When ‘Saturday Night Live’ Got Blindsided by a Lip-Sync Scandal
A lip-syncing scandal hit the October 23, 2004 episode of Saturday Night Live when pop singer Ashlee Simpson was caught utilizing backing vocal tracks as an alternative of singing dwell. The Saturday Night Live workers, together with longtime producer Lorne…
Hall and Oates Begin to Crack With ‘Big Bam Boom’
Hall & Oates? 1984 album Big Bam Boom continued the duo?s spectacular business success ? even whereas foreshadowing the top of their traditional period. At the time, Hall & Oates have been one of many greatest acts on the planet….
Watch Kiss Hide Their Faces During 1979 Television Interview
Kiss promoted their Oct. 2, 1979, live performance at St. Louis’ Checkerdome in a novel approach, showing on a dwell tv interview with their backs to the digicam. With solely their lengthy curly hair seen, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons…
How Iron Maiden Became ?King of the Castle? With ?Powerslave’
In an unique chapter-long excerpt from the newly up to date version of Martin Popoff’s Iron Maiden: Album by Album, Mike Portnoy, Nita Strauss and Blaze Bayley analyze the group’s Powerslave album. Released in September of 1984, the album was…
Judas Priest’s ‘Rocka Rolla’ Track-by-Track: Exclusive Excerpt
Just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Judas Priest’s 1974 debut album Rocka Rolla, rock journalist Martin Popoff is releasing a brand new guide devoted to the band. Due in shops Nov. 12, Judas Priest: Album by Album examines…
Freddie Mercury Makes His Debut With Pre-Queen Band
In 1969, 22-year-old Freddie Bulsara was nonetheless a couple of years away from changing into Freddie Mercury, frontman for Queen. But he was nicely on his strategy to stardom. After graduating from London’s Ealing Art College in 1969, Mercury held…
How Kiss Launched Their Final Chapter With ‘Modern Day Delilah’
On Aug. 19, 2009, Paul Stanley proved he was finished taking part in video games with “Modern Day Delilah,” the primary new Kiss tune in 11 years. The band’s founding frontman solely agreed to finish the decade-plus studio hiatus that adopted the…
How McDonald’s ‘Mindboggling’ Olympic Giveaway Backfired
In some ways, the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles represented a serious change for the fashionable Games. The sporting occasion had lengthy been famous for its monetary losses, a long-lasting burden on the overwhelming majority of host cities. In a…
Why David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ Was Rush-Released
In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy set an formidable aim for America: ship a human being to the moon and convey them again in a single piece. “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal,…
How Bruce Springsteen Learned to Love Arenas for His 1984 Tour
For practically the entirety of his job as a performing and touring musician, Bruce Springsteen had knowledgeable an concern with possessing his present to even bigger venues. His reluctance was nicely regarded, and he had historically been slow to make…
The Hollies Record a Hit With an Unknown Elton John
If you want to make a profession in the music enterprise, you have to slash your teeth somehow. For Elton John, recognised in his early instances as just “Reggie,” that meant undertaking fairly a substantial quantity of function as a…
Aerosmith Launches Back in the Saddle Tour
When Aerosmith launched their Back once again in the Saddle Tour on June 22, 1984, they had to establish a excellent deal of things to a complete lot of people today now. They required to show followers and critics that…