Lorde proved she is still in royal form when she kicked off her Ultrasound World Tour in Austin this week where she unveiled songs from her new album Virgin in front of a sold-out crowd of Texans.
Guitar hero Lita Ford was born on September 19, 1958, in London, England, to a couple right out of an old school romance novel. Harry Lenard Ford, a British soldier, and Isabella Benvenuto, an Italian nurse met during World War II, and afterwards settled briefly in England. When Lita was a young child, the family moved first to Boston, where her mother had relatives, and eventually made their way to Los Angeles for more opportunity and a better lifestyle.
In the wake of a partial nuclear meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania in early 1979, a group of musicians said enough was enough in regard to nuclear power plants in the USA.
The Smashing Pumpkins celebrated the 30th anniversary of their breakthrough album Siamese Dream with a special show Sunday (9/17) in their hometown of Chicago with rarities, memories, and huge smiles.