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  Features3 weeks ago

  Willie Dixon – The Greatest Blues Songwriter

  Willie Dixon was a fixer, arranger, talent scout, boxer, performer, and songwriter, who did more to shape the sound of post-war Chicago blues than any other.

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  Features2 months ago

  Grander Than Ever: Grand Funk Outdo The Beatles At Shea Stadium

  In June 1971, even media types who had never liked GFR's populist hard rock style had to concede that they'd become one of the biggest bands of their generation.

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  Features2 months ago

  ‘Wind Of Change’: Peter Frampton Heralds A Coming Whirlwind

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  Features3 months ago

  Show Us The Way: Peter Frampton In 20 Songs

  In celebration of one of the UK's most distinguished guitarists and singer-writers of the past five decades.

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  Features3 months ago

  Best Songs About Marijuana: 25 Tracks To Help Get Your Buzz On

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  Features3 months ago

  A Face We’ll Never Forget: British Pop-Rock Figurehead Steve Marriott

  The Small Faces and Humble Pie frontman, who died in 1991, is gone but never forgotten.

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  Features4 months ago

  ‘Somethin’s Happening’: Another Building Block For Peter Frampton

  1974's 'Somethin's Happening' was an invaluable building block in Frampton’s development into one of America’s biggest stars of the 1970s.

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  In-Depth4 months ago

  Heavy Metal Thunder: The Origins Of Heavy Metal

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  Features4 months ago

  ‘Frampton’: Peter’s Pre-‘Frampton Comes Alive’ Breakthrough

  The 1975 album is a fascinating record of what was happening immediately before the English singer-guitarist’s solo career went stratospheric.

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  Features4 months ago

  ‘Eat It’: Rock Fans Devour A Slice Of Humble Pie

  The 1973 album 'Eat It' saw the British rock band growing ever more confident and autonomous.

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  Features5 months ago

  ‘Paradise Lost’: When Peter Frampton Was Seen And Herd

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  Features6 months ago

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  Features6 months ago

  ‘Performance – Rockin’ The Fillmore’: Humble Pie Rock The Lower East Side

  By the early 1970s, Humble Pie were undeniably bigger in the US than the UK, but they nudged back into the British charts with the notable live double album 'Performance – Rockin’...

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  News6 months ago

  Gibson Celebrate Peter Frampton With New ‘Phenix’ Les Paul Custom Guitar

  Formerly of The Herd and Humble Pie and a big star in his own right, Frampton has been a signature Gibson and Epiphone artist for over twenty-five years.