Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few months. In the end, however, they all found out that replacement singers can themselves be replaced. This edition features former Inxs singer J.D. Fortune.
When J.D. Fortune was a kid in the Eighties, he worshipped Inxs. “I wanted to be Michael Hutchence,...
When J.D. Fortune was a kid in the Eighties, he worshipped Inxs. “I wanted to be Michael Hutchence,...
- 10/5/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Three years since their last effort, Bloc Party is back in the studio working on a new album. But their frontman, Kele Okereke, couldn't tell you how it's coming. He's too busy wondering whether he's been fired.
Okereke told NME he hopes he "hasn't been fired" after catching his band together without him in New York:
I was actually having lunch about three weeks ago, just here on 8th Avenue and I saw somebody walk past and I recognised the haircut. It was Russell. I was like, 'Hey!' but he didn't see me and I followed him around the corner and then I saw Matt, Gordon and Russell all standing outside this rehearsal space. They all went inside.
Perhaps the band hasn't gotten over Okereke leaving them to pursue his solo career. He released his first album, Boxer, under the name Kele in June of 2010, to generally positive reviews.
Okereke told NME he hopes he "hasn't been fired" after catching his band together without him in New York:
I was actually having lunch about three weeks ago, just here on 8th Avenue and I saw somebody walk past and I recognised the haircut. It was Russell. I was like, 'Hey!' but he didn't see me and I followed him around the corner and then I saw Matt, Gordon and Russell all standing outside this rehearsal space. They all went inside.
Perhaps the band hasn't gotten over Okereke leaving them to pursue his solo career. He released his first album, Boxer, under the name Kele in June of 2010, to generally positive reviews.
- 9/21/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Since the death of singer Michael Hutchence in 1997, Australian hit-makers Inxs have been looking for a way to continue without the face and the voice of smashes like "Need You Tonight," "New Sensation," "Devil Inside" and "Suicide Blonde." Back in 2005, they were the subject of the first season of "Rock Star," a CBS reality show that sought to cast an amateur as their new vocalist (they released one album, 2005's Switch, with show winner J.D. Fortune).
Now they've got a new project in mind. The band is currently working on a new album that will re-imagine some of their biggest hits with new singers, including the Killers' Brandon Flowers, Pat Monahan of Train, Ben Harper and Rob Thomas. A band who replaces a lead singer — especially with one by committee — always puts itself on a slippery slope. Hopefully it turns out better than the disastrous No Talking Just Head, which...
Now they've got a new project in mind. The band is currently working on a new album that will re-imagine some of their biggest hits with new singers, including the Killers' Brandon Flowers, Pat Monahan of Train, Ben Harper and Rob Thomas. A band who replaces a lead singer — especially with one by committee — always puts itself on a slippery slope. Hopefully it turns out better than the disastrous No Talking Just Head, which...
- 4/2/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
By Josef Adalian
Attention fans of the late, beloved reality show "Rock Star: Inxs": J.D. Fortune is back on CBS!
Fortune, who won the 2005 edition of "Rock Star," supplies the music for a new promo the Eye is airing to hype next month's premiere of Jerry Bruckheimer's drama "Miami Medical." The song is called "One More Day"; the promo is below.
As for fortune, he spent much of the year estranged from his Inxs bandmates. His admitted cocaine use was behind the separation, but Fortune was scheduled to reunite with the band last month during a performance...
Attention fans of the late, beloved reality show "Rock Star: Inxs": J.D. Fortune is back on CBS!
Fortune, who won the 2005 edition of "Rock Star," supplies the music for a new promo the Eye is airing to hype next month's premiere of Jerry Bruckheimer's drama "Miami Medical." The song is called "One More Day"; the promo is below.
As for fortune, he spent much of the year estranged from his Inxs bandmates. His admitted cocaine use was behind the separation, but Fortune was scheduled to reunite with the band last month during a performance...
- 3/3/2010
- by Adalian
- The Wrap
Chaos surrounding band's re-formation is only fitting, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Sublime, with original frontman Bradley Nowell
Photo: Skunk Records, Inc.
On February 28, at a Mexican restaurant in Sparks, Nevada, Sublime reunited onstage for the first time in more than a decade, playing a hit-filled set before a few hundred awestruck, half-drunk revelers. Or maybe they didn't, since this Sublime consisted of drummer Bud Gaugh, bassist Eric Wilson and — in the place of late, lamented (and, at this point, practically sanctified) frontman Bradley Nowell — some dude named Rome. The genuine article it most certainly wasn't.
So, really, who knows? To some — most notably, Thad Peterson, who booked the show — it was very much the return of Sublime, a point that he made to me repeatedly when I spoke to him all those months ago. ("They sure sounded like Sublime," he enthused. "It was incredible.") To others — like,...
By James Montgomery
Sublime, with original frontman Bradley Nowell
Photo: Skunk Records, Inc.
On February 28, at a Mexican restaurant in Sparks, Nevada, Sublime reunited onstage for the first time in more than a decade, playing a hit-filled set before a few hundred awestruck, half-drunk revelers. Or maybe they didn't, since this Sublime consisted of drummer Bud Gaugh, bassist Eric Wilson and — in the place of late, lamented (and, at this point, practically sanctified) frontman Bradley Nowell — some dude named Rome. The genuine article it most certainly wasn't.
So, really, who knows? To some — most notably, Thad Peterson, who booked the show — it was very much the return of Sublime, a point that he made to me repeatedly when I spoke to him all those months ago. ("They sure sounded like Sublime," he enthused. "It was incredible.") To others — like,...
- 9/2/2009
- MTV Music News
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