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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: The Rolling Stones At The Ricky-Tick, January 1963

Posted Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:54pm PDT
John Pidgeon was there at the dawn of the British blues boom. This thrilling memoir of seeing harmonica legend Cyril Davies--followed swiftly by the Rolling Stones--at Windsor's Ricky-Tick club takes you straight back to how it felt to stand on the v More »
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Listomania: RBP's 30 Songs To Get You Through The Recession!

Posted Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:24pm PDT
This week, Alex Ogg's selection of songs inspired by economic woes. Of course, there are many more "broke" songs, but these address downturns in the economic cycle in a specific way, if not always intentionally. More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: What Happened When Phil Spector Met Leonard Cohen?

Posted Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:39pm PDT
It was over 30 years ago that two of rock's legends joined forces in the studio to produce an album called Death Of A Ladies' Man. Harvey Kubernik was there to witness the combustive meeting of minds. More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: From Reggae To Riches at Island Records

Posted Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:47pm PDT
Turning 50 this spring is one of the truly great record labels –Chris Blackwell's Island, launched to release Blue Beat singles from his native Jamaica but, in time, home to everyone from Jethro Tull and Roxy Music to Nick Drake and U2… More »
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New Romanticism Revisited: The Return Of Spandau Ballet and Posing Pals

Posted Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:26pm PDT
News of the reunion by '80s pop avatars Spandau Ballet prompts former Sounds staffer Beverly Glick--then writing under the pop nom de plume of Betty Page--to recall the glory days of New Romanticism...and the splendidly posy scene that orbited around More »
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Recollected In Tranquility: Woodstock

Posted Wed Apr 8, 2009 11:40am PDT
Not everyone buys into the myth of 1969's Woodstock festival as the zenith of the Sixties dream. Rolling Stone veteran David Dalton remembers it tersely as "a blatant display of greed, vanity, and gullibility"--arguably the death of the Sixties dream More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Dusty Springfield Takes Stock

Posted Fri Apr 3, 2009 12:21pm PDT
Dusty Springfield, the greatest blue-eyed soulstress Britain ever produced, would have been 70 this month. When Penny Valentine interviewed her for Disc and Music Echo in late October 1968, the lady already five years of diva glory behind her. In the More »
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