Hey! Loan Me a Quarter!

55 years ago this month, 25₵ would have bought you a lot of live entertainment!

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A Lot of Musical Memories Here
Quite the collection of early rock stars in this picture. Front, left to right: Dion, early Philadelphia DJ Jay Blavat, Darlene Love, and Frankie Avalon. In the back: Chubby Checker. We give the photo a…
Slow Dancer (1974)
A Hidden Treasure From Rock & Soul’s Golden Era A series of posts about albums you may have missed back in the day when so much good music was coming out on nearly a daily…
R.I.P. Mike Pinder (1941-2024)
Mike Pinder, one of the founders of the Moody Blues and the last surviving member of the band’s original line-up, passed away on Wednesday, April 24th at the age of 82. As the group’s primary…
Rock Icon: Burt Bacharach (?)
His work has been recorded by artists all over the musical map – from Perry Como to the Beatles, from roots rocker Gene Vincent to Neil Diamond, from Nat King Cole to Elvis Costello. Next…
Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine: The Everly Brothers’ Comeback
As comeback albums go, you can’t do much better than EB ’84, a return to recording greatness for Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, Don and Phil Everly. One of early rock’s most reliable acts,…
The Essential Boomer Album Collection – Led Zeppelin
If every girl you knew in college back in the day had a copy of Simon & Garfunkel’s Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, every guy probably had a copy of this album, Led Zeppelin’s self-titled…