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Deep Purple Releases ‘Whoosh!’, 21st Studio LP
The band “stretched out in all directions without any limitation, letting their creativity go. They put the Deep back into Purple,” says producer Bob Ezrin.
Read MoreThe Who Launching YouTube Live Video Series
The free ‘Join Together’ series launches this weekend with five live tracks from the Who’s 1982 Shea Stadium (New York) show.
Read MorePaul McCartney: ‘Las Vegas is Where You Go to Die’
“That’s something I’ve been trying to avoid my whole life,” the rocker told British GQ magazine, in an extensive, candid interview.
Read MoreNeil Young Sues Trump Campaign For Use of Songs at Rallies
The organizers of the President’s rallies continue to use classic rock anthems from left-leaning artists despite their repeated cease-and-desist notices
Read MoreJon Anderson’s ‘1000 Hands’ Album Gets Official Release
He began recording the solo album, which features contributions from many Yes members, three decades ago. Now 75, he still sounds great
Read More‘And in the End: Last Days of the Beatles’ Book Due
In a month-by-month chronology, the author reconstructs the events of 1969 when the group reached new highs of creativity and new lows of internal strife
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