garth brooks
In the zero-sum game of popular music, one best-selling artist has announced his return from retirement, just as another act has said it’s stepping off the stage.
On Thursday, Garth Brooks, the cowboy-hatted country superstar who displaced Elvis Presley as the top-selling solo artist in United States history, said at a news conference in Nashville that he was coming out of an eight-year retirement. “We’re going to take the retirement roof off over our head, and I already feel taller,” Mr. Brooks said, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Brooks, 47, who was given the decidedly non-rugged name Troyal at birth, said that he had no immediate plans to record and release new material, adding, “As for touring, if I can’t eat it, sleep it, breathe it, then it ain’t me.” His last new studio album, “Scarecrow,” was released in 2001.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the Norwegian pop group a-ha said it is breaking up, BBC News reported. Considered a one-hit wonder in the United States (for the song “Take On Me”), a-ha had a thriving career around the world. The group previously went on a hiatus in 1993, but reunited for a Nobel Peace Prize concert in 1998.
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