Real Rock Today: September 23, 2015
8 reasons why Bruce Springsteen is still The Boss
The fact that Bruce Springsteen is The Boss of rock ‘n’ roll is absolutely irrefutable, and we will hear no more said about it.
Bruce turns 66 today, but still manages to look as cool and boyish as he did all those years ago on the cover of Born to Run. There’s many a man-crush involving Springsteen, and that’s just fine.
But every now and then, people need to be reminded as to exactly what Bruce has done to gain this monumental title. There’s many reasons why we call him ‘The Boss’, and here are just a few of his most recent highlights.
Don Henley Regrets Vocal Work On Eagles Classic Desperado
Eagles Star Don Henley Has Stunned Fans By Confessing He’d Like To Go Back In Time And Re-record The Band’s Classic Track Desperado.
In an online interview with Billy Joel, staged on Sunday (20Sep15) in New York, the rocker revealed his greatest regret was the lead vocal he laid down on the song.
Foreigner’s Lou Gramm on faith, drugs and rock & roll
He chalks it up to The Beatles. Lou Gramm says that after seeing John, Paul, George and Ringo on “The Ed Sullivan Show” at age 12 in February 1964, he had no doubt that his future lay in music.
The former voice of Foreigner, one of the best selling bands of the 1970s and 1980s, Gramm has finally released his autobiography.
How Keith Richards became everyone’s favourite member of the Rolling Stones
’That’s all I got,” croaks Keith Richards, stumbling to an abrupt conclusion on his new song “Crosseyed Heart.” But clearly, that is not all. For here he is with an album of the same name: another warm, swampy, deeply groovy concoction of rock, blues, country and soul, full of romantic tenderness and hard-earned wisdom, delivered in a spirit of pure vintage class.
An accompanying documentary, Under the Influence (exclusively on Netflix), features Richards dispensing one-liners and whimsical anecdotes with a gruff whisper and chuckle, revealing nothing much except that he’s a happy old rocker. And when he runs out of things to say, he just lets his guitar do the talking.
Roger Waters is no fan of last Pink Floyd LP
Roger Waters doesn’t like Pink Floyd’s last album ‘The Endless River’.
The band’s ex-bass player and founder has listened to his former group’s 2014 LP but he didn’t enjoy the music David Gilmour and Nick Mason recorded.
AC/DC To Launch New Beer Range In Australia
They are arguably the biggest band to ever come out of Australia and rock legends AC/DC just know how to keep on giving the people what they want with the announcement that the group are releasing their own beer range.
Review: AC/DC takes Vancouver on an electrifying ride
For those about to rock… well, you know how it goes.
Aussie rock band AC/DC — one of genre’s most celebrated acts with more than 200 million records sold — came to jolt the very foundations of BC Place yet again Tuesday night.
An estimated 45,000 fans were in attendance, many sporting flashing devil horns ($20 a pop) and AC/DC memorabilia spanning four decades, and the band did what it’s always done best: take them on an electrifying ride on the Highway To Hell.
20 years on, Bon Jovi rocks Korean fans again
Age is truly an issue of mind over matter for U.S. rock band Bon Jovi.
Robert Plant and friends freshen up Zeppelin tunes
That musical fountain of youth that Mick Jagger discovered? He may have shared the road map with Robert Plant.
Former Led Zeppelin vocalist Plant gave an invigorating performance Tuesday at the Murat Theatre in Old National Centre, where a packed house heard an assortment of new songs, Zeppelin oldies and U.S. blues from the first half of the 20th century.
