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Mike Pinera, Guitarist for Blues Image & Iron Butterfly, Dies at 76
He played the second guitar solo toward the end of the 1970 hit, “Ride, Captain, Ride.”
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Restaurateur Alice Brock, Who Inspired Arlo Guthrie Song, Dies
In the recording, spanning more than 18 minutes, the songwriter recounts his exaggerated but largely true story of protesting the Vietnam War draft
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It’s Beatlemania! Beatles ’64 U.S. Albums Return To Vinyl in Mono
Out of print on vinyl since 1995, they have been reissued in a new 8-LP box set and individually
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All Around the World: Oasis Again Add Dates to Reunion Tour
The band’s 2025 world reunion tour has been met with “phenomenal demand”
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The Number One Singles of 1981
Top 40 radio wasn’t rocking too hard, as programmers were favoring lighter sounds that were also succeeding on rival Adult/Contemporary stations
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Andy Paley, Composer and Producer Who Collaborated With Brian Wilson, Dies
“I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would work with Brian and Darlene Love, or that Jerry Lee Lewis would one day record a song I’d written with him in mind.”
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Genesis’ ‘Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’ Gets 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
The landmark record, originally released in 1974 at the pinnacle of the band’s early success, proved to be their final studio release with their charismatic frontman Peter Gabriel.
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Jethro Tull Christmas Album Gets Expanded Edition
The original 2003 album was their last studio set to feature longtime guitarist Martin Barre
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J. Geils Band Frontman, Peter Wolf, Announces Memoir
Each chapter in Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters and Goddesses reads as its own short story.
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Christine McVie is Subject of New Biography, ‘Songbird’
The book comes from the author of biographies of Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Marc Bolan
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