Classic Hits

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is planning a three-day open air concert in October of this year, featuring Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Neil Young and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. In the spirit of ‘Woodstock,’ the scheduled performers seem to have an activist tone or history to their years of rock, while Coachella has worked hard to get two of the biggest stars of the 60s on […]

In the 60s, the British Invasion began one February night on the nationally televised ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ with the four long haired boys known as the Beatles. Not far behind were great bands like Eric Burdon and the Animals. Let’s spend more time sharing fund facts about Eric and the boys... The Animals actually broke up in 1966. The original 1963-1966 line up Eric Burdon, Chas Chandler, Alan Price, John […]

The Beatles were the good boys with long hair (long by the early 60s standards), the Rolling Stones the bad boys, and finally, Eric Burdon and the Animals were known as the dirty boys. Formed in England in the early 60s, the Animals were a hard band to categorize. They were certainly psychedelic, but also a commercial success in spite of their persona. Here are a few things you might […]

You know how rumors start. The topic is always juicy, scandalous yes interesting but often untrue. Let’s dispel a few of the more interesting classic rumors... Yes, both Duane Allman and bandmate Barry Oakley died from nearly identical motorcycle accidents in Macon ,Georgia a year apart, but neither hit a peach truck as it was rumored. The album ‘Eat a Peach’ had no direct bearing on their deaths. The Lynyrd […]

Sometimes death is a great career move. Well, that’s a line from a movie, but it’s often true. For some reason, a person’s passing makes us think of only the good things about that person; when it comes to music we think it also tends to lead us to believe they were more talent that they probably were. Who made the most money from the grave last year? The list […]

Often times great movies make a song a hit, or a hit song draws attention to a movie that needs a little box office attention. Here are examples of movies that used classic songs to enrich a scene, or add drama to the storyline. “St Elmo’s Fire” from John Parr from the movie of same name was a studio hit. Let’s explain. No one knew who John Parr was up […]