Matthew Baker/Getty Alice Cooper in London in October 2024
(via People) Story by Marina Watts
Alice Cooper is getting the band back together.
Cooper will be joined by Michael Bruce on guitar, bassist Dennis Dunaway and Neil Smith for the forthcoming album ‘The Revenge of Alice Cooper’
On Monday, April 21, the “School’s Out” rocker told Billboard that he and the original bandmembers Cooper, 77, Michael Bruce on guitar, bassist Dennis Dunaway and Neil Smith on drums would reunite for their first album together in over 50 years to release this July…
When Christopher Cross came out of nowhere to score big time with his 1979 self-titled debut album, many assumed he was an overnight sensation. At the 23rd Annual Grammy Awards held in February 1981, Cross would take home five Grammys for the disc including, for the first time ever, four of the most prestigious awards: Record of the Year and Song of the Year (both for the single “Sailing”), Album of the Year and Best New Artist.
Despite his status as an overnight sensation, Cross had journeyed 10 years to reach that night — from his early days as an up-and-coming electric guitar player with killer chops to his sudden ascension to the top of the 1980s’ soft-rock genre… or as it’s known today, yacht rock.
Remarkably, Cross’s underrated guitar playing talents have always taken a back seat to his songwriting. Yet upon closer inspection, his output occasionally reveals his proficiency on the instrument. While the dulcet tones of “Sailing” might make listeners overlook his guitar skills, it’s hard to miss the face-melting guitar solo on the outro to Cross’s 1980 hit “Ride Like the Wind” (although you may wish they’d mixed it a tad louder).
Remarkably, there’s one guitarist who was aware of Cross’s talents long before nearly everyone else: Ritchie Blackmore.
In August 1970, Blackmore and his then-current group Deep Purple arrived in the U.S. on a tour that launched at the Jam Factory in San Antonio, Texas, Cross’s hometown. Cross, then working under his birth name, Chris Geppert, was one of the hottest guitarists on the local scene, a long-haired, heavy-music loving axeman who played in a covers band called Flash…
Liv Tyler has reflected on the moment she learned her birth father was Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
Speaking on Kate and Oliver Hudson’s Sibling Revelry podcast, the 47-year-old said she was only “11 or 12” at the time.
Up until that moment, Liv believed that musician Todd Rundgren, whom her mother dated between 1972 and 1978, was her father.
It wasn’t until her mother, Bebe Buell, brought her to an Aerosmith concert that the truth was revealed. She said she knew something was off when her mother started crying.
“I looked at my mom, and I was like, ‘Mom?’ And she just started crying. My mom just, like, balled. And I was like, ‘Is Steven my dad?’ And she just burst [into tears],” Liv recalled. “And then she took me to a bench and we sat on a bench at this outdoor amphitheater and she told me the whole story in the most sincere, beautiful way.”
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