Tag Archives: Classic Rock and Oldies

Eric Olsen hates Bohemian Rhapsody with a vengeance. Damn those Brits!

The ’70s dominate this year’s crop: AC/DC, the Clash, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the Police and the Righteous Brothers are headed for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. The incoming inductees were announced yesterday by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, based in New …

TP tells Rolling Stone what frosts his flakes: 1 Radio is not even worth listening to “I don’t really give a flying fuck about any of it. I’ve tuned out. But I was elated when my song was banned. I mean, nothing could have complimented me more than to hear …

Tom Dowd, producer of Aretha Franklin, Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, and engineer of dozens of Atlatnic classics dies at 77 in Florida: Dowd died on Sunday morning at a nursing home in Aventura after fighting a respiratory disease for two years, his daughter, Dana Dowd, said. “His contribution …

Piano great’s songwriting claim against Chuck Berry tossed: So it goes in St. Louis, where a federal judge has tossed a royalties lawsuit filed against the rock icon by former sideman Johnnie Johnson, the pianist immortalized in Berry’s classic “Johnnie B. Goode.” Johnson sued Berry in 2000 claiming to have …

Art Garfunkel writes songs for the first time at 60: Now, the 60-year-old performer is trying to break out of that image as he makes his songwriting debut on his new album, “Everything Waits to Be Noticed.” “We have an image of ourselves, and we carry ourselves all through life …

Steve Earle's Jerusalem.

This is one to mark on your calendar and tape for posterity.

NY state Court of Appeals says a contract is a contract.

Queen in the news again: Queen became the latest band bestowed with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on Friday, October 18. The unveiling of the star, installed on Hollywood Boulevard, took place near the cross street of Ivar. The honorary Mayor of Hollywood, Johnny Grant, called it a …