Greg Brodsky

Jan 7, 2025 | bestclassicbands.com | Greg Brodsky

Peter Yarrow, the singer and songwriter who, with Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, was a member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, which was immensely popular throughout the 1960s, died today (January 7, 2025), at his home in Manhattan while in hospice care. His death at age 86, following a lengthy battle with bladder cancer, was announced by his children, Bethany and Christopher Yarrow. Travers died 15 years earlier, in 2009, at age 72. Stookey, the trio’s sole surviving member, is 87.

Jan 2, 2025 | bestclassicbands.com | Greg Brodsky

by Greg Brodsky We continue our series of looking at the most popular music for a given year. The topic, as you know by the headline, is singles and while we have done stories on the biggest hits of the year, this series slices things a bit differently.

Nov 27, 2024 | bestclassicbands.com | Greg Brodsky

Got cash? It’s one of the hush-hush topics among recording artists. No, we’re not talking about anything tawdry. The subject here: performances by major recording stars at private events. Plenty have done them since they pay top dollar—we’ll get to that in a bit. But the artists (understandably) like to keep it quiet. I’ve been lucky to attend a few, one of which was completely by accident. Here are stories about 10 such events, all featuring some of the biggest names in the business.

Nov 26, 2024 | bestclassicbands.com | Greg Brodsky

Leah Kunkel, the younger sister of Cass Elliott, and herself an in-demand session vocalist who recorded with such artists as Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Art Garfunkel, Carly Simon, Stephen Bishop and many others, and released a pair of solo albums for Columbia Records, died today (November 26, 2024). Her passing, at age 76 in Northampton, Mass., was announced by Cass’ daughter, Owen-Elliot Kugell, whom Kunkel raised after the death of her sister in 1974.

Nov 22, 2024 | bestclassicbands.com | Greg Brodsky

Alice Brock, the real-life restaurant owner for which Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 satirical song, “Alice’s Restaurant,” was named, has died a week before Thanksgiving, in November 2024, at age 83. The news of her passing in Provincetown, Mass., where she owned a studio and gallery and lived for over 40 years, was revealed today (Nov. 22) by Guthrie. Her cause of death was not revealed but she had been in failing health for some time.