Judas Priest legend Rob Halford is seemingly setting his sights on a Tony Bennett covers album – discover out extra under.
Halford is finest identified for his piercing screams and iconic vocal chops with Judas Priest, however the singer has lengthy been vocal about his affinity for non-metal genres, like nation and jazz music.
In 2022, Priest and Dolly Parton had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. On the induction ceremony, Halford teamed up with Parton for a particular rendition of ‘Jolene’ – one thing he seems to be again on fondly. They later teamed up once more on her album ‘Rockstar’.
Now, Halford has revealed that he’s additionally an enormous fan of the late Tony Bennett. Chatting with Final Basic Rock not too long ago, Halford shared: “There’s so many musical issues I wish to do… I used to be singing Tony Bennett within the bathe the opposite day and I listened to my voice and I’m going, ‘Do I dare to think about one thing like this?’”
He continued: “After which I’m going, ‘I’m an previous man; I can do what I fucking need!’ And I really like Tony Bennett; I used to be unhappy, like lots of us the place, when he handed. He as an icon and a beacon. I really like every kind of singers. My love for what the voice can do is all the time so engaging to me the concepts, the creativeness, like [Lady] Gaga doing her factor in Vegas when she does the jazz facet of stuff.”
Nonetheless, he was fast to make clear that he doesn’t have concrete plans on placing that album collectively simply but: “So, yeah, I’d love to try this. I don’t know the way I’d go about it, however I higher get a transfer on if I’m going to do one thing like that. I wouldn’t have dared to have performed this again within the day.”
In different information, it was introduced earlier this yr that Judas Priest are attributable to get their very own documentary movie quickly, and it’s being co-directed by Rage Towards The Machine‘s Tom Morello.
One matter followers hope the documentary will contact on is frontman Rob Halford‘s sexuality –the iconic metallic singer caught up with NME as a part of the In Dialog collection final yr, and opened up about what it was like to come back out as homosexual in 1998 – one thing he described as “the best factor I might have performed for myself”.
“If I mirror on it, it occurred in the suitable manner as a result of it wasn’t premeditated… All people within the band knew I used to be homosexual, everyone on the label knew I used to be homosexual and administration knew I used to be homosexual. And wouldn’t you imagine it? All of the followers had been like, ‘Nicely, we all the time thought you had been homosexual anyway.’ And there was me pondering I’m the one homosexual within the village! However the goodness that got here out of that may’t be overstated,” he stated.
