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Bad Company will release a live DVD & Blu-ray (plus CD) this week before their UK tour starts in April. The DVD, "Hard Rock Live", was filmed at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on August 8th, 2008. This special sold-out show saw the legendary supergroup reform for their first performance together in nearly a decade, featuring the original founding line-up of vocalist Paul Rodgers (Free, Queen),...
The Aerosmith saga is taking yet another ugly turn. Even though front man Steven Tyler finally did the right thing and got himself into rehab for substance abuse, it looks like the rest of Aerosmith doesn’t want to wait around for him to get better and return to the band. Maybe ther were miffed by [...]
Classic Rock Magazine has revealed that Joe Perry of Aerosmith asked Paul Rodgers to replace Steven Tyler – but Rodgers refused. The conversation took place at November's Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, at which Perry and Rodgers were both guests. Editor-in-chief Scott Rowley introduced the stars to each other and a colleague was nearby while they chatted. Rowley's colleague explains: "Perry...
Here is the 1999 album from one of the 60's original guitar heroes, Jeff Beck. Like many rock musicians in the early 1960s, he began his career working as a session guitarist. In 1965, following a gig with the R&B band the Tridents and on Yardbirds initial choice (and old pal) Jimmy Page's recommendation, Beck was recruited to join the Yardbirds (after Eric Clapton had left the group for John Mayall's...
Classic Rock Magazine is reporting that legendary vocalist Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company, Queen + Paul Rodgers) has teamed up with TourTV and LiveStream for a special New Year’s Eve internet broadcast. Starting at 8pm PST December 31 (which is 4am GMT on January 1, if you’re wondering), TourTV will be airing, in its entirety, Paul Rodgers New Year’s Eve Live ‘07 , which was...
Frontiers Records is delighted to announce the release of BRIAN HOWE’s forthcoming solo album entitled “Circus Bar” on February 26th 2010 in Europe and March 9th in the USA. Long regarded as one of rock's legendary voices, Brian Howe started...
God, when I was fourteen or so I really loved this Bad Company album but you know how it is, you move on, you forget your old friends. Meet new ones. I've come to the general conclusion that life is a fairly heartless and unsentimental phenomenon on the whole. But hey, the other night, I stumbled across this old friend by accident and- sticking it on- I was once more transported back into the spirit...
BAD COMPANY ‘Bad Company’ [Release Date 25/01/2010] LP: http://991.com/Buy/ProductInformation.aspx?StockNumber=492425 As far as supergroups go, Bad Company are up there with the rest. Featuring Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke [Free], Mick Ralphs [Mott The Hoople] and Boz Burrell [King Crimson], the groups debut and self titled release 'Bad Company' headed straight...
Jimi Hendrix’s music will be performed on a tour featuring notable recording artists. The fourth bi-yearly Experience Hendrix tour starts on March 4, 2010, and the following night, a date is slated for Los Angeles at the Gibson Amphitheater. Participating...
Former QUEEN singer PAUL RODGERS has received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters degree from his hometown university in England.The Free and Bad Company frontman was...
Bad Company are to tour the UK in April 2010! The surviving founder members Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke will reunite next year to tour the UK for the first time in almost a decade. These UK dates follow a very successful 10 date tour of the USA this summer. Aerosmith’s Joe Perry will provide the support for all of the dates as he tours to promote his brand new solo album, "Have...
ROCK super-group Bad Company reunited on stage at London’s famous Hard Rock Cafe for the first time in 30 years on Tuesday (November 17, 2009) to announce an eight-date UK arena tour in 2010. Original members Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke performed Feel Like Makin’ Love, Shooting Star, Seagull and Do Right By Your Woman to a specially invited audience in Hard Rock’s flagship...
London, England (CNS) – Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood has been honored with Outstanding Contribution award at the 2009 annual Classic Rock Roll of Honor Awards. The 62-year-old rocker received his first ever solo win at the Park Lane Hotel in London Monday. The late John Bonham of the Led Zeppelin group was also given recognition at [...]
Whenever news gets slow, it seems Faces, Led Zeppelin, and many more classic rock band reunion rumors start taking over the internet. These days, however, the artists themselves aren’t doing much to quell the gossip—If anything, they’re fueling it. “[Faces had] a reunion… in London without me because I’m promoting this album, and they’re got Paul Rodgers to...
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