“Lucy” Who Inspired Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” Dies
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Artist:Lucy Vodden
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Track:Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
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Rod-Less Faces Reforming To Play Royal Albert Hall
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Artist:The Faces
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Music Show To Host Rory Gallagher Guitar Collection
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It has been confirmed today that, among a bewildering array of live music, seminars, music workshops, displays, exhibitions and discussions, The Music Show at the RDS, Dublin, Ireland on October 3 & 4, 2009 will feature a major exhibition of guitars and amps from the collection of the late Rory Gallagher, widely regarded as one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time. The Rory Gallagher Exh...
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Band You Should Know : The U.K.'s Rock Heavy Pig Iron
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Formed in London in the summer of July 2001, influenced by such legends as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and AC/DC, Pig Iron are bringing back the time honored sounds of British blues based metal with a vengeance.With a critically acclaimed 2005 debut EP and last year's stellar 'The Paths Of Glory...Lead To The Grave' under their belts,in their 8 years together they've they've playe...
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Boldly Going Where No Blues Rocker Has Gone Before : Back Door Slam's Davy Knowles Has Live Performance Beamed To Space Station
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Artist:Back Door Slam
Back Door Slam guitarist/vocalist Davy Knowles is now one of only two artists ever to play a song live from NASA's Mission Control in Houston, Texas to the International Space Station (the only other being Jimmy Buffett) with a transmission of "Roll Away" from Back Door Slam's album of the same name .The connection was made via astronaut Nicole Stott, who is serving as a Flight Engineer on ISS ...
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Aerosmith's Joe Perry On Steven Tyler : "He's Got To Get His Act Together"
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Joe Perry is angry that Aerosmith has been sidelined due to Steven Tyler's tour injury.The group had to cancel their summer tour after the frontman suffered injuries when he fell off the stage during a concert in August."The tour was building up to be a great tour, and I was pretty (upset), you know," Perry said in an interview.The guitarist hasn't even spoken to Tyler recently: "I haven't talk...
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Legendary Punk Poet Jim Carroll Dead At 60
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Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60.He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times.Carroll was a fixture of the 1970s downtown Manhattan scene, where he mixed with artists such as Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. His life was shaped by drug use, which he wrote about exten...
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Phil Collins : "I Can Never Play The Drums Again"
The UK's Mail Online reports Phil Collins today revealed he will never drum again because he is suffering from a painful spine injury.The former Genesis star can't even hold his sticks after years of sitting in front of a drumkit.Collins, 58, whose hits include "In The Air Tonight", said: 'After playing drums for 50 years, I've had to stop.'My vertebrae have been crushing my spinal cord because...
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