Category: Classic Rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on commercially-successful hard rock, blues rock, and arena rock popularized in the 1970s.

Ruby – Red Crystal Fantasies – 1974


Dave Knights, the first bassist of Procol Harum, recorded the album “Red Crystal Fantasies” with the members of RUBY in 1974, while 4 songs out of 10 belong to “his pen”. As the producer of the album, Ken Scott, noted in an interview, Dave plays the acoustic guitar in the recording of the composition “Someday I Will Return”. By the way, this composition is recorded in the style typical for such bands as Manfred Mann or The Hollies.