Classic KFMC Rock News
For August 27-29, 2008
***PINK FLOYD's NICK MASON and ROGER WATERS were in Stockholm yesterday to accept Sweden's highest music award on behalf of PINK FLOYD. The band received The Polar Music Prize from KING CARL XVI GUSTAF, who also presented it to American opera singer RENEE FLEMING. Each winner will get a little over 150,000 dollars. Past winners of the Polar Music Prize have included ELTON JOHN, LED ZEPPELIN, B.B. KING, BOB DYLAN, RAY CHARLES, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and PAUL McCARTNEY.
***LYNYRD SKYNYRD tell Billboard they're nearly finished writing their new album. The band have been working for about a year with guitarist JOHN 5, best known for his work with ROB ZOMBIE and MARILYN MANSON. But that doesn't mean the band will be putting out a heavy metal album. RICKEY MEDLOCK says John, quote, "loves Southern rock, the blues, the country."
Skynyrd are planning to hit the studio in the fall and finish recording by the end of the year. That would put them on track for an early '09 release.
***JACK OSBOURNE tells Rolling Stone he's working on a documentary on his father, OZZY. Jack's unhappy that the reality show The Osbournes made Ozzy look like an idiot, and he wants to set the record straight. According to Jack, Ozzy's a genius, despite his flaws. And since the former BLACK SABBATH singer won't write a book and tell his own story, his son is executive producing this film.
To put it together, Jack's already interviewed former bandmates, family and friends. But the trick so far, says Jack, has been to get people to be honest and discuss Ozzy's good and bad traits to avoid creating, quote, "a fluff piece." If possible, Jack intends to include segments of the movie at next year's Ozzfest, which he's hoping will include a "traveling museum."
***T-shirts are fine, but if you want a really unique ELTON JOHN souvenir, you may be interested in a little item going up for auction September 25th in London. It's an Art Deco sapphire-and-diamond brooch owned by Elton and worn in his video for the song "I Don't Want To Go On With You Like That." The 1935 brooch in the shape of a "J" is expected to fetch over 24 thousand bucks.
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