The residential U.K. studio where Black Sabbath preferred to write and rehearse in the band’s heyday is for sale at $2.45million (£1.95million). You can see dozens of photos of the studio below. The Old Mill House was once part of the iconic Rockfield Studios complex in rural Wales. Owner Jo Riou has run it as a […]
Wolfgang Van Halen and Michael Anthony celebrated their friendship when they met at Mammoth WVH’s concert in Las Vegas on Friday (Dec. 9). It was the first time the original Van Halen bassist had met his replacement in two decades, the older man reported afterwards. The lineup change had taken place in 2006, when Eddie […]
Imagine coming home from a lovely dinner date with your spouse, turning on the TV and watching a parody version of yourself bleed to death as the Saturday Night Live audience roars with laughter. That’s exactly what happened to Julia Child on Dec. 9, 1978, as Dan Aykroyd lovingly parodied the celebrity chef in the instantly […]
John Lennon was slow to begin revealing himself through music. Once he decided to get real, however, the floodgates opened. His songs, both with the Beatles and as a solo artist, could be as frank and revealing, as angry and emotional and as sharply self-critical as any in the history of rock. Not every verse […]
Eric Clapton had never been on stage with the Allman Brothers prior to 2009. “People may find that hard to believe, but it had never happened,” Warren Haynes tells UCR, regarding the meeting, which finally took place on March 19, 2009 at the Beacon Theatre in New York. It’s just one incredible moment of many […]
Before Toto enjoyed a hugely successful run into the ‘80s, some record label executives believed they were too eclectic to win over fans. Keyboardist and principal songwriter David Paich remembered constant complaints. “A lot of the comments were, ‘There’s no thread [to the music]. You guys don’t have a sound,” Paich said on the Broken Record […]
Bob Dylan has sold his Scottish mansion for $5.35 million. The reported sale price is $1.4 million more than what Dylan asked for when he put the property on the market in July. Considering the home’s incredible highlights, it’s easy to understand why it was in high demand. Built between 1911-15, the mansion features 16 […]
Rock music underwent a radical transformation in the beginning of the ’80s, and in 1983, the genre made some of its heaviest strides yet. It was a year that saw heavy metal assert itself as a viable commercial genre, with Quiet Riot‘s Metal Health unseating the Police‘s Synchronicity to become the first metal album to top the Billboard 200. It […]
All good things must come to an end, they say. And unfortunately that includes the careers of our favorite bands and solo artists. For some, the finale arrives sooner than expected. John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, to name a few, left the world early and thus their last musical releases were, well, not exactl […]
Guitarist Warren Haynes has revealed the rule Phil Lesh established following the demise of the Grateful Dead. Following the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, surviving members of the Grateful Dead decided to retire the band. They still toured and performed the group’s material under various names, including a rotating assembly of musicians known as […]