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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Superstars of the 60s: Johnny Rivers
Imagine it you had 9 top 10 records, 17 songs in the Top 40 and founded your own record label where you discovered such acts as the 5th Dimension. Now, imagine all that and you’re…
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The Essential Boomer Album Collection - Part 9
Tapestry (1971) Carole King was already one of rock’s most successful songwriters. But no one could have predicted that when she finally started singing her own songs, she would create one of the best selling…
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The Story Behind the Song - "Mercedes Benz"
Of all the songs Janis Joplin recorded in her brief, but spectacular career, one of the best-known and most fondly remembered is “Mercedes Benz.” Few remember now that Janis was also interested in poetry and…
The drummer at their very first gig was Mick Avory, who went on to become the drummer for the Kinks.