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10cc Adds to ‘Ultimate Ultimate Greatest Hits’ 2025 Tour
The new run, featuring founding member Graham Gouldman, follows 2024’s acclaimed tour, including the band’s first in the U.S. in nearly 30 years.
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Grateful Dead Celebrate 60th Anniversary With Live Collection
The Music Never Stopped, on 3 CDs or 6 LPs, is a journey through the music that shaped their live legacy.
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The 10 Number One Albums of 1976: Alive and Well
Of the hundreds of albums that charted in a great year for rock, only 10 topped the sales chart. We look at big titles from Eagles, Wings and Frampton.
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Robin Trower is Busy at 80 in 2025: Tour, Expanded Classic LPs
The guitarist postponed his 2024 concerts following a “major operation.” He’s celebrating the release of expanded editions of his acclaimed 1974 and ’75 albums.
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A Decade of American Glam Metal 1982-1992 Gets 3-CD Box Set
The collection spans 58 tracks, including hits from such “hair bands” as Poison, Quiet Riot, Ratt, White Lion, Warrant, and dozens more.
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‘Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine’ Documentary Returning to AXS TV
Says the director of the feature-length film about the Canadian power trio: “We wanted to know how and why the band dissolved at the peak of their powers”
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Rick Derringer, of ‘Hang on Sloopy’ and ‘Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo’ Fame, Dies
He was just a teenager when he scored a 1965 #1 single that became a garage rock classic. He later recorded with a broad range of artists including Steely Dan, Cyndi Lauper and “Weird Al” Yankovic.
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The ‘Lucky 13’ Number One Albums of 1968
Each of the LPs that claimed the top spot had a story to tell. The year began and ended with The Beatles on top with a whole lot of Simon & Garfunkel in between.
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James Lowe, Electric Prunes Lead Singer, Dies at 82
After the group disbanded in 1968, he went on to become a producer and engineer, working with such artists as Todd Rundgren and Sparks.
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Dire Straits’ ‘Brothers in Arms’ Gets 40th Anniversary Editions
The expanded collection includes a previously unreleased full-length concert from the band’s San Antonio, Texas, tour stop in 1985.
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