Daily Star (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Rocker LARS ULRICH is looking to take a break from METALLICA to tour with members of supergroup DEEP PURPLE.
Newspost Online (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
Washington, Jan 3 (ANI): Led Zeppelin rocker Robert Plant has walked away with the title of ‘Greatest Voice in Rock’ in a recent poll. The 60-year-old singer topped UK’s radio network Planet Rock’’s The Greatest Voice in Rock Top 40 list, reports Contactmusic. Plant has also been honoured with England’s most prestigious Commander of the Order of [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
Former LED ZEPPELIN star ROBERT PLANT has picked up his second major award of the new year (09) after he was named the Greatest Voice in Rock in an online radio network ...
Comedy Central Insider (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
2009 is finally upon us, so it's time to take part in that storied New Years tradition of writing blog-posts a couple weeks in advance so it looks like the blog is being updated while we drink until we puke...
Truth In Shredding (Free subscription) | 12/04/2008
News: 03-12-2008: Lots of interesting players and a great voice on this DVD, including Joe Satriani, Jeff Healey, Steve Morse, Steve Morse and Joe Satriani! Product Description Nothing sums up Ian Gillan more, than Gillan’s Inn! Having decided to re-visit the classic songs by Deep Purple and his own solo career, Ian invited several of his friends to guest on the album including Joe Elliot (Def... This...
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
(Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice) There once was a woman,
This Is This (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
I can’t help it, I really can’t. This won a Grammy for best song the year I was born and it is flawless.This version is one verse short of the original with different lyrics and was released only in the last few years. The final verse and the paino intro was added for the album version, and [...]
Environmental Republican (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
On this rainy Friday, I figured we'd venture back to the testosterone-filled days of my youth where it was cool (at least to me) to head bang and wear nothing but concert shirts every single day. Among the bands I was into back then was Triumph, Rush and The Man: Ronnie James Dio. Dio had a voice that remains the most-powerful in music. He could reach notes that were absolutely bone shattering
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
When Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple for the second time in 1993, many predicted the end of the group who put the classic in rock. Now the guitarist and his madrigals have fallen so far off the radar he only registers the odd play on Radio 2, while his former bandmates have been wowing audiences all over Europe this summer.
Smuggled Sounds (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
By the time Deep Purple released Burn and Stormbringer (both 1974), Ian Gillan and Roger Glover had already left the band but some fans still considered Burn to be a worthy successor to the earlier albums. But in April 1975, Richie Blackmore too decided to move, leaving Jon Lord (organ, piano) and Ian Paice (drums) from the classic line up. If Blackmore wanted out, vocalist David Coverdale managed...
Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
An old schoolfriend told me on the phone the other day that she had just been thinking of me. She had gone with her sons to Stowe to see Roger Hodgson (an old boy) perform Supertramp numbers (Supertramp were big when we were at secondary school together, which ages us both, I guess), and her [...]
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Death metal band Asphyx headbanging during a performance. Origin The term “headbanger” was coined on Led Zeppelin’s first US tour in 1968.[citation needed]During a show at the Boston Tea Party, audience members in the first row were banging their heads against the stage in rhythm with the music. Lemmy from Motrhead, however, said in an interview on the documentary The Decline of Western Civilization...
SoccerBlog.com (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
This weekend we saw Sepp Blatter clutch the Emancipation Proclamation to his breast as he impassionately spoke about the need to free slaves. He dispatched Ramon Calderon who swept through Manchester and set the slaves in United free. Chief amongst...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Jade Wright finds out why one of Nevada’s most famous rock star residents owes it all to our city
Riemanns Cut (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
I watched my copy of Jesus Christ: Superstar(2000) over the weekend. I bought it back in 2001. Since then I've watched it perhaps 50 to 60 times. "Watched", may be an overstatement, as many of those times it just played in the background; I haven't watched it in the last few years. Quite an interesting production really, I'm glad they went in a different direction compared to the 1973 version. It does...
