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'60s Rock Icon Dead at 82 After Helping Launch a Legendary Band

After leaving Jethro Tull, Abrahams went on to found Blodwyn Pig, a blues-rock group that earned critical attention in the ...
Vulture

Marianne Faithfull, British Rock Icon, Dead at 78

Marianne Faithfull, an icon of 1960s British rock whose career went on to stretch seven decades, is dead at 78. Faithfull died “peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family,” a ...
American Songwriter

This British Rock Band Topped the Hot 100 with a Space-Age Instrumental Two Years Before The Beatles

The British Invasion began in the early 1960s when acts from the United Kingdom started finding success in the United States. Most music lovers would assert that the Beatles were the first British act ...
American Songwriter

The Blind Spot Years of Rock and Roll Between Elvis and the British Invasion

After Elvis Presley joined the Army in 1958 but before the British Invasion of 1964, there was a forgotten period in American music. Here, rock and roll existed in a liminal space. These few years ...
The New York Times

Viv Prince, Rock’s Original Madman Drummer, Is Dead at 84

A drummer for the 1960s British band the Pretty Things, “the high priest of lunacy” set a high bar for fiery performances and offstage misbehavior. By Alex Williams Viv Prince, a drummer for the ...