Why I Love This Musician……..
One of my favourite people won an Ivor Novello Award last night and rightly so. I was lucky enough to work with Linda Perry a few years ago and I recently discovered that she has a new album out, so it seemed like a good opportunity to talk about what makes her so unique.
Review starts at 4’36″…..
To watch Linda Perry’s new single: https://youtu.be/QE-zJrpKd7k?si=gnlmhxalZR0UBgGR
Her new album, can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4qLdmO69bTVt9G7C0EpKQr
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@kbusby4824
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Sounds a lot like Sisters of the Moon off the Tusk album. That's a good thing. Linda is quite prolific. Her career has impacted the careers of so many other musicians. Stevie didn't have a lot to do with the Tango in the Night album in 1987. I am not sure that she and Lindsey were even speaking at that point. I do believe her Seven Wonders is on that album.
@LondonHMA
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Agreed, an awesome talent and authentic human being, love her so much.
@AlexAquarius963
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Well,…. fair venerated writing and musicianship assay, I would say. Now my friends,…let's put on our desert avian mod-squad steampunk folding-paper maché black-hearted Dylan meets Bonanza thinking bowlers on and discuss the wardrobe period genre as well as etiology.
@arthurkarlsson5585
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
It got a bit of Tom Petty feel in it.
@heatherbrown230
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Thank you so much for showcasing Linda Perry and all of the other fantastic artists that interest you. I'm going to see Sleaford Mods tonight in Vancouver, and your show turned me onto them. So great!
@jenniferrichardson8474
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
@justinhawkinsridesagain, Justin, I just finished listening to the new The Darkness single "Masters of the Universe" and instantly fell in love with it. I added it my "fave rock songs" playlist in order to play it on repeat. It's a massive banger of a song and your vocals, as always, are incredible. I grew up in the 80's (born in 1975) and it reminds me very much of the hard rock and metal songs of that era. It especially reminds me of Dokken. It's very much in that same vein. Anyway, BRAVO! I think it's incredible. And I urge everyone to go and listen to it and add it to their playlists. ❤😊❤😊
@kkay3784
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Her hat.
@michaelbailey8982
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
The melody is reminding me of ride like the wind a bit
@Velensar
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
13:37 almost reminds me of Anastacia
@Corvus-Moon
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Can you cover this song, I think you have the chops.
https://youtu.be/GyxSvZOby54?si=8W0vOA6T44VJJRdc
@kathrynhegedus
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Love her too. Well deserved award. 🎉
@samspurgeon4222
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Justin, I failed to know that you were involved with the Masters Of The Universe soundtrack. That song is a banger and brings to mind Queen's Flash Gordon soundtrack. It's a true moment of serendipity that the only movie I looked forward to this year has 2 of my favorite musicians, you and Brian May, working on the soundtrack. Thank you and your brother for writing kick ass music and making an old man smile on a day I ran out of anything to smile about. Rock on 🤘
@mattfulcher-kh9so
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
I heard a little bit of Alan Parsons eye in the sky…I get that Stevie nicks feel also…. beautiful generalizing human nature lyrics that anyone can relate. I love her also..
There's a building in San Antonio Texas that when I was a child was called Piggly wiggly… later it became a music venue. Many cool bands played there from the 80s to the 90s. It closed at some point. I remember when four non blondes were touring that album and they played there…I didn't get to go but I am such a music fan I remember shows sometimes because I wanted to go.
@periurban
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
I have never heard of her, but she sounds very nice.
@davidcramb7282
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
capo!!!!
@martinhanson4281
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
I really want to love it but unfortunately there are so many overused tropes in this song
@revwillyg6450
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Linda Perry, extremely talented. That said, What's Up is perhaps the most annoying song ever on radio. I can't reach the knob fast enough to make it stop if it comes on😂
@ansepe74
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
favourite musician?
Miyako Watanabe of Lovebites.
Great guitarist and concert level pianoplayer.
She also composes a great deal of their music, made piano versions of both theirs and others music.
Most legendary is her pianocover of Judas Priest – Painkiller.
She also does some piano during their concerts.
Like when she plays Chopin before playing their song "Swan Song"… https://youtu.be/dcMVtrvpJpk?si=MOgARQxeGQSOKZyi
…or as a couple of years ago doing "Moonlight sonata" before "Dystopian Symphony" https://youtu.be/lvVbyA7RVGQ?si=5fE-FWgGRgUW0FYI
She's also endorsed by DEAN guitars and got a couple of signatures, besides a collection of Gibsons, PRS…
and a bunch of pedals. Dogowner (name: Wampa), mother, massive nerd with a bunch of Disney and Star Wars memorabilia.
@MaureenDoyle
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Thank you for sharing your music with us. Your love of artists and music open my mind to different artists. Thank you!
@danidenada9233
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Linda Perry & Grace Slick – Knock Me Out (The Crow: City of Angels OST) is to this day one of my favourite tracks ever. <3
@kattenkitten
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
dya fink its a Westwood hat ?
@Junkhead91
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Yeah how could we live without ‘Get This Party Started’ by P!NK. Awful
@fransverkoop4160
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Tom Petty vibes.
@EmberFaye
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
One of my favorite L.P. songs is Knock Me Out with Grace Slick. It was on the original The Crow soundtrack (that whole soundtrack is amazing).
This song, especially at the beginning, was making me think of Sisters of the Moon by Fleetwood Mac.
@Heisenberg_0426
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
This sounds just great. I'm downloading that album now from bandcamp. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
@MyCovertNarcissism
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
I'm surprised you didn't mention the wild sex parties she had, Justin, full of prostitutes. I think James Blunt has spoken about it in the past. I can well understand why you'd stay quiet about that side of things.
@eweng903
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
The chunky silver curb is a clear show-stealer in the latest JHRA, well done. Linda Perry’s achievements are extraordinary: from fronting 4 Non Blondes to producing and co-writing with artists as varied as Courtney Love and Cheap Trick, the recognition is richly deserved. Pitch correction is simply part of modern recording: even Paul McCartney has used it; human voices naturally drift slightly in pitch. Anyway, with fewer than 50 days to Knebworth, surely it is time for He-Man to unleash the Power Sword before the masses and perform Masters of the Universe live.
@joeldalton473
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
I also love Linda Perry but…….. on another topic Justin if you don't mind. This story is bizarre to me. I've been following your channel for a few months with great enjoyment. I bought a Darkness album back in the day etc. Anyway lately my 12 yo son has become obsessed with AC/DC. He bought the Powerage album with his pocket money and we were crushing it at maximum volume while we were driving around today. We get home and I log on to my pc and guess what is in my feed? Your video on that exact album. Makes me think we're in a simulation.
@mattedison7175
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Yikes. I actually disagree completely with Justin on this one. And not just Linda Perry.
Stevie Nicks, too.
Their voices grate on my eardrums.
@jasonkendrick681
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
I love me a female singer songwriter. So when she teamed up Dolly Parton, well, you can tell how excited I was.
@elisaliebelt1181
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
made my day
@ReggieOnTheMic
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Not gonna lie, I doubted the "she doesn't use pitch correction" statement as it's basically industry standard at this point. But I've just ran it through pitch monitoring software and I'll be damned, she really isn't, that's a vocal as raw as it gets, she's in between notes a lot of the time but she's got such a melodic recording voice that you just don't hear it. Fair play to her, incredible vocal.
@drummerboycroy
May 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Crazy to think back to the much younger version of me listening to the then newly released “Bigger, Better, Faster, More!” for the first time and thinking, “Oh my. This is something special.”
To see the depth and breadth of Linda’s work since then is crazy, yet makes complete sense.