A memorable season resonated this week on New York’s WABC as a Beatles fave held the top spot followed by hits from The Doors, the Monkees + Stevie Wonder
Browsing: best classic bands
The anthemic call-and-response chorus, sung repeatedly over a twin-Les Paul guitar riff, has to rank as one of rock’s all-time greatest earworms
Before you ever heard of them, Joe Cocker, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen and members of the Doors, Doobies and Led Zeppelin all made records. Listen up!
By 1974, his once-promising career had hit a wall and it would clearly take something significant to get him back on track. Enter John Lennon
Three songs stayed at the top for four weeks or more. And thus, no less than 30 singles reached #1 that year. Listen to some great vocals
After 40 years, ‘Stop Making Sense’ in all its forms remains ineffably compelling and still feels fully modern.
The composer of one of the greatest countercultural anthems never made it to the festival that served as the song’s subject.
The editions, spanning their five-decade career, are being released in conjunction with their 50th anniversary tour.
Although compiled to satisfy a contractual obligation, the collection of stray tracks is “a corner of the room worth spending some time in.”
No less than 25 different titles were at #1 for at least one week in the U.S. The two artists with the most weeks at the top might surprise you