I wasn’t scheduled to perform, but I was there from the beginning. There was a casualness about the format there that has never existed again. I just showed up backstage and asked Chip Monck [the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- By the time founder John Sebastian played Woodstock, he had left rock band The Lovin’ Spoonful. But bandmate and current lead singer Joe Butler was not far away. "I was at ...

"Do you believe in magic?" a sweet-voiced John Sebastian asked with the 1960s folk-rock group Lovin' Spoonful, which landed him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A decade later he landed the ...

Before “Welcome Back,” before his impromptu Woodstock appearance, even before the Lovin’ Spoonful, John Sebastian had a reputation as an accompanist. During the heyday of Greenwich Village (where he ...

With their striped shirts, shaggy hair, granny glasses and string of hits, The Lovin' Spoonful were akin to an American Beatles. But where The Beatles drew on American rock 'n' roll of the 1950s, the ...

John Sebastian isn't the most well-known name in rock 'n' roll, but you've probably heard many of the hits he helped write for The Lovin' Spoonful - a 1960s American rock band fronted by Sebastian.

In the mid-1960s, with protests over the Vietnam War and racial discord roiling, The Lovin’ Spoonful song “Summer in the City” became an anthem of a society in turmoil. When the hippie and drug ...