Excerpt from this week's column:
Bret Michaels (Poison) has been named People Magazine’s Survivor of the Year and Fox411’s Celebrity of The Year. If only Brett smoked cigars, then he could be in the running for Cigar Aficionado’s Man of The Year and be the first to win this prestigious Triple Crown of awards. I say this would equal baseball’s Carl Yastrzemski’s Triple Crown feat of 1967…
After twenty years it is finally here. Nelson is releasing Lightning Strikes Twice, the sequel to the album After the Rain that gave us the song “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection”. When asked for comment, Guns N Roses front man Axl Rose (allegedly) responded: “Twenty years? I can top that, just wait!”…
Anyone else predict the new Whitesnake album would contain songs titled “Love Will Set You Free” and “Steal Your Heart Away”? I know someone owes me $20…
The idea to have statues in Stoke-on-Tent, a city in Staffordshire, England, to recognize local born rockers Slash (Velvet Revolver, ex-Guns N Roses) and Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead) was sadly shot down. Neither seems too bothered, of course both will feel an emptiness next time they tour through the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin where they will find that even The Fonz from Happy Days has a statue…
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