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British Invasion Concerts NYC

The Dave Clark Five

Harry Deal & THe Galaxies, The Six Keys

The Knaves

Greensboro Coliseum

Greensboro, NC

Rolling Stones

Dave Berry & The Cruisers, The Konrads

The Checkmates, Johnny Ball, The Hollies

ABC Theatre  Romford,…

I've been an avid music collector since the early 1960's.  Besides the great albums I purchased, I always took note of some of the really bad records I bought over the years...you know what I'm talking about don'cha?  Record albums…

Release Date: November 29, 1968 Warner Bros Records

When I got out of bed his morning, I suddenly realized that 55 years ago Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album was released.  Looking back on those days, I vividly recall hearing this…

This story starts in the United Kingdom...

""The British music industry was rigidly controlled by the BBC and London’s Denmark Street music publishers. A handful of powerful managers groomed a stable of homegrown singers in the mold of Elvis Presley…

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Johnny Rotten Signs the Autographs

Punk Rock Before The Music Biz

The Ballad Of Willie Nelson

The Blue Seas Saga

Bad Vibes in Tune

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Lunch With Little Richard. Whoo!

Missing The Beatles: The Legendary Lost & Stolen Beatles Tapes

Bowie’s Artwork: Exclusive

I was shocked to learn that Jeff Beck, perhaps the greatest rock & roll guitarist of all, had passed away on Tuesday due to spinal meningitis.  I've always ranked Beck alongside my other favorite guitarist, Danny Gatton.  

Throughout any given year, I've always found myself reading an inordinate amount of rock & roll books.  It's a habit I fell into back in my high school days.  Whenever I hear about a new rock & roll

SYD BARRETT

Lost in the Twilight Zone

CSNY

Chasing dreams of becoming outlaws

ALBERT COLLINS

Having a smoke after a tasty guitar work out

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Nuggets @ 50: The Classic Garage Rock Compilation

The Whole World In A Song: An Interview W/ Critic

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Tom Waits Shares Unreleased Live Recordings

Supersize: A Painter Who's Giving Rock ’n’ Roll Singles New Dimensions

Today on the Rock & Roll is a State of Mind blog we celebrate the late great Big Daddy Tom Donahue (May 21, 1928 – April 28, 1975), who was a renowned American rock and roll radio disc jockey,

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A Brief Review Of The New Reissue Of A Rare Jack Nitzsche Solo Album

Blues For Gorbachev: A

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Rockeology: Old Yellow

Give ‘Em Enough Hope: Joe Strummer at 70

'Dirt Does Dylan'

Ork Records:

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100 Lost Rock Albums From The 1970s - An Extract

On Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad

Donald Fagen: Candid

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Bo Diddley Interview

Rock & Roll Ghosts

Neil Diamond: A Solitary Man

'Jailhouse Rock' Made Prison

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The Final Album: Tom Petty’s “Hypnotic Eye”

Bob Dylan Announces 2022 UK & European Tour Dates

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Raising Hell Tour '86 

RUN DMC 

WHODINI 

LL COOL J 

Municipal Auditorium 

Nashville, TN

"All Hell Breaks Loose at a Run-D.M.C. 'Raising Hell' Rap Concert in California: 'I am great--get it straight--that`s…

Today we look back at The US Festival 1982!

STEVE WOZNIAK

"Woodstock set the bar impossibly high for rock festivals. Ever since, people have expected nothing less than majesty and transcendence, although merely mind-blowing will

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Sam Cutler: Life With The Stones, The Dead & Other Wonderful Reprobates

The Doors Revisited

Island Records Founder Chris Blackwell:

THE BEATLES

@ The Peppermint Lounge 1964

BRIAN JONES

prior to his untimely death in 1969

EDDIE COCHRAN

on stage

THE ONE & ONLY KEITH

The Who 

London Coliseum

London, UK

Grateful Dead

Alpine Valley Music Theatre

East Troy, MI

Jerry Garcia Band Electric

Wiltern Theatre

379 Wilshire Blvd