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Good Charlotte are famous and maybe a little rich, but they want you to know they’re not living the lifestyle. In their new video for “The Anthem,” the follow-up to their hit “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” the Maryland foursome are going to – as they say – keep it real. “We’re just gonna get all of our friends, and they’re gonna bring their cars and their dogs,” Joel Madden said backstage at KROQ-FM’s Almost Acoustic Christmas. “Just like a big party, kind of showing who we are and our whole culture that we live in, our own little… Read more »
I spent 24 hours on the road with Good Charlotte recently. Most of what I saw I already knew from TV reports on tour-bus life, probably from episodes of “Diary”: You can’t do much in the bathroom, it’s eight grown men living in the space of a large bedroom, running water is a luxury and the food sucks. That’s not, however, what I went to report on. Good Charlotte are a band with punk values – they look it, they grew up on the music and they believe in the punk ethos. At the same time, though, their video has… Read more »
Elvis rolled the Stones on the U.S. pop album charts, depriving the veteran rockers of what would have been their first No. 1 album in 21 years, according to sales data issued on Wednesday. The Elvis Presley (news) retrospective “Elvis: 30 #1 Hits” sold nearly 337,000 copies in the week ended Oct. 6, its second week of release, while the Rolling Stones’ hits package “Forty Licks” opened at No. 2 with sales of 310,000 units, according to tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan. The Stones’ tally marks the best album debut of their career since SoundScan started tabulating the charts with point-of-sales… Read more »
Good Charlotte consider themselves fortunate their first album wasn’t huge. “Our first album did moderately well (by) industry standards, but to us, it was a huge success,” said singer Joel, who goes by only one name. “There was a little bit of pressure, but we were lucky we didn’t have some multi-platinum CD we had to follow up.” According to Joel, such an outcome worked to their advantage when the band started recording their second album, “The Young and the Hopeless.” He said the only real pressure was from themselves, to branch out musically. “My brother (Benji) and I enjoy… Read more »
