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Graham Nash of the Hollies, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was born on this day in 1942 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Nash co-founded the Hollies with Alan Clarke in the early 60's. He met Stephen Stills and David Crosby during a Hollies US tour and soon after parted ways with the Hollies to form Crosby, Stills and Nash, taking with him some of his best […]
David Bowie introduced the Rock World to Ziggy Stardust during a concert on this night in 1972 in Aylesbury, UK. The album featuring the character and title song, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, would get its UK release five months later, but Bowie had been working on material for the release since November of '71.Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on January 29 include...1944 Early Rolling […]
Before becoming a key member of one of Southern Rock's legendary bands, Billy Powell was one of the group's roadies. His talent as a keyboard player was unknown to Ronnie Van Zant until Powell was overheard playing Free Bird on a piano backstage before a Skynyrd concert in 1972. As Powell related it, the lead singer walked up to him and said, 'You mean to tell me that you've been […]
Drummer Nick Mason, the only member of Pink Floyd who played on every studio album the band released, was born on this day in 1944 in Birmingham, UK. Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Bob Klose met and formed a group called Sigma 6 while attending Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Mason has most recently formed Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, a group that concentrates on early era Pink Floyd […]
When Jimmy Buffett and Steve Huntington launched Radio Margaritaville as a hand-crafted online station in 1998, Parrot Heads flocked to it in droves. RM was a musical oasis serving-up a musical cocktail with Trop Rock as its main ingredient, complimented with songs and artists from other genres that kept it uniquely refreshing.Parrot Heads longing for the kind of listening experience Radio Margaritaville provided before the station migrated from the internet […]
A 1983 Gregg Allman concert at a Massachusetts club is being released September 20. Gregg Allman Band - Uncle Sam's was recorded at the Hull, MA club on July 1 of '83 and features renditions of Gregg's solo songs Queen of Hearts and Sweet Feelin' as well as several Allman Brothers Band songs, among them, Melissa, Dreams, Midnight Rider, Trouble No More, Don't Keep Me Wonderin' and Statesboro Blues done […]
The Jimmy Buffett tribute concert Thursday night (4/11) concluded with a stage packed with fellow musicians playing tribute to Jimmy by singing the inevitable finale. The "Keep The Party Going" gathering featured renditions of his songs done by members of his Coral Reefers Band, the Eagles, Jackson Browne, Paul McCartney, Mac MCanally, Jack Johnson, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church and Brandi Carlile.
Photo: cc Mark KentR.I.P. Steve Harley. The journalist turned musician passed away over the weekend about a month after revealing that he had begun undergoing treatment for cancer. An acoustic troubadour during the early 1070's, Harley played London clubs and bars and did a stint as the rhythm guitarist in a folk band named Odin. Harley and fellow Odin member Jean-Paul Crocker would later combine with three others in Cockney […]
We are New England-based rock cover band Imperial Zero; and we’ve started a 100% legal, streaming internet radio station. It starts with our core playlist, and expands out into deeper cuts…
