Alcatrazz can’t escape Graham Bonnet

CELEBRATED English vocalist Graham Bonnet escaped from Alcatrazz five years ago – but the band can’t escape him.

The 78-year-old recently attacked what’s left of the group, saying: “They call themselves Alcatrazz. The manager of the band is singing. It’s fucking incredible. And they’re saying I lip sync and all that kind of thing. And they’re doing anything to try to destroy me.

“And they’re telling the public that I don’t sing! Come on! If they’re saying that, I can say this: that the keyboard player can’t play and that the manager of the band can’t sing. It sounds ridiculous. Anyway, that’s my bit. And Alcatrazz is dead, it’s dead – long dead – and the name now embarrasses me.”

Alcatrazz have since responded, challenging Bonnet to a lie detector test!

“Graham, thank you for the free PR… the Alcatrazz name has been trending quite nicely over the holidays. In a recent interview you seem to have had your say, so now we will have ours:

“Despite the fact that we have two original founding members (whom you have willingly, and certainly when it suited you happily worked with more than once at numerous stages in your musical career), one of whom named the band “Alcatrazz” — plus a guitarist that you yourself claimed in interviews at the time was “perfect for the Alcatrazz band”… someone that you yourself “fully endorsed” back in 2019 to record and co-write our “Born Innocent” album, when you were still in the band.

“Perhaps you could check in with your apparent new friend Bruce Dickinson… as Bruce’s own keyboard player Maestro Mistheria is currently in a band with our guitarist… Mr. Joe Stump… that band is called Tower Of Babel… small world isn’t it?…we are sure Bruce likely has better things to do though.

“The balance of your comments are also all a bit hypocritical, as aside from yourself not one member of your current solo band has any connection to these songs (nor to the songs of Rainbow or M.S.G. which you perform).

“In fact many of the songs that you are known by: ‘Since You Been Gone’, ‘All Night Long’, ‘Night Games’, ‘Warm Ride’, ‘It’s All Over Now Baby Blue’, ‘Only One Woman’ (to name a few) you didn’t write a single part of any of them yourself… yet you continue to trade off this material whenever you perform live, on recent re-recordings, live albums and compilations of your work… How many more versions of Russ Ballard’s ‘Since You Been Gone’ are you going to re-record?… as many as you like we assume, but your apparent faulty logic of writers being the only ones who have a right to perform a song< doesn’t compute.

“Would you care to take a lie detector test to settle this once and for all? — as we would be happy to also do so… are you up for the challenge?… anytime!”