Rock Music

  • Elvis’s last concert.

    Anyone who tells me they like rock music but don’t like Elvis, are either lying or don’t like rock or pop music at all. The fact is that without Elvis Rock N Roll would have never been as popular as it is. He always will have a special place in my heart. However there is

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  • Vital Signs is a 1984 album released by one of my all time favourite bands Survivor. I was a bit reluctant to buy the album because Survivor had changed singers, from Dave Bickler to Jimi Jamison. However it turned out to be one of their best albums. On it there was a track called “It’s

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  • It is 1986 you get ready for your weekly dose of Heavy Metal on Sky’s Monsters of Rock. presented by Mick Wall. You hear the opening theme ” Ice 9″ by Joe Satriani from his Epic album “Surfing with the Alien” You sit back relax and get ready for an onslaught of Rock and Metal.

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  • Voodoo Chile @57

    On this day in music, May 3, 1968, The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” a track that would become one of Hendrix’s most iconic songs. Featured as the final track on the group’s third and final album, Electric Ladyland, the song was released as a single in the UK shortly after Hendrix’s

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  • I know we all love Christmas songs, but every now and then we just get too much Pipes of Peace, Silent Night, and Do they Know it’s Christmas time. So today’s episode of a slightly different Christmas, I give you Dokken and Santa Claus is coming to town

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  • The title of this blog is the opening lines of the song “Red Sector A” by the Canadian Rock band “Rush.” It is a song from their 1984 album, Grace Under Pressure. It’s one of Rush’s most emotionally charged songs, heavily influenced by Geddy Lee’s personal family history. The song’s poignant lyrics, written by drummer

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  • A slightly different episode of Rocktober. Because Halloween is approaching rapidly, I thought it would be a good idea to have a look at some classic Rock tracks used in Horror Movies. Dokken – Dream Warriors-Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Motörhead – “Hellraiser” from Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth Fastway – “Trick or Treat” (from

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  • One advantage of doing these Epic Rock episodes is that I get to go back and listen to music I love, also I learn new things every time I do them. In this case, I always thought that TNT were a Finnish Rock band. I discovered today they are Norwegian. “10,000 Lovers (In One)” is

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  • Since it is ‘Earth Day’ today, I thought it would be appropriate to dedicated this episode of Epic Rock, to the blue planet we live on. What better song to do that then ‘Mother Earth’ by ‘Within Temptation’ “Mother Earth” is the third single of Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation from their second studio

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  • AC/DC’s first singer.

    AC/DC will celebrate their 50th anniversary later this year. I was surprised to find out that their first singer wasn’t Bon Scott but, Dave Evans, Although he only recorded one song with the band. He was the original lead singer for AC/DC in 1973–1974 and sang on their debut single and one other single shortly

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