BCB Readers: ‘How We Were Introduced to Rock’

We asked our Newsletter subscribers how they first started listening to the music we now refer to as classic rock. “My grandparents thought the world was coming to an end”

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Stevie Wonder’s ‘Talking Book’: Passion, Pain & Love

Said the Motown great of the groundbreaking 1972 album, “I wanted to express various things that I felt…the passions, emotion and love.”

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Now Subbing For Elvis Presley… Glen Campbell

Campbell had perfect pitch and an uncanny ability to match Elvis’ key and delivery, enabling him to present new songs to the King

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New Book, ‘The Rolling Stones: Icons,’ Features Rare, Unpublished Photos

“The documentarians housed in this volume preserved images we collectively get to visit and see again,” says the book’s intro.

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Iron Maiden Sets 2024 ‘Future Past’ Tour

The tour includes concerts in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the U.S. and Canada

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When the J. Geils Band Finally Broke Through

The only #1 hit for this dynamic Boston band was about a schoolboy crush later being crushed for real. We look back at an early MTV favorite.

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Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center Reveals a Trove of Treasures in ‘Mixing Up the Medicine’ Exhibit

It turns out Dylan was a packrat; he saved everything. Much of his collection is now on display at this fascinating museum.

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Bill Wyman Interview: Brian Jones and the Birth of the Rolling Stones

In a 2002 interview, the former Stones bassist talks about Brian Jones’ love of the blues: “He created the band. It was his idea”

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George Harrison Bio Arrives From Noted Beatles Author Philip Norman

‘George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle’ is from the author of the best-selling Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation

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