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Classic Rock Gold

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Released
  
April 26, 2005

Length
  
2.3 hours

Release date
  
26 April 2005

Label
  
Hip-O Records

Recorded
  
1968-1987

Producer
  
various

Duration
  
2 hours 18 minutes

Genres
  
Rock music, Classic rock

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Classic Rock Gold is a two-disc compilation album released in 2005. It features thirty-three of the greatest hits to come out of classic rock, many of which are from the Universal Music Group catalogue.

Contents

The cover features, clockwise from the top left: Whitesnake, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steppenwolf, Scorpions, Joe Walsh, Rod Stewart and Peter Frampton (all of which recorded for labels that were later merged into what is now Universal Music Group).

Disc one

  1. Steppenwolf – "Born to Be Wild" (3:30) (Bonfire) (1968)
  2. Santana – "Evil Ways" (3:57) (Henry/Zack) (1972)
  3. The Guess Who – "American Woman" (5:07) (Bachman/Cummings/Kale/Peterson) (1970)
  4. Free – "All Right Now" (5:30) (Rodgers/Fraser) (1973)
  5. Jethro Tull – "Locomotive Breath" (4:33) (Anderson) (1972)
  6. The James Gang – "Walk Away" (3:34) (Walsh) (1972)
  7. Rod Stewart – "Maggie May" (5:46) (Stewart) (1971)
  8. Ten Years After – "I'd Love to Change the World" (3:44) (Lee) (1971)
  9. The Hollies – "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" (3:17) (Clarke/Cook/Greenaway) (1972)
  10. The Edgar Winter Group – "Frankenstein" (4:45) (Winter) (1973)
  11. Elton John – "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" (4:55) (John/Taupin) (1975)
  12. Grand Funk Railroad – "We're An American Band" (3:26) (Brewer) (1974)
  13. Joe Walsh – "Rocky Mountain Way" (5:16) (Walsh/Grace/Passarelli/Vitale) (1975)
  14. The Doobie Brothers – "China Grove" (3:16) (Johnston) (1974)
  15. Golden Earring – "Radar Love" (6:25) (Hay/Kooymans) (1974)
  16. Lynyrd Skynyrd – "Sweet Home Alabama" (4:41) (Van Zant/King/Rossington) (1974)
  17. Bachman–Turner Overdrive – "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" (3:53) (Bachman) (1974)

Disc two

  1. Bad Company – "Bad Company" (4:48) (Rodgers/Kirke) (1973)
  2. Nazareth – "Hair of the Dog" (4:09) (1975)
  3. Head East – "Never Been Any Reason" (5:11) (1973)
  4. Foghat – "Slow Ride" [Single version] (3:56) (Peverett) (1973)
  5. Peter Frampton – "Show Me the Way" [Live] (4:39) (Frampton) (1976)
  6. Blue Öyster Cult – "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (5:09) (Roeser) (1976)
  7. Foreigner – "Cold as Ice" [Single version] (3:20) (Gramm/Jones) (1978)
  8. Ted Nugent – "Cat Scratch Fever" (3:39) (Nugent) (1975)
  9. The Cars – "Just What I Needed" (3:45) (Ocasek) (1979)
  10. Eddie Money – "Two Tickets to Paradise" (3:49) (Money) (1978)
  11. Cheap Trick – "I Want You to Want Me" [Live] (3:42) (Nielsen) (1979)
  12. .38 Special – "Hold On Loosely" (4:40) (Barnes/Carlisi/Peterik) (1981)
  13. Red Rider – "Lunatic Fringe" (4:22) (Cochrane) (1981)
  14. Billy Idol – "White Wedding" (4:13) (Idol) (1982/1984)
  15. Scorpions – "Rock You Like a Hurricane" (4:12) (Schenker/Meine/Rarebell) (1983)
  16. Whitesnake – "Here I Go Again" (4:35) (Coverdale/Marsden) (1987)

Songs

1Born To Be WildSteppenwolf3:29
2Evil WaysSantana3:57
3American WomanThe Guess Who5:08

References

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