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Yahoo
5 days ago
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Rock Legend, 75, Recalls Kicking Madonna Out of His Camp 40 Years Ago at Live Aid
Rock Legend, 75, Recalls Kicking Madonna Out of His Camp 40 Years Ago at Live Aid originally appeared on Parade. Nowadays, there's no room that can't get in. Be it the Met Gala, a sold-out Broadway show, or front row at Fashion Week, the "Material Girl" can always get access. But that wasn't the case forty years ago during Live Aid. The series of epic concerts took place on July 13, 1985, with some of music's biggest stars performing at London, Philadelphia and other locations around the world. Orchestrated by Bob Geldof, the event benefited Band Aid Charitable Foundation's efforts to combat famine in Africa. It featured now-iconic performances from Queen, , Mick Jagger with Tina Turner, and more—including a then 26-year-old Madonna. Madonna was an established star by the time Live Aid took place. She'd already gone No. 1 in the U.S. with "Like a Virgin" and "Crazy For You," and she had hits with "Lucky Star," "Into the Groove," and "Dress You Up." So it wasn't like she was nobody when backstage at the Philadelphia location. But according to Mike Campbell, famed guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, she didn't have enough clout to camp out with the legends on hand. "Backstage there was this tent with (Bob) Dylan and Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, and this tent over here was Jimmy Page and his entourage," Campell told Billboard in a feature about Live Aid's 40th anniversary. "And then Madonna had a tent in another area, and she came marching over and wanted to be in our camp, but there was no room for her, so she had to go back to her area." "But we had all cool people in our spot," he added. Graham Nash also had a bizarre Madonna encounter. He was standing backstage with emcee Jack Nicholson when Madonna and her then-husband Sean Penn came walking up. "This roadie says, 'Look the other way, look the other way.' And me and Jack said, 'What?!' (laughs) Yeah, look the other way. Sure," said Nash. That wasn't the only awkward encounter at Live Aid. Rob Halford of Judas Priest covered Joan Baez's "Diamonds & Rust" in 1977. The two of them bumped into each other at the Philadelphia show. Halford thought that Baez was going to "kick me in the [explicative] for wrecking her song," but what she really did surprised the heavy metal Legend, 75, Recalls Kicking Madonna Out of His Camp 40 Years Ago at Live Aid first appeared on Parade on Jul 11, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 11, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
12-07-2025
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'60s Rock Legends Nearly Split Over One Album — Still Going Strong 63 Years Later
'60s Rock Legends Nearly Split Over One Album — Still Going Strong 63 Years Later originally appeared on Parade. The are celebrating 63 years since their legendary debut — which is a major milestone in the rock world. While many bands have broken over the years, the Stones have kept going strong for decades. However, it wasn't always smooth sailing. Contrary to popular belief, the band's closest split didn't happen due to Brian Jones' tragic death. Instead, tensions peaked in the early 1980s. During the making of their 1983 album Undercover, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger found themselves at creative odds. Chris Kimsey, the album's co-producer, once told Vanity Fair, 'That was the worst time I'd ever experienced with them. We recorded a lot of it in Nassau [Bahamas], then mixed it in New York at the Hit Factory. I would get Mick in the studio from like, midday until seven o'clock, then Keith from like, nine o'clock till five in the morning.' The divide caused major friction, with Richards and Jagger avoiding each other entirely in the studio. 'Mick would say, 'When's he coming in? I'll be there later,'' Kimsey recalled. During this period, Jagger signed a solo deal with CBS, signaling that the band's unity was falling apart. He even stated in an interview with Q at the time, 'It's ridiculous. No one should care if the Rolling Stones have broken up, should they? I mean, when the Beatles broke up, I couldn't give a sh-t. I thought it was a very good idea. With me, people seem to demand that I keep their youthful memories intact in a glass case specifically preserved for them.' Between 1982 and 1989, the Stones didn't tour, fueling doubts about their future. Although they reunited for 1986's Dirty Work, tensions remained high — Jagger was reportedly absent for much of the recording, leaving Richards to take charge. However, the break ultimately did some good for the band. By 1989, they reunited for Steel Wheels, marking a crucial turning point. Richards later reflected in 2003, 'I knew that album was about starting over… Either that was where the thing was going to break or we'd survive and carry on.' In a 2022 interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Richards called the hiatus 'necessary,' adding, 'Once we started back again, I felt stronger than I had for a long time.' During the break, Richards gained a new appreciation for Jagger's role after stepping in as lead singer with his own band, The X-Pensive Winos. ' I came back to the Stones with a lot more knowledge of what Mick's job entails,' he said. 'And it's quite surprisingly different, you're out there all the time." '60s Rock Legends Nearly Split Over One Album — Still Going Strong 63 Years Later first appeared on Parade on Jul 12, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 12, 2025, where it first appeared.
Forbes
10-07-2025
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The Rolling Stones Earns A Debut Top 10 Hit On A Billboard Chart
The Rolling Stones' 'Zydeco Sont Pas Sales' debuts at No. 10 on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales ... More chart, earning the band its first hit on the tally. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 19: (Exclusive Coverage) Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards backstage before The Rolling Stones surprise set in celebration of their new album 'Hackney Diamonds' at Racket NYC on October 19, 2023 in New York City. (Photo byfor RS) Typically, whenever the Rolling Stones release new music, it's a huge deal, and millions of people all around the world pay attention. The band's last album Hackney Diamonds was introduced with a press conference in London, and the full-length went on to reach lofty positions on major charts worldwide, ultimately earning the group a new Grammy for Best Rock Album. Occasionally, however, the Rolling Stones will share something new without making a big to-do about it. The rockers recently delivered a new single, which went largely unnoticed — except by those closely following the band's output. This week, that track earns the group a new top 10 hit in the United States. 'Zydeco Sont Pas Sales' Debuts Inside the Top 10 The Rolling Stones launch 'Zydeco Sont Pas Sales' on the World Digital Song Sales chart this frame. The track arrives at No. 10 on the purchase-centric roster. While that may be the last spot on the tally, its arrival grants the Rolling Stones a debut hit on Billboard's ranking of the bestselling international tunes in the U.S. The Rolling Stones Team Up with Steve Riley 'Zydeco Sont Pas Sales' is credited as a collaboration, which is relatively uncommon for the Rolling Stones. The band is joined by accordionist Steve Riley on the cut. Mick Jagger plays the harmonica and sings in French, which is what qualifies the composition for inclusion on the World Digital Song Sales chart, instead of other tallies in America. The Rolling Stones Honor Zydeco Music For decades, Riley has been the frontman of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, a Grammy-nominated band that is keeping traditional music from the American South alive. 'Zydeco Sont Pas Sales' was recorded for the album Tribute to the King of Zydeco, which features contributions from artists like Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Jimmie Vaughan, Molly Tuttle, and, of course, the Rolling Stones, among other musicians who love the genre, which was born in Louisiana. Tribute to the King of Zydeco Debuts on the Billboard Charts This week, Tribute to the King of Zydeco arrives on a pair of Billboard charts. The full-length opens at No. 1 on the Compilation Albums list and No. 8 on the Blues Albums tally. None of the musicians are credited as lead acts on the project, so the effort does not count toward the overall charting discographies of names like the Rolling Stones.
The Sun
11-06-2025
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- The Sun
How Beach Boys ‘genius' Brian Wilson brought sun-kissed California to world with some of the greatest songs ever made
GOD Only Knows how Brian Wilson created pop's most sublime tunes. The death of The Beach Boys icon at 82 marks the passing of one of the few artists who genuinely deserved to be called a 'genius'. 8 8 8 He was the composer, performer and producer Sir Paul McCartney looked up to. Despite penning all those era-defining songs with John Lennon in The Beatles, Macca placed God Only Knows above them all — and admitted that 'it reduces me to tears every time I hear it'. He performed the song with Brian in 2002 and, as you won't be surprised to hear, 'broke down' during the sound check. Among Brian's other best known songs, mainly co-writes, were Good Vibrations, Surfin' USA, I Get Around and Wouldn't It be Nice. Last night, his children said in a statement: 'We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. 'We are at a loss for words right now. We realise that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy.' His daughter Daria added: 'I don't know what to say. I loved him in ways I can't explain. He was my dad.' Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards Ronnie Wood said he was 'in mourning'. John Lennon's son Sean Ono Lennon described the loss of 'our American Mozart'. And Nancy Sinatra said: 'His cherished music will live forever as he travels through the Universe and beyond. Brian Wilson's last ever performance of iconic Beach Boys hit just two years before his death aged 82 "God bless you, sweet Brian. 'One of the biggest thrills of my life was singing 'California Girls' with Brian.' Brian was born in Inglewood, southern California, in 1942, the first son of Audree and Murry Wilson. From a very early age, he was recognised for his musical gifts. He had perfect pitch and could sing back phrases sung to him as a baby. Brian had a difficult relationship with his dad. He, along with his siblings, suffered psychological and physical abuse by their father. The singer's 2016 memoir, I am Brian Wilson, paints Murry as 'violent' and 'cruel', but also suggests that some claims against him were exaggerated or unfounded. Murry had remembered how, after hearing only a few verses of The Caissons Go Rolling Along, Brian, then an infant, was able to reproduce the tune. At 12, the Wilson family acquired an upright piano, which Brian spent hours and hours teaching himself to play. 8 8 He and his younger brothers, Carl and Dennis, got into the pop sounds of the day — R&B, rock 'n' roll and doo-wop. Despite being partly deaf in one ear, Brian joined Carl and their cousin Mike Love to form a high school group, Carl and the Passions, later bringing in Dennis and Al Jardine to form the Pendletones. Brian co-wrote the group's first song, Surfin', which, in turn, inspired their record label to change their name to The Beach Boys. The rest, as they say, is history, As the chief inspirational force, he brought the sun-kissed Californian lifestyle — surfing, fast cars and parties — to a world emerging from post-war austerity into the Swinging Sixties. The band had adopted a clean-cut, college-boy image, sang about dreamy California Girls and be- came the West Coast's answer to The Beatles. Brian married his first wife, Marilyn, in 1964 and marital strains were to influence the lyrical direction of his masterpiece, The Beach Boys' eleventh album, Pet Sounds. Later that year, Brian had suffered a panic attack on a flight just hours after appearing on TV show Shindig! This prompted him to give up live appearances to concentrate on writing and production. His giant artistic strides began. It's also worth noting that this was the era of psychedelic drugs, notably LSD, and Brian was one of countless musicians to try them out, curious about their effect on songwriting. So came a huge change of tack in his career, leading to his rare mastery of instrumentation, harmony and recording technology. In his later years, Wilson was a man of few words who let his music do the talking. 'A SPIRITUAL RECORD' He struggled with mental illness and found interviews uncomfortable. But, during the times I met him, I found him polite and gracious and steadfastly sincere. In 2016, during a promotional visit to London, I asked Wilson to describe his happiest memory of making Pet Sounds — to some, the greatest album of all time. 'Well, I loved making God Only Knows with my brother Carl. He had a good voice,' he replied, fifty years after its release. It was his understated but heartfelt way of paying tribute to his youngest sibling, blessed with an angelic voice, who had died from cancer in 1998. He told me he had been striving to 'make a choir, a nice choir' with Pet Sounds. Through Carl and the rest of the group's glorious lead and harmony singing, he succeeded. Brian was responsible for the sweeping symphonic arrangements and wall-of-sound production that doffed a hat to Phil Spector's girl group work — but he took it to whole new places. He gave the album weird and wonderful sound effects — bicycle bells, trains, Hawaiian strings, Coke cans and barking dogs among them. 'And we had little toy instruments,' recalled Brian. 'We just thought we'd put them in there for the kids. I knew it would be a very special album,' he continued, before exclaiming, 'I just knew it!'. 8 8 In his memoir, I Am Brian Wilson, he elaborated further: 'I love the whole Pet Sounds record. 'I got a full vision out of it in the studio. "After that, I said to myself that I had completed the greatest album I will ever produce. 'It was a spiritual record. When I was making it, I looked around at the musicians and the singers and I could see their halos.' He also talked about the impact of The Beatles: 'I met Paul McCartney later in the Sixties, in a studio. I was almost always in a studio back then. 'We had a little chat about music. "Everyone knows now that God Only Knows was Paul's favourite song — not only his favourite Beach Boys song, but one of his favourite songs, period. "It's the kind of thing people write in liner notes and say on talk shows. "When people read it, they kind of look at that sentence and keep going. "But think about how much it mattered to me when I first heard it. 'I was the person who wrote God Only Knows and here was another person — the person who wrote Yesterday and And I Love Her and so many other songs — saying it was his favourite. 'It really blew my mind. He wasn't the only Beatle who felt that way. 'John Lennon called me after Pet Sounds — phoned me up, I think the British say — to tell me how much he loved the record.' I'm in a better frame of mind these days. It feels great . . . it's like I see some light. Things make sense to me again Brian Wilson It's sad to think that Wilson, this architect of the band's unique sunlit sound, went on to suffer years in the darkness in the Seventies and Eighties. Mental illness allied to drug abuse left Brian lost in a world of his own from which few believed he would return. But his rehabilitation began in 1988 with his self-titled first solo album. It continued with I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (1995), Orange Crate Art (1995 with long-time collaborator Van Dyke Parks), Imagination (1998) and Gettin' In Over My Head (2004). That same year, he finally realised his lost masterpiece SMiLE. 'That was amazing,' Brian told me. "I never ever imagined it coming out until my manager and (second) wife (Melinda) said: 'You ought to try to finish it.'' He also released a Pet Sounds Live album, but I asked whether he would consider playing the album again in its entirety in concert. 'I don't think we'll be doing that again,' he said with quite alarming frankness. 'We just thought we drove it into the ground.' Last year, it was revealed Brian was suffering from dementia. A conservatorship was awarded to his family, his publicist and manager after Melinda, his wife of 29 years, had died. 8 At the time of her passing, Brian said, 'Melinda was more than my wife. She was my saviour. "She gave me the emotional security. I needed to have a career. "She encouraged me to make the music that was closest to my heart. "She was my anchor.' I remember speaking to Brian on his 66th birthday in 2008, when, in the company of Melinda, life was looking up for this American music icon. Sporting a full head of brushed back grey hair, he spoke movingly about his situation. 'I walk every day for exercise so I can keep alive', he said. 'My state of being has been elevated because I've been exercising and writing songs. 'I'm in a better frame of mind these days. It feels great . . . it's like I see some light. Things make sense to me again.' Not just God, but the whole world, knows how special you were.
BreakingNews.ie
11-06-2025
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Rolling Stones members pay tribute following death of Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Rolling Stones members Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood have paid tribute to Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson following his death at the age of 82. Wilson was the eldest and last surviving of the three musical brothers who formed the American rock band in 1961, alongside their cousin Mike Love and school friend Al Jardine. Advertisement Wood, 78, who has played guitar in the Rolling Stones and rock band Faces, said his world was 'in mourning' amid a week which has also seen the death of US musician Sly Stone. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ronnie Wood (@ronniewood) On Wednesday, Wilson's family said in a statement to his website: 'We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving.' The statement finished 'Love & Mercy', a reference to one of Wilson's songs as well as a film about him starring John Cusack. Wood said in a social media post: 'Oh no Brian Wilson and Sly Stone in one week – my world is in mourning, so sad.' Advertisement His message was punctuated with praying hands and heart emojis, and featured pictures of Wilson and American funk singer Stone, real name Sylvester Stewart, who died on Monday, also aged 82. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Keith Richards (@officialkeef) Richards posted an extract of his 2010 memoir, Life, about Wilson on Instagram with the caption 'Rest in Peace!'. In the excerpt, Richards, 81, recalls hearing The Beach Boys for the first time on the radio, and his reaction to their 1966 album Pet Sounds. The extract reads: 'When we first got to American and to LA, there was a lot of Beach Boys on the radio, which was pretty funny to us – it was before Pet Sounds – it was hot rod songs and surfing songs, pretty lousily played, familiar Chuck Berry licks going on… Advertisement 'It was later on, listening to Pet Sounds, well, it's a little bit overproduced for me, but Brian Wilson had something.' We are heartbroken to announced that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy — Brian Wilson (@BrianWilsonLive) June 11, 2025 Cusack, 58, who played Wilson in a 2014 biopic, said in a post: 'The maestro has passed — the man was a open heart with two legs — with an ear that heard the angels. Quite literally. Love and Mercy for you and yours tonight. RIP Brian.' Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood added: 'Anyone with a musical bone in their body must be grateful for Brian Wilson's genius magical touch!! 'And greatly saddened of this major worldly loss!! My thoughts go out to his family and friends.' Advertisement Sean Ono Lennon, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, also paid tribute in a heartfelt post to X where he described Wilson as 'our American Mozart'. Wilson's band, known for their vocal harmonies, signed with Capitol Records in 1962 and released their first album, Surfin' Safari, that same year. Wilson was born on June 20 1942, and began to play the piano and teach his brothers to sing harmony as a young boy. The Beach Boys started as a neighbourhood act, rehearsing in Wilson's bedroom and in the garage of their house in suburban Hawthorne, California. Advertisement In the group Wilson played bass while his brother Dennis was the drummer and Carl played lead guitar. The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Brian Wilson and Mike Love (PA) Their debut single, Surfin', became a minor hit upon its release in 1961, but was nothing compared with the success that followed from their second studio album, Surfin' USA, released in 1963. The band were managed by the trio's father, Murry Wilson, but by mid-decade he had been displaced and Brian, who had been running the band's recording sessions almost from the start, was in charge. They released their most recognised album, Pet Sounds, in May 1966 which included the popular songs Wouldn't It Be Nice and God Only Knows. Other studio albums including The Beach Boys Today! and Summer Days (Summer Nights!!), both released in 1965, also performed well in the charts. In the later half of the 1960s and into the 1970s they had success upon releasing greatest hits albums including 20 Golden Greats, which peaked at number one in the UK albums chart in 1976. Wilson married singer Marilyn Rovell in 1964 and the couple welcomed daughters Carnie and Wendy, whom he became estranged from following their divorce. He later reconciled with them and they sang together on the 1997 album The Wilsons, which was also the name of a music group formed by Carnie and Wendy following the break-up of pop vocal group Wilson Phillips. Wilson, who had dealt with mental health and drug problems, got his life back on track in the 1990s and married talent manager Melinda Ledbetter. Beach Boys singer-songwriter Brian Wilson (Yui Mok/PA) When Ledbetter died last year, Wilson said their five children, Daria, Delanie, Dylan, Dash and Dakota, were 'in tears'. 'She (Ledbetter) was my saviour. She gave me the emotional security I needed to have a career. She encouraged me to make the music that was closest to my heart. She was my anchor,' he said in a statement. Wilson was also embroiled in multiple lawsuits some of which followed from the release of his 1991 autobiography, Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story. The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 2001. Their biggest hits included California Girls, Surfin' USA and Good Vibrations, the latter of which topped the UK's singles chart. In 2012, following the 50th anniversary of the Beach Boys being founded, Wilson took to the road with Love, Jardine and others for a tour. Wilson's brother Dennis died in 1983 while Carl died in 1998.
