Posts From Jeff Tamarkin

Jefferson Starship’s Craig Chaquico Sues Ex-Bandmates

The original lead guitarist of the popular ’70s/’80s band claims that the current lineup should not be using their name. We speak with Craig Chaquico.

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Pete Best on ‘I’ve Got a Secret,’ 1964

As Beatlemania was in full swing, their former drummer was relegated to appearing on a TV game show. “Could you be a new kind of bug that we’ve imported from England?”

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Beatles Sgt. Pepper Title Track Outtake Released

It’s instantly familiar yet so utterly alien: Check out this stripped-down early version of the title track from the new reissue package.

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Prince’s Band The Revolution to Tour U.S.

With their former frontman gone nearly a year, his ex-band members have regrouped and will hit venues all over the U.S. this spring and summer.

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Rosie Hamlin, ‘Angel Baby’ Singer, Dies at 71

She wrote the song when she was 14 and it went top 5 in 1960. More than a decade later, a fan named John Lennon covered it.

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Bob Krasnow, Former Elektra Records Chief, Dies

The exec who ran the Elektra-Asylum labels has passed. During his career he worked with everyone from Captain Beefheart to Metallica to Mötley Crüe

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Chicago II Album Remix Due from Rhino

The album that gave us “Make Me Smile,” “Colour My World” and other classic hits is getting a major sonic upgrade from the folks at Rhino.

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Oscar Brand, Folk Singer and Radio Host, Dies at 96

Folk singer, songwriter, author and host for 70 years of the Folksong Festival radio program, he even inspired the name of Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street

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Fred Hellerman, Last of Folk’s Weavers, Dies

One-quarter of the influential folk group of the postwar years passed at his Connecticut home. He produced Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant album

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Glenn Yarbrough Dead at 86, Member of Folk’s Limeliters

The singer enjoyed a 1965 hit with “Baby the Rain Must Fall,” the title song of a Steve McQueen movie but was hardly a one-hit wonder

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