Clifton Chenier - Bon Ton Roulet. The Alan Parsons Project- Old And Wise. Grateful Dead - Ramble on Rose 12-31-78. The Band, The Weight. LYNYRD SKYNYRD - LIVE 1975 - "Double Trouble / I Ain't The One" Weather Report - Live at Montreux (1976) - [Synchronized Audio\Video] - Full Version. The Doobie Brothers Listen to the Music ~With Lyrics~
David Bowie: Early performance of ‘Space Oddity’ on Swiss TV, 1969. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - Kashmir (Live, The Awesome oriental version) The Move - The Last Thing On My Mind. Van Morrison - Beside You. Watch Pink Floyd Plays Live in the Ruins of Pompeii (1972) Linda Ronstadt : Love is a Rose (1977) ★★★★★ Lynyrd Skynyrd- Free Bird (LIVE) 1977. Robert Plant is still embarrassed about his ‘Does anybody remember laughter?’ ad-lib. Robert Plant is still embarrassed about his ‘Does anybody remember laughter?’ Ad-lib Is there any song more synonymous with “classic rock” than “Stairway to Heaven”? Damn few. The eight-minute acoustic-to-electric meditation on bustles and hedgerows, among other things, has become the 800-pound gorilla of the classic rock song repertoire. More than any other, it’s the one song that evokes the phrase “album-oriented radio,” and it’s the one song that, at least according to Wayne’s World, guitar store owners have banned because every would-be Jimmy Page just has to have a crack at it.
It’s the great rock-and-roll albatross, the song nobody can stand and yet frequently tops the surveys of the greatest rock song ever recorded. In the 1976 concert movie The Song Remains the Same, recorded over three gigs at Madison Square Garden, after the line “and the forests will echo with laughter….” Apparently Plant himself cringes every time he hears it.
David Bowie - Rock n Roll Suicide. Richard Pryor invents Black Death Metal in 1977. Watch Rare Film of Richard Pryor Singing the Blues: No Joke, All Heart. With the possible exception of Beyonce as Etta James in Cadillac Records, no onscreen portrayal of a female jazz singer tops Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues. She is so mesmerizing, in fact, that it’s easy to forget, if you haven’t seen the movie recently, that Ross is flanked by two other excellent performers in Billy Dee Williams as Louis McKay, a composite stand-in for Holiday’s three husbands, and Richard Pryor as the “Piano Man,” Ross’s accompanist. It was a role that “propelled him into stardom” and kept Pryor out in front of an audience as a movie actor. Watch a clip from the film below, with Ross’s Holiday and Pryor’s surly Piano Man together at 3:39. Odd as it seems that a dramatic role would be Pryor’s breakout performance, unexpected still perhaps is the video at the top of Pryor singing the blues himself.
None of his raunchy or self-deprecating wit here, just a genuine, heartfelt rendition of Jimmy Cox’s 1924 “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.”