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Jimi, Jerry and Fogerty in the army? Before they became visible and vocal critics of the Vietnam War, these hippie rock stars served in the military. Read the stories here.
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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller formed perhaps the greatest rock and roll songwriting partnership of the Golden Age. Leiber and Stoller are credited with pathbreaking compositions like “Hound Dog,” “Kansas City,” and “Love Potion No. 9.” And as the in-house writing team for the coasters, they penned classics like “Poison Ivy,” “Yakety Yak,” and “Searchin’”.…
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Glenn Danzig thinks censorship is stupid. He wrote a song about it. Find out who the titular “Mother” is in Danzig’s biggest hit.
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In 1966, the Bobby Fuller Four rocketed up the charts with “I Fought the Law.” Months later, Bobby Fuller was found dead in his car. The cause of his death remains an unsolved mystery to this date. What happened to Bobby Fuller?
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The conflict in Vietnam rages on, Hitsville goes psychedelic, and the dad from the movie Gremlins scores a #1 hit. Casey Kasem’s Top 40 for the last week of April of 1971 is a window into a nation at war abroad and at war with itself. This week’s countdown is a time capsule from a…
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In the 1980s, the Soviet Union was deathly afraid of Western music. Were they right to fear that Van Halen and the Village People might topple communism? Maybe….
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What do Jerry Lee Lewis and Jackie Treehorn have in common? They treat objects like women, man. Just kidding. It’s actually the song “Just Dropped In”. Find out how a country song about why you shouldn’t drop acid became a mind-bending psychedelic masterpiece.
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Dr. Dre’s landmark 1992 album, The Chronic, was built on a tapestry of P-Funk, James Brown, and Donny Hathaway samples. Hear them all here.
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Chubby Checker gets twisted in Amsterdam and records a lost album of psychedelic nuggets.
