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FREDDIE MERCURY DOUBLE DVD "LOVER OF LIFE - SINGER OF SONGS"

Hollywood Records will release double DVD of Queen legendary, Freddie Mercury, entitled "Lover of LIfe - Singer of Songs" in Canada on January 9th.

"From his earliest pre-QUEEN recordings as LARRY LUREX through his collaboration with opera legend MONTERRSAT CABALLÉ, Freddie Mercury was the gold standard of one-of-a-kind, larger than life rock stardom."

The tracklisting includes:

Disc 1 – Lover of Life… The Untold Story contains the award winning documentary of the untold story of Freddie Mercury, from his birth in Zanzibar, to his death in London.

Disc 2 – Singer of Songs… The Solo Videos is a compilation of Freddie's videos offering the opportunity to revisit such classic moments in Freddie's solo career as the majesty of Freddie and Montserrat Caballé and fountains and fireworks in Barcelona Freddie and 300 Amazonian women in 'I Was Born To Love'. Men in women's clothing in 'Living On My Own', and Freddie's favourite characters in 'The Great Pretender'.

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HEAVEN AND HELL's TONY IOMMI REVEALS NEW BLACK SABBATH TRACKS

Tony Iommi gave exclusive statement to BW&BK about 3 new tracks recorded for the upcoming Black Sabbath-Dio era compilation which is scheduled to be released (according to Tony) sometime between Febuary and March via Rhino Records.

“Well, we've got one for everybody. If somebody goes, ‘Oh, they're all too slow,' we've got a slow one, a mid-tempo and a fast one. So it should please most of the fans. The slow one is quite a heavy track. It's called ‘Shadow Of The Wind'. And Ronnie presented the first idea for that, and then I just came up with more stuff to go with it, and it's a really good track. Very similar to the old Sabbath style of writing. There's not loads of things on it. It's just really basic with the vocal.”

So it's quite long as well?
“Probably about six minutes or something like that. And then we've got ‘The Devil Cries', which is a mid-tempo one, which again is quite a powerful song. And I must say that Ronnie has done a fantastic job on the vocals on all of these. He really has, and the lyrical content and the actual melodies are very good. So that's the mid-tempo one. That's an interesting track. And then we've got a fast one which is called ‘Ear In The Wall', and that's… a fast one (laughs).”

Lyrically, the band has been working the way this version of the band always had – Dio does ‘em. “You know, they're all Ronnie's,” says Tony. “He came up with them over that period, while he got the ideas. He got the ideas when he heard the initial riffs, and then wrote the lyrics. So no, Geezer (Butler - bass; the lineup is rounded off by drummer Vinny Appice) hasn't done any lyrics. I don't think he really wants to because he knows Ronnie can write lyrics. I don't think he involved himself.”

“Well, she seems to be OK about it,” says Tony, asked what Sharon's view on this situation is. “In fact, I saw Sharon two nights ago. She came over here for dinner. And she's not been opposed to it at all. And again, we're not going out as Black Sabbath.”

Will an album with OZZY come some day, as Sharon has floated as a possibility?
“Well, I'm sure at some point we will, yeah. Again it comes down to the time factor and what we're going to be doing. Certainly I'd like to do an album. I always felt, a while back, we should have done an album, but we didn't. It's almost got to the point where I don't say anything now. We just wait to see what happens.”

Tony also indicated that the band had yet to talk about a set list, but many of the talk thus far had centred around this being a Dio-era only set. As previously reported, Heaven And Hell will be commencing their World Tour in Canada in March. There will be one exclusive US date in New York City, but the official US dates won't begin until August. Watch for a massive Heaven And Hell feature in BW&BK #102 ... out in February 2007!

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OASIS VS GREEN DAY

The perennially jovial Noel Gallagher has accused Green Day of ripping off Oasis' biggest hit, "Wonderwall."

He says "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is "exactly the same arrangement." He continues by saying "They should have the decency to wait until I am dead (before releasing this). I, at least, pay the people I steal from that courtesy." He also says of Green Day "They consider themselves to be - and I quote - 'a kick-ass rock 'n' roll band'. They could not be less kick-ass if they tried."

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