The Four Tops usually play larger venues, so this New Year’s will be a good chance to see them up close, along with a pretty stellar line-up of some of their colleagues, Motown and otherwise.
Also on the bill: The Original Vandellas(Rosalind and Annette); The Velvelettes (”Needle in a Haystack,” “Really Saying Something”); the Shades of Blue (”Oh How Happy”); Carolyn Crawford; Laura Lee (”Women’s Love Rights”); and Spyder “Stand By Me” Turner will emcee.
The show starts at 8 p.m., and there will be champagne and refreshments. $90 concert only, $150 concert and dinner, $399 per couple for a concert, dinner and hotel stay package. The Hotel St. Regis is located at 3071 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit. Call (313) 873-3000.
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by on Wed, Dec 19, at 12:06
Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie: Merry metal Christmas
It was a headbanging holiday celebration Tuesday night at Joe Louis Arena, as Rob Zombie and Ozzy Osbourne celebrated the season with plenty of pyro, thunderous riffs and devil horns.
If that doesn’t get you in the Christmas spirit, what will?
Zombie opened the show, spinning around stage like a cyclone and setting an energy level the frail Osbourne had no hope of matching. Zombie’s show was the full monster movie spectacle you’ve come to expect from the rocker-turned-filmmaker, and B-roll footage of naked breasts, anime and his own films “House of 1,000 Corpses” and “The Devil’s Rejects” backed his muscular, 55-minute set.
Zombie culled from his solo and White Zombie material (”Living Dead Girl,” “Thunder Kiss ‘65,” “Never Gonna Stop,” “American Witch”), which pretty much all sounds the same but is a sound she undoubtedly owns. All big riffs, growls and chants of “yeah!,” his songs all carry the unmistakable Zombie signature, just as his films carry his distinct, grungy, ’70s-obsessed stamp.