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American Idol: Little Steven, and a Whole Lotta Rock and Roll
On last night’s American Idol, the remaining contestants were tasked with two different yet at times overlapping challenges when it came to song choices. First, the top five covered songs celebrating...
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British Invasion
In 1963, the British music invasion took over America and the rest of the free world. It was a takeover welcomed with open arms, and we’re celebrating it all weekend on KZOK! Starting Friday at 3pm,...
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The Beatles Put On Suits, Fan Falls For The Stones, Phil Pays Ike To Stay...
The Beatles wore their trademark matching suits for the first time today in 1962, at the insistence of their manager, Brian Epstein. It was for a radio show, also their first, the BBC programme...
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Musicians Remember “Scary And Exciting” Alvin Lee
The rock music community is reflecting on the life and reacting to the death of Ten Years After’s Alvin Lee. Founding Ten Years After member Leo Lyons released a statement yesterday: “I heard only a...
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Trouble With Airplanes And Neckties: This Day In Classic Rock [Video]
Bob Dylan’s debut album was released in the U.S. of A. today in 1962. Containing two original songs and a bunch of folk standards, it didn’t sell well at all, becoming known around the Columbia Records...
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Allman Manager Murders, Moon And Matthews Empty Their Contents: This Day In...
The British Invasion of the U.S. took on a wider scope tonight in 1965, as bands invading the U.S. moved beyond the usual London and Liverpool as Manchester’s Hermans Hermits and The Zombies from St....
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Beatles Get Ringo Back, Hendrix Jams With Jim, Debut Of The Dominoes: This...
The Beatles were “Down Under” today in 1964, arriving in Melbourne from Adelaide, where they’d got the biggest welcome of their careers when some 350,000 fans turned out to cheer them from the airport...
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Vanderpool Talks With Zombie [Audio]
Not the brain-and-flesh eaters of The Walking Dead, but the band. Straight-up mid-sixties British Invasion stuff. Really the main Zombie, Rod Argent. The Zombies formed in 1962 and lasted until 1968...
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Aaaah! More Zombies!
No not the kind that eat your brains or flesh like on The Walking Dead, but the band, who are playing Bumbershoot this weekend, Sunday Zeptember 1st on the Starbucks Stage at 8:15 PM. Last week I got...
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The Vanderguide To Bumbershoot
The One Reel Productions people who put together Seattle’s annual Labor Day Weekend Bumbershoot music festival have once again included (possibly due to my repeated suggestions) some music suitable for...
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#235 – The Zombies ‘Time Of The Season’
The Song Though the lyrics are tame, The Zombies’ “Time Of The Season” is the quintessential sexual revolution song of the 1960s. The Lyrics It’s the Time Of the Season. When love runs high. And this...
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Stones Paint It, Charlie Puts Out A Record, Slowhand Gets His Third: This Day...
The Rolling Stones were in Hollywood today in 1966, starting in on their 10th single Paint It, Black. The comma was added by a proofreader at Decca Records, for the record. With lyrics credited to Mick...
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The Beatles Ditch The Leather, Girl Falls For The Stones, Elton In Wax: This...
The Beatles were at the Playhouse Theater in Manchester today in 1962, having been managed by Brian Epstein since January with mixed results. They’d been rejected after an audition for Decca records in...
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Buddy Invades Britain, Airplane Becomes Starship, And Goodbye Randy Rhodes:...
Buddy Holly played two shows at a movie theater in Hull, Yorkshire England tonight in 1958 on his only trip there. Contrary to popular belief, John Lennon and Paul McCartney didn’t see him live. Though...
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Lennon Writes Books, Linda Shoots The Stones, Clapton Makes Bank With...
John Lennon’s second book of poetry and drawings was released today in 1965. Like his first, In His Own Write, the title was an indication of the word-play contained inside: A Spaniard In The Works...
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