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Steve Miller’s ‘Fly Like an Eagle’ Voted Best Song By Bird Lovers
Happy Fourth of July, everybody — and before you start slipping (slipping, slipping) off to your barbecues and fireworks displays, Birds & Blooms Magazine would like to help you celebrate the holiday with a list of the best-ever songs about birds.
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The Story Behind Led Zeppelin’s ‘Swan Song’ Revealed
Led Zeppelin boasts one of the most impressive — and successful — discographies of the rock era. But the songs that made it to their albums don’t necessarily tell the whole story, as evidenced by a feature in a recent issue of Classic Rock Magazine that traces the evolution of Jimmy Page‘s ‘Swan Song,’ which never appeared on a Zeppelin record — but came awfully close.
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Steven Tyler Explains Aerosmith Album Delay
They’ve had over a decade to get things just right, so why are Aerosmith bumping back the release date of their long-awaited new album ‘Music From Another Dimension’? According to Steven Tyler, there’s a relatively simple — albeit disappointingly un-rock ‘n’ roll — explanation.
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Ringo’s All-Starr Band Reveals Their Favorite Beatles Albums
It’s summer, and Ringo Starr is back on the road with another lineup of his long-running All-Starr Band — all of whom recently sat down with Rock Cellar Magazine to share their favorite Beatles albums.
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Bruce Springsteen Ends Isle of Wight Set with ‘Twist and Shout’
Bruce Springsteen closed out this year’s Isle of Wight Festival on Sunday (June 24) with a typically generous three-hour set that ended with a cover of the rock standard ‘Twist and Shout.’
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Graham Nash Announces Upcoming Memoir
He’s had one of the more interesting — and successful — careers in rock. And now, Graham Nash will share his story in an autobiography, scheduled to be published in the fall of 2013.
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Jackson Browne Announces Fall Tour Dates
Jackson Browne must be pretty sure he’s going to have a good time on the road with Nickel Creek member-turned-solo star Sara Watkins this summer, because the duo has already extended its run of tour dates into the fall.
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Heart’s Ann Wilson on the ’80s: ‘You Sell Millions of Records But You’re Dying Inside’
As they head into their fourth decade of making music together, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart are still going strong; with a tour, new album, box set, and autobiography on the horizon for 2012, they show no signs of slowing down. And although none of those projects are in stores yet, you can get an early glimpse at what’s in store right now — including video of a rare 1976 performance of the Heart classic ‘Crazy on You.’
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Paul McCartney Looks Back at ‘Ram’ in New Video
We’ve got just over a month until Paul McCartney treats us to the expanded deluxe reissue of ‘Ram,’ but while you’re counting down the days until your copy of the box set arrives on your doorstep, you can watch a new promotional video in which Sir Paul reflects on the recording of the album.
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Mel Gibson Rumored to Say of John Lennon: ‘I’m Glad He’s Dead’
Just when we thought Mel Gibson might have exited the “rage-o-holic crazybags rumors” phase of his career, yesterday came word that his latest film project, a biopic about the Old Testament warrior hero Judah Maccabee, had fallen apart — and out of that mess came a letter from the movie’s would-be screenwriter, Joe Eszterhas, that paints a picture of Gibson as a guy who’s angry at… well, pretty much everyone, including John Lennon.
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Paul McCartney Reportedly Releasing Deluxe ‘Ram’ Reissue This Spring
We’ve known for awhile that Paul McCartney would be continuing his series of catalog reissues with a deluxe version of 1971′s ‘Ram,’ but now details are starting to surface regarding the release — and we could see the results on store shelves before summer.
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Neil Young + Crazy Horse Get Traditional on New Album ‘Americana’
We knew they were working on a pair of new albums, and now we’ve got details for the one that will reach fans first: Neil Young and Crazy Horse are slated to return on June 5 with an album entitled ‘Americana.’