The Beatles Don’t Like Being Paid In Change, David Bowie Comes To The U.S. In...
The Beatles played a show tonight in 1962 at the Aintree Institute in Liverpool. Built in the late 1800’s by Sir William Pickles Hartley as a cross-denominational gathering place for groups from...
View ArticleGeorge Joins Quarrymen, Felder Booted By Eagles, Chuck Berry Behaves Badly:...
George Harrison was made an official member of The Quarrymen today in 1958. Paul McCartney had brought him in for an audition back in March. John Lennon thought while he was a good player, 14 was just...
View ArticleThe Tragic Station Nightclub Fire, And Kurt Cobain Would Be 47: This Day In...
The Beatles got a ridiculously early start today in 1963, driving the 3 1/2 hours from Liverpool to London in order to play two songs (Love Me Do and Please Please Me) lasting all of 4 minutes on the...
View ArticleThe Beatles Ditch The Leather, Girl Falls For The Stones, Elton In Wax: This...
The Beatles were at the Playhouse Theater in Manchester today in 1962, having been managed by Brian Epstein since January with mixed results. They’d been rejected after an audition for Decca records in...
View ArticleZeppelin Have Mai Tais, Beatles Premier Let It Be Without The Beatles: This...
The second album from the mostly-American “pre-fab four”, More of The Monkees, hit #1 on the British charts today in 1967. Only four albums reached that mark that year: The Monkees first and second...
View ArticleRock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017 Nominees Announced
By Radio.com Staff The nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 includes classic rockers, punk, funk, folk, post-punk, hip-hop and electronic music. Three classic rock acts...
View ArticleJ. Geils Band: Why They Should Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
By Brian Ives The J. Geils Band was a rare case of a ’70s roots rock group that found a way to redefine themselves for MTV in the ’80s; they were a constant on rock radio in both decades, but have been...
View Article13 Great J. Geils Band Songs
By Brian Ives Earlier tonight, we reported on the tragic passing of John Geils, guitarist and founder of Boston’s legendary J. Geils Band. The group had an extraordinary career from 1967 to 1985,...
View ArticleArtists and Boston Music Community React to Death of J. Geils
By Jon Wiederhorn Artists, celebrities and members of the Boston music community are paying tribute today to J. Geils band founder and guitarist J.Geils (John Geils Jr.), who died Tuesday afternoon...
View ArticleRadiohead, Rage Against the Machine Lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees
By Jon Wiederhorn The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame presentation next April just might look a lot like the annual Brit Awards celebration. UK artists Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Kate Bush, Judas Priest, Dire...
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