Like many decades-spanning film franchises, Planet of the Apes hasn’t been the most consistent. It started with a hit 1968 movie that was smart, exciting, witty and seemingly closed to further outings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over the decades, that first money-making, ground-shaking sci-fi film (an adaptation of a 1963 French novel in which […]
A dark cloud loomed over a car on the road from LAX to Pasadena in November 1976. Among those inside were David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen, and they believed they’d just missed out on their one chance of making the big time. Days earlier, the future of Van Halen had […]
AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has reflected on the 2014 departure of late guitarist Malcolm Young, saying the band’s heart “stopped beating” when he left. In April 2014, the group announced Young would be “taking a break from the band due to ill health.” At the time, few details were shared about the nature of Young’s condition, and […]
Taylor Hawkins will be featured in an upcoming documentary. It is the last filmed interview before the Foo Fighters drummer’s death in March. He’s one of several musicians to appear in Let There Be Drums!, which also includes appearances by Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland, Jason Bonham and Chad Smith. It was made by Justin Kreutzmann, son of the Grateful […]
Actor Ralph Macchio has revealed some of the many pitches he received to revive his Karate Kid character Daniel LaRusso, including one idea that would have teamed him with Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa. In an excerpt from his new memoir Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me (shared by EW), Macchio looked back at all the ways […]
Stephen Pearcy revealed that his upcoming solo album would include previously unheard Ratt songs. The singer reported that the recording was completed for the record, which is titled Legacy, although no release date was announced. “It’s coming together, finally picked the songs, finished sequencing, next mix and mastering,” Pearcy wrote in a Facebook post, which included […]
Cindy Williams’ run on Laverne & Shirley came to a seemingly abrupt end in the fall of 1982, when she left the show two episodes into its eighth season. While viewers at home had seen Williams’ Shirley Feeney marry Walter Meeney in the eighth-season premiere (making her Shirley Feeney Meeney), it was a startling development for […]
The late Leonard Cohen could certainly be a formidable performer, but he endures primarily because of his songs – richly poetic, nuanced and evocative pieces of aural literature composed with enough considered space to leave them open for eclectic interpretations. His “Tower of Song” came with flexible blueprints, which is why Cohen has been the […]
Miles Davis returned from a two-year recording hiatus with another bold new idea. True to its name, On the Corner would focus on the Black community’s street music, a blend of R&B, soul and funk that was absent any identifiable jazz aesthetic. Gone was the cool improvisational wankery of old, replaced by the kind of […]
Todd Rundgren‘s restless creativity has served him well over the years. Whether crafting solo masterpieces like Something/Anything? and A Wizard, a True Star, or producing albums for artists as diverse as Grand Funk Railroad and XTC, he’s as precision-driven as he is indiscriminating. Those personality traits make him an ideal collaborator as well as a […]