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The One after the Big One: Van Halen, 5150 (Article)
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Van Halen’s internal soap opera has been going on so long, it’s easy to forget it had a beginning—in 1985, when singer David Lee Roth bolted the band for both a solo career (which burned brightly for a season or three) and a stint as a movie star (which never happened). Eddie and Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony got together with singer Sammy Hagar (he of red attire and lion’s roar) and immediately blasted out a masterpiece in 1986’s 5150. It was Van Halen’s first Number One album (the 10-times-platinum 1984 had been stuck at Number Two behind Michael Jackson’s THRILLER), and started a
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The One after the Big One: Foreigner, AGENT PROVOCATEUR (Article)
Monday, November 6, 2017
Among the arena rock monsters who did the Godzilla stomp across the U.S. in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Foreigner had two formidable powers. Guitarist Mick Jones, whose gift for melody and cool riffs powered songs that remain on radio playlists to this day, was complemented by singer Lou Gramm, whose voice alone could level a small metropolitan area. They rang up platinum pounders like “Hot Blooded,” “Head Games,” and “Long, Long Way from Home” before hitting the motherlode with 1981’s Mutt Lange-produced 4, a Number One album that yielded classics like “Urgent” and “Juke Box Hero,” along
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MAKE IT A DOUBLE: Red Hot Chili Peppers, STADIUM ARCADIUM (Article)
Thursday, November 2, 2017
The return of guitarist John Frusciante to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1998 was a fortuitous development for the band, and kicked off a creative and popular resurgence that saw them making some of their best music and selling it to more listeners than ever. What emerged from this period was a trio of albums (now referred to as their “California trilogy”) that found the band developing its sound away from the purely cracking, funk-influenced likes of “Give It Away,” “Knock Me Down” and “Suck My Kiss,” into an expansive mélange of rock riffs and vocal harmonies that made them occasionally sound
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And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2018 Nominees are… (Article)
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Since 1986, every year has brought a new crop of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and every year there’s a lot of finger-crossing prior to the announcement of the year’s nominees, which is promptly followed by a healthy blend of excitement about who’s made the list and annoyance over who hasn’t. Here at Rhino HQ, we’ve already taken time to deliver our now-traditional glower in the general direction of Cleveland for the continued absence of The Monkees from the nominees list – we’ve found that it’s best to get the glowering out of the way early – and now we’ve slipped into a
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Out Now: The Replacements, FOR SALE: LIVE AT MAXWELL’S (Article)
Friday, October 6, 2017
Way back yonder in February 1986, The Replacements arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey, took the stage of Maxwell’s, and raged against…something. Not necessarily the dying of the light – that seems a little overly poetic for the ‘Mats – but you know how it was with those guys when they were in their heyday: if you’d asked them what they were raging against, they probably would’ve just pulled a Brando and sneered, “Whaddaya got?” That’s why The Replacements were legends. It’s also why people have been champing at the bit for the release of FOR SALE: LIVE AT MAXWELL’S. When the ‘Mats took the stage
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Now Available: Jeff Beck, LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL (Digital Download) (Article)
Friday, October 6, 2017
Back in the summer of 2016 – it seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? – Jeff Beck decided to celebrate the first 50 years of his musical career with a performance at one of the world’s most famous venues featuring some extremely talented musicians playing alongside him. Now, Rhino is making the audio document of that evening available for digital download and steaming. The guest list for Beck’s performance included such notable names as Billy F. Gibbons, Buddy Guy, Jan Hammer, Beth Hart, and Steven Tyler, but when you listen to Live at the Hollywood Bowl, there’s no question that Beck was the
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Happy Birthday: David Lee Roth (Article)
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
It’s David Lee Roth’s birthday, and given how much he’s given to us over the years both as the frontman of Van Halen and as a solo artist, this is most certainly a day worth celebrating. Diamond Dave has, like just about everyone else in the free world, his very own YouTube channel, although it generally focuses less on his music than it does The Roth Show, a YouTube program that gives our man Dave a chance to be the TV star he always wanted to be. Even back in his music video heyday, you could tell that Roth enjoyed being in front of the camera and hamming it up – and we use that phrase
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This Day in ’95: Cliff Richard Gets Knighted (Article)
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
22 years ago today, Cliff Richard added a “sir” to his name when he was officially invested as a Knight Bachelor of the British Empire. Richard, who sits behind only The Beatles and Elvis Presley when it comes to the top-selling artists in UK Singles Chart history, was actually appointed a Knight Bachelor on June 17, 1995, but the investment ceremony took place on October 25 at Buckingham Palace. With his three sisters at his side, Sir Cliff accepted his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, with his contributions to charity cited as the predominant reason for having been awarded the title
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RIP Fats Domino (Article)
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Rock and roll will never die, but one of the individuals directly responsible for helping it evolve in the first place has joined the choir invisible…or, more likely, he’s playing piano for them, which means there’s a lot more boogie-woogie just beyond the pearly gates all of a sudden. Antoine Domino, Jr. – better known by his sobriquet, Fats – was born in New Orleans and never ventured very far from there unless he was on tour, at which point he tried to bring a little bit of New Orleans to the crowds that came to see him. He started his career in 1947, when bandleader Billy Diamond invited
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Single Stories: Ramones, “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker” (Article)
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Unlike a lot of our selections for the Single Stories feature, this isn’t one that’s actually celebrating an anniversary today, but with the 40th anniversary of ROCKET TO RUSSIA – yes, that’s the album from whence it comes – only about a week away, it’s been running through our mind rather a lot, so we thought this was as good a time to talk it up as any. Written by Joey Ramone and produced jointly by Tommy Ramone and Tommy Bongiovi, “Sheena is a Punk Rocker” remains one of the Ramones’ most well-known and popular songs, a situation no doubt caused by the fact that it’s by far one of their
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