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Few are the artists who find success in two rock groups. The prospect of starting over is likely quite daunting, particularly if your first band was a wild success. Oftentimes, those who become part of a well-regarded second act eventually end up back in the first one. Expectations come into play, as questions about matching or succeeding previous accomplishments begin to weigh everything down. Then there are the internal issues created with new personalities, new musical directions, new labels and management. Our ranking of Rock’s 40 Best Two-Band Careers also takes into account how much of a...
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He may be synonymous with country, but you’d have to be high to say Willie Nelson doesn’t know a thing or two about rock ‘n’ roll. The Texas icon, older than the genre itself, built a career off the back of his own legendary country songbook as well as a knack for turning songs of all genres into something fitting his unique vocal phrasing and guitar picking. With a body of work as long and prolific as his, it’s no surprise he’s taken on his share of classic rock favorites and even rubbed elbows with some of the most enduring artists in the genre. Here are 10 of our favorites. The Beatles Betw...
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For nearly the entirety of his career as a performing and touring musician, Bruce Springsteen had had an issue with taking his show to bigger venues. His reluctance was well known, and he had historically been slow to make such moves, even as the number of people who wanted to see him grew. “When we were in clubs,” he told biographer Dave Marsh for Marsh’s 1987 book Glory Days. “… we’d play five or six nights in a club before we’d go into a theater. … [W]e played five or six nights in a theater before we’d go into an arena. In the arena, we’d play five or six nights in the arena.” When plottin...
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There are plenty of artists out there who have made a very good living after releasing just one hit single. But as Norman Greenbaum or Dexys Midnight Runners can tell you, it’s pretty hard to string together two, three or especially four. Many of the artists below have track records that pose an opposite and extremely enviable dilemma: How to pick the best four-single run from their long and storied careers? We took 20 of classic rock’s biggest and most influential artists, in no particular order, and selected their best four-single run. To keep things on an even playing ground we stuck with U...
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Tracking Aerosmith‘s career trajectory from the beginning to the end of the ’80s reveals one of the most remarkable comebacks in rock history. The band was washed-up and left for dead at the turn of the decade, with Joe Perry having quit in 1979 and Brad Whitford following suit in 1981. Drugs and dysfunction had hobbled the one-mighty rockers, and they watched their album sales plummet as a new crop of bands rose up to usurp them. After reaching their nadir on 1982’s Rock in a Hard Place, Aerosmith reunited with Perry and Whitford and began the long, difficult process of mounting a comeback. T...
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Journey boasts an embarrassment of set list riches as they prepare to jump to stadiums in July. Earlier 2024 shows featured hit after hit after hit. Yet, as shown on our list of Top 10 Songs Journey Hasn’t Played Yet in 2024, there is still room for more key cuts. Before this next round of dates with Def Leppard and a rotating group of support acts that includes Cheap Trick, Heart and Steve Miller, Journey played a series of well-received concerts with Toto. “Any Way You Want It,” “Don’t Stop Believin'” and “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” made appearances every night, according to Setlist.fm. T...
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On this day in rock history, Motley Crue released their third studio album, Guns N’ Roses joined forces with the Terminator and Kiss found a way to kiss their own asses. Here’s a rundown of rock history’s biggest June 21 anniversaries: June 21, 1948: Birth of the 12″ Vinyl Album On June 21, 1948 Columbia Records introduced the 12 inch vinyl album at a press conference in New York City. According toWhatHiFi, the company had spent much of the previous decade developing a storage format that could hold 20 minutes of music per side. June 21, 1966: Jimmy Page Joins the Yardbirds After turning down ...
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It’s hard to think of a more quintessentially summertime subgenre than ’80s hard rock. Colloquially known as glam metal (or, more derisively, the dreaded “hair metal”), these songs celebrate life’s simple-but-universal pleasures: soaking up the sun, throwing a blowout party and congregating around the nearest radio to blast your favorite tunes. The ’80s are long gone, but these sentiments are eternal — and that’s why you need The 20 Best ’80s Hard Rock Summer Songs on your next playlist. 20. Motley Crue, “Kickstart My Heart” The connection between getting a shot of adrenaline to the heart afte...
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When the Rolling Stones consider their set list, some tough decisions have to be made. Of their 400-plus songs, only a handful will make the cut. As the Stones make their way across North America on their Hackney Diamonds Tour, they’ve been sticking to a pretty consistent set of 18-19 songs, though there have been a few curveballs and tour debuts thrown in. For one thing, there’s new material to be played from the band’s 2023 album Hackney Diamonds. There’s also the Stones’ regular strategy of allowing their audiences one fan-voted song. READ MORE: How Have the Rolling Stones’ Set Lists Change...
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Although Kiss released only three albums during the ’90s, it was quite an eventful time for the group. At the start of the decade, the group found themselves in a mirror version of their dilemma in the early ’80s. In 1982, after squandering nearly all of their career momentum with questionable trend-chasing albums, they released the masterful Creatures of the Night, which didn’t get nearly the attention it deserved. Chastened but determined, Kiss took off their trademark facepaint and clawed their way back to platinum sales and sold-out arenas with a string of successful ’80s albums. Although ...
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