Jack Blades is undoubtedly best known to most people as the front man bassist/vocalist for Night Ranger, but he’s had a long and varied career outside of that band. In the late Seventies Blades was the bassist in a funk rock band called Rubicon, started by former Sly and the Family Stone sax player Jerry [...]
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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor married his fiancée Mariqueen Maandig in a ceremony on Saturday, October 17th, E! News reports. Producer Danny Lohner first broke the news of the wedding, writing on his Twitter, “Goths the world over will mourn this day — off to a wedding.” [...]
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Next month, late Queen singer Freddie Mercury will be honored by the town he lived in for ten years in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Feltham, England will pay tribute to the rocker by unveiling a Hollywood-style star at the town’s center. According to [...]
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Nearly 30-thousand people went to see Journey when they played in the Philippines earlier this year, but it seems there were plenty of other fans out there that wished they could be there. For those folks, the band released the concert on DVD and [...]
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Today, Tom Petty turns 59. In his nearly six decades, he’s said some things that may make him seem as though he is bothered by various issues, but that is not the case. The singer told us he always tries to be an optimist. [...]
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Twenty-nine years ago today, a plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in Mississippi, killing singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines as well as four others. So how will the band mark the sad anniversary? Ronnie’s brother, current singer Johnny Van Zant, filled us [...]
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Def Leppard have mysteriously cancelled the third leg of their North American tour, which was due to start on October 22.
No reason – apart from “unforeseen personal matters” – has been given for this decision.
Leppard were due to begin the last stint of their shows with a performance in Reno, Nevada, but they have [...]
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Bon Jovi have done a unique deal with the NBC TV network in America. As a result they are now the station’s official ‘Artist In Residence’.
What this means is that the band will perform on the high-profile Today show on four Wednesdays in November. In addition, Jon Bon Jovi will be the guest on [...]
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Guns N’ Roses have at long last announced their first tour dates since releasing Chinese Democracy the best part of a year ago.
Axl Rose and co will be performing a series of shows in Canada which will begin in January. The band are scheduled to begin rehearsing in Los Angeles shortly.
The tour dates are:
January [...]
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Deep Purple are planning to record a new album early next year. But the band are in no rush.
Guitarist Steve Morse told Classic Rock:
“We are in the sort of position where we don’t have any pressure on us. We’re not a pop act, so nobody these days expects us to sell a lot of [...]
