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More Than A Feeling! The RBP 20 Greatest AOR Tracks Of All Time, Pt. 1

Posted Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:48pm PDT
I have found that most discussions of AOR get easily sidetracked unless it's made clear which definition of the AOR acronym we're using. The original meaning--"Album-Orientated Rock"--tends to make people think of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Whereas More »
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hole

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: "Hole Is A Band!"

Posted Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:26pm PDT
Eric Erlandson was sitting on a beach in Mexico when the headline caught his eye. Hole's guitarist and co-founder was vacationing with his girlfriend, Drew Barrymore, and thus deliberately out of the loop. After nine months of touring, he was on a mu More »
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The Beatles

At Home He's A Tourist: 30 Great Vacation Songs Not Including the Go-Gos' "Vacation"

Posted Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:48pm PDT
Summer's here. While fewer of us will be worrying about the logistics of passport renewal than usual due to the inclement fiscal forecast, we can at least evoke some of the spirit of exotic holidays past. Qualification: not travelling or holiday song More »
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peter & gordon

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Remembering Gordon Waller, 1945-2009

Posted Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:46pm PDT
Gordon Waller was one-half of Brit public-school pop duo Peter More »
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The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Thoughts On Woodstock, The Ultimate Rock Festival

Posted Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:18pm PDT
A new 4-DVD, 2-Blu-Ray set, Woodstock: 3 Days Of Peace And Music, comprises Michael Wadleigh's original film of the 1969 rockfest-to-end-'em-all, throwing in two new hours of footage plus a new 50-minute documentary about its making. Here are some re More »
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Tom Wilkes 1939-2009: Legendary Designer Of Posters And Album Covers

Posted Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:15pm PDT
Tom Wilkes, legendary poster and album cover designer (Monterey Pop, the Rolling Stones' original Beggars Banquet, Neil Young's Harvest, Janis Joplin' Pearl, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass et al), has died at his home in Pioneertown, Californ More »
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Sky Saxon 1937-2009: A Belated Tribute To An Acid-Punk Icon

Posted Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:52pm PDT
Lost in the the shock and hysteria of Michael Jackson's death was the scant reportage of another pop passing: that of crazed LA garage-pop singer Sky Saxon, frontman of the Doors-ish Seeds. I've adapted a section of my LA music history Waiting For Th More »
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michael j

History And HIStory: Michael Jackson Good And Bad

Posted Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:37pm PDT
Now that the tabloid hysteriahas died down, isn't it time to recall Michael Jackson in the sober light of dawn? I, for one, want to remember what was truly great about the man. More »
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michaelyounger

I Want You Black: How Jacko's Debut Still Has The Power To Thrill

Posted Tue Jul 7, 2009 5:03pm PDT
Had enough of the fallout and grotesque revelations after MJ's death? Then go back to the beginning of his career with writer Simon Warner, who reminds us how great the pint-sized Motown dynamo of "I Want You Back" really was. More »
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joy division

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures

Posted Wed Jul 1, 2009 12:22pm PDT
It's 30 years since one of the most extraordinary debut albums of all time was released. We revisit the legend of the Joy Division--and the tragically haunted Ian Curtis--in Jon Savage's spookily prescient Melody Maker review of Unknown Pleasures, pu More »
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