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This article does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.Find sources: – ( June 2014) Classic Rock was a 31-volume series issued by during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Unlike what the name may imply, the series spotlighted played on of the mid-to-late-1960s.Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the 'Classic Rock' series covered a specific time period, including single years in some volumes and stylistic trends in others. Each volume was issued on a, or (on volumes issued through 1990). Individual volumes generally contained 22 tracks, and represented the highlighted time period's most popular and noteworthy tracks.

Also included was a booklet, containing liner notes written by some of the most respected historians of the genre, photographs of the artists, and information on the songs (writers, performers and peak position on 's chart). Contents.History 'Classic Rock' was first issued in the winter of 1988, with the first volume in the series titled Classic Rock: 1965.

Like most compilation albums, songs by two of the era's most successful groups – and – were not included due to licensing issues; however, several albums had cover art with drawings of male rock singers resembling The Beatles.As was the case with Time-Life's other series, 'Classic Rock' was advertised in television and magazine. The series was available by subscription (by calling a ); those who purchased the series in that fashion received a new volume roughly every other month (on the format of their choice), and had the option of keeping the volumes they wanted.Each volume was also offered for individual sale. When the series was fully issued, a customer could purchase the entire series at once (or a group of albums, as packaged by Time-Life as part of a promotion), often at a discounted price.New volumes continued to be issued through 1991, the final one being a volume titled Classic Rock: Rock Renaissance IV (an album of hard rock from the mid- to late-1960s). An additional volume, titled Totally Fantastic '60s, was released in 1996.Time-Life continued to offer 'Classic Rock' through the early-2000s (decade), after which it was replaced by other series.In 1999, Time-Life issued a 'budget' box set, 'Classic '60s: Greatest Hits', containing three CDs or cassettes of 12 songs each, for retail sale.The series Album listing As with many of Time-Life Records' multi-volume releases, the volumes were not issued in a logical, sequential order by date or era of the subject; that is, issuing volumes covering 1964 before progressing to 1965.

For Rock Band Track Packs, see. For Rock Band Network songs, see. List of downloadable songs for the Rock Band seriesSongs released2,313Packs released272Albums released25.The of supports downloadable songs for the, and versions through the consoles' respective online services. Typically provides three to six new tracks per week available to all consoles as listed below. From March 2010 until September 2014, authoring groups could submit their own tracks for peer review through the.Players can download songs on a track-by-track basis, with many of the tracks also offered as part of a 'song pack' or complete album, usually at a discounted rate. Tracks released for on the Wii platform are only available as singles while offers multi-song packs as well as singles. Since on-disc songs are not available for download, some albums are incomplete.

For example, the album is available for download, which contains the song 'Give it Away' on Rock Band 2 and Blitz, so the downloadable album does not include 'Give it Away'.Most downloadable songs are playable within every game mode, including the Band World Tour career mode. All downloadable songs released prior to October 26, 2010 are cross-compatible among, Rock Band 2, Rock Band 3, Rock Band Blitz, and Rock Band 4, while content released between October 26, 2010 and October 5, 2015 is compatible with the latter three titles only, and all content released on or after October 6, 2015 is only compatible with Rock Band 4.

Also, certain pre- Rock Band 3 songs deemed 'suitable for all ages' by Harmonix are also available for use in.The Wii version of Rock Band did not support downloadable content; however, Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3 do, with DLC first made available in January 2009. Harmonix has said it will continue to release songs from the back catalog of downloadable content each week for Wii until all songs are available, and starting in March 2009, is making new DLC available for Wii at the same time as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. All songs are available for download on Wii unless otherwise noted.After more than 5 years of uninterrupted DLC releases, Harmonix ended its regular releases of DLC on April 2, 2013 as it transitioned to other games, with the final song being 's '. Although no new DLC was scheduled for release after that date, Harmonix did not rule out the possibility of releasing DLC in the future should the right opportunity arise.

On January 12, 2015, Harmonix announced the first of one-off releases of new DLC. The sudden release, along with a survey posted by Harmonix a few days later, hinted at the possibility of a new Rock Band game for. Harmonix later confirmed on March 5, 2015, and the game was released on October 6, 2015 on and.After the initial announcement, Harmonix intended to support the Rock Band Network for Xbox 360 so long as the backend tools were still supported; however, due to technical issues and the company allocating its resources to other projects, Harmonix terminated support for the RBN in September 2014. Additionally, RBN ports to the PlayStation 3 have ended on April 2, 2013 along with regular DLC.

Rock Band Network content is not forward-compatible with Rock Band 4. Harmonix stated that they would explore the logistics of bringing RBN songs over to Rock Band 4 once core DLC and previous game exports are all addressed; however, all RBN content was delisted on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms in February 2018. Harmonix initially reported in March 2018 that Xbox 360 users would not be able to recover their RBN content via the Xbox 360's download history due to technical issues, with Harmonix recommending that users back up their RBN song libraries to an external storage device; however, Harmonix subsequently reported in June 2018 that Xbox 360 users are now able to re-download their RBN content as needed. In May 2018, Harmonix announced that they have secured licensing for a portion of the Rock Band Network library to be released as regular DLC; however, entitlements for re-released RBN content would not be supported due to technical and licensing restrictions. ^ Track uses a cover version of the song, rather than a. ^ Song is no longer available for purchase. ^ Song is not available for the Wii platform.

^ Song is available at no cost. ^ Song costs 0.99 (80 /100 ).

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^ Song is also available through a special promotion. ^ Song is also available as part of ': The Complete Album'. ^ Song is also available as part of ' ' (released Nov.