Tag "best classic bands"
Jerry Jeff Walker: More Than ‘Mr. Bojangles’
The outlaw country singer was also a first-rate songwriter, capable of sweet, evocative folk tunes of memorably iconoclastic characters
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Kiss’ ‘Destroyer’: Where the Music Finally Equaled the Image
Everyone knew the makeup, the blood and that tongue, but their records weren’t selling. Then came ‘Destroyer’ and a single that almost didn’t make the cut.
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Lou Gramm Retiring From the Stage: It Feels Like the Last Time
Foreigner has been in the news a lot in 2024. They were finally nominated for the Rock Hall and now the singer of their hits says he’s retiring from performing
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Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller on Writing for Elvis and the Beatles
They wrote dozens of seminal rock and R&B hits, including “Jailhouse Rock,” “Kansas City,” “Hound Dog” and “Stand By Me.”
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Beatles Documentary, ‘Eight Days a Week’: Review
The 2016 film is “a nonstop rush of adrenaline, a comfort-food feast of melodic guitars and impeccable harmonies, unbridled creativity and boundless artistic determination, cheeky wit and newness and wonder and youth. And screams—lots of screams.”
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Happy Birthday, Barbara Feldon, ‘Agent 99’ of ‘Get Smart’
In Getting Smarter, the beloved actress relays stories from her time in Hollywood and, for the first time, of her not-so picture-perfect marriage.
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Certified Pre-Owned: Unreleased Traveling Wilburys Album
A viable—make that wonderful—Wilburys album is still out there, lurking.
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13 Books That All Hippies Owned
In order to be a bona fide hippie, it was imperative to familiarize oneself with certain books. We’ve chosen a baker’s dozen.
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Karl Wallinger, World Party Frontman, Dead at 66
World Party’s biggest hit in the U.S. was 1987’s “Ship of Fools.” Like most of their recordings, it was basically a Wallinger solo vehicle.
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2018 Oscars ‘In Memoriam’ Presented via Tom Petty Song
Eddie Vedder performed TP’s 1999 song, “Room at the Top,” as the 90th annual Academy Awards honored film industry legends who died during the past year
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