He was a journeyman rocker with a decade of experience behind him, but he still hadn’t broken through. Then he released a live album.
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When they performed earlier that year at a big event, it was expected they would announce their 2018 world tour. Then came shocking news
In a new London club devoted to American blues, two fans met a third on this date. Soon they started making their own blues. Soon they’d be world-famous.
The beloved musician and singer-songwriting legend was a victim of the Covid-19 virus. One prominent rocker called him “a national treasure”
Musical friends and family gathered after the funeral on June 3 to jam and celebrate the life of the music legend. “Tears and laughter”
He was perhaps best known as the composer, with Ted Nugent, of the band’s “Journey to the Center of the Mind,” a #16 pop hit in 1968
A genuine outlaw throughout his life and career, he was one of the greatest singer-songwriters in the history of country music
The insult comic outlived virtually all of his peers. When he died at 90 in his Los Angeles home, his fellow comics and friends mourned him
The drummer who played with Jeff Beck, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Emerson and Lake, and so many others, died on this day. RIP to a master musician
No other artist had done it before and none has since. Not only did the Beatles own the top 5, but they had 7 other singles in the Hot 100!