Not in service but in friendship
Ringo Starr has used in recording his new solo album - who do you think? - Paul McCartney. Former colleagues, not so long ago are pleasantly surprised fans joint appearance on stage, will meet on two tracks of the plate "Y Not". McCartney played on the title single, "Walk With Me" and the song "Peace Dream", which sounds bass-guitar of musician.
"I played this song for him and Paul said: "Give me the headphones." - Tells the story of recording the album Ringo - "He walked to the microphone and simply invented at the time of the party, in which he follows my vocals. That's the whole Paul McCartney, and the better the song would not be. He is a genius." Who would argue".
Starr's album will be released Jan. 12, 2010, except for McCartney, he helped write Ben Harper, and Joss Stone. Meanwhile, the plate is preparing to release, we can see how good it is when the old (and, in general, really brilliant) friends play together
Those who fell from the moon
Based in London duo We Fell to Earth - a sort of side effect of close cooperation among the major promoters of stoner Queens of the Stone Age and researchers introversion electro-rock UNKLE. While recording the album "War Stories" Richard File, long a right-hand man James Lavelle, and Wendy Rae Fowler, shone in clips of Liam Lynch on "Burn the Witch" and "Sick Sick Sick", agreed on the basis of mutual love to krautrock. "Rich picked up his guitar and began to play softly then, I picked up the bass - and now we have a song. 15 minutes later, another. And another. The rest is - history," - says Fowler.
The remaining story is as follows: in the beginning of 2008 File leaves UNKLE, to come to grips with a new project, in April 2009 the first tickets to the first concerts We Fell to Earth at London's ICA scatter completely; a few songs the duo apart from serials soundtracks (almost most powerful tool for promotion in recent years) in July comes the first album, lazy and praised as lazy quarrel critics. Praised the partners for the art of creating eerie mystical atmosphere, criticized - for its inability to maintain the desired degree of drama. And, both partly true. Stylistically Fowler and File, ideally spevshiesya with each other (literally), are somewhere between "War Stories" and "100th Window" Massive Attack. They sometimes do not have enough "bones", to the benefit of recording the album brought the musicians The Invisible. But the dark, opaque veil of sound they manage to create a seamless, without sliding while a tacky Scandinavian dream-pop.
Let her sing
Slash, former member of Guns N 'Roses, explained why Fergie from Black Eyed Peas was invited to sing in the new version of the hit "Paradise City". "As yet, not very many people have heard Fergie sing rock 'n' roll, but she sings better than most dudes I know. In her heart she is skrimer." - Wrote in his twitter musician. Doubt the sincerity of the guitarist is not necessary: YouTube is full of evidence to show how organic singer in a rock-roles. Slash does not indicate whether to include this track in his upcoming solo album, "Slash & Friends", which will be released in 2010. Above the record runs the mass of musicians, including bassist Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Grohl and Alice Cooper.