With a career spanning more than 50 years, John Fogerty is hailed as one
of the most influential musicians in rock history, known for creating
the soundtrack of a generation. As co-founder of Creedence Clearwater
Revival, the group’s chief musical architect, and as a solo artist,
Fogerty’s works rank as some of the most influential in American music
history. As the writer, singer and producer of numerous classic hits
including ‘Born on the Bayou’, ‘Green River’, ‘Proud Mary’, and ‘Bad
Moon Rising’, Fogerty has been honored as one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists, 100 Greatest Songwriters, and 100 Greatest Singers by Rolling
Stone. Earning induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriters
Hall of Fame, and Baseball Hall of Fame, he is also a New York Times
best-selling author for his memoir, Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music.
'All I Wanna Do', released by Sheryl in 1993, is arguably one of her most famous hits. Inspired by a book of poems she found in a book shop by unknown writer Wyn Cooper, the song went in to be a worldwide hit earning both Sheryl and Wyn huge sums in royalties.
Other famous songs include 'If It Makes You Happy', 'My Favourite Mistake' and the 1997 theme song for the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
Sheryl Crow released a greatest hits album in 2003 called The Very Best Of Sheryl Crow featuring a rework of Cat Stevens' 1960s song 'The First Cut Is The Deepest' becoming Sheryl's biggest radio hit since 'All I Wanna Do'.
'The First Cut Is The Deepest' won Sheryl two American Music Awards for Best Pop/Rock Artist and Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year, respectively.
Formed in Buffalo, NY during 1986 by John Rzeznik and Robby Takac, Goo Goo Dolls quietly broke records, contributed a string of staples to the American songbook, connected to millions of fans, and indelibly impacted popular music for three-plus decades. Beyond selling 12 million records worldwide, the group garnered four GRAMMY® Award nominations and seized a page in the history books by achieving 14 number one and Top 10 hits at Hot AC—"the most of any artist.” As a result, they hold the all-time radio record for “Most Top 10 Singles.” Among a string of hits, “Iris” clutched #1 on the Hot 100 for 18 straight weeks and would be named “#1 Top 40 Song of the Last 20 Years.”
If rock ‘n’ roll had fairy tales, the 3 Doors Down story would be one of the most popular. Their story begins in childhood, it celebrates friendship, honesty and making the most of God-given talents. It’s about faith in your teammates and collaboration, trusting instincts and, once success is achieved, lending a hand to help others. They made their mark early, selling 6 million copies of their debut album, and rather than allow that moment to define themselves, they have developed as musicians, songwriters and friends. The stories and emotions related in their songs resonate with audiences: Their music and lyrics are as approachable as the guys in the band.
As the frontman for the band bearing his name, Daughtry has become one of the most visible and consistent rock & roll torchbearers of the 21st Century. Since rising to prominence on the fifth season of American Idol, he has released four albums, all of which reached the Billboard Top Ten and have combined sales over 8 million copies in the U.S. Daughtry’s self-titled debut was the best-selling album of 2007, which contained four Top Twenty hit singles including the Grammy-nominated smash “It’s Not Over.” Leave This Town also reached Number One in 2009, while 2011’s Break the Spell was certified gold. His group’s most recent record, 2013’s Baptized, featured the platinum-selling “Waiting for Superman,” which the singer points to as a turning point in his songwriting.
After releasing their 2012 full-length debut Night Visions (featuring the Grammy Award-winning single “Radioactive”), Imagine Dragons spent nearly two years bringing their passionately inventive brand of alt-rock to arenas around the world. To deal with the chaos of a touring schedule that included 130 headline dates and 50 festivals across the globe, the Las Vegas-based quartet threw themselves into creating material for their next album. “So many things were changing for us so quickly, the only way to feel some kind of stability was to keep writing,” says frontman Dan Reynolds, who founded Imagine Dragons with guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and drummer Daniel Platzman. “Going up to my hotel room to work on new songs became something I looked forward to every night on tour,” Reynolds adds. “There were definitely a few times when the person next door’s banging on the wall because it’s 4 a.m. and they’re trying to sleep and I’m in there belting out some song I just wrote.”
Arriving at the twilight of the post-grunge era, Train managed to simultaneously exist squarely at the center of American mainstream rock while not belonging to any particular trend. Despite the hard rock background of lead singer Pat Monahan, the San Francisco-based combo never sounded particularly heavy. Instead, they tapped into the sturdy sounds of classic rock, an aesthetic epitomized by their breakthrough "Drops of Jupiter." That 2001 international smash gave Train a career, but the group turned into superstars in 2009 when the breezy "Hey, Soul Sister" established the combo as adult contemporary superstars. Certified as sextuple platinum, "Hey, Soul Sister" was a sunny, nostalgic number that illustrated how Train was quintessentially Californian: they were transplants drawn to the West Coast, besotted by the sounds and sights of the Pacific, preferring good times to grit. After "Hey, Soul Sister," Monahan and Train made no bones about celebrating their adopted home, in the process racking up a string of Top Ten adult contemporary hits that stretched into the late 2010s.
In April 2019 the BMI announced that 'Every Breath You Take' had become it's most performed song hitting 15 million radio plays and replacing 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling' at the top spot. The 'Sting: My Songs' tour commenced in May 2019. It was a rollicking, dynamic show focusing on the most beloved songs written by Sting and spanning the 16-time Grammy Award winner’s prolific career with The Police and as a solo artist". Accompanying the tour is 'My Songs' an album that finds Sting revisiting his most celebrated hits and which he described as "My life in songs. Some of them reconstructed, some of them refitted, some of them reframed, but all of them with a contemporary focus.”
Denver, Colorado’s The Lumineers released their eponymous debut album
through Nashville’s Dualtone in 2012. The triple platinum album garnered
two GRAMMY nominations and spawned the
chart-topping platinum singles, “Ho Hey” and “Stubborn Love”. The band
also served as Saturday Night Live’s musical guest on January 19, 2013. After years of touring the world in support of their debut album, the
band released the follow up Cleopatra on Dualtone, in 2016. The platinum
album debuted #1 on both Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Chart and the UK
Albums Chart and featured the gold title track as well as the platinum
single, “Ophelia”. The tour in support of Cleopatra included two sold
out shows at Madison Square Garden and one at the Hollywood Bowl. Their most recent album is titled "III".
Lenny Kravitz's 11th studio album RAISE VIBRATION available now on CD and 2LPs in multiple standard and deluxe formats.
The record promises to be one of Kravitz’s
most eclectic. “Low,” the song that got the whole process started,
developed into a smooth funk showcase; what Kravitz calls “my Quincy
Jones school” complete with horns and a string arrangement. The title
track is lean power-trio rock, while the ballad “Here to Love” features
Kravitz backed only by his piano and a string section. “Johnny Cash,”
inspired by an encounter with the late legend, is what Kravitz jokingly
calls “psychedelic funk meets country.”
Known for his outspokenness, impassioned live show and Outlaw Country tunes, Aaron Lewis is back with a new album, the Buddy Cannon-produced STATE I’M IN (The Valory Music Co.). Lewis wrote six of the 10 tracks, which also features cuts by acclaimed songwriters Dan Tyminski and the late Keith Whitley, among others. STATE I’M IN is the follow-up to SINNER, which went No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums, Top 200 Albums, and Top Digital Albums Charts upon release chart and blasts through today’s Country music doldrums like a shot of 100-proof whiskey, with the singer making zero compromises with either himself or the restrictions of a format that seems to have abandoned its rougher tendencies in favor of pop and ‘70s rock inclinations largely lacking in grit. Lewis, who fronted the wildly-successful Rock group Staind, has sold 13 million albums worldwide and four consecutive top three debuts on Billboard’s Top 200, including the single “It’s Been Awhile,” which remains the most-played rock song of the decade. Lewis is currently headlining the STATE I’M IN TOUR that spotlights his outlaw Country roots.
From punk pioneer to global superstar, Billy Idol has left an indelible mark in popular music and remained a household name for over three decades. His style, music, and attitude have transcended time and trend. Born in 1955 in Stanmore, North London, Idol spent several formative years living on Long Island, NY as a child before returning to the UK and emerging as a central figure of the British punk movement. As part of the infamous Bromley Contingent and a fan of the Sex Pistols, Idol was inspired to front the pioneering British punk band Generation X from 1976 until the band’s split in 1981. Determined to break through in America, Billy Idol hooked up with guitar genius Steve Stevens and a crucial musical partnership was forged. Billy Idol has created some of rock-n-roll’s most enduring anthems including “White Wedding,” “Dancing With Myself,” “Flesh For Fantasy,” “Hot In the City,” “Eyes Without A Face,” “Rebel Yell,” and “Cradle of Love,” among others. Billy Idol is the original punk rocker who found a way to take that sneering punk attitude into the pop and rock mainstream, carving out songs that have lasted a lifetime.
Legends. Icons. Idols. These are the words used to describe those rare
bands that have been adored for a lifetime and immortalized as distinct
creators of rock and roll. But what these reverent words are missing is
the notion of now. How do you reconcile a generation-spanning word like
icon with the quick beat of the present? Aerosmith does it. The band
members are legends, icons and idols, dynamic in the present; as cool
and innovative now as they were thirty years ago. They are a phenomenon,
a force of nature, trail-blazing, unstoppable, showing no signs of
slowing down.Unique even among the select handful of rock bands who are
still active after their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Aerosmith
has sold over 100 million albums.
For five decades, The Beach Boys — America’s first pop band to reach the 50-year milestone — has recorded and performed the music that has become the world’s favorite soundtrack to summer. Founded in Hawthorne, California in 1961, The Beach Boys were originally comprised of the three teenaged Wilson brothers: Brian, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and school friend Al Jardine. In 1962, neighbor David Marks joined the group for their first wave of hits with Capitol Records, leaving in late 1963, and in 1965, Bruce Johnston joined the band when Brian Wilson retired from touring to focus on writing and producing for the group.
Fall Out Boy have grown from being leaders of the so-called emo pop movement of the mid-2000s to establishing themselves as one of the most successful rock bands to have emerged this century. With songs composed by lead guitarist and vocalist Patrick Stump and lyrics by bassist Pete Wentz, the Illinois band broke through in 2005 with the transatlantic Top 10 singles “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” and “Dance, Dance” as well as second album From Under The Cork Tree, which reached No. 9 in the U.S. This initial success helped to earn them a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist.
On September 13th, 2017 Foreigner’s catalog sales were celebrated in Business Insider magazine as hitting the Top 40 among the Best Selling Music Artists of All Time. The Beatles were justifiably #1, but Foreigner came in ahead of Britney Spears, Bob Dylan, Phil Collins, Prince, Queen, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard. With ten multi-platinum albums and sixteen Top 30 hits, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding 75 million. Responsible for some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including Juke Box Hero, Cold As Ice, Hot Blooded, Waiting For A Girl Like You, Feels Like The First Time, Urgent, Head Games, Say You Will, Dirty White Boy, Long, Long Way From Home and the worldwide #1 hit, I Want To Know What Love Is, Foreigner continues to rock the charts more than 40 years into the game with massive airplay and continued Billboard Top 200 album success.
Tommy Shaw, James “JY” Young, Lawrence Gowan, Todd Sucherman and Ricky
Phillips (along with the occasional surprise appearance by original
bassist Chuck Panozzo), have performed
more live since ’99 than all of the previous years of its career
combined. Two Super-Bowl appearances, Pollstar Box Office chart-topping
tours with Def Leppard, Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Bad Company (to
name only a few), two more studio albums and no end in sight, STYX
continues to conquer the planet, one venue at a time.
After releasing a few albums, John Mellencamp broke out in 1979 with his first hit, "I Need A
Lover". In 1982 his fifth album American Fool was the year's best-selling album
on the strength of two huge hits, "Hurts So Good," and the number 1 single "Jack
& Diane,".
The albums that followed in the 80's, Uh-Huh, Scarecrow, Lonesome
Jubilee, and Big Daddy, were released under the name John Cougar Mellencamp. Hit
singles during this period included "Crumblin Down," "The Authority Song,"
"Small Town," "Rain On The Scarecrow," "Lonely Ol Night," ""R.O.C.K. In The
U.S.A.," "Paper In Fire," "Check It Out," "Cherry Bomb," "Pop Singer," and
"Jackie Brown."
As one of the most popular California pop/rock bands of the '70s, the Doobie Brothers evolved from a mellow, post-hippie boogie band to a slick, soul-inflected pop band by the end of the decade. Along the way, the group racked up a string of gold and platinum albums in the U.S., along with a number of radio hits like "Listen to the Music," "Black Water," and "China Grove."
Joan Jett is a singer, songwriter and producer who entered the music business as a teenager in the punk-pop band The Runaways. She went on to become one of the most influential women in rock; recording hits like "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"; founding Blackheart Records and producing Riot Grrrl acts Bikini Kill and L7. Her early career was portrayed in the biopic The Runaways.
Foo Fighters (one of many post-grunge bands to pop up in the mid-‘90s) are one of the few who became a lasting, successful band. The presence and leadership of ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl is no doubt what gave the Foos their footing, as he is the only musician present on their first LP, which initially made it difficult to view the Foo Fighters as anything but a Dave Grohl solo project. However, once he found a drummer he respected in Taylor Hawkins, the group started to take on a team-minded mentality and released a truly collaborative third album, There is Nothing Left to Lose. In their history, they've never had trouble placing well on the charts and have yet to see a dwindling of their fan base. If the Foos are guilty of anything, however, it is their unwillingness or incapability to alter their forumula and deliver an album that steps challenges rock conventions."
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