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Just like Liverpool is known as the place where The Beatles were born, Birmingham is the hometown of Black Sabbath, the most influential band to emerge from the city. Liverpool’s airport is named after John Lennon, and inspired by that, comedian and broadcaster Dan Hudson launched a petition that already has more than 70,000 signatures, calling for Birmingham Airport to be renamed in tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away last July at the age of 76. His widow and ex-manager Sharon supported this campaign in an interview with BBC. “It would be amazing. The world loved Ozzy. It’s just a dream right now but sometimes dreams come true.” Hudson said it was “amazing” to see Sharon supporting the idea. “The campaign is growing and growing and there’s even more momentum now with Sharon on board,” he said. Besides Black Sabbath, other famous bands that came out of Birmingham are Judas Priest, Electric Light Orchestra, Duran Duran, UB40, The Moody Blues, Steve Winwood and Fine Young Cannibals. Ozzy Osbourne's death https://youtu.be/HD3jeUq7sm0 Ozzy Osbourne passed away at the age of 76 last July 22, only a few weeks after his final performance at Back to the Beginning festival, which marked his final solo show and the final Black Sabbath performance. The “Back to the Beginning” festival happened on July 5, 2025, at the Villa Park in Birmingham, Sabbath’s hometown. During that festival, many bands like Metallica, Slayer, Guns N’ Roses and supergroups formed by former members of Ozzy’s solo years, paid tribute to him and Sabbath playing some of their famous tracks. The post Sharon supports campaign to change Birmingham Airport’s name to Ozzy Osbourne appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan has been a huge fan of Punk Rock music throughout his whole life, and of course, he is a big fan of Iggy Pop, who, with The Stooges, is considered the godfather of that genre, since the kind of music they made was a pioneering form of what would later become Punk. He is a good friend of Iggy and had the chance to work with him on two studio albums. The first one was "Brick By Brick" in 1990 when he played the bass in the tracks: "Home", "Butt Town", "Pussy Power" and "My Baby Wants to Rock and Roll". 33 years later, he would have another chance to work with Pop, this time on the album "Every Loser", playing the bass and co-writing three songs. Answering fans' questions on Youtube, he recalled what is like to perform with the musician. Duff McKagan tells what is like to play with Iggy Pop "Well, I've done it a couple times now, I'm fortunate enough to say, in my lifetime. He is a hero and he is a badass. He's the real deal. And you get in a room with Iggy, you'd better be prepared. And getting to write some music for him on this latest record was super fun. We got to play some shows with him — me and Chad (Smith), (Andrew) Watt, Jamie (Hince) from The Kills and Matt (Clifford) from The Rolling Stones. A really killer band." "Playing with Iggy is… yeah. When you get into rehearsals, you'd better know your shit, and when you get on stage with him in front of an audience, know your shit well enough to be able to let it all go because you're on stage with Iggy and that's not gonna happen very many times in your life," Duff McKagan said (Transcribed by Blabbermouth). Besides being a member of Guns N' Roses and the supergroup Velvet Revolver, Duff also appeared on albums by Ozzy Osbourne, Nancy Wilson, Manic Street Preachers and Mark Lanegan. As a solo musician he already released three studio albums and had songs mentioned and praised by Bob Dylan. https://youtu.be/Wy9DbDZANBYThe post Duff McKagan tells what is like to play with Iggy Pop appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

After suffering a stroke, Nicko McBrain wasn't able to play the drums the same way he used to and by the end of 2024, he announced that he would no longer tour with Iron Maiden. To occupy his place the band announced Simon Dawson, who had played with The Outfield and was a member of Steve Harris' British Lion. In an interview with Germany's Metal Hammer, Maiden's guitarist Adrian Smith talked about McBrain's exit from the band. Adrian Smith talks about Nicko McBrain’s exit from Iron Maiden "Yeah, it was never gonna be the same (without Nicko). Obviously, Nick was a massive part. He's a big personality. It would never be the same. But it was unfortunate. He had a stroke and physically there's nothing he could do about it, really. He tried — we all tried to help him. I think the Maiden drumming gig is one of the hardest, physically. For two hours live you've gotta be really, really on the front foot. And, yeah, he did great to get through those (last couple of) tours, and it was quite amazing — a tribute to him, really." "And he was incredible over the years. A lot of people loved him. Well, we all loved him — Well, we still do. (Laughs) And he'll always be a part of the band, even now. So (it was) very sad. Simon's come in, and he knows Nick was a massive part of it. But Nick gave him his blessing and wished him luck. He said to me — I still talk to Nick — he said, 'Good luck for the tour' and everything. 'Cause he still wants the band to do well because he still feels like he's a bit of a part of it, and he is, really. But it's nice to keep the music alive. It's bigger than all of us, really, I think, is to get out there and keep that thing, whatever it is, out there and going," Adrian Smith said. Simon Dawson has been the drummer of British Lion, Steve Harris’ side-project, for the last 12 years.. He is known for being a praised session drummer and already was a touring member of the British Pop Rock/New Wave group The Outfield. The band will continue to tour the world in 2026 celebrating their 50th anniversary. https://youtu.be/zrm5KavmvyU The post Adrian Smith talks about Nicko McBrain’s exit from Iron Maiden appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been considered the driving forces behind The Rolling Stones for the past six decades, not only because they are the only two original members in the band, but also because of their successful songwriting partnership. However, none of the albums they released would sound the same without the contributions of other important musicians who were part of the band. One of them was Mick Taylor, the guitarist who replaced Brian Jones after the band fired their original lead guitarist. He played on many of the band’s classic records, and over the years, Keith Richards talked about him, sharing his opinion on Taylor as a guitar player. Keith Richards' opinion on Mick Taylor as a guitarist Keith Richards confirmed many times during the past decades that his favorite Rolling Stones albums were especially the ones made with Mick Taylor. So he was and continues to be a big fan of his ex-bandmate and even said he was in awe sometimes when he listened to him play. "By May (1969 after firing Brian Jones) we were playing in his replacement, Mick Taylor, at Olympic Studios—playing him in on 'Honky Tonk Women,' on which his overdub is there for posterity. No surprise to us, how good he was. He seemed just to step in naturally at the time. We had all heard Mick, and we knew him because he’d played with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers." "Everybody was looking at me, because I was the other guitar player. But my position was, I’d play with anybody. We could only find out by playing together. And we did the most brilliant stuff together, some of the most brilliant stuff the Stones ever did. Everything was there in his playing—the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song." Keith Richards continued: "He had a lovely sound, some very soulful stuff. He’d get where I was going even before I did. I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor, especially on that slide. Try it on 'Love in Vain.' Sometimes just jamming, warming up with him, I’d go, whoa. I guess that’s where the emotion came out. I loved the guy, I loved to work with him. But he was very shy and very distant," Keith Richards said in his biography "Life". Although they had a really good connection when playing, Richards noted that it was very difficult to get to know Taylor as a person. According to him, with someone like Mick Jagger, you could get to know his entire life in one day. But Taylor was not like that, he was a reserved person. One of the examples he gave in the book was the video of "Gimme Shelter". According to him, fans can see that "his face has no animation", because he was fighting an internal battle with himself. Richards said Taylor opened "beautiful possibilities" to the Rolling Stones Mick Taylor joined the band in 1969, being part of the albums "Let It Bleed" (1969), "Sticky Fingers" (1971), "Exile on Main St." (1972), "Goats Head Soup" (1973) and "It's Only Rock 'n Roll" (1974). Those are some of the most successful and praised albums the band ever released. Keith Richards, for example, said a couple of times that "Exile on Main St." was his favorite one. Answering fans' questions on his Youtube channel in 2017, Richards talked about Taylor. He said he opened "beautiful possibilities" to the Rolling Stones. “Taylor opened up some beautiful possibilities. Especially in recording because I would just lay down 3 or 4 different rhythm guitars. Mick was very much a solo player. Incredible melodic and sensitivity about his playing. Most of those early Stone records, you know, the big ones.” “He’s probably 6, 7 maybe 8 sometimes, guitars on these tracks. But you wouldn’t know that. When I play guitar I wanna play with another guy. If he is providing the other side of the coin, if I’m laying down that rhythm then the complements that come from the other guitar then will be moving into the rhythm guitar.,” Keith Richards said (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). According to Keith, the new possibilities could be heard especially on "Sticky Fingers". Because the band was writing songs with Taylor in mind, even without realizing, they were coming up with something different. According to the guitarist they did that because they knew Taylor could deliver something extra. "Some of the 'Sticky Fingers' compositions were rooted in the fact that I knew Taylor was going to pull something great. By the time we got back to England, we had 'Sugar,' we had 'Wild Horses' and 'You Gotta Move,'" Keith Richards said in his biography. Richards said that even Mick Taylor can't explain why he decided to leave the Rolling Stones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkQ0LhcTNsY&list=RDnkQ0LhcTNsY&start_radio=1 In 1974, Mick Taylor told the band that he was leaving. A couple of years later he explained that he wanted more than to just be part of somebody else's success, because the songs were mainly composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. But as Keith said in an interview with MOJO magazine in 2024, when he asks Taylor about it, the musician says he can't explain why he quit. "Wyman, he mainly developed this fear of travelling. Like, what, after going round the world 10 times?! I don’t know if that was the whole reason. When I ask Mick Taylor that question, he says, 'It’s a mystery to me. I don’t have any idea… Put it down to my old lady at the time.' I said, 'That won’t wash with me!' (Long laugh) I think he believed that he had the extra step to go, career-wise. And being in the Stones you get big ideas. You want to be a producer or a writer. But then, 'What have you written in the last 15 years?' 'Nothing, really…' Taylor’s a funny sod, but I do love him. He’s his own worst enemy," Keith Richards said. Since he left the band, Taylor reunited with them a couple of times on stage, more recently in 2012 and 2014. After leaving the band, he had recorded two solo studio albums and worked with other artists. Some of them are Bob Dylan, Carla Olson, Jack Bruce, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards (on their solo albums). The post Keith Richards’ opinion on Mick Taylor as a guitarist appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

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