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In the first two installments of this interview series with rock legend Johnny Rivers, we chatted about his big hit Secret Agent Man and his involvement with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Here, ...

WILKES-BARRE — Johnny Rivers has sold more than 30 million records, achieving 17 Gold records and 29 chart hits. Some of his greatest hits include “Memphis,” “Secret Agent Man,” “Poor Side of Town,” ...

What’s Johnny Rivers — the Brooklyn-born, Baton Rouge, La.-reared rocker who put 32 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1977 — doing headlining the Ventura County Blues Festival on Saturday?

Just three days before The Beatles hit the U.S. charts with “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” bringing along with them the British invasion, a musical revolution of its own began on Sunset Strip in Los ...

It’s 8:30 a.m. on April 8, and the legendary Johnny Rivers is on the phone from California. That evening, the Rock and Roll Hall induction ceremony will take place in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Cheap Trick, ...

Like several pop-rock singers from the late 1950s and early 1960s — including Pat Boone and Elvis Presley — Johnny Rivers first became a hit covering material previously released by artists of other ...

The tunes of blues-rock musician Johnny Rivers, rich in atmosphere and distinct with Southern soul, are something everyone has at least heard once. The singer, who experienced his greatest success ...

Johnny Rivers is an odd figure in the history of rock music At the most obvious level he was a 1960s rock star and a real rarity as a singerguitarist who made a name for himself as a straightahead ...

Johnny Rivers sits in a booth at the retro-themed Mel’s Diner in Hollywood and marvels at the pace at which not just his career but pop music in general moved when he was getting started half a ...