Happy 83rd birthday to Roger Waters, whose solo tour after leaving Pink Floyd, "The Wall Live," became the highest-grossing concert tour ever at the time.
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Led Zeppelin had an incredible career, which makes picking a best year especially difficult, and a few strong contenders are in the running.
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Alice Cooper could have rested on his laurels, but a collaboration with a Hollywood superstar and Aerosmith legend continues to go from strength to strength.
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Bands like AC/DC and Pink Floyd continued on after losing members, but they never forgot them and even paid homage to their lost friends.
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Yacht rock is smooth, R&B-inflected soft rock that sailed (mostly) from California to take the charts by storm from the mid-'70s to early '80s.
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When high-caliber musicians like George Harrison and Lou Reed make demos, sometimes their raw, unpolished versions hit harder than the final cuts.
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This vocal powerhouse and absolute legend of rock, named the second-best frontman by Rolling Stone, was born September 5, 1946, 80 years ago today.
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When drum solos fall short, they become meandering, pointless bathroom breaks. With so much at stake, it becomes all the gutsier to put a drum solo out front.
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One of Bruce Springsteen's most popular songs from "Born to Run" was never a single and never a hit song. Today, it's considered one of his best tracks.
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Starting with riffs and chords may be standard for rock jams and in popular music in general, but making that part a freewheeling solo is a mission statement.
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It's important to take off the rose-colored glasses and look at the nostalgia through clear but critical eyes, even when it comes to classic rock.
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These songs from Otis Redding and the Beatles were left unfinished by their original creators, only to become Top 20 hits and, in one case, a timeless classic.
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From the soulful poetry of Leonard Cohen to the morbid derangement of Tom Waits, these songs are our choices for the best rock song titles.
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It's hard to imagine a quality song being recorded on a moving bus, but Jackson Browne pulled it off 49 years ago for his 1977 album, "Running on Empty."
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With solo albums as recent as 2023, Dolly Parton has a catalog going back more than 50 years, but one year in particular stands out as her career peak.
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Bruce Springsteen has enjoyed many heights throughout his career, but 1984 saw the release of a truly iconic album along with his biggest hit single.
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Gen X would probably rather forget songs like Warrant's "Cherry Pie" and Extreme's "More Than Words," even if they were huge hits in the '90s.
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Sometimes, supergroups manage to be more than the sum of their parts, and when that happens, the musical magic is transcendent.
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Buffalo Springfield were only an outfit for a couple of years, but five of the songs they released in 1966 make it clear that it was the best year the band had.
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Folk rock pairs genres that are cut from a similar cloth, but some of the best songs recorded in this style involved one-of-a-kind artists joining forces.
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In 1967, the Doors released their first two albums which included songs like "Light My Fire" and "The End." It was the best year of the band's career.
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David Bowie was innovative, so it's no surprise that in the '90s he saw the possibilities of the internet as both "terrifying and exhilarating."
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If you're a classic rock fan looking to branch out, there's an entire world of under-the-radar genres such as acid folk and krautrock, waiting to be explored.
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Foreigner has decades of work in their catalog, but if we're being honest, one year clearly stands out as the best for their music: 1981.
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Van Morrison is a singular artist who Rolling Stone once called a "visionary." Here's a look at his musical origins and how that's evolved over the decades.
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Duets from the classic rock era like "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "Walk This Way," and "Close My Eyes Forever" all cracked Billboard's Top 10.
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Children's books can have a lasting impact, including inspiring classic rock songs like CCR's "Lookin' Out My Back Door and the Cure's "Charlotte Sometimes."
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