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This is the week that was in matters musical … 1955, Elvis Presley is named Most Promising Country & Western Artist in Billboard’s annual poll of disc jockeys … sadly, the relatively unknown country artist never quite lives up to their expectations … 1960, Greg Allman ...

Here in status symbol land … didn’t you guys and gals just love The Monkees back in the day?    When I was four I was telling folks that The Beatles and The Monkees were my favorite bands.  Too cute, right?  I actually saw them in concert twice, and rushed the stage @ The Silverdome...

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1928, a candle starts a fire in a French Gypsy caravan…the left hand of 18-year-old guitarist Django Reinhardt is badly burned, leaving two fingers useless…with his right leg also injured, Django is bedridden for 18 months and uses ...

From a coupla years after The Beatles left the charts for good to just after the disco years, there was a new “style” that was heavily-promoted — and took early-teen America briefly by storm. Here’s what happened: by early ‘74, some industry moguls began seeing anything...

THIS IS A SPECIAL REPORT FROM RELICNEWS: The dude on yer left? No, it isn’t Bobby Rydell (though he looked a little like it in this pic). Actually, it’s my younger brother, Dick, back in 1969. He was also the drummer in my band for awhile, until he gave up the stix to get into photograph...

Why, hello there. How are you? That's good. Me? Oh, fine as well. Where have I been? Well, Baby Chutney and I both got that nasty old flu that's been hanging around - knocked me on my ass for three days (of course two of those would be during the weekend). Besides that, there's my ongoing writing fo...