Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople has a brand new album on the best way, and its prolonged visitor record consists of two lately deceased rock legends and two Hollywood actors, in addition to members of Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Wilco, and even the Beatles.
As Rolling Stone stories, Hunter’s forthcoming Defiance Part 1 consists of each the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died final March, and guitar hero Jeff Beck, who handed away earlier this month.
Hunter started assembling Defiance Part 1 remotely through the 2020 COVID lockdown with producer Andy York. Other visitors on the album embrace Ringo Starr, Billy Bob Thornton, Johnny Depp, GNR’s Slash and Duff McKagan, Metallica’s Robert Trujillo, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Todd Rundgren, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford, and Stone Temple Pilots instrumentalists Dean and Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz, amongst others.
Lead single “Bed Of Roses” has Ringo on drums and Campbell on an assortment of guitars plus mandolin. Hear it under.
Defiance Part 1 is out 4/21 by way of Sun Records.