During the final years of his life, Ozzy Osbourne was active in the studio and he released two studio albums: "Ordinary Man" (2020) and "Patient Number 9" (2022), both produced by Andrew Watt, who has been working with a number of older Rock stars recently, like The Rolling Stones and Iggy Pop. He became a good friend of Osbourne and his family, also being part of Black Sabbath's final performance. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Watt recalled what Ozzy told him was the most important thing in a Rock song to make it heavier. Producer tells what Ozzy Osbourne said is most important in a Rock song "He would always say to me, 'Listen to Led Zeppelin and tell me what the loudest thing is.' And me, having my confidence, I'd be like, 'It's the drums. John Bonham.' He said, 'Nope, not the drums. It's the bass.'" "He pointed out the bass is the most important thing in a rock song. You have to make sure the bass is there and pumping and cutting through and providing that sense of rhythm, because it's the bridge between the drums and the guitars." "It makes the song heavy, because the guitars can poke through if you have them mixed in the right way. The bass is a hard thing to really get cutting but also representing the bottom." He continued: "His ears were reactive. You could think he wasn't listening and he heard every single thing. There'd be times we'd be in the studio listening to something and he's just drawing and I'm like, 'Oh he's not listening'. And then he'd just give me this one line that cuts so deep, in a positive way." "He had a 55-year career where everything was grandiose and at the highest level. And he's one of the smartest people I've ever met, and a history buff, and a genius, a literal genius," Andrew Watt said. 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD3jeUq7sm0The post Producer tells what Ozzy Osbourne said is most important in a Rock song appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Ghost will continue on the road in 2026 promoting their latest album "Skeletá" (2025). The band announced the first tour dates for next year, which so far include only the United States and Canada. The announced shows will happen in Orlando, Jacksonville, Knoxville, Charlotte, Greenville, Uncasville, Montreal, Toronto, Columbus, Cincinnati, Peoria, Tulsa, Salt Lake City, Spokane, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Anaheim and Inglewood. It is worth remembering that the band is prohibiting the use of cell phones during the shows, requiring them to be kept in secure pouches throughout the performance. First 2026 Ghost tour dates January 21 - Orlando, FL - Kia Center 22 - Jacksonville, FL - VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena 24 - Knoxville, TN - Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center 25 - Charlotte, NC - Spectrum Center 26 - Greenville, SC - Bon Secours Wellness Arena 28 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena 30 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre 31 - Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Arena February 2 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena 4 - Cincinnati, OH - Heritage Bank Center 5 - Peoria, IL - Peoria Civic Center Arena 7 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center 10 - Salt Lake City, UT - Delta Center 12 - Spokane, WA - Spokane Arena 14 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena 15 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena 17 - Portland, OR - Moda Center 20 - Sacramento, CA - Golden 1 Center 21 - Anaheim, CA - Honda Center 23 - Inglewood, CA - Intuit Dome Possible setlist Peacefield Lachryma Spirit From the Pinnacle to the Pit Majesty The Future Is a Foreign Land Devil Church Cirice Darkness at the Heart of My Love Satanized Satan Prayer Umbra Year Zero He Is Rats Kiss the Go-Goat Mummy Dust Monstrance Clock Mary on a Cross Dance Macabre Square Hammer This year the band reached a new level of success, performing in larger arenas and headlining their first-ever sold-out show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The group is led by Swedish singer and songwriter Tobias Forge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7nWJVVZ4wAThe post Ghost announces first 2026 tour dates appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The Who would not have been the same without Pete Townshend, the band’s songwriter, guitarist and sometimes singer. Alongside Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, he is one of the most important artists of the British Invasion, which showed the world what Rock and Roll would become in the 1960s and beyond. During his career he had the chance to meet many of his peers and see them perform multiple times and he shared his opinions on some of them, including the late John Lennon. What is Pete Townshend’s opinion on John Lennon Pete Townshend was a fan of John Lennon's work with The Beatles but not that much of the musician's solo career. "I liked the Rock ‘n’ Roll albums a lot, and the Imagine album. But I didn’t particularly enjoy his solo stuff. One of my favorite records of all time is 'Strawberry Fields Forever.' But I’ve always had very strange feelings about The Beatles. Because for me they were too remote, as stars, and possibly always will be. I know the remaining members very, very well, I have a good relationship with Paul and Ringo. I see George occasionally; he’s a bit of a recluse. But I see him and I feel perfectly relaxed with him." "We’ve got a lot in common, particularly the interest in mysticism, and gardening. We live close to each other in the country. But John never... I spoke to him once on the phone. I was staying at the Pierre in New York. He had a suite there – and he came on the phone and we had a quick chat. I said, 'Do you fancy a drink?' Not meaning. 'Let’s go get drunk.'" "And he just said, 'No, no, no. I’m just not into any kind of scene like that at all.' And I said, 'Well, what kind of scene?' You know? I wasn’t suggesting a scene, I was suggesting getting together for a drink. And I thought then, you know (croons): 'Goodbye, John...' Perhaps I, like many others, was never meant to know him. And I wonder whether his chosen form of remoteness wasn’t actually slightly instrumental in his eventual tragic death." Pete Townshend continued: "In other words, can you really be Greta Garbo? You know? I mean, what an idiot that woman was. She becomes a great big star and then says, 'I want to be alone.' Why didn’t she just stay where she was in the first place? I know my unique status causes me a lot of problems, but nothing that I want to run away from. I know things can get out of control. You look at somebody like Andy Gibb at the moment, who’s sort of lost in space. You feel very sorry for him. But I feel Lennon belonged to the people. And the irony, of course – the tragic irony – was that he seemed to be coming to terms with that and starting to work again," Pete Townshend told Rolling Stone magazine in 1982. Like everyone in the early 1960s, Pete was impressed by The Beatles when they first appeared. Interestingly, the first song by the Fab Four he ever heard was “Please Please Me,” sung by John Lennon. Pete Townshend doesn’t see “Imagine” as a Rock song Pete believed that towards the end of his career, Lennon was returning to simplicity in his records, recapturing the original Rock spirit that English artists had in the late 1950s and early 1960s before they evolved as songwriters. As he said in an interview with the South Bank show in 1985, he also didn't see "Imagine" as a Rock song, but as a Lennon track. "One does come down to niceties because, as I said, I think Chuck Berry is irrefutably Rock and Roll from top to bottom. Elements of 'Tommy' were Rock. (John Lennon's) 'Imagine', I don't think of it as a Rock song. I think of it as a John Lennon song. I think of it as a song of John Lennon, the poet, if you like. It came from Rock culture because Lennon came from Rock culture but I think it was a tremendous departure." He continued: "In fact Lennon in the last 10 years of his life, arguably was struggling with the same dichotomies that I was struggling with. (He was) trying to find a way back, if you like. (He wanted to get) to the simplicity of the form, to the purity of the form. To the expression of something which was greater. Quantitatively greater because you were speaking for and with a larger number of people, rather than making personal statements. In other words much more up in the manifesto, much more level, much more up in the spiritual level, almost religious level," Pete Townshend said (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). From 1970 to 1980, Lennon released seven studio albums, the final one being “Double Fantasy,” which came out just a few weeks before his tragic death at age 40. The posthumous album “Milk and Honey” was released in 1984. Some of his most famous solo songs besides "Imagine" are "Beautiful Boy", "Woman" and "Happy Xmas (War is Over)". What it was like to be around John Lennon according to Pete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8&list=RDHtUH9z_Oey8&start_radio=1&pp=ygUZc3RyYXdiZXJyeSBmaWVsZHMgZm9yZXZlcqAHAQ%3D%3D Like The Beatles, The Who were also part of that incredible Rock and Roll movement in England in the early 60s. So Pete had the chance to meet John already in those early days of their careers. Back in 1968, when he already knew the members of the Fab Four for a couple of years, he told Rolling Stone magazine what it was like to be around John. According to him, he and Paul were quite different when it came to hanging out. "I had an incredible conversation once with Paul McCartney. The difference between the way Lennon and McCartney behave with the people that are around them is incredible. What Lennon does is he sits down, immediately acknowledges the fact that he’s John Lennon and that everything for the rest of the night is going to revolve around him. He completely relaxes and lets everybody feel at ease and just speaks dribble little jokes. Little rubbish like he’s got in his own write and little things." "Like he’ll start to dribble on and get stoned and do silly things and generally have a good time. Of course everybody gets into his thing and also has a generally good time. But Paul McCartney worries, he wants a genuine conversation, a genuine relationship. Starting off from square one: 'We’ve got to get it straight that we both know where we’re both at before we begin.' One of them is fucking Paul McCartney, a Beatle, the other one is me, a huge monumental Beatle fan who still gets a kick out of sitting and talking to Paul McCartney," Pete Townshend said. Although The Who and The Beatles didn't record anything together, Ringo Starr's son, Zak Starkey was their drummer from 1996 to 2025.The post Pete Townshend’s opinion on John Lennon appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

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