Previously a collective yet to realize its most effective means of transforming ideas into finished art, Becker and Fagen coalesced on this 1977 classic
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What’s the read on the latest reissue releases and live performances by classic rock artists? What biopics, movies or documentaries are worth seeing in theaters and at home? What books about rock music and the people who make and work with it are worth reading. Our team also takes a fresh look at notable works in our Album Rewind series
The LP, which included the smash “Heart of Glass,” would transform the group from boutique act into a worldwide sensation. Our Album Rewind…
Once so provocative, his theatrics now seem much more tame, but with a killer band and classic songs, he still puts on a great show.
This is consistently remarkable stuff, and serious Mac addicts can be forgiven if they want all the versions they can get.
The sole Stills-Young Band set is an outlier, a stopgap that is often overlooked. But there are treasures in it.
Gram Parsons had envisioned the Burritos as “his” band, but ‘The Gilded Palace of Sin’ underscores the partnership between Parsons and Chris Hillman
The “cool kids” may not have listened to them, but decades after they formed Chicago still delivers the goods.
Their followup to ‘Pet Sounds’ was a quick replacement for an abandoned masterpiece-to-be. Some fans didn’t love it, but in time its reputation has grown.
Don McLean stands apart from everyone, if for no other reason than that there’s never been another song quite like “American Pie.”
They didn’t dare bill it as a Byrds reunion, but to those fans who caught a show on one of the year’s most talked-about tours, that’s exactly what it was.