Category: Ultimate Classic Rock

Billy Joel is scheduled to perform at the Grammys for the first time in more than 20 years on Feb. 4. The last time Joel appeared…

Somebody asked Muddy Waters what his blues meant. His reply: “Trouble.” “What I meant was that the blues – from the gutbucket, alley blues, which…

As you’ll see in the following list of bands with no original members, not everybody can be U2. That sturdy group never reshuffled bandmates, but others…

Singer Melanie, one of only nine women who performed at Woodstock in 1969, died at the age of 76 on Jan. 23, her family confirmed. Known…

I cannot conceive of a movie that is more ’80s than Road House. Patrick Swayze at his most magnetic and muscly playing a “cooler” — basically a…

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo made their first-ever appearance on Austin City Limits in September, performing several of their classic hits. The couple’s ten-song set, which included…

It’s not at all unheard of for a band to title an album after themselves. Particularly for debut releases, this can be a simple yet effective…

During Loudwire’s “In Conversation” live event with Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson last week (Jan. 16), the singer revealed that his new solo album, The Mandrake Project,…

Mark Knopfler will release a new album, One Deep River, this spring. The LP will arrive via Blue Note on April 12. It was produced by…

John Belushi headlined less than a half-dozen movies during his short career. He had smaller roles in a handful of films leading up to his breakthrough…

When Skid Row‘s eponymous debut arrived on Jan. 24, 1989, they seemed like the latest in a long line of hair-metal bands out for fortune…

Rick Wakeman has announced the first dates of what’s to be his final solo tour of America, promising an all-new show when he hits the…

Steve Vai has bad news for fans hoping to see a reunion from David Lee Roth’s Eat ‘Em and Smile-era band. “There was a period…

Alice Cooper will release a 50th-anniversary edition of his band’s only No. 1 album, Billion Dollar Babies, on March 8. The two-CD or three-LP expanded Trillion…

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more blanketed and ultimately meaningless musical term than “alternative” — and yet, looking at the Top 30 Albums of…

Ozzy Osbourne wants to “say goodbye properly” to his fans, his longtime wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne, said this week. So even though the 75-year-old…

Bob Dylan will be back on the road this spring. The next leg of his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour will begin on March 1 in Fort…

To his credit, Billy Joel never really stayed where he was supposed to. As a New York-based singer-songwriter in the early ’70s, he cut his first record,…

Billy Joel will release his first new song in nearly two decades, “Turn the Lights Back On,” on Feb. 1. Joel’s last studio album, Fantasies & Delusions,…

The Black Crowes have announced a tour in support of their upcoming album, Happiness Bastards. The nearly three-dozen-date trek starts with a Nashville show in early April…