BLACK SABBATH’S AND OZZY OSBOURNE’S, “BACK TO THE BEGINNING” FINAL SHOW, IS THE HIGHEST-GROSSING CHARITY CONCERT OF ALL TIME
According to Billboard, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath‘s Back to the Beginning raised more money than any charity concert since George Harrison and Ravi Shankar‘s 1971 Concert for Bangladesh popularized the very idea of an all-star benefit show. The heavy metal show, billed as Osbourne’s final stage performance, raised roughly $190 million in charitable donations […]
NEW BOOK, “THE WORLD’S STATE-OF-THE-ART SPEED METAL BAND: THE MEGADETH STORY 1983-2002,” AVAILABLE NOW
With each passing year of the 1980’s, it seemed like the amount of hairspray, make-up, and spandex outfits modeled by heavy metal bands increased dramatically. And forget about a deep lyrical message in their tunes – it seemed to be all about partying and/or rocking. But in the metal underground, there was a movement of […]
QUESTION OF THE WEEK: IN LIGHT OF THE KINKS ARTICLE, WHICH BANDS DO YOU CREDIT FOR CREATING HEAVY METAL? WHAT ABOUT HARD ROCK?
For me, the “creators” of Heavy Metal, would be Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. Hard Rock? That is far more difficult to answer, but maybe The Beatles? Check out George Harrison‘s riff on I Feel Fine (1964), which can then be followed by Paperback Writer (1966), the opening riff in Revolution (1968) and Harrison’s playing […]
THE KINKS’ DAVE DAVIES ANSWERS WHETHER JIMMY PAGE PLAYED GUITAR ON “YOU REALLY GOT ME” AND IF THE BAND CONTRIBUTED TO THE CREATION OF HEAVY METAL
Greg Prato for Ultimate Guitar spoke with The Kinks‘ Dave Davies, the segment appears in its entirety, below. Ultimate Guitar: I think I recall once in an interview that producer Eddie Kramer claimed that Jimmy Page actually recorded guitars on You Really Got Me. Is that true or false? Dave Davies: No, it’s not true. […]
LATE HEAVY METAL ICON RONNIE JAMES DIO HONORED ON BIRTHDAY BY NAMESAKE FOUNDATION WITH ROOM IN UCLA CANCER DETECTION LAB
Ronnie James Dio, the heavy metal music icon who succumbed to gastric cancer in 2010, was honored today – on what would have been his 83rd birthday – by the non-profit founded in his memory with the dedication of a room in the UCLA Center for Oral/Head & Neck Oncology Research (COOR), embedded within the […]
FANS ARE TRYING TO GUESS, WHICH BAND SHARON OSBOURNE UNINVITED, TO PERFORM AT THE OZZY OSBOURNE/BLACK SABBATH “BACK TO THE BEGINNING,” FAREWELL CONCERT
The New York Post’s Page Six reports: After Sharon Osbourne revealed she had disinvited a band from Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath farewell concert, fans took to social media to speculate which one it was. “My guess is Mötley Crüe,” wrote one user via Reddit. “I’m thinking KISS. The most greedy band on the planet,” a second person […]