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Gerry Marsden Dead: Gerry and the Pacemakers Frontman Dies at 78
Marsden was the lead singer of the band that found fame in the Merseybeat scene in the 1960s. Though another Liverpool band — The Beatles — reached superstardom, Gerry and the Pacemakers will always have a place in the city’s consciousness because of “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” “I thought what a beautiful song. I’m going to tell my band we’re going to play that song,” Marsden told The Associated Press in 2018 when recalling the first time he heard the song at the cinema. “So I went back and told my buddies we’re doing a ballad called ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone.’” Marsden is best known for his band’s rendition of the song from “Carousel,” which was a 1945 musical that became a feature film in 1956. The Pacemakers’ cover version was released in October 1963 and became the band’s third No. 1 hit...
Gerry Marsden Dead: Gerry and the Pacemakers Frontman Dies at 78
Marsden was the lead singer of the band that found fame in the Merseybeat scene in the 1960s. Though another Liverpool band — The Beatles — reached superstardom, Gerry and the Pacemakers will always have a place in the city’s consciousness because of “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” “I thought what a beautiful song. I’m going to tell my band we’re going to play that song,” Marsden told The Associated Press in 2018 when recalling the first time he heard the song at the cinema. “So I went back and told my buddies we’re doing a ballad called ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone.’” Marsden is best known for his band’s rendition of the song from “Carousel,” which was a 1945 musical that became a feature film in 1956. The Pacemakers’ cover version was released in October 1963 and became the band’s third No. 1 hit...
Kings of Leon Return With New Music for 2021: Listen to Four Song Teasers
The rollout continued throughout the weekend with snippets of the catchy “Dancing in Your Head” and the thoughtful “Spin It Like We Can.” The band did not announce release dates for those tracks or provide additional details about a possible forthcoming album. Kings of Leon’s most recent song arrived in late March amid the lockdown with the aptly titled “Going Nowhere.” The accompanying black-and-white video featured frontman Caleb Followill sitting with a guitar, belting the ballad in an empty room. The band’s last studio album, Walls, arrived in 2016 and earned the act its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The set, its seventh overall, was led by the chart-topping single “Waste a Moment,” which topped Billboard‘s Adul...
Kings of Leon Return With New Music for 2021: Listen to Four Song Teasers
The rollout continued throughout the weekend with snippets of the catchy “Dancing in Your Head” and the thoughtful “Spin It Like We Can.” The band did not announce release dates for those tracks or provide additional details about a possible forthcoming album. Kings of Leon’s most recent song arrived in late March amid the lockdown with the aptly titled “Going Nowhere.” The accompanying black-and-white video featured frontman Caleb Followill sitting with a guitar, belting the ballad in an empty room. The band’s last studio album, Walls, arrived in 2016 and earned the act its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The set, its seventh overall, was led by the chart-topping single “Waste a Moment,” which topped Billboard‘s Adul...
Nandi Bushell Covers Blur While Channeling Spice Girl Geri Halliwell: Watch
Young music prodigy Nandi Bushell is rockin’ into the new year! The 10-year-old shared her latest cover on social media Sunday (Jan. 3). “This week I have been learning about #Britpop, the 90’s and about this awesome battle between 2 bands called @blurofficial and @oasis,” Bushell explained in a caption of her latest music video, this time of Blur‘s “Song 2” off their 1997 self-titled album. “The 90 seemed like a fun time for music. This is Song 2 by Blur its really fun to jam to! Wahoo!!!” In the video, the young musician furiously plays the drums, guitar, bass and does vocal duties, all while rocking out in a Union Jack dress. Of her garb, Bushell explained on Instagram, “I made a punk style @therealgerihalliwell British flag dr...
Nandi Bushell Covers Blur While Channeling Spice Girl Geri Halliwell: Watch
Young music prodigy Nandi Bushell is rockin’ into the new year! The 10-year-old shared her latest cover on social media Sunday (Jan. 3). “This week I have been learning about #Britpop, the 90’s and about this awesome battle between 2 bands called @blurofficial and @oasis,” Bushell explained in a caption of her latest music video, this time of Blur‘s “Song 2” off their 1997 self-titled album. “The 90 seemed like a fun time for music. This is Song 2 by Blur its really fun to jam to! Wahoo!!!” In the video, the young musician furiously plays the drums, guitar, bass and does vocal duties, all while rocking out in a Union Jack dress. Of her garb, Bushell explained on Instagram, “I made a punk style @therealgerihalliwell British flag dr...
Miley Cyrus Looks Forward to ‘More F—ing Music’ in 2021
The end of 2020 brought Plastic Hearts, and Miley Cyrus is already having a vision of what’s to come in 2021. “Predicting a 2021 full of safe sex & effloresce (AND more f—ing MUSIC),” Cyrus wrote Sunday (Jan. 3) on Instagram, where she shared a photo of herself looking glam at the storefront of a Toluca Lake psychic. The psychic shared Cyrus’ snapshot, plus an outtake, on her own Instagram, posting her services for an “eye opening reading.” 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, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair s...
Miley Cyrus Looks Forward to ‘More F—ing Music’ in 2021
The end of 2020 brought Plastic Hearts, and Miley Cyrus is already having a vision of what’s to come in 2021. “Predicting a 2021 full of safe sex & effloresce (AND more f—ing MUSIC),” Cyrus wrote Sunday (Jan. 3) on Instagram, where she shared a photo of herself looking glam at the storefront of a Toluca Lake psychic. The psychic shared Cyrus’ snapshot, plus an outtake, on her own Instagram, posting her services for an “eye opening reading.” 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, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair s...
ASKING ALEXANDRIA’s BEN BRUCE: ‘I Was Really In A Dark Place For A Very, Very Long Time’
ASKING ALEXANDRIA guitarist Ben Bruce has confirmed to “Whiplash”, the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie, that the group’s sixth outing, “Like A House On Fire”, is the first album he and his bandmates have ever written sober. “I didn’t think I was gonna have anything interesting to say,” Ben said about not being under the influence during the writing of the LP. “It’s so stupid — it sounds ridiculous — but I kind of thought without it, I’d lost my superpowers. And I was really worried that I was gonna go in the studio and not have anything to write about and not have any way to get anything out that people might wanna listen to. “I was really in a dark place for a very, very long time,” he revealed. R...
DEE SNIDER: ‘LESLIE WEST Was One Of The Greatest Guitarists Of All Time’
Dee Snider has paid tribute to MOUNTAIN‘s Leslie West, who died December 23 at the age of 75. The iconic guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and storyteller suffered cardiac arrest at his home near Daytona, Florida on December 21 and was rushed to a hospital, where he never regained consciousness. Earlier this week, the TWISTED SISTER frontman took to his Instagram to share an eight-minute video in which he said in part: “Leslie West was one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and, unfortunately, not everybody knows about him. He is not as renowned as Eric Clapton or [Jimi] Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhoads, yet he should be, because he inspired so many of them. Not Clapton — I think Clapton was his inspiration. “It’s kind of strange for me to be honoring a...
TESLA’s BRIAN WHEAT Says His Battle With Bulimia Was Hardest Thing To Talk About In His Autobiography
During a recent appearance on “That Jamieson Show”, TESLA bassist Brian Wheat said that his battle with bulimia was the hardest thing to write about in his just-released autobiography, “Son Of A Milkman: My Crazy Life With Tesla”. “‘Cause it’s not something you really talk about,” he explained. “And I found that since I have talked about it, a lot of people said, ‘Well, it’s something that we thought was more [of an issue] for women, not men.’ So that was difficult to talk about. The fact of being an illegitimate son, being a bastard child, was a little bit hard. But honestly, once I made the decision to do the book and do it in the fashion that I was gonna do it in, I just went, ‘I’ll just put it all out t...
ANTHRAX’s SCOTT IAN: ‘For A Band Like Us, With Our Catalog, We Don’t Have To Make Records Anymore’
During an appearance on a recent episode of the “Talk Is Jericho” podcast, ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante and guitarist Scott Ian took part in the “Classic Album Clash”, where they joined host Chris Jericho and Eddie Trunk to discuss their classic second and third albums, 1985’s “Spreading The Disease” and 1987’s “Among The Living”, respectively. Said Charlie: “[1984’s] ‘Fistful [Of Metal]’ is our first album, but, to me, ‘Spreading’ really is our first album with the lineup that is the classic lineup. And those two records, ‘Among’ and ‘Spreading’… Look, ‘Among’ gave us a career. If it wasn’t for ‘Spreading’, there would be no ‘Among&...
