Tag "best classic bands"
Pink Floyd Shine on ‘Wish You Were Here’
Despite tense recording sessions, the band’s 1975 followup to The Dark Side of the Moon became a landmark of art-rock on its own right.
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Mwah: 15 Essential KISS Songs
The band created a catalog of hooks sturdy enough to survive the spectacle.
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Best Weekly Singles Charts of All-Time: September 1973 Edition
Five all-time classic rock hits were in the Top 10 this week in 1973 on Boston’s Top 40 station WRKO. Could it get any better than this?
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Squeeze’s Busy Year Continues With New Album, Tour
Trixies was written by the teenage Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook at the start of their songwriting partnership.
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Remember Crazy Eddie, the “Insaaane” Music Retailer?
The chain’s TV ads with the crazy pitch man were so ubiquitous in the New York metropolitan area, Dan Aykroyd spoofed them on Saturday Night Live.
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‘I Really Should Be Back at School’: 15 September Songs
September as metaphor can symbolize change, separation, reunion, a lost love, a new beginning, the passage of time, the process of aging.
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Traffic: ‘Welcome to the Canteen’—Together Again
The front album cover didn’t even call them Traffic; it just listed the names of the musicians. But there was no mistaking who they were.
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The Day the Music Didn’t Die—14 Rockin’ Tunes from 1959-64
While some artists who would later comprise the first class of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees sat out the period of 1958-64, new trends developed and the music morphed in several new and different directions.
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A 5th Dimension Box Delivers Hits Galore & Hidden Treasures: Review
The group consistently tapped excellent composers, most notably Jimmy Webb and Laura Nyro but also such folks as Harry Nilsson and Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
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Jeff Lynne’s ELO at the Hollywood Bowl in 2016
The spaceship touched down on Los Angeles as the re-tooled Electric Light Orchestra played their first of just 5 U.S. dates.
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