Guns n' Roses To Play Brazil in '08?

According to Brazilian newspaper Folha, some formation of Guns n' Roses will perform live in the South American country later this year. To quote the paper, "As bandas Red Hot Chili Peppers e Guns N' Roses vireo para o Brasil neste ano." We're assuming that means Anthony Keidis and Co. will play Brazil too. Exact dates and locations for the supposed Gn'R shows have not been announced. The Folha report comes more than four months after they printed a story in which one concert promoter said there were "good chances" Axl Rose would play there in the third quarter of '08. The Brazilian tour plans are just the latest round of rumors surrounding Gn'R. The past month has seen Chinese Democracy supposedly being completed and handed off to the record companies, Rose on the verge of starring in a reality TV show, Gn'R signing with a top management team and Rose thanking Dr. Pepper for their support.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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