Friday, February 18, 2011

Mythical bands say goodbye

Judas Priest, the British heavy metal band that grew a powerful and thunderous rock and inspired by European groups the likes of Iron Maiden and Motörhead, today announced its dissolution. Its components will become this year in their sixties and have decided it is time to hang up the leather and put an end to an adventure that began four decades ago.

We try to make a band of heavy vibrant, but open to other styles "We've always tried to be a vibrant band of heavy, but open to other styles," he said wistfully, shortly thereafter, vocalist Rob Halford. But before you finally save their instruments, the band will be safe. Judas Priest has organized one last grueling tour which secure retirement.

This will come to Spain in late July and will visit A Coruña (day 29), Leganés (30th), Bilbao (day 31) and Badalona (2 August). Before last there for more than a dozen cities. The Birmingham are not the only heavy metal legend that would rally candles. Scorpions, the German fat profits in 1990 were courting a generation with their ballads, they got last year in the studio to record what, they reported, would be his last job.

Like their British comrades, and have embarked on an ambitious road tour that includes thirty destinations, although none of them in Spain. To those who it will be impossible to see on stage will be to Simply Red, training pop that won the 80 thanks in part to the falsetto voice of his particular red-haired frontman, Mick 'Red' Hucknall, and issues such as Stars .

"What adventure have been these 25 years," he mused last December Hucknall after completing a farewell tour that took him to places like Tenerife and Marbella. Exceed ten years of tenure is often a feat difficult to achieve for numerous bands. The winners The White Stripes did it, but three years later announced their separation.

I do not think it is well that some sixtysomethings do rock The duo formed in 1997 by brothers Jack White and Meg White, whom the press had their beginnings as the saviors of rock in a world increasingly overrun by electronics, has ensured that his disappearance is not due to classic artistic differences among its members.

Neither health problem ", nor a lack of desire to continue." According suggests the statement sent by young people, their decision reflects the "desire to preserve what is beautiful and special about the group, and keep it that way." And Internet critics have praised the performance of The White Stripes have been quick to brand your item of "dignity" and "elegant." Another farewell has received the same qualifying has been the LCD Soundsystem, an original dance-punk project conceived by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy in 2000.

Their sound became a mid-morning favorite of fans of the genre's coolest. Even snuck in some radiofórmulas U.S. in 2006 and 2008 he was awarded the Grammy for best electronic album. His last concert will be held on April 2 in New York. Rounding out the international list The Streets, hailed the proposal of the British rapper Mike Skinner, and The Go Go's, the band that made history in 1978 as the first all-female group in pop music that played its own instruments and wrote their own songs.

"It's the end," said the lead singer of the band, Belinda Carlisle, 52, "I leave with some dignity. The rock 'n' roll has an element of youth. I do not think it is well that some sixtysomethings do rock. Basically, a profession for kids. " Farewell to the goat in Spain was also important to celebrate and mourn dismissed.

The Lychee decided that his satirical Cabra Mecánica not still alive in 2011. Illegal Martínez, Javier did the same to the veterans Illegal, a fantastic fun and pimp that had its heyday in the years of La Movida. Now, both artists will undertake new projects away from the rock. With a shorter path, but with a solid fan base, Ojos De Brujo and The Sunday Drivers also reported not long ago his decision to separate.

The first turning continue today to say goodbye to his audience on its tenth anniversary: the next act in Barakaldo on 25 and 26, in Madrid. However, its components still will not stop: the singer, Marina, has already taken his first steps alone, and some of them shuffled tour with new partners.

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