
Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody/Killer Queen medley- London 1975
The regal rock of Queen came of age on the stage by this time in 1975 as is evidenced by this stunning performance at London's Odeon Theater with a medley of songs "Black Queen" from Queen II, "Killer Queen" from their first solid album, 1974's Sheer Heart Attack , and their breakthrough "Bohemian Rhapsody" from Queen's fourth effort, A Night at the Opera.

Redbeard Rocks Halloween- Scream and Stream Playlist
A streaming playlist of almost two hours of the obvious, curious, and hard-to-find "monsters of rock" Halloween songs with themes of ghosts, goblins, witches, werewolves, spirits, vampires, people in masks screaming…but no people screaming about masks!

Alice Cooper Group- I’m 18- Dallas 10-6-15
Not to be confused with Dallas Alice (that would be Little Feat), this is Alice in Dallas "Live from the Astroturf", performing in Good Records and improbably backed by his original Alice Cooper band (minus the late Glenn Buxton who passed in 1997) who gave us "Love It to Death", "Killer", "School's Out", and "Billion Dollar Babies".

Rolling Stones- Jumping Jack Flash- NYC 2023
Here are the Rolling Stones in a New York City club as recently as 2023 with a stiletto-sharp performance of "Jumping Jack Flash".

Queensryche- Best I Can- Hammersmith Odeon London 11-15-90
In November 1990 Queensryche planted the flag of smartly conceived and played all-American rock in the heart of the British Empire, London's venerable Hammersmith Odeon theater. This live performance of "Best I Can" is completely live, no overdubs.

Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook- Crying in My Sleep 10-91
Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook live on Q102 Dallas singing “Crying in My Sleep”.

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble- Texas Flood- Austin 4-15-84
Stevie Ray Vaughan sang "There's a flood down in Texas..." performing with Double Trouble on the Austin Opera House stage in April 1984, the Dallas native knew the notorious reputation of Central Texas Hill Country flash floods.

Neil Young- Helpless- Live Aid Philadelphia 7-13-85
Proving to the whole world that day to be anything other than "Helpless", Neil Young and a cast of a hundred thousand in Philadelphia's JFK Stadium joined a similar group in London's Wembley Stadium via satellite, and an estimated 1.4 billion viewing and listening worldwide, to raise money and awareness for starving residents of Ethiopia, Sudan, and sub-Saharan Africa on July 13, 1985 for Live Aid 35th anniversary.

Phil Collins “Against All Odds/In the Air Tonight”- Live Aid Philadelphia 7-13-85
with 100,000 people for Live Aid US, I stood back of center stage about ten feet behind Phil Collins who was seated at a black grand piano. Beside me looking over his 3"x 5" recipe cards with notes for stage announcements stood Jack Nicholson. Collins, fresh off the Concorde supersonic jet which had conveyed him from his earlier performance at the London Live Aid concert, sang his surprise movie hit "Against All Odds" and then "the other song I know on piano"...In the Air Tonight.

Queen- Spread Your Wings- London 10-28-77
Queen always was one of those top-tier bands who could really sing and play their highly arranged material live, and here is ample proof of that fact in a rare live-in-studio performance of "Spread Your Wings" from Autumn 1977, broadcast on BBC Radio from London's Maida Vale Studio.
