21.   Folk-rock easily straddles radio formats from classic rock to modern rock.

22.   For years it was forgotten, a dinosaur act that never seemed to quite secure a respectable place in classic rock history alongside the Zeppelins and Claptons.

23.   He also drew from a heavy source of classic rock acts like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks and Elton John.

24.   He could see classic rock stations faltering, deregulation changing the face of radio, a growing FM talk market and satellite-delivered digital radio.

25.   His electric guitar stylings reconcile the serenity of jazzman Jim Hall with the classic rock cacophony of Jimi Hendrix.

26.   If you like classic rock, get your typing fingers limbered up.

27.   It can be an amusing pastime watching classic rock bands that are good but no longer relevant invent new reasons to tour every few years.

28.   It is a style that unlike classic rock survives by rejecting its musical forebears instead of embracing them.

29.   It made for a lively mix of early hip-hop, small-label punk, deep-cut classic rock and mainstream music.

30.   Its lyrics mine classic rock topics of love and betrayal by delivering strings of cliches as if they actually mean something again.