Elo - Elo Star Groucutt DiesELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA star KELLY GROUCUTT has died at the age of 62. The bassist passed away following a heart attack on Thursday (19Feb09) afternoon. ...
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Publicado: 2009-02-20
Proveedor: Contact Music
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Fricke’s Picks: The Wild Story of the MoveFrom 1966 to 1972, the Move were the greatest British band most Americans never heard. Formed in Birmingham in late 1965, the original five — singer Carl Wayne, guitarist-singer Roy Wood, guitarist Trevor Burton, bassist Ace Kefford and drummer Bev Bevan — were an explosive combination of white-R&B vocal firepower, beyond-the-Who stage theatrics and progressive-pop ambition. In Wood, the Move also had their own one-man Lennon-McCartney, a devilishly ingenious songwriter who mined his witty way with hooks and boy-girl stories with profound sadness (the singalong surrender of “Blackberry Way”) and an eerie fascination with lunacy (the rubber-room delight “Cherry Blossom Clinic”). Yet no other English group of the era was so wildly successful at home — their first four U.K. singles were all Top Five hits — while bombing so hard here. The Move were as unstable as they were brilliant, changing and losing members with each of their four albums and touring America once, playing in three cities in 1969. Finally, Wood, Bevan and singer-guitarist Jeff Lynne, who joined in early 1970, dropped the name and became the Electric Light Orchestra. You know the rest of that story. But there is so much to the wild tale of the Move that it doesn’t fit on the recent generous-bonus-track reissues of those albums: 1968’s Move, 1970’s Shazam and Looking On (all Salvo/Fly), and 1971’s Message From the Country (EMI). Anthology 1966-1972 (Salvo/Fly), a new four-CD fanatic’s dream, goes deep right at the start, with previously unissued rave-ups from the Move’s first recording date and a ‘66 radio session, then traces the band’s rapid evolution through eccentric power pop (”I Can Hear the Grass Grow,” the originally shelved B side “Vote for Me”), paisley cheer (”Flowers in the Rain”) and the heavy grandeur (”Brontosaurus,” “Feel Too Good”) that, with lots of strings and reeds, would become ELO. Rare mixes and outtakes abound, but the live action — an entire disc of 1968 uproar from London’s Mar
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Publicado: 2008-12-08
Proveedor: Rolling Stone
Etiquetas: Rock News, Fricke's Picks
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Maroon 5, Fergie Rule iTunes’ 2007 Chart, Panic! Sets Album Release Date, Lily Allen Covers ELO and More Even though no readers voted for Maroon 5’s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long in our Readers’ Top 25 Albums of 2007 list, the band still managed to top another important list: it was named iTunes’ best-selling album of 2007. Maroon 5 beat out Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and Kanye West’s Graduation for the most-purchased spot. On the singles side, Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” grabbed number one, while her “Glamorous” settled in at number five. In a ruling issued yesterday, a $3 billion invasion of privacy lawsuit against rapper/producer Dr. Dre was dismissed. The suit stems back to 2000, when a conversation between Detroit city officials regarding risqué videos shown during Dre’s concert was included on the Dre/Eminem Up in Smoke tour DVD. Panic! At the Disco will release their second album on March 25th. Panic! will also play a series of U.S. shows before the new, still-untitled album comes out. System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian will collaborate with Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA on the “futuristic-specific” score for the upcoming sci-fi film Babylon A.D., starring Vin Diesel. After two months of distributing for free the Readers’ Number One Album of 2007, Radiohead finally closed down InRainbows.com yesterday in preparation for the album’s proper release on CD January 1st. Check out Lily Allen’s cover version of the Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mister Blue Sky.”
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Publicado: 2007-12-12
Proveedor: Rolling Stone
Etiquetas: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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Whoopi Goldberg jumps into Broadway's 'Xanadu' (AP)AP - So how is Whoopi Goldberg spending her six-week summer vacation from "The View"? Growling her way through the Electric Light Orchestra's "Evil Woman," eight times a week in the Broadway musical "Xanadu."
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Publicado: 2008-08-01
Proveedor: Yahoo
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