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Donald Fagen and Walker Becker Are Steely Dan

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have been ‘Steely Dan’ for over 30 years, they’ve seen the ups and downs. The two met in 1968 at Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. They joined the pop group ‘Jay and the American’s for a tour, then struck out on their own and has moderate success with their first hit “Dallas” but really took off with their “Can’t Buy a Thrill” album, […]

todaySeptember 7, 2016

Classic Hits

The Latest Beatles Auction

It’s no secret that John Lennon of the Beatles and Cilla Black were romantically involved in the early 60s. In fact, John (and Paul) wrote and recorded a song called “It’s For You” for Cilla, pressing it on the Dick James Label. 50 years have come and gone; the lost artifact was found last year and Cilla’s nephew has sold the rare antiquity for thousands of pounds in a recent […]

todaySeptember 7, 2016

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Learning More About Bad Company’s Mick Ralphs

Bad Company is 40+ years old, and the boys are out again in tour. It’s also hard to believe that founding member, guitarist and key songwriter Mick Ralphs is not with the band this time around. Rich Robinson of the famed ‘Black Crowes’ will step in behind the kit to play in Mick’s absence. You may have heard legendary axe man Joe Walsh has joined Bad Company on the road […]

todaySeptember 6, 2016

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Your Tuesday Morning Headlines!

It may feel like a Monday, but it’s the Tuesday after Labor Day - there goes the summer! Here are your Monday morning music news headlines… The Moody Blues just announced their 2018 celebrity cruise out of Miami. The dates are January 2nd through the 7th with stops at the Grand Cayman and Cozumel ports. These cruises sell out almost immediately, so if you’re interested, log online to MoodiesCruise.com for […]

todaySeptember 6, 2016

Active Rock

Labor Day Jams

It’s another Labor Day weekend, we hope you enjoy the day away from work. There have been a ton of great songs in music pertaining to ‘jobs,’ so we thought we’d put together a list of the notable tunes… ‘Working in a Coal Mine’ by Lee Dorsey ‘Working for a Living by Huey Lewis and the News ‘Car Wash’ by Rose Royce ‘Working for the Weekend’ by Loverboy ‘Working My […]

todaySeptember 5, 2016

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Rocking Out About Planes, Trains and Cars

Rock and roll is all about everything around us. What isn't in front of our faces more than the transportation around us? Let's take a look at rock songs that rocked out about them... “409” was a classic Beach Boy's song written by Mike Love, Brian Wilson, and Gary Usher in early 1962. Only the Los Angeles radio stations played it, and it peaked at #76 on the Billboard Hot […]

todaySeptember 2, 2016

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Testing Out Your Knowledge of the Past

The Grim Reaper will be on our doorstep one day, there’s no way around it. Famous people die all the time, often times in unusual ways. It might seem morbid, but let's see how good you are at remembering the past. Match the celebrity with the way they died..... (A) = Death in plane crash (B) = Death by gun shot (C) = Death by the use of drugs or […]

todaySeptember 2, 2016

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More Great LPs from the 80s

The 80s was a decade of awakening for our country; The Cosby Show was a hit, the Challenger blew up on liftoff, we saved ‘baby Jessica,’ early investors of Microsoft and Apple are now millionaires, and the music was hot. Here are more of the best LPs of the 80s… “Born in the U.S.A.” by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1984, became the soul of the 80s with the title song, […]

todaySeptember 2, 2016

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Pat Benatar’s Upcoming Musical

If you were born with the name Patricia Mae Andrzejewski and wanted to be a rock and roll star, you might change your name to Pat Benatar too! Ms. Benatar was born in Brooklyn in 1953, growing up operatically trained as a singer with the chops of a rocker, which was highly unusual at the time as there were very few female rocker role models. Pat met the love of […]

todaySeptember 1, 2016

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