Courtney Love recently explained why she prefers Will Sergeant over Jimmy Page.
Courtney Love explains
In a recent interview with The Standard, she said:
“Will Sergeant, my favorite guitarist on earth, from my favorite band agreed to work with me!” the Hole singer said of the Echo & the Bunnymen guitarist.
She added, “My goodness, when he returned from LA for our first song together, I nearly fainted – he’s such an icon! If you lined up Jimmy Page, Jonny Greenwood, and Will Sergeant, I’d pick Sergeant every time; it’s insane! He’s on this album and elevating songs beyond description.”
Love also revealed that R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe is set to be on the record. The rocker shared, “Stipe mentioned our collaboration to The New York Times, so I can say it’s gorgeous. I fell down weeping hearing his voice – it’s better than ever!”
PJ Harvey will not be featured on Love’s album as she said, “I did ask PJ Harvey to come back. I’ve endorsed her over the decades, but she chose not to respond to me. So I wrote her about how f*cking rude that was. Her manager tried to smooth things over, but it’s not okay.”
Love has been quite busy lately as she is working on her first solo album since 2004’s *America’s Sweetheart,* in collaboration with Sergeant. She has also released a version of Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren” featuring 070 Shake, collaborated with Melissa Auf der Maur from Hole, and auctioned the handwritten lyrics to her 1994 song “Violet.”
Billy Corgan, the frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins, expressed his desire to own the lyrics to Love’s “Violet.” He shared a video on Instagram revealing that he purchased three tickets to the auction for Love’s handwritten lyrics to the 1994 song.
The frontman said, “Hello friends, I have a very special announcement. Check this out. I just bought my ticket for the Ellis Park Wildlife Sanctuary auction for the lyrics for ‘Violet’ written by Courtney Love. Now, it’s made a lot of press this week that this auction’s going off.”
“So, I’ve actually bought my ticket because I’d like to win these lyrics because I think it’s about a guy I know a little bit about and I’d love to put that on my wall. Anyway, support this if you want to, EllisPark.org. Ellis Park. org. You can enter the auction as well but you gotta buy a ticket. I got three tickets for 20 bucks. So, I’m in it to win it,” he continued.
The auction is part of a fundraiser for Ellis Park, a wildlife sanctuary. It runs until December 15, and all the money raised will go to the charity. Ellis Park helps rescue animals in Sumatra and was started by Warren Ellis from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
