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Valerie Bertinelli has opened up about her relationship with Eddie Van Halen, admitting the Van Halen guitar god was “not a soulmate.” In a video shared via her Instagram account (which you can see below), the actress explained that she recently watched her son Wolfgang Van Halen’s episode of Behind the Music. “It was not easy,” Bertinelli revealed. “I’d stopped it many times because it was just too brutal to watch for many reasons. One, seeing Wolfie’s pain. Two, seeing what a better job I could have done as a parent even though he turned out magnificently. I made a lot of mistakes. And three...
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Daryl Hall‘s sixth solo album wasn’t just co-produced by Dave Stewart. The Eurythmics legend also co-wrote seven of its nine new original songs, while Hall penned the other two more. D is due on June 21. The video for the album’s first single and a complete track listing can be found below. Preorders are already underway. Stewart previously served as a co-producer on Hall’s 1986 solo album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine, and co-wrote four songs for that project, as well. “This album is about getting to my core,” Hall said in an official release. The goal on D was to “break it down to...
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Steely Dan has built a worldwide reputation primarily because of their legendary songs, but their quirky name also helped to pique listeners’ interest. There was one night, however, when they had a different moniker: “Mr. Steely Dan.” It happened as the band was getting ready to play what ended up being its final U.S. concert for nearly 20 years, on July 4, 1974, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The group’s bus driver, Jerome Aniton, had an interesting time leading up to that night’s show. “He was normally a very soft-spoken, quiet guy,” Michael McDonald shared during a new interview on t...
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Bon Jovi‘s “Livin’ on a Prayer” was a multi-platinum international Top 5 smash that topped the American charts for an entire month in 1987. This no doubt came as a surprise to the group’s frontman, who really didn’t like the song when it was first written. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to record it, but I wasn’t all that impressed on the day that we wrote it,” Jon Bon Jovi tells People magazine. “It was the simple chord progression, the melodies and the lyrics.” Then Hugh McDonald made an uncredited contribution, and “Livin’ on a Prayer” suddenly had new momentum. “The bass line came to life i...
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Few albums can be called perfect, but many other classic LPs fall just short of that status. Maybe it’s an out-of-place experimental track or a throwaway song given to the drummer to sing – whatever the case, a single moment can nearly derail a near-flawless record. In the below list of 25 Songs That Almost Ruined Classic Albums, the key word to keep in mind is “almost.” Each album included is great from start to finish; they probably wouldn’t be called classics if they weren’t. But we’re not ashamed to admit that once in a while we’ll skip a song if the mood hits. The list is also limited to ...
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Actor Alec Baldwin was once reduced to yelling an obscenity at his friend Paul McCartney. “I used to take a yoga class with [Saturday Night Live creator and producer] Lorne [Michaels]; John Eastman, who’s Paul’s brother-in-law; John Alexander, the painter – Lorne and I, there were five of us,” Baldwin said on the Our Way with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson podcast. “We would take a yoga class. We called ourselves the ‘Yoga Boys.'” There was one problem: “The only one who was really adept at yoga was McCartney. He would do a handstand or a headstand and he had the most lithe body you’ve ever seen –...
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David Gilmour is already discussing a tour in support of his long-awaited new solo album. As for the set list, however, he now has an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the ’70s.” That would be the era when his long-departed bandmate Roger Waters held creative sway. Gilmour and Waters exited the decade amid creative differences, then saw their relationship completely break down when Gilmour decided to move forward with Pink Floyd after Waters split. Gilmour admitted fondness for the band’s earlier Syd Barrett-led era, and committed to performing songs from Pink Floyd’s post-Waters alb...
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When Brian Johnson had to step away from AC/DC in 2016 due to health problems, the band recruited Axl Rose to finish out their tour. Interestingly, the job could have gone to a very different singer. Nic Cester, frontman for the Australian rock band Jet, has confirmed that he auditioned for the gig. In a conversation with radio station Triple J, he recalled how it all went down. “I was staying with my in-laws and I got up in the morning and read the paper and it said that Brian Johnson was not in the band anymore,” Cester remembered (as transcribed by Consequence). “I remember saying to my fat...
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Comedian Drew Carey is still raving about Phish’s performance at the Sphere in Las Vegas, and shared an eye-opening comparison to the venue’s previous tenant, U2. During an appearance on SiriusXM’s Phish Radio, Carey – who described himself as a “casual U2 fan” – revealed that a friend had convinced him to check out the Irish rockers during their residency at the Sphere. “It blew my mind how great it was,” the comedian admitted, adding that he went back multiple times to see U2 again and even flew in friends to join him for the shows. Carey’s impression, however, changed once he returned to La...
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Believe it or not, Cher might have been Mrs. Elvis Presley, but she turned down a romantic date with the singer decades ago. The veteran singer stopped by The Jennifer Hudson Show on Wednesday (May 1) and admitted she was too nervous to date someone of his stature. Although she didn’t reveal when he asked her out, she did explain that her shyness kept her from dating the King of Rock & Roll. “It was because I was nervous, and I knew of the people around him, and it wasn’t that they were bad people, it’s just that I was kind of nervous of his reputation,” she explains. “I’m really shy when I’m ...
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