{"id":19506,"date":"2023-04-21T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=19506"},"modified":"2023-04-21T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:58:10","slug":"classic-rock-veteran-ricky-byrd-joan-jett-and-the-blackhearts-roger-daltrey-releases-new-single-alien-via-wicked-cool-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/classic-rock-veteran-ricky-byrd-joan-jett-and-the-blackhearts-roger-daltrey-releases-new-single-alien-via-wicked-cool-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Rock Veteran Ricky Byrd (Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Roger Daltrey) &#8211; Releases New Single\u00a0&#8220;Alien&#8221;\u00a0via Wicked Cool Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, guitarist \/singer-songwriter\/producer\/recovery advocate&nbsp;<strong>Ricky Byrd<\/strong>&nbsp;(inducted in 2015 with&nbsp;<strong>Joan Jett and The Blackhearts<\/strong>), has had a career in music spanning over 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although best known for his time spent with The Blackhearts, Byrd has also recorded and played with&nbsp;<strong>Roger Daltrey<\/strong>&nbsp;and toured with&nbsp;<strong>Ian Hunter<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes<\/strong>&nbsp;respectively. He has also been blessed to have had the chance to, at one time or another, share the stage with music royalty including&nbsp;<strong>Paul McCartney, Ringo, Alice Cooper, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Joe Walsh, Mavis Staples, Dion, Brian Wilson, Smokey Robinson, Jimmy Page, Graham Nash, Sam Moore, Steve Miller and Elvis Costello<\/strong>\u2026to name just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Byrd&#8217;s new single&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/email.cloud.secureclick.net\/c\/6813?id=15424670.39442.1.6577654242a5e0f96f864c4d02d1cf98\">&#8220;Alien&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;is out today on Steven Van Zandt&#8217;s Wicked Cool Records and follows the release of his recent digital\/7&#8243; single&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/email.cloud.secureclick.net\/c\/6813?id=15424670.39443.1.738524b7cbd73687b6200dad5f984b06\">&#8220;Glamdemic Blues&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>, featuring a b-side cover of the Four Tops&#8217; classic&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Reach Out (I&#8217;ll Be There).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Byrd says,&nbsp;<em>&#8220;I had a dream I was at a sit down with a group of Aliens (yeah Van Zandt was there too as mediator : ) , and I was trying to buy the human race some more time. Woke up and wrote the tune!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stream &#8220;Alien&#8221; here:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/email.cloud.secureclick.net\/c\/6813?id=15424670.39444.1.b23f607ca6e6a6027ec4fd5efed65782\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/orcd.co\/alienrickybyrd<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rickybyrd.com\">https:\/\/rickybyrd.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/email.cloud.secureclick.net\/c\/6813?id=15424670.39446.1.20d5d12f95f128ec76ad7ba69f1c39c2\">www.instagram.com\/rickybyrd<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/email.cloud.secureclick.net\/c\/6813?id=15424670.39447.1.44b4af50f8f4a45a9c16b43d65e363d5\">www.facebook.com\/ricky.byrd1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"960\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Byrdman20?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by Byrdman20<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, guitarist \/singer-songwriter\/producer\/recovery advocate&nbsp;Ricky Byrd&nbsp;(inducted in 2015 with&nbsp;Joan Jett&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[2823,2615,2824],"class_list":["post-19506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-joan-jett-and-the-blackhearts","tag-ricky-byrd","tag-roger-daltrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19508,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19506\/revisions\/19508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}