-
Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame voters reveal why so many legends are still locked out.
-
She's the first black artist to achieve the feat.
-
At nearly 72 years old — and now, reportedly, sober and battling Parkinson’s disease — Ozzy Osbourne still revels in his image as metal’s madman. A new documentary, “The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne,” premiering Monday on A&E, takes viewers through his roller-coaster life. “Most of the [outrageous] stories with Ozzy took place in the …
-
Frankie Banali, the drummer for heavy metal band Quiet Riot, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 68. His wife Regina wrote in a statement that he had been battling stage four pancreatic cancer since April 2019. The longtime Quiet Riot drummer also played with Billy Idol, W.A.S.P. and Faster Pussycat. “He put up an inspiringly …
-
A sticky-fingered scammer impersonated Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood, duped a woman into a romance — and then tried to con her out of more than $8,000. Now, Stones lover Mary Downey tells Page Six she was left terrified by the ordeal. Downey — a casting director who worked on “Star Search” — tells us …
-
On September 17th, 1987, about 100 people went to the Bluebird night club in Bloomington, Indiana, with no idea they were about to witness a truly historic moment in rock history. Local band Ragin’ Texans was headlining that night, but it was two days before Farm Aid III at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, and …
-
The office of Creem magazine was as unruly as the music that its writers covered. One day, when local hero Iggy Pop paid a visit to the mag’s Detroit headquarters, publisher/founder Barry Kramer sneaked up behind the proto-punk and dumped a trashcan full of garbage on his head. Then Kramer inexplicably exclaimed, “Hey, motherf - - ker! Did …
-
The Spice Girls and the Pussycat Dolls would be nothing without the Go-Go’s. Formed in Los Angeles in 1978, they were an all-women band that, over just seven years, wrote and performed some of the best remembered songs of the 1980s: “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “Vacation.” All unforgettable. No all-girl …
-
Marilyn Manson has announced his 11th studio album, “We Are Chaos,” out September 11th via Loma Vista Recordings. The 10-track LP was produced by Manson and Grammy Award winner Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker) and one of Manson’s self-portraits is featured on its cover. To accompany the sinister-sounding album, Manson released the lead single …
-
Motörhead’s commercial breakthrough, “Ace of Spades,” will be the subject of a massive reissue this fall with two previously unreleased live albums and a clutch of alternate versions of the album’s songs. The group is previewing the collection with a previously unheard, gritty live version of the ripping title track recorded at Belfast’s Whitla Hall …