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Former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora says he’s open to returning to the group if Jon Bon Jovi’s health improves to the point he’s able to tour again. Sambora abruptly left the band in 2013 to focus on his family. He was replaced by Phil X, who has remained in the band ever since. Meanwhile, Bon Jovi underwent a procedure in 2022 to alleviate loose vocal cords that were hindering his singing ability. The rocker is still recovering, a process he’s admitted is taking longer than expected. During an appearance on The Allison Hagendorf Show, Sambora confirmed he’d be open to returning to the ba...
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When the Beatles‘ Let It Be film premiered in May 1970, it was met with negative reviews and painted a bleak portrait of the world’s biggest rock band on the brink of destruction. But as a restored version of the documentary arrives on Disney+ this week, it’s poised for a reappraisal — including from Ringo Starr. “I was always moaning about the original film, because there was no real joy in it,” Starr told the Daily Beast. The drummer cited a heavily dissected scene between Paul McCartney and George Harrison, where they snipe at each other while trying to work out a song arrangement. “It was ...
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Noel Gallagher made a guest appearance at the Black Keys‘ concert in London on Tuesday evening, performing two songs from the Keys’ latest album, Ohio Players. The former Oasis songwriter joined the duo for “Only Love Matters” and “On the Game,” both of which he helped co-write. You can view fan-filmed footage of the performances below. Noel Gallagher in the Studio With the Black KeysThe Black Keys’ Ohio Players features several guests, including Beck, Juicy J, Lil Noid and Gallagher. “When we thought about people who were great songwriters, he was one of the first to come to mind,” Dan Auerba...
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Count Heart singer Ann Wilson among the classic rockers who find it distracting when concertgoers have their cell phones out during shows. During an appearance on the Broken Record podcast, the frontwoman was asked how seeing cell phones in the crowd affects her performance. “It does change things,” Wilson admitted, “especially when [fans] come up to the front of the stage and they turn around so that you’re in the backdrop and they want to take a selfie with you as a background. I mean, that’s really distracting, because you just want to sort of jump out of the way.” READ MORE: Ann Wilson Say...
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Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony sees the band’s 2007 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a missed opportunity. During an appearance on The Hook Rocks podcast, Anthony lamented Van Halen’s inability to get along. “Even when the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” the bassist recalled. “Sammy [Hagar] and I were the only two from the band that showed up, and we weren’t even in the band at the time.” Eddie Van Halen (understandably) missed the ceremony because he was in rehab, while David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen chose not to attend. Anthony described it as...
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Def Leppard came to realize that they were into something different. [The] New Wave of British Heavy Metal, a lot of it wasn’t very professional and a lot of it wasn’t very deep, guitarist Phil Collen told UCR recently. When producer Mutt Lange started working with Def Leppard, he pushed them hard. “How come you take so long doing these songs,” Collen recalled someone asking Lange, in the Hysteria period. “So you’ll be talking about it in 30 years,” came the reply. Now more than 40 years on, Lange has been proven correct, time and time again, when it comes to 1983’s Pyromania, his second colla...
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Joe Elliott has spent more than 40 years as the frontman of Def Leppard, but the singer believes he was only handed the job because his bandmates felt sorry for him. During an appearance on The Rockonteurs podcast, Elliott detailed how the fledgling Def Leppard came together. “It was (guitarist) Pete Willis, (bassist) Rick Savage and Tony Kenning was the original drummer,” Elliott recalled, noting that the band’s priority at the time was finding a rehearsal space. The group eventually set up shop in a closed factory that had previously manufactured silverware. “This was a real Victorian dump h...
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Ann Wilson has looked back on the demise of Heart’s original lineup, noting the group was doomed by “emotional hardship.” “It’s hard to describe what it was like when that lineup disbanded,” Wilson explained during an appearance on the Broken Record podcast. “We couldn’t get along anymore and things got really difficult between us.” Though the band had cycled through several musicians in its early years, they settled on a lineup in 1973 around the same time they adopted the name Heart. In addition to Ann Wilson and her sister, Nancy, the band featured guitarist Roger Fisher, bassist Steve Foss...
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Ann Wilson has looked back on the demise of Heart’s original lineup, noting the group was doomed by “emotional hardship.” “It’s hard to describe what it was like when that lineup disbanded,” Wilson explained during an appearance on the Broken Record podcast. “We couldn’t get along anymore and things got really difficult between us.” Though the band had cycled through several musicians in its early years, they settled on a lineup in 1973 around the same time they adopted the name Heart. In addition to Ann Wilson and her sister, Nancy, the band featured guitarist Roger Fisher, bassist Steve Foss...
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Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs will release a new album, Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, on June 14. The LP features guests Graham Nash, Lucinda Williams, Chris Stapleton and Campbell’s own former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bandmate, Benmont Tench. This is the Knobs’ third album, but according to Campbell, many of its songs have been sitting in his archive for years. “Back in the day, I would write songs and then give them to my partner Tom, and that’s all I ever did with them,” he toldRolling Stone. “I gave him so much he couldn’t possibly ever deal with it all. I stuck a lot up on the ...
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