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Now that Randy Newman has been inducted, here’s my nomination for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the most deserving American songwriter working today: John Hiatt. Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton and B.B.King, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, Iggy Pop, Dave Edmunds, Gregg Allman, Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, Delbert McClinton, & the late Jeff […]
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant recall first rehearsals for Led Zeppelin first public performance 11-9-68 at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm.
By the mid-1980s Hollywood awkwardly concluded three decades of getting it all wrong finally by releasing a series of popular mainstream blockbusters with subject matter and/ or cornerstone scenes built around rock and roll, including Purple Rain, La Bamba, The Buddy Holly Story, Rock and Roll High School, The Blues Brothers, and Almost Famous which easily come to […]
The first great rock festival blossomed fifty years ago June 16-17-18 as the Monterey Pop Festival. One of the performers and Artistic Directors, Art Garfunkel of Simon and Garfunkel, recalls the pioneering event.
Ian Anderson In the Studio for the brilliant 21st century sequel to Jethro Tull’s “Thick As a Brick”.
Todd Rundgren brought some polish to Grand Funk’s freight train in the studio, which also encouraged singing drummer Don Brewer to step up his game with songwriting and step up to the main vocal microphone with the #1 hit title song “We’re an American Band”.
Predictably, the induction of Journey into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rekindled several obvious questions once again with loyal fans, among them: why did the much-beloved and enormously successful Eighties line-up of the Bay Area band, fronted by Steve Perry, disband?
Chuck Berry has died at age 90.
YES the early best “Fragile” and “Close to the Edge” with Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Tony Kaye, Bill Bruford, the late Chris Squire
Def Leppard lead singer Joe Elliott premieres the band’s concert DVD/2-CD “And There Will be a Next Time”.