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Chicago Issues Brilliant Archival 1971 Kennedy Center Live Album
The show explores all three studio albums the band had released since their 1969 debut
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Radio Hits in October 1965: Seems Like Yesterday
A Beatles song – one of the most recorded songs ever – was #1 this week in 1965. A few months later an instrumental beat it for Record of the Year
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Neil Young, Stephen Stills Play Harvest Moon Benefit Concert
The 3x bandmates have regularly shared the stage for charitable endeavors
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Listen to Steve Miller Band’s Live Reggae Version of ‘The Joker’ From 1977
The concert captures the band at their peak, with such favorites as “Rock’n Me,” “Jet Airliner” and “Fly Like an Eagle”
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Joni Mitchell Releases Archives Vol 4: Asylum Years (1976-80) Box
The collection includes live tracks from her time in Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue during the 1975-76 tour, along with previously unissued material from original stereo reels, cassette tapes, and much more
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The 11 Number One Albums of 1969: CCR Were Rising
In a final year of the decade, three releases accounted for 33 of the year’s weekly chart toppers. The one with the most weeks at #1 may surprise you
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Pete Townshend Releases ‘Live In Concert 1985-2001’ Box Set
The 14-CD set has been newly mastered by long-time Who engineer Jon Astley
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Lindsey Buckingham Interview: Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Songwriting
“Part of the deal with Stevie and me was that we had to spend an awful lot of time together without ever having gotten closure from each other”
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Paul McCartney Opens 2024 ‘Got Back’ Tour
The 82 year-old’s 37-song set included the concert debut of “Now and Then,” the Beatles song released in 2023 based on a John Lennon demo
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Radio Hits in October 1974: The ‘New Math’
The Best Classic Bands chart nerds noticed that this week featured 3 hits at the top with the word “Nothing” in the title: great songs by BTO, Stevie Wonder and Billy Preston
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