Filed under: Count Five , Canada Blue Rodeo 's 12th studio effort, 'The Things We Left Behind,' is the roots-rockers first non-live double album in their 25-year career. In addition to being released digitally and on CD, it's also available on vinyl with a gatefold. The reason for that is because Blue Rodeo's two leaders, Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy, have been vinyl junkies since they were kids. Now the Canadian icons are revealing to Spinner the double LPs from their youth that left the most [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK Quee n drummer Roger Taylor has revealed tentative plans to hit the road for a short tour with a fellow sticksman. Speaking to BBC 6 Music , Taylor said he wants to play a number of dates with Foo Fighters tubthumper Taylor Hawkins . "I've been thinking about doing a tour next year -- a very quick tour -- with Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters," [...]
Filed under: UK , Down the Front! Location: Winter Gardens & Opera House, Church Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, FY1 1HU. Website: http://www.wintergardensblackp ool.co.uk/index.html Capacity: Up to 3,000, but only 1,000 if you're holding a banquet. Come to see: Big bands by the seaside in beautiful surroundings. And being by the seaside there's naturally also a whole load of variety for all the family too. Big name alternative and more traditional comedians [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive Pink Floyd 's classic double-record 'The Wall' has not only been a staple of rock but has also been a part of pop culture trivia, as founding drummer Nick Mason learned. "There's a [quiz show] program here [in Britain] called 'University Challenge,'" he tells Spinner. "Just by chance they happened to ask these students to name the song and the guitar player. I'm sad to say they failed. They didn't seem to know either Pink Floyd, David Gilmour or 'Comfortably Numb.'" [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Nearly 40 years after Carole King 's first public performance, which was with James Taylor at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, the duo will embark on a world tour together in 2010. The first show will be at Melbourne, Australia's Rod Laver Arena on Mar. 27. From there, they'll hit New Zealand and Japan, before heading to North America and Europe. So far, the only North [...]
Filed under: News , UK Sir Paul McCartney has said he can understand why the Beatles weren't signed early on -- because they weren't very good. Sir Paul made the comment in an interview with London radio station Xfm. He told DJ Ian Camfield: "We obviously weren't that good. We were formulating it all. "You wouldn't have thought we were that great. You'd have turned us down if you were a record company. And they did -- Decca turned us down!" [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales In working-class Liverpool, Alan Caldwell was the "Golden Boy." Tall, blond and athletic, a soccer player and a superb cross-country runner, he was also a fanatic for the new sound of rock 'n' roll. By the late 1950s, when local boys named Lennon , McCartney and Harrison were knocking around the coffeeshops as the Quarrymen, Caldwell was a local demigod. He changed his name -- first to Jett Storm, then to Rory Storm -- and formed a group called the Hurricanes. [...]
Filed under: The Hit List After posting our take on the very best and worst Beatles covers of all time, we took to Twitter to ask our readers to name their favorite Fab Four tributes. Take a look at some of the most popular submissions below. Don't see your cherished cover here? Leave it in the comments below! [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , UK A long-forgotten and unfinished Beatles song written by George Harrison has been completed after a 40-year gap. The Sun reported Harrison scrawled the first ten lines of the song, called 'Silence (Is Its Own Reply),' on a piece of scrap paper which also had details of Beatles manager Brian Epstein's country house in Sussex on the back. The piece of paper was apparently discarded and lay on the floor of Abbey Road [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News "We're gonna try something dangerous and special," Bono said halfway through U2 's closing set on the second night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert. The singer had already brought out Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith for a version of 'Because The Night,' a song Bono said "we wish we had written." It required two takes, but ultimately proved magical, with Springsteen soloing on guitar as Smith and Bono exhorted [...]
Filed under: Movies While the Beatles left behind countless iconic images and performances in addition to their music, do you ever wonder where their signature style came from? The answer is Brian Epstein , whom Paul McCartney famously called "the fifth Beatle." While Epstein was slowly shaping the band's sound, the Fab Four's onetime manager also influenced their famous fashions -- most notably those signature matching suits. Using archived footage from the foursome's heyday plus interviews with peers and family members, the documentary ' Brian [...]
Filed under: News , Holy Hell A recently uncovered copy of the Beatles ' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' -- one of approximately 100 that were pressed as_thumbnail.gifts to Capitol Records employees more than 40 years ago -- may be the rarest Beatles album in the world. Found by record collector John Tefteller, the album has the same tracklisting as the original, but the famous faces on the cover were replaced with photos of the label's higher ups. "At first look I thought, 'OK, this is a standard [...]
Filed under: The Hit List Halloween is the time of year to welcome the spirits of those who have gone before us. In the music industry, though, every day is El Dia de los Muertos , especially when los muertos can be reanimated to ensure more record sales. "It's f---ing weird to be doing a song with someone who is deceased," as Korn 's Jonathan Davis once said. Give [...]
Filed under: Potent Quotables "He kissed my feet. I just kind of froze. I had no idea he was going to do that." -- Jerry Lee Lewis The legendary musician recounted a backstage meeting with John Lennon in the '70s during which the late Beatle approached him to say, "I just wanted you to know you are the man who made it possible for me to be a star in rock 'n' roll music." [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK Sir Paul McCartney has announced a new tour of Europe, his first since 2004. The ex-Beatle's European jaunt begins in Hamburg, Germany on Dec. 2, before five other dates in Germany, Holland, France and Ireland. The tour ends on Dec. 22 at London's O2 Arena. The 'Good Evening Europe' tour follows McCartney's recent jaunt around the US. Tickets for the seven-date tour are on sale on Monday (Oct. 26). Sir Paul said: [...]
Filed under: News , UK The cavalcade of Beatles material shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. Hot on the heels of the re-release of all of the Fab Four's studio albums -- covered in great detail on Spinner -- comes news of a new tome to hit stores in time for Christmas. 'The Beatles Box of Vision' includes three books, one of which is storage space for the CDs from the re-mastered albums. The first book is an LP-sized, 200 page collection of original Beatles [...]
Filed under: News , News Today, Oh Boy! Pavement drummer Bob Nastanovich says the band won't be playing or recording new material during next year's reunion. Asked if it was a one-time reformation he said: "I'm pretty sure that's the case." A cartoon of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis is to be auctioned for charity. The Peter McKee cartoon will be sold at a blind auction, and more details can be found here . Julian Lennon has covered [...]
Filed under: News , UK The Beatles may have personified the Swinging Sixties and the passing of an older generation to the baby boomers, but it seems one of the Fab Four had an early soft spot for the very traditional Queen Elizabeth. An essay by a 10-year-old Paul McCartney has been unearthed, showing an early championing of Her Majesty. In neat handwriting, the pre-teen future Beatle refers to "the lovely young Queen Elizabeth." The essay beat those of hundreds of other schoolchildren to [...]
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