45th Anniversary Archives - Rock and Roll Globe

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Warren Zevon’s Excitable Boy at 45

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 Craig Peters 0 Comments 1978, 45th Anniversary, Excitable Boy, Lawyers Guns and Money, Warren The Headless Thompson Gunner, Warren Zevon, Werewolves of London

Looking back on the legendary songwriter’s most popular album

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Art Pop Electronic Glam New Wave Rock

How Eno Altered Reality On Before And After Science

December 27, 2022December 29, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, Before And After Science, Brian Eno, Cluster, ECM, Harmonia, Island Records, Jon Hassell, Mick Karn, Moebius

The album that bridged Art Rock and New Wave turns 45

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Paprika Plains: Joni Mitchell’s Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter at 45

December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 2 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, Alex Acuña, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Jaco Pastorius, Joni Mitchell, Manolo Badrena, Roger McGuinn, Wayne Shorter

How the singer’s 1977 LP furthered her fascination with jazz

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Baby Hold On: Eddie Money at 45

December 7, 2022December 8, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, Baby Hold On, Bruce Botnick, Columbia Records, Eddie Money, Jimmy Lyon, Levittown, New York, Two Tickets to Paradise

How the Levittown legend found success with his eponymous debut

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Disco Films Funk Soundtracks and Film Scores

Disco Inferno: Saturday Night Fever at 45

November 15, 2022November 15, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, How Deep Is Your Love, John Travolta, KC and the Sunshine Band, More Than A Woman, Night Fever, Saturday Night Fever, Stayin' Alive, The Bee Gees, The Trammps

How the music reflected the era in John Travolta’s cinematic star turn

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Learn to Work the Saxophone: Steely Dan’s Aja at 45

September 24, 2022September 24, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, Aja, Bernard Purdie, Black Cow, Chuck Rainey, Clydie King, Deacon Blues, Dean Parks, Donald Fagen, Home at Last, I Got The News, Jim Keltner, Joe Sample, Josie, Larry Carlton, Michael McDonald, Peg, Steely Dan, Tim Schmit, Tom Scott, Victor Feldman, Walter Becker

Why Becker and Fagen’s sixth album together can also be considered their best

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Elvis Remembrance Rock

The King Is Dead, Long Live The King

August 16, 2022August 17, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, Baz Luhrmann, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Graceland, Memphis, Public Enemy

Elvis Presley’s posthumous life, 45 years later

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Lightning Struck Itself: Marquee Moon at 45

February 14, 2022April 3, 2022 Deborah Sprague 3 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, Billy Ficca, Brian Eno, CBGB, Elektra Records 1977, Fred Smith, Marquee Moon, Richard Lloyd, Television, Terry Ork, Tom Verlaine

The debut LP from Television remains a master class in New York Punk

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Yesterday’s Gone: Rumours at 45

February 4, 2022February 4, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, Christine McVie, Don't Stop, Dreams, Fleetwood Mac, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Rumours, Secondhand News, Silver Springs, Stevie Nicks

Since it was released on this date in 1977, the most popular Fleetwood Mac album still endures through the times and the tides

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Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock

Raving and Drooling: Animals at 45

January 22, 2022April 3, 2022 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 1977, 45th Anniversary, Animals, David Gilmour, Dogs, Nick Mason, Pigs, Pigs on the Wing, Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, Roger Waters, Sheep

On their best album for Columbia, Pink Floyd give George Orwell a Rock ‘n’ Roll makeover

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Glam Punk Soundtracks and Film Scores

It Was Great When It All Began: Rocky Horror Picture Show at 45

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1975, 45th Anniversary, Barry Bostwick, Dr. Frank N. Furter, Mick Jagger, Patricia Quinn, Richard O’Brien, Rocky Horror, Susan Sarandon, Sweet Transvestite, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tim Curry, Time Warp, Transylvania

Don’t dream it, be it as we time warp back to 1975 with Dr. Frank N. Furter and friends

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Blues Folk Hard Rock jazz World

LISTEN: Physical Graffiti @ 45: A Rock & Roll Globe Playlist

February 24, 2020February 23, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1975, 45th Anniversary, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Kashmir, Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti, Robert Plant

We dance and sing in celebration for Led Zeppelin’s greatest album by jumbling it all up

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Today is the 45th Anniversary of the Watkins Glen Summer Jam

July 28, 2018July 30, 2018 Ron Hart 1 Comment 45th Anniversary, Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, The Band, Watkins Glen

On the weekend of July 28, 1973, The Allman Brothers Band, the Grateful Dead and The Band held a massive concert in Upstate, NY

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