Journalist, Author & Syndicated Columnist
Inspired by the Christmas productions at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, country superstar Martina McBride has decided to undertake her own holiday tour. McBride’s first annual “The Joy of Christmas” tour reaches the UIC Pavilion on Sunday.
Punk rock, the first time around, was anger and mayhem. The Sex Pistols scared parents everywhere in the 1970s as they spit out songs, shot up heroin and thumbed their noses at authority. Then there’s Green Day, heralded as Generation Y’s answer to punk rock. Green Day members lace their punk-pop songs with anger and tell cheering crowds to “- – – – off.” But they’re the type of boys who buy health insurance for their families.
By Jae-Ha Kim Chicago Sun-Times December 18, 1987 Vincent Furnier — son of a Detroit preacher, husband for 11 years and father of two children – would never subject himself to the atrocities his rock […]