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Sep 17 2008, 07:55 AM
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The yesteryears' stunner Monroe's face has been picked up by Vanity Fair bosses to front the mag's 25th anniversary issue.
Haha, they're putting and not Madge on it!?
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Nov 24 2008, 04:18 PM
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Some TV Show said today that Christian singer Michael W. Smith has been in the music industry for twenty five years now.
Michael W. Smith''s 'A New Hallelujah' Debuts At No. 1 - Michael W. Smith’s 21st album A New Hallelujah (10/28) debuted today at No.1 on the Nielsen SoundScan Christian Albums Chart with more than 23,000 in first week sales.
....About Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith has amassed an impressive catalog of achievements. His 20 prior albums have garnered multiple honors including an American Music Award, 3 GRAMMY® Awards (from 13 nominations) and 42 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and 33 No. 1 radio hits. In addition, he holds 16 Gold and 5 Platinum albums and career sales approaching 15 million. Over his 25-year career, Smith has used his platform as a leader and acclaimed entertainer to serve, teach, and lead offstage.
Constantly giving back to the community, one of his current projects is Rocketown -- a nightclub for teens in his hometown of Nashville, Tenn. -- which serves as a safe place for young people to enjoy music and for artists to be discovered.
He is married to Debbie Smith and they are the proud parents of five children.
For up-to-date information on Michael W. Smith, please visit www.michaelwsmith.com or www.reunionrecords.com.
Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith Wrap Up Historic Tour - By Josh Kimball
Christian Post Reporter Wed, Nov. 12 2008
The monthlong tour, which kicked off Oct. 7 and concluded Nov. 8, showcased two of Christian Music’s most recognized and beloved artists, who together have garnered a staggering eight Grammy awards, 96 Dove Awards, 77 No. 1 singles and more than 30 Gold and Platinum albums. It also marked the first tour for Chapman since his family’s loss of their five-year-old daughter, Maria.
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Dec 7 2008, 09:04 AM
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Rick Springfield Wiki
Here is a singer with 41 years in the music business and acting.
He made it big with his hit and grammy winner song Jesses's Girl.
Jesse's Girl Video
He's almost 60 years old looks way better than Madoona, proof in the soap "General Hospital".
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Dec 9 2008, 12:32 PM
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Add Gloria Gaynor to the list.
She has a new album coming out in March 2009, and she has a new Christmas album out this year (Gloria Gaynor's Christmas Presence).
Gaynor had a bit hit song in 1978 with I Will Survive.
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Dec 10 2008, 03:28 AM
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I found her name unfamiliar at first, then I listened to her music in Youtube then I recognised her straight away. Gloria Gaynor is bigger than madoona, if you look up her discography in wiki she has much more albums than anyone, starting from 1965 till 2009 that would make her 44 years in the music industry almost the span of Madoona's lifetime.
Whats hagdonna's bisexuality, Gloria G was already at it even before she was born. Hagdonna always tries reinvent herself with things that already existed, and what did she shock anyone? People were already ahead of her to shock the world and be more successful.
Gloria Gaynor wiki -----------------------------------------------------------------
edit I looked up vadge hagddonna's profile in wiki her contributions are of a total of 11 albums only. Which were made by others or either robbed from other artists and modified, no talent at all, plus madoonas lyrics are all sleazy without any meaningful words in it. All of Madoonas songs have something to do with sex, no intelligent poetry at all. When somebody sings he/she should atleast have some ideal lyrics in the songs they sing. Making words rhyme is not the only criteria. What has madoona-hagddonna-vadge been doing? Nothing but stripping her clothes, putting her hands down her pants, using the swear words and giving the finger to people on stage.
Madoona was always sleeping with a bunch of people whether she was poor or rich. She is never able to maintain any long lasting relationships with anybody, she randomly behaves like a mating animal in the wild.
Whereas Gloria G has recorded 19 albums plus the one in 2009 would make it 20 albums in her career.
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Dec 10 2008, 01:24 PM
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Rick Springfield Wiki Here is a singer with 41 years in the music business and acting. He made it big with his hit and grammy winner song Jesses's Girl. Jesse's Girl VideoHe's almost 60 years old looks way better than Madoona, proof in the soap "General Hospital".
Rick was also linked with Linda Blair from The Exorcist (circa 1973). He lived with her and her mom when Linda was 14 years old!!!! It was quite the scandal. She was 14 when she wrapped up The Exorcist and she was a huge hit, at that time. He was just coming up as a Pop Star and they lived together for a short time, until he broke her heart. :good:
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Dec 10 2008, 05:08 PM
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I know I've mentioned this before. But, some things just bear repeating, y'know? 
Celine Dion has been recording since 1981, when she was just 12 years old (and that's two years before Madonna started). Since then, she's released 13 studio albums in French. She started recording in English in 1990, and has since then released 10 English albums, while still recording in French, as well.
She has also released 5 live albums, 9 home videos and dozens of greatest-hits compilations in both English and French. She's also in the middle of her 10th tour. She's been the highest earning female performer on Forbes list at least twice, and has dozens of pop singers in her wake (both in the English and French music bizzes) who endlessly copy her singing style, and cover her songs.
In 1991, she even tried her hand at acting, as the lead character Elise in the Quebecois TV drama Les Fleurs Sur La Neige. She also made cameo appearances in the TV shows The Nanny and Touched By An Angel in the mid to late 90s. But, she had decided years ago that acting wasn't really for her, and has chosen overall to stick with the singing.
In terms of both finance and influence, she's a much more powerful woman than Madonna. And she didn't have to screw everything with a penis to get to the top of her game, either. And she's been married to the same man for over a decade (which is a massively long time in the entertainment world).
Thoughout her career, she's sold over 220 million units of her albums and singles. Not too shabby for a girl who was the youngest of 14 children in a low-income household, eh?
Madonna fans like to talk numbers. Well, there it all is. Whether you like Celine or not, those are numbers you've got to respect... especially considering she's plied her trade on raw vocal talent alone, and not manufactured controversies.
Another gal I love, Sarah Brightman, is considered the highest selling soprano of all time (that's soprano in classical terms, for those of you not paying attention). She is also the proud owner of the biggest selling German single of all time: A Question of Honour. She was also the inspiration behind and the first to portray the character Christine Daae in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera.
She also continually changes her musical and visual direction, without ever coming off as premeditated. She's not only done musicals and opera, but she's also done trip-hop, dance, disco, electronica, folk, ambient pop and even dabbled in symphonic rock. During the course of her career, she's sung in multiple languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Arabic, and Occitan... just to name a few.
She's the only artist in music history to simultaneously hold the #1 spots on Billboard's Dance and Classical charts (the dance-club single Harem, and the album of the same title, respectively).
She's sold 60 million copies of her albums worldwide, and is singlehandedly responsible for the creation of the Classical Crossover and Opera Trance genres. The likes of Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Sasha Lazard and Emma Shapplin all owe their careers to Sarah's influence.
Her recording career began in 1978 with the release of the disco single (I Lost My Heart To A) Starship Trooper. Before then, she'd been a backup dancer in the dance troupes Pan's People and Hot Gossip. And, she's now made her movie debut in Repo! The Genetic Opera as the tortured opera singer Blind Mag, who's digital corneas are up for repossession by the evil corporation GeneCo.
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Dec 10 2008, 07:34 PM
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Sarah's brilliant, and both her and Celine are much better singers than Madonna.
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Dec 11 2008, 12:37 PM
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I think they're both brilliant in their own ways. Sarah's at her best as an album artist; she always comes up with the most intricate concepts for her albums, and the stunning visuals to match. And Celine's brilliance lies in her technical skill as a vocalist and her abilities as a performer.
Although she's in a different type of business, I thought of another lady who's been a trailblazer for women, and who is another one of my favourites: Anne McCaffrey. She was born on April Fool's Day of 1926, and started writing short stories -- and getting them published -- long before Madonna was even born.
Her first novel, Restoree, was released in 1970. It's intention was to mock the previous sci-fi novels that pegged the female characters as the stereotypical "damsel in distress". The heroine of Restoree was the first of her kind; a strong feisty woman capable of both piloting a ship, defending herself and getting the guy. Because of that, she paved the way for strong female characters in SF.
Of course, her most popular works are the Dragonriders of Pern series. She's released a whopping 95 books (and only about a dozen of that is compilations of earlier works). Her other series include the Talent, Tower And The Hive and Freedom series.
Series she penned with other female authors include: the Doona series with Jody Lynn Nye, the Acorna books with Margaret Ball and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, the Ship Who Sang series with Mercedes Lackey and the Dinosaur Planet series with Elizabeth Moon.
Her son Todd McCaffrey has been her co-writer for the last three Pern novels, Dragon's Kin, Dragon's Fire and Dragon Harper. Anne has also written several romance novels, if SF isn't your thing. Click here for a complete list of her books.
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Dec 11 2008, 08:20 PM
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Wow, that's a lot of books! It's a shame that Madonna gets so much attention, especially given that she steals everything and isn't even that good at what she does.
I'd like to write sci-fi, but I haven't had a chance to write anything yet.
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Dec 28 2008, 07:09 AM
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The car radio for once played something good other than madoona,
Tom Petty and Heartbreakers
Last Dance with Mary Jane- Tom Petty
Almost 38 years in th show business.
Tom Petty wiki :good:
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Two decades later, Foreigner still rocks - By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR World Scene Writer
Published: 1/4/2009 3:03 AM
Everyone but everyone knows the rock ballad, "I Want to Know What Love Is," right?
What's more, with that colossal hit, Foreigner was one of the most celebrated bands of the '80s' newbie "MTV Generation," and today consistently scores as one of the top-20 most-popular acts of all-time on classic-rock radio stations across the nation.
Foreigner sold out countless arenas for more than two decades, with hits including "Urgent," "Hot Blooded," "Jukebox Hero" and "Cold As Ice."
"I'm amazed that the songs do have that staying power," Foreigner founder, guitarist and chief songwriter Mick Jones recently told Billboard online. "I don't really listen to the old records a lot, so you tend to forget there are this many songs that made the kind of mark they have."
And those songs have certainly left an indelible one. The band gets more of its tunes played on video and radio than Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Def Leppard or U2.
Its album, "4," topped the Billboard chart for more weeks than any artist in Atlantic Record's 60 year history, and the band has sold nearly 40 million albums in the U.S. in its 30-plus-year career.
What else do we know about Foreigner? We'll tell you:
Core '80s members: Mick Jones, guitars, keys, vocals, songwriter; Lou Gramm, lead vocals, songwriter; Rick Wills, bass, backing vocals; Dennis Elliott, drums.
Current lineup: Mick Jones, guitars, keys, vocals, songwriter; Jason Bonham, drums; Kelly Hansen, lead vocals; Tom Gimbel, multi-instrumentalist; Jeff Pilson, bass; Michael Bluestein, keys.
Current single: "Too Late," from the album, "No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner," is the first new band track since 1994's "Mr. Moonlight." It's also the first recorded output from the current lineup, which features former members of Hurricane, Dokken and the son of legendary Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.
Pre-Foreigner projects: Long before the creation of Foreigner in 1976, Jones was a veteran British rocker who worked with Gary Wright in Spooky Tooth and as a member of the Leslie West Band. He was also a studio and session musician.
Feels like the first time: Gramm officially left Foreigner in 1989. Gramm returned to Foreigner in 1992. He left again in 2003.
Whoa!: Junior Walker, a Motown legend, played the memorable sax solo on "Urgent," and rapper Tone Loc delivered an homage to Foreigner in 1989 when he sampled the guitar riff from "Hot Blooded" in his rap hit "Funky Cold Medina."
Layoff: It took 3 years to complete a follow-up to the 1981 hit album "4," with 1984's "Agent Provocateur."
Parade: Foreigner has nine top 10 hits.
Really?: The single, "Waiting For A Girl Like You," was No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart for a record-breaking 14 weeks.
On a related note:
Still essential after 40 years 2008 had some fine albums, but it's unlikely they'll measure up to 1968's- By Tristram Lozaw
Globe Correspondent / January 4, 2009
In 2008, a flurry of releases arrived to remind us of the inventive vibrancy of the pop music scene . . . of four decades ago.
Albums by the Beatles, Stones, Jimi, Janis, Aretha, Marvin, Otis, Sly, Miles, and Zappa were among the 1968 releases getting major play and press last year.
Fortieth anniversary sets reminded us of a time when imaginative artistry ruled the pop charts, revealing numerous creative influences that still permeate our culture.
The music business has changed dramatically in 40 years, but 1968 and 2008 bear comparison. Both were turbulent years with watershed presidential elections, unpopular foreign wars, and major upheaval - social then, financial now. 1968 saw the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., racial tensions, and the ensuing riots; in 2008 we voted our first African-American president into office.
Will the albums on 2008's best-of lists measure up to the astonishing number of classics from 1968? A few decades from now, will we still consider Coldplay, Vampire Weekend, Guns N' Roses, or TV on the Radio essential listening?
One could argue, for those willing to dig a little deeper, that there's more good music being recorded today than ever before. But the competition - represented below with a small cross-section of 1968's seminal, enduring records - is stiff.
It seems highly unlikely that, 40 years from now, we'll be humming Beyonc??'s "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" like we do Aretha's "A Natural Woman."
JIMI HENDRIX "Electric Ladyland"
The mind-warping guitarist followed the rock pyrotechnics of his five-star "Axis: Bold as Love" (also from 1968) with this groundbreaking double album, a psychedelic masterpiece of soft soul, wild experimentation, and smoky midnight jazz riffs, rereleased last month in a deluxe CD and DVD set.
"Jimi's records had opened up a whole new world for me," says singer-producer Don Dixon (R.E.M., Smithereens). " 'Are You Experienced?' replaced Otis [Redding] on my turntable until 'Electric Ladyland' came out and replaced that.
For me, it was the Holy Grail, the culmination of his inimitable guitar style with a more soulful rhythm and vocal approach." Al Kooper (of Blood, Sweat & Tears) and most of Traffic, who released their own classics in 1968, also performed on the album.
JOHNNY CASH "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison"
Jan. 13, 1968, the day the Man in Black walked into Folsom to perform for the inmates, recorded a career-defining album and, as daughter Rosanne put it, "came into the light," has been commemorated with an expanded "Legacy Edition."
" 'Folsom' is a statement about compassion and rebellion," says Cash biographer Michael Streissguth. "It carried a message of prison reform to the masses. While other musicians gave lip service to those on the fringes of society, Cash met the disenfranchised on their own turf and rolled tape."
Bestor Cram, producer of the box set's DVD, adds, "There is the vulnerable heart of a desperate man revealed with passion and intensity. It's so authentic that you feel he can touch you."
JAMES BROWN "Live at the Apollo, Vol. II"
Brown's simulcast Boston Garden show, a day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination, is credited with preventing an explosion of the city's racial tensions.
But it's the Godfather of Soul's earlier show at Harlem's Apollo Theater that is remembered as one of the greatest concerts of last century.
"When James Brown says, 'I come here to do business!' we know he's not just making an empty threat," says James Sullivan, author of "The Hardest Working Man."
"He was so hot creatively, he could take on Sinatra one minute and Miles Davis the next. With Pee Wee Ellis newly in charge, the band was never tougher. And even when JB stepped aside, he was the undisputed star of the show: 'Spotlight on James Brown,' Bobby Byrd sings [at the same concert]. 'He's the king of them all, y'all.' "
VELVET UNDERGROUND "White Light, White Heat"
Largely ignored when released, this proto-punk classic - with lyrics about drugs, shock therapy, and transsexuals; noise-nasty improv; and 17-minute closer "Sister Ray" - is one of rock's most influential artifacts.
Electric violist John Cale has described the cornerstone of glam, punk, and experimental rock as "consciously anti-beauty," while the late guitarist Sterling Morrison saw it as a reflection of the era's chaos: "We may have been dragging each other off a cliff, but we were all definitely going in the same direction."
BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY "Cheap Thrills"
Though "Cheap Thrills" doesn't get as much love as Janis Joplin's solo work, it offers many of her gutsiest performances. With "Piece of My Heart," "Summertime," and a nine-minute "Ball and Chain," Janis introduced the grit of the soul sisters and big-mama belters to rock.
Big Brother bangs out hard-rock laced with blues and acid, lending Joplin's vocals an urgent passion. "Cheap Thrills" spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, succeeded by "Electric Ladyland."
ROLLING STONES "Beggars Banquet"
After 1967's "Their Satanic Majesties Request" experiment, "many feared that the bad boys of rock had sacrificed their raw, bluesy edge to love, peace, and flower power," writes Alan Clayson, author of "Legendary Sessions: The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet."
"No need to worry, salvation was at hand with 'Beggars Banquet.' " Anchored by "Sympathy for the Devil," "Street Fighting Man," and "You Can't Always Get What You Want," the album was a bracing return to celebrating the common man, with rock and country blues reframed as social revolution.
FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION "We're Only in It for the Money " and "Lumpy Gravy"
These pioneering albums by the late composer-satirist - with send-ups of the summer of love and razor-blade edits that mashed together classical motifs and barbed rock - are combined in "Lumpy Money"; an expanded 3-CD set with alternate mixes is due out this month.
"These two records are Frank's masterworks," says Gail Zappa, Frank's wife and head of the Zappa Family Trust. "[The solo] 'Lumpy Gravy' remains my personal favorite, and it was right up there on Frank's list."
"We're Only in It for the Money," one of 250 significant albums chosen by the Library of Congress for the National Recording Registry (along with "At Folsom Prison" and "Switched-on Bach"), is "an early attack on the massification [of bohemia that] hasn't so much dated as found its context," wrote music critic Robert Christgau.
THE BEATLES "The Beatles" (The White Album)Related
Some have written that the expansive, eclectic scope of this album is the sound of the band breaking up. That didn't stop it from becoming the 10th best-selling album of all time.
Nearly every track, from "Helter Skelter" to "Blackbird," is a pop-culture fixture.
Even the Vatican, having forgiven John Lennon for claiming the Beatles were more popular than Christ, cited the 30-song double album on its 40th anniversary as a groundbreaking "magical musical anthology" with "pearls that even today remain unparalleled.
A listening experience like [this] is rare."
THE BAND "Music From Big Pink"
After its Basement Tapes sessions with Bob Dylan, the Band used the Big Pink house to record a soulful, country-ish debut that changed the rock landscape.
CREAM "Wheels of Fire"
The half-studio, half-live set of combustible power-trio rock 'n' blues, featuring Eric Clapton's guitar scorching "Crossroads," was the first platinum-selling double album. It was replaced at No. 1 by the Doors' "Waiting for the Sun."
ARETHA FRANKLIN "Lady Soul"
Timeless crossover hits -"Chain of Fools," "A Natural Woman" - and an all-star band.
SIMON & GARFUNKEL "Bookends" Folk-pop craft at its most appealing.
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter"
Incandescent minstrel foundations of modern folk.
WALTER (WENDY) CARLOS "Switched-On Bach"
Radical computer pop.
BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS "Child Is Father to the Man"
Al Kooper's seminal fusion of brass, rock, and jazz.
THE BYRDS "Sweetheart of the Rodeo"
Kickstarted the country-rock movement.
BLUE CHEER "Vincebus Eruptum"
The first grunge metal album?
THE DOORS "Waiting for the Sun"
The psychedelic prophets' only No. 1 album.
DR. JOHN "Gris Gris"
A voodoo swamp-soul gem.
JEFF BECK "Truth"
The guitar hero's most visionary metallic album.
ZOMBIES "Odessey and Oracle"
Full of chestnuts like "Time of the Season."
MARVIN GAYE "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
A breakthrough for the smoothest voice in soul.
THE KINKS "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society"
Quintessential social commentary rock.
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL "Creedence Clearwater Revival"
The potent debut of Southern rock, John Fogerty-style.
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE "Crown of Creation"
Tuneful exploration of psychedelic possibilities.
OTIS REDDING "The Dock of the Bay"
Posthumous monument to Southern soul.
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE "Dance to the Music"
Revolutionary funk-pop grooves.
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No madonna on that list....
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I have many of their albums. They are certainly a hit and crowd puller hats off to them! 26 years in the industry more than madoona.
Bon Jovi Wiki
Their first breakthrough hit, I never paid much attention to them those days, now I realized what I missed. Good stuff! I think the singer has four daughters they must be good looking like him!
Living On Prayer- live performance, song still sounds good
Keep the Faith -video Doesn't matter the religion the song sells.
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Cross posted to "Madonna Beaten In" Thread- Elvis has been dead since the 1970s, yet he's still topping polls, surveys, and music lists.
That's a bit more impressive to me than some 50-year old who insists on continuing to cavort on stage in tacky, too-tight leotards.
Madonna is alive and can keep releasing new products, but Elvis? - he's dead and buried but still selling merchandise and is still cited as being an influence.
Elvis has left the building, but you wouldn't know it - Julian Lewis
* January 8, 2009 * Page 1 of 2
It seems hard to believe that Elvis Presley would have turned 74 today. But what seems harder to believe is the man has been dead for more than 31 years — not that you'd know it by the way he still dominates the news.
....Elvis also came third in Rolling Stone's greatest singers of the rock era poll in 2008 (behind Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles but before Lennon and Dylan), with his Christmas Duets album hitting No. 1 on the Australian country charts before Christmas.
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I would assume that some of the people on this list (which I haven't even looked at yet) have probably been in show biz for 20+ years:
The Top 25 Rockers Over 50! Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World! - Posted Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:01pm PST
by Rob O'Connor in List Of The Day
The biggest danger of writing this particular blog is you worry that some of the entries won't survive the time between writing and posting.
You'd hate to jinx anyone.
Pop music was once a temporary state. Ringo Starr once figured he'd own a chain of hair-dressing salons after the Beatles' success faded. Except it kept going.
And now Bruce Springsteen, who turns 60 this September, releases a new album and performs at the SuperBowl.
Whatever happened to Live Fast, Die Young? Someone ask Sid Vicious. Even Johnny Rotten turns 53 on January 31. Used to be never trust anyone over 30, but now it's more like the only performers who can still afford to tour are the ones who can maximize their AARP discounts.
In order to keep the list down to 25, I had to exclude some pretty serious players in rock-related fields. B.B. King, for example, is 83. Merle Haggard, battling lung cancer, is 72.
Willie Nelson will turn 76 this year. Charlie Louvin is still making albums and is now 81.
Initially, I started the list as rockers over 40, but that meant just about everybody.
This way, U2, Metallica and R.E.M. are all spared being on an "old people" list for at least another year.
Little Richard, born 12/5/32 is noted here, rather than on the list, since his Geico commercials aside, to my knowledge he hasn't been performing much anymore. And Billy Joel is technically retired.
What can you say about a list where Madonna and Prince are the spring chickens at 50?
Ozzy Osbourne Lou Reed Tom Waites Lucinda Williams Patti Smith Richard Thompson David Bowie Graham Parker Chuck Berry [article notes that Berry still performs] Jerry Lee Lewis Iggy Pop Madonna Prince The Who (Twonshend, Daltrey) Ray Davies Van Morrison Paul McCartney Wanda Jackson Elvis Costello Motorhead (Lemmy Kilmister) AC/DC (Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson) Rolling Stones Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Neil Young
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Feb 1 2009, 01:33 AM
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Okay, this bothers me because of the misuse of the word 'rock'. As talented as Prince is, can you really call his music rock? Madonna is certainly no rocker - she is primarily known as a pop singer. I don't think Chuck Berry is rock (then again, I'm not terribly familiar with his work).
A lot of journalists will do this - they'll just pick some random famous musicians and lump them together in these pointless lists, like 'Women in Rock' (Rolling Stone had the nerve to put out an issue entitled 'Women in Rock' with Mary J Blige, Britney Spears, and Shakira on the cover - NONE of them are at all rockers).
They should have just titled it 'Top 25 Musicians over 50' and it would have been more accurate, even if most of the performers on this list are actual rockers. Madonna and Prince are just not rockers in my view (especially the Vadge...her guitar playing is an aural holocaust).
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Feb 1 2009, 10:44 AM
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Eartha Kitt- wiki- LINK
She was an actress and singer, known for her role as "Catwoman" in the old Batman series.
She recently died on December 25, 2008 (aged 81) Born on January 17, 1927. She had 60 years to her experience. Phew! :good:
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Feb 1 2009, 07:25 PM
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Okay, this bothers me because of the misuse of the word 'rock'. As talented as Prince is, can you really call his music rock? Madonna is certainly no rocker - she is primarily known as a pop singer. I don't think Chuck Berry is rock (then again, I'm not terribly familiar with his work).
A lot of journalists will do this - they'll just pick some random famous musicians and lump them together in these pointless lists, like 'Women in Rock' (Rolling Stone had the nerve to put out an issue entitled 'Women in Rock' with Mary J Blige, Britney Spears, and Shakira on the cover - NONE of them are at all rockers).
They should have just titled it 'Top 25 Musicians over 50' and it would have been more accurate, even if most of the performers on this list are actual rockers. Madonna and Prince are just not rockers in my view (especially the Vadge...her guitar playing is an aural holocaust).
The important thing is that we have added to the list of performers who have been in show biz for twenty or more years.
The Madonna supporters can therefore stop making a big "to-do" out of the fact that she's still performing or releasing albums - because being in show biz for over 20 years might not be as unique or as spectacular a feat as they assume it to be.
I would say Chuck Berry is rock. He's classic rock 'n' roll, and by "classic" I don't mean the radio format that plays nothing but (hard) rock bands from the 1970s, such as AeroSmith and Boston.
I'm talking 1950s classic rock - pompadours, duck's-tail hair style, suits worn with ties, etc.
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Eartha Kitt- wiki- LINK
She was an actress and singer, known for her role as "Catwoman" in the old Batman series.
She recently died on December 25, 2008 (aged 81) Born on January 17, 1927. She had 60 years to her experience. Phew! Thank you for adding her to the list :good: (I mentioned her passing in the "Celebrity Deaths" thread in the "Everything" forum)
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Mar 13 2009, 06:13 PM
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(If you enjoy reading posts at this board, don't forget to post stuff once in awhile yourself, especially any new anti-Madonna material you see on the web. Thank you.) Wanda Jackson. Age 71, still performing. Her show biz career started when she was age 15 / 16
Fans haven't forgotten rockabilly's Wanda Jackson
Excerpt: - Feb 17, 2009
By WALTER TUNIS
For the past 25 years, Wanda Jackson has found rockabilly fans even when she wasn't looking for them.
During the mid-80s, when the veteran singer largely devoted her career to gospel music, she discovered enough interest in her rockabilly past, which gave rise to hits like Let's Have a Party, Fujiyama Mama and Mean, Mean Man, to record a roots-oriented album and to book a subsequent tour.
In 1995, new-generation rockabilly star Rosie Flores recruited Jackson for duets on her album Rockabilly Filly. That's when audiences began to reawaken to Jackson's music.
Then in recent years, enough of a global fan base emerged to warrant Jackson tours of Australia in 2007 and 2008.
"It seems rockabilly has really come to the forefront again all over the world," Jackson, 71, said by phone recently from her home in Oklahoma City. "And that lands me right in the middle of it."
In April, Jackson's mighty rockabilly past will receive its greatest acknowledgement with an induction - along with Jeff Beck, Metallica, Run-DMC, Bobby Womack and Little Anthony and the Imperials - into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"How about that? I have lots of various Hall of Fame inductions, but this is the big one. Of course, I'm especially honored to be in
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