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Post by Admin on Jun 12, 2020 19:28:12 GMT
EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee and guitarist Troy McLawhorn recently performed a cover version of BANANARAMA's "Cruel Summer" for Germany's MagentaMusik 360. Video footage of their rendition can now be seen below. EVANESCENCE's long-awaited new album, "The Bitter Truth", will arrive later this year. The disc's first single, "Wasted On You", came out last month and is the first in a series of songs that the band will make available from "The Bitter Truth" incrementally, culminating in the release of the full album. The video for "Wasted On You" was shot by each band member — Lee, bassist Tim McCord, drummer Will Hunt, McLawhorn and guitarist Jen Majura — on their iPhones while currently in isolation at their homes. In an interview with Music Week, Lee said that a handful of new EVANESCENCE songs are completed and mixed, and while they're "all different," she added, "I think so far the one thing that ties them together is it's going to a place that's even more raw." Lee also told Music Week that EVANESCENCE wanted to get "back to rocking" following 2017's "Synthesis", an album that featured orchestral and electronic reworkings of old material plus two new tracks. She explained: "I don't want to say our new album is stripped back, because it's not — it's big, powerful and luscious. But we haven't done any orchestra parts on any of the new songs, and that's not because we couldn't get together with one because of the pandemic."
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Post by Admin on Jun 12, 2020 23:19:10 GMT
Chart-topping pop duo Bananarama are set to release a memoir telling the “classic story of the highs and lows of fame”. The group – currently made up of Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward – will launch Really Saying Something on October 29. Publisher Hutchinson won the rights to the book for what is described as “a strong six figures”. Dallin and Woodward said: “We are incredibly excited to be collaborating with the team at Hutchinson. As childhood friends, we could never have imagined the extraordinary life we had ahead of us. “It’s been and continues to be an amazing adventure from school choir to Glastonbury and everything in between. Enjoy the ride!” Bananarama were formed in London in 1981 by Dallin, Woodward and Siobhan Fahey. They enjoyed huge chart success throughout the 80s, thanks to hits including Cruel Summer, Love In The First Degree and their cover of Venus. Fahey left the group in 1988 and formed Shakespears Sister. She was replaced by Jacquie O’Sullivan, who departed in 1991. Fahey later returned for a spell between 2017-18. Susan Sandon, of Cornerstone, of which Hutchinson is an imprint, said: “We’re enormously excited to be publishing this brilliant and riveting memoir from Bananarama, the soundtrack to so many of our lives. “From schooldays to starriness, music to making it on your own terms, Really Saying Something is a classic story of the highs and lows of fame and a testimony to the joy of female friendship.”
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