Records & Rockstars

We're headed back to the early months of '75, and key albums out in Jan/Feb/March, including he who was tangled up in blue, plus the Beatle who'd been caught standing in a Hamburg Germany doorway pondering his band reaching the toppermost of the poppermost, as he put it, plus the earliest ACDC, Led Zeppelin get physical, The Coop, Bowie, the Acid Queen, the first so-called solo Jeff Beck, and the British band who swore they were not in love.

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The conclusion of Jeff's celebration of Swan Songs, this time featuring three final cuts in the career of Pink Floyd (with and without former frontmen Roger Waters and Syd Barrett), Roxy Music, Queen, Nirvana, Chris Cornell (with a Johnny Cash angle), The Band, Tom Petty, Warren Zevon, John Lennon, and David Bowie.

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The 2nd of three parts this time – a celebration of the artistry in studio mostly, and the most iconic of final public performances, we’re calling Swan Songs, with stories and music to go with from a Jacksonville kid, two of rock’s most incendiary drummers, plus a bit about the logo that inspired this min-series, and the rockstar frontman whose swan song would finish, with a nod to Robin Williams.  

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Whether it’s a death of an artist, or the end of a band, there has to be one last recording and one final public performance, in every artist’s career. And so this time, a good look at some of Rock’s Swan Songs, from the summer of love through the early seventies.

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Because there's so much more to Steve Earle than Copperhead Road, Jeff brings you select cuts from his stellar career of songwriting and performing, including from his acclaimed 2015 album Terraplane, plus a perfect in-concert Steve Earle story, and more.

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It finally happened. The last Last Waltz, as it were. The last Canadian among four Canadian musical legends who with their American drummer, became known the world over, with Bob Dylan. And even before that, with another American who'd make Canada his home – Ronnie Hawkins. January 21st 2025, Garth Hudson passed, and so this episode pays tribute to he and the whole band, with select songs pre and post Last Waltz, and a moment from Jeff's final conversation with Robbie, about the early days.

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Jeff takes you back through the years with select songs you'll know best in the hands of artists who typically didn't do them first and didn't write them, in an episode that takes you under the covers, with earlier versions of songs made famous by CCR, Nazareth, Rod Stewart, Janis Joplin, Grand Funk, Soft Cell, Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Joan Jett, Johnny Cash, REM, Blondie, and more.

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To close 2024, one more tribute and the conclusion to Jeff's look at music legends we lost this year, and one very influential radio broadcaster too. Comes with thanks to you for listening to Records & Rockstars. Spread the word about this music history and story-telling podcast, and all the best to you.

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It's a bittersweet time, paying tribute to rockstars we've lost in the last 12 months and this is the first of two parts celebrating their artistry and contributions to music.

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Here's the final of the recurring four-parter looking back in celebration of the Classic Albums of 1974 with swan song records from King Crimson and Genesis, Mick Taylor's final with The Stones, the album that saved Supertramp, The Who, Tull, YES, Kraftwerk, and more.  

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