Kiss’ original masks may have been long gone, but their Aug. 18, 1987, single “Crazy Crazy Nights” seemed to suggest the band was trying on a new one. Written by Paul Stanley with assistance from co-writer Adam Mitchell, this song was a clear attempt to emulate the success of newer rock heroes Bon Jovi and […]
Julian Lennon has revealed that he was uneasy when he first saw his dad John Lennon‘s voice and image used as a “virtual duet” with Paul McCartney. McCartney performed the Beatles’ “I’ve Got a Feeling” alongside footage and audio of the late Lennon singing his half of the duet during his most recent tour. The material was drawn from Peter Jackson‘s 2021 […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers have released the new song “Tippa My Tongue,” the first single from their upcoming album Return of the Dream Canteen. The tune opens with a propulsive drum and bass part, before frontman Anthony Kiedis kicks in with a series of ya-ya-ya-yas to get the song officially started. As “Tippa My Tongue” […]
Randy Rhoads claimed he was too tired to audition for Ozzy Osbourne’s band, the late guitarist’s brother says. It wasn’t the only excuse he used before finally taking part a trial performance in September 1979 as Osbourne was assembling his first post-Black Sabbath band, according to the new documentary Randy Rhoads: Reflections of a Guitar […]
Former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick reflected that even support from the band’s fans couldn’t save Union, the group he formed with John Corabi in the late ‘90s. The project took form after Kiss’ return to makeup with its original lineup meant there was no room for him, and after Corabi had been ejected from Motley […]
A Michael McDonald solo album seemed kind of inevitable by the summer of 1982. Born in Missouri, McDonald moved to Los Angeles in 1970 with his band Blue, worked with Steely Dan from 1975-76, and then joined the Doobie Brothers in 1975, quickly giving the band two big hits — “Takin’ It to the Streets” […]
Jefferson Airplane’s legacy may be intertwined with peace, love and the hippie counterculture, but the vibes were far from serene on Aug. 21, 1972, during the group’s performance at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio. A crowd of roughly 20,000 fans filled the stadium that day, but the trouble started among the hundreds more who […]
Fifty years ago, the Doobie Brothers‘ Tom Johnston urged people to “Listen to the Music.” Fifteen years later, he helped them do some dirty dancing. Johnston was, at least on paper, an outlier on the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing, the hit 1987 film about Catskills summer-resort life that grossed more than $214 million at the […]
Writing about his heroin addiction inadvertently led Motley Crue‘s Nikki Sixx to another musical habit. Six years after the release of the band’s best-selling 2001 memoir The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band in 2001, Sixx decided to dig a little deeper into his own story with The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life […]
Sammy Hagar has released a cover of Elvis Costello‘s “Pump It Up” as the second single from his forthcoming album with the Circle. He says the Top 25 U.K. hit from 1978 “has been a Circle go-to backstage jam before shows.” Hagar first mentioned possibly recording it last year in a post that also featured […]