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8 unusual facts about Rock Star


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Headliners included State of Man; Atlanta's guitar legend, Barry Richman; Rock Star INXS contestant, Heather Luttrell; American Idol finalist Anna Kaelin, and other local talent.

Daphna Dove

She is best known for her appearance on the TV Show Rock Star: INXS

In Los Angeles, Daphna played with the band Lexington and worked as a legal secretary until her successful audution for the TV Show Rock Star: INXS, in which INXS was looking for a new lead singer.

Foiled

The track "Into The Ocean" features guest vocals from Zayra Alvarez (best known for her appearance on Rock Star: Supernova).

Jamie White

She's also had a few appearances on TV shows including Rock Star: Supernova when she interviewed a group of final contestants, including some bickering with winner Lukas Rossi.

Sasha Krivtsov

Sasha Krivtsov, born (Alexander Krivtsov) June 6, 1967 in St. Petersburg, Russia, is probably best known as the bass player for the House Band on the TV reality shows Rock Star: INXS, Rock Star: Supernova and The Voice.

Spectra Records

Some other Spectra artists include Matt Cusson, Steve Whalley, Joe Bouchard, Rock Star: Supernova's Magni Ásgeirsson, Orleans, Transmission Fields, When in Rome, Glenn Jones, Los Musicos de Jose, Adina Howard.

Toby Rand

Toby William Lloyd Rand (born 21 December 1977, in Melbourne) is an Australian singer best known for being lead singer of rock band London Cries, formerly Juke Kartel, and his appearance on Rock Star: Supernova.


Jamie White

Jamie White has also played a part in a few movies, her largest movie role being an MTV VJ and groupie in the 2001 movie Rock Star (Jamie's best friend, Heidi Mark, was also in that movie).

Lukas Rossi

While Rise Electric was on hiatus in the spring of 2006, Rossi competed in Los Angeles, California, on the television show Rock Star: Supernova, as an audition for a new band composed of Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe), Jason Newsted (Metallica), and Gilby Clarke (Guns N' Roses).

Mig Ayesa

Ayesa was also a competitor of CBS television series Rock Star: INXS to be the new lead singer of INXS and was one of the final three contestants along with runner-up Marty Casey and winner J. D. Fortune.

Simon Bowman

In 2006, he played the rock star again in This is Elvis and played a dentist in the BBC1 series Doctors.

Stephen Herek

Moving into the 2000s, Herek directed the 2001 movie Rock Star, a film about a rockstar wannabe and the evolution of a fictional rock group Steel Dragon mimicking that of Judas Priest, starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston, as well as produced by George Clooney.


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A Night in Tuscany

Bocelli performs two opera duets with soprano Nuccia Focile during the concert, before singing Miserere with Italian rock star Zucchero, who discovered him, and Time To Say Goodbye with English soprano Sarah Brightman.

Andrée Chedid

Andrée Chedid is the grandmother of the French rock star -M- (Louis Chedid's son) for whom she has contributed song lyrics including that of Bonoboo on the album Je dis aime.

Caroline Coon

In the "Punky Business" (punk rock) episode of the BBC comedy series The Goodies, Jane Asher plays a parody of Coon ("Caroline Kook"), the dream lover of Tim Brooke-Taylor's aspiring punk rock star.

Ellen Morphonios

Judge Ellen James Morphonios (September 30, 1929 – December 22, 2002) was a Dade County, Florida Circuit Judge, best-remembered for having prosecuted rock star Jim Morrison (The Doors) for allegedly exposing himself.

Éric de Montgolfier

Montgolfier also opened a criminal investigation targeting rock star Johnny Hallyday for allegedly raping an employee of a yacht rented by Halliday.

Full of It

Sam tells lies like "I drive a Porsche", "My dad's a rock star", "My dog ate my homework", "I never miss a shot" (at basketball) and that Vicki Sanders and his English teacher Mrs. Moran are lusting after him.

Human Highway

After meeting rock star Frankie, who appears to lead an opulent, sequestered and drug influenced life-style, Lionel says to the wooden Indian in his shop, "Now there's a real human being!"

I'm a Little Teapot

Season 1 Episode 4 of Friday the 13th: The Series (episode entitled "A Cup of Time") features the song as sung by a sinister elderly lady cum rock star called "Lady Die" (a partial reference to Princess Diana) played by Hilary Shepard Turner

Je suis un rock star

"(Si Si) Je Suis un Rock Star" was a solo hit for Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones in 1981.

Jimmy Thudpucker

He is generally seen as a combination of Bob Dylan and John Denver (and to some extent, Loudon Wainwright III), and became a rock star in the seventies, when he was only 19.

Jon Holmes

He toured the UK in 2008/2009 reading from his book Rock Star Babylon (for which Stephen Fry voiced the footnotes) and in August 2009 played the Edinburgh Comedy Festival to nine star reviews, although these stars were fairly well split across various newspapers.

Kenneth Cole Productions

Recently, he partnered with rock star Jon Bon Jovi to create a line of jackets, t-shirts and fragrance under the Kenneth Cole New York label.

Khimki Forest

Asking Russian rock star Yuri Shevchuk, an outspoken critic of the highway's planned route, who had made headlines confronting Vladimir Putin in a face-to-face meeting in May, to join him on stage at a concert, Bono and Shevchuk sang a Bob Dylan tune (Knockin' on Heaven's Door) in front of 60,000 people.

In late August, rock star Bono of the group U2, while his band was on tour in Russia, took a high-profile stand against the highway construction.

Kill Speed

The film is set in the scorched desert of Southern California and Keegan, Quinn, Natalia Cigliuti, Nick Carter, Reno Wilson, Christian Monzon and Greg Grunberg play characters involved in a high-octane “TOP GUN” meets “FAST & FURIOUS” type tale about best friends who fly super fast, high-tech, experimental airplanes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle.

Kris Lemche

His television credits include La Femme Nikita, Emily of New Moon, My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star and Joan of Arcadia and he has guest starred on TV series such as Ghost Whisperer, Flash Forward, Goosebumps, Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, Twitch City, The Division, Criminal Minds, NCIS: Los Angeles and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Kristian Gravenor

He spent several years writing news and city columns for the Montreal Mirror where his articles shed light on often sensational yet little-known stories about Montreal, including the reputed Montreal demises of Veronica Lake and Maurice Duplessis, the trial of three women accused of beating rock star Serge Fiori and the ongoing tragedy of the Duplessis Orphans.

La severa matacera

The band also performed in Anaheim, Orange County with the new Mexican rock star Sara Valenzuela and opened the tour for The Aggrolites (Hellcat Records) in San Francisco with several ska bands from the Bay Area.

Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain

Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain, published by Simon & Schuster, is a collaborative investigative journalism book written by Ian Halperin and Max Wallace purporting to show that rock star Kurt Cobain, believed to have committed suicide, was in fact murdered, possibly at the behest of his wife Courtney Love.

Lun Lun

Her original name, Hua Hua, was changed to Lun Lun by her sponsor, the Taiwanese rock star Su Huilun.

Malu Mader

She lives in Ipanema, a rich neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, and is married to Brazilian rock star Tony Bellotto from the band Titãs.

My Life with Morrissey

The film chronicles the adventures of an off-kilter career girl whose life goes completely berserk after she meets her idol, British rock star Morrissey who, as the former Smiths frontman remains a towering figure in the Britrock pantheon.

Paolo Sorrentino

The plot centres around a middle-aged wealthy rock star, played by two time academy award winner Sean Penn, who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of finding the guard of the German camp where his father was imprisoned, who now lives in hiding in the U.S.

Party Like a Rockstar

Confusion ensued, however, when a similarly titled song by hip hop artist Freak Nasty titled "Do It Just Like a Rock Star", was erroneously listed in the U.S. iTunes Store with the title "Party Like a Rockstar".

Peter Charles

Charles reportedly to have sold his gold medal winning horse, Vindicat W, to rock star Bruce Springsteen for his showjumper daughter Jessica.

Pretty Ballerina

The song has appeared in the films Apocalypse Now, Off Limits and Things Behind the Sun and has been covered by such artists as Alice Cooper, John Mellencamp, Jason Falkner, Peter Kingsbery, Eels, Irish Electro Band "Les Marionettes", Argentine rock star Charly García, Alan Merrill, The Bluetones, and The Dickies.

Prima J

Prima J also makes a brief appearance in Bratz, auditioning for the school talent show, and three of the stars of Bratz, Logan Browning, Janel Parrish, and Nathalia Ramos, appear in the "Rock Star" music video.

Rockin' with Judy Jetson

Judy Jetson and her friends idolize rock star Sky Rocker and attend his concert, despite her father's disapproval of rock concerts.

Roger Neumann

He has appeared on screen in several movies, including La Bamba starring Lou Diamond Phillips as '50s rock star Ritchie Valens.

Roger Roger

Helen Grace as Chrissie (played by Lesley Vickerage in the pilot): Phil's girlfriend who wants him to settle down and be realistic about his chances of becoming a rock star.

Sally Dexter as Maddie Price: The wife of rock star Jimmy Price.

Spirited

Claudia Karvan stars as dentist Suzy Darling, who walks away from her husband Steve Darling (Rodger Corser) of 15 years and their loveless marriage and into an old apartment block that is inhabited by the ghost of Henry Mallet (Matt King), a 1980s English rock star.

Tara Slone

She previously resided in Toronto, sharing a house with fellow Rock Star INXS contestant Suzie McNeil.

The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star

The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star is a British comedy series, which aired on Channel 4 in 1998.

Tutkusu

Tutkusu is the fourth full length album by Turkish rock star Erkin Koray and was released the year after he did "2", his most ethnic record.

Vampire Junction

Vampire Junction is the title of S. P. Somtow's 1984 novel, the first in a series about Timmy Valentine, a 12-year-old rock star who is actually a 2,000-year-old vampire.

Vancouver Millionaires

In 1999, local rock star and bodybuilder Jon Mikl Thor started VM Sports, a company to market a line of Millionaires apparel.