Mark Holmberg of the Richmond Times-Dispatch has issued the following report: Heavy metal — long reviled as the worst, most-evil arm of that musical devil known as rock'n' roll — is now some 40 years old. A second generation of metalheads has come of age, joining the legions of graying headbangers with burning-skull ...
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DEF LEPPARD were glad to help Bob Geldof and his campaign to end Third World poverty by performing at the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia on Saturday (July 2). The band's lead singer Joe Elliott told Launch Radio Networks that he hoped people don't lose sight of the goal while they're enjoying the show. "I ...
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DEEP PURPLE, MÖTLEY CRÜE, VELVET REVOLVER and DEF LEPPARD were among the performers at the nine Live 8 concerts held simultaneously around the world to pressure leaders of the wealthy G8 nations to increase aid to Africa when they meet in Scotland this week. Check out pictures: MÖTLEY CRÜE (Wire Image: Press Room, ...
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The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) recently updated their list of top-selling music artists in the United States. The following are the cumulative album sales totals for the most popular heavy metal/hard rock arists in the U.S. (sales totals are in millions): #3: LED ZEPPELIN 107.5 #10: AC/DC 66 #11: AEROSMITH 65.5 #18: METALLICA ...
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EMI has inked a deal to release the the worldwide Live 8 concerts on DVD in November. The company will tailor the content of the releases to each market. Artists who will perform at the concerts include DEEP PURPLE, MÖTLEY CRÜE, LINKIN PARK, VELVET REVOLVER, DEF LEPPARD, PINK FLOYD, and BON JOVI. Live 8 organizer ...
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DEF LEPPARD have been confirmed to play at the Live 8 festival, taking place around the world on July 2. Live 8 is organized by Bob Geldof, with eight free concerts that are held with the cream of international rock and pop artists performing in London (U.K.), Paris (France), Berlin (Germany), Rome (Italy), Philadelphia (USA), ...
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The Florida Times-Union has uploaded 53 pictures from DEF LEPPARD's June 17 performance in Jacksonville, Florida. The images, which were taken by photographer Kate-Smith Brown, can be viewed at this location. As previously reported, DEF LEPPARD have set a September 20 worldwide release date for their all-covers set, entitled "Yeah!" Guitarist Phil Collen ...
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What started out being three guys from the popular "stoner rock" band UNIDA — songwriter and guitarist Arthur Seay, drummer Mike Cancino, bass player Eddie Plasciencia — became a new, melodically charged, heartfelt, passionate four-piece band called HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES (HOBP). UNIDA — who were fronted by former KYUSS lead singer John Garcia — ...
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Sheffield Today has issued the following report: The wife of DEF LEPPARD drummer Rick Savage has escaped a drink drive conviction after her lawyer spotted a "fatal flaw" in the prosecution's case. Celebrity lawyer Nick Freeman, dubbed "Mr Loophole" spotted that police failed to follow proper procedures after stopping Paige Savage in her ...
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DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Well, here we are the the end of the first leg of shows with Bryan Adams. I'm sat on the back of the bus 15 minutes before we go on in Atlanta, on what was originally a day off! ...
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Former THE ALMIGHTY frontman Ricky Warwick will be opening for WHITESNAKE at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California on June 25-26. Warwick is currently promoting his second solo album, "Love Many Trust Few", out now on Sanctuary Records. The follow-up to 2003's "Tattoos and Alibis" was produced by Ronan McHugh and DEF LEPPARD ...
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Moshpitwookie.com has issued the following report on TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider's final broadcast as the weeknight DJ job on the Philadelphia radio station WMMR: "Citing personal reasons, Dee Snider retired from his weeknight DJ job at WMMR in Philadelphia. "Dee took over the 7-to-midnight show about nine months ago here in Philadelphia, ...
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VH1.com recently conducted an interview with DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott. An excerpt from the interview follows: VH1: You've had a lot of cross over success on the pop charts, do any of your metal brethren ever razz you? Have you had to defend your rock honor? Elliott: All the time. We've had this argument ...
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Former ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist has finished demoing 13 new songs and is currently working on material for his upcoming solo CD with acclaimed songwriter/producer Marti Frederiksen (AEROSMITH, FAITH HILL, DEF LEPPARD). Cantrell just cut a new track called "Swine" with Frederiksen and ex-JANE'S ADDICTION bassist Chris Wyse and is said to be planning on ...
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According to Roadie.net, a stagehand at the DEF LEPPARD show on June 6 in San Bernardino, California was taken to the hospital after being crushed by the upstage section of roof when collapsed as a result of pre-mature removal of the cross-bracing. It was this cross bracing that held the roof to the stage. Four ...
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According to a posting on The Def Leppard Satellite Of Love, DEF LEPPARD's 1988 hit, "Pour Some Sugar On Me" has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Accociation Of America (RIAA). This marks the first time that a DEF LEPPARD single has been certified for any award. The single, released in 1988, ...
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Launch Radio Networks reports: Being British, DEF LEPPARD are more into football — or as we call it here, soccer — than they are baseball. But the group is out with BRYAN ADAMS on the Rock 'N Roll Double-Header tour of U.S. minor league baseball stadiums. Frontman Joe Elliott told Launch that it will easily ...
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DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott recently told the New York Times that, if all goes as planned, the band's summer tour with BRYAN ADAMS and their upcoming all-covers album will succeed in bolstering the band's popularity, which has slipped since the 1980s heyday of multiplatinum albums such as "Pyromania" (1983) and "Hysteria" (1987). "It's a ...
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KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley has given KissOnline.com the following brief update on the progress of his new solo album: "I'm in the studio weekly working on my solo album. Mixing has started and the tracks sound tremendous. I couldn't be happier with the way it's turning out!" As previously reported, drumming on all tracks was ...
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DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Just a quick one this time. I need to warn you all, that there's a lot of stuff on eBay at the moment that is completely fake! Take this item, for example. NOT ONE OF THOSE AUTOGRAPHS ...
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Ben Clover of the Wimbledon Post has issued the following report: Kids don't normally need any help making a racket. But when the former drummer with rock giants STATUS QUO dropped into Poplar Primary School, Morden, to give some expert tuition, it could have been a scene from the film, "School of Rock". Jeff Rich ...
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CKY's new single, "Familiar Realm", is now available for streaming from the Island Def Jam web site. Check it out: Windows Media, Real Media. "Familiar Realm" comes off the group's long-awaited fourth album, "An Answer Can Be Found", due on June 28 via Island Records. The new CD was produced and ...
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Video footage of DEF LEPPARD performing the songs "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and "No Matter What" live on NBC's "Today Show" on Friday (May 27) in front of the NBC Studios at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York City has been posted online at MSNBC.com. Check out photos of LEPPARD's performance at ...
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June 21, 2005 will see the release of the long-awaited and highly anticipated four-disc compilation album, "Hollywood Rocks!" through Deadline/Cleopatra Records. The audio companion to 2004's highly touted "Hollywood Rocks!" coffee table book, the box set is an eargasmic journey through the streets of the infamous Los Angeles club scene of the 1980s and early ...
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DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Well, we're off! As usual, there's too much to do and not enough time to do it in, but the LEPPARD juggernaut is up and running! "After Saturday's first day of rehearsals, yesterday was a day spent shooting footage ...
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN's "Mezmerize", the Columbia band's follow-up to the six-times-platinum 2002 breakthrough "Toxicity", has sold 452,990 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 1 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. "Mezmerize" is Disc One of the 2-disc set "Mezmerize/Hypnotize". Disc Two, "Hypnotize", is ...
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DEF LEPPARD have set a September 20 worldwide release date for their all-covers set, entitled "YEAH!" As previously reported, DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen recently told Billboard.com that the song list for the group's all-covers set has yet to be finalized, as the group decided to record more cuts than it originally planned. ...
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DEF LEPPARD's official web site has been updated with the following message: "By now, most of you know that the next DEF LEPPARD album will be a collection of cover tunes from (mostly) '70s hits, and some of you may have read in various interviews that the album is scheduled for release in the fall ...
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According to a posting on OTEP's official web site, OTEP frontwoman Otep Shamaya will perform on this season's "Def Poetry" on HBO. Click here to watch the "Def Poetry" season five trailer. Best described as a performance poetry event, "Def Poetry" features poets who blend hip-hop — poetry's musical cousin — with the ...
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According to a post at SickthingsUK, New West Records has set an August 2 release date for the new ALICE COOPER album, entitled "Dirty Diamonds". The following press release has been issued by the label; After 30 albums and some of the most famous rock songs ever recorded, you'd think Alice Cooper's demons ...
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