Iggy Pop crowned Living Legend at Classic Rock Awards - Joss Stone: I made my album in a week at my mum’s place - Friendly Fires new album in May?
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Sebastian Bach, another very talented rock singer. Note his ability to hold higher octaves in tremolo. (Layne Staley of Alice in Chains was also able to do this and you can see what I mean here - <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a15_1184273098&c=1#comments" target="_blank">Layne Stale...
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Jethro Tull – the British rock group with Scottish front man and flute player Ian Anderson. Best known for his tendency to stand on one leg while playing concerts, Anderson’s is also the man who introduced a classic instrument to rock music: the flute (especially the western concert flute). The s...
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Inspired by travelling medicine shows of the old Wild West, the country-pop and comedy band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show owe much to their songwriter Shel Silverstein. Shel Silverstein wrote the lyrics to most of the early hits of the group: the ballad-parody "Sylvia's Mother", the Marianne Faith...
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The song “Proud Mary” was written by John Fogerty of American roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song is about an old steamboat on the Mississippi River – typically “down home” lyrics like so many songs by CCR. Over the years the song has been covered by various artists. The versio...
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The “Earth Band” of South African born keyboard player Manfred Mann is something different than the 60s pop band “Manfred Mann”. While the parent band was a classic beat band with three-minute sing along pop songs (Ha! Ha! Said The Clown, The Mighty Quinn etc.), the Earth Band shows Mann’s prefer...
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Live At Beat Club!Marc Boland first started his group under the full name Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1967. He and percussionist Steve Peregrin Took performed as a duo gentle acoustic material. After Bolan replaced Took – due to musical and personal misunderstandings – with bongo player Mickey Finn, the...
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The Cardiff born Shakin' Stevens - nicknamed Shaky - is a rock & roll singer and songwriter in the classic tradition of the 50s. With his style and performance he seemed to be a Welsh version of Elvis Presley. In fact, in 1977 he played the King of Rock & Roll in a London West End musical. Althou...
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