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LED ZEPPELIN: ‘The Complete Concert Chronicle (Revised And Expanded Edition)’ Book Due In September
Omnibus Press has set a September 9 release date for “Evenings With Led Zeppelin: The Complete Concert Chronicle (Revised And Expanded Edition)”. “Evenings With Led Zeppelin” chronicles the 500-plus appearances LED ZEPPELIN made throughout its career. From its earliest gig in a Denmark school gymnasium on September 7, 1968, through to the last gig that Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones ever performed with John Bonham, in Berlin on July 7, 1980, this is the LED ZEPPELIN story told from where their legend was forged — on stage. Impeccably researched by Dave Lewis and Mike Tremaglio, “Evenings With Led Zeppelin” traces the group’s rapid ascent from playing to a few hundred at London’s Marquee Club to selling out the 20,000-capacity Ma...
LIVE NATION CEO Is ‘Excited’ About Company’s Future As Revenue Sits At Historic Low
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. today released financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2020. The company’s concert revenue plunged to $1.46 billion for 2020 from $9.43 billion the previous year, and ticketing dropped to $188.4 million from $1.54 billion in the same period, and sponsorship and advertising was down to $203.7 million from $590.3 million. Live Nation ended 2020 with $1.86 billion in revenue, down 84% from from the previous year, with a 92% drop in revenue in the fourth quarter. Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino said in a statement: “Over the last year, leaders across all our business lines of concerts, ticketing and sponsorship have been analyzing ways to improve their businesses. Some of our key initiatives include: re-organizing to become more nimble wh...
DEF LEPPARD’s RICK ALLEN Is Working On Painting Of EDDIE VAN HALEN
DEF LEPPARD drummer Rick Allen, who has been expressing himself in recent years through his artwork, is working on a painting of late VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen. The Van Halen piece is apparently part of Allen‘s “Legends” series, which consists of lifelike-yet-impressionistic portraits of musicians who have influenced him, from Jimi Hendrix to Freddie Mercury to John Lennon. Allen, who started painting at an early age before he ever picked up the drums, posted a picture of his Eddie Van Halen tribute to Instagram, and he included the following caption: “Legend… work in progress”. In a 2018 interview with The Hype Magazine, Allen stated about his use of light or some sort of bright object in his art: “Reality is very difficult to do, but it...
2021 Golden Globes Predictions: Who Will Win, Who Shouldn’t Be There, and Who’s Missing
Every year, we say we’re not going to watch the Golden Globes. “They’re pay-for-play opportunists who trade awards for access,” we plea in the mirror. “Remember Pia Zadora?” And yet, just like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III, they pull us back in. Maybe it’s the pandemic insisting upon things to look forward to amidst the threat of impending doom. Or, more likely, we just love TV and the people who make it too much to not want to root for them to get recognition — no matter how dubious the award. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an enigmatic collective of 93 non-American journalists who nonetheless live in LA, give out their trophies every year, and the picks are virtually impossible to guess. Sometimes, it’s recognition of the best work in film and TV that year. Other t...
Hasbro’s Mr. Potato Head Line Drops the Mr., Rebrands as Potato Head
Pop in your surprised face: Hasbro is rebranding its 70-year-old Mr. Potato Head line, which will now be called simply Potato Head. The characters Mr. Potato Head and Mrs. Potato Head will continue to be sold. As Variety reports, the news comes as part of a push for inclusivity. That includes the new product Create Your Potato Head Family allowing children to provide their spud buds with all combinations of features without regard to gender. Some bad-faith blowhards initially responded to the announcement as if Hasbro had declared that Being a Real Man™ was now illegal; one big account that we won’t dignify with a link used the rebrand to call for conservative states to secede from the Union. Oh well — taters gonna tate. These concerns turned out to be half-baked, because as Ha...
Tom Morello: Slash and I Nearly Got Blown Up Onstage at an Ozzy Osbourne Show
Tom Morello (photo by Amy Harris), Ozzy Osbourne (David Brendan Hall), Slash (Antonio Marino Jr.) Tom Morello and Slash almost jointly experienced the most heavy metal death that one can possibly imagine: getting blown up onstage at an Ozzy Osbourne concert. The Rage Against the Machine guitarist told the story during an appearance Wednesday (February 24th) on The Howard Stern Show. Morello and Slash were performing with the Prince of Darkness as part of his “Ozzy and Friends” shows that took the place of Black Sabbath’s planned tour after Tony Iommi was diagnosed with lymphoma. At one of the shows, a headlining Halloween performance at the 2015 Voodoo Experience festival in New Orleans, the two guitar gods almost met their maker. As Morello tells it, after he and Slash had taken turns pla...
Adam Sandler Wants to Make a Happy Gilmore Sequel
Happy Gilmore celebrated its 25th anniversary a few weeks ago and it looks like Adam Sandler hasn’t stopped thinking about the 1996 comedy classic since then. In a new interview, the actor revealed that he wants to make a Happy Gilmore sequel that centers around a senior golf tournament. It sounds like a great idea; fingers crossed Sandler can tap, tap, tap it in. During Wednesday’s episode of The Dan Patrick Show on The Golf Channel, Sandler and Christopher McDonald — the two of whom played the titular hockey-turned-golf star and the perfect comedy villain, respectively, in the original movie — opened up about whether or not there have been any attempts to film a new Happy Gilmore-related project. Sandler denied that it had ever been in talks, but he and McDonald kept the d...
DJ Snake Teases a ‘Selfish’ New Collab With Selena Gomez
DJ Snake and Selena Gomez made fire with “Taki Taki,”their 2018 smash with Ozuna and Cardi B. Now they’re “selfishly” circling back for more. On Thursday (Feb. 25), the pop queen and the French producer teased their incoming single “Selfish Love” with a clip of themselves as video game characters. Soundtracked by “Taki Taki,” the video picks up where the video for that song left off, with the pair breaking off from Cardi and Ozuna and levitating to the top of a volcano, into which Gomez throws a glowing pink heart. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn...
C. Tangana’s ‘El Madrileño’ Trades Trends for Edgy Collaborations and Spanish Soul
One of my favorite tracks is “Cambia!,” featuring two up-and-coming regional Mexican stars: Adriel Favela and Carin León. I discovered Adriel Favela with his [2018 song] “La Escuela No Me Gustó,” which introduced me to corridos. I have many Mexican friends and they told me about the new trend with young acts doing more urban corrido. And during a trip to Mexico, I heard Carín León on the radio, and his melodies reminded me of ’90s Spanish pop act Andy y Lucas. Then, one night in Madrid, we began writing a corrido, I sent the demo to Adriel on my phone, and he heard it while he was on the touring bus with his musicians. Half-hour later, he sent me a video of all of them singing and playing the song. When I saw that reaction, I made the move to call Carin and also ask him to be o...
Yung Bleu Scores First Top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
Yung Bleu achieves a rookie career milestone as his song “You’re Mines Still” reaches the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated Feb. 27). The track, which features Drake, ascends from No. 11 to crack the upper tier in its 14th week on the list. With the move, Yung Bleu, the 26-year-old singer-rapper from Mobile, Alabama, collects his first top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with his initial chart entry. Drake, meanwhile, adds his record-extending 80th visit to the region, further outpacing runner-up James Brown, who has 57. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, shar...
Live Nation Revenue Fell 92% in 2020 as Concerts Prepare for Comeback
The concert business had similar declines across the market. Madison Square Garden’s fourth-quarter revenue deficit was 94% following annual declines of 96% and 92% in the first and second quarters. Big Hit Entertainment, the South Korean company behind K-pop group BTS, posted 98% lower concert revenue in 2020. With the help of financial maneuvers since March 2020, Live Nation has a financial cushion of $643 million of free cash, helped by $417 million of debt raised in early January, and $962 million of available debt capacity, which the company believes is enough to fund operations until concerts return this summer. There’s good news on the horizon, though, with heightened anticipation that the recent availability of vaccines will spe...
The Blurry World of Billie Eilish
Filmmaker R.J. Cutler – best known for his work on documentaries such as The War Room, The September Issue, and Belushi – recalls that there wasn’t much he really knew about Billie Eilish when he was invited to meet her and her family at their L.A. home several years ago. And it didn’t matter. As he remembers the brief drive up the 101, he says he knew about “Ocean Eyes” – the 2015 song that Eilish and her brother, producer Finneas O’Connell, had uploaded to SoundCloud, catapulting the pair to millions of streams and the attention of record labels – and that she was local. But beyond that, he was going in relatively blind. Whether through some directorial instinct, brilliant luck, or some combination of the two, Cutler would spend two years, from 2018 to 2020, following and capturing...
