The Time-Life company was founded by Time, Incorporated in 1961 as a book marketing division. It takes its name from Time and Life magazines, two of the most popular weeklies of the era. It was based in the Time-Life building in Rockefeller Center.
Time-Life is a book, music, and video marketer, that since 2003 has been owned by a private equity company Ripplewood Holdings. Since 2003, Direct Holdings US Corp is the legal name of Time Life, and is no longer owned by its former parent Time Warner. In March of 2007, Ripplewood led a group that took Readers Digest Corporation private and has since put Time Life as a division of RDA.
The British television company, Time-Life Television was a producer of BBC programs, which was renamed Lionheart Television in 1982.
Time–Life Music
Time–Life added music in 1962, selling box sets and collections through Time–Life Records, eventually advertising these collections through infomercials (including Superstars of Country and 70's Music Explosion), which often air in the early morning (3 am to 6 am). When Time merged with Warner Communications in 1989, the label became a Time Warner division. Warner Music Group, which grouped all of Time-Warner's music companies, was sold to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman, Jr. in late 2003.
Guitar Rock Classics:
1. All Right Now - Free
2. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? - Derek & The Dominos
3. Easy Livin' - Uriah Heap
4. Whipping Post - The Allman Brothers Band\
5. Woman From Tokyo - Deep Purple
6. Stone Cold Fever - Humble Pie 7. House of the Rising Sun - Frijid Pink
8. Oye Como Va - Santana
9. Let It Rain - Eric Clapton
10. More then a Feeling - Boston
11. Fame - David Bowie
12. Feel like Makin Love - Bad Company
13. (I Know) I'm Losing You - Rod Stewert with Faces
14. Rock & Roll All Nite - Kiss
15. Gimmith Back my Bullets - Lynyrd Skynyrd
16. Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
17. Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
Guitar Rock 1968 - 1969
1. Beck's Bolero - Jeff Beck
2. Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
3. Shape of Things to Come - Max Frost and the Troopers
4. No Time - The Guess Who
5. Living in The USA - Steve Miller Band
6. Pictures of Matchstick Men - The Status Quo
7. Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
8. Evil Ways - Santana
9. Heartbreaker - Grand Funk Railroad
10. Kick Out The Jams - MC5
11. Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer
12. Journey to the Center of the Mind - The Amboy Dukes
13. Hot Smoke and Sasafrass - The Bubble Puppy
14. I got a Line on You - Spirit
15. Who Do You Love - Quicksilver Messenger Service
16. Hush - Deep Purple
17. In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
18. I'm Going Home - Ten Years After
Guitar Rock 1970 - 1971
1. American Woman - The Guess Who
2. Oh Well Part 1 - Fleetwood Mac
3. Only You Know and I Know - Dave Mason
4. Fresh Air - Quicksilver Messenger Service
5. Truckin' - The Grateful Dead
6. Comin' Home - Delaney & Bonnie and Friends with Eric Clapton
7. I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
8. Black Magic Woman - Santana
9. Spirit in The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
10. Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
11. The Rapper - The Jaggerz
12. Eighteen - Alice Cooper
13. Footstompin' Music - Grand Funk Railroad
14. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
15. Black Night - Deep Purple
16. Funk #49 - The James Gang
17. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
18. DOA - Bloodrock
Guitar Rock 1972 - 1973
1. Reeling In the Years - Steely Dan
2. I'm just a Singer (in a rock & roll band) - The Moody Blues
3. Hocus Pocus - Focus
4. School's Out - Alice Cooper
5. We're an American Band - Grand Funk 6. Bang A Gong (Get it on) - T Rex
7. Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
8. China Grove - The Doobie Brothers
9. All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
10. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Elton John
11. Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
12. Roundabout - Yes
13. Hold Your Head Up - Argent
14. Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
15. Ramblin' Man - Allman Brothers Band
16. Run Run Run - Jo Jo Gunne
17. Iron Man - Black Sabbath
18. Rock & Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
Guitar Rock 1974 - 1975
1. The Loco-Motion - Grand Funk
2. Slow Ride - Foghat
3. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive
4. Radar Love - Golden Earring
5. Love Hurts - Nazareth
6. I'm on Fire - Dwight Twilley Band
7. Must of Got Lost - The J. Geils Band
8. Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
9. Jessica - The Allman Brothers Band
10. Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
11. Takin' Care of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive 12. Smokin' in the Boys Room - Brownsville Station
13. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
14. Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me) - The Doobie Brothers 15. Can't Get Enough - Bad Company
16. Bad Time - Grand Funk
17. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Guitar Rock 1976 - 1977
1. Cold As Ice - Foreigner
2. Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
3. Whats Your Name - Lynyrd Skynryd
4. Arrested For Driving While Blind - ZZ Top
5. Caladonia - Robin Trower
6. (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
7. Sleepwalker - The Kinks
8. Heard it in a Love Song - The Marshall Tucker Band 9. Fooled Around & Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
10. Feels Like The First Time - Foreigner
11. Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra
12. Black Betty - Ram Jam
13. Drivin' Wheel - Foghat
14. Burnin' Sky - Bad Company
15. Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton
16. Long Time - Boston
17. Couldn't Get it Right - Climax Blues Band
18. So In To You - Atlanta Rythm Section
Guitar Rock 1978 - 1979
1. Hot Blooded - Foreigner
2. Hold The Line - Toto
3. Don't Look Back - Boston
4. Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh
5. Just What I Needed - The Cars
6. I want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick
7. Yank Me, Crank Me - Ted Nugent
8. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
9. My Sharona - The Knack
10. Let's Go - The Cars
11. Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
12. Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) - Robert Palmer
13. Surrender - Cheap Trick
14. One Way or Another - Blondie
15. Double Vision - Foreigner
16. In Thee - Blue Oyster Cult
17. Highway Song - Blackfoot
