{"id":2319824,"date":"2026-03-09T15:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2319824"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:40:29","slug":"the-ongoing-history-of-new-music-encore-presentation-starsncarsnrocknroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-ongoing-history-of-new-music-encore-presentation-starsncarsnrocknroll\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Stars’n’Cars’n’Rock’n’Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Next to music and my dogs, my biggest obsession is cars. I\u2019ve always been a car nut. I\u2019m one of those people with a list of cars I\u2019ll buy when i win the lottery\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll start with production sports cars. A Porsche 911 Turbo 4 will be my daily driver, although there will be a Lamborghini Uris SUV for those times I need to haul people and stuff. For those summer days, I think a McLaren 750s Spider would be cool.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll need a car for track days, of course. No one else in the neighbourhood would have a Koenigsegg. I\u2019d probably order the Jekso Absolute (1600 horsepower sounds about right.)<\/p>\n

And just to show everyone that I\u2019m not out to completely destroy the planet, there will be at least one EV. Right now, that would be a Rimac Nevera.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what? Four million dollars\u2019 worth of vehicles? Not including insurance and maintenance, of course. I\u2019m never going to win that kind of lottery, but it\u2019s nice to dream.<\/p>\n

For other people, though, this is the kind of machinery sitting in their air-conditioned, highly secure underground garages. That includes a lot of rock stars.<\/p>\n

Eric Clapton is so well-known at Ferrari that the company built him a custom one-of-a-kind model that probably cost him upward of five million. Neil Peart had a selection of very collectible sports cars from the 1960s, all in silver.<\/p>\n

Brian Johnson of AC\/DC has a bunch of Bentleys, Ferraris, and some classic race cars. Same with Nick Mason of Pink Floyd. He\u2019s even written a book about this collection.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s everything we use in the car to listen to music. Radio, car audio, satellite radio, infotainment systems, and all that.<\/p>\n

All this got me thinking about the relationship between cars and rock. The two things go hand-in-hand. We should look at this history, yeah?<\/p>\n

Songs heard on this show:<\/p>\n