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HISTORICAL FACTS: Aor - The Untold Story

From Cream and Velvet Revolver to Them Crooked Vultures and Temple Of The Dog, these are the best supergroups in rock history

Some supergroups just aren't worth the sum of their parts. These are the exceptions

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"It sounds great while floating lazily on a yacht or zooming down the interstate in a Lamborghini." The story of Player's debut album, a record for people who like to get home before it gets dark

Perfect for people who think Survivor rock too hard

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"The production is so polished and shiny that magpies tried to steal my stereo every time I pressed play." Supergroup Bad English's debut album is a perfect time capsule of late-80s AOR

The million-dollar lineup of John Waite, Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Ricky Phillips and Deen Castronovo piles on the gloss

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"More relatable than Mötley Crüe or Ratt and hipper than Foreigner or Journey": Night Ranger's place in rock history settled by first album Dawn Patrol

Night Ranger hit the ground running with their platinum debut Dawn Patrol

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"The 80s were our most successful period, but soulless, shallower, and less musically rewarding": How Heart made their rock'n'roll dreams come true and the price they paid

How "Little Led Zeppelin" became global stars and carved out a place for women in rock along the way

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“I don’t worry about labels and I’ve ended up in the premier prog band of all time. If I’d listened to haters I’d have stopped after my first record”: Billy Sherwood’s journey to Yes started with the wayward World Trade

By the time he reunited his 80s group for third album Unify, he’d replaced Chris Squire and started fronting Asia. None of it would have happened without Toto and Gentle Giant

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A beginner's guide to 70s AOR in 10 essential albums

AOR might have come truly blossoming into platinum-tinged life in the 1980s, but the genre had been holding lighters aloft and weeping in its beer in the 1970s. These are the best albums

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"If you ever forget what 1984 sounded like, well, it sounded like Frank Stallone. And it still does": That time Sylvester Stallone's brother almost became a rock star

Every song on Frank Stallone's self-titled debut album is an AOR throatpunch with a credit roll

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“I’d overslept and didn’t make the march... I was annoyed at myself and that’s where the idea for You’re the Voice came from. If you want to do something you have to go out and do it yourself”

How missing a demo inspired a protest anthem

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The Night Ranger albums you should definitely own

Still going strong after more than 40 years, AOR cult crew Night Ranger have sold millions of albums on the back of some all-time classic songs

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The 40 best AOR vocalists of all time

Celebrating the finest, most velvet-throated singers to ever belt out a power ballad

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“Had I known I was going to create a piece of history, I would have approached things differently”: how Only Child made one of the greatest cult hard rock debut albums ever

Paul Sabu is the man behind Only Child – the band beloved of AOR connoisseurs everywhere

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8 totally obscure AOR albums that should have been huge

Not every hard rock band can be Journey or Bon Jovi – here are 8 lost AOR treasures that should have gone multi-platinum

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“We didn’t grow up on Christian music, we didn’t grow up in the church, we grew up with metal and the Hollywood club scene”: Stryper, Petra and the story of Christian AOR

From The Sweet Comfort Band and Petra to Stryper and beyond, this is the history of Christian melodic rock

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“The audience threw lighters, bottles, ice cubes and coins. We managed four songs before being booed off”: the rollercoaster story of Loverboy, Canada’s greatest AOR band

Turn Me Loose, Working For The Weekend, Loving Every Minute Of It – Loverboy raised the maple leaf flag high in the 1980s

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“When the Boogie Nights scene came on, I said, ‘Man, I think I’ve been in that guy’s house in the early 80s!’”: the rise, fall and porn-assisted resurrection of AOR heroes Night Ranger

Power ballads, bust-ups and Boogie Nights – this is the epic story of Night Ranger

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"At this point we certainly don't do it for fame or money, because there is none to be had": The Defiants' new album is a throwback to better days

Former Danger Danger men The Defiants' new album might not give them a Pyromania moment, but their classy AOR will put smiles on a lot of faces

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Tracks Of The Week: extraordinary new music from Ghost, Greta Van Fleet and more

Eight songs to save some rock'n'roll souls, including Texas Hippie Coalition, Teen Jesus And The Jean Teasers, the Night Flight Orchestra and more

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Heart: Heart - Album Of The Week Club review

in the 1980s Heart's music was retooled as super-slick AOR, the Wilson sisters rocked Dynasty hairdos and frilly corsets, MTV loved them, and they sold millions

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AOR Overlanding Camper Trailers From Australia Now Available In US

The Sierra and Sierra ZR micro campers are sold by XGRiD Campers in Las Vegas.

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