Mary J. Blige, the reigning Queen of Hip Hop Soul, takes the lead in this Rock of Ages Vevo music video. This time around viewers get a revealing montage of movie scenes behind Blige’s rockin’ version of Journey’s “Any Way You Want It“. Julianne Hough also wraps her pipes around the 80′s classic in this music video that should whet everyone’s appetite for more ROA gems! Better yet, all the stars get screen time here: Tom Cruise, Diego Boneta, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti, Malin Akerman and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Take a look.

Mary J. Blige and company killin’ it in Rock of Ages.

ROCK OF AGES
Based on the Tony-nominated Broadway musical, Rock of Ages tells the tale of a small-town girl and a young man from South Detroit who follow their rock-star dreams to Los Angeles in 1987. Rock of Ages stars Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand (@rustyrockets), Mary J. Blige (@MaryJBlige), Bryan Cranston, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diego Boneta (@DiegoBoneta) and Julianne Hough (@JulianneHough).

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Tom sat down with Playboy magazine and gave a candid interview about his life, acting, and living like you mean it. And, yes, Rock of Ages came up too, specifically—nailing his version of “Pour Some Sugar On Me” in front of Def Leppard. Find out what Joe Elliott, the band’s lead singer, was doing in the wings while Tom performed!  We’ve got some choice selections from the interview below, but to read the complete piece—

Click Here To Read Tom’s Playboy Interview

Fans are definitely enjoying Tom’s forthright and honest views. In the Twitosphere, Tom Cruise followers especially liked his take on living for one’s self, as these tweets show:

In the meantime, here’s Tom on . . .

Being a professional:
“I’ve never been late to set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love. You just have to keep going and remember that. The other stuff? I hear it, I read it, I get it. But life is not a matter of trying to prove anything to anybody.”

Being an actor:
“When I made Taps, really my first film experience, I remember lying at night in the hotel room, thinking, I love this so much. I’d wanted it since I was four, and there I was, thinking that if I did my best on Taps, maybe I could do this for the rest of my life.”

Moving a lot as a child:
“I found it adventurous. Did it bring challenges? Yeah. You’re always the new kid, with the wrong accent, the wrong shoes. You learn about people and yourself and how to deal with what was not always a safe environment.”

Just doing what he loves in the Mission: Impossible series

Taking chances:
“I’d be doing flips and the neighborhood kids would come over and look. Then I tried a double and got through only one and a half before I missed the snowbank, landed on the sidewalk and broke my ankle.”

Fast machines:
“From as early as I can remember, I wanted to ride motorcycles and race cars. I wanted to do jumps and stunts. Every birthday I wanted only a motorcycle. By the time I was 12, I’d bought my own.”

Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai

Training for roles:
“I train pretty hard. For The Last Samurai I spent a year training six hours a day, seven days a week to be able to handle a sword and do it on uneven terrain, because I didn’t want to blow my knees out. You’ve got to build the body up for impact.”

Tom hangs around the Burj Khalifa in M:I4

Climbing the Burj Khalifa:
“As great as visual effects are, it just would not have been the same experience for the audience . . . I started thinking of -Harold Lloyd dangling from the clock, and Buster Keaton, when you feel the danger. And look, if I’m at the third or the second floor, a fall will kill me anyway. [laughs] I might as well be on the 124th floor.”

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The Rock of Ages soundtrack is set for a June 5th release date, but you can pre-order it RIGHT NOW!  Better yet, you can download Tom singing Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” with your pre-order!   Check out the details below.

Click Here To Pre-Order Your Rock Of Ages Soundtrack

You’ve had the first look at Tom channeling the gods of 80′s rock in the Rock of Ages movie trailer, but now you can get your first listen to Tom stretching his operatic pipes!  People.com  has an exclusive clip of him rocking Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me.”

Click Here To Listen To The Clip Of Tom Singing “Pour Some Sugar on Me”

Want more than 30 seconds of Tom giving the 80′s rock classic a workout? You can download the ENTIRE SONG! when you preorder the Rock of Ages movie soundtrack at iTunes starting today. The soundtrack is set for a June 5 release.

Click Here To Preorder the Rock of Ages movie soundtrack at iTune and get the FULL LENGTH version of “Pour Some Sugar On Me”

A History of Def Leppard & “Pour Some Sugar On Me”
Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me“ will be front and center in Tom’s repertoire. Almost an anthem of the era, and a pretty good indication of what to expect from Rock of Ages, the song topped out on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number 2 in 1987 and was ranked second on VH1′s 100 Greatest Songs of the 1980s in 2006.

Here’s the original Def Leppard version of “Pour Some Sugar On Me.”

If Tom felt any pressure putting his own stamp on this monster glam-rock declaration of lust, imagine how he felt when the band showed up on set the day he performed it. Despite a work effort that leaves nothing to chance—Cruise put in extensive work to achieve a rock singer’s voice—he must have felt under the gun with Def Leppard staring from the wings. The result? Let the band’s guitarist Phil Collen sum it up:

“I can’t wait till people hear him,” he told noisecreep.com. “The guy did a great job. He told us he was taking five hours a day, five days a week for four to five months just to get the vocal aspect of the role down. That was fantastic to hear.”

While “Pour Some Sugar On Me” proved unstoppable on the Billboard charts, Def Leppard themselves reached similar milestones in the 80′s. Two of their albums, Pyromania and Hysteria, sold more than 10-million copies each, a rare feat in all of rock, and are included on Rolling Stone‘s 500-Greatest-Albums-Of-All-Time list. The movie Rock of Ages takes its name from a song on Pyromania.

Although Def Leppard is associated with the glam-rock scene of the 80s, they actually emerged from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement in the late 1970s, where bands like Iron Maiden and Venom also got their start. Over time, however, Def Leppard took on more of an American-oriented hard rock sound  While most of their contemporaries from the early metal scene achieved only marginal success, Def Leppard exploded in popularity and came to define their era. Other than “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, they wrote such classics as “Rock of Ages”, “Hysteria”, “Photograph”, “Foolin”, and “Love Bites”.  To this day you can catch them on tour with the likes of Heart, Styx and REO Speedwagon.

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If you can’t fight the feeling that you want to rock like a hurricane, then we say “Don’t stop believing!”—and start rocking now! The Rock of Ages Experience gives you the chance to stand center stage and let your inner Twister Sister own the spot light.

Just visit the THE ROCK OF AGES EXPERIENCE website and click on the Make Your Own Video link and you’ll be prompted toward rock immortality by making a video to the song “I Love Rock N Roll.”

If you need a refresher course on how to own the stage like a rock god, check out our recent blog featuring three hit songs from the Rock of Ages movie and the original bands’ videos. Any questions you have about stage presence should be answered in these iconic 80′s gems.

But for an immediate taste of Rock of Ages, here’s the trailer. Consider it a warm up before your own debut.

ROCK OF AGES
Based on the Tony-nominated Broadway musical, Rock of Ages tells the tale of a small-town girl and a young man from South Detroit who follow their rock-star dreams to Los Angeles in 1987. Rock of Ages stars Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand (@rustyrockets), Mary J. Blige (@MaryJBlige), Bryan Cranston, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diego Boneta (@DiegoBoneta) and Julianne Hough (@JulianneHough).

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Here’s What You Need To Do:
Although the movie soundtrack isn’t available yet, the first two people to correctly guess the number between 1 and 100 that we’ve safely stowed in the TC.com mental vault will get pre-ordered copies when they become available. Now the sound check is over! Find your own paradise city by rocking the comments section below with the right number!!!

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• The opportunity to guess a number and leave it in a comment field below ends when we’ve received the first two correct answers.

The Rock of Ages Movie Soundtrack

1.  “Paradise City” – Tom Cruise
2.  “Sister Christian” / “Just Like Paradise” / “Nothin’ But A Good Time” – Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin
3.  “Juke Box Hero” / “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” – Diego Boneta, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Julianne Hough
4.  “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” – Catherine Zeta-Jones
5.  “Waiting For A Girl Like You” – Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough
6.  “More Than Words” / “Heaven” – Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta
7.  “Wanted Dead Or Alive” – Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough
8.  “I Want To Know What Love Is” – Tom Cruise, Malin Akerman
9.  “I Wanna Rock” – Diego Boneta
10.  “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise
11.  “Harden My Heart” – Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige
12.  “Shadows of the Night” / “Harden My Heart” – Mary J. Blige, Julianne Hough
13.  “Here I Go Again” – Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige, Tom Cruise
14.  “Can’t Fight This Feeling” – Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin
15.  “Any Way You Want It” – Mary J. Blige,Constantine Maroulis, Julianne Hough
16.  “Undercover Love” – Diego Boneta
17.  “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” – Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige
18.  “Rock You Like A Hurricane” – Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise
19.  “We Built This City” / “We’re Not Gonna Take It” -Russell Brand / Catherine Zeta-Jones
20.  “Don’t Stop Believin’”- Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Mary J. Blige

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IMAGE: Profiles in History

In about a month, Rock of Ages will hit audiences with its best shot of rock and roll jukebox romance, 80’s glam-rock style! Count on a spectacle of arena-rock proportions. The early feedback on the movie surrounds its star-studded cast, which includes celebrities from music and film such as Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diego Boneta, Alec Baldwin, and Russell Brand. That same cast also turns up on the soundtrack, and we’ve got the list for you below.

Because we at TC.com like to bring a little sunshine into your lives, we’ve gone to the source of all things ‘net bound—Youtube—and tracked down some of the original songs from the original artists for your endless entertainment. After this guyliner-and-hairspray hoedown, June will seem like a horizon too far.

 The Rock of Ages Soundtrack

1.  “Paradise City” – Tom Cruise
2.  “Sister Christian” / “Just Like Paradise” / “Nothin’ But A Good Time” – Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin
3.  “Juke Box Hero” / “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” – Diego Boneta, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Julianne Hough
4.  “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” – Catherine Zeta-Jones
5.  “Waiting For A Girl Like You” – Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough
6.  “More Than Words” / “Heaven” – Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta
7.  “Wanted Dead Or Alive” – Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough
8.  “I Want To Know What Love Is” – Tom Cruise, Malin Akerman
9.  “I Wanna Rock” – Diego Boneta
10.  “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise
11.  “Harden My Heart” – Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige
12.  “Shadows of the Night” / “Harden My Heart” – Mary J. Blige, Julianne Hough
13.  “Here I Go Again” – Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige, Tom Cruise
14.  “Can’t Fight This Feeling” – Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin
15.  “Any Way You Want It” – Mary J. Blige,Constantine Maroulis, Julianne Hough
16.  “Undercover Love” – Diego Boneta
17.  “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” – Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige
18.  “Rock You Like A Hurricane” – Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise
19.  “We Built This City” / “We’re Not Gonna Take It” -Russell Brand / Catherine Zeta-Jones
20.  “Don’t Stop Believin’”- Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Mary J. Blige

Straight From The 80′s Artists
Here are the songs as performed by the original bands. The millions of views these videos have received on Youtube gives you some indication of their popularity. Enjoy!

Juke Box Hero
Juke Box Hero by Foreigner is a hardrockin’ classic. In ROA, Diego Boneta, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Julianne Hough will give it their rowdy spin.
 

 
Wanted Dead Or Alive
One of Bon Jovi‘s biggest hits, this 80′s anthem might well have been heard by every single American. Tom Cruise and Julianne Hough will wrap their pipes around this one in ROA.
 

 
Here I Go Again
Whitesnake knocked out some chart toppers in its day, and this song is one of them. Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige, Tom Cruise all contribute to this 80′s power ballad.
 

 
ROCK OF AGES
Based on the Tony-nominated Broadway musical, Rock of Ages tells the tale of a small-town girl and a young man from South Detroit who follow their rock-star dreams to Los Angeles in 1987. Rock of Ages stars Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand (@rustyrockets), Mary J. Blige (@MaryJBlige), Bryan Cranston, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diego Boneta (@DiegoBoneta) and Julianne Hough (@JulianneHough).

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Tom Cruise, in the impenetrable guise of IMF Super Agent Ethan Hunt, is getting well-earned props for his serious butt kicking in M:I4.  MTV’s 2012 Movie Awards have been announced and Tom finds himself a nominee in 2 of the 12 categories. For those who have experienced the nerve-rattling intensity of Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, these categories will not surprise you in the least: Tom gets nods for Best Gut-Wrenching Performance and Best Fight.

We’ve got both for you here, but if you’d like to see all nominees and participate in voting, click on the links below.

What They’re Talking About
In this gut-wrencher, Tom scales the outside of the world’s tallest building, shedding life-saving equipment as he climbs. Bring your inhaler! Don’t have one? Bring it anyway.

Click Here To Watch And Vote For The Best Gut-Wrenching Performance

Best Fight
As punishing a fight scene as you’re likely to see, this good vs. evil encounter features Tom going knuckles up with Michael Nyqvist in a futuristic parking structure. In a matter of minutes, the two men test the bounds of physical endurance.

Click Here To Watch And Vote For The Best Fight

Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol Synopsis
Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates “Ghost Protocol.” Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency’s name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on this mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know. Tom Cruise returns in the starring role as Ethan Hunt and is joined by an international cast that includes Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Josh Holloway, Anil Kapoor and Léa Seydoux.

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And the perfect companion piece to the Blu-ray/DVD is the photo book The Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol Shooting Diary by David James.  James has worked with Tom on many films, and his sole job is to capture the still photos that will be used in magazines, newspapers and on billboards to promote the movie he’s working on.

The Shooting Diary is filled with the kind of behind-the-scenes images that add depth and perspective to the stunts used in M:I4. In fact, James, who has photographed Tom for years, says he has never seen the actor perform more impressive stunt work before.

So, without further adieu, here’s an in-depth preview of the new book that appeared in The Telegraph.

 Click Here To Purchase The Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol Shooting Diary On Amazon