As The Sun reports, metal band Iron Maiden is being sued by their ex-singer Dennis Willcock and musician Terry Wilson-Slesser for over $2 million, claiming that they ripped off lyrics on six of their tracks. Willcock claims that he wrote five of the tracks and Wilson-Slesser claims his lyrics for '70s group Beckett were used on a sixth. The named defendants in the lawsuit are Iron Maiden's main songwriter and bass player Steve Harris, guitarist Dave Murray and Imagem, their publishing company. Dennis Willcock left the group in 1978, and has claimed that he never knew his lyrics were used because he never listened to Iron Maiden's albums – which they have sold more than 100 million of. The songs that Willcock claims to have penned are 'Prowler', 'Charlotte the Harlot', 'Phantom of the Opera', 'Iron Maiden', and 'Prodigal Son' which were released by Iron Maiden on their first two records. Wilson-Slesser says he co-wrote the lyrics to 'Rainbow's Gold' in 1974, which was lifted by Iron Maiden for their 1982 track 'Hallowed Be Thy Name'. According to The Sun, An Iron Maiden spokesperson has said: “This is outrageous. Absolutely ridiculous.” This news comes after they only recently settled their last similar lawsuit in March.
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(Warner Bros) UK audiences will know Bebe Rexha on the strength of her collaborations: with meat-headed country duo Florida Georgia Line, Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, rapper G-Eazy, and with Rita Ora, Charli XCX and Cardi B on Girls, a song about the joys of making out with women that drew condemnation from those who thought it trivialised queerness for a male gaze. These disparate hookups indicate an artist in desperate search of an identity, an impression the 28-year-old's fiercely trite debut album confirms. But then, what self-respecting modern pop star needs anything so quaint as an identity when there are genre-specific Spotify playlists to grace? Expectations ticks every box on pop's checklist in admirably perfunctory style: there are the songs about anxiety (I'm a Mess, Sad), the one that sounds like Migos (Mine), the one that features one of Migos (2 Souls on Fire), the Latin one (Shining Star), the tropical house one complete with “dolphin whine” (I Got You) and so on. The only remotely distinctive song is Ferrari, a song about how “living in the fast lane's getting kinda lonely” that lands somewhere between Maren Morris's (much better) My Church and Rag'n'Bone Man's (much worse) Human. As Ferrari proves, Rexha can belt in that strained, bluesy fashion that connotes authenticity – so it's baffling trying to work out why her vocals are often lagged in Auto-Tune: she sounds like she's drowning on Self Control and malfunctioning on the horrid Mine. The songwriting – about bad girls and good boys in miserable, moneyed relationships – is precisely as deep as you'd expect. Poptimism finds its hard ceiling. Continue reading...It's been a few months since she's put out any new music, but Taylor Swift has kept busy behind the scenes, writing songs for acts like Sugarland. Originally written back in 2012 alongside Train's Patrick Monahan, Sugarland's "Babe" saw a proper release this past April, with a teaser trailer unveiled Wednesday night at the CMT Music Awards.
Tenacious D have announced a new handful of North American tour dates for December. The shows, set for Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and Oakland, are an extension of the duo's first US tour in five years, which was detailed last month. They also come ahead of a new studio album that Jack Black and Kyle Gass say will “probably” be released in 2018. Black previously mentioned that a sequel to the band's 2006 musical comedy, The Pick of Destiny, was in the works. Check out the band's full schedule below, followed by an animated trailer. You can grab tickets here. Tenacious D 2018 Tour Dates: |
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