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In a shocking turn of events, deleted scenes from THAT interview have revealed the real reason behind the couple's split from their royal heritage. Our royal correspondent Mark Anthony Finch delves through the footage for the juciest morsels in our latest blog!

Another seminal British rock group who had a string of hits and were one of the most popular groups of the era, but just do not get talked about enough in the US.

Van Dyke Parks has been a lot of things in his life: Brian Wilson collaborator, producer, brief member of the Mothers Of Invention, singer-songwriter, composer, and on this record, a calypso singer.

I posted about the US Outsiders earlier this week, but this the Outsiders from the Netherlands. Probably the most popular example of the “Nederbeat Sound” which emerged in the wake of popular British hard rock groups like The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, and The Who.

People don’t talk enough about Colin Blunstone. His first solo outing, recorded in the year proceeding the breakup of The Zombies could almost be considered the final Zombies album as it features significant contributions from other ex-Zombies Rod Argent and Chris (who by then had formed Argent). 

It’s mostly accepted that this album was the first to use “Psychedelic” in its title. 

Be not deceived by appearances. Looking at the cover, The Appletree Theatre looks fairly unremarkable, but it is a surprisingly compelling pop/psych album that is on par with other more celebrated studio group, concept album projects which emerged in the wake of “Pet Sounds” and “Sgt. Peppers,” such as October Country, The Smoke (Not “My Friend Jack,” the other one), The Holy Mackerel, and at times grazes the coattails of the likes of Sagittarius and even early Bee Gees. 

The full-length album to accompany this Cleveland band’s biggest hit, the seminal garage rocker “Time Won’t Let Me” (it’s all about that 12-string, baby!). Though the other tracks never quite reach the same level as the hit single, which sold over a million copies, it’s an enjoyable garage-rock/pop album. 

Whether you like acoustic Bob, electric Bob, Christian Bob, we can all agree that even when you find him underwhelming, Bob Dylan is still better than most. Check out the three music videos from this album and try to tell me Empire Burlesque is not one of his best albums of the 80s.

One of the great under the radar artists of the 70's (who is still around and INTACT) in my view is the Irish singing/songwriting piano playing sensation Gilbert O'Sullivan! Whenever I meet someone who is from Ireland my first question is not about Bono but about Gilbert. His debut album "Himself" is a treat and provides the kind of wit and humor only a cloth cap hat wearing Irishman could give us.

Tommy Roe’s music is perhaps the quintessence of bubblegum pop. Roe had a steady string of hits, beginning with 1962’s “Sheila” and culminating in the 1969 #1 smash “Dizzy.” 

Ignored upon release amongst the deluge of psych albums of the late-60s, subsequently forgotten, rediscovered and reissued (mine is an original pressing) in the early-2000s by Elf Power's Andrew Rieger, “Elyse” to me is as good as other acclaimed folk rock albums of the era like “Liege and Lief” or “Five Leaves Left.”