Tag "classic video"
Paul McCartney’s All-Star ‘Rockestra Theme’: A Who’s Who
An assemblage of classic rock A-Listers – including members of Led Zeppelin, The Who and Pink Floyd – showed up at Abbey Road Studios in 1978 to record this song
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‘The Best’ Supergroup: Emerson, Entwistle, Walsh
A short-lived band featured members of ELP, The Who, Eagles and others as they toured with songs from their “day jobs.”
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The Box Tops ‘The Letter’: Two Minutes of Perfection
One of our favorite songs of 1967 clocks in at only 1:58. Lead singer Alex Chilton recorded the #1 smash when he was just 16.
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Freddie Mercury Showcase: Queen’s ‘Somebody to Love’
By 1976, they were bona fide rock stars and produced their fifth album, A Day at the Races, themselves. Sing along to a song by a band hitting their stride
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Is This David Crosby’s Earliest Solo Recording?
A rare live track by the future Byrds member and singer-songwriter legend, recorded in a Colorado club in 1961, surfaced in 2016
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Nick Lowe’s Solo Debut: ‘So it Goes’
The bassist-vocalist of pub-rock group Brinsley Schwarz was hardly a household name. But his debut 45 for Stiff Records got his solo career moving
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The Avengers’ Emma Peel Meets The Kinks
Someone decided that scenes with Diana Rigg’s character was a perfect match for “You Really Got Me.” This person was right. Our Classic Video…
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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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Original ‘Airplane!’ Movie: Some Favorite Scenes
One of our all-time guilty pleasures is this 1980 comedy film which parodied various 1970s disaster movies. “I speak jive…”
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The Sony Walkman Was a Game Changer
This Classic Video shows the 1983 introduction of the newest Sony Walkman allowing people to listen to their choice of music while, well, walking.
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