Tag "best classic bands"

Alice Cooper #1 Breakthrough: Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper was still a band, not just one guy, and this was the album that started their transition from novelty act to classic rock legends.

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Robby Krieger’s Soul Savages—Old-School Rock, By and For Old Souls: Review

While Krieger’s guitar is prominent on these 10 tracks, this sounds like a working band.

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Johnny Cash—’A Boy Named Sue’: Behind the Song

“That’s the most cleverly written song I’ve ever heard,” Cash told the song’s composer. It became Cash’s biggest hit single.

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‘Dancing in the Moonlight’—The Circuitous Path of the One and Only King Harvest Hit

Everybody was “Dancing in the Moonlight” in the early ’70s, but who was the band that recorded this catchy one-hit wonder? We decided to find out.

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Eagles ‘Greatest Hits’: #1 U.S. Album of All-Time

Not only is the 1976 collection the biggest album of all-time in the States, but their ‘Hotel California’ is in third place

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Meet Session Superstar Nicky Hopkins

Do you know the music he made with a long Who’s Who list of classic rock superstars? Now get to know the session keyboard star

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Rod Stewart, Jools Holland Release Lively ‘Swing Fever’ Album

It’s been Stewart’s dream of making an album of the songs that were, in many ways, the rock ‘n’ roll of their day

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Radio Hits of February 1968

A sonic blend of classic pop, R&B, psychedelic, bubblegum, and soul songs were on playlists across the U.S., topped by a sappy instrumental tune

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John ‘Duff’ Lowe, Bandmate of McCartney, Lennon and Harrison in The Quarrymen, Dies

In 1958, the group—Lennon, McCartney, George Harrison, drummer Colin Hanton, and Lowe, on piano—recorded a pair of songs in Liverpool. Lowe retained the only copy

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Illustrated Book Focusing on Music of Carlos Santana Due

The authorized bio includes hundreds of images from Carlos’ archives, as well as new interviews with the guitarist and his collaborators.

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