WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017 lifestyle

MUSIC & MOVIES

This file photo shows singer performing in This file photo, Billy Joel performs in concert for the grand In this file photo, Alice Cooper, left, performs at Wembley Arena in London.— AP photos the Esprit Arena in Duesseldorf, western Germany. re-opening of the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. Feels like the 1st time: 77 rock kings kick it 40 yrs later

t's more than a feeling: Many of the rock 'n' roll when the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, died. remain reliable draws on the concert circuit, said Gary bands that were huge in 1977 will comprise a big It was the year Kiss neared the zenith of its popular- Bongiovanni, editor of the concert industry publica- Ipart of the summer concert market 40 years later. ity, with the "Love Gun" and "Alive II" . Fellow tion Pollstar. Queen, Foreigner, Boston, Aerosmith, Kiss, Alice shock rocker Alice Cooper scored huge airplay with an "The audience that grew up on rock 'n' roll are still Cooper, Billy Joel and Rod Stewart are among those unexpected orchestral ballad, "You and Me." Rod rock 'n' roll fans," he said. "They still want to see these launching major tours this spring and summer, even Stewart was on every rock and pop station with "Hot acts, whether they have a new record or not. That's a though some of them haven't had a big hit since Legs," "You're in My Heart" and "I Was Only Joking," and big part of the concert business." And fans are forgiv- Jimmy Carter (or at least Ronald Reagan) was in office. scored the Billboard No. 1 song of the year in ing (or sometimes oblivious) of lineup changes. The Concert industry executives say nostalgia acts are still "Tonight's the Night." It's easier to list which songs on original singers for Boston and Queen died, Foreigner reliable sellers, with satellite and classic rock radio Joel's 1977 "The Stranger" WEREN'T major hits vocalist Lou Gramm left in 2003, and Kiss's original keeping their hits alive. than to list the ones that were. And Foreigner followed lineup last toured in 2000. Aerosmith is the most "The simple answer is that good music is still good Boston's success of a year earlier to become the new unlikely band of survivors, given its members' history music," said guitarist Tom Scholz, who founded Boston overnight sensation with a debut album that sold 4 of drug use. Yet they're still out there with all five origi- and found immediate stardom with tracks that remain million copies, powered by classics like "Feels Like the nal members. staples of classic rock playlists including "More Than a First Time" and "Cold As Ice." "Anytime I can go see Aerosmith, I will go," said Feeling," "Peace of Mind," "Long Time" and "Don't Look "I never could have imagined when I set out to cre- Queen guitarist Brian May. "I love to take my kids to let Back." "It's pretty much still Boston, as long as I'm alive, ate Foreigner 40 years ago, that we'd still be touring them see what it was really like to be in a rock concert as long as I can stand up and play." To get a feel for around the world and performing the music we love and have that spontaneity and danger and passion. how long ago that was, 1977 was the year that serial all these years later," said guitarist and founding mem- It's not mapped out; it's all happening right in front of killer Son of Sam was arrested in New York, when ber Mick Jones. "I can't express the gratitude I feel your eyes. It's a live tradition and I'm proud to have George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson when fans share stories of how our songs have been been a part of that." — AP turned the Yankees into a three-ring circus, when "Star woven into their milestones and memories over the Wars" and "Saturday Night Fever" packed theaters, and years." That's a big part of why classic rock bands In this file photo, Adam Lambert, left, and Brian May of the Queen + Adam Lambert perform at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Country singer Loretta Lynn moved to rehab center after stroke

ountry music star Loretta Lynn has been moved from a Lynn, one of the first women to break through to country hospital to a rehabilitation center as she recovers from music stardom as both a writer and a performer, had shows Ca stroke, the singer-'s representatives said lined up across the United States through November. Born Monday. The 85-year-old was admitted to a Nashville hospi- in Kentucky, she carved a career in the scene tal on May 5 after suffering the stroke at her home in with her down-home twangy voice, writing and singing hits Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. such as 1960's "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" and "Coal Miner's "Loretta wants to thank everybody for their prayers, love Daughter," released in 1970. — Reuters and support," her representatives posted on the singer's offi- cial Facebook page on Monday. "Loretta has been moved from hospital facility in to rehabilitation and we're happy to In this file photo, Loretta Lynn per- report she is doing great!" The singer's upcoming shows forms at the BBC Music Showcase have been postponed on her doctors' advice while she at Stubb's during South By recovers, a statement on her website said earlier this month. Southwest in Austin, Texas. — AFP Efron to play serial In 'Alien: Covenant,' a killer Bundy in return to gut-busting horror This file photo shows LA Reid and Meghan Trainor attend- upcoming biopic ing the LA Reid conversation with Gayle King and special h, the siren song of John Denver. Who among us can because of the lack of any animals or birds. And who planted guest Meghan Trainor at 92Y in New York City. — AFP ac Efron has signed on to star as Ted Bundy in a resist it? Certainly, not the crew of the Covenant, a ves- the wheat? When one of the crew members says he's going to biopic about the serial killer. The Hollywood Reporter Asel powered by a golden sail cruising through space "take a leak," he might as well be announcing his imminent Zand Variety report Efron will play Bundy in with 2,000 "colonists" in hyper sleep and years to go until they death. When things go haywire, the crew freak out and make "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile." The movie will reach their destination. But when a shock wave from a solar such poor, emotional decisions that you, as in prior "Alien" Legendary music center on Bundy's relationship with his girlfriend. flare jostles the crew awake, they soon begin hearing a faint films, find yourself rooting for the creatures with bike-helmet The reports say the project is set to start shooting Oct 9. transmission of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" emanating skulls. They might not be pretty, but they're not foolish. The movie will be directed by Joe Berlinger, who is best from a curiously Earth-like planet. Such sonic waves would be boss Reid out amid known for the "Paradise Lost" series of documentaries. expected if this was "Guardians of the Galaxy," but this is the Bundy confessed to killing more than two dozen women "Alien" universe - no place for sunny '70s singer-. and was executed in Florida in 1989. Efron stars alongside When the antsy crew deviates from their carefully planned harassment reports Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in "Baywatch," which opens mission to seek the transmission's source, we know it's only a this month. — AP matter of time until cosmic crustaceans begin bursting forth A Reid, one of the music world's top executives who from bodies. Take me home? You betcha. helped launch the careers of myriad stars including "Alien: Covenant" is, itself, a homecoming of sorts for a LRihanna and Justin Bieber, has left Epic Records after well-traveled franchise. Since Ridley Scott's 1979 original - still reported harassment allegations. The 60-year-old has been the ultimate deep-space horror - "Alien" has passed through chairman and CEO since 2011 of Epic, a unit of Sony Music numerous directors (James Cameron, David Fincher, Jean- that has been home to some of the top artists in recent Pierre Jeunet) and a prequel reboot, Scott's "Prometheus." decades from Michael Jackson to Pearl Jam. That film, more bloodless and brainy, sought to answer ques- Sony Music late last week issued an unusually terse state- tions of origin with some pretty audacious backstory and - ment of just one line: "LA Reid will be leaving the company." there's just no easy way to say this - eyebrow-less colossuses The company offered no further comment. But reports who created the universe. Monday in music magazine Billboard and The New York Post This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows a In Scott's "Alien: Covenant," taking place ten years after scene from ‘Alien: Covenant.’ — AP said that Sony management terminated Reid after complaints "Prometheus," the so-called Engineers are, thankfully, of sexual harassment. The New York Post, citing an unnamed nowhere to be seen. Back instead are everyone's favorite The "Alien" films have always been where our idealistic source, said a female assistant told management of inappro- extraterrestrials, those acid-dripping drama queens so fond of adventuring and world-conquering hubris are brutally priate remarks and physical advances by Reid including asking making a big entrance. Like some of the alien offspring, brought down to earth, even in the deep reaches of space. her to hug him in bed during a business trip. "Covenant" is a hybrid: part gory "Alien"-style scare-fest, part That's why the insertion of an artificial intelligence has been A lawyer for Reid declined comment. Reid on Twitter quot- Zac Efron arrives at the US Premiere of ‘Baywatch’ at chilly "Prometheus" existentialism. It's a tall order of thrills and fitting. The lone human(ish) presence on the planet turns out ed novelist F Scott Fitzgerald, "Never confuse a single defeat Lummus Park on Saturday in Miami Beach, Fla. — AP theology that the ever gung-ho Scott, working from a script to be David, who has, ala "Apocalypse Now," been living a with a final defeat." Reid is considered one of music's top by John Logan and Dante Harper, comes close to pulling off. godlike existence, lording over his creations. Not as intensely tastemakers and last year released a memoir that recounted a But while "Alien: Covenant" has an ace up its sleeve - mechanical as his newer model, he has clearly developed who's who of famous artists with whom he has worked. Reid, Michael Fassbender times two - the sheer number of tricks some unusual glitches. He quotes Byron, with jealousy. Like a who formerly headed labels Arista and Def Jam, became "Alien: Covenant" pulls out, some of them lifted from the five robot Brando, he sings "The Man Who Broke the Bank at known in the late 1980s for producing a smooth pop sound earlier installments, adds to a general sense of deja vu, which Monte Carlo" while trimming his hair. He's a kind of frustrated for African American artists and jumpstarted the careers of is no doubt made worse by the many "Alien" rip-offs that now poet who yearns to create like the man who made him. TLC, Toni Braxton and Usher. adorn our galaxy. Yet what was once a slithery straightforward The scenes between David and Walter have a strange, But his influence stretched across genres and he was monster movie in space has mutated into an impressively erotic energy. David, trying to unshackle his fellow android famous for instinctively sensing who would become massive. ambitious but overly ornate saga. "Alien: Covenant" has plenty from servitude, urges him to make music and teaches him He signed Canadian rocker Avril Lavigne, R&B superstar to offer, but unfortunately requires ample study of how to play a recorder. "You have symphonies in you, broth- Rihanna and, more recently, pop singer Meghan Trainor after "Prometheus." er!" he encourages. For Fassbender, an actor capable of pre- hearing them audition briefly for him. He also inked a con- cision and madness in equal measure, the dual parts are a tract with a teenage Justin Bieber and worked with Mariah Beautifully mountainous landscape feast. There are moments for Daniels and the Alien, too, as Carey and Jennifer Lopez to revive their careers after their ini- The captain of the Covenant (James Franco, for a heart- "Alien: Covenant" winds along. But by the film's belabored tial fame waned. While mostly behind the scenes, British tele- beat) doesn't survive the shock wave, leaving the uncertain end, the franchise has shed its host. This is no longer an vision viewers saw him for two seasons as a judge on singing Oram (Billy Crudup) to lead the crew that includes Daniels "Alien" movie, it's an android one. "Alien: Covenant," a 20th contest "The X Factor," an experience he later decried as low- (Katherine Waterson, our more demure, less imposing Ripley), Century Fox release, is rated R by the Motion Picture ering his artistic bar. Reid's exit marks a strikingly swift move the imprudent pilot Tennessee (Danny McBride) and Walter Association of America for "sci-fi violence, bloody images, after Sony endured public criticism for declining to respect (Fassbender), an upgraded model of David, the android the language and some sexuality/nudity." Running time: 123 singer Kesha's requests to exit a contract. Kesha has sued pro- actor played in "Prometheus." It's Oram's decision to detour for minutes. Two and a half stars out of four. — AP ducer Dr Luke, accusing him of raping her and tormenting the John Denver-blasting planet, one that initially looks smart. her psychologically. He denies the charges and says she US singer Lauryn Hill performs during of the Mawazine Once through the stormy atmosphere, they find a beautifully remains contractually bound to his Kemosabe Records, a mountainous landscape complete with foggy lakes and fields Sony imprint. — AP Music festival late on Monday. The festival is expected to attract more than two million spectators. — AFP of wheat. But there are ominous warnings, like an eerie silence