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In 1960, the very first UEFA European Football Championship was held. It’s taken place every four years since then and is, at the time of this writing, the second-most watched football tournament in the world after the FIFA World Cup. (That’s European football, by the way, referred to as soccer by American audiences.) Since 1992, each championship has featured a new song, often multilingual with the host country’s language. In 2020, Bono and the Edge of U2 took part in that year’s song creation. It was titled “We Are the People,” in collaboration with Martin Garrix, Albin Nedler, Kristoffer Fo...
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In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy set an ambitious goal for America: send a human being to the moon and bring them back in one piece. “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth,” he said during a joint session of Congress. The endeavor became known as Project Apollo. Two and half years later, Kennedy would be dead, but the moon mission was hardly abandoned. After nearly eight years of testing, training and myriad other preparations — not to mention tension with the So...
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Deep Purple has released a video for their new song “Lazy Sod,” taken from the upcoming album =1. The follow-up to 2021’s covers collection Turning to Crime is their first with guitarist Simon McBride, who replaced Steve Morse two years ago. “Lazy Sod” is the third single from the LP, after “Portable Door” and “Pictures of You.” The 13-track =1 arrives on July 19. The track listing and the “Lazy Sod” video can be seen below. Subscribe to Ultimate Classic Rock on Youtube “Recently, a young journalist asked me how many songs I had written in my life,” singer Ian Gillan said of the new song in a ...
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There are plenty of artists out there who have made a very good living after releasing just one hit single. But as Norman Greenbaum or Dexys Midnight Runners can tell you, it’s pretty hard to string together two, three or especially four. Many of the artists below have track records that pose an opposite and extremely enviable dilemma: How to pick the best four-single run from their long and storied careers? We took 20 of classic rock’s biggest and most influential artists, in no particular order, and selected their best four-single run. To keep things on an even playing ground we stuck with U...
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If you want to make a career in the music business, you have to cut your teeth somehow. For Elton John, known in his early days as simply “Reggie,” that meant doing quite a lot of work as a staff songwriter and sometimes a session pianist. One of those gigs was with the Hollies, who got together with John in June 1969 in what was then EMI Studios in London (it would later become Abbey Road Studios) to record a song written by Bob Russell and Bobby Scott called “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” originally recorded by the American singer-songwriter Kelly Gordon. According to Hollies guitarist T...
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It’s hard to think of a more quintessentially summertime subgenre than ’80s hard rock. Colloquially known as glam metal (or, more derisively, the dreaded “hair metal”), these songs celebrate life’s simple-but-universal pleasures: soaking up the sun, throwing a blowout party and congregating around the nearest radio to blast your favorite tunes. The ’80s are long gone, but these sentiments are eternal — and that’s why you need The 20 Best ’80s Hard Rock Summer Songs on your next playlist. 20. Motley Crue, “Kickstart My Heart” The connection between getting a shot of adrenaline to the heart afte...
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Although Kiss released only three albums during the ’90s, it was quite an eventful time for the group. At the start of the decade, the group found themselves in a mirror version of their dilemma in the early ’80s. In 1982, after squandering nearly all of their career momentum with questionable trend-chasing albums, they released the masterful Creatures of the Night, which didn’t get nearly the attention it deserved. Chastened but determined, Kiss took off their trademark facepaint and clawed their way back to platinum sales and sold-out arenas with a string of successful ’80s albums. Although ...
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Michael Schenker has recruited Slash and ex-Skid Row singer Erik Gronwall for an updated version of UFO‘s “Mother Mary,” the first single off his upcoming retrospective album My Years With UFO. You can listen to the song below. Originally released in 1975 on UFO’s fourth album Force It, “Mother Mary” sports a titanic groove and no shortage of punchy riffs. Schenker and Slash trade leads on the new version, while Gronwall hits plenty of the piercing high notes that made him a vocal phenom ever since he won Swedish Idol in 2009. READ MORE: Phil Mogg Confirms UFO Is Done: ‘It’s Come to a Conclusi...
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David Gilmour has released a new single, a cover of the Montgolfier Brothers’ 1999 song “Between Two Points,” featuring his daughter Romany Gilmour on vocals and harp. “I’ve had that song on my playlist since it was released,” David Gilmour explained in a press release. “More recently I mentioned it to one or two people: I assumed that it had been a hit, but no one knew it. I asked Romany to give it a go.” You can listen to the track below. “I realized that Romany has exactly the right sort of vulnerability and youth for the song,” he continued. “In fact, she was halfway through an essay with ...
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Finding a good Van Halen summer song is about as difficult as finding sand on the beach. The group got their start backyard parties in and around perpetually sunny Los Angeles, and remained the living embodiment of Southern California’s laid-back vibes even after becoming worldwide superstars. When original singer David Lee Roth and the Van Halen brothers were announcing their 2007 reunion tour, he explained that their set lists would be made up of “all the songs you have been hearing blasting out of the backs of pickup trucks at Burger King over the last 20 summers.” Although the group’s subj...
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