1.   But after musician friends encouraged him to look again at some rock classics, he said, he came away impressed with their musicality and earthy lyrics.

2.   His own morning show mixes rock classics with insightful and unorthodox commentary on national and world affairs.

3.   Rhino came along at a time when rock classics were likelier found in a Goodwill Industries store than in a record mart.

4.   What I found there were lots of rock classics, like Little Richard and Tina Turner, and good jazz and blues.

5.   More than a generation has passed since counterculture heroine Janis Joplin first prayed for a Mercedes-Benz in a whimsical ditty that became a rock classic.