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"The Beatles were one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. They also had one of the fiercest, most intensely loyal fandoms of all time. Beatles fans — mainly teenage girls — offered the band their…

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…

Psychedelic rock was a musical genre that emerged in the mid-sixties due to the popularity of such mind-altering drugs as LSD, mescaline, cannabis and peyote mushrooms.  

The roots of Psychedelic Rock began here: On Friday April 16, 1943 (a day…

“A Pop person is like a vacuum that eats up everything, he's made up from what he's seen.  And that's why people are really becoming plastic; they are just fed things and are formed and the people who can give…

Vince Taylor, while not widely known to US rock fans, was an influential part of the European rock scene in the late 50's and early 60's.  While not widely known to US rock fans, Taylor was an influential part of…

This blog post is dedicated to my dear friend,

Jeff Goldstein

who spent many happy hours @ The Fillmore East

The Story of the Fillmore East begins here...

Located at the southwest corner of Second Avenue and Sixth Street was…

Today on the Rock & Roll is a State of Mind blog, we celebrate the 54th anniversary of what many regard as one of  the very first rock festivals...Monterey International Pop Festival June 16th / 17th / 18th 1967! 

While…