Best In Life Always With The Rock & Metal

"Space Oddity" is a #song written and recorded by David Bowie. It was first released as a 7-inch single on 11 July 1969. It was also the opening track of his second #studio #album, David Bowie. It became one of Bowie's signature songs and one of four of his songs to be included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.[4]

High ‘n’ Dry is the second #studio #album by the #rock #band Def Leppard, released on July 11, 1981 in US. High 'n’ Dry was Pete Willis’ last full-time album with Def Leppard. It charted at No. 38 on the Billboard 200[5] and No. 26 on the UK Albums Chart.[6] “High 'n’ Dry (Saturday Night)”, ranked No. 33 on VH1’s 40 Greatest Metal Songs.[7] Following the success of Pyromania, the album re-entered in the US chart and reached No. 72 in 1983.[5]

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Fleetwood Mac is the tenth #studio #album by #rock #band Fleetwood Mac, released on July 11, 1975 by Reprise Records. It was the band's second eponymous album, the first being their 1968 debut album. Among Fleetwood Mac fans, the album is often referred to as The White Album.[11] This is the first Fleetwood Mac album to feature Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and Stevie Nicks as vocalist, after Bob Welch departed the band in late 1974. The album was also the band's last to be released on the Reprise label until 1997's The Dance (the band's subsequent albums until then were released through Warner Bros. Records, Reprise's parent company).

Tommy Ramone (January 29, 1949 – July 11, 2014) was an record #producer, #musician, and #songwriter. He was the #drummer for the influential #punk #rock #band the Ramones for the first four years of the band’s existence and the last surviving original member of the Ramones before his death.

When the Ramones first came together, with Johnny Ramone on guitar, Dee Dee Ramone on bass and Joey Ramone on drums, Erdelyi was supposed to be the manager, but was drafted as the band’s drummer when Joey became the lead singer, after realizing that he couldn’t keep up with the Ramones’ increasingly fast tempos. “Tommy Ramone, who was managing us, finally had to sit down behind the drums, because nobody else wanted to,” Dee Dee later recalled.[13]

He remained as drummer from 1974 to 1978, playing on and co-producing their first three albums, Ramones, Leave Home, and Rocket to Russia, as well as the live album It’s Alive.[14] His final show as a Ramones drummer was at Johnny Blitz benefit event at CBGB’s in New York, USA on May 4, 1978.[15]

In a 2007 interview with the BBC, Ramone said the band had been heavily influenced by 1970s hard-rock band the New York Dolls, by singer-songwriter Lou Reed and by pop-art figureAndy Warhol. He said, “The scene that developed at CBGB wasn’t [for] a teenage or garage band; there was an intellectual element and that’s the way it was for The Ramones.”[16] https://youtu.be/bm51ihfi1p4

Two of Vega’s songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: “Luka” and “Tom’s Diner”. The latter was originally an a cappella version on Vega’s album, which was then remade in 1990 as a dance track produced by the British dance production team DNA.

Vega has released eight studio albums to date, the latest of which is Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles, released in 2014.

In 2018, Sambora was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi,[2] and reunited with his former bandmates for a performance at the induction ceremony.[3]

Sambora recently formed the duo RSO alongside Orianthi. Having released two EPs, the pair released their debut album Radio Free America in May 2018.[4]

John Cooper Lawton (11 July 1946 - 29 June 2021) was a #rock and #blues #vocalist best known for his work with Lucifer's Friend, Uriah Heep and the Les Humphries Singers.

Lawton began his musical career in North Shields, UK, in the early '60s with The Deans, a bunch of kids who decided at random that he should be singer. He then moved on to West One and later Stonewall which included John Miles, Vic Malcolm (later of Geordie) and Paul Thompson (later of Roxy Music).

After Stonewall finished their stint at Top Ten Club in Hamburg in 1969, Lawton decided to stay in Germany, after having been offered the job as singer with legendary German rock cultband Lucifer's Friend (1969–1976 and 1979–1995) with whom he recorded seven studio albums. He also joined the Les Humphries Singers, in the early '70s (which included the Eurovision Song Contest in '76).

In 1976 Lawton joined Uriah Heep as their frontman, recording the albums Firefly, Innocent Victim, Fallen Angel[1] and Live in Europe '79, touring Europe and the U.S. until September 1979.

Lawton died unexpectedly in 29 June 2021, at the age of 74.[2]

Greg Kihn began his career in his hometown of Baltimore, MD, working in the singer/songwriter mold, but switched to straightforward rock & roll when he moved to San Francisco in 1972.

He started writing songs and playing coffee houses while still in high school in the Baltimore area. When Kihn was 17, his mother submitted a tape of one of his original songs to the talent contest of the big local Top 40 radio station WCAO, in which he took first prize and won three things that would change his life: a typewriter, a stack of records, and a Vox electric guitar.

He moved to California in 1972 and worked painting houses, singing in the streets, and working behind the counter at Berkeley record store Rather Ripped Records with future band mate and Earthquake guitarist Gary Phillips.

The following year, he became one of the first artists signed to Matthew Kaufman’s now-legendary Beserkley Records. Along with Jonathan Richman, Earthquake, and the Rubinoos, Kihn helped to carve the label’s sound—melodic pop with a strong ’60s pop sensibility—a refreshing alternative to the bloated prog rock of the time.

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Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50 million records worldwide,[2] and are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history by The Guinness Book of Records.[3] Three-time Brit Award winners and six-time Grammy nominees, since 1985 they have achieved 42 Top 30singles and 22 Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart, including four UK number ones: “West End Girls” (also number one on the US BillboardHot 100), “It’s a Sin”, a remake of Wayne Carson’s “Always on My Mind” and “Heart”. Other hit songs include a remake of The Village People’s “Go West”, “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)” (satire of Thatcherism which exemplified them as ironists) and “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” (with Dusty Springfield).

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