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TWISTED SISTER Guitarist To Film 'Eleanor Rigby' Video Tomorrow

TWISTED SISTER guitarist Eddie Ojeda will be filming a video for his cover of the BEATLES classic "Eleanor Rigby" on Thursday, May 4. TWISTED frontman Dee Snider will appear in the video as well, since he was responsible for laying down the lead vocal tracks for the song on Ojeda's recently released...

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DEEP PURPLE Singer IAN GILLAN: More DVD Details Revealed

DEEP PURPLE fan site The Highway Star has posted the following update on PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan's upcoming DVD, tentatively due later in the year: "The upcoming DVD with Ian Gillan is a two-and-a-half hour documentary, full of music, lost archive footage, tales from Ian Gillan and interviews fro...

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DIO: More Tour Dates Announced

DIO have lined up the following tour dates during the coming months: May 27 - Roeselare, BEL @ Schwung Festival May 28 - Saarbrucken, GER @ The Garage May 30 - Munich, GER @ Elserhalle Jun. 01 - Stuttgart, GER @ Longhorn Jun. 02 - Ulm, GER @ Tent Festival Jun. 03 - Frankfurt, GER ...

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THE LIZARDS To Tour With ULI JON ROTH

Hard rock band THE LIZARDS, featuring Bobby Rondinelli (BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH) and Mike DiMeo (RIOT),will be playing a series of U.S. dates with guitar legend ULI JON ROTH (SCORPIONS). They will follow this up by playing a one-off gig with rock legend RONNIE MONTROSE. THE LIZARDS...

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BLACK SABBATH: Previously Unheard Track Posted Online

Rockdetector.com is hosting an entire chapter from Garry Sharpe-Young's new "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" book at this location. The chapter in question deals with the mystery surrounding David Donato's term of duty with BLACK SABBATH in 1985. Speaking exclusively to Garry Sharpe-Young, Donato (together...

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RANDY RHOADS: 'Inspirations' Book Available For Free Download

According to a posting on Ozzyhead.com, a "great" book on Randy Rhoads written by Diane Pearson — which was due to be printed a few years back but for some reason never saw the light of day — is available free download as a 242-page Microsoft Word document at this location. ...

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DIO Confirms TONY IOMMI Collaboration, Shoots Down RAINBOW Reunion Rumors

Legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio (DIO, RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH) has confirmed to Greg Prato of Billboard.com that he is collaborating once more with BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi. "There's a box set that's going to be released, called 'Black Sabbath: The Dio Years'," he said. "The...

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CENTINEX Cancel 'Farewell' Concert

Swedish metallers CENTINEX, who announced their split earlier in the month, have abandoned plans to play a "farewell" concert on May 13 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. "We are really sorry for this but due to various reasons it's better this way," the band write on their web site. CENTINEX's last album, "Wor...

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IAN GILLAN Releases Party-Style Career Retrospective

Launch Radio Networks reports: Ian Gillan steps away from DEEP PURPLE this week with the release of his solo album called "Gillan's Inn". It started out as a 40th anniversary retrospective, since Gillan signed his first recording contract in 1965. He started compiling tracks from different albums, b...

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DEEP PURPLE Frontman To Guest On ALICE COOPER's Radio Show

DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan will be Alice Cooper's special guest on Cooper's radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper" airing on Wednesday, April 19. The program is a classic-rock format and is nationally syndicated on the United Stations Radio Networks. Air times differ, so make sure to check out N...

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Holy Diver Live

I take absolutely no pleasure in doing this, because Ronnie James Dio is one of my personal heroes, a man who's lived it all, done it all and exuded nothing but class all the way. He's the reason some of my all-time albums are my favorites. I won't even dignify an idiot's "Ozzy or Dio?" ...

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METALLICA, ANTHRAX, ALICE IN CHAINS Members To Comment On 'Greatest Metal Songs Of All Time'

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich, ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian, ALICE IN CHAINS' Jerry Cantrell and Ronnie James Dio are among the musicians making up the panel of hard rock scholars who will rate some of the "very best hotel-trashing hard rock anthems" as part of VH1's "40 Greatest Metal Songs" two-hou...

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DEEP PURPLE Frontman Guests On BRUCE DICKINSON's Radio Show: Audio Available

DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan was interviewed by IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson for this Saturday's (April 15) edition of Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "Rock Show". Listen to a replay of the program at BBC.co.uk. Gillan's upcoming all-star retrospective disc, "Gillan's I...

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RONNIE JAMES DIO Has No Plans To Rejoin BLACK SABBATH

Legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio's (BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) official web site has been updated with the following message: "Just to put the BLACK SABBATH reunion rumors to rest, here is the inside scoop from Wendy Dio [Ronnie's wife/manager]: Ronnie was in the U.K. to do promo for the...

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BLACK SABBATH Book Details 18-Year Period Before Reunion With OZZY

Zonda Books has just published Garry Sharpe-Young's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: The Battle for Black Sabbath", a 442-page "definitive account" of BLACK SABBATH's 1979-1997 period before the band's reunion with singer Ozzy Osbourne. "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: The Battle for Black Sabbath" reforges the aut...