<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame Foundation ousted Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner from its leadership for suggesting black and female musicians weren&#8217;t as &#8220;articulate&#8221; as white artists.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">&#8220;Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,&#8221; the hall <a href="https://apnews.com/article/jann-wenner-rolling-stone-rock-hall-4052a04c35ce13cc2b17b5455ebe6883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said Saturday.</span></p>
<p><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/09/16/rolling-stone-founder-jann-wenner-removed-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">TMZ</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> reports that officials voted to remove Wenner from the Hall of Fame&#8217;s board, adding that Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s manager, Jon Landau, was the lone dissenting vote.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Officials announced Wenner&#8217;s removal a day after the New York Times published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/arts/jann-wenner-the-masters-interview.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the 77-year-old American magazine magnate that centered around his forthcoming book, &#8220;The Masters.&#8221; It contains seven new and collected interviews with some of the most legendary rock stars and cultural icons of the past generation, including Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Pete Townshend, and Jerry Garcia.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">During the Times interview, the reporter asked Wenner why he did not include other subjects, specifically black or female artists — who he reportedly acknowledged were not in his &#8220;zeitgeist.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">&#8220;When I was referring to the zeitgeist, I was referring to Black performers, not to the female performers, OK?&#8221; Wenner said. &#8220;Just to get that accurate. The selection was not a deliberate selection. It was kind of intuitive over the years; it just fell together that way. The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them. Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The interviewer pushed back, asking if he believes artists like Joni Mitchell are not intellectually articulate enough for an interview.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">&#8220;It&#8217;s not that they&#8217;re not creative geniuses,&#8221; he said in an attempt to rephrase his previous answer. &#8220;It&#8217;s not that they&#8217;re inarticulate, although, go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin. Please, be my guest. You know, Joni was not a philosopher of rock&#8217; n&#8217; roll. She didn&#8217;t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did. The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">&#8220;Of Black artists — you know, Stevie Wonder, genius, right?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I suppose when you use a word as broad as &#8216;masters,&#8217; the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield?&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">&#8220;I mean, they just didn&#8217;t articulate at that level,&#8221; he said.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Wenner then told the Times that for &#8220;public relations sake&#8221; he should have included &#8220;one Black and one woman artist &#8230; just to avert this kind of criticism.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">His comments immediately sparked a firestorm of criticism that pushed him to issue an apology through his publisher, Little, Brown and Company. </span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">&#8220;In my interview with The New York Times I made comments that diminished the contributions, genius and impact of Black and women artists and I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks,&#8221; Wenner said. &#8220;I totally understand the inflammatory nature and badly chosen words and deeply apologize and accept the consequences.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The publisher reportedly <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jann-wenner-removed-rock-roll-hall-fame-board-interview-rcna105448" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> that his upcoming book was &#8220;not meant to represent the whole of music and its diverse and important originators but to reflect the high points of my career and interviews I felt illustrated the breadth and experience in that career,&#8221; and that he would &#8220;celebrate and promote&#8221; artists not represented for the rest of his life.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Wenner co-founded Rolling Stone with journalist Ralph J. Gleason in San Francisco in 1967. He served as its editor or editorial director until 2019. </span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">In 1983, Wenner also co-founded the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame, which the founders launched four years later. He served as its chairman until 2020.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Members of the </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music"><span style="font-weight: 400;">rock band</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Nickelback are speaking up about how it felt being the target of so much hate and mockery from the public.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Several </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">bandmates</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> discussed their thoughts while promoting the new </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies"><span style="font-weight: 400;">documentary</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “Hate to Love: Nickelback,” which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Nobody picks up a guitar to be the most hated band in the world,” keyboardist and backup vocalist Ryan Peake said in the movie, per </span><a href="https://ew.com/tiff/nickelback-hatred-hate-to-love-documentary-tiff/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Entertainment Weekly</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “It doesn’t feel great.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peake’s children agreed, saying, “Everyone hated the band, so everyone hated us.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bassist Mike Kroeger, who is the brother of Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, said the negative attention “really sucked in the beginning” and affected Chad’s mental health.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Hate to Love” is </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28490042/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">described</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as “an intimate portrait of the Canadian stadium rockers roller coaster career. From their rural roots in Alberta to becoming one of the most successful, yet divisive acts in music history.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The film will document the band’s rise to fame in the early 2000s and all the dramatic moments along the way.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adair remembered Chad &#8220;blowing up” in his dressing room due to negative attention and alleged instances of people yelling “f*** you” out of car windows when the band&#8217;s frontman passed by. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian rock bands ever with more than 50 million albums sold. A lot of the backlash from the public is centered on the band having a repetitive, formulaic approach to music that’s seen as being cliche. A 2013 <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-ten-worst-bands-of-the-nineties-13654/10-dave-matthews-band-241214/">readers’ poll</a> in Rolling Stone magazine named Nickelback the second-worst band of the 1990s, coming in behind Creed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The band members addressed that idea in the film, with Mike saying of their lyrics, “Sometimes people want to hear vacuous, dumb sh**.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I play Nickelback songs for Nickelback fans,” Chad added. “I don’t have to try to win anybody over.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During a 2014 interview, Chad talked about how all the hate made him grow a “thick skin.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Somebody sent me something recently (headlined) ‘Eight Reasons It’s Time To Stop Hating on Nickelback,&#8217;” the band’s lead singer </span><a href="https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/music/nickelback-doesnt-mind-being-the-worlds-most-hated-band-without-that-we-would-just-be-green-day"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Canada’s National Post at the time. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But I don’t think that all the haters and the critics know how many favors that they’ve done for us. Because otherwise we would just be this &#8216;just whatever&#8217; band. And now we’re this controversial band. Everyone’s like ‘I hate them’ or ‘I love them’ — whatever it is, people are talking about us.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Everybody knows that if you make a video and you put the word ‘Nickelback’ in it, it’s going to get a minimum of a million views. Every single time,” Chad continued. “So it must be interesting in some way, you know. Love ’em or hate ’em. Without that, we would just be Green Day.”</span></p>


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<p>Aerosmith frontman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/steven-tyler-enters-rehab-for-pain-pills-forcing-aerosmith-to-cancel-vegas-residency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steven Tyler</a> announced on Monday that the band&#8217;s farewell tour was being postponed after he sustained a vocal cord injury.</p>
<p>Tyler, 75, shared a statement through the band&#8217;s official Instagram page, expressing his regrets and noting that he had been ordered to rest his voice for at least a month.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I’m heartbroken to say I have received strict doctor’s orders not to sing for the next thirty days. I sustained vocal cord damage during Saturday’s show that led to subsequent bleeding,&#8221; Tyler wrote. &#8220;We’ll need to postpone a few dates so that we can come back and give you the performance you deserve.&#8221;</p>
<p>The post also included a list of cities they were scheduled to perform in the next month, along with new dates.</p>
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<li>Monday Jan 29 2024 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena</li>
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<li>Saturday Feb 17 2024 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena</li>
<li>Wednesday Feb 21 2024 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena</li>
<li>Monday Feb 26 2024 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena</li>
<li>Thursday Feb 29 2024 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse</li>
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<p>&#8220;All previously purchased tickets will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Refunds will be available for those unable to attend,&#8221; the statement concluded. &#8220;Fans with questions regarding refunds are asked to reach out to their point of purchase.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The band&#8217;s farewell tour, &#8220;Peace Out,&#8221; kicked off just over a week earlier — with a show on September 2 in Philadelphia — and was initially scheduled to wrap with a final show in Montreal, Quebec, on January 26.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s not goodbye it’s PEACE OUT! Get ready and walk this way, you’re going to get the best show of our lives. Every night will celebrate the five decades of Aerosmith’s groundbreaking hits as they celebrate 50 years as America’s greatest rock band,&#8221; a <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/aerosmith-postpones-tour-dates-steven-tyler-injures-vocal-cords-1235410245/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> promoting the tour read.</p>
<p>Aerosmith — formed in 1970 by Tyler, Joe Perry (guitar), and Tom Hamilton (bass) — has been performing and touring together for more than five decades, and the band <a href="https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/aerosmith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was inducted</a> into the Rock&#8217;n&#8217;Roll Hall of Fame by performer Kid Rock in 2001.</p>


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<p>Legendary rock band <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rolling-stone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Rolling Stones</a> got everyone&#8217;s attention on Monday when they finally announced that their first album of original music in nearly 20 years will soon be released.</p>
<p>The band told fans that their first new music in 18 years is on its way, with an album titled &#8220;Hackney Diamonds,&#8221; the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/rolling-stones-new-album-hackney-diamonds-2fea496b0ab0dfac78f1cb4c2c740aed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> reported. It follows their last album of new music that was released in 2005, &#8220;A Bigger Bang.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;Hackney Diamonds&#8217; to the world,&#8221; the band&#8217;s message on <a href="https://twitter.com/RollingStones/status/1699082118976897231?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a> read. &#8220;Rolling Stones LIVE with [jimmyfallon].&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hackney Diamonds to the world 💥<br />Rolling Stones LIVE with <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmyfallon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jimmyfallon</a> <br />This Wednesday Sept 6th 2023 &#8211; 🌍 times below<br />New album, new music, new era<br />Streaming globally on Stones YouTube here: <a href="https://t.co/IkmLwN9epS">https://t.co/IkmLwN9epS</a></p>
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<p>&mdash; The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) <a href="https://twitter.com/RollingStones/status/1698751921408885055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;This Wednesday Sept 6th 2023 &#8211; times below,&#8221; he added. &#8220;New album, new music, new era. Streaming globally on Stones YouTube&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>More details about their upcoming album will reportedly be revealed during an event in East London&#8217;s Hackney district on Wednesday. &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; host Jimmy Fallon will interview Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood live in London about their project, the AP noted.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hackney may be at the heart of Hackney Diamonds, but this is a truly global moment we want to share with fans around the world via YouTube,&#8221; the Rolling Stones shared in a statement.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Hackney Diamonds&#8221; announcement came after days of cryptic posts on the band&#8217;s X account that started on August 29 with a post that read, &#8220;Hello world. Hackney Diamonds.com.&#8221;</p>
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<p>It included four photos of the bands signature lips and tongue graphic being displayed on various buildings and landmarks in major cities like New York, London, and Paris, the AP noted.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">HELLO WORLD 💥<a href="https://t.co/5LeGdRdQpX">https://t.co/5LeGdRdQpX</a> <a href="https://t.co/7P3SlzvSG3">pic.twitter.com/7P3SlzvSG3</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) <a href="https://twitter.com/RollingStones/status/1696607742725669005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Another post followed that read, &#8220;Hackney Diamonds,&#8221; calling it a &#8220;A new Stones era. Worldwide September 6th.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A new Stones era <br />Worldwide September 6th<br />Join at <a href="https://t.co/09XIP65sXt">https://t.co/09XIP65sXt</a><br />💎♪<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hackneydiamonds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hackneydiamonds</a> <a href="https://t.co/uV6xOXKDig">pic.twitter.com/uV6xOXKDig</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) <a href="https://twitter.com/RollingStones/status/1697589627949900152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In numerous follow-up posts, fans were told, &#8220;Sorry, don’t get angry with me,&#8221; and offered a link where one can catch a peek at one of the new songs.</p>
<p>After fans were greeted with errors on the page, the band replied later and said it was fixed. Finally, the band shard several posts with the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Get Angry With Me&#8221; sticker and bumper sticker being shown on various items and cars.</p>
<p>It will also be the iconic band&#8217;s first album since the death of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021. Music that they worked on before his death will appear on the new album, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/entertainment/the-rolling-stones-music-album/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> noted.</p>


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<p>Leader of the iconic group The Band and cinematic composer Robbie Robertson died after a long illness on Wednesday in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles, California</a>, his management company said. He was 80 years old.</p>
<p>&#8220;Robbie was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, including his wife, Janet, his ex-wife, Dominique, her partner Nicholas, and his children Alexandra, Sebastian, Delphine, and Delphine&#8217;s partner Kenny,&#8221; Jared Levine, Robertson&#8217;s manager of 34 years, told <a href="https://variety.com/2023/music/news/robbie-robertson-dead-the-band-1235692172/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a>. &#8220;He is also survived by his grandchildren Angelica, Donovan, Dominic, Gabriel and Seraphina.&#8221;</p>
<p>Born Jaime Royal &#8220;Robbie&#8221; Robertson on July 5, 1943, the Grammy-nominated guitarist and singer-songwriter is best known for writing &#8220;The Weight,&#8221; &#8220;Up On Cripple Creek,&#8221; and &#8220;The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,&#8221; among many other hits released by The Band.</p>
<p>Robertson began learning guitar at 10 years old in Ontario, Canada, where he was born. After playing with several bands throughout his teen years, Robertson joined the American rockabilly group Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks in 1961, where he would meet future Band singer-songwriter members, drummer Levon Helm, bassist Rick Danko, pianist Richard Manuel, and organist Garth Hudson.</p>
<p>The group toured and recorded with Hawkins until the mid 1960s when The Hawks, except Helm, joined American folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan&#8217;s controversial &#8220;Going Electric&#8221; tours in 1965 and 1966.</p>
<p>The following year, Robertson moved to Woodstock, New York, and recorded the &#8220;basement tapes&#8221; with Dylan, where they officially became known as The Band.</p>
<p>After the widespread popularity of the &#8220;basement tapes,&#8221; Capitol Records signed the group and released the group&#8217;s first two albums, &#8220;Music From Big Pink&#8221; and &#8220;The Band,&#8221; and performed at the legendary Woodstock Festival in 1969.</p>
<p>Following their successful debut, the group later released &#8220;Stage Fright&#8221; in 1970, &#8220;Cahoots&#8221; the following year, which included &#8220;Life Is A Carnival,&#8221; and the double live set &#8220;Rock Of Ages&#8221; in 1972.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;I always thought, from the very beginning, that this music was born of the blues and country music, Southern stuff,&#8221; Robertson reportedly said. &#8220;The Mississippi Delta area, and the music came down from the river and from up the river and met, and it made something new. I always looked at that as kind of the source of the whole thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the group achieved stardom in the early-mid 1970s, Robertson broke the group up on account of reported substance abuse issues from some of the musicians. In 1976, The Band performed &#8220;The Last Waltz,&#8221; their farewell show in San Francisco that included several guest performances from music legends Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, and many others.</p>
<p>The performance was later turned into a documentary of the same title and directed by legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. The documentary has been deemed one of the greatest concert films ever made.</p>
<p>Robertson began working as a composer for several of Scorsese&#8217;s films, including &#8220;Raging Bull,&#8221; &#8220;The Departed,&#8221; &#8220;The Wolf of Wall Street,&#8221; and &#8220;The Irishman.&#8221;</p>
<p>Scorsese and Robertson had recently completed his fourteenth film music project, &#8220;Killers of the Flower Moon,&#8221; just before Robertson passed away.</p>
<p>&#8220;Robbie Robertson was one of my closest friends, a constant in my life and my work,&#8221; Scorsese said in a statement to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robbie-robertson-leader-band-dies-80-rcna99107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>. &#8220;Long before we ever met, his music played a central role in my life—me and millions and millions of other people all over this world. The Band&#8217;s music, and Robbie&#8217;s own later solo music, seemed to come from the deepest place at the heart of this continent, its traditions and tragedies and joys.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 1987, Robertson recorded his first self-titled solo album. Four years later, he earned two Grammy nominations for his second solo album, &#8220;Storyville.&#8221;</p>
<p>Robertson was born on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada, with the Mohawk community.</p>
<p>In his memory, the family of Robertson said, &#8220;In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the Six Nations of the Grand River to support a new Woodland Cultural Center.&#8221;</p>


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<p>Heavy metal rocker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicko McBrain</a> finally shared an update with Iron Maiden fans who noticed he didn&#8217;t seem well earlier this year, revealing he suffered a stroke in January.</p>
<p>In a video shared on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Do14aSG74" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a>, the 71-year-old <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/iron-maiden-drummer-paralyzed-stroke-grace-of-god" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drummer</a> said that the stroke has left him partially paralyzed, but he is taking it one day at a time, and talked about getting better and stronger &#8220;by the grace of God.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t well earlier this year, as some of you have quite rightly noticed,&#8221; McBrain said in the clip.</p>
<p>&#8220;In January, I had a stroke &#8212; thank the Lord it was a minor one referred to as a TIA (Transient ischaemic attack),&#8221; he added, in a statement. &#8220;It left me paralyzed on my right side from my shoulder on down. of course, I was very worried that my career was over, but with the love and support from my wife, Rebecca, and family, my doctors, especially Julie my OT (Occupational Therapist), and my Maiden family, I was able to bounce back to somewhere near 70% recovered.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;After 10 weeks of intense therapy, it was almost time to start rehearsals for our tour,&#8221; the rocker continued. &#8220;I feel it&#8217;s important to let you know about this now instead of earlier, as I was mainly concerned with doing my job and concentrating on getting back to 100% fitness. I&#8217;m not there yet, but by the grace of God, I&#8217;m getting better and stronger as the weeks go by.&#8221;</p>
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<p>McBrain&#8217;s manager Rod Smallwood added in a message that he and the rest of the band think what Nicko has been able to &#8220;achieve since his stroke shows incredible belief and willpower, and we are all very proud of him.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Nicko being Nicko he did not want to make a fuss and cause any distraction to the tour at the time, but now that he is sure he will soon get there, he thought you fans should know straight from him rather than by any rumors!&#8221; his manager wrote.</p>
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<p>&#8220;We are all of course delighted he battled through this so well and look forward to many more tours together starting with the three Western Canada shows and Power Trip in California coming up in a couple of months time,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We can&#8217;t wait! This tour is that good!&#8221;</p>


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<p>Randy Meisner, co-founding member of the Eagles and vocalist on the band&#8217;s first major hit, &#8220;Take It to the Limit,&#8221; passed away late Wednesday night at 77 years old, according to the band&#8217;s website.</p>
<p>Meisner died in Los Angeles due to complications from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) at 77 years old, according to the band&#8217;s <a href="https://eagles.com/blogs/news/rest-in-peace-randy-meisner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Randy was an integral part of the Eagles and instrumental in the early success of the band,&#8221; said the Eagles in a statement. &#8220;His vocal range was astonishing, as is evident on his signature ballad, &#8216;Take It to the Limit.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Meisner was born in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, on March 8, 1946. At ten years old, he became interested in guitar after seeing Elvis Presley perform on &#8220;The Ed Sullivan Show.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the 1960s, Meisner moved to California, where he would eventually become a bassist and vocalist with Rick Nelson&#8217;s Stone Canyon Band before forming one of the biggest acts in the world. Following his time with Nelson, the musician served as the original bass player for the pioneering country-rock group Poco.</p>
<p>In the early 1970s, Meisner was at the forefront of California&#8217;s emerging folk rock and country rock movements when he joined the backup band for American female vocalist Linda Rondstadt.</p>
<p>Out of that experience, Meisner met Glenn Frey, Don Henley, and Bernie Leadon — all founding members of the Eagles. In 1971, the group formed the &#8220;California Rock&#8221; band that would go on to make five number-one singles and six number-one albums and win six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards.</p>
<p>The Eagles became one of North America&#8217;s most successful musical acts of the 1970s.</p>
<p>&#8220;Meisner&#8217;s high harmony singing and bass (along with some guitar) were at the core of their sound, and his songwriting figured on all of their albums, starting with the haunting, impassioned &#8216;Take the Devil,&#8217; and the soaring, high-energy rocker &#8216;Tryin,'&#8221; journalist and critic Bruce Eder <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/randy-meisner-bassist-vocalist-founding-233752834.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said.</p>
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<p>In addition to his natural, soulful voice, Meisner played bass for the group and contributed to several of the band&#8217;s catalog, including &#8220;Desperado,&#8221; &#8220;On The Border,&#8221; &#8220;One of These Nights,&#8221; and &#8220;Hotel California.&#8221;</p>
<p>While touring in 1977 to support &#8220;Hotel California,&#8221; the group&#8217;s fifth studio album and one of the best-selling records of all time, Meisner frequently became ill until he formally quit the band due to exhaustion in September of that year. The group would late replace him with Timothy B. Schmit, who also had taken over Meisner&#8217;s spot in Poco when he left to form the Eagles.</p>
<p>Over the next decade, Meisner would release three solo albums and joined the country rock supergroup Black Tie with Billy Swan and former Bread member Jimmy Griffin.</p>
<p>In 1998, Meisner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Eagles.</p>
<p>In recent years, Meisner <a href="https://abc7ny.com/randy-meisner-founding-member-of-the-eagles-how-did-die-cause-death/13559877/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> suffered from many afflictions and personal tragedies. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had severe issues with alcohol.</p>
<p>The musician was first married to Jennifer Lee Barton from 1963 to 1981. The couple share three children. He later married Lana Rae in 1996 until she accidentally shot herself and died in 2016. Authorities determined Meisner was not involved in the shooting.</p>
<p>Meisner in 2016 spoke about his legacy with the Eagles and how their music won the hearts of audiences and critics during an interview with <a href="https://rockcellarmagazine.com/randy-meisner-interview-eagles-poco-hall-of-fame-stories/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rock Cellar Magazine</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just good to know that kids nowadays are listening to it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s long-standing music. They&#8217;re good songs.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The lyrics are really good, and the way that they were produced and the way that we played them. That&#8217;s why on Hotel California we were so precise and wanting to make it so perfect,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We made sure we got it so good.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meisner&#8217;s death comes just weeks after People <a href="https://people.com/the-eagles-announce-long-goodbye-final-tour-7557344" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the surviving Eagles members announced plans to tour one last time on the &#8220;Long Goodbye&#8221; tour that is scheduled to launch on September 7, 2023.</p>


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<p>Sir Paul McCartney cleared up some confusion on Thursday about whether The Beatles will use artificial intelligence on John Lennon&#8217;s post-humous voice for the iconic band&#8217;s &#8220;final record&#8221; scheduled for release later this year.</p>
<p>Last week, McCartney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-over-50-years-the-beatles-will-release-their-last-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the band was preparing for a comeback, despite the fact that just he and the band&#8217;s drummer Ringo Starr are the only two members who remain living. Lennon was murdered at the age of 40 in December 1980, and George Harrison died of cancer at the age of 58 in 2001.</p>
<p>But McCartney revealed he would use artificial intelligence to &#8220;extricate&#8221; Lennon&#8217;s voice from an old demo to create the group&#8217;s purported final record, believed to be &#8220;Now And Then.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Been great to see such an exciting response to our forthcoming Beatles project,&#8221; McCartney <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulMcCartney/status/1671880812080549890" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;No one is more excited than us to be sharing something with you later in the year. We&#8217;ve seen some confusion and speculation about it. Seems to be a lot of guess work out there. Can&#8217;t say too much at this stage but to be clear, nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It&#8217;s all real and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings — a process which has gone on for years.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We hope you love it as much as we do. More news in due course — Paul,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Speaking to Radio 4&#8217;s Today program, McCartney explained that producer Jeff Lynne, who had released songs recorded by Lennon in the mid-90s, including &#8220;Free As A Bird&#8221; and &#8220;Real Love,&#8221; had also tried to clean up &#8220;Now And Then&#8221; but had a hard time cleaning up the song, but AI allowed McCartney to revive Lennon&#8217;s voice.</p>
<p>McCartney explained that director Peter Jackson, who used AI to clean up the audio for the &#8220;Get Back&#8221; documentary, was able to &#8220;extricate&#8221; John&#8217;s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette.</p>
<p>&#8220;We had John&#8217;s voice and a piano, and he could separate them with AI,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They tell the machine, &#8216;That&#8217;s the voice. This is a guitar. Lose the guitar.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles&#8217; record, it was a demo that John had; we were able to take John&#8217;s voice and get it pure through this AI,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Then we can mix the record, as you would normally do. So it gives you some sort of leeway.&#8221;</p>
<p>McCartney appeared on the radio show to promote his new book &#8220;1964: Eyes of the Storm, Photographs and Reflections by Paul McCartney.&#8221;</p>
<p>It remains unclear when the &#8220;final record&#8221; from The Beatles will be released.</p>
<p><em>Hank Berrien contributed to this report.</em></p>


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<p>Rod Stewart definitely got everyone&#8217;s attention when he announced that he&#8217;s leaving the rock and roll genre behind after more than 60 years.</p>
<p>During the 78-year-old singer&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1667049131867529217?s=20">BBC Breakfast</a>,&#8221; Stewart said he&#8217;s not retiring from music, but has decided to &#8220;move on&#8221; to a different genre.</p>
<p>The comments were made when the host of the show noted how &#8220;rock stars are performing into incredible ages now.&#8221; The &#8220;Maggie May&#8221; hitmaker replied that he&#8217;s &#8220;actually stopping&#8221; and is in a &#8220;good place&#8221; with his decision.</p>
<p>&#8220;I had great success with &#8216;The Great American Songbook&#8217;… and I&#8217;ve just done a swing album with Jools Holland, which is going to come out next year, so I want to go in that direction,&#8221; Stewart said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I just want to leave all the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll stuff behind, for a while,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Everything has to come to an end sooner or later.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Singer Rod Stewart has told <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BBCBreakfast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BBCBreakfast</a> he&#39;s giving up rock and roll as he prepares to go on tour with Boy George<a href="https://t.co/Y29oI6E5Pk">https://t.co/Y29oI6E5Pk</a> <a href="https://t.co/odrQmQkOlT">pic.twitter.com/odrQmQkOlT</a></p>
<p>&mdash; BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1667049131867529217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Stewart is getting ready to hit the road this month with Boy George and said at the end of his <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12186285/Rod-Stewarts-worried-children-want-retire-terms-cancer-knee-surgery.html">40-show world tour,</a> he is &#8220;really looking forward to doing something else, especially singing with Jools&#8217; band.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It borders on rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll anyway, it&#8217;s just not &#8216;Maggie May&#8217; and &#8216;Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?'&#8221; the rocker said.</p>
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<p>The &#8220;Hot Legs&#8221; hitmaker recently celebrated the 30-year anniversary of his legendary album &#8220;Unplugged…and Seated.&#8221;</p>
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<p>He captioned the post, &#8220;This year marks 30 years of Unplugged…and Seated. Happy anniversary! Reaching number 2 on the album charts around the world. What&#8217;s your favorite song from the album?&#8221;</p>
<p>The legendary rocker has battled a variety of health issues for the last two decades. He was previously diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had to have a tumor removed, the Daily Mail noted. Less than two decades later, he was diagnosed with an aggressive prostate cancer. In 2019, Stewart&#8217;s wife Penny Lancaster revealed that the cancer was in remission after Stewart underwent several rounds of radiation.</p>
<p><a href="https://people.com/parents/all-about-rod-stewart-kids/">Stewart</a> is father to a total of eight children, two with current wife Lancaster and six from four past relationships. He recently became a <a href="https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/rod-stewart/grandfather-grandchildren-daughter-family/">grandfather</a> for a third time in May.</p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood</a> reacted to the news Wednesday of the death of Tina Turner, calling her &#8220;iconic,&#8221; &#8220;legendary,&#8221; and so much more.</p>
<p>The official Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/tinaturner/status/1661463646139023362?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">account</a> for the legendary singer tweeted, &#8220;It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner.” The singer battled health issues in recent years, including intestinal cancer, a stroke, and needing a kidney transplant, <a href="https://people.com/music/tina-turner-dead/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> reported. She died &#8220;peacefully&#8221; at her home near Zurich in Switzerland after a long illness, publicist Bernard Doherty confirmed.</p>
<p>&#8220;With her music and boundless passion for life, she enchanted fans worldwide and inspired future stars,&#8221; the message added. &#8220;We say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us her greatest work; her music. Tina, we will miss you dearly.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shortly after the news broke, celebrities like Diana Ross, Tom Jones, Mariah Carey, and others took to social media share their memories of the &#8220;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&#8221; singer.</p>
<p>&#8220;Shocked. Saddened. Sending condolences to Tina Turner&#8217;s family and loved ones,&#8221; Ross tweeted, along with a photo of the two at an event.</p>
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<p>&mdash; Ms. Ross (@DianaRoss) <a href="https://twitter.com/DianaRoss/status/1661462242108538892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>82-year-old Jones wrote, &#8220;Tina, an incredible woman, a genuine singer, a one of a kind talent, I am honored to have known her. RIP Tina.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tina, an incredible woman, a genuine singer, a one of a kind talent, I am honoured to have known her. RIP Tina <a href="https://t.co/70iceQjLxm">pic.twitter.com/70iceQjLxm</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Tom Jones (@RealSirTomJones) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSirTomJones/status/1661464835987501061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;The words legendary, iconic, diva, and superstar are often overused and yet Tina Turner embodies them all and so many more &#8211; an incredible performer, musician and trailblazer,&#8221; 54-year-old Carey wrote. &#8220;To me, she will always be a survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere. Her music will continue to inspire generations to come. Rest in Peace, Queen.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The words legendary, iconic, diva, and superstar are often overused and yet Tina Turner embodies them all and so many more &#8211; an incredible performer, musician and trailblazer. To me, she will always be a survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere. Her music will continue to… <a href="https://t.co/ur7djmFHnW">pic.twitter.com/ur7djmFHnW</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) <a href="https://twitter.com/MariahCarey/status/1661481830162345994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Podcast host Megyn Kelly tweeted that &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t seem possible&#8221; Turner was gone. &#8220;She seemed like too strong a life force. She overcame…everything. Embodied strength, resilience, beauty, sass, warmth, dignity, TALENT! Along w/so many, I will treasure her music &amp; legacy forever.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tina Turner, dead at 83 &#8211; it doesn’t seem possible. She seemed like too strong a life force. She overcame…everything. Embodied strength, resilience, beauty, sass, warmth, dignity, TALENT! Along w/so many, I will treasure her music &amp; legacy forever.</p>
<p>&mdash; Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1661462461524983811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Singer John Fogerty said, &#8220;So deeply sad to hear about Tina Turner&#8217;s passing… I loved her version of Proud Mary! It was different and fantastic. I was also so happy because she chose my song and it was her breakthrough record.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">So deeply sad to hear about Tina Turner&#39;s passing… I loved her version of Proud Mary! It was different and fantastic. I was also so happy because she chose my song and it was her breakthrough record. <a href="https://t.co/pH1Qt8u25Y">pic.twitter.com/pH1Qt8u25Y</a></p>
<p>&mdash; John Fogerty (@John_Fogerty) <a href="https://twitter.com/John_Fogerty/status/1661466818903523339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Singer/songwriter Deborah Harry, aka Blondie, wrote, &#8220;I was a benefactor of the energy, creativity and talents of Tina Turner. A woman who started in rural Nutbush, TN cotton fields and worked her way to the very top. Tina was a great inspiration to me when I was starting out and remains so to this day. Love you Tina. RIP.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;I was a benefactor of the energy, creativity and talents of Tina Turner. A woman who started in rural Nutbush, TN cotton fields and worked her way to the very top. Tina was a great inspiration to me when I was starting out and remains so to this day.  Love you Tina. RIP.” —DH <a href="https://t.co/2sqg0biujc">pic.twitter.com/2sqg0biujc</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Debbie Harry/BLONDIE (@BlondieOfficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlondieOfficial/status/1661463750451294211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Rocker Mick Jagger shared a series of snaps, referring to Turner as a wonderful friend, &#8220;I&#8217;m so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner. She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner.<br />She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her. <a href="https://t.co/TkG5VrdxXO">pic.twitter.com/TkG5VrdxXO</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Mick Jagger (@MickJagger) <a href="https://twitter.com/MickJagger/status/1661459867876356101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise star Mark Hamill wrote simply, &#8220;Rest in Power, Queen.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rest in Power, Queen.  💔 <a href="https://t.co/QLPgeWfcNH">pic.twitter.com/QLPgeWfcNH</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1661463603940327426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>While &#8220;Monty Python&#8221; alum John Cleese tweeted a clip of him and Turner on stage and wrote, &#8220;Very sad to hear about the passing of Tina Turner. Her talent was beyond measure.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Very sad to hear about the passing of Tina Turner. Her talent was beyond measure. <a href="https://t.co/suRy2ytY9M">pic.twitter.com/suRy2ytY9M</a></p>
<p>&mdash; John Cleese (@JohnCleese) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1661463692347867138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>A private funeral ceremony will be &#8220;attended by close friends and family. Please respect the privacy of her family at this difficult time,&#8221; a statement from Turner&#8217;s publicist added.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/singer-tina-turner-dead-at-83" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Legendary Singer Tina Turner Dead At 83</a></strong></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark Sheehan, guitarist for the Irish rock band <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Script</a>, has died after a “brief illness,” the band said on Friday. He was 46. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sheehan was a founding member of the popular band, which started in Dublin in 2001. In a statement, the band called him a “much loved husband, father, brother, band mate and friend.”</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Much loved husband, father, brother, band mate and friend Mark Sheehan passed away today in hospital after a brief illness.  The family and group ask fans to respect their privacy at this tragic time. <a href="https://t.co/6HaShCk8l4">pic.twitter.com/6HaShCk8l4</a></p>
<p>&mdash; the script (@thescript) <a href="https://twitter.com/thescript/status/1646929454571069450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Script — known for its hits “Hall of Fame,” “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved,” and “Breakeven” — featured singer Danny O’Donoghue, Glen Power on the drums, and guitarist Sheehan. The Irish band <a href="https://apnews.com/article/script-guitarist-mark-sheehan-dies-ireland-4184709dd05f44f738c17c507e9db756" target="_blank" rel="noopener">topped</a> charts in the U.K. with its debut album in 2008. During the 2010s, The Script continued its success, going on to have six top 10 albums in the U.K. and one placed in the top three albums in the U.S. The band ended up </span><a href="https://bestsellingalbums.org/artist/13190#:~:text=According%20to%20Sony%20Music%20Spain,which%20sold%20over%201%2C345%2C000%20copies%20." target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">selling</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> over 29 million records worldwide.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sheehan grew up in inner-city Dublin and lost his father when he was just 14, </span><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/04/15/mark-sheehan-humble-driving-force-who-guided-the-script-to-worldwide-success/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">according</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to The Irish Times. In 2006, after The Script members signed their record deal and were preparing to record their debut album, Sheehan’s mother had a stroke.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“She was in the hospital for 10 months and that is what brought me back to Dublin,” Sheehan said. “The lads came back with me. I had a small studio, more like a shed, at the back of the James Street house where I grew up. It was right next to the hospital so I was able to go in and do night shifts with my mum, write lyrics and then come home and write and record more.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sheehan’s mother died within the year, and the guitarist helped write the band’s early hits shortly after.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After The Script signed its record deal in 2008, Sheehan told The Irish Times, “I remember going through Dublin Airport and seeing a rolling news ticker and it had something about an Irish boyband [signing] a record-breaking deal. And I was like, ‘Oh man, we’re really setting ourselves up here.’”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sheehan didn’t just dwell on the immediate fame, however. He helped the band write its albums “Science &amp; Faith” (2010), “No Sound Without Silence” (2014), “Freedom Child” (2017), and its final album “Sunsets &amp; Full Moons” (2019).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What I’ve learned out of that whole experience was to take nothing for granted and to always keep your business head on,” Sheehan said. “We’re in this because we love music, but you have to have an awareness of the commercial side of things as well.”</span></p>
<p>Sheehan is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/script-guitarist-mark-sheehan-dies-ireland-4184709dd05f44f738c17c507e9db756" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survived</a> by his wife Rina and their three children.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So it’s 1987, and me and my buddies, all home from college, pull into a bar somewhere out in the sticks near Aurora, Illinois. It borders an abandoned railroad spur and corn and soybean fields surround the gravel parking lot. A rank of gleaming Harleys resting at a slight tilt sit muffler to fat muffler along the walkway. You’d think this wouldn’t turn out so well — Midwest college boys mingling with the Lords of Anarchy. But all you gotta do when you walk inside is listen to the music.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The jukebox is playing “You Got That Right” by one of those few bands both outlaws and punk kids could bond over: Lynyrd Skynyrd. Next thing you know, we’re shooting pool and chilling with the bikers (albeit with wary hands on our wallets) as another “best of” cut, “Gimme Three Steps” kicks in.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some bands can do that. They can take completely foreign social groups and unite them behind a sound just too damned hot to resist. Lynyrd Skynyrd was just such a band. With their distinctive Southern blue-collar sound that took rock and roll, the Delta blues, and gospel and Cuisinarted them into a distinct musical offering that still resonates today, they were one of the most enduring acts of the classic rock era.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week, the last surviving member of the original lineup that emerged out of Jacksonville in the late ’60s passed away. The guitar work of the late Gary Rossington, dead at age 71, has been heard by generations. In fact, who doesn’t instantly recognize his melancholy slide guitar in the classic “Freebird” that came to define the band? But now he joins the rest in what Pink Floyd would call the great gig in the sky. But Skynyrd certainly left their mark while in this world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Starting in 1969 when they officially became Lynyrd Skynyrd, the hard-drinking, hard-playing band was the vehicle through which front man, co-founder (along with Rossington and drummer Bob Burns), and undisputed leader Ronnie Van Zant could bring his simple good old boy perspective of the hard world he saw to life. But though it was Van Zant’s words and voice that we most associate with the band, it was the driving guitar work that made Skynyrd such a stand-out in a crowded field. With the dueling electric sounds of Rossington, along with such guitar virtuosos as Allen Collins, Ed King, then Steve Gaines, few bands could top them in raw energy and quality of musicianship.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rossington’s story is a classic rags-to-riches tale. A lower-middle-class Southern boy, he dropped out of high school to concentrate on music full-time. In interviews over the years one saw a portrait of a content man, despite his tumultuous path, who loved his family and friends, fishing, and music, and not much else. As such, it took someone with a forceful personality like the mercurial and driven Van Zant, three years his senior, to be the father figure Rossington never had (his own dad died when he was an infant). Van Zant also pushed the band to reach its potential, with a no-nonsense approach to practicing until they played with one voice, like a heartbeat.    </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lynyrd Skynyrd — named in part as a back-handed homage to their high school P.E. teacher Leonard Skinner — worked hard and paid their dues while accolades came slowly at first. Indeed, a series of record labels declined to sign the band … even though the demos included the iconic “Freebird.” But eventually their appealing sound and working man lyrics caught the attention of Blood Sweat &amp; Tears musician/producer Al Kooper, who in 1972 signed the band to his Sounds Of The South label, with distribution from MCA records. The subsequent five years saw a series of successful albums, acclaimed hits, and packed concerts that put Lynyrd Skynyrd well on its way to superstardom.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then tragedy struck. On October 20, 1977, while en route to an LSU gig, their chartered plane crashed in the Mississippi swamps. Along with the two pilots, the dead included Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, his sister Cassie, and assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick. Most of the other passengers were severely injured and took months to recover, including Rossington with steel rods placed in his right arm and leg.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A soul-searching hiatus followed the crash. After his recovery, Rossington worked on other projects, including the Rossington Collins Band, which released two albums before it was disbanded upon the tragic death of Collins’ wife. (A devastated Allen Collins spiraled into alcohol and drug abuse and was paralyzed in a car accident in 1986. He died in 1990.) Lynyrd Skynyrd finally reunited in 1987 with Ronnie’s kid brother Johnny at the mic. It was a daunting challenge to fill his brother’s shoes, but for decades the younger Van Zant, with a similar voice and look, managed to make the role of front man his own. And so, the band lived on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Skynyrd was not without controversy. Few bands partied as hard and their drunken fistfights, usually courtesy of the rough-and-tumble Ronnie, made headlines. For Ed King, the California outsider who created the famous opening guitar riff in “Sweet Home Alabama,” the drunken brawling and physical and verbal abuse, usually at the hands of the hot-headed Van Zant got to be too much. He left the band in 1975. Steve Gaines replaced him a year later. King would return for their reunion lineup.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although they eschewed politics, Skynyrd has been seen by many as a proud voice of an otherwise besieged Old South. Indeed, “Sweet Home Alabama” was a direct rebuttal to Neil Young’s song “Southern Man” in which the Canadian attacked the South for its racism and what he saw as religious hypocrisy. (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her / I heard ol’ Neil put er down / Well, I hope Neil Young will remember / A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.)</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> To underscore this identity, for years the band’s stage backdrop featured an oversized Confederate battle flag. As times changed, however, the band realized that what the flag meant to them, a mere symbol of their Southern roots and heritage, was a sign of hate for many Americans. Rossington would insist that they meant no offense, that for them music — much of which in their case was influenced by black artists they respected — was about uniting people, not driving a wedge in between them. And so in 2012 they did away with their trademark rebel emblem and replaced it with an American Flag. He offered: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t want that to go to our fans or show the image like we agreed with any of the race stuff or any of the bad things.&#8221; Such ability to adapt could offer a hint as to the band’s longevity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For me, however, the reason I still listen to the boys from Jacksonville, some 50 years after so many of their iconic tracks were laid, comes down to the simple fact that Skynyrd was a damned good band, from the songs to the musicians to the message. There was an honesty to them as one can hear in “Don’t Ask Me No Questions And I Won’t Tell You No Lies.” However … </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you wanna talk fishing I guess that’ll be okay</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. And they stayed tied to their hardscrabble roots which appealed to so many who may have found themselves out at a honky-tonk after a hard day’s work looking to shoot pool, throw darts, watch some sports, and sidle up to the bar to decompress over shots and beer while “Simple Man” plays in the background.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rossington was one of those simple men who’d have been just as comfortable drinking with his audience as playing in front of them. In his case, however, the drinking and drugs were a struggle over his long career, especially in the years following the plane crash during which pain killers fueled his consumption. In 1976, he was involved in an alcohol and drug related solo car crash. Van Zant and Collins wrote “That Smell” about the incident, referring to the odor of alcohol in the wrecked vehicle. Yet, as if to live out the title of their aptly named album “Street Survivor,” Rossington and Skynyrd endured, albeit in several iterations. They were still touring right up until Rossington’s passing last Sunday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some might argue that with only Rossington of the old guard left up on stage, today’s incarnation of Skynyrd seemed to be more of a tribute band than the real deal. Still, one got the sense that so long as their co-founder lived, a tenuous connection to the original magic of the 1973-1977 group at their zenith remained. When asked in 2022 why he still played with the band, his answer was simple: “It feels good still. And the crowds keep showing up an likin’ it. And I like to keep the brand goin’, with Ronnie and Allen and Steve an all those guys who aren’t here anymore, to keep their dream alive.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But with his passing the end of a music constant has finally come to pass. Married to the same woman since 1982, and a father of two daughters, Gary Rossington struck me as a decent, affable guy. The man experienced the death of loved ones more than most. But thanks to his gift for making a Les Paul sing, he managed to pull himself away from what could have been a life of quiet desperation in Florida to tour the world and bring music to generations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And so long as there are ramshackle pubs out on deserted country roads playing host to bikers and college kids alike, all peacefully shooting pool and clicking whiskey bottles under the same roof, Rossington’s contribution to one of the electric guitar era’s most popular and enduring acts, and thus the larger Southern rock genre, endures. </span></p>
<p><em>Brad Schaeffer is a commodities trader, musician, and writer whose articles have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, National Review, The Federalist, Zerohedge, Substack and other news outlets. He is the author of the acclaimed World War II novel <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Another-Time-Place-Brad-Schaeffer/dp/1682616630" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Another-Time-Place-Brad-Schaeffer/dp/1682616630&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1659708848976000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3j8XHp_hW4Eei6fy_WS4oB">Of Another Time And Place</a><u>.</u> Brad’s newest best-selling novel, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Extraordinary/Brad-Schaeffer/9781642939422" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Extraordinary/Brad-Schaeffer/9781642939422&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1659708848976000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3RcUIjvMA9Rf9h4FYUl8Op">The Extraordinary</a>, is about a teen-aged boy on the autism spectrum telling us in his own words how he and his family cope with his war veteran father’s PTSD.</em></p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>


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