Classic Videos
Highlighting some of the most memorable music videos and live performances, as well as pop culture favorites
Public Image Ltd. Invades American Bandstand
The date was May 17, 1980. Two years earlier Rotten had turned rock music upside down and inside out as the frontman of punk progenitors the Sex Pistols. Now he was doing the same thing with Dick Clark
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Linda Ronstadt Rocks Warren Zevon
The singer rocked with the best of them in the ’70s. Here’s a Classic Video of her performing “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” live from 1977
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The Rolling Stones’ ‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll’ Video
Our Classic Video from 1974 stars the world’s “cleanest” rock ‘n’ roll band. See why. The album was the final one for one member
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SNL: ‘Godfather’ Sketch With John Belushi
Every guy’s favorite movie was spoofed during the sketch comedy series’ first season, with Belushi delivering a spot-on impersonation of Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone
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‘Father Christmas,’ the Greg Lake Enduring Holiday Classic
In 1975, “I Believe In Father Christmas” became a #2 hit in the U.K., blocked from the top spot by Queen. Lake wrote the song with a former bandmate
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When Patti Smith Joined U2 After 2015 Paris Terrorist Attacks
U2 chose her “People Have the Power” as their entrance song on their tour. Watch her live performance with them on an emotional night
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Bruce Lee: Boards Don’t Hit Back
The photogenic martial arts expert was riding a wave of success with multiple box-office hits and Enter the Dragon was about to make him a star in America
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Trinity Boys Choir, String Quartet Perform ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
A stunning interpretation of the Queen classic combines the band’s 1975 live performance of the song with the Trinity Boys Choir and a string quartet from the Royal Academy of Music
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Dick Clark Interviews Jefferson Airplane on ‘Bandstand’
In between songs in a 1967 appearance on American Bandstand, “America’s oldest teenager” asks some probing questions about hippies and the counterculture
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When Frank Zappa Sat in With Pink Floyd
October 1969: The eclectic L.A. genius is in Belgium for a rock festival and he feels like jamming. Pink Floyd invites him to sit in. Watch what happens.
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