Stand By Me

DEF LEPPARD Turn Down The Noise For Endearing Version Of ‘STAND BY ME’ In Benefit Of L.A. WILDFIRE RELIEF

Posted on by JL

1 February 2025

Lost of charity initiatives have been set up and many will follow to raise funds for the victims and their families, who suffered from the horrible wildfires in Los Angeles. One of
it was a huge FireAid this past week, with superstars such as Lady Gaga, Green Day, Billie Eilish, original Nirvana members and more.

British glam rock veterans DEF LEPPARD who were based in America throughout their career do their contribution with covering the 1961 classic STAND BY ME performed by soul legend Ben E. King

Joe Elliott (frontman): “Los Angeles and its surrounding area has always played a central role in Def Leppard’s career, from it being where some of us are based and it being our US hub for rehearsals, to being the city where we played our first-ever American gig. We feel blessed to be able to dedicate this song and give all the royalties to the amazing heroes in L.A. helping those affected by the fire. No better song.”

STAND BY THEM


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Wildfire & Disaster Relief California Website

OASIS Released Their Worst (Except For The Singles) Album ‘BE HERE NOW’ 25 Years Ago Today

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Back in time

21 August 2022

Manchester’s rock titans OASIS released their 3rd LP BE HERE today 25 years ago.

Pitchfork: “Oasis’ third album from 1997 was always more circus than substance. The bloated and indulgent remaster only reinforces it as one of the most agonizing listening experiences in pop music… It wasn’t just the end of Oasis’ imperial period, but the record industry’s as well. Britpop receded to make way for a more humble kind of rock star in the likes of Travis and Coldplay.” Score 5/10.

TUTV: First things first. I was/am a supersonic Oasis fan. They gave the 90s a much-needed lets-fucking-rock-again injection, no arty farty BS, only scream-along wonderwall anthems for all the lads (like me) and lasses hungry for going bonkers again with a band they can identify with. I followed them from the very beginning (thank you NME). Their shows had the atmosphere of a sold-out Premier League Match. Glorious!

But as it goes with too much money and too many drugs it only was a matter of time before Oasis would fuck up. As happened with Be Here Now. Unfortunately, nobody had the bollocks to tell the stoned Gallaghers bros and their stoned mates to get the decibels down in the studio for this stinker, so anyone could a least hear the melodies crushed by the cocaine-fueled wall-of-guitar chaos.

Let’s go to Noel the chief Gallagher. He’ll tell you everything about why
BE HERE NOW was a major failure and he still looks in anger at it.

Wait, wait, wait, the 3 singles
were pretty good, well much better
than the full result.

– D’YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN –

– STAND BY ME –

– ALL AROUND THE WORLD –

Spotify stream-link full album

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OASIS: Bio – Discography