The 2017 MTV Music Video Awards were announced last month, reminding all of us of the long tradition of unexpected moments and scandals. The MTV Video Music Awards are live in TV Sunday, August 27th, 8 pm on MTV. The first VMA Awards were held in 1984 in NYC at the Radio City Music Hall. […]
Men love their cars, women love their rides, and we can all agree that songs about cars are hot. You’ll find hit records about cars in all decades, proving that beautiful cars inspire great hit records. Here is our short list of songs about or inspired by cars… “409” – Beach Boys “Mercedes Benz” – […]
Glen Campbell has lost his battle with Alzheimer’s disease, dying at the age of 81. In the late 60s and early 70s one of the groundbreaking music acts wasn’t the Kinks, the Temptations, or even Jimmy Hendrix. It was of all things a studio musician and pop singer by the name of Glen Campbell. Glen […]
The 60s was the wildest and most interesting decade of years in our time. We were at war in the jungles of Vietnam, put a man on the moon, witnessed the assassinations of two Kennedys and Martin Luther King, and celebrated four days of free love and music at a festival called Woodstock. It’s easy […]
Many of your favorite bands played a few weeks ago at Citi Field in New York City. The event was underneath the ‘Classic’ umbrella in name, one in the east and one in the west, featuring The Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Earth Wind and Fire and more. The nearly simultaneous concerts were so successful, […]
Queen’s Brian May will chronicle the history of the band through a series of 3D photos shot exclusively with his stereoscopic camera in the new book Queen in 3D. Queen in 3D features over 360 photographs, which May spent three years compiling. The photos feature shots from all eras of Queen, most of which have […]
Motown founder Berry Gordy is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but then again there are many Motown artists in the hall. However… Why are Mary Wells, Lionel Richie and the Commodores, the Spinners, and the Marvelettes are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Sure, as a hall of fame […]
Stephen was the lead guitarist for one of the most influential groups in the 60s and 70s, Judy the songwriter and poet for a generation. Now, Stephen Stills and Judy Collins are bound together in song and tour this summer. Their collaboration duet LP ‘Everybody Knows,’ was released a few weeks ago, the touring designed […]
If you’re under a tight budget and can spend money on only one concert tour this summer this Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Edgar Winter Band thing might be the live show to choose. Deep Purple gave the world “Hush,” “My Woman From Tokyo,” and “Smoke On The Water,” while Alice Cooper’s “I’m 18,” and “Schools […]
It’s hard to imagine where we’d be without the Beatles. When the Fab Four took the Ed Sullivan stage in February of 1964, everything changed. The boys in the band record plenty of rock and psychedelic songs, but it’s the ballads that made them universally famous. Here’s our short list of Best Beatles Ballads.. “Yesterday” […]