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How Jason Bonham Helped Rescue ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’

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How Jason Bonham Helped Rescue ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’

Members of Led Zeppelin, particularly guitarist Jimmy Page, worked hard to make sure that Becoming Led Zeppelin authentically presented their early days.As Jason Bonham tells the UCR Podcast, he also helped sort out an important detail regarding how his late father, John Bonham, would be represented in the film. "I got to see a version of it a few years ago and the voice was wrong," he shares. "Probably from […]

todayMarch 11, 2025

How Billy Idol Helped Start a New Revolution in the ‘80s

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How Billy Idol Helped Start a New Revolution in the ‘80s

Billy Idol's journey to America is one that changed a lot of things, both for his own career and the fans that would eventually heard many of his hit songs that dominated radio and MTV in the '80s.It's just one part of his impressive career that he's now revisiting in a few different ways. There's a forthcoming documentary which has been taking shape over the past few years, which helped to […]

todayFebruary 27, 2025

Ariana Grande Says ‘Thank U, Next’ Album Helped Save Her Life

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Ariana Grande Says ‘Thank U, Next’ Album Helped Save Her Life

Ariana Grande has a lot of gratitude for Thank U, Next. While reflecting on her career in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, the singer-actress opened up about the therapeutic powers her smash 2019 album had during a “dark” period in her life. Of writing and recording Thank U, Next over the span of two weeks just a few months after her previous album, Sweeter, dropped in […]

todayFebruary 4, 2025 2

How Dickey Betts Helped Warren Haynes

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How Dickey Betts Helped Warren Haynes

Dickey Betts passed away in early 2024 after dealing with a variety of health issues. The surviving members of the Allman Brothers Band are preparing to celebrate the legacy of the co-founding guitarist in February with a special concert in Macon, Georgia.Warren Haynes is one of many within the circle especially grateful for everything he had a chance to be a part of with Betts. "Dickey gave me the biggest […]

todayJanuary 19, 2025 2

Alice Brock, Who Helped Inspire ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ Dead at 83

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Alice Brock, Who Helped Inspire ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ Dead at 83

Alice Brock, the woman who gave Arlo Guthrie’s classic Thanksgiving tune “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre” its name, has died at the age of 83.It was Thanksgiving 1965 when Guthrie, then just 18-years-old, visited Brock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She and her husband were converting an old church into a home, and Guthrie and his friend Rick Robbins offered to help clear out an abundance of garbage and building supplies that had […]

todayNovember 22, 2024 3

How Gregg Allman Helped Influence Warren Haynes’ New Album

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How Gregg Allman Helped Influence Warren Haynes’ New Album

Gregg Allman and Warren Haynes shared a bond for a long time, even before they knew each other."Gregg was one of my favorite singers forever," Haynes tells UCR now. "Even before I picked up a guitar, I was a fan of Gregg's voice. Once I started playing guitar, I became a huge fan of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts' guitar playing, but it was Gregg's voice hat pulled me into […]

todayNovember 9, 2024 2

How Thin Lizzy’s Manager Helped Save the ‘Jailbreak’ Album

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How Thin Lizzy’s Manager Helped Save the ‘Jailbreak’ Album

Thin Lizzy were on the verge of being dropped at the time they made the Jailbreak album, which was released in 1976. Though the record itself is now legendary, it could have been completely different if the band's manager hadn't stepped in with some timely advice.Manager Chris O'Donnell came out to the farm where they'd been working up material and asked to hear what they'd come up with. They played […]

todayOctober 25, 2024 3

He Helped Unlock One Direction’s Potential

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He Helped Unlock One Direction’s Potential

Liam Payne’s voice opens the debut One Direction single, his face the first to receive a close-up in its music video. After five teenage boys are shown horsing around on a Malibu beach for a few seconds, the shot dissolves into Liam’s perfect coif, his unbuttoned shirt, his disarming smile. He turns to the side in the middle of the opening line — partially to re-establish his smolder, but also […]

todayOctober 17, 2024 8

Snoop Dogg Reveals 2Pac ‘Helped Raise’ Son Cordae

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Snoop Dogg Reveals 2Pac ‘Helped Raise’ Son Cordae

Snoop Dogg has revealed that 2Pac used to help the Doggfather raise his first-born son Corde before the Hip Hop icon was killed in September of 1996.Talking to PEOPLE for a new cover story, Snoop recalled their time in the mid-1990s.“I was working on [my 1996 album] Tha Doggfather,” Snoop said. “So when [Corde] was old enough able to pee and all that other shit, I started taking him to […]

todaySeptember 21, 2024 2

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