MUSIC NEWS: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2016
THE STRUMBELLAS - SHUTDOWN FOR CHRISTMAS
Christmas is about enjoying everything Canada has to offer in winter, according to The Strumbellas. Singer-guitarist Simon Ward says his ideal Christmas is about hockey, snowball fights and tobogganing. He says now that he can share that with his kids, it brings out ``the fuzzy feeling in your heart.'' The Strumbellas generally don't play many shows in December because they want to be home at Christmas. As Ward puts it, ``I can focus on my sugar cookies and my gingerbread houses.'
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ARGENTINE COURT - JUSTIN BIEBER
Canadian pop star Justin Bieber is in trouble in Argentina but he's not a wanted man. A court there has indicted Bieber for allegedly telling his bodyguards to attack a photographer and take his camera equipment outside a Buenos Aires nightclub in November 2013. The judge did not issue an arrest warrant and Bieber can appeal the decision. Bieber has never returned to Argentina to answer questions about the attack. Bieber had tweeted in June he would like to perform in Argentina but ``until the legal conditions change there I can't.''
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PETER WOLF - CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCE
Singer Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band will always remember the Christmas when he was 10 years old, because it's when he discovered rock and roll. Wolf says his sister was a dancer on Alan Freed's T-V show and took Wolf to a Christmas show that Freed sponsored. The lineup included The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Chantels, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Wolf says it was his ``induction into rock and roll'' and it became for him ``a born-again experience.''
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DEE SNIDER - CHRISTMAS JOURNAL
The children of Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider have no problems remembering the Christmases of their youth. He wrote it all down for them. Snider says he kept a journal for 20 years of everything they did between Thanksgiving and Christmas. He says it included not just things like what the tree was like, but snapshots of what they went through, like the year his wife's mother died or the year their newborn daughter was on a respirator in a hospital. Snider says he recently made copies of the journal and had them bound in leather as presents for each of his children. He gave the books with the instruction that it's their turn to carry on the tradition.
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(The Associated Press)
