The world lost one of its funniest voices on Feb. 27, as Richard Lewis died in his home following a heart attack. The comedian, best-known for his role on the hit series Curb Your Enthusiasm and films such as Robin Hood: Men in Tights, enjoyed a successful career spanning more than 50 years. His neurotic, […]
Foreigner recently received their first nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and they’ve been working overtime to prove they’re worthy of induction. The rockers recently received a campaign endorsement from a friend in a high place: Paul McCartney. The former Beatle made a short, NSFW video in which he expressed his incredulity over Foreigner’s […]
Chris Robinson has detailed two of the scariest concerts in Black Crowes history. The first took place in 1991 when his band performed as part of the Monsters of Rock concert in Moscow, alongside Metallica, Pantera and AC/DC. The show took place as the Soviet Union was dissolving, making for a tense backdrop. As Robinson […]
Playing in a rock band with your siblings can be a double-edged sword. If it’s chemistry you seek, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better partner. The musical bond between siblings can border on telepathy: Just look at the inimitable twin-guitar attack of AC/DC‘s Angus and Malcolm Young or the guitar-and-drum lockstep of Eddie and […]
Don Henley testified on Monday at a Manhattan court in a criminal case involving nearly 100 pages of allegedly stolen Eagles lyrics from the Hotel California album. Some of the most revealing early responses, however, dealt with a teen escort’s overdose at his home in 1980. Rare books collector Glenn Horowitz, former Rock & Roll & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and rock […]
Co-founding Journey bassist Ross Valory is offering UCR readers an exclusive second peek into his upcoming solo debut with this video premiere of the percussion-driven “Wild Kingdom.” This track proved to be the starting point in lengthy sessions for All of the Above, which is due on March 1 from OID Music. Valory says he […]
Liam Gallagher has some harsh words for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Gallagher’s former band, Oasis, was recently announced as a nominee for this year’s Hall of Fame class. Other nominees include Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Frampton, Foreigner and Mariah Carey. The latter name seems to really have rattled Gallagher. During a recent conversation with The […]
Waiting is the hardest part. Tom Petty famously sang those words in 1981, but during his career the Florida-born musician rarely left his fans waiting very long for new material. The same can’t be said for some of rock’s other stars, many of whom went more than 10 years between albums. For some acts, long delays […]
An auctioneer who’d been approached to sell 13 pages of Don Henley’s handwritten lyrics for “Hotel California” said he’d expected the transaction to raise at least $700,000 – giving each page a value of around $54,000. Those pages – and hundreds like them from the Eagles’ Hotel California era – are the subject of a criminal […]
People write songs about people. And that naturally includes one’s own bandmates. In some cases, the purpose of writing a song about a bandmate is to make clear feelings of animosity, whether they’re justified or not. After all, what better way to get a point across than through the very medium that you once found common ground […]