Rock god Josh Homme to read CBeebies bedtime story
Queens of the Stone Age lead singer and guitarist Josh Homme has joined the ranks of the chosen few to read our kids (and us) a bedtime story on CBeebies.
Josh will read kids classic Zog by Julia Donaldson about a dragon to be broadcast at 6.50pm on Friday 6th October on CBeebies channel.
The singer of the hugely popular rock back Queens of the Stone Age is the latest in a fashionable line of the cool, hot and awesome to read aloud popular stories including Tom Hardy, Chris Evans, Damian Lewis, David Tennant, Warwick Davis, James McAvoy and David Hasselhoff.
If you haven't got a child - borrow one - if you can't borrow one just watch it anyway.
If there's some sort of voting going on here - can we please put in a bid for Slash?
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Be honest with yourself. How much do you want to wrap those curly, tousled locks around your fingers? That, my friends, is a young Slash from GnR pulling the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll sex face. Just for you.
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Ten years on, he’s still pulling that sex face.
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Who else in 1991 could rock a bright blue double-breasted waistcoat 'n suit type thing and still look effortlessly cool? No one but Lenny Kravitz, that's who!
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24 years later and he doesen't look any different. Not one bit. Care yo share your secret Lenny?
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Remove the demi: there’s nothing but pedigree in bona fide rock God Mike Patton’s genetic make-up. Even when gurning, as he is here, back with Faith No More in 1991, we can see flickers of the magnificence that would befall his looks in later years.
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What did we tell you? That man matured good. Still smooth-faced, golden-skinned and slammingly hot, Mike Patton gave good everything at the premiere of The Place Beyond The Pines, for which he wrote the soundtrack. MARRY ME, MIKE! Ahem.
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Who knew this gangly lookin’ Seattle lad in a questionable fluorescent sports zipper would transform into…
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… The luscious-locked, more-babely-than-a-bakery-of-babe-cakes, rock God Dave Grohl. Yes, he of Foo Fighters, Nirvana and bulging forearm fame. And the ultimate inspiration for this gallery. Phwoar.
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Would. Totally would. Of course you would. But be patient, rock perve. For in the future…
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… Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme will become the hottest flame-haired man ever to grace the stage. Wouldn’t mess with his wife, though. Hi, her name is Brody.
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Yeah. Wouldn’t kick Anthony Kiedis circa 1993 out of bed…
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… But would probably chain Anthony Kiedis circa 2013 to any piece of household furniture I could get my hands on. Insert Red Hot pun here. What? I SAID PUN.
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Suede’s alabaster frontman Brett Anderson might have been the poster boy for leather shirts and awkward stances back in 1993…
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… But he’s got a sun-kissed glow and a flash of cleavage now, and he’s not afraid to use it. He is, indeed, an increasingly Beautiful One...
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He’s got a bowl cut, for Pete’s sake. And one of those necklaces I’m pretty sure you could only buy from a vending machine in a plastic egg back in 1991. Who knew that this totally unbabely character from Blur…
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… Would become the inarguably gorgeous Graham Coxon. Amazing what a bit of textural layering and a pair of thick-rimmed specs can do for a man.
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Mmm… Damon Albarn. He’s always been on the fitter side of fit, hasn’t he?
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Until, 20 years later, he wiped the floor with fit, built a fit castle and made himself King. Of fit.
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Dear Lord. That is some serious foliage escaping from Jon Bon Jovi’s bad 1984 self.
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But gone are the days of the love rug, replaced instead with a chest smoother than silk and a steely, intent gaze that would melt the frostiest of ice maidens into a pool of unquenchable desire.
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Bogus Journey.
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Most Excellent Adventure. Much like the cheese he’s holding, Blur’s Alex James just gets riper with age.
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Because Bryan Ferry was bad way before Michael Jackson was. Case in point – this sequinned biker jacket he wore for a Roxy Music shoot back in 1972. Although, Pat Butcher did call… Says she wants her eye make-up back…
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Forty years down the line? Bryan’s still the baddest man out there. And by bad we been good. Oh so very good.
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Wild boy!
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Tamed man. The years have indeed been kind to Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes. And, thankfully, removed all traces of nude leather jacket.
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LOL at Tommy Lee’s hair in this picture. No shortage of hairspray backstage at the Annual Rock & Bowl Tournament in 1986, it seems. Ask Heather Locklear. She knows.
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SWOON at the bouffant-less Motley member now. The world’s fittest drummer. Period. Kick-starting hearts since 1981.
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The Boss…
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Still Boss.
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It’s Mick Jagger, for crying out loud. He's in The Rolling Stones. He’s a mythical rock ‘n’ roll creature. He invented Rock 'n' roll.
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And, even in his 70s he’s not lost any of that hip-thrusting, sex appeal.
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DILF.
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GILF.
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Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan = one hot Goth. In skin-tight white jeans. Niche.
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Still our Personal Jesus.
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Um-Bop.
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So hot. That Beck… He’s like a fine wine, isn’t he? Even if he does have trouble doing his shirt up now-a-days.
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*Drools*
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Stilling drooling...
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Taylor Hawkins must have LOVED being the hottest one in the Foo Fighters before Dave Grohl bloomed into the glossy-maned rock God he is today. But now…
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… He is but an equal. And we can think of no bigger accolade to his hotness than being on par with Mr Grohl.
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Metallica’s James Hetfield circa 1986. A true Master Of Puppets…
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… And now? Master of our hearts, obv. We’ll forgive you for anything, James. Even Lulu.
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Gah! Those arms. Let’s face it. Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins has always been a slammin’ hottie…
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… But minus the mono-brow and plus the hilarious, so-2013 slogan T? He’s crossed over into silver fox territory.
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Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie gave us his heart way back in 1990.
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Suited and booted in 2013? We might just take it, too. Our love shines on.
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Cries of outrage echoed through the cyber-sphere after we failed, FAILED to include the unbelievably beautiful Nuno Bettencourt in this spank bank of thrust-inducing rock ‘n’ rollers. But is it actually possible for the Extreme – and Rihanna guitarist to get any hotter?
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A-ha-parently so! Tribal tatts aside, methinks Rihanna may have had ulterior motives in mind when she hired this out-and-out beast of a man to pluck her strings. Clever girl.
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Pearl Jam.
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You can jam our love pearls any day, Eddie Vedder.
I actually just typed those actual words. And I’m so far from ashamed, I should be ashamed.
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Oh… My…
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… God. Dave Navarro is God. Really. Carmen Electra needs to have a strong word with herself. And then hand over her ex-boyfriend’s number. CHEERS!
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Giving good jaw back in 1992, Stephen Malkmus from Pavement was smokin'.
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But now? Malkmus is on FIYA, yo. Ring the alarm. Here endeth the gallery of rock ‘n’ roll perve.
