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"Long Train Runnin'" (or "Long Train Running") is a song recorded by The Doobie Brothers and written by band member Tom Johnston. It was included on the band's 1973 album The Captain and Me and was released as a single, becoming a hit and peaking at No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The tune evolved from an untitled and mostly ad-libbed jam that the Doobies developed onstage years before it was finally recorded.

Its working title, according to Johnston, was "Rosie Pig Moseley" and later "Osborn". "I didn't want to cut it," Johnston later confessed. "...I just considered it a bar song without a lot of merit. Teddy [Templeman], on the other hand, thought it had some." Templeman convinced Johnston to write words to the song. Johnston performed the lead vocal and the rhythmic guitar strumming that propels the song.

Billboard described it as "good-timey, good-harmony AM cooker." "Long Train Runnin'" was covered by Italian band Traks in 1982. British girl group Bananarama's version appeared on their fifth studio album Pop Life in 1991 and was released as the album's third single in the UK. The group discovered the song when they were browsing through the record collection of Youth, producer of the Pop Life album. They needed one more tune recorded to complete Pop Life and decided to go with a cover. The song reached No. 10 in Portugal, No. 18 in Ireland and No. 30 in the UK. In 1993 the Doobie Brothers version was remixed and charted again in several countries, including reaching No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart.

LONG TRAIN RUNNING - STEPHEN PURVIS

"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from the band's 1976 album Agents of Fortune. The song, written and sung by lead guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, deals with eternal love and the inevitability of death. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself. Released as an edited single, the song is Blue Öyster Cult's highest chart success, reaching #7 in Cash Box and #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1976. Critical reception was positive and in December 2003 "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was listed at number 405 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 500 songs of all time.

The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 20 weeks, reaching number 12 for the weeks beginning November 6 and November 13 in 1976. In 1976 Rolling Stone named "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" the song of the year and, in 2004, the magazine placed the song at number 397 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". When The Guardian released its unranked list of the "1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear" in 2009, the song was included. The publication wrote that the song's charm "lies in the disjuncture between its gothic storyline and the sprightly, Byrdsian guitar line that carries it." In his book The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, rock critic Dave Marsh ranked the song at number 997.

DON'T FEAR THE REAPER - STEPHEN PURVIS

"Born to Be Wild" is a song written by Mars Bonfire and first performed by the band Steppenwolf. The song is often invoked in both popular and counter culture to denote a biker appearance or attitude. It is most notably featured in the 1969 film Easy Rider. It is sometimes described as the first heavy metal song, and the second verse lyric "heavy metal thunder" marks the first use of this term in rock music (although not as a description of a musical style but rather a motorcycle).

In 1985, the song was covered by Australian band Rose Tattoo. Their version peaked at No. 25 in Australia. In 2002, it was covered by Kim Wilde and released as a non-album single. Her cover reached No. 84 in Germany and No. 71 in Switzerland. Ex Miss Belgium Tanja Dexters also covered the song in 2002. Her version peaked at No. 21 in Belgium. Other artists that covered "Born to Be Wild" include Hinder, Etta James, Link Wray, Slade, The Cult, INXS, Ozzy Osbourne with Miss Piggy, Bruce Springsteen, Slayer, Blue Öyster Cult, Status Quo, Fanfare Ciocărlia, Krokus, Wilson Pickett, La Renga and Jess Greenberg.

BORN TO BE WILD - STEPHEN PURVIS

"All Right Now" is a song by the English rock band Free. It originally appeared on the 1970 album Fire and Water, which Free recorded on the Island Records label, formed by Chris Blackwell. In 1990 for garnering 1,000,000 plus radio plays in the U.S. by late 1989. In 2006, the BMI London awards included a Million Air award for 3 million air plays of "All Right Now" in the USA. The song also remains as a staple of classic rock.

"All Right Now", recorded by Mike Oldfield (produced by Tom Newman), with vocals by Wendy Roberts, Pierre Moerlen and Tom Newman, was issued as a one-sided promotional blue 7" single flexi-disc in 1979. The single was given only to Virgin Records executives and never issued to the public, making it one of the most exclusive collectors' items in the Oldfield catalogue (number Virgin TT-362). Also in 1979, studio disco group Witch Queen released a disco version of the song, as a double A-side with a cover of T. Rex's "Bang a Gong". It peaked at number eight on the US Billboard disco chart. Rod Stewart recorded the song and released it as a single in the U.S., reaching number 72 in the winter of 1985.

ALL RIGHT NOW - STEPHEN PURVIS

Terminated

Paranoid

Paranoid (2012 - Remaster)

The Best of Motörhead

Ace Of Spades

Here is a blues cover of Black Sabbaths Crazy Train. We have adapted this into a blues genre for this project. The original song was written by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Roads, and Bob Daisley. It was release as a single fro Osbourne's first solo album "Blizzard of Ozz" 

Crazy Train

The Number of the Beast

The Number of the Beast (2015 Remaster)

Fear of the Dark

Fear of the Dark (2015 Remaster)

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