Special Features

Our 500th Album Review

2016 Special Features, Classic Rock Lists, Rock Influences and Legends

On December 23, 2016, Classic Rock Review published our 500th album review, David Bowie’s Station to Station. This milestone dates back to our inception on January 1, 2011 and includes in-depth reviews of […]

Greg Kihn, Painted Black

2015 Special Features, Brian Jones, Greg Kihn, Rolling Stones

Adding to his long and distinguished career in rock music, Greg Kihn is now fully immersed in the world of creative fiction. His latest novel, Painted Black, is the second in a sequence […]

Forgotten 80s Rock Gems

Today we look at a Top 9 List of some forgotten gems from the 1980s. These are pop/rock songs which may have briefly entered the national charts or rotation on MTV, but have […]

Cut From the Same Cloth

1968 Albums, 1974 Albums, Irish Artists, Van Morrison

Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks and Veedon Fleece Buy Astral Weeks Buy Veedon Fleece This article was provided by Mike Fishman, who has written about Van Morrison for the Mystic Avenue blog and writes […]

Compilations and Box Sets

1967 Albums, 1971 Albums, 1976 Albums, 1988 Albums, 1990 Albums, 2013 Special Features, Bob Dylan, Classic Rock Lists, Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull, Journey, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Music Media, The Beatles, The Eagles

  Ever since the beginning of the rock era, there have been compilations. As we mentioned in our very first special feature on The Album, long playing vinyl albums were simply a collection […]

Comebacks and Reunions

1994 Albums, 2014 Special Features, Comebacks and Reunions, Jimmy Page, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, Rolling Stones, Steve Winwood, The Eagles, Traffic

Through the long history of rock and roll, there have been impressive second acts. We’ve spoken about such comebacks during some of our late 1980s reviews, most prominently the full re-ascent of the […]

Christmas Rock Gems

2011 Special Features, American Artists, Bing Crosby, Bob Geldof, Bono, British Artists, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Greg Lake, Jethro Tull, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Queen, Sting, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Pretenders, The Waitresses, The Who

Nearly from its inception, rock and roll and Christmas songs have made for a potent mixture of holiday-flavored punch. This marriage dates back to 1957 with the first Elvis Presley Christmas Album and […]

All Things Must Pass

2016 Special Features, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John

The chronological framework of Classic Rock Review spans the years 1965-2000 in order to coincide with the rise and fall of the traditional, artist-driven, hard-copy “album”. Nearly mirroring this time span and on […]

Jesus Christ Superstar

1970 Albums, 2013 Special Features, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, Andrew Lloyd Weber, British Artists, Ian Gillan, Murray Head, Rock Opera, Tim Rice, Yvonne Elliman

A Rock Opera Before it was a theatre act, Broadway play, or motion picture, Jesus Christ Superstar was simply a 1970 rock album produced by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist by Tim […]

75 Years Ago Today

2011 Special Features, Mississippi Artists, Music History, Robert Johnson, Rock Influences and Legends

Buy King of the Delta Blues Singers On November 23, 1936 in San Antonio, TX, a young blues man from the Mississippi Delta cut the first half of his famed 29 recorded tracks. […]