No rock icon has sealed his vault as tightly as Bob Seger. Six early albums have been out of print for decades, he has no box set, and the words "bonus track" seem to be anathema to him. He held back on a two-disc hits collection for years, but he's finally relented. Good thing. Previous sets didn't have his 1968 garage-jam classic "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man," and this set has a smoking cover of Little Richard's "Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back to Birmingham)." All the big hits are here, though nothing sounds as glorious as the live "Travelin' Man/Beautiful Loser" medley. An insane amount of material still remains locked up, however. Hey, Bob, cough it up!

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“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."