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In the Studio this Memorial Day Weekend in the US, we choose to pay tribute those rock musicians who have dedicated their lives so that we could have a little more ...
The conclusion of our In the Studio Memorial Weekend tribute to rock musicians who dedicated their lives to entertaining us and have passed away includes the voices of John Entwistle of ...
The top 10 list of rock game-changing debut albums is short but breathtaking. Among them : Are You Experienced? , Led Zeppelin 1 , Music from Big Pink , Ramones , ...
Even I did not fully comprehend how massive, colossally popular, Foreigner‘s second album Double Vision was in June 1978. It actually outsold Atlantic Records label mates the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls ...
With a very sad heart, I must notify you that Doors co-founder, keyboard player, and keeper of the Doors legacy, Ray Manzarek, has passed away at age 74.
The second Doors ...
The Doors‘ debut only nine months earlier remains more often written about, mostly because it was so startlingly fully formed and sounding unlike anything else. But Strange Days actually is an ...
Hands down, Deep Purple‘s Now What?! is the album to beat this year for “Comeback Album of the Year”. Not that the Fathers of Heavy Metal ever went away from touring ...
The main songwriters/singers/guitarists of Bellingham WA band The Posies, Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, spent so much time in Memphis as neo-Big Star members that I think of them as honorary ...
The first time I interviewed Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones it was January 1989. The band had been on hiatus for the last half of the decade, and seeing into ...
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