Welcome
To Classic Rock Songs Revealed
Prepare to take a journey back to the days when you listened to music on vinyl records and AM radio and knew the words to all your favorite songs.
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In this two volume set, Billy Joel, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne, Tom Johnston, James Pankow, Gordon Lightfoot and more than 45 other songwriters and producers share what went into the writing and recording of over 270 classic rock & folk songs from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s.
Volume 1 | Volume 2 |
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Billy Joel | Eagles |
Chicago | Steely Dan |
Lovin’ Spoonful | The Doobie Brothers |
The Guess Who & Bachman-Turner Overdrive | Loggins & Messina |
Tom Dowd | Jackson Browne |
Boston | Foreigner |
Styx | The Doors |
Gordon Lightfoot | Orleans |
Grand Funk Railroad | John Lodge of The Moody Blues |
Christine McVie | Supertramp |
Jim Croce | The Rascals |
Al Stewart | J.D. Souther |
The Zombies | Procol Harum/Jethro Tull/Blue Oyster Cult |
What They’re Saying About Classic Rock Songs Revealed
Foreword
Growing up as the youngest of five children, I became interested in rock n’ roll music by listening to the records my siblings were playing on the turntable in our house.
I was always interested in the lyrics to the songs, even though I never sang in a choir or any group setting. The lyrics were important, and I quickly developed a yearning to find out what those lyrics meant. What was the inspiration behind these songs?
In those days, we had AM radio, which played the Top 40 songs. We also listened to 45’s and vinyl albums, and it was rare when the albums included liner notes that included the song lyrics. Once that started to happen more frequently in the mid to late 70s, I would spend a lot of time reading the lyrics in the liner notes. I also wanted to know whom the artists were that wrote the songs.
Then in December 1980, John Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota Apartments … Continue Reading
