Tag "best classic bands"

Happy Together 2025 Tour Shuffles Lineup, Shares More Dates

The 15th edition of the tour, named after the Turtles song, features recording artists who have earned many Top 10 hits.

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‘The Who in America 1967-69’ Book Coming From Tour Photographer

In ‘Their Generation,’ the band is seen backstage, onstage, at rehearsal, in studio, and at home.

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Is Smokey Robinson Underrated? An Appreciation

Now in his ninth decade, we look back at his legendary songwriting and recording achievements, and honors. Yet, it’s possible that he’s still underrated

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Paul Simon Sets Return to Stage With 2025 Tour

“A Quiet Celebration” marks a return to the stage for more than just a one-off date for the first time since his much-ballyhooed 2018 farewell tour.

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1975: The Year in Music

The year gave us such classics as ‘Blood on the Tracks,’ ‘Born to Run,’ ‘Horses’ and ‘Physical Graffiti.’

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‘Yoko: The Biography’ Book Coming in 2025

Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators, and many others, author David Sheff shows us her nine decades.

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Lorne Michaels Gets Biography: ‘The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live’

With unprecedented access to Michaels and the entire SNL apparatus, the author takes readers behind the curtain for the lively, up-and-down, definitive story of how he created and maintained the institution that changed comedy forever.

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Dylan, Cash Producer Bob Johnston on the Nashville Sessions

“I was standing by the soundboard and I said to Dylan, ‘Listen, man, you ought to come to Nashville sometime.’ He just went, ‘Hmmm.'”

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‘Dueling Banjos’ From ‘Deliverance’: An Unlikely Hit

The song, featured prominently in the 1972 thriller, was used without the permission of its composer. There’s actually only one banjo used.

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Eric Clapton & Friends Play 2020 Ginger Baker Tribute Concert

Some friends! Also performing were Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood, Roger Waters, and more. The setlist honored the drummer’s work in Cream and Blind Faith.

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