The Kinks released their third single, “You Really Got Me,” in the U.K., where it became their first #1 hit and stayed on top for two weeks.
The tune was released in America that September and became a breakthrough hit for the band, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Guitarist Dave Davies created the distorted guitar sound in the tune by slicing up the speaker on his amp with a razor blade. The highly influential track has been described as proto-punk and early heavy metal.
The track hit the charts once again in 1978 after Van Halen covered it for their self-titled debut album and released it as their debut single. The Van Halen version peaked at #36 on the Hot 100.
Jessie J was hospitalized for an infection six weeks after undergoing surgery following her breast cancer diagnosis.
The singer updated fans on her Instagram Story Saturday, sharing a photo of an IV in her arm.
“How I spent the last 24 hours,” she wrote. “6 weeks post surgery and I was back in the same ward I was after my surgery. Not expected or planned. I had and still have symptoms that pointed towards a blood clot on the lung.”
“IT IS NOT A BLOOD CLOT THANK GOD,” she continued. “They ran a lot of tests, which ended up showing I have an infection (still trying to figure out what) and a little fluid on my lungs.”
“Finding it hard to breathe in, but I discharged myself last night (I hate being in hospital) and will continue the investigation as an outpatient,” she wrote.
In another post, Jessie wrote about her health journey, “I know many people who will have gone through this or similar may agree with me on this or not and that’s ok.”
“But I know for me, the true hard journey of this whole thing physically was the day I went into surgery. The recovery physically is far from quick or easy, and mentally it’s been the most challenging time for me,” she continued.
The singer, who shares 2-year-old son Sky with boyfriend Chanan Safir Colman, added, “Especially as a Mum with a toddler and being unable to be the mother I usually am. And having to change the plans for my career for this year has been frustrating after working so hard to get to this point and excited to do it all.”
She added, “But it’s life, I know that. And don’t get me wrong getting the all clear was and is incredible. But that result didn’t speed up or make the recovery from the surgery any easier physically.”
She went on to share that her journey was a reminder “to myself to slow tf down.”
Somehow, American Idol favorite Gabby Barrett just knew she had to write with HARDY.
Even though he’s one of the most respected writers in the business, with their different musical styles, it wasn’t exactly the obvious choice.
“I was talking on the phone with my team the one day,” she tells ABC Audio. “We were just talking about writing and like what’s coming up with that, and I just said to them, I said, ‘I would love to write with HARDY if we can make that happen.’ And I said, ‘It’s either gonna be awesome or it’s gonna be different,’ you know? And it was awesome.”
The “awesome” result is Gabby’s new single, “The Easy Part,” which she and HARDY co-wrote with ZachAmend and JonNite.
“The Easy Part” is the first taste of Gabby’s next cycle of music, her first since last year’s Chapter & Verse and her Christmas album, Carols and Candlelight.
As Bruce Springsteen‘s breakthrough album Born to Run turns 50 in August, author and journalist Peter Ames Carlin takes a deep dive into the record in his new book, Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run, out Tuesday.
While Born to Run was a critical and commercial success for Springsteen, prior to the record he was coming off two commercial failures — Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle — and was close to being dropped by his label.
“That was like an existential threat to him because he was so about his work and his career and he was still discovering his voice and his identity,” Carlin tells ABC Audio. He notes that Born to Run turned out to be the album where Springsteen “figured out who he was and what Bruce Springsteen, the performer, was supposed to be.”
Carlin, who also wrote the 2012 biography Bruce, says for Born to Run, Springsteen focused on “simplifying his songs” and “making the lyrics direct and conversational.”
Carlin notes that while making the record Springsteen also had to get to a place “where he could acknowledge and work with his own desire to be successful.”
“I think he was a little leery of that up to that point,” he says.
Carlin got a chance to talk to Springsteen for the book and says The Boss didn’t have a hard time looking back at that period in his career.
“He loves to look back into the past, especially when it’s something that was that transformative of an experience for him,” the author says. “And I think it was also really interesting for him to look back at 50 years later and to remember what it was like to be young and hungry and with so much to prove.”
Soulja Boy was arrested early Sunday morning during a traffic stop in Los Angeles on a charge of felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
The 35-year-old rapper, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, was a passenger in a vehicle stopped at Genesee and Melrose, the LAPD said.
According to the LAPD, a gun was discovered in the car, leading to Soulja Boy’s arrest. He was later booked into the LAPD’s Wilshire Division jail, the authorities added.
Soulja Boy was arrested around 2:50 a.m., online records show. It is unclear whether he has been released or where he is currently being held.
ABC News has reached out to Soulja Boy’s representatives for comment but has not yet received a response.
In April 2023, a jury ordered Soulja Boy to pay $235,900 in punitive damages to a woman who claimed he assaulted her at a party at his Malibu home in 2019, according to ABC Los Angeles affiliate station, KABC-TV. Soulja Boy denied the assault allegation. The amount matched the compensatory damages awarded to the woman a week earlier.
This marks Soulja Boy’s second arrest involving firearms.
In December 2016, he was arrested at his Hollywood Hills home after officers say they found a gun while he was on probation. He pleaded no contest to felony weapons possession and a misdemeanor charge in April 2017, receiving five years of probation and 240 days of community service, according to TMZ.
Jerry Garcia would have turned 83 on Friday, and in recognition, his native San Francisco gave the late Grateful Dead founder a big honor.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that on Friday, San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurieled a dedication ceremony as a stretch of Harrington Street, where Garcia spent part of childhood, was renamed Jerry Garcia Street in his honor. The ceremony took place just a few steps away from the home where Garcia lived with his grandparents.
“Jerry gave San Francisco and its people lasting memories and music,” Lurie told the crowd, according to the paper. “He created something out of nothing. Jerry had the spirit of a rock star, an innovator and a futurist.”
Garcia’s daughter Trixie was also present, and she said, “Jerry was a magical person. He was humble, he was generous, he was talented. It’s truly an honor, on behalf of Jerry Garcia’s family, to witness this historic street naming.”
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park also hosted three days of Dead & Company concerts on Aug. 1, 2 and 3 celebrating the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary. During those shows, the band was joined at various points by Phil Lesh’s son Grahame Lesh, as well as Billy Strings and Sturgill Simpson.
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Olivia Rodrigo was Mary Tyler Moore to Weezer‘s Buddy Holly Friday night at Lollapalooza.
During her set at the Chicago festival, Olivia asked the crowd if it was anybody’s first concert. She then said, “You always remember your first concert. Very, very special moment. I remember my first concert. It was a very memorable night.”
“I watched this incredible band and I am so over the moon because that incredible band is actually here tonight to play a few songs,” she continued. “Will you please say hello to Weezer!”
Weezer is the third major rock act that Olivia has tapped to join her onstage at festivals this year. She brought out David Byrne of Talking Heads during her set at Governors Ball in New York, and The Cure‘s Robert Smith while performing at the U.K.’s Glastonbury festival.
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John Lennon took himself out of the spotlight for five years in the 1970s to raise his son Sean Lennon, but during that time he was “insanely jealous” of his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney‘s musical success. That’s according to longtime Lennon friend and confidant Elliot Mintz.
While appearing onSmashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan‘s podcast, The Magnificent Others, Mintz said that Lennon would speak “so lovingly” of Paul. But Mintz claimed Lennon was “insanely jealous” of all the “mega hits” that Paul was scoring with his band Wings.
“He was jealous of the amount of attention and accolades, and the fact that Paul was filling stadiums,” Mintz claims. But when Mintz would argue that Lennon wasn’t even making albums or doing concerts, he says Lennon would tell him, “You’re missing the point. They’re embracing his genius, but have you heard ‘Silly Love Songs’?”
Mintz says he would respond, “Look, let’s be fair. He’s done things other than ‘Silly Love Songs.’ But that would go nowhere.”
He recalls that for Christmas in 1978, Paul and wife Linda McCartney came by John and Yoko Ono‘s New York City apartment and everybody got along fine. According to Mintz, Paul asked John if he was making any music, and John said no. When John asked Paul the same question, he responded, “I’m always making music. I make music every day of my life. I can’t stop making music.”
Mintz says at the time he thought to himself, “What would have happened if John [took] the bait and said, ‘I got a couple of guitars in the other room. What if I bring them out just for the hell of it?’ And the two of them could’ve sat in the living room and changed the face of contemporary music.”
Biffy Clyro has premiered the video for “Hunting Season,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Futique.
The clip does not feature any hunting, but instead finds the “Many of Horror” trio rocking out in a room together covered in sheets. We also get a few first-person point-of-view shots of each member as they play their respective instruments.
You can watch the “Hunting Season” video on YouTube.
Futique, the follow-up to 2021’s The Myth of the Happily Ever After, drops Sept. 26. It also includes the single “A Little Love.”
Michael Jai White wrote, produced, directed and stars in his new film, Trouble Man, out in theaters Friday. Though it’s being associated with the Blaxploitation genre, he tells ABC Audio the film is generally influenced by action comedies.
“I have certain issues with [the Blaxploitation era] because there were just a lot of movies that were just action movies and dramas that got swept up into that title,” he explains.
While he admits Trouble Man carries the spirit of “brotherhood, sisterhood and pride” often seen from films in that era, he says the movie falls into the genre of urban action comedy and is nothing like anything he’s seen before.
“I’m not into the formulaic stuff that you’ve seen all the time. I always wanted it to be an experience,” Michael tells ABC Audio.
With Trouble Man now out for the general public to see, he hopes fans can watch and enjoy it much like did when watching Uptown Saturday Night, A Piece of the Action and other movies as a child.
“I want to leave a legacy of movies like that. That’s really my benchmark,” he says. “These movies have made you feel good by the end of it. And there’s just not many of them anymore. So this is where my aim was.”
Trouble Man follows Michael’s Jaxen, a private investigator hired to help find missing R&B star Jahari. Gillian White, Method Man, LaLa Anthony and Orlando Jones also star in the film.
