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David Gilmour’s Black Strat Shatters Record for a Guitar at Auction

The Pink Floyd star played the guitar on such songs as “Money,” “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” and his legendary solo on “Comfortably Numb.”

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Happy Together 2026 Tour Sets Lineup, Adds Dates

This year’s run of ’60s hitmakers marks several notable changes in the lineup.

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Squeeze Have Busy 2026 With ‘First’ Album, ‘Trixies,’ and Tour

The album was written by the teenage Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook at the start of their songwriting partnership.

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Billy Joel Releases Archival Videos Timed to Original Documentary, ‘And So It Goes’

The two-part film, all the more poignant given the star’s health issues, spans nearly five hours.

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Eagles to Issue ‘One of These Nights’ Deluxe Edition

The set features a 2025 mix of the band’s chart-topping LP along with a previously unreleased full live show recorded at Anaheim Stadium on September 28, 1975.

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Jon Anderson Adds to 2026 Tour With the Band Geeks

The tour is billed as “YES Epics, Classics, and More” and will feature songs recorded during his 40 years as the lead vocalist of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees.

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Longtime Boston Lead Singer Tommy DeCarlo Dies on Anniversary of Brad Delp’s Death

In a 2017 interview with Best Classic Bands, the band’s mastermind, Tom Scholz, was asked about the audition process. “He sang ‘Don’t Look Back’ and just blew our socks off. He had never been in a band before. Now you look at him and you would swear he’s been doing it since he was a teenager.”

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John Fogerty Expands 2026 Tour, Adding Dates With Steve Winwood

The pair of legends will team for more than a dozen shows.

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Augie Meyers, Founding Member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, Dies

The Doug Sahm-led Tex-Mex group with the English-sounding name scored several hit singles in the ’60s.

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‘Country Joe’ McDonald, Who Urged the Crowd at the ’69 Woodstock Festival to ‘Gimme an F,’ Dies

His signature anti-Vietnam War song, “The Fish Cheer/”I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die-Rag,” came after he served a three-year stint in the U.S. Navy.

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