Review: Cruz Beckham is more than Posh and Becks’ son — he could be the next great Brit rocker
<p>Cruz Beckham got his first taste of the stage 18 years ago. His mom Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, was performing with the Spice Girls at Madison Square Garden, and the then-3-year-old <a class="Link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoZ7a_nCPLQ&t=5s" target="_blank" >busted out breakdancing</a> in front of 20,000 people, prompting Posh to declare him the “next Justin Timberlake.”</p><p>That he is not.
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<p>Cruz Beckham got his first taste of the stage 18 years ago. His mom Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, was performing with the Spice Girls at Madison Square Garden, and the then-3-year-old <a class="Link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoZ7a_nCPLQ&t=5s" target="_blank" >busted out breakdancing</a> in front of 20,000 people, prompting Posh to declare him the “next Justin Timberlake.”</p><p>That he is not. But as Beckham and his band The Breakers made their festival debut at Lollapalooza on Sunday, he showed he could be the next great Brit rocker.</p><p>No one probably would’ve guessed that the 21-year-old (the youngest son of Posh and soccer legend David Beckham) would have one of the breakout sets of the weekend with an honest-to-god talent that supersedes his last name. Lollapalooza has opportunistically booked rock progeny before — Lars Ulrich’s sons in the band Taipei Houston and Travis Barker’s son Landon are recent ones that come to mind — and while both of those acts were just fine, Beckham doesn’t exactly follow the same lineage.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center> <div class="Enhancement-item" data-crop=""> <figure class="Figure"><a class="AnchorLink" id="image-d80000" name="image-d80000"></a> <picture data-crop="medium"> <source type="image/webp" width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/21db3c4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5599x3142+0+296/resize/490x275!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F8d%2Fa5%2F8166bc604f18bdfd9225bbf85a70%2Flollapicsday4-260802-05.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/63d218d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5599x3142+0+296/resize/980x550!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F8d%2Fa5%2F8166bc604f18bdfd9225bbf85a70%2Flollapicsday4-260802-05.jpg 2x" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <source width="490" height="275" data-srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/20e0e97/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5599x3142+0+296/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F8d%2Fa5%2F8166bc604f18bdfd9225bbf85a70%2Flollapicsday4-260802-05.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" srcset="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" /> <img class="Image" alt="LOLLAPICSDAY4_260802-05.jpg" srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/20e0e97/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5599x3142+0+296/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F8d%2Fa5%2F8166bc604f18bdfd9225bbf85a70%2Flollapicsday4-260802-05.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d38fb6d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5599x3142+0+296/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F8d%2Fa5%2F8166bc604f18bdfd9225bbf85a70%2Flollapicsday4-260802-05.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275" data-src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/20e0e97/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5599x3142+0+296/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F8d%2Fa5%2F8166bc604f18bdfd9225bbf85a70%2Flollapicsday4-260802-05.jpg" data-lazy-load="true" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIyNzVweCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ5MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=" > </picture> <div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Cruz Beckham and The Breakers performs on the Tito’s stage on Day 4 of Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Sunday.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times</p></div></div> </figure> </div> </div><p>Posh is, of course, part of one of the finest music groups of our time, but her world is pop, not the rock swagger the young talent brought forth.
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- <p>Cruz Beckham got his first taste of the stage 18 years ago. His mom Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, was performing with the Spice Girls at Madison Square Garden, and the then-3-year-old <a class="Link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoZ7a_nCPLQ&t=5s" target="_blank" >busted out breakdancing</a> in front of 20,000 people, prompting Posh to declare him the “next Justin Timberlake.”</p><p>That he is not.
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