Nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards have been announced, and though rock artists were once again shut out of the major categories like Record and Album of the Year, many familiar names can be found further down the list. Leading the charge is Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl’s group – which has long been a Grammy […]
The principal talent of your average world-famous rocker is often plainly obvious. That’s how they end up, you know, world famous. Brian May, for instance, is an incredibly gifted guitarist. David Lee Roth is an out-sized personality, perfect for fronting a band. Alice Cooper set a dark new standard for creep-rock theatrics. Paul Stanley makes […]
Billy Idol has detailed how he and his drug dealer “tortured” the singer’s record label in an effort to gain further artistic control. The incident took place in 1983 as Idol was readying his sophomore album, Rebel Yell. The singer’s label, Chrysalis Records, was focussed on getting the LP out quickly. So when Idol deemed […]
For a brief moment, Journey had an “army of drummers.” That’s how legendary drummer and producer Narada Michael Walden terms the time he spent playing live with the San Francisco-bred rock legends. As he told UCR, it was also one of the hardest things he’s ever done. Walden had crossed paths with various members of […]
The best title tracks don’t just anchor the classic albums they come from. They also work as introductions and often the central themes of their parent LPs. In the below list of the 50 Best Title Tracks From Classic Albums, songs span an early 1960s instrumental through a mid-’90s solo LP by one of rock’s most popular artists. […]
The identity of the man on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV has finally been identified by a historian, 52 years after the album’s release. The well-known image of an elderly, bearded figure, who’s carrying a bundle of wood on his back, is said to have been discovered by Robert Plant in an antique store […]
Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson will star in Bjorn of the Dead, a new horror movie about an ABBA tribute band that finds itself trapped in a nightclub at the dawn of the apocalypse alongside a slew of other tribute bands. No, really. Per Deadline, Dickinson will play Abbatoir lead singer Bjorn, who cranks out tunes from the […]
Paul McCartney was petrified he was going to “kill” an elderly person with his ‘Live and Let Die’ performance. The Beatles legend introduced flames and pyrotechnics to his live shows many years ago to accompany his 1973 James Bond theme from the film of the same name starring the late Sir Roger Moore. Paul can […]
Sir Ringo Starr was all set to open a hair salon because he didn’t think The Beatles would “last a week”. The legendary Liverpool group’s final song, ‘Now And Then’, was released last week, some 63 years after they first formed in 1960. The ‘Eleanor Rigby’ hitmakers – also comprised of the late frontman John […]
The 1970s were a pivotal time for music. Between the birth of heavy metal in 1970 and the development of many new sub genres under both the rock and metal umbrellas, it’s a period of music history that we seem to take for granted now. And a lot of really crazy stuff happened. The Beatles broke […]