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May 29, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison
Synchronicity, the fifth and final studio album from The Police is getting lavish expanded editions for its 40th anniversary.
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May 29, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison
A new feature documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in New York in the early 1970s has been announced. The film, One to One: John & Yoko, from Mercury Studios, features newly transferred and restored 16mm film footage including Lennon’s only full-length concert performances after The Beatles, as well as a wealth of previously unseen and unheard personal archives, such as phone calls and home movies recorded and filmed by the couple themselves.
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May 28, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison
Jane’s Addiction, with their original band members, and Love And Rockets have announced a 2024 co-headlining tour. Produced by Live Nation, the 23-city late summer U.S. run (plus one date in Toronto) begins August 9 and continues through late September. Tickets will be available starting with artist pre-sales today (May 28). Additional presales will run throughout the week with the general on-sale beginning on May 31 at 10 a.m. here.
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May 27, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison |Sam Sutherland
On paper, Emmylou Harris’s eighth album read like a blueprint for her continued reign as a contemporary country music queen. Released in late January 1981, Evangeline steered toward that era’s Music Row mainstream and away from the more traditional material explored on 1979’s Blue Kentucky Girl and the acoustic bluegrass focus of 1980’s Roses in the Snow.
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May 27, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison |Jeff Burger
The Omnivore label has in recent years been rereleasing a steady stream of long-unavailable Little Richard albums, including 1970’s The Rill Thing, 1971’s King of Rock and Roll,1972’s The Second Coming and Southern Child, and 1986’s Lifetime Friend. All of them have strengths, but none come close to matching the often-astonishing 1950s performances on the rock pioneer’s indispensable Specialty Sessions boxed set. The new Right Now!, which Richard recorded in 1973, comes close, however.
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May 25, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison |Greg Brodsky
In 1968, music buyers were still purchasing plenty of singles, with rock bands like The Doors, the Rolling Stones and The Beatles sharing the Top 40 airwaves with popular vocalists like Bobby Goldsboro and Judy Collins and soul hits from Otis Redding and O.C. Smith. Here’s a recap of the number one albums of 1968 in the U.S., including many classic rock favorites, as determined each week by Record World. Thirteen different albums claimed the top spot this year; each had a story to tell.
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May 25, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison
Doug Ingle, the singer and organist for the American rock band, Iron Butterfly, and the composer of their epic 1968 song, “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida,” died last night (May 24, 2024).
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May 24, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison
The Beach Boys, an all-new documentary that celebrates the legendary band that revolutionized pop music, and the iconic, harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream, is streaming exclusively on Disney+ beginning May 24, 2024. The film, announced on March 25, traces the group from their humble family beginnings and features never-before-seen footage and all-new interviews with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, and Bruce Johnston.
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May 24, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison |Greg Brodsky
Guitarist Waddy Wachtel has been a first-call Los Angeles-based session and touring musician for many of the biggest artists of the era, including such stars as Linda Ronstadt and Stevie Nicks. His name often gets mentioned along with fellow session aces Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar, Leland Sklar and Russ Kunkel, and for good reason: they’ve worked together for over five decades.
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May 24, 2024 | 
bestclassicbands.com | Dhani Harrison
Gordon Lightfoot was celebrated on Thursday (May 23, 2024) with a tribute concert in Toronto by many of his Canadian music peers including Burton Cummings, Tom Cochrane, as well as two extraordinary house bands, Blue Rodeo and the members of Lightfoot’s longtime band, The Lightfoot Band (Rick Haynes, Barry Keane, Mike Heffernan and Carter Lancaster).
