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What’s the latest info about about rock music and the most interesting and momentous events in its past? You can find it all here: breaking news, sales and airplay charts from the past, notable occasions, and our appreciations of recently departed artists and other musical figures of note
Patty Smyth’s First New Album in 3 Decades: Listen
She came to prominence as the lead vocalist of Scandal, with the 1982 song, “Goodbye to You.” Two years later, they scored with the smash “The Warrior”
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Aug 20, 2020: Quiet Riot Drummer Frankie Banali Dies
The musician went public with his cancer diagnosis in 2019. Though he’s not an original member, he was a force in their most commercially successful lineup
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Rory Gallagher ‘Best of’ Collection Includes Unreleased Stones Cover
The acclaimed musician died in 1995, at just 47. Listen to a previously unreleased cover of a Stones favorite with Jerry Lee Lewis
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Tears For Fears’ ‘Seeds of Love’ Super Deluxe Due
The 1989 album, four years in the making, was a worldwide hit and has taken on mythical status for its scope, ambition, timeless musicality
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Allman Brothers Band to Release Duane’s Final Show
The “lost” 1971 recording turned up on a cassette tape made by an 18-year-old journalist who had interviewed the band. He decided to tape the concert too
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August 14, 2020: Pete Way, UFO Founding Bassist, Dies
Way, vocalist Phil Mogg, guitarist Mick Bolton, and drummer Andy Parker formed UFO in 1969. His death followed the passing of another member by 2 months
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Bruce Hornsby’s New LP, ‘Non-Secure Connection’: Listen
It includes “Anything Can Happen” co-written with Leon Russell, who appears thanks to a demo that the pair recorded together more than 25 years ago
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Lindsey Buckingham Returns to Performing—Briefly
First came his firing from Fleetwood Mac, then heart surgery, then the pandemic. But finally, the singer-musician is performing again.
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Dire Straits Studio Albums Box Coming
The group’s classic rock hits include such favorites as “Sultans Of Swing,” “Romeo And Juliet,” “Money For Nothing” and “Walk Of Life”
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NRBQ Rarities Collection Due in October
The 15-track album, much of it previously unreleased, is described as “a journey with the ’Q through a different lens. A true, career-spanning release.”
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