Classic Rock
Classic Rock is a British monthly magazine, and launched in 1998, focusing on key bands from the 1960s through early 1990s. It is published by TeamRock, which is also responsible for its "sister" publication Metal Hammer.
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Review by Carol Clerk, Classic Rock, July 2001
After the introspective Avenue B, it's gloves off for Iggy as he comes out swinging. ...
The Ramones: Joey Ramone: Hey Ho, Let's Go!
Retrospective and Interview by Carol Clerk, Classic Rock, July 2001
Long hair, shades, ripped denim — the Ramones were the epitome of early punk, and singer Joey the epitome of the Ramones. From his school ...
Bill Wyman, The Rolling Stones: Bill Wyman: The Classic Rock Interview
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2002
OVER THE COURSE of the last forty years probably more column inches of copy have been dedicated to the cavalier exploits of the Rolling Stones ...
The GTOs: Girl Together Outrageously: Pamela Des Barres
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2002
IN CASUAL DEFIANCE of the fact that her fifty-fifth birthday looms large, the Marchioness Des Barres positively radiates rude good health and an undeniably disarming ...
Aerosmith: Tales of Toys and Toxic Twins: Aerosmith
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2002
SPOOL BACK four years to the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel on America’s sun-kissed East Coast and I’m sharing a sumptuous afternoon repast with Aerosmith’s Steven ...
Guns N' Roses: The Madness of King Axl
Report by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2002
AS OPPRESSIVE darkness gradually envelops Temple Newsam, a remote agrarian idyll that annually plays host to the Leeds leg of the Carling Festival, the all-pervasive ...
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2003
BY DECEMBER 1984, having exploded onto a decidedly lacklustre rock scene blighted by vacuous new romanticism, post-punk austerity and backward glancing metal Gumby-ism, the five ...
Metallica: Rage-a-holics Anonymous: Metallica
Report and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2003
OF COURSE, you all know the deal with Metallica. At present, the single most enormous band in the entire rock firmament who, having casually taken ...
The Faces: Rod Stewart & The Faces: Changing Faces: The Very Best Of; Ronnie Lane: Ain’t No One Like
Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2003
HAD IT NOT been for the existence of Rod Stewart & The Faces, I’d probably have a proper job by now. ...
The Runaways: Runaways: The Runaways/Queens Of Noise/Live In Japan/Waitin' For The Night
Review and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2003
UNTIL THE ADVENT of Sunset Strip cherry bombers The Runaways, all-girl rock bands were invariably self-consciously butch and hairy apparitions with names like Birtha and ...
Retrospective and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, August 2003
Woodstock made Ten Years After into world stars, but instead of capitalising on their new-found fame they lost the plot. ...
Iron Maiden: Dance Of Death (EMI)
Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, October 2003
IN ESSENCE, Iron Maiden are the rock Marmite. Ambivalence is simply not an option when bearing witness to their characteristic onslaught of dense, prog-laced riffage. ...
Report and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, Summer 2003
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR was responsible for the construction of Lincoln Castle in 1068. In Victorian times it housed a prison, but now acts as a ...
Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, January 2004
The Diamond Dog's bollocks, or satin 'n' tat from the cutting room floor? The imported rarities box set that has long been the Bowie fan's ...
Iron Maiden: Don't Fear The Reaper
Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, January 2004
THERE ARE dead bodies lying on trestle tables in the midst of the tangled scaffolding and controlled chaos that represents Iron Maiden's rear of stage ...
Robert Plant: The Secret Life Of Plant
Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, January 2004
It's 1982, and Robert Plant is worried. He's just released his first solo album Pictures At Eleven, and he's expecting a critical slating. Led-free reflections ...
Vanilla Fudge: The Remarkable History Of Rock's Greatest Covers Band
Retrospective and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, June 2004
Bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, one of rock's mightiest rhythm sections, talk about their days in Vanilla Fudge. ...
New York Dolls: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, September 2004
The best advice to bands that delight in near-mythic status is "let it lie". Can the reformed Lipstick Killers disprove the rule? ...
Judas Priest: Pavelló Olímpic, Badalona
Live Review by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, October 2004
Reunited — and it feels so good. Taking their cue from Peaches & Herb's '79 hit, Judas Priest get back together with singer Rob Halford ...
Melissa Auf Der Maur, Hole: Melissa Auf Der Maur
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, October 2004
The one-time Hole bass player and now solo performer talks about Courtney Love, Billy Corgan, her music, her musical upbringing, and where destiny has taken ...
Rush: The Sword and Sorcery Phase
Retrospective and Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, October 2004
Rush had their first taste of success in 1975, when they changed from being a basic hard rock power outfit and became something altogether more ...
Hawkwind: Ian Abrahams: Hawkwind – Sonic Assassins
Book Review by John Doran, Classic Rock, November 2004
PSYCH-ROCK visionaries Hawkwind have undeniably one of the most interesting stories in rock: paranoia, madness, drugs, fatal road accidents, not to mention startlingly inventive music ...
Siouxsie Sioux: 100 Club, London
Live Review by John Doran, Classic Rock, December 2004
Two shows in one week for the iconic 'anti-Blondie' – one a lo-fi hits set, and one with 18-piece orchestra . Hark at her! ...
Nine Inch Nails: Fighting Tooth And Nail
Interview by John Doran, Classic Rock, July 2005
After finally admitting to himself that he was in the merciless grip of alcohol and drug addiction, Trent Reznor (aka Nine Inch Nails) got himself ...
Grand Funk Railroad: Get The Funk Out
Retrospective and Interview by Pete Makowski, Classic Rock, October 2005
WHO THE hell are Grand Funk Railroad? More to the point, why should we even care who they are? These are pertinent questions for any ...
Kate Bush: Stand By Your Mantra
Retrospective by Harry Doherty, Classic Rock, December 2005
An enigma. A recluse. A sensitive artist scared of the limelight. Few people get close enough to get to know the real Kate Bush. But ...
Blackmore's Night, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore: Richie Blackmore: Blackmore's Nightmare
Retrospective by Pete Makowski, Classic Rock, March 2006
"I'm at that stage where I will play anything I want to. I will not be dictated to by fans or people who say: 'You ...
Detective, Michael Des Barres, Silverhead: Silverhead: Studs Silver
Retrospective and Interview by Pete Makowski, Classic Rock, March 2006
MOST OF you will never have heard of Silverhead. The pseudo-flowery moniker of frontman Michael Des Barres probably doesn't even tinkle the vaguest of bells. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, March 2006
He turned down Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. Meet rock's ultimate nearly man. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, October 2006
HAD IT NOT been for the in-fighting, the pressure, crap deals, "stolen" songs and one control-freak member's desire to run the whole show, Creedence Clearwater ...
Retrospective and Interview by Pete Makowski, Classic Rock, May 2007
LONDON, TUESDAY, February 20, 2007, 11.35pm. Me, photographer Ross Halfin, Aerosmith tour manager John Bionelli and oh yeah – Joe Perry and Jimmy Page are ...
Debbie Harry: Q&A: Debbie Harry
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Classic Rock, 7 May 2007
The Blondie frontwoman and figurehead reflects on personal survival, the 1970s New York scene at CBGB and how the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, August 2007
Rock Against Racism: Tom Robinson thinks of it as "the punk Woodstock" and it was the moment that punk went overground and people's band the ...
The Eagles: Eagles: Long Road Out Of Eden (Universal)
Review by Max Bell, Classic Rock, December 2007
WHEN STEELY DAN sang the immortal line "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbours are listening" on their mid-'70s sex-swinging party anthem 'Everything You Did', the ...
Joan Jett, The Runaways: Joan Jett
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, December 2007
The punk-loving former Runaways hellraiser talks about being in the first girl rock band, her fondness for S&M clothes, her blurred sexuality and almost joining ...
Review and Interview by Carol Clerk, Classic Rock, December 2007
They stretched their songs to the limit — now three of Man's '70s albums get stretched and expanded... ...
Review by Pete Makowski, Classic Rock, February 2008
WATCHING THIS once-great band drag their bruised, battered – and in some cases surgically-enhanced – carcass around metal's chicken-in-a-basket circuit, it's difficult to believe that ...
Deep Purple: Around The World Live (Eagle Vision)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Paul Elliott, Classic Rock, July 2008
Four-disc set documenting the Steve Morse era and Jon Lord's farewell. ...
Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition (Sub Pop!)
Review by Carol Clerk, Classic Rock, July 2008
TWENTY YEARS AGO, Mudhoney released their first Sub Pop! single, 'Touch Me I'm Sick', followed closely by the Superfuzz Bigmuff EP. Neither sold much, but ...
Review by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, July 2008
GHOSTS OF Abominog. It sounds like a magical incantation by Doctor Strange, doesn't it? You can just imagine Marvel Comics' moustachio'd master of the mystic ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Mystery & Magic
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Classic Rock, Summer 2008
"YOU KNOW HOW they always say, who died and made you boss?" asks Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington in his soft Florida drawl, made even ...
UFO: "Most Bands Have Great Ideas And It All Goes Down The F***ing Toilet"
Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, May 2009
British heavy rock legends UFO release their brand new studio album, The Visitor, on June 2 and head out on a British tour shortly afterward. ...
Jobriath: Cult Heroes No. 4: Jobriath
Retrospective by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, 26 February 2010
He was launched amid a mountain of publicity as the world's first openly gay rock star – but the world wasn't ready. ...
Them Crooked Vultures: High Flyers
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, March 2010
Most 40th birthday parties end with a sore head, regrettable dancing and uneaten cake. Dave Grohl's bash finished up with him, John Paul Jones and ...
The Doors, Jim Morrison: L.A. Woman and the Last Days of Jim Morrison
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, August 2010
Forget what you think you know. How Jim Morrison REALLY died, by the people who found the body, moved the body and buried him… ...
Led Zeppelin: Let's Get Physical: The Story of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Classic Rock, September 2010
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN in the state of rock. The heady euphoria of the late Sixties has degenerated into decadence and self-satisfaction. Working-class guitar heroes have ...
Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, January 2011
JEFF BECK confirmed to Classic Rock that the two old buddies would renew a partnership that first saw light in the late 1960s when the two rock ...
The Who: Live at Leeds (Super Deluxe Edition)
Review by Roy Carr, Classic Rock, January 2011
IT TURNS OUT that the greatest live album in rock history was only the soundcheck. Actually, Live at Leeds was the second choice – a ...
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, April 2011
SUMMER 1971. The five members of Can are huddled around a bottle of wine and a stereo suitcase Revox A77 tape recorder, listening to the ...
Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme on Guns, God, and America
Interview by Paul Elliott, Classic Rock, June 2011
Heavy questions for Josh Homme, multi-tasking rocker, Eagle Of Death Metal, Crooked Vulture, and fallen libertarian. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, September 2011
1989, JULY 15: 200,000 fans and 100m satellite TV viewers worldwide watch Pink Floyd play a spectacular free show from a barge floating in the ...
Jimi Hendrix: Surrounded By Vultures
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, October 2011
SEPTEMBER 10, 1969, had been a bad night for Jimi Hendrix and it was about get considerably worse. ...
Queen Of Nude Orleans: 1978, October 31
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, October 2011
IT WAS THE aftershow party to end all aftershow parties. The champagne flowed like water, couples coupled under the tables and the entertainment included strippers, ...
The Fugs Levitate the Pentagon
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, November 2011
NOT IN HIS wildest imagination could David Copperfield have dreamed this one up. Levitate the Pentagon, America's stark and forbidding Defense HQ, 300 feet skyward, ...
Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull: An Interview with Ian Anderson
Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, December 2011
CR: When you started, there were virtually no flute players in rock music. What inspired you to take it up? ...
Gram Parsons: Gram Theft Parsons Revisited
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, March 2012
LATE IN THE evening of September 20, 1973, two drunk men clad in rhinestoned jackets and cowboy hats drove a hearse into Los Angeles Airport ...
The Band, Robbie Robertson: Robbie Robertson: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Retrospective and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, April 2012
SILLY ME. I assumed that I would be interviewing Robbie Robertson in the quaint Kensington mews flat that I had been sent to. But instead ...
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, Classic Rock, October 2012
"When big money moves in, big money doesn't fuck around…" ...
Arthur Brown: The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, October 2012
THIS IS HOW it's supposed to happen. "Arthur will send his car for you driven by one of his young handmaidens. She will blindfold you ...
Keith Moon Drives His Car Into a Swimming Pool
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Classic Rock, November 2012
IN 1967, Holiday Inn was the world's largest hotel chain, with nearly 1,000 properties – comprised primarily of roadside motels. ...
Tom Waits: Tom's Wild Year: The Story of Swordfishtrombones
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Classic Rock, June 2013
HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU it was not. Tom Waits did, however, have news for fellow guest Ian Hislop, rounding on the latter after ...
Retrospective by Jim Esposito, Classic Rock, September 2013
IN THE FUTURE the 1960s will be remembered as another Renaissance, an aesthetic revolution when art flourished. Only this time instead of white marble sculptures ...
The Pixies: Looking back on Doolittle and the making of a classic
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, May 2014
30 years after the Doolittle album took The Pixies from obscurity to alt.rock's top table, the band Kurt Cobain wanted to be in look back ...
Randy California, Spirit: California Dreaming: The Wild and Tragic Story of Spirit
Retrospective by Max Bell, Classic Rock, 18 June 2014
Led by mercurial guitarist Randy California, Spirit were buddies of Jimi Hendrix and praised by Led Zeppelin. But their promise would collapse in blur of ...
Prince: The Making of Purple Rain
Retrospective and Interview by Bill DeMain, Classic Rock, 8 October 2014
How the self-contained, reclusive genius learned to play nice with others, how to rock and in the process found his world-conquering groove. ...
Review and Interview by Jamie Atkins, Classic Rock, November 2014
BAXTER DURY’S last album, Happy Soup, saw the singer-songwriter follow a period of extended downtime with a more pared-back and lo-fi sound. It’s A Pleasure, ...
Canned Heat: The badass blues band that death couldn't kill
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, January 2015
PICTURE THE SCENE: April 4, 1981, outside the World Famous Palomino Club in North Hollywood. The members of Canned Heat and their friends are smoking ...
Skip Spence: Dark Star: The Tragic Genius Of Skip Spence
Retrospective by Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, 23 January 2015
Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence wrote his album Oar in a psychiatric ward after threatening his bandmates with an axe. Fifteen years after his death, artists ...
The Soft White Underbelly: The acid-dazed days of the band that became Blue Öyster Cult
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, 25 July 2015
The story of Soft White Underbelly ...
Fanny: The Untold Story of the original Queens of Noise
Retrospective and Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, September 2015
They may have been overshadowed by the Runaways, but nobody did it quite like Fanny, the original all-girl rock'n'roll band who blazed a trail through the ...
Nuggets: Psych Rock's Pimply Origins
Retrospective by David Dalton, Classic Rock, 4 September 2015
LOST TEEN civilisation uncovered! Garage band rock and its mutant spawn, psych rock, a pimply, snotty, inspired, glue-sniffing teen culture that flourished in the last ...
The Eagles: Eagles: The Heroes Or Villains Of 70s Rock?
Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Classic Rock, 6 October 2015
The band who took country-rock to the masses ...
The Eagles: Eagles: The Heroes Or Villains Of '70s Rock?
Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Classic Rock, 6 October 2015
The band who took country-rock to the masses ...
Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix: The Gigs That Changed History
Retrospective by David Dalton, Classic Rock, 30 October 2015
AUGUST 18, 1969. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, the supreme moment in the history of rock – if not of the cosmos. But, wait a moment, ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, December 2015
WITHOUT PRODUCER and label boss Mike Vernon, the history of British blues would look very different. In the first part of a feature charting his ...
Ronnie Lane's Escape To The Country
Retrospective by Max Bell, Classic Rock, 31 December 2015
When Ronnie Lane quit the Faces, he swapped starry lead singers and showbiz bullshit for a new life down on the farm, and a new ...
Bob Dylan: How Bob Dylan And The Holy Trinity Changed Music Forever
Retrospective by David Dalton, Classic Rock, January 2016
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde are the highwater mark of '60s rock, and with the quasi-religious reverence due ...
Andy Partridge, XTC: Heavy Load: Andy Partridge
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 19 February 2016
XTC mainman Andy Partridge on loving the Monkees, coming from Swindon and finally being defined as prog. ...
Joe Bonamassa: Blues Of Desperation
Review by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, March 2016
THE INDEFATIGABLE Joe Bonamassa shows no sign of easing up any time soon. The past four years have seen him involved in a dozen releases. ...
Review by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, 6 July 2016
Early-70s Yes offshoot's too-hasty debut. ...
Led Zeppelin: The Complete BBC Sessions
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Classic Rock, October 2016
JUST HOW MUCH more juice is there to be squeezed out of the Led Zeppelin lemon? It's a question you may well ask yourself by ...
Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders: The Pretenders: Alone
Review by Stephen Dalton, Classic Rock, 17 October 2016
Chrissie Hynde reveals her rootsy Americana side with help from some Nashville friends ...
King Kobra: Ready To Strike and Thrill Of A Lifetime
Review by Paul Elliott, Classic Rock, 31 March 2017
When the impressively moustachioed Carmine Appice formed LA rock act King Kobra in 1984, he was an established big hitter — in terms of his ...
Review by Julian Marszalek, Classic Rock, 19 May 2017
It's like the past 17 years never happened ...
Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 16 July 2017
Street-punk legends further refine an unrefined formula. ...
Black Country Communion: BCCIV
Review by David Stubbs, Classic Rock, September 2017
Fourth album from supergroup combines hard riffing and pensive lyrics ...
David Byron: Baby Faced Killer
Review by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, December 2017
AFTER DAVID Byron was fired from Uriah Heep in 1976, he formed Rough Diamond whose album the following year was as dire as it was ...
Review by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, 1 December 2017
THERE WAS nothing very complicated about Cactus, even in their early '70s heyday, but they did their thunderous heavy rock well enough to be touted ...
Electric Wizard: What happened when we went off the grid with Electric Wizard
Interview by Nick Hasted, Classic Rock, 5 January 2018
Classic Rock goes off the grid to track down Electric Wizard, who tell us about swapping doom for Detroit, geese attacks, utopian nightmares and the ...
Report and Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, July 2018
Nick Mason on the past, present and future of his time-travelling new Floyd project, Saucerful Of Secrets… ...
Queen: Brian May: The Show Must Go On
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, October 2018
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the original version of the interview submitted to Classic Rock. * ...
The Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood: Ronnie Wood: "These men were dangerous…"
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, November 2018
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is my original version, as submitted to the magazine. ...
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, December 2018
The Europe frontman on football, politics and his band's hard road to credibility… ...
Manic Street Preachers: James Dean Bradfield
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, December 2018
The Manic Street Preachers frontman on fame, hecklers and getting beaten to UK#1 by the "fucking Greatest Showman…" ...
Report and Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, 11 December 2018
The Demon looks back on a year of booming business – and ahead to the KISS split. ...
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, 11 December 2018
Drummer Nicko McBrain on live extravaganzas, critical slatings and smacking Classic Rock in the mouth… ...
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, February 2019
The Black Star Riders silverback on triumphs, tweets and resurrecting Phil Lynott… ...
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, March 2019
Frontman Josh Todd on addiction, tattoos and the death of rock radio… ...
Retrospective and Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, April 2019
Mock muggings, sexual advances and sweat stains were all part of the Vinegar Joe story – along with some blistering British blues-rock. But one member ...
Bonnie Tyler: The Soundtrack Of My Life
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, May 2019
Power-ballad belter Bonnie Tyler on the special records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to her. ...
Black Sabbath: Geezer Butler: "I thought I could live without it – but I can't…"
Profile and Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, June 2019
Geezer Butler on life after Sabbath – and the rise of new band Deadland Ritual… ...
Profile and Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, June 2019
Peter Frampton's diagnosis with a degenerative muscle condition means the clock is ticking on his fabled guitar skills. But as the 68-year-old heads out on ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, May 2020
RH: Who was the first guitarist to really capture your imagination? ...
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets: Shyga! The Sunlight Mound
Review by Julian Marszalek, Classic Rock, 5 February 2021
Worlds collide on Psychedelic Porn Crumpets' fourth album Shyga! The Sunlight Mound, in a cornucopia of multi-coloured, high-speed sound ...
Interview by Julian Marszalek, Classic Rock, 15 August 2023
Brothers in a band often spells trouble, but Baroque/power-poppers the Lemon Twigs have found the secret of happily co-existence ...
Keith Moon, The Who: The 10 best Keith Moon performances, by Kenney Jones
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, 22 December 2023
Kenney Jones replaced the irrepressible Keith Moon in The Who in 1978 — and these are performances by his predecessor he loves the most ...
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