Top 100 Classic Rock Songs

If you were a betting man (or woman), you probably knew very well that Foghat’s ‘Slow Ride’ would nab a spot on our list of the Top 100 Classic Rock Songs.

Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'Pride and Joy' took a long and legend-assisted path to our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs countdown.

With 1973's 'Radar Love,' Golden Earring drove into full view of the U.S. record buying public and parked themselves in our list of Top 100 Classic Rock Songs.

Somewhere right now, Billy Joel's 'Piano Man' is playing. It's on a jukebox, and it's on in the produce section at your local grocery store. It's on your radio; it's in your head. It's a key component in the aural wallpaper that surrounds us every day, and it's on our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs list.

'Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)' was the third single from Stevie Nicks' debut solo album, 1981's 'Bella Donna.' And the story behind this entry in our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs is one of musical lore.

Record label folk usually take a lot of flack for interfering in the creative process, but Bachman-Turner Overdrive's entry on our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs list may not have been heard by anyone outside the band's inner circle if it weren't for their A&R guy.

When you think of Phil Collins, the climactic, dam-bursting drum beat of his 1981 hit ‘In The Air Tonight’ is very likely one of the first things that comes to mind. As famous and familiar as this Top 100 Classic Rock Song is today, it came out of one of the darkest periods of Collins’ life.

Motley Crue's logo and imagery were already etched onto the notebooks of every hard rock- and metal-loving teenage fan prior to the 1985 release of their third album 'Theatre of Pain.' However, the massive success of the album's soaring ballad 'Home Sweet Home' catapulted the band to a whole new level of stardom and, years later, onto our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs list.

Apparently undaunted at the prospect of having the legacy of the Eagles hanging over him, Don Henley had already found respectable success with his first post-Eagles solo debut, 1982's 'I Can't Stand Still.' But it would be his sophomore effort, 1984's 'Building The Perfect Beast,' that would help Henley prove once and for all that he could in fact fly without the Eagles, and give us the No. 68 tr

It's one of the relatively few songs he had a hand in writing during his solo career, but neither Rod Stewart nor his label thought all that much of 'Maggie May' at first, relegating it to B-side status on the 'Reason to Believe' single.