Photo by Terry Disney/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The site of The Beatles' famous rooftop concert at 3 Savile Row in London will host a... read more
Roger Daltrey stutters the vocal on "My Generation" by The Who. The idea was to sound like a British kid on speed.
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Rock 'n roll seemed doomed when on February 3, 1959, three of the genre's pioneers - Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson - died in a plane crash. A 17-year-old Paul Anka wrote Holly's last hit, released posthumously, "It Doesn't Matter Any More."
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Jon Anderson breaks down the Yes classic "Seen All Good People" and talks about his 1000 Hands album, which features Chick Corea, Rick Derringer, Ian Anderson, and many other luminaries.
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This song starts in Boston with a tea party and takes us to the other end of the American Revolution.
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Can you name Def Leppard's only #1 hit in America? Get rocked with this adrenalized quiz.
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Was Dr. Feelgood a dentist? Did the "Crüecifixion" really happen?
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Not long before this song was released, I ran across the expression "silver spring" in a short story, used to describe a special, romantic spring. Since I read the book from which Stevie got the Rhiannon concept (Triad, by Mary Leader), I wondered if Stevie Nicks and I had the same taste in reading material. Anyway, I was working as an afternoon-drive disc jockey at the time and always looking for new tunes to intersperse with hits. This was one of them. I found a lot of truly good songs on B sides and as album cuts. The B-side tunes like this one helped set a mood....