Classic Rock

FELL ON BLACK DAYS

At just 27 years of age, Taylor Momsen is a rock’n’roll veteran. Her band The Pretty Reckless are about to release their fourth album, Death By Rock And Roll, a bold alignment of grunge riffs and classic-rock choruses that tackles grief, depression and survival with a clarity reaped by hard-earned experience. It’s the pinnacle so far of a music career stretching back to 2008, when singer Momsen formed the band as a 14-year-old. But she’s been in the limelight for a lifetime.

Momsen was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1993, just down the road from the famous Blueberry Hill club. In her infancy her father Michael, a former Aerosmith roadie and Beatles

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