ERIK GRÖNWALL Performs “All By Myself” In CELINE DION Challenge
In a new video shared by former Skid Row frontman Erik Grönwall, he performs the Celine Dion version of the Eric Carmen song, “All By Mself”, originally released in 1975.
Celine Dion’s version of the song was released as a single in 1996, taken from her fourth English-language studio album, Falling into You.
Live In London, Skid Row’s first official live album and concert film in a 35+ year career, is now available on heavyweight 2LP gatefold, CD + DVD, digital download and all streaming services via earMUSIC.
“Youth Gone Wild” is the latest video from the full program, and captures the rapture of a sold out 02 Forum Kentish Town London gone wild for the Skids and the culmination of a dream years in the making.
“As teens, we dreamt of playing places like the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ and CBGB in New York City… our dreams became bigger with London, England at the forefront. We fantasized one day to headline a show in the very city where so many of our favorite bands came from,” the band says.
Following the release of their critically acclaimed, hugely fan-embraced 2022 album The Gang’s All Here, the band took the 02 stage on October 22 and delivered a Skid Row set for the ages. Running through their multi-platinum career, the packed venue could barely contain the band’s and the fans’ energy on “18 And Life,” “Monkey Business,” “I Remember You” and so many other peak Skid Row moments.
Live In London is a defining live rock album… a band playing at the top of their game in front of a crowd that expected no less. Both Skid Row and the 02 public went far beyond expectations…and now the world can share in that moment.
If that sounds like an excuse for a camp fever dream, you are right. Do not attend this musical if you are stressed by flashing lights, sequins, and illuminated staircases. Do attend if you are a Titanic film tragic, a Céline Dion superfan, or – ideally – both.
Titanique, created by Marla Mindelle, Constance Rousouli and Tye Blue, comes to Sydney from off-Broadway. It begins with pop superstar Céline Dion (Marney McQueen) dramatically revealing she, too, was a Titanic passenger.
McQueen is hilarious as Céline Dion. The signature quirks are all affectionately parodied: the slightly nasal French-Canadian accent, the non-sequiturs, the widened eyes and surprised grimace, the fist-pumping, hand-raising, and chest-hitting (known to fans as “the Céline Salute”). McQueen’s singing voice is gorgeously clear and powerful enough to pull it off.
The rest of the ensemble portray a larger-than-life cast of characters zanily transposed from the film. There’s sweet-voiced Rose (Georgina Hopson), bullied by her rich, space gun-wielding fiancé Cal (a slick Keane Sheppard-Fletcher) and her narcissistic, toxic mother Ruth.
The charismatic Stephen Anderson as Ruth delivers lines with flawless comic timing and more dryness than a desert in drought. “You walking yeast infection!” Ruth hisses as insult.
