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 Song of the weekEach week we showcase a classic track as Song of the Week. Check the current and past choices. Tom Jones covers Leonard Cohen's Tower Of SongCheck out Sir Tom Jones' brand new video for "Tower of Song," which will be the opening track on his forthcoming album "Spirit In The Room". A Whole Lotta Jerry Lee Lewis - The Definitive Retrospective - reviewSalvo's new four-CD Jerry Lee Lewis box set provides an excellent overview of the singer's finest studio work. Janis Joplin - The Pearl SessionsThe two-disc "Janis Joplin - The Pearl Sessions" features Joplin's classic "Pearl" album and premieres newly discovered studio recordings. Springsteen releases Death To My Hometown videoCheck out the new music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Death To My Hometown." CompetitionsEnter prize draws for the chance to win concert tickets, CDs, DVDs, cash, the latest gadgets, holidays and more. Before they were famous - high school yearbook photosSee if you can identify these stars before they were famous. |
Archive for the ‘Rock ‘n’ roll’ Category
New releases update – March 2012
Written by admin on March 6, 2012 – 5:42 am -The New Releases page has been updated to include music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases for March.
Highlights for March include:
- Bruce Springsteen’s “Wrecking Ball” in standard and deluxe editions (Mar 5)
- Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company “Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 (Mar 13)
- a great value reissue of the 4-CD Elvis box set “The Complete ’68 Comeback Special” (Mar 13)
- the Madonna “Complete Studio Albums – 1983-2008″ box set (Mar 20)
- Lionel Richie’s new duets album “Tuskegee” in standard and deluxe editions (Mar 26).
Tags: new CDs, new music Blu-rays, new music DVDs, new music releases, new releases
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Song of the Week #96 – “Great Balls of Fire”
Written by admin on March 5, 2012 – 10:17 pm - |
Jerry Lee Lewis’ rock ‘n’ roll classic “Great Balls of Fire” is Song of the Week on Classic Pop Icons. |
Tags: Chris Isaak, Chris Isaak Beyond the Sun, Conway Twitty, Fleetwood Mac, great balls of fire, jerry lee lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis A Half Century of Hits
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Johnny Cash 80th Birthday celebration
Written by admin on February 26, 2012 – 9:26 pm -Johnny Cash’s family gathered at his boyhood home in Dyess, Arkansas today to celebrate what would have been the late star’s 80th birthday. Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas on this day in 1932, the fourth of seven children.
This 80th birthday year is set to be a busy one for the Cash estate, with the restoration of the Dyess property, the opening of a museum in Nashville, and a number of promising record releases, including “Bootleg IV: The Soul of Truth” in April, and a comprehensive box set of his first 30 years of recorded output.
Tags: Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash 80th birthday, Johnny Cash Bootleg Vol 4 - The Soul of Truth, Johnny Cash museum
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Billy Strange – 1930-2012
Written by admin on February 22, 2012 – 10:38 pm -Veteran songwriter, arranger, singer and prolific session musician Billy Strange died today in Nashville aged 81.
Born William Everett Strange on September 29, 1930 in Long Beach, California, he would go on to work with some of the biggest artists of all time during his lengthy career, including Elvis Presley, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, the Beach Boys, the Everly Brothers, Rick Nelson, Dean Martin, Willie Nelson, the Ventures and many more.
Tags: Billy Strange, Billy Strange death, Billy Strange obituary
Posted in 60s pop, Elvis, Obituaries, Rock 'n' roll | No Comments »
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to induct six classic backing groups
Written by admin on February 10, 2012 – 10:10 pm - |
Six classic backing groups, including The Crickets and The Miracles, have been added to the list of performers who will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. |
Tags: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012 inductees, The Blue Caps, The Comets, The Crickets, The Famous Flames, The Midnighters, The Miracles
Posted in Awards, Motown, Rock 'n' roll, Soul | No Comments »
