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OROVILLE — He might not be a 007, but after four decades of recording music, Johnny Rivers proved on Nov. 30 that he still knows how to make an entrance: Under a blue spotlight to the tune of “Secret ...
It’s 8:30 a.m. on April 8, and the legendary Johnny Rivers is on the phone from California. That evening, the Rock and Roll Hall induction ceremony will take place in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Cheap Trick, ...
Johnny Rivers sits in a booth at the retro-themed Mel’s Diner in Hollywood and marvels at the pace at which not just his career but pop music in general moved when he was getting started half a ...
Like several pop-rock singers from the late 1950s and early 1960s — including Pat Boone and Elvis Presley — Johnny Rivers first became a hit covering material previously released by artists of other ...
In the first part of this interview series with rock icon Johnny Rivers, he discussed his big hit Secret Agent Man. Here we go back to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, co-organized by Rivers and the ...
Just three days before The Beatles hit the U.S. charts with “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” bringing along with them the British invasion, a musical revolution of its own began on Sunset Strip in Los ...
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. I’m guessing ...