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Ultimate Classic Rock asks who rocked Ratt's 'Round and Round' the best?
When Ratt came crawling Out of the Cellar with their debut on March 27, 1984, that title may as well have spoken for an entire generation of brash, ambitious wannabe stars. Their desperate drive ...
Hair metal icons Ratt have not released a new album since 2010's Infestation, but that could potentially change in 2021. The band is currently working on new music in the studio and have vowed to ...
Grunge often gets the credit/blame for the downfall of hair metal and, while that's mostly true, it wasn't the only contributing factor, at least not according to Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy. Ratt ...
It’s essential reading. “To rock aficionados, Dee Dee and the Ramones were ‘important’ and Crosby and Ratt were not,” Klosterman wrote. “We are all supposed to concede this.
A 1980s rock guitarist who co-founded a band that went on to become a big name in glam metal is dead at age 67. Chris Hager died May 19, according to Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy. A cause of death ...
Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s, rock band Ratt helped establish a Los Angeles music scene that became known as “hair metal” because of the purveyors’ teased coiffure … ...
Chris Hager has died at the age of 67. Hager was the guitarist of Mickey Ratt, then hard rock band Ratt. The cause of death was not revealed. Stephen Pearcy, lead singer of Ratt, announced the ...
Ratt thrived under this rock-friendly climate, as the Don Letts-directed Round & Round video and a tour supporting Ozzy Osbourne catapulted Out Of The Cellar into the US Top 10.
‘Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll: My Life In Rock,’ bares it all - the debauchery, the drugs, and the groupies, who it seems numbered in the thousands. In an era notorious for depraved behavior Ratt ...
Pearcy, DeMartini and Croucier have since announced a series of Ratt shows, including high-profile sets at Maryland’s M3 Rock Festival and Rocklahoma in Pryor, Oklahoma.