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Sammy Hagar would rather “get sick and even die” if it meant playing in front of an audience during the coronavirus crisis, the rocker said in a new interview. The former Van Halen frontman, 72, shared his thoughts on the effects of the pandemic that’s sickened more than 9.2 million people and killed more than …
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5 Seconds of Summer guitarist Michael Clifford is apologizing for past sexist and homophobic tweets that have recently resurfaced online. “hi. I am so f—king sorry for all the dumb s—t I did when I was younger,” Clifford, 24, tweeted on Saturday. “I am a different person now with a much better understanding of the …
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During the 1980s, Howard Bloom ranked among the biggest and most influential rock ’n’ roll press agents in the world. He influenced media trajectories for arena-packing performers including Bob Marley, Prince, Kiss and Billy Idol. In his recently published “Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and …
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Guitarist Tom Morello joined the rest of Twitter in piling on a fan who claimed he no longer liked Rage Against the Machine since they’ve become political. The fan, Scott Casteneda, seemingly just realized he had been listening to one of the most popular political rock groups all along when he tweeted at Morello Tuesday …
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It has been confirmed that Paul ‘Tonka’ Chapman, the former UFO guitarist, died at the age of 66 yesterday. The musician’s family confirmed the sad news on his Facebook page. The statement read: “It is with a heavy heart writing this, today is my dad’s 66th birthday. He passed away earlier this afternoon. “He was …
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Steve Priest, the bass player who co-founded the UK group Sweet that had hits including “Ballroom Blitz,” “Fox on the Run” and “Love Is Like Oxygen,” died today, his bandmates said without providing details. He was 72. Priest had been living in the Los Angeles area for several years, and his band played often at …
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Rock ’n’ roll journeyman Bob Kulick, known for his guitar and production work for Kiss and for penning the “SpongeBob SquarePants” song “Sweet Victory,” has died. He was 70. Kulick’s younger brother — and another Kiss alumnus — Bruce confirmed the news on Facebook Friday, writing, “I am heartbroken to have to share the news …
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Queen rocker Brian May revealed Monday that he is recovering from a recent heart attack after shredding his butt muscle while gardening. The 72-year-old guitarist detailed his medical nightmare in a seven-and-a-half minute video on social media, joking about the terrible irony of the title of one of Queen’s hit albums. “Sheer Heart Attack eh?” he …
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Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Little Richard was laid to rest Wednesday at the Oakwood Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama. The larger-than-life icon was buried among a humble gathering of close friends and family at the cemetery, owned by the historically black, Seventh-day Adventist college he attended, Oakwood University. His band’s members spoke lovingly of …
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Little Richard, one of the founding fathers of rock ‘n’ roll and whose flamboyance and fire were just as much his calling cards as his pompadour, eyeliner and piano pounding, died Saturday at his brother’s home in Nashville. He was 87. The cause of death was bone cancer. Richard, whose machine gun delivery, “Wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom” from …
Sammy Hagar would rather “get sick and even die” if it meant playing in front of an audience during the coronavirus crisis, the rocker said in a new interview. The former Van Halen frontman, 72, shared his thoughts on the effects of the pandemic that’s sickened more than 9.2 million people and killed more than …
