Classic Rock Gold is a two-disc compilation album released in 2005. It features thirty-three of the greatest hits to come out of classic rock, many of which are from the Universal Music Group catalogue.
The cover features, clockwise from the top left: Whitesnake, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steppenwolf, Scorpions, Joe Walsh, Rod Stewart and Peter Frampton (all of which recorded for labels that were later merged into what is now Universal Music Group).
Track listing
Disc one
Steppenwolf – "Born to Be Wild" (3:30) (Bonfire) (1968) Santana – "Evil Ways" (3:57) (Henry/Zack) (1970) The Guess Who – "American Woman" (5:07) (Bachman/Cummings/Kale/Peterson) (1970) Free – "All Right Now" (5:30) (Rodgers/Fraser) (1973) Jethro Tull – "Locomotive Breath" (4:33) (Anderson) (1972) The James Gang – "Walk Away" (3:34) (Walsh) (1972) Rod Stewart – "Maggie May" (5:46) (Stewart) (1971) Ten Years After – "I'd Love to Change the World" (3:44) (Lee) (1971) The Hollies – "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" (3:17) (Clarke/Cook/Greenaway) (1972) The Edgar Winter Group – "Frankenstein" (4:45) (Winter) (1973) Elton John – "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" (4:55) (John/Taupin) (1973) Grand Funk Railroad – "We're an American Band" (3:26) (Brewer) (1974) Joe Walsh – "Rocky Mountain Way" (5:16) (Walsh/Grace/Passarelli/Vitale) (1973) The Doobie Brothers – "China Grove" (3:16) (Johnston) (1974) Golden Earring – "Radar Love" (6:25) (Hay/Kooymans) (1974) Lynyrd Skynyrd – "Sweet Home Alabama" (4:41) (Van Zant/King/Rossington) (1974) Bachman–Turner Overdrive – "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" (3:53) (Bachman) (1974)
Disc two
Bad Company – "Bad Company" (4:48) (Rodgers/Kirke) (1973) Nazareth – "Hair of the Dog" (4:09) (1975) Head East – "Never Been Any Reason" (5:11) (1975) Foghat – "Slow Ride" [Single version] (3:56) (Peverett) (1976) Peter Frampton – "Show Me the Way" [Live] (4:39) (Frampton) (1976) Blue Öyster Cult – "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (5:09) (Roeser) (1976) Foreigner – "Cold as Ice" [Single version] (3:20) (Gramm/Jones) (1977) Ted Nugent – "Cat Scratch Fever" (3:39) (Nugent) (1978) The Cars – "Just What I Needed" (3:45) (Ocasek) (1979) Eddie Money – "Two Tickets to Paradise" (3:49) (Money) (1978) Cheap Trick – "I Want You to Want Me" [Live] (3:42) (Nielsen) (1979) .38 Special – "Hold On Loosely" (4:40) (Barnes/Carlisi/Peterik) (1981) Red Rider – "Lunatic Fringe" (4:22) (Cochrane) (1981) Billy Idol – "White Wedding" (4:13) (Idol) (1982) Scorpions – "Rock You Like a Hurricane" (4:12) (Schenker/Meine/Rarebell) (1984) Whitesnake – "Here I Go Again" (4:35) (Coverdale/Marsden) (1987)