Classic Rock
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Mid-1970s grease rock
Stones-worship act who
made some of the meanest
and leanest of their
generation. Then they qu...
The members of Bad
Company were stars before
their first concert in March
1974. Paul Rodgers and
Simon Kirke had been me...
Whether he's playing folk,
country, rock or blues, Bob
Dylan always channels
songs that are timeless. Bob
Dylan legally changed his...
CCR's earthy roots music
sketched the parameters of
country rock while the
focus remained on rock.
CCR sang about riverboat...
Superior lineup of the '70s
rock staple features stoner
genius Neil Young.
"Helpless" may be the
greatest song ever writte...
ELO's superindulgent pop
rock may have been rooted
in the Beatles but Jeff
Lynne took it directly into
outer space. The band w...
Whoever named Fleetwood
Mac was either lucky or
prescient. The only thing
about the group that hasn't
changed since it formed i...
Pioneering Hard Rock band
from Detroit. More than one
critic has unfairly accused
Grand Funk of killing rock
'n' roll. GFR's fellow '60s-e...
Sisters Ann and Nancy
Wilson kicked out Led
Zep-inspired van rock in
the 1970s and blow-dried
power balladry in the '80s...
Rock 'n' Soul Queen Janis'
outta hand vocals and
charmingly sloppy backing
bands blurred the lines
between rock and blues....
Jimi Hendrix was one of
rock's few true originals.
He was one of the most
innovative and influential
rock guitarists of the late '...
British white-soul singer Joe
Cocker parlayed Ray
Charles–ish vocals and an
eccentric stage presence
into a string of late-'60s hit...
Walsh's gritty and soulful
voice found a home in the
James Gang before joining
up with the Eagles. In the
midst of his blossoming sol...
Highly theatrical face
painters and metal mongers
KISS played cheez-whizz
rock 'n' roll and made no
apologies. Glam power lic...
It wasn't just Led Zeppelin's
thunderous volume,
sledgehammer beat, and
edge-of-mayhem
arrangements that made it...
Southern rock band Lynyrd
Skynyrd rose to
prominence in 1973
epitomizing regional pride
and stressing cocky, boist...
Since the mid-1960s Neil
Young has staked out the
ground where country,
rock and feedback meet.
From Buffalo Springfield t...
The premier psychedelic
band of the 1970s, Pink
Floyd formed in 1965,
incorporating jazz and
insanity into their music....
Rod the Bod is a rock singer
with a gravelly voice and a
resume that reads like some
kind of Hall of Fame laundry
list. During his teens in Lo...
Santana has been swirling
blues, Afro-Cuban jazz,
fusion and psychedelic
guitar into a styled Latin
rock since the '60s. Carlo...
Thank you Steely Dan for
jazz rock, pop cynicism,
and "Hey Nineteen." To
some, one of the most
important bands of the '70...
The father of the jam band
has been playing
pop-perfect arena-rock
space boogie since
mid-hippie San Francisco....
This long-running,
significant rock band
traffics in purist bluesiness,
countrified boogie and
jazz-influenced superjam...
The Band captured and
released the ghosts of Okie
souls in their
unpretentious, down-home
roots music. The Band wr...
With Jim Morrison's poetry
and Robby Krieger's rock
'n' roll, the Doors conjured
the gods of sex and drugs
and '60s freakout. Jimbo,...
They approximate the
omnipresent American
freedom rock that
Steppenwolf made popular
on the soundtrack to "Eas...
The Rolling Stones began
calling themselves the
"World's Greatest Rock & Roll
Band" in the late '60s, and
few disputed the claim. T...
In the annals of rock history
the Who (like their
contemporaries the Beatles
and the Rolling Stones)
stand alone. Though tech...
In the 1970s Tom Petty came
up with a distillate of FM
radio Sixties rock, chiming
Byrds guitars, Rolling Stones
rhythms, and a slurred ve...
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