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⭐️ EAGLES ARE ON THE COVER OF THE NEW ISSUE OF CLASSIC ROCK ⭐️

In Classic Rock 354 we tell the story of Hotel California, the album that took the already soaring Eagles into the commercial stratosphere and brought them everything that came with that – good and bad.

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Also in Classic Rock 354: Shinedown, Little Feat, Ramones, Crown Lands, All Them Witches, Dave Mason, Russ Ballard, Tarja, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Blue October and more.

✩ Photo Of The Day ✩ Gregg Allman, who died today in 2017, photographed during rehearsal for a filming of The Midnight Special television show in Burbank, CA, in 1977. The show, which was hosted by Allman, was broadcast on June 24 and included appearances by Elvin Bishop, Booker T. and the MG's, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jennifer Warnes.

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You're stranded on a desert island! 🌴 What ONE album do you have with you? #ClassicRockQuestion

Meet Earth Tongue, the rising New Zealand duo whose third album, Dungeon Vision, is out now. Read more at loudersound.com

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Rick Derringer was the talent of a generation, just 17 years old when his band The McCoys topped the US singles chart with Hang On Sloopy, their cover of a past hit for the R&B group The Vibrations, in the summer of 1965.

The first of seven hit singles, Hang On Sloopy was the start of it all for The McCoys and a launch pad for guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Rick Derringer, a fiercely ambitious and prodigiously gifted entertainer who would go on to have a career that lasted for six decades.

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Today in 1967, The Beatles released their game-changing eighth album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

In this photo, The Beatles are showing the album at the press launch, held at Brian Epstein's house at 24 Chapel Street, London.

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Happy 62nd Birthday to Lenny Kravitz! ⭐

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Happy 78th Birthday to the one and only Stevie Nicks! 🖤 What's your favourite song by the #FleetwoodMac legend?

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Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is more than just a masterpiece of songwriting – it’s a work of sheer bravado that only someone with the bulletproof musical confidence of Freddie Mercury could pull off, critics be damned.

“I think fundamentally Freddie had that great freedom,” Brian May told Classic Rock in 2013. “Deep down, he knew he was right and he didn’t care if people slagged him off. He knew he was having fun, he was searching for a dream that was not only his dream, but in some sense fulfilled our audience’s dream. He was an instinctive showman, and he was fearless. Really fearless.”

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What's the best classic rock album opener ever written? 💿 #ClassicRockQuestion

On this day in 1974, #DavidBowie released his eighth studio album, Diamond Dogs. 💎🐕 When Bowie was denied permission to stage a theatre production based on George Orwell’s 1984, the redundant songs ended up onto the flipside of Diamond Dogs instead.

Those cut-and-paste roots led to a loose concept album that vaguely riffs on a vision of a decaying future, but it works, thanks to some of Bowie’s toughest songs, taking in the full-throttle title track and the trashy cyclical riffing of Rebel Rebel. We were all missing Ziggy a little too much to pet this pooch properly at the time, but Diamond Dogs deserves to viewed as very much its own animal. Is this your favourite Bowie album?

Festival season is here! 🎪 Which ones are on your summer schedule? #ClassicRockQuestion