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COOPER, DICKINSON, DIO At CLASSIC ROCK ROLL OF HONOUR: Photos Available

Alice Cooper, Ronnie James Dio, David Coverdale (WHITESNAKE),Brian May (QUEEN) and members of IRON MAIDEN and SAXON were among the attendees at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour event in London Monday night (Nov. 6). Check out photos from Wire Image (Press Room, Inside Arrivals),Film Magic (Press .....

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Lost OZZY OSBOURNE Song Re-Recorded By Edinburgh Band

Hazel Mollison of the Edinburgh Evening News reports: He is better known to a new generation as the star of his own reality TV show. But now an Edinburgh band are hoping to give Ozzy Osbourne a blast from the past by recording one of his earliest — and now forgotten — songs. ...

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ALICE COOPER, IRON MAIDEN, DEF LEPPARD Among Winners At CLASSIC ROCK ROLL OF HONOUR Awards

BBC News reports that Alice Cooper scooped the Living Legend award at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour event in London. QUEEN guitarist Brian May presented the 58-year-old with the gong. A painting of the rocker, valued at £50,000, was also given to him. QUEEN won two awards — Best Reissue for their...

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WHITESNAKE: New Song Available For Streaming

A new WHITESNAKE studio track, entitled "Ready to Rock", is available for streaming at this location (Real Media). The song is one of four previously unreleased tracks that appear on WHITESNAKE's new live record entitled "Live… In The Shadow Of The Blues", due on November 27 in Europe via Steamhamme...

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JIMI HENDRIX Fender Stratocaster Guitar To be Auctioned Next Month

According to ANTARA News, a guitar belonging to Jimi Hendrix is among the highlights of a rock and pop memorabilia sale in New York next month. The sunburst Fender Stratocaster owned by rock and blues legend Hendrix for a short time before his death in 1970 was expected to reach between 80,000 and 1...

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Psalm 9

Black sheets of raining doom rock cascade down, Old Testament prophecies come true in vengeful bursts of fire, and the bastards indeed pay! TROUBLE should have knocked the world on its ass in 1984 with this low-budget slab of creepy, ethereal metal, a distillation of the gloom of prime SABBATH, the...

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DIMEBAG To Be Inducted Into Hard Rock Cafe Dallas Walk Of Fame

"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott (full name: Darrell Lance Abbott) will be posthumously honored with the unveiling of his very own star on Hard Rock Cafe Dallas' Walk of Fame at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 9, 2006. Accepting the honor on behalf and in memory of Dimebag will be his brother, Vinnie Paul,...

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WHITESNAKE: German In-Store Appearances Announced

WHITESNAKE members David Coverdale (vocals) and Doug Aldrich (guitar) will perform a short acoustic set and take part in a signing session at the following locations in Germany: Nov. 24 - Köln - Saturn Hansaring 97 - 5:00 p.m. Nov. 25 - München - Saturn Schwanthaler Strasse 115 - 4:00 p.m. WHITESNAK...

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THE HIDDEN HAND: New Album Release Date Announced

THE HIDDEN HAND, the band featuring hard rock guitar legend Scott "Wino" Weinrich (ST. VITUS, THE OBSESSED, SPIRIT CARAVAN),has issued the following update: "Our new record, 'The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote', is completed. It will be in stores on February 20. But we are doing a late-January-throu...

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SOLEFALD: New Music Posted Online

Norwegian musician Cornelius Jakhelln (SOLEFALD, STURMGEIST) has issued the following update: "It is a pleasure to write you on the eve of Borat's great movie film premiere — I for sure will not miss out on that one. I am now back in Berlin, where I try to recuperate after a long and sunny Norwegian...

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ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Debut EP Release Date Set

Candlelight Records has set a January 23 North American release date for ABIGAIL WILLIAMS' "Legend". The limited-edition five-song EP is the territory's formal introduction to the Phoenix-based extreme metal band and coincides with the band's first national American tour; the band participating on C...

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LEAVES' EYES To Support KAMELOT On European Tour

LEAVES' EYES — the German/Norwegian band formed by ex-THEATRE OF TRAGEDY singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of ATROCITY (who are fronted by Liv's husband Alexander Krull) — will support KAMELOT on a European tour beginning late March. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Mar. 29 - Zoet...

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WHITESNAKE's COVERDALE, ALDRICH To Attend SWEDEN ROCK Kick-Off

WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale and guitarist Doug Aldrich will be making an "exclusive appearance" at the Sweden Rock Festival kick-off on December 2 at Nalen in Stockholm, Sweden. At this event the first batch of bands booked for next year's festival will be announced. Scheduled to perform at...

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KURT COBAIN Is The Top Earning Dead Celebrity

Reuters reports that rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley ceded his crown to NIRVANA lead singer Kurt Cobain on Forbes.com's list as the top-earning dead celebrity. The list, published on Tuesday, said grunge rocker Cobain earned $50 million between October 2005 and October 2006. Presley wound up in t...

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TRIBE OF GYPSIES: Rare Video Posted, New Album Released Domestically

A rare, never-before-released promotional video of the TRIBE OF GYPSIES' epic "We All Bleed Red" has been posted at YouTube.com. It was filmed in London, England in the fall of 1993 as the band were in town to record the "Balls to Picasso" album with BRUCE DICKINSON and features the same lineup asse...