it was part of their five-song set at woodstock, a year before “high time” was recorded. garcia always put down that performance, too. “days between,”‘so many roads’ (1999) image credit: larry hulst/michael ochs archives/getty images one of the last and most poignant songs garcia...
My two sisters are older than me and they were listening to the Beatles, the Stones, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez , CSNY and artists who’d played at Woodstock, to name some. Two years later, a friend of my sister’s stopped by and left his 12-string guitar overnight, at ...
It has also become a very popular call-and-response song played at American sporting events, especially in Boston, a city with a long history of Kennedy family significance. “Crazy Love” by Van Morrison Van Morrison was married to Janet “Planet” Rigsbee for six years surrounding 1970, ...
Eric Clapton, British rock musician who was a highly influential guitarist in the late 1960s and early ’70s and later became a major singer-songwriter. He played in the bands the Yardbirds, Cream, and Derek and the Dominos before starting a solo career.
also has a place in the histories ofrhythm and bluesandjazz. In short, while all these musicians played a significant part in the development of rock, they did so by using different musical instruments and textures, different melodic and rhythmic principles, different approaches to song words and...
While the latter was originally released by the Coasters a few years earlier, it was Charles who took it to No. 1 on the R&B chart. Years later, Joe Cocker would make the song a highlight during his star-making set at Woodstock. (Irwin) ...
A decade later, the tables had turned for the 1990 romantic comedyPretty Woman, in which Richard Gere played a businessman who ends up infatuated with a prostitute (as played by Julia Roberts). Using Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” was a masterstroke: The Big O was at the forefront...
25. The Who, 'Live at Leeds' (1970) Decca 25. The Who, 'Live at Leeds' (1970) The Who was bigger than ever thanks toTommy, their 1969 rock opera that carried them to Woodstock and the top of the charts. With a stop at the University of Leeds in February 1970, they showed off...
25. The Who, 'Live at Leeds' (1970) Decca 25. The Who, 'Live at Leeds' (1970) The Who was bigger than ever thanks toTommy, their 1969 rock opera that carried them to Woodstock and the top of the charts. With a stop at the University of Leeds in February 1970, they showed off...
Sly & the Family Stone released one of the all-time greatest summer songs in July 1969, just a month before their career-exploding performance at Woodstock. It peaked at No. 2 and ended up as one of three new tracks on their excellent Greatest Hits album from 1970. There's no hidden ...