American Songwriter

I Can’t Believe No One Remembers These 3 Hit Classic Rock Hits From 1980

The 1970s were over, and the year 1980 brought in some excellent new classic rock tunes that set the mood for the decade.
American Songwriter

The Rolling Stones Song That Introduced Their New Ballad Style in 1968

The Rolling Stones once favored baroque pop ballads. "No Expectations" found them on a dustier slow-song road.

The Rolling Stones Recorded This Classic Album While Living in Exile

By the time 1970 rolled around, The Rolling Stones were rock and roll royalty. Their electric sound, legendary stadium tours, ...

The Rolling Stones Chart A New Top 10 Hit With An Unlikely Collaboration

Satisfaction Skank,” a mashup of “The Rockafeller Skank" and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” earns both Fatboy Slim and The ...

Classic Rock Track Dominates Most-Streamed List 50 Years Later

This nearly 6-minute song from 1975 was deemed too risky for radio. Now it has over 2.6 billion Spotify streams.
Stereogum

Fatboy Slim’s Rolling Stones Mashup Released After 27 Years

Records show that way back in 1998, during a set he was DJing in Ibiza, Norman Cook spun a track called "Satisfaction Skank" — a mashup of his big beat Fatboy Slim hit from that year, "Rockafeller ...
Vulture

You Can Now Legally Listen to the Fatboy Slim–Rolling Stones Remix

After 25 years of countless LimeWire and Napster downloads — and, let’s face it, viruses — you can finally listen to Fatboy Slim’s remix sampling the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” ...
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12 iconic ’60s songs that defined the era

The 1960s produced some of the most groove-worthy and transformative music in modern history. This swinging decade created a soundtrack […] ...
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Greatest Classic Rock Song of Every Year of the 1960s

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...