Paul Elliott

4 days ago | loudersound.com | Paul Elliott

Of all the smartasses that ever made a career out of rock’n’roll, such as Frank Zappa, Todd Rundgren and 10cc, none played it smarter than Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the co-leaders of Steely Dan. To sell 40 million albums, as the Dan have, is no mean feat. But they did it with the most sophisticated and highbrow music ever recorded by a major rock group. The fact that their group were named after a dildo – as featured in William S.

2 weeks ago | musicradar.com | Paul Elliott

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi admits that he is worried about the band's upcoming performance at singer Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show in Birmingham on 5 July. In a new interview with Music Week, Iommi says of the event at Villa Park: “This would be a big, monumental thing if it all comes good. The worrying thing for me is the unknown. We don’t know what’s going to happen. “Normally, when we’d tour, we’d rehearse and run through the thing for a while, and it’s just us.

2 weeks ago | inkl.com | Paul Elliott

Tony Iommi. Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi admits that he is worried about the band's upcoming performance at singer Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show in Birmingham on 5 July. In a new interview with Music Week, Iommi says of the event at Villa Park: “This would be a big, monumental thing if it all comes good. The worrying thing for me is the unknown. We don’t know what’s going to happen. “Normally, when we’d tour, we’d rehearse and run through the thing for a while, and it’s just us.

1 month ago | loudersound.com | Paul Elliott

Of all the legendary heavy metal singers, Ronnie James Dio was the greatest of them all. Born Ronald James Padavona on July 10, 1942 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he fronted a holy trinity of iconic bands – Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio. And while there were good times and bad in his lengthy career, the great man went out on a high.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Paul Elliott

Ozzy Osbourne has a surprising stage successor in the family ahead of retirementOzzy Osbourne may be retiring in a few weeks, but the family may have a successor to the stage. Daughter Kelly revealed that her two year old son …