Johnny Rivers’ concert Friday at Easton’s State Theatre brings up two questions. The first is why isn’t he in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? With 14 Top 30 hits – a dozen of which he played in his 90 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. The last one in that list, of course, was the theme tune for the famous ...

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 ...

Reaching number 2 on the Billboard charts with his version of that classic Chuck Berry song, Rivers was propelled into the national spotlight in 1964. Looking to repeat that success, Rivers' next hit ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. I'm guessing ...

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, ...

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 ...

If you saw Johnny Rivers in action Saturday night at Luhrs Center in Shippensburg, PA, then later someone told you that the legend is not in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, you would have said they ...

It must be autumn and harvest season, because my ears are full of corn. Hybrid corn. That's right, at the moment I have not one but two songs stuck in my head, welded together by the miracle of ...