He was determined to come back as Def Leppard's drummer and his story is quite inspirational. A friend of mine said that Allen is single-handedly the best drummer in the business.

"Using a customized drum kit, designed so some parts were triggered by foot, Allen was able to return to the stage with Def Leppard just 20 months after his accident, making his comeback for England’s Monsters of Rock festival in 1986." ... from On This Day in Music History

Rick Allen Returns to Donington>

Rick Allen's Drum Solo

The classic line from Glenn Frey, "For the record, we never broke up, we just took a 14-year vacation," gave way to the Hell Freezes Over comeback album and concert in 1994, featuring four new songs and a bunch of live recordings from a MTV special. I think that's the one where Don Henley forgot the words to one of the Eagles standards. It was a lovely moment after a 14-year 'vacation'.

Eagles - Hell Freezes Over concert 1994

I first heard Eva Cassidy sing on a documentary about the live recording of her performance at Blues Alley in Washington, DC in 1996. Later that year, cancer took her life. She was 31. The Live At Blues Alley cd was released in 1998.

It has fast became one of my most treasured cds and my favourite is Autumn Leaves

Eva Cassidy - Live At Blues Alley (12 live performances)

Tonight, as part of a long Easter weekend, we feature artists who we thought might be done but then resurrected their career with a comeback album for the ages.

The first one to pop into my head was AC/DC and Back to Black, a tribute album to Bon Scott who died of alcohol poisoning not long after the release of Highway to Hell. While ending the band seemed like an obvious option, they decided a tribute album to Bon Scott was the better way to go with Brian Johnson as the new lead singer. Good choice - Back To Black is merely the second biggest selling album of all time!

AC/DC - Back To Black

In that case I have two examples to submit this evening.

Let's include those, too! :)

I was thinking we could do something special and highlight some of the bands we thought were done but then they, ah, resurrected their career with a comeback album for the ages ...

Seems like only yesterday when a certain world-class asshole of a human being one-time "reality TV" game show host with initials DJT wiuld have headed up that list.

But he will be the first to have the entire sordid affair microscopically examined in a court of law.

Ewwwwwwwwww... it's primarily a documents case, so hopefully not the "entire" thing. Besides, you meant "affairs" plural, right? The 34 felony charges involve hush agreements with Clifford and McDougal and some grossed up payments Weisselberg/Trump made to Cohen as reimbursement where the payments were falsely identified as retainer expenses and not reimbursements.

Those affairs will seem tame after E. Jean Carroll's battery case against Trump going to trial (supposedly) later this month. Carroll claims Pushy Grabber McTrump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman. Trump claimed that she isn't his type and he's never even met her.

During his sworn deposition, Carroll's lawyer showed Trump a picture of himself and Ivana together with Carroll and her then husband and asked Trump to identify the woman in the picture, which he identified as Marla Maples... so they've definitely met and he thought she was his second wife.

Should be interesting testimony.

We've never had a president who felt immune from the law. We've never had a president who tried to personally profit from his time in office. We've never had a president who ignored national security laws just because he wanted to keep some souvenirs of his time in office. We've never had a president who blatantly tried to overturn a popular election before -- and got caught so red-handed in the attempt.

disagree with at least part of this. at least as far as the first part is concerned, richard m nixon set THAT precedent. what's truly unprecedented is that the overwhelming majority of the former president's faction is going along with it and treating HIS behavior as normal, and attempts to make him PAY for that behavior as abnormal.

remember, "if the president does it, it's not illegal" - it's less about the man than the political climate in which he's operating.

JL