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It’s a little bit easier to form a band when you go to school together. While most elementary school children were playing ball, jumping rope and being wild, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were busy spending recess

How much time do we have? To sum up Rod Stewart in the usual 2 minutes that this podcast gives to you is an injustice to a man that has been knighted by the queen. But I’ll

It was 1963. Guitarist Spencer Davis was looking to form a group. It wasn’t difficult for him to find at least two future members of the group, stumbling upon Steve Winwood and his bassist brother Muff in

Heavy metal. The term is typically associated with bands of the late 70 and into the 80s. Deep Purple are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal. The band formed in Hertford, England in 1968,

Some bands and artists prefer the roar of the crowd for their energy to power forward making music that they would then end up in the studio recording, and then taking back out on the road to

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.” Johnny Allen Hendrix, or James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix, began playing guitar at the age of 15. Not

The history of the Doors is deep and wide, and you could spend an entire movie or book or many movies and books trying to tell it. But, in basic, the Doors were one of the best

Originally “Sweetshop,” glam rockers SWEET were formed in London in 1968 with their first hit, Funny Funny, which sounded an awful lot like something The Archies would have created in a bubblegum pop explosion. The 70s treated

In 1959, The Blue Velvets began as an instrumental cover band in John Fogerty’s Junior High School years. Playing at local dances together as a band in the early 60s brought them enough success to be signed