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Unique Marketing Campaign Launches New Rolling Stones Release

Unique Marketing Campaign Launches New Rolling Stones Release
Photo: Mark Seliger The Rolling Stones have announced their new studio album, Hackney Diamonds, coming October 20, 2023, via Geffen Records, after an elaborate teaser campaign. The news arrived at a free-wheeling press event with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, that was hosted by Jimmy Fallon, and live streamed from the Hackney Empire Theatre in London, on September 6... Read More

Bachman/Cummings Postpone Planned North American Tour

Bachman/Cummings Postpone Planned North American Tour
By Best Classic Bands Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings have cancelled the 2021 U.S. leg of their reunion tour, citing travel issues in and out of Canada. The Guess Who mainstays had formally announced the “Together Again” North American tour on February 24, 2020, just prior to the lockdown, for that summer. The U.S. dates had previously been pushed to September... Read More

Classic Rocker Leslie West Dies From Heart Attack

Classic Rocker Leslie West Dies From Heart Attack
Mountain (L to R): Felix Pappalardi, Leslie West, Corky Laing By Jeff Tamarkin Leslie West, best known as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist of hard-rock progenitors Mountain, died today (Dec. 23, 2020) due to cardiac arrest. West, who was in Palm Coast, Fla., at the time of his passing, was 75. On Monday night, Dec. 21, West’s brother, Larry West... Read More

Charley Pride, Country Music Legend, Dies at 86

Charley Pride, Country Music Legend, Dies at 86
Charley Pride, whose rich baritone voice and impeccable song-sense altered American culture, died today (December 12, 2020) in Dallas, Tex., of complications from Covid-19. The country music legend was 86. Born a sharecropper’s son in Sledge, Mississippi, on March 18, 1934, Pride emerged from Southern cotton fields to become country music’s first Black superstar and the first Black member of the Country... Read More

McCartney 111 Rolls The Dice

McCartney 111 Rolls The Dice
Paul McCartney will be releasing a new solo album in 2020, with the title officially McCartney III. On October 21, the legend formally announced the album’s December 11 release, with an official trailer. (Watch it below.) Classic rock forums and Beatles bloggers had been discussing it in earnest for weeks and on October 19 McCartney’s Facebook page released the first teaser graphic. The... Read More

Spencer Davis Succumbs To Pneumonia

Spencer Davis Succumbs To Pneumonia
Spencer Davis Group 1966 | L-R – Muff Windwood, Spencer Davis, Pete York, and Steve Winwood Spencer Davis, the multi-instrumentalist who lent his name to the British band that logged two top 10 hits in America in 1967, “Gimme Some Lovin’” and “I’m a Man,” died on Oct. 19, according to several British websites. The cause was pneumonia. He was... Read More

John Fogerty Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Trump Campaign For Use of ‘Fortunate Son’

John Fogerty Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Trump Campaign For Use of ‘Fortunate Son’
John Fogerty is the latest classic rock legend to object to the use of his music by President Trump’s re-election campaign. In a tweet today (October 16), Fogerty says he has issued a “cease and desist” order for “using my words and my voice to portray a message that I do not endorse.” On September 11, Fogerty posted a video... Read More