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The Essential Boomer Album Collection - Part 5
Are You Experienced (1967) This is the album that changed everything. Music was never the same after Jimi Hendrix’s debut album, Are You Experienced, hit record stores like a proverbial bombshell. Nobody had sounded like…
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The Story Behind the Song: Woodstock (1969)
Anybody who was anybody in the world of rock was on stage at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, NY, to close out the summer of 1969. That is everybody except Joni Mitchell, who wound up writing…
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Rock & Roll Soap Opera
When most people think of a rock group with an internal dynamic rife with drugs and sexual jealousy, Fleetwood Mac is probably the first name that might come to mind. But a decade before Stevie…
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On Beyond ABBA
For those who can’t get enough of the Swedish supergroup, we may have good news for you. Just three years ago, ABBA surprised everyone by releasing their first album of new material in forty years…
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The Story Behind the Song: My Generation (1965)
The Who is a band that almost didn’t have much of a recording career. For most of their early years, the band members couldn’t get along with each other (particularly Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend).…
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Superstars of the Sixties: Del Shannon
As the 50s became the 60s, many thought rock & roll was on the way out. Buddy Holly was dead. Little Richard had quit rocking to join the ministry. Elvis was in the army (and…
The drummer at their very first gig was Mick Avory, who went on to become the drummer for the Kinks.