Around the same time that Clapton and Page were getting their names known around London, and before anyone knew about Jimi, America had a homegrown guitar hero of its own
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Guess who didn’t much care for the song that made the band a major force of rock for decades to come? And who’s just fine with it now…
It was, to be sure, one of the bleakest songs ever to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. And then Zager and Evans never charted again.
Songs from Van Morrison and a Rolling Stones’ rarity are side-by-side with ones from Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker, Hall & Oates and Foreigner
The pair are reunited again for one of the year’s big outings
The 2024 expanded summer tour will include Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey, Modern English, Men Without Hats, the Romantics, Bow Wow Wow, the Plimsouls, and Tommy Tutone
A long list of peers, including Jackson Browne, Don Henley and Stevie Nicks, paid tribute to the rock great in L.A. Watch Petty’s speech and performance
It didn’t sound at first listen like something to change the course of rock music, but they opened doors for any number of rock acts.
Songs by some of the biggest names in rock including Eagles and Steve Miller topped the chart. Fleetwood Mac released Rumours, making them superstars
It was by no means unusual, during the company’s heyday, for a second (or third or fourth) Motown artist to cover the work of another.