Donovan's Rockin Song Stories

12/03/2024

Does Interstate Love Song sound like a penultimate song of a concert?

08/16/2024

Today we lost two legends in music, Peter Marshall, who also hosted Hollywood Squares in the 1970s, and the man who gave us The Breakup Song and Jeopardy, Greg Kihn. Marshall was 98 and Kihn was 75.

08/09/2024

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07/18/2024

I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley below
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon
Waiting for the eastern glow

-Led Zeppelin, The Battle of Evermore.

Check Out Episode 61, Led Zeppelin IV on Spotify today! https://open.spotify.com/episode/0k9eWC8jILB6fYNSLXbjHF

07/18/2024

11/20/2023

Who can name these 2 rockers?

10/31/2023

08/28/2023

On this day in 1980 the album Wild Planet was released.

08/22/2023

Idea for a piano intro to a rock song, Swan Lake suite segueing into Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away from Phil Collins.