Nuno Bettencourt: Last News

Rihanna’s live guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has addressed a long-standing rumour that the pop star previously wanted to record a heavy metal album but the idea was shot down by her then label Def Jam. A rumour that mainly began with remarks made by Bettencourt himself.“That’s complete lies”, he tells Classic Rock magazine about said rumour and the quotes from him that got it started.

Aerosmith are reportedly set to reunite for a brief performance next month – find out more below.The band announced their abrupt retirement from touring in August last year after frontman Steven Tyler suffered a serious vocal cord injury while performing in 2023. Their final live show took place at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York back in September 2023, and no one – including the band themselves – knew it would be their last.Now, however, it appears that the band will be reconvening for a special performance as part of Tyler’s Jam For Janie charity event in early February.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Leading U.K.-based distributor DCD Rights has acquired new music title “Life in Six Strings With Kylie Olsson,” which will launch next week at TV market Mipcom. The eight-part series, described as “funny and insightful,” is produced by LISS Films. It sees TV host and music journalist Kylie Olsson take viewers into the homes and at the favorite hangouts of some of the world’s most iconic guitarists, including Motley Crue’s Mick Mars, Def Leppard’s Phil Collen and Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme.

Dig out your spandex and hide your daughters because Paramount+ is unleashing the world of ‘80s hair metal.

Paramount+ – check out the trailer below.Nöthin’ But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of ‘80s Hair Metal will be a three-part series, set to be released onto the streaming service on September 17 in the US and a day later internationally.It promises to document the exploits and excesses of bands such as Poison, Skid Row, Def Leppard, Guns N’ Roses, Quiet Riot and W.A.S.P., and it is based on a book of the same name by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock.Watch the trailer for the series here:The show will feature original interviews with Poison’s Bret Michaels, Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Skid Row’s Dave “Snake” Sabo, Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt, as well as MTV host Riki Rachtman and Jackass star Steve-O.It is directed by Jeff Tremaine, who also oversaw the Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt in 2019.Bienstock has spoken about what drew him to that particular moment in pop culture, explaining to VWRocks in 2021: “I think that scene on the Sunset Strip was like nothing that had come before and nothing that has happened since. You really get a picture of hundreds of bands out there and just tons of fans and these guys posting thousands of flyers everywhere.

Rihanna‘s live guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has shot down a long-standing rumour that the singer wanted to make a heavy metal album.Back in 2009, The Daily Star reported as an exclusive that “closet rock chick” Rihanna was “desperate to go all heavy metal”, but her record label “had a seizure” over her hopes for a change in musical direction.They quoted Bettencourt saying: “When I spoke to Rihanna she was totally into transforming herself into a heavy rock chick. She was listening to Led Zeppelin and new acts like Paramore and said that was the direction she wanted to go, so I said yes.”However, in a new interview with Classic Rock, Bettencourt denied that he’d made any of the comments in the 2009 article.“That’s complete lies,” he said “that’s fabricated.

Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull, Sting and more artists will perform in an ancient volcano crater for the inaugural Atlantis Concert for Earth event in July.Scheduled to take place in Azores, Portugal on July 22 and 23, the nonprofit concert for global conservation will feature headliners the Black Eyed Peas and Pitbull, as well as supporting acts Stone Temple Pilots, Sting (in a virtual performance), Bush, Mod Sun and Girlfriends. The concerts will be hosted by Nicole Scherzinger, who will also put on a special performance.The two-day concert will take place inside the Sete Cidades Massif volcano, which last erupted in 1880.

John Lennon's son Julian sang a cover of his late father's song "Imagine" at a fundraiser for Ukraine. The performance marked the first time that Julian has sung his father's song. Lennon was shot and killed in 1980 at the age of 40.

wrote on YouTube. “The song reflects the light at the end of the tunnel, that we are all hoping for.”The singer-songwriter son of Beatle John Lennon presented the cover version of his father’s ode to peace as part of the Stand Up For Ukraine campaign, a global fund-raising effort broadcast from Warsaw, Poland.“I had always said, that the only time I would ever consider singing ‘Imagine’ would be if it was the ‘End of the World’,” Lennon wrote.But “the War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy,” he explained.