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Steven Tyler Sings With 10-Year-Old Cancer Patient
A shout-out on ‘American Idol’ would have been plenty to lift the spirits of 10-year-old cancer patient Cole Grace, but while hospitalized earlier this year the Rhode Island kid found himself face-to-face with Steven Tyler. During an interview with WPRI, Grace shared what he and the Aerosmith rocker talked about.
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Ted Nugent Issues Statement Clarifying President Obama Comments
“Evil,” “Criminals,” “Vile,” “Coyotes” … these are just four of the words rocker Ted Nugent chose for his speech at the NRA Convention in St. Louis on Saturday. All descriptions were aimed at the White House, with the Motor City Madman adding that “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
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Kiss Hopes ‘Monster’ is the Album That Will Get Them to No. 1
Kiss is hoping their new album ‘Monster’ does something none of their previous albums were able to do. No, they’re not hoping it gets them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. According to Paul Stanley, they want a No. 1 record.
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Paul Rodgers Explains Why He Left Queen, Comments on Adam Lambert
Longtime Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers is excited for a stretch of European dates with his band, but not willing to commit to an extended tour. The singer says he’s “too long in the tooth” to live the road life again, which is part of the reason he left Queen after four years.
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Bad Company’s Drummer’s Daughter Declared ‘Crush of the Day’
Bad Company‘s drummer just got a lot more interesting. Jemina Kirke, daughter of Simon Kirke, was named the Babe of the Day by men’s site GuySpeed.com. While many Babe of the Day photos involve women wearing near nothing, Kirke is covered from head to toe in two of the three photos.
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Journey to Tour With Pat Benatar, Loverboy
Tickets are already on sale for many of the dates Journey has scheduled to play with Pat Benatar and Loverboy this summer. According to the band’s official website, they’ll play 14 dates across the country, beginning on July 21 in San Bernardino, Calif.
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Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ to Be Turned Into Motion Picture
One of Rolling Stone magazine’s Top 20 albums of all time will be made into a feature film. The rights to adapt Bob Dylan‘s painful but brilliant ‘Blood on the Tracks’ album into a full-length motion picture were acquired by a Brazilian film production company that plans to make it into an English language movie.
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Rolling Stones Release ‘L.A. Friday’ Bootleg From 1975
The third album to be released on the Rolling Stones‘ archive website is a legendary show from the band’s tour of America in 1975. While the massive collection of songs is titled ‘L.A. Friday,’ it was actually recorded on a Sunday — July 13, 1975.
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Kiss Ride a Monster Truck to the 2012 ACM Awards in Las Vegas
As expected, Kiss made the loudest and most jaw-dropping entrance to the 2012 ACM Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday night. While outfits for the country music award show are often tame, and rarely sensational, the rockers arrived in full Kiss makeup, on the back of the Raminator, a Dodge Ram monster truck.
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Lindsey Buckingham Announces Solo Tour Dates
Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsay Buckingham has announced 15 tour dates across the west coast in support of his new ‘Seeds We Sow’ album. The run of dates will begin on May 3, and will be a one-man show.
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Gregg Allman Hospitalized
The Allman Brothers Band closed a 10-night residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on Sunday night, and were forced to play parts of two of those shows without frontman and founder Gregg Allman. Allman walked off stage in pain on Saturday night and was taken to a local hospital.
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David Bowie to Release Remastered ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars’
It will be almost 40 years to the day of its original release when EMI releases the newest anniversary edition of the most influential David Bowie album of all time. A remastered version of 1972′s ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars’ will be released on June 4.