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Beatles Set Record Record, Mick And Keith Have Their First Hit: This Day In...
The Beatles set a new record for advance record sales today in 1964 when stores across America ordered 2,100,000 copies of their new single Can’t Buy Me Love. Two years later on their last-ever tour...
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The Beatles Love Pot, Blackmore Quits Deep Purple: This Day In Classic Rock...
KZOK’s kind and benevolent parent company CBS Radio was first in rock and roll today in 1956 with Alan Freed’s Rock ‘N Roll Dance Party, the first nationally broadcast show to feature what many at the...
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Alice Breaks Ribs, Allman Gets New Liver, Beatles Get New Bass Player: This...
American rockabilly guitarist Eddie Cochran was a huge influence on budding British rockers, so it was no surprise he was at #1 on their charts today in 1960 with Three Steps to Heaven. Sadly though,...
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Best Joins Beatles, Page Forms Zeppelin, Mix Is 52 And Still Likes Big Butts:...
Liverpool promoter Allan Williams auditioned Pete Best to join the house band gig in Hamburg he had arranged for The Silver Beatles today in 1960, at the Jacaranda nightclub he owned. Paul McCartney...
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Joe Perry, Alice Cooper Contemplate Hollywood Vampires Shows
By Brian Ives Call them the best bar band on the planet, even though they could probably play large theaters, or even arenas just based on their lineup. The core of the semi-newly-formed Hollywood...
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Dylan Loved To Turn Beatles On, California Girls On Acid, Elvis Not Shot:...
The Beatles played the last show of their second visit to the U.S. today in 1964 at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York. After the show at the Delmomnico Hotel music writer Al Aronowitz who’d...
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Hollywood Vampires Alice Cooper and Joe Perry on Their Haunted House Encounter
By Brian Ives You don’t get more “Wayne’s World” than sitting in front of Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Alice Cooper and asking them questions; it was a very “we’re not worthy” moment. But like Wayne,...
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Dallas Gets Alice Cooper Group Reunion
While most people think of Alice Cooper as a guy…the singer…it was originally the name of a band, started in Phoenix Arizona by a bunch of high school friends in the mid 60’s. While urban myth has the...
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Humble Pie Forms, AC/DC’s First Tour Without Bon, Bowie’s Covers Album: This...
The Yardbirds arrived in New York City tonight in 1966 for their first U.S. Tour with both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page on dual-lead guitar. Studio musician Page joined as bass player when Paul...
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Moon’s Last Show With The Who, Rockers Raise $$$ For NYC After 9/11: This Day...
The musical guests on ABC TV’s Shindig! tonight in 1965 were the Dave Clark 5 and a band from Portland Oregon called The Kingsmen, who played their hit Louie Louie. Elvis Presley’s bass player Bill...
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Floyd Bore Critic, Kinks Frontman Shot By Purse Snatcher:This Day In Classic...
The Beatles played the Litherland Town Hall in Liverpool tonight in 1961, and two members of Rory Storm and The Hurricanes who had just returned from Hamburg Germany came to watch: Ty “Johnny Guitar”...
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Alice Cooper Announces 2016 Tour Dates
By Radio.com Staff Alice Cooper has announced a run of North American Tour dates for 2106. Related: Hollywood Vampires Alice Cooper and Joe Perry on Their Haunted House Encounter The Spend the Night...
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Dylan Hooks Up With The Band, Two “Apple Scruffs” Sing With The Beatles: This...
Bob Dylan started his first-ever “electric” tour with a full rock and roll band backing him tonight in 1966 at the Convention Center in Louisville Kentucky. He’d already whipped out a Fender...
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Beatles Set Record Record, Mick And Keith’s First Hit, ABBA Become A Rock...
The Beatles set a new record for advance record sales today in 1964 when stores across America ordered 2,100,000 copies of their new single Can’t Buy Me Love. Two years later on their last-ever tour...
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Beatles Love Pot, Blackmore Quits Deep Purple: This Day In Classic Rock [Videos]
KZOK’s kind and benevolent parent company CBS Radio was first in rock and roll today in 1956 with Alan Freed’s Rock ‘N Roll Dance Party, the first nationally broadcast show to feature what many at the...
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Alice Breaks Ribs, Allman Gets New Liver, Beatles Get New Bass Player: This...
American rockabilly guitarist Eddie Cochran was a huge influence on budding British rockers, so it was no surprise he was at #1 on their charts today in 1960 with Three Steps to Heaven. Sadly though,...
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Hollywood Vampires Raise the Dead in Atlantic City
By Brian Ives Twenty five years ago this week, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their album, Into the Great Wide Open. The video for the album’s title track starred Johnny Depp as “Eddie,” a...
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Hollywood Vampires’ Tour Will Continue, Joe Perry’s Status UnCertain
By Radio.com Staff Alice Cooper took to social media this afternoon to assure fans the Hollywood Vampires’ tour would continue. Related: Joe Perry Collapses on Stage in Brooklyn “Vampires! Confirmed,”...
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Alice Cooper Vows to Make America Sick Again
By Radio.com Staff Alice Cooper is running for President and Prime Minister. “Alice Cooper is tired of the rhetoric, the mudslinging, the media frenzy,” reads a prepared statement. “Keeping his snake...
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Joe Perry to Rejoin Hollywood Vampires Tour
By Radio.com Staff Joe Perry is back in action. The Aerosmith guitarist will resume playing with his supergroup side project Hollywood Vampires tomorrow (July 22nd) according to a new tweet by the...
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