..
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Art Rupe—Label Owner Who Signed Little Richard and Sam Cooke—Dies at 104
A gospel music fan who moved into the fields of R&B and early rock ‘n’ roll, his Specialty Records label gave us some of the greatest classics of the era.
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Idol Chatter: An Interview with the Late Bobby Rydell
“They wouldn’t pull the hair so much, but they would go for a tie or a cufflink.”–The 50s/’60s teen idol on his over-enthusiastic fans.
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Bobby Rydell, ’50s/’60s Singer, Actor and Teen Idol, Dead at 79
Part of a wave of young, Philadelphia based teen idols, his hits included “Wild One” and “Volare,” and he starred in ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ with Ann-Margret.
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New Riders of the Purple Sage’s Debut LP: Country + Rock + Jerry Garcia = ?
They began as a country-influenced offshoot of the Grateful Dead, but, by the time they recorded this debut, they’d morphed into something else altogether.
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Feb 14, 2022: Sandy Nelson, Influential Early Rock Drummer, Dies
With hit records like “Teen Beat” and “Let There Be Drums,” the L.A. musician boosted the role of his instrument in rock and roll music.
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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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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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Arlo Guthrie, Friends & Family at Carnegie Hall: 2018
He first played his annual Thanksgiving concert in 1967, a month after his father, one of America’s most important singer/songwriters, died
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Charles Manson: The Rock Connection
From “Helter Skelter” to his ties with the Beach Boys, rock music was always a big part of the story of the now-deceased murderer’s life.
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