AC / DC, Madonna and U2 are rumored to perform at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards on February 8 at the 20,000-seat Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. The awards will be broadcast tonight on CBS.
If true, AC / DC, who were recently appointed to head Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival this year in Indio, in April, is expected to show some of its new "Rock or Bust" first studio album Australian quartet in six years (Major League Baseball uses "Play Ball" album as the official song for the past playoffs and World Series).
According to reports, Madonna is planning a tour this year marks the 30th anniversary of her Like a Virgin tour to "pull out all the stops," according to a near 56-year-old fountain, the singer cited by Hits Daily Double. She probably perform one of the new songs that launched iTunes just before Christmas.
If U2 appears, marking the first live performance of the Irish supergroup with vocalist Bono from his bike riding accident in Central Park New York City on November 16 Bono suffered numerous broken bones, including a sheet shoulder, elbow, pinky and several bones around one eye. The other three members of the band played a short set at a benefit concert in New York last month with Bruce Springsteen and Chris Martin of Coldplay, replacing the injured vocalist.
There is speculation that U2 would have a song from his latest album, the "Songs of Innocence" controversial automatically downloaded 500 million customers of iTunes from Apple and was nominated for Best Rock Album even thought it was not officially in stores until after September 30th Grammy deadline.
There's nothing like having an act to conduct a well-known guest during a concert, and recently in the South Point Casino in Las Vegas, Raiders Paul Revere made twice.
During a presentation on January 3, The Raiders were joined by bassist popular since their senior years away, Phil "Fang" Volk, according to messages on page singer Darren Dowler Facebook (Dowler was the singer band for the past 11 years).
Volk was upgraded to a teen idol at the time along with then singer Mark Lindsay and several other members of the band through their co-hosts dance and music late teenage ABC's "Where's the action "and his constant appearance on the big teen magazines of the time, especially 16 and Tiger beat. He played in those big rock hits like "Just like Me", "Hungry," "Kicks" and "good".
The gray-haired 69-year-old Volk, dressed in black and shades dresses, rocked out in front of the stage, sharing the lead vocals with Dowler in "flashbacks" to a standing ovation.
On January 4, the Raiders joined Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers. The 74-year-old Dowler Medley and joined in singing the Brothers # 1 1964 classic, "You've Lost That Lovin 'Feeling" back to an incredible fan reception.
"Where is My Love", a song recorded in 1987 by Linda Ronstadt and outlaw country singer Joe Ely, but lost more than a quarter century, has been found, digitized and released on iTunes.
The countrified ballad written by RC Banks was recorded in Los Angeles with a group of studio musicians including legendary drummer Jim Keltner, whose prominent skin hitting record powers. Although the song was never released, Ely often performed in concert over the years.
In a statement accompanying the release, the 67-year-old Ely said he and 68 years old, recently spoke Ronstadt and agreed to release the song.
Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham said the current tour of his side's next studio album "conclude this last act."
But do not panic. Buckingham, 65, said on public TV "show" Tavis Smiley "that all this could still take another couple of years.
He says that the return of singer-keyboardist Christine McVie after a 15-year retirement revitalized the group and together the five members of his glory days. (The Mac has sold over 100 million albums, most of them from those years.) McVie has also caught the group with their new songs.
"She gave me a lot of things (new tunes) to take home. I worked on it, I came back and loved it. We went into the studio and came out with the best song in years ..." he said.
The band drummer Mick Fleetwood, 67, and bassist John McVie, 69, of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (whose members at that time was originally formed in London in 1967 the original Mac guitarist Peter is also included Green, Cream future members Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce and future Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor). Christine McVie, 71, joined in 1970 around the time she married John McVie, while Buckingham and his then girlfriend Stevie Nicks, 66, joined the band on the eve of New Year 1974.
The band is working on the next album, but with Christine McVie back on board, Fleetwood Mac is once again one of the hottest draws in music concerts, ease of selling out arenas 15.000 to 22.000 seats.
Peter Asher, half of the duo Peter and Gordon British invasion was the only musician in the honor roll of the annual New Year's Queen Elizabeth, reports BBC News. The 70-year-old Asher was awarded a Commander of the British Empire for his services to the British music industry. Honorees not well known musicians include actor John Hurt and actresses Joan Collins and Kristin Scott Thomas, each of which received knighthoods.
Asher first found fame in the United States with his singing partner Gordon Waller during the first days of the British Invasion (it is said that the actor Mike Myers took the look of his spy Austin Powers’s hip after 1960 long red hair with bangs Asher and thick black glasses).
Peter and Gordon debut single in February 1964, "A World Without Love", reached number 1 in the US and in the UK it was the first of several songs by Paul McCartney credited to Lennon-McCartney gave the Beatle the duo (McCartney's girlfriend at the time was the sister of actress Jane Asher) that later included the Top 20 hits "Nobody I know" and "Female".
Peter and Gordon Among other hits before calling it a day in 1968 were "I Go to Pieces" and Del Shannon Buddy Holly "True Love Ways." They ended 1966 by scoring two hits new London Music Hall-ish, "Lady Godiva" and "Knight in Rusty Armour".
After the dissolution of Peter and Gordon, Asher went to work for newly formed record label McCartney, Apple, as head of A & R of discovering, signing and producing new talent.
One of his first discoveries was James Taylor, whose eponymous debut LP was released on Apple. Although alum contained the first version, more optimistic Taylor "Carolina in My Mind", the album did not sell well, reaching number 62 in the US Regardless, Asher had so much faith in him that he resigned from Apple and moved to Los Angeles where he was responsible for Taylor. Inked for Warner Bros., Taylor became a superstar from early 1970 with the album, "Sweet Baby James", "thin Mudslide" and "One Man Dog", each of which went Top 5 - all produced by Asher.
From 1973, he began producing a series of crushing multi-platinum albums Linda Ronstadt, including "Heart Like a Wheel" 1974 1977 "Simple Dreams" and exuberant LP cover standards 1983, "News" and its 1987 double-platinum collection of traditional Mexican mariachi songs, "songs from my father." He was an important contributor to what is called the "California Sound" production not only Ronstadt, but professional sound JD Souther SoCal, Andrew Gold and Bonnie Raitt.
After a gap of 37 years, Peter and Gordon met from 2006 for about a dozen concerts full-set before Waller's death in 2009 at age 64 last year, Asher joined a tour that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the British Invasion that also featured Chad and Jeremy, Billy J. Kramer, leading Searchers' Mike Pender, Terry Sylvester of the Hollies, the Moody Blues and original singer Denny Laine. That tour will roll on again from February 10 concerts throughout the eastern United States.
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