FROM CLASSIC ROCK

The Cosmos Rocks – what's it like?

Here's the Clog's quickfire preview of the new Queen + Paul Rodgers album:

The Cosmos Rocks, while characterised by having Rodgers’s raw blues in place of Freddie’s flamboyance, is undisputedly the work of Queen.

Not only can The Cosmos Rocks sit proudly in the Queen canon, it can also do the same alongside Rodgers’s work with Free and Bad Company.

The intro to opening track Cosmos Rockin’ is a call to arms reminiscent of Brighton Rock, with chugging riffs that welcome you into a raucous, typically Queen rocker.

As the album unfolds it rapidly becomes clear that all the components of classic Queen are here.

It’s a work of extraordinary confidence, taking the band’s familiar blueprint and casually expanding it to encompass the organic blues and visceral soul of Paul Rodgers.

Overall The Cosmos Rocks has more than enough power to take your breath away. Freddie’s legacy is in safe hands.

* Read a full review of Queen’s The Cosmos Rocks in Classic Rock’s October issue (No.124), on sale Wednesday, September 17. The album is released two days before, on September 15.

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Goodbye my friend......

Seattle musician Joe Shikany was killed Monday in a freak accident at a lake near Spokane.

According to Spokane's KHQ-TV, the singer, guitarist and bassist had been attending a family reunion at a house on Lake Sacheen and was trying to secure a dock during a storm when a tree fell on him. He died later at a local hospital.

Joe Shikany played guitar with several local bands and toured with singer Paul Rodgers.

Shikany, a Spokane native, had an impressive resume. He played in a number of bands, among them Magic Bus, Sex and Violins, PowerCell, N'Sane, the Davanos and Spike and the Impalers. Shikany also toured with rocker Paul Rodgers, the singer for Bad Company, Free and a reunited Queen.

In 1992, Shikany, Steve Hannah and Lynn Sorensen founded Magic Bus, a classic-rock cover band playing songs of the '60s, '70s and '80s -- by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, the Rolling Stones and other iconic bands. Magic Bus played at clubs, casinos, festivals and biker rallies.

In the late '70s, Shikany became a member of Bighorn, one of Seattle's most popular rock bands of the era. The powerful, guitar-heavy band opened for Van Halen, Boston, Journey and the J. Geils Band, but never took off nationally. Bighorn later evolved into Seattle new-wave band The Allies.

Shikany will be sorely missed by members of Seattle's classic-rock community.

Friends and fellow musicians gathered last night at Lake City's Rimrock Steakhouse, a popular hangout for local musicians.

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Joe Shikany

He was a kind and loving person, one who's heart had room

for the entire world

and Joe shared his heart and his passion of life through his music.

Joe will be tremendously missed by all that knew him...it is a tragic loss .

Joe always made me laugh each time I saw him.

We love you and will miss you now and forever

You will NEVER be forgotton

I still can't believe he has left us. !!

R.I.P Joe

Lucy & Robert Piller - ARN

JOE SHIKANY CHAT 2004

Fade Away - Bad Company

Lyrics: FADE AWAY

Fading colours, changing sounds
Shades of night come tumbling down
Bring tomorrow like yesterday
Fade away

Here I am, a wayward man
Following the light to a distant land
Come tomorrow, without yesterday
Fade away

High adventure I just begun
Fame and fortune got me on the run
Break off the way
Fade away, yeah

Oh yes I am a wayward man
Following the light to a distant land
Come tomorrow, without yesterday
Fade away

Oh fade away, fade away

This title is taken from Bad Company´s album, "Run with the pack" (1976/UK)

The Cosmos Rocks - UK Radio Advert

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A Special Evening for Fans of

FREE and BAD COMPANY

SIMON KIRKE plus special guests FREEWAY

TOUR NOVEMBER 2008

To celebrate the 40th anniverary of Free's formation - Simon Kirke and Freeway play a series of exclusive UK dates.

Simon Kirke founder member of both FREE (All Right Now, Wishing Well, Fire And Water, Little Bit Of Love ) and BAD COMPANY (Can‘t Get Enough, Feel Like Makin’ Love, Shooting Star) together with

Larry Oakes (ex Foreigner) presents an acoustic show featuring new songs from Simon alongside songs from the FREE and BAD COMPANY days .

Special guests FREEWAY the ultimate FREE tribute band will also be appearing with a full electric show the highlight of this being the grand finale with Simon joining them on stage to play some of his favourite Free songs.

A must see show to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of FREE’s formation.

“A unmissable experience for any fan of classic blues rock “….Bill Bradshaw (Daily Express)

Thu 6th Nov Inn at Lathones, Fife Scotland
Tel: 01334 840 494 www.mundellmusic.com

Fri 7th Nov Dunelm House, Durham University
Tel: 07704 154 442 info.freeway@yahoo.co.uk

Mon 10th Nov The Irish Centre, Leeds

Tel:0113 248 0887 www.liveinleeds.com/irish.htm

Tue 11th Nov The Stables, Milton Keynes
Tel: 01908 280800 www.stables.org

Thu 13th Nov The Marine Hall, Fleetwood
Tel: 01253 77 11 41 www.marinehall.co.uk

Fri 14th Nov Rudiblues, Rotherham
Tel: 01709 37 88 53 www.rudiblues.com

Rescheduled Date for Simon Kirke - Crewe

Sunday 9th November

The M Club, Crewe - UK

Tel no: 01270 216 785

Website: www.themclub.co.uk

Anyone who has purchased tickets already for Sat 15 November should just contact the venue.

As anyone who attended one of our joint shows last year will tell you, this is an unmissable experience for any fan.

Electricland" by Bad Company

Surfs Up, Schools Out and Queen Return

by Paul Cashmere - August 12 2008

Details of the first album of new Queen songs since 1995 have been released.

‘The Cosmos Rocks’ by Queen + Paul Rodgers will include a DVD from their 2005 show in Japan.

The CD will feature 13 new tracks.

‘The Cosmos Rocks’ will be released on September 15 in Europe and October 14 in the USA.

The tracklisting is:

Cosmos Rockin'
Time To Shine
Still Burnin'
Small
Warboys
We Believe
Call Me
Voodoo
Some Things That Glitter
C-lebrity
Through The Night
Say It's Not True
Surf's Up . . . School's Out!

The track list for the live DVD:

Reaching Out
Tie Your Mother Down
Fat Bottomed Girls
Another One Bites The Dust
Fire And Water
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Radio Ga Ga
Can't Get Enough
I Was Born To Love You
All Right Now
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen

Photographs from the BAD COMPANY show

can now be viewed here on ARN

BAD COMPANY

LIVE AT THE HARD ROCK HOLLYWOOD, FL.

THIS FRIDAY

To Celebrate this special performance

Are preparing a

"BAD COMPANY SUNDAE SPECIAL"

for the special low price of

$5.99

Thur/Fri/Sat

Look out for the logo

at Ben & Jerry's where Photos will be displayed

By Special arrangement of ARN

What a hoot !!

And don't forget Members of ARN will be meeting

FRIDAY 8th August 2008

Located just outside the casino in the Paradise Shopping area

at the Hard Rock Hotel - Hollywood

Meet us all at 4pm

Meet Lucy + Three Guests

Carl Dunn - Photographer +

Barry Quinn - Lead singer of The Wholigans

Jeff Robinson of Bluecat

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ALSO

For those who will be near the Hard Rock on Thursday evening

we shall be attending this event

Thursday August, 7 2008

at HammerJacks Jamzz Session http://www.myspace.com/hammerjacksmusic

Join in the fun & sun !!!

Free & Paul Rodgers - Guardian of the Universe

Casting an Eye on Eagerly Awaited Queen + Paul Rodgers The Cosmos Rocks CD Album

Having between them sold more than 300 million albums, it is only to be expected that the first studio collaboration between rock giants Queen and revered rock legend Paul Rodgers in the form of the upcoming album The Cosmos Rocks is one of this year's most eagerly anticipated.

For the music we will have to wait a little longer: the album does not reach stores until September 15 (October 14 in the USA), but for anyone wondering how Queen and Paul Rodgers circa 2008 visualise themselves the band this week revealed the cover art for the forthcoming CD album.

The thematic image is the work of award winning photographer Edgar Martins who has been hailed ‘one of the most influential artists of his generation working within the medium of Photography'. Widely represented internationally in various high profile museums, public, corporate and private collections, Martin's awarded books and series include 'Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies' and ‘The Diminishing Present', work, according to critical observers, ‘positioned in the grey area of fact and fiction, reality and allegory'.

So beyond Martin's striking cover image, what lies in store with The Cosmos Rocks?

Tantalisingly, the Queen + Paul Rodgers' point of view is:
"People really, truly playing together in the studio - you don't get that much these days. But, you will get it on the new Queen and Paul Rodgers album."
The Cosmos Rocks, featuring 13 all-new tracks written and recorded by Queen + Paul Rodgers, is released by EMI/Parlophone throughout the world excepting North America where it is a Hollywood Records release.