Click here to listen   We are on Twitter! Get your Rock History Book headlines on our Twitter page! Click Here. Top Stories   Birthdays This Week June 8: Alex Band (The Calling) (1981) Nicci Gilbert (Brownstone) (1970) Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) (1962) Mick Hucknall (Simply Red) (1960) Bonnie Tyler (1953) Boz Scaggs (1944) Chuck Negron (Three Dog Knight) (1942) Nancy Sinatra (1940) June 9: Dean Felber (Hootie & The Blowfish) (1967) Dean Dinning (Toad The Wet Sprocket) (1967) Jon Lord (Deep Purple) (1941) June 10: Faith Evans (1973) Lemisha Grinsted (702) (1973) Jo-Jo (K-Ci & JoJo) (1971) Dan Lavery (Tonic) (1969) Jimmy Chamberlain (Smashing Pumpkins) (1967) Maxi Priest (1961) Shirley Alston (The Shirelles) (1941) June 11: Dan Lavery (Tonic) (1969) Joey Santiago (The Pixies) (1965) Kim and Kelley Deal (The Breeders) (1961) Donnie Van Zandt (38 Special) (1952) Frank Beard (ZZ Top) (1949) June 12: Robyn (1979) Kenny Wayne Shepherd (1977) Bardi Martin (Candlebox) (1969) Grandmaster Dee (Whodini) (1962) Michael Hausman ('til tuesday) (1960) John Linnell (They Might Be Giants) (1959) Brad Delp (Boston) (1951) Died March 9, 2007 Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) (1951) June 13: Raz B (B2K) (1985) Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) (1970) Soren Rasted (Aqua) (1969) Paul DeLisle (Smash Mouth) (1963) Dennis Locoriere (Dr. Hook) (1949) June 14: Billie Myers (1971) Chris DeGarmo (Queensryche) (1963) Boy George (Culture Club) (1961) Alan White (Yes) (1949) Rod Argent (The Zombies) (1945) June 15: Dryden Mitchell (Alien Ant Farm) (1976) Ice Cube (1969) Scott Rockenfield (Queensryche) (1963) Steve Walsh (Kansas) (1952) Garry Roberts (Boomtown Rats) (1954) James Smith (The Stylistics) (1950) Russell Hitchcock (Air Supply) (1949) Ian Matthews (1946) June 16: Gino Vanelli (1952) Edward Levert (The O'Jays) (1942) June 17: Kevin Thornton (Color Me Badd) (1969) Paul Young (1956) Barry Manilow (1946) June 18: Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men) (1971) Dizzy Reed (Guns N' Roses) (1963) Alison Moyet (1961) Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins) (1957) Paul McCartney (1942) June 19: Brian Welch (Korn) (1969) Brian Vander Ark (The Verve Pipe) (1964) Paula Abdul (1962) Ann Wilson (Heart) (1950) June 20: Twiggy Ramirez (Marilyn Manson) (1972) Murphy Karges (Sugar Ray) (1968) John Taylor (Duran Duran) (1960) Michael Anthony (Van Halen) (1955) Cyndi Lauper (1953) Lionel Richie (1949) Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) (1942) Gene Simmons Accused of Sexual Assault May 28, 2010 – How could a meeting between a make-up artist and Kiss’ Gene Simmons go so wrong? Well according to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday the guitarist wanted more from her than she was willing to give and it didn’t involve make-up. More Bret Michaels Didn’t Tell His Doc About American Idol May 28, 2010 – Didn’t Bret Michaels look healthy on American Idol on Wednesday night? There is a chance he wasn’t. More Don’t Let Elton Cook You Dinner May 27, 2010 - File this under “You can’t be good at everything.” Elton John was arguably the biggest solo musician in the world in the seventies and he was easily in the top 10 in the eighties but it seems he was too busy conquering the world to learn to cook. More Reformed Faces Set for Vintage at Goodwood Without Stewart May 27, 2010 – The good news is the Faces are back together but the not-so-fine print says Rod Stewart will not be in the mix. More Only 2% Separated Final Two On Low-Rated American Idol Finale May 28, 2010 – “What-eva” seems to be what many are saying about Wednesday’s American Idol finale. While 24.2 million viewers checked out Simon Cowell’s swan song it was the show’s lowest rated finale since season one which could spell trouble for winner Lee DeWyze. More Paul McCartney’s Daughter Controls his Touring May 27, 2010 – It sure sounds like Paul McCartney is a responsible dad. The former Beatle say he never tours when it’s his turn to look after his daughter Beatrice – his child with ex-wife Heather Mills. More Slash Yawns at New Rock Scene May 27, 2010 – Slash says he’s not holding his breath for the next big thing in Rock. In fact the former Guns N’ Roses guitarist is disappointed in the current Rock scene. More Jones Experimenting With Summer Festivals May 18, 2010 – Norah Jones says she hasn’t done too many festivals in the past because her music was too “intimate and quiet.” More Phil Collins, Huge Alamo Fan May 11, 2010 – The name Phil Collins reminds us of countless hits, huge arena tours and complicated drumming. How about the Alamo? More Sting Says Legalize Marijuana April 5, 2010 – Sting seems to be fed up with our paradigms around pot! The singer says we, as a society, spend too much time putting marijuana users in jail when legalizing the substance could feed the hungry of the world. More Get More Music News About Us Volunteer with Us Check out Our Sister site below Join our Facebook Group and get on our mailing list. Here   Custom Search
Where's My Teeth: Billy Joel Splits from Wife Katie Lee – Are You Really Surprised? June 20, 2009 – If there ever was a mismatched pair, physically and intellectually, it was Billy Joel and his young wife Katie Lee. Now comes word of the inevitable, the couple are splitting up. Their Oprah interview a few years ago was impossible to watch in a “Stepford Wives” creepy kind of way. Billy’s young little prize made Mary Hart’s perkiness seem positively dull. Here was Billy Joel, a music superstar, who had a reputation for telling it like it is, he never suffered fools and he was married to someone more annoying than Celine Dion on a good day. What gives? To make things worse in front of millions of viewers Katie tried to make us believe that she never knew who Billy Joel was or heard any of his songs before they met. Either way she came off like an idiot with that statement. Was she culturally inept? Remember Joel has the 6th biggest selling album of all time, or was Katie just out-right lying and digging for gold and fame. The latter is the theme of most of the internet chat rooms today. It is reported however that the couple had set up a pre-nuptial agreement. The whole thing has been a mess from the start, Joel is 60 and Katie Lee is only 27. What was a gorgeous young thing like that doing with a guy who looked like a Buick? Their bond had that “Your dad’s on top of you” theme running all the way through it. Can you imagine being a fly on the wall when these two tried to have a conversation? Poor Billy went into this relationship with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel! As Joseph Collins once said, “The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane.” Billy was enveloped by lust and Katie liked how her husband’s fat wallet made him look like SpongeBob SquarePants. I married a woman who is 10 ½ years younger than me but, in the end, we eat the same dirt. We come from the same place and even though she’s gorgeous and I look like a shoe she certainly didn’t marry me for money. I’m a broadcaster, how much money could I possible have? Being lop-sided in love goes further than looking like a young girl with her grandfather, which they did, but also being cut from the same cloth or some reasonable hand drawn facsimile. Did these two have anything in common? On Oprah Katie Lee said she was mature for her age and Billy “has this job that’s allowed him to be really immature for a long time - rock star.” You know a couple’s grasping when they pull out that old cliché; it usually always means sugar-daddy! If you go out with a young babe you always have to ask yourself “would I even like this person if she looked like Susan Boyle?” At least Susan is charming and she has a talent. Though looks is just one of many factors that make up a relationship, if Billy wanted his female equivalent he'd be dating Mrs. Doubtfire. In a statement, the pair said that they remain "caring friends with admiration and respect for each other." Blah, blah, blah. Wasn’t it just a few months ago that Katie Lee was hanging on the arm of Yigal Azrouel, a handsome 36-year-old Israeli-born fashion designer? Some folks say that Azrouel referred to her as "my girlfriend." The thing is, when Joel hooked up with Katie Lee there weren’t any “Joe-Lunch-bucket” guys working in a Chevy plant in Mansfield, Ohio saying, “If Billy can do it maybe I can find me a sweet young thing who doesn’t think I look like an endangered elephant.” It’s almost always the rich powerful guys who, even though they look silly, get the hot perfect young chicks. It’s this little dance that happens, this unwritten rule or agreement these couples make. I doubt if most aging rockers even dare ask themselves why someone who was selling Girl Guide cookies a few years ago would want to play with their Billy-Bob-Ray when the lights go out. A friend of the couple said, "It was really the age difference that caught up with them, they grew apart." Were they ever living in the same galaxy? Katie wasn’t even born when Joel recorded his first album. The Piano Man’s daughter Alexa Ray Joel, who’s younger than Katie but actually looks and acts older, said, “I'm just supporting him right now." Adding, "I have a pretty good women's intuition so I could tell.” Her mother Christie Brinkley, who was married to Joel from 1985 to 1994 told Extra, "I'm very sad that this has happened and I wish them both happiness... he's a wonderful father to Alexa. We've remained friends. We've been friends for many, many years, so obviously I'm very sad that this has happened and I wish them both happiness." I love Billy Joel; he helped to re-wire me in high school. His music helped me survive my own “dark nights of the soul” but when the dust settles he’s just a guy who, by the sounds of it, drinks too much and is looking for someone who “gets him.” Marrying a then 23 year old, no matter how beautiful, was probably a huge act of self sabotage or maybe he just wanted to feel young. Really I don’t know and I doubt if he does right now but it’s not how you fall down that counts, its how you get up. I want the latter for him. I hope Billy Joel asks himself “What the fuck was I thinking?” His self preservation needs to invite that lesson/thought in real deep. I like my heroes, I defended Elton John for years just like I would a family member but when I saw Billy’s wedding in 2004 I had to disengage from the whole thing. It was just too bizarre. Now it’s finally over. 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