Category Archives: Classic Rock

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Stevie Nicks paid tribute to the late Christine McVie on Friday during the first date of her co-headlining tour with Billy Joel, delivering an emotional, tearful rendition of the Fleetwood Mac classic “Landslide.” You can watch video of the performance below. Nicks ended her 16-song set at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium with the poignant acoustic […]

Priscilla Presley, Elvis‘ ex-wife and mother of Lisa Marie, is embroiled in a lagl battle over control of the King’s estate. When Elvis died in 1977, his estate was placed into a trust, with Lisa Marie eventually becoming its sole beneficiary. Though she suffered through many financial problems over the years, including a public battle […]

Many musicians have had their lives cut short, be it via bad luck, addiction or their personal actions. In some cases, rockers have died in tragic accidents, just as they were enjoying their height of fame. Such was the case for Duane Allman, who died just a few short months after the Allman Brothers Band’s […]

Depeche Mode has released “My Cosmos Is Mine,” the second song from their upcoming album, Memento Mori. The track begins with heavy industrial sounds, backed by an ominous bass part. “Don’t play with my world / Don’t mess with my mind / Don’t question my spacetime / My cosmos is mine,” Dave Gahan sings, delivering the lines in […]

Kate Bush was first nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. It was a long-deserved honor for an iconoclastic and beloved U.K. artist who initially landed a record deal thanks to Pink Floyd‘s David Gilmour, a friend of her family. Gilmour was floored after hearing Bush’s demos and helped set the teen up […]

Despite being one of rock’s most extravagant individuals, David Bowie could be equally invisible. The ’00s made that clear. He had left music behind after experiencing chest pains on stage in June 2004 in Germany, seemingly for good. The rest of the tour was canceled, and Bowie underwent immediate surgery after doctors found a blocked […]

Billy Squier recalled being told he’d never work again after refusing an invitation to tour with Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band. He spent four years as a member of the former Beatle’s touring group from 2006. But in a recent interview with radio host Eddie Trunk, Squier explained that he was originally asked to hit the road several years […]

Jimi Hendrix released only three studio albums and one live record during his brief career. But since his death on Sept. 18, 1970, there have been more than 80 new releases bearing his name. In the below rundown of the Stories Behind All 85 Posthumous Jimi Hendrix Albums, we look into the various collections of studio outtakes, […]

David Byrne admitted it was “very possible” he mishandled Talking Heads’ breakup. During an interview with Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes, Byrne offered up some contrition for the way things ended with the band. “I became, I think, kind of obsessive about getting that show up and running,” Byrne said, referring to Talking Heads’ 1983-84 […]