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Anatomy of outrageous behaviour

Edit The Hindu 18 Oct 2016
Napier-Bell has a portfolio featuring wildly-different acts from Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Japan, Ultra Vox and The Yardbirds to Wham! A fascinating raconteur, Napier-Bell, who has also written four vastly-entertaining books including Black Vinyl, White Powder, paints these vivid word pictures where you can see an endless parade of beautiful people in a never-ending waltz of drugs, sex and rock ’n’ roll....

Stars from America's Got Talent, Nashville, and Worldwide Rock Musicians perform new Daily Concerts at Bransons Starlite Theatre (Papa Entertainment plc)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
'Raiding The Country Vault' announces the lease of The Starlite Theatre ... Sir Harry's vast connections and expertise in the music industry will propel the Starlite Theatre to a new dimension.' said co-owner Randy Little ... The show was a longtime vision of Sir Harry Cowell and music industry legend Simon-Napier Bell, former manager of the Yardbirds and Wham ... The impressive lineup of stars in 'Raiding The Country Vault' features....

STEVE HARVEY TO HOST “SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO,” A TWO-HOUR EVENT BASED ON THE CLASSIC SHOWCASE SERIES, AIRING MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, ON FOX (FOX Broadcasting Company)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Oct 2016
The star-studded special will air Monday, Dec ... He also hosted the 2015 MISS UNIVERSE contest, which aired on FOX ... About the Apollo Theater ... Get on the Good Foot'; the annual Africa Now! Festival; Apollo Club Harlem; and the 2016 New York premiere of the opera 'Charlie Parker's YARDBIRD.' The Apollo is a presenting organization that also produces festivals, large-scale dance and music works organized around a set of core initiatives....

It's guitar all the way...

Edit Deccan Herald 08 Oct 2016
Jeff Beck is one of the guitar greats. He is one of three along with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page to have played for The Yardbirds. Much of his creative output revolves around the guitar, and is instrumental. The septuagenarian returns with ‘Loud Hailer’ after a gap of six years ... Live in the Dark is arguably the best of the 11 tracks....

Splodgenessabounds @ Hope and Anchor

Edit Skiddle 07 Oct 2016
An Alternative Gathering are proud to present the beer and crisp loving Splodgenessabounds ... The band were originally fronted by Max Splodge and his girlfriend of the time, who was known as Baby Greensleeves ... The Blue Carpet Band ... Like classic blues-rock proponents such as The Yardbirds and early Rolling Stones mixing it up with early New York punk, The Cramps and The Stooges....

Guitarist Earl Slick: Where Lennon and Bowie come together

Edit Syracuse 07 Oct 2016
Earl Slick remembers exactly what he was doing when he received the news of John Lennon's death on December 8, 1980 ... In fact, over the course of 42 years, the Brooklyn-born rocker has recorded and toured with such acts as The New York Dolls, ex-Stray Cats Slim Jim Phantom and Lee Rocker (as Phantom, Rocker and Slick), The Cure's Robert Smith, actor Tim Curry, Buddy Guy, The Yardbirds and the "Thin White Duke" himself, David Bowie....

Seminal rockers The Yardbirds, coming to Musikfest Cafe, combine classic music with newer talent

Edit The Morning Call 05 Oct 2016
More than anything else, influential classic English rock band The Yardbirds was known for its high-profile membership – especially its guitarists, who in the band’s first five years 1963-68 included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. So how does drummer Jim McCarty feel now, touring under... ....

Lakewood concert: The Jersey influence of the Yardbirds

Edit Asbury Park Press 05 Oct 2016
Brit Invasion icons the Yardbirds head to the Strand for benefit show.        .   ... ....

Jerimiah Marques & The Blue Aces: Winning Hand (Last Music Co/Proper)

Edit B&S; Online 01 Oct 2016
Born in the early 1950’s, he has been resident in the U.K since the age of eleven. He was one of the many immigrants that arrived in London in the 60s, having been sent for by his father when he was 11. One afternoon in 1968 whilst walking past the Marquee Club in London, he happened to hear Chicago bluesman Muddy Waters and his band rehearsing for their evening show ... Laurie was a member of the Yardbirds in the 90s....

A food and wine event with a heart

Edit The Miami Herald 29 Sep 2016
The event, which runs Oct ... Now in its 21st year, VeritageMiami has raised more than $500,000 net in each of the past two years, a total of more than $12 million since its inception ... The event’s big finale is Sunday’s first-ever brunch at the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, pairing Perrier-Jouët Champagne with a family-style Southern brunch with the fried chicken that put Yardbird (and now the new Spring Chicken) on the map....

“Free Fridays” Concert Series Presents a Tribute to the Music of Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale (City of Gainesville, FL)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
Local musicians Tony McMahon, Mark Miale and friends have put together a special tribute concert celebrating the music of two of the world's greatest electric guitarists, Eric Clapton and J.J ... at the Bo Diddley Plaza ... Considered one of the greatest electric guitarists of all time, Clapton played with iconic bands such as The Yardbirds, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominos....

Pros of Plainsong to play for LR Folk Club

Edit Arkansas Online 29 Sep 2016
Once he became a musician, he began using his middle name, Matthews, to avoid confusion, as the rock band King Crimson featured an Ian McDonald ... He has written with or recorded with a lengthy list of other musicians, including Paul Samwell-Smith (of the Yardbirds), Paul Siebel, Michael Nesmith (of The Monkees), Terence Boylan, David Surkamp, Jules Shear, John Helliwell (of Supertramp), Gene Clark, Elliott Murphy and Clive Gregson....

A tenor who’s found his groove

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 27 Sep 2016
... composers but Mozart and even Bach — the more I thought, ‘OK, there’s a lot there for me to sing.’ Brownlee played a small role in the 2005 world premiere of Lorin Maazel’s opera “1984,” and last year created the title role in “Yardbird,” a biographical opera about Charlie Parker commissioned from composer Daniel Schnyder by Opera Philadelphia....
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