 | From Chad Bowar, your About Music Editor Way too many musicians have passed away recently (Amy Winehouse, Clarence Clemons and others), and former Warrant singer Jani Lane was found dead in an L.A. hotel room last week. Our music guides remember Lane and the "hair metal" genre he helped popularize. | |
Jani Lane Of Warrant Dies
Hair metal has lost one of its most iconic figures. Jani Lane, former lead vocalist of the band Warrant, has died at age 47. There is no word yet on the cause of death. He left and rejoined the band multiple times before leaving permanently in 2008.
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Jani Lane's Death
The death of former Warrant frontman Jani Lane this week at age 47 is a too-familiar story of rock and roll excess and a career-long struggle for fulfillment and respect. It should not be an occasion to mock what some may see as the questionable legacy of Warrant as a band or Lane himself as a songwriter and artist.
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Best Hair Bands
The Sunset Strip of Los Angeles was launching pad for many of the successful hair bands of the '80s and '90s. They had a big impact on radio and fashion during their prime, until the rise of grunge in the early '90s caused the genre to nearly disappear. Here's a list of the best hair bands of that era.
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Best Hair Metal Ballads
The '80s and early '90s were the heydey of hair metal. Those bands were on the radio and sold out concerts across the world. Their biggest radio hits tended to be the ballads, the type of songs that would bring out the lighters at shows back before there were cell phones.
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