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 […]
Mick Mars has confirmed he’d be open to working with Motley Crue again. The guitarist retired from touring with the band in 2023 due to his ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic, inflammatory form of arthritis that progressively makes movement more and more difficult. At the time, his relationship with the rest of the Crue seemed good […]
A Tom Petty tribute album, Petty Country, is set to arrive on May 31. Among the contributors is Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Chris Stapleton, Marty Stuart, Margo Price and many more. Two former Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, also appear on the album (“Ways to Be Wicked” and “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” […]
Shocking never-before-seen documents from an ongoing trial concerning allegedly stolen Eagles lyrics shine new light on an infamous night in 1980 when Don Henley was arrested after a teen overdosed at his home. Henley has always maintained that the overdose happened during a going-away party packed with crew members as the band began a lengthy […]
Since leaving Kiss for the first time more than 40 years ago, Ace Frehley‘s solo career has followed an idiosyncratic orbit but one with largely rewarding results. All four members of Kiss famously released solo albums on the same day in 1978, as part of a plan to keep a frustrated Frehley from quitting the group. […]