His former bandmates confirmed the news on social media but did not provide other details: Urge Overkill is saddened to report that Blackie has passed away. Please respect our privacy at this time. We ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Urge Overkill in the mid-'90s. (Photo: Getty Images) In June 1993, a Chicago power trio of lounge-dwelling, martini-swilling, ...
On April 16, 2016, Overkill hit the stage at Turbinenhalle 2 in Oberhausen, Germany to revisit the 30th and 25th anniversaries of those two albums respectively, playing them each in full. They're ...
Onassis (real name: Johnny Rowan) drummed on the band's biggest hit: a cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" for the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. By Katie Atkinson Executive Digital ...
New Jersey’s known for many exports: tomatoes, cranberries, hilariously bad Italian accents, Bruce Springsteen… the list goes on, really. But metalheads know the Garden State’s given us some killer ...
With 18 studio albums since debuting with Feel the Fire in 1985, Overkill have delivered a new platter of Jersey pride-packed, thrash hymns every two years or better, with the only three exceptions ...
John Rowan, the drummer for ’90s Chicago rock band Urge Overkill who performed under the name Blackie Onassis, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 57. A spokesperson for the band confirmed his ...