![]() “After doing the Juggulator album, knew what they had to work with, which is the main thing that’s different.” After hooking up with the group, he and the rest of the band went straight into recording 1997’s Juggulator, an album that was written for someone who could sing in the Priest style, but not necessarily Owens. “This album was written for my voice this time,” he says proudly. With the release of the band’s new album, Demolition, it’s becoming more real though. However, Owens confesses that the scene in which Wahlberg can’t contain a smile at a photo shoot rings true for him, because - after five years, two albums and multiple tours with Priest - he still can’t mask his wonderment about being the lead singer of his favorite band. This is all of them.’ She started crying.” The story, as he tells it: “I get off the plane in Cleveland the day after I got the job, and I handed my mom an autographed picture that I signed too and I said, ‘Mom, this is Judas Priest’s autograph.’ She said, ‘Maybe some day it will be.’ I said, ‘No, this is it. That couldn’t be further from Owens, who has short hair, plays golf - he’s a ten handicap - gets excited about having coffee with Megadeth, and is close to his family members, who were the first ones he told about getting the Priest gig. In Rock Star, Wahlberg’s character trashes hotel rooms, rides a motorcycle though a hallway and drinks up a storm - in short, lives the rock-star lifestyle. ![]() It’s based on a well-publicized New York Times article about Ripper Owens, an Akron, Ohio singer in a Judas Priest tribute band who, in 1996, was selected to be the new lead singer of the heavy metal legends. ![]() Through twists of fate, he becomes the lead singer of the real Steel Dragon. Quick synopsis of the current hit movie Rock Star, which stars a long-haired, Eighties-looking Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston: Wahlberg plays the lead singer of a cover band that he forms to pay tribute to his favorite group, Steel Dragon. ![]()
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