Jimmy Page And Leona Lewis To Play Led Zeppelin Classic At Olympics

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page will play the band's hit song 'Whole Lotta Love' alongside Leona Lewis this weekend.


The pair will perform together at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing.


Bassist Guy Pratt ostensibly let slip what song they would perform in a mail on his blog.


�You whitethorn also be interested to know that when Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis perform Whole Lotta Love at the end of the Olympics, that�s me playing basso on it,� he wrote.

As previously reported on Gigwise, David Beckham will also dally a major role at the closure ceremony as the Olympics are handed over to Britain ahead of London 2012.

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Artist: Steve Howe: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock: Instrumental     Discography:      Spectrum    Year: 2005    Tracks: 15      Skyline    Year: 2005    Tracks: 12      Homebrew 1&2 (CD 2)    Year: 2002    Tracks: 21      Homebrew 1&2 (CD 1)    Year: 2002    Tracks: 17      Not Necessarily Acoustic    Year: 1994    Tracks: 22      Mothballs    Year: 1994    Tracks: 25      The Grand Scheme Of Things    Year: 1993    Tracks: 16      Beginnings    Year: 1975    Tracks: 9 Steve Howe was born in London on April 8, 1947. When he began acting guitar he had sort of a few influences, boss among them was Chet Atkins. When you consider that 2 of the others were Django Reinhardt and the span of Les Paul & Mary Ford, it is truly hard to believe that he would become unitary of the nearly influential guitarists in progressive rock. In fact, his beginning band was a Chuck Berry-infused band called the Syndicats. He began acting with that mathematical group in 1964. They released several singles before Howe left the mathematical group. His next band was the In Crowd, which finally became Tomorrow. Under the newer nominate they released 2 singles in 1967 and an self-titled album the following year. When the group stone-broke up in 1968, Howe went on to a band called Bodast. Bodast built up quite a undermentioned and recorded an album. However, when their label went insolvent, the noneffervescent unreleased album was scrapped and the band finally became a casualty breakage up fairly shortly thenceforth. The album would non go steady loss until 1981. After Bodast, Howe began nerve-racking to get hold his side by side band. Auditions with such groups as the Nice and Jethro Tull were unfruitful. As lot would have it, his side by side band would come looking for for him. By 1970, Howe had caught the ear of several members of Yes. By this clock time, they had released 2 albums, only were not well-chosen with their present guitarist, Peter Banks. So, Howe became the newfangled guitar player in Yes. The kickoff record album he recorded with them was 1970's The Yes Album. It would gather them sizable commercial and critical attention, simply when the follow-up Fragile came out in 1972 with the hit single "Whirligig," the mathematical group and Howe were in full propelled into the spotlight. Howe stayed with the band all the way of life to their break up in 1980. He too released 2 solo albums during that time, 1976's Beginnings and The Steve Howe Album in 1979. After Yes went their separate ways, Howe, along with Yes-mate Geoff Downes, formed Asia. The group, likewise containing John Wetton (Martin Luther King Crimson, UK) and Carl Palmer (Atomic Rooster, Emerson, Lake & Palmer) was something of a progressive rock music supergroup. Howe remained with the band through and through their start deuce albums, Asia and Alpha, released in 1982 and 1983, severally. At that time, he left the mathematical group, although he has worked with them as a edgar Albert Guest from time to fourth dimension since. His next lot was GTR, formed in 1986. This grouping too was sort of a supergroup, featuring both Howe and Steve Hackett (once of Genesis). That grouping did non stay in concert long, exclusively cathartic one studio album. In a way, it seemed fate as the forces were beginning to come together to bring Howe back into the Yes summer camp. By this time, several changes had happened with Yes. The grouping had reunited without Howe and done deuce very commercial-leaning albums, one of them (90125) being the group's biggest marketer. Also by so, Jon Anderson had in one case over again leftfield the group, citing a desire to do less commercial material. So, with Yes veterans Bill Bruford and Rick Wakeman, they formed a new ring. Originally they precious to call the ring Yes, merely bassist Chris Squire owned the rights to that constitute, so they went with the easiness of their four-spot utmost name calling and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe was formed. Under that byname, they released one self-titled record album in 1989. Then, in a rather unusual turn of events, while they were operative on their follow-up album, the group was melded into the other card of Yes, creating an eight-piece interlingual rendition of the lot. The grouping released the Union album in 1991 and went proscribed on a full-scale world circuit to rave reviews. The lineup would non last-place, though, and Howe was in one case over again a "late Yes member" shortly later the term of enlistment. He chased a solo calling for the succeeding several days, cathartic sextuplet albums in front rejoining Yes in 1995. He is still with the grouping. Seemingly non wanting to lead fourth dimension turned, level during all the days of tenures in versatile bands, he has found time to loss a gravid turn solo albums and worked on projects by artists as diverse as Lou Reed, Queen, Billy Currie, Dixie Dregs, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Fish, and Explorer's Club.

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Skid Row

   
Artist: Skid Row

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Hard-Rock
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Discography:


   
 Thickskin

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Thick Skin

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Forty Seasons: The Best Of

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 16


   
 Subhuman Race

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13


   
 B-Side Ourselves

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 5


   
 Slave to the Grind

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 12


   
 Skid Row

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11

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Skid Row was one of the last blur metallic element bands to strike the mainstream originally grease took over in the early '90s. They were as well arguably the final of such bands to occupy whatsoever originality. While their 1989 self-titled release used standard pop-metal riffs and contained a smattering of generic lyrics, 1991's Slave to the Grind and 1995's Subhuman Race broke away from the pop-metal mold with uncharacteristically hard, thrashy guitars and more singular songwriting spell noneffervescent relying on varying '80s alloy formulas. Though personal differences and changing trends would eventually tear the band asunder by 1996, Skid Row showed a tremendous total of assure during their short unravel in the mainstream.


Skid Row was formed in 1986 by bassist Rachel Bolan and former Bon Jovi guitar player Dave "The Snake" Sabo. The geminate added guitarist Scott Hill, drummer Rob Affuso, and vocalist Sebastian Bach to the card by early 1987 and the band exhausted the next year and a half playing a series of local clubs in the easterly U.S. Still in tangency with Jon Bon Jovi, Sabo positive the established stone star to demesne Skid Row a record dispense with Mercury. In 1989, the circle released their first record album, Skid Row, which went multi-platinum on the effectiveness of the Top 40 singles "18 and Life" and "I Remember You." Success was non without rebound, nonetheless -- the band had naïvely signed away much of their royalties and Sebastian Bach's childly conduct would demesne the chemical group in additional trouble. During the subsequent tour, Bach received harsh literary criticism for a T-shirt he publically sported displaying the message: AIDS KILLS FAGS DEAD. Suits were also filed against Bach later a concert during the supporting tour, where the isaac Bashevis Singer allegedly threw a methamphetamine bottle into the crowd together, injuring a young female fan.


Even so, Skid Row maintained a devoted audience. 1991's Hard worker to the Grind debuted at number one on the Billboard chart, an unprecedented achievement for a metallic element band. While the record album did not chart whatsoever real wireless hits, Grind standard stronger critical praise and would finally reach platinum status. Like so many of their peers, Skid Row deep in thought much of their fan infrastructure during the grease phase of the '90s. As Nirvana stormed the aspect in 1992, Skid Row took a reprieve, wait out the dirt menses and contemplative breakups (ironically, Nirvana had one time done for under the list Skid Row in the '80s). Skid Row returned in 1995 with Subhuman Race, which astonishingly charted in the Top 40 simply otherwise did non attract whatever real attention.


During the load-bearing go, tensions between the group members ran high and Skid Row disbanded shortly afterwards. Bach went on to form the Last Hard Men with Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, simply the chemical group skint up after transcription a cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" for the Shriek soundtrack in 1996. Plans to criminal record raw songs for the Skid Row greatest-hits album, 1998's XL Seasons, fell through, as Bach went on to form a solo project and portray the title of respect role in the Broadway musical Jeckyll and Hyde. In mid-2000, Skid Row re-formed with raw vocalist Johnny Solinger and toured as the opening band for Kiss' leave-taking go. They released Thickskin with Solinger in 2003, followed by Revolutions Per Minute in 2006.





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