3 березня 1969р. Led Zeppelin, в другій половині дня, записали свій перший сесійний виступ BBC Radio 1 'Top Gear' в Playhouse Theatre in London. Були записані пісні 'Dazed And Confused', 'Communication Breakdown', 'You Shook Me' та 'I Can't Quit You Baby'
David Coverdale has Ritchie Blackmore to thank for the way the new Whitesnake album came together.
Expanding on his recent remarks regarding the near-reunion with Blackmore that helped inspire The Purple Album, Coverdale opens up in the band’s electronic press kit for the record, reiterating that it all started with some outreach from the duo’s former Deep Purple bandmate Jon Lord during the period preceding his death in 2012.
In the clip, which you can watch above, Coverdale recalls how he first started entertaining the idea of revisiting his portion of the Purple catalog during talks with Blackmore that evolved after Lord’s passing. As the two passed ideas back and forth, Coverdale says he delved back into the arrangements, working out new ways of approaching the material.
“A lot of the ideas weren’t appealing to me, unfortunately,” he admits now. “But I was already doing preparatory work on these songs, hoping Ritchie would be open to bringing them up to date and reappraising some of them.”
When the reunion fell apart, Coverdale was initially disappointed — but after his wife asked him why he didn’t just take the groundwork he’d already done and turn it into a Whitesnake album, he realized he could pay tribute to his time in Deep Purple in a different way.
“I took a little time to think about it,” he recalls. “I spoke to my musicians and everybody was incredibly positive, so it was all systems go,” paving the way for an album of re-recorded cuts that Coverdale has called an “homage” and “a huge thank-you from me to Deep Purple for the opportunity I was given over 40 years ago.”
The Purple Album is scheduled to arrive on May 19, and will be accompanied by a summer tour of the States. It’s the first Whitesnake studio album since 2011′s Forevermore, and the first to feature new guitarist Joel Hoekstra, formerly of Night Ranger. http://ultimateclassicrock.com/whitesna ... bum-video/
25 березня 1965 р, рівно півстоліття тому з Rolling Stones стався форс-мажор під час їхнього шоу в Данії, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman отримали удар струмом від несправного мікрофона на сцені, Bill Wyman перебував декілька хвилин без свідомості від цього.
THE ROLLING STONES STICKY FINGERS REMASTERED AND RE-RELEASED 25 / 26 MAY 2015
the re-release will also include a different take on “Brown Sugar” featuring Eric Clapton, as well as alternative versions of key album tracks “Dead Flowers,” “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” and “Bitch,” to go with five songs from a 1971 appearance at London’s Roundhouse.
акустична версія Wild Horses :
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Jeff Beck has a busy spring coming up. In addition to a handful of new dates that have just been added to his current tour, the legendary guitarist will release a new live album next month.
Jeff Beck Live+ was recorded during Beck’s 2014 tour with his band, which includes singer Jimmy Hall, bassist Rhonda Smith, drummer Jonathan Joseph and guitarist Nicolas Meier
Roger Waters‘ Amused to Death, a guest-packed – and still very relevant – indictment of a screen-obsessed culture, is returning with a multi-format remastering.
The reissue, due July 24, will be available in a variety of configurations, including CD, CD/Blu-ray, SACD, hi-res digital download, two-LP 200-gram vinyl and limited-edition numbered two-LP picture disc vinyl. Look for a new 5.1 surround remix of the original 1992 album on high-def Blu-ray audio, and a new remastered stereo mix by longtime Waters and Pink Floyd collaborator and co-producer James Guthrie.
“I’m remembering the record from [more than] 20 years ago, that most of what I had to say then sadly still pertains today, and is maybe even more relevant to our predicament as people in 2015 even than it was in 1992,” Waters says in a press release announcing the reissue.
Amused to Death, which was produced by Waters and Patrick Leonard, included guest turns by Jeff Beck (on seven tracks), Don Henley (“Watching TV”), Toto‘s Steve Lukather (three songs) and Jeff Porcaro (“It’s a Miracle”), Randy Jackson (“What God Wants, Part I and II”) and Rita Coolidge (“Amused to Death”). Regular collaborators like Andy Fairweather Low rounded out the lineup. This project also featured a reunion with arranger Michael Kamen, who also oversaw orchestrations on Pink Floyd’s 1979 blockbuster The Wall.
Sean Evans, creative director for Waters’ subsequent solo tours of The Wall, has created a new cover image for the reissue, which you can see above. Guthrie earned an engineering Grammy for his work on The Wall, then co-produced 1983′s The Final Cut and mixed and mastered several post-Waters Pink Floyd projects.
16 квітня 1970р, сингл Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love" отримав статус Gold в США, після продажу більш ніж 1 млн. копій,
та досягнув позиціі №4 в чарті синглів
Всемирный день рок-н-ролла (World Rock-n-roll Day) — праздник единомышленников, для которых рок-н-ролл стал не только музыкой, а стилем и образом жизни. Праздник отмечается ежегодно 13 апреля, хотя историческое событие, послужившее основой для праздника, произошло днем раньше: 12 апреля 1954 года Билл Хейли (Bill Haley) записал сингл «Rock Around The Clock», ставший знаковым в новом музыкальном направлении, которое быстро преодолело границы США и распространилось по странам и континентам, бросив вызов обществу и традициям:
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Колишній учасник групи The Beatles барабанщик Рінго Старр в суботу, 18 квітня, був включений в Зал слави рок-н-ролу в США. Про це йдеться на
сайті організації. Ввів Рінго Старра в Зал слави рок-н-ролу його колега
по групі Пол Маккартні.
Також в рамках церемонії, яка стала 30-ю за рахунком, в елітарне музичне
співтовариство були прийняті рок-музикант Лу Рід