Angie Moon writes about black musicians of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. In this part: Nina Simone, Otis Redding, P-Funk, Phil Lynott, Ray Charles, Prince, The Ronettes, and more!
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The Most Educated Classic Rockers
A Special Back to School Edition of The Diversity of Classic Rock where we talk about the most educated classic rock stars. Stay in school!
50 Years Since The Moon Landing Classic Rock and Space Part 2 🚀
Part two of a two part series on classic rock songs about space. Read about songs by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Moody Blues, Peter Schilling, Queen, Yes, and more!
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50 Years Since the Moon Landing: Classic Rock and Space Part 1 🚀✨
The Diversity of Classic Rock celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with a list of songs about space by bands like The Beatles, David Bowie, Elton John, Frank Sinatra, and more!
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Remastered: Black Musicians of the 60s, 70s, and 80s – Part 2
From Geno Washington to Muddy Waters, here is part 2 of The Diversity of Classic Rock's series on black musicians of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
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My Dream Classic Rock Lipsync For Your Life Songs
RuPaul's Drag Race is well known for the Lipsync For Your Life elimination. Here is a list of lipsync worthy classic rock songs from 20 musicians.
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You Better Work: Classic Rockers in Drag
Drag has been growing in popularity in recent years. What is the connection to classic rock? Learn about drag history and which rock stars did drag in this post.
Review: Bohemian Rhapsody
The Diversity of Classic Rock goes to the cinema to review the new Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. Aesthetically amazing, but what about the story?
Classic Rock and Oldies songs as heard in memes
Memes have revived many songs from the past. In this post, we look at the histories of these songs of the past popularised by memes.
20 Artists who are not in the Rock Hall, but should be
With the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2019 inductees ceremony coming up soon, here's a list of artists who are not in the Rock Hall, but should be
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