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While scrolling through Instagram on Friday, you may have gotten upset when you saw a photo of Elton John in a hospital bed with both his legs in casts, as well as a brace around his neck. But don’t worry, it was just movie magic.

In the photo, Elton is lying in a hospital bed, surrounded by flowers, get-well cards and balloons. His husband, David Furnish, is standing next to him, talking to some people. But as Elton explains in the caption, “Rocked too hard… ended up in a cast! Backstage with Spinal Tap.”

He continues, “The new film, Spinal Tap II, and [soundtrack] album are out today, featuring me on ‘Listen To The Flower People’ and ‘Stonehenge’. Thanks for having me be a part of it!” Those two songs were in the original This Is Spinal Tap movie back in 1984, but these are new versions featuring Elton. He also appears in the film, duetting with the fictitious band onstage as they perform “Stonehenge.”

If you scroll through the post, you’ll see close-ups of Elton’s fake casts, which are completely bedazzled with rhinestones, and include motifs like a yellow brick road and piano keys.

Plotwise, it’s not clear how Elton ends up in the hospital; you’ll just have to watch the film to find out. Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks and other famous musicians also appear in it.

Many fans were fooled by the hospital image, though. One wrote in the comments, “i’m at the airport and my heart sank so quickly.” Another wrote, “You scared me for a second. It took me a hot second to realize that this is for spinal tap 2.” Another wrote, “I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK THINKING IT WAS REAL.” Even Elton’s pal Charlie Puth wrote in all caps, “YOU SCARED ME.”

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The Who has added one more date to their The Song Is Over North American Farewell Tour, and it will be the last show of the trek.

The new show is scheduled for Oct. 1 at the Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, California. In a post on Instagram the band calls it “The Final Public Show.”

Tickets for the final date go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time.

In other tour news, The Who announced that The Offspring will be opening their Sept. 19 show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

The Song Is Over North American Farewell Tour kicked off Aug. 16 in Sunrise, Florida. It hits Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at TheWho.com.

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Neil Young has announced the four albums that will make up the sixth installment in his Official Release Series.

The latest edition will include discs 26, 27, 28 and 29 in the series, and will feature 1992’s Harvest Moon, featuring the iconic title track; 1993’s Unplugged, recorded for the MTV series; 1994’s Sleep With Angels, which includes the 14-minute song “Change Your Mind”; and 1995’s double album Mirror Ball, which he recorded with Seattle rockers Pearl Jam.

Official Release Series Volume 6, dropping Oct. 24, will be released as a limited-edition numbered vinyl box set, with each album issued as a double vinyl. There will also be a CD box, with one CD for each title.

Both sets will be available at the Greedy Hand Store at the Neil Young Archives, as well as music retailers. The set will also be available in high-res digital audio at Neil Young Archives and on most digital services. All formats are available for preorder now.

Young is currently on his Love Earth tour with his band the Chrome Hearts. The tour hits Mountain View, California, on Friday.

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Pink Floyd is celebrating the 50th anniversary of their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here, by reissuing the album with a whole host of bonus material.

Wish You Were Here 50 will be released in a variety of formats, including a digital release that features the original album mixed in Dolby Atmos. It will include 25 bonus tracks, with nine studio rarities, including six tracks that have never been released before.

The bonus material also includes 16 live bootleg recordings from a concert at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on April 26, 1975, which are getting their first-ever official release. The audio has been restored and remastered by producer Steven Wilson.

Wish You Were Here 50 will also be released as a three-LP or two-CD set, with the original album and the rarities; a Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround mixes of the album; three concert films from the band’s 1975 tour; and a short film by famed art designer and Hipgnosis co-founder Storm Thorgerson.

And there will be a deluxe box set that includes all the material on the two-CD or three-LP editions (in clear vinyl), as well as the Blu-ray, an additional clear vinyl LP with a 1974 Live at Wembley concert, a replica Japanese 7-inch single of “Have A Cigar”/”Welcome to the Machine,” a hard cover book and more.

As a preview of the bonus material on Wish You Were Here 50, Pink Floyd has released “The Machine Song,” a previously unheard demo of what would go on to become the album’s track “Welcome to the Machine.”

All formats will be released Dec. 12 and are available for preorder now.

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Do you remember the 21st night of September? That’s the night you’ll be able to watch Earth, Wind & Fire in a new TV special.

CBS will air A Grammy Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire Live: The 21st Night of September, celebrating the music of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group. The special will feature Earth, Wind & Fire performing with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, along with special guests Stevie Wonder, the Jonas Brothers, Jon Batiste and Janelle Monáe. The special airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Then on Oct. 5, CBS airs A Grammy Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Live from the Hollywood Bowl. It was filmed over two nights at the end of Cyndi’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun farewell tour, and features appearances by, among others, Joni Mitchell, Cher, John Legend, SZA, country star Mickey Guyton and New Orleans legend Trombone Shorty. There will also be video tributes, including one from Brandi Carlile.

The Cyndi special also airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT. If you have have Paramount+ Premium, you can watch it the same time it airs on CBS; if not, you can watch it the next day on Paramount+.

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Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor are set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band’s iconic tune “Bohemian Rhapsody” with a very special performance.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will appear at BBC Radio’s Last Night of the Proms, which is described as the “biggest party in classical music,” to perform an orchestral arrangement of the song with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and chorus, the BBC singers and National Youth Choir.

“What a splendid way to celebrate a Queen masterpiece in its 50th year: Bohemian Rhapsody performed with a 100-piece BBC Symphony Orchestra and a choir of over 150 singers – on the most prestigious night of the year in The Royal Albert Hall,” May and Taylor shared on Instagram. “Freddie will be loving it!” they added, referring to the band’s late frontman Freddie Mercury.

The event takes place at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday at 7 p.m. BST, and will air live on BBC Radio 3, and also on BBC TV.

The almost six-minute “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the lead single off Queen’s 1975 album, A Night at the Opera, and went on to sell over 6 million copies worldwide.

The song had a resurgence in popularity in 1992 after appearing in the film Wayne’s World. After the release of the 2018 Queen biopic, also named Bohemian Rhapsody, the song became the most streamed song of the 20th century and was certified Diamond by the Recording Academy.

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On This Day, Sept. 12, 1975 …

Fifty years ago, Pink Floyd released their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here.

The album featured the nine-part “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” which was a tribute to founding member Syd Barrett, who’d been fired seven years earlier due to his drug use and mental health issues.

The album’s title track became a classic rock staple and has often made lists of the greatest songs of all time. Other songs on the album include “Have a Cigar” and “Welcome to the Machine.”

Wish You Were Here went on to be a huge hit for the band, reaching #1 in both the U.S. and U.K. It became Pink Floyd’s fastest-selling album ever and went on to sell 20 million copies.

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The Black Crowes are revisiting their third studio album, 1994’s Amorica.

To celebrate the album’s 30th anniversary, the band is set to release a super-deluxe box set featuring new mixes of the original album, along 14 previously unreleased recordings.

The bonus material includes Tallest, nine newly mixed songs recorded during the sessions for Tall, an unreleased album the band worked on before Amorica but was scrapped by Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson. 

The box set also includes The Marie Laveau Sessions, featuring seven songs Chris and Rich worked on during a soundcheck on their High As The Moon tour and then recorded in New Orleans on a day off from the trek. There will also be four recordings from a live broadcast from AIR Studios in London.

“Amorica was about breaking free and doing things on our own terms,” said Chris. “It wasn’t about fitting into what was happening in music at the time. It was about trusting our instincts – and 30 years later, that’s still who we are.”

Rich adds, “The bond between us, even when tested, always came back to the music. That’s what Amorica represents – our belief in ourselves and in this band.”

As a preview of the deluxe edition, the Crowes have released “Bitter, Bitter You,” a previously unreleased song from the Tall sessions.

The Amorica super-deluxe box set will be released Nov. 14 as a five-LP or three-CD set. There will also be two-LP and one-CD editions.

All formats are available for preorder now.

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The upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, focuses on the making of the rocker’s 1982 album Nebraska, but some may be wondering why it isn’t a full-blown biopic on The Boss.

The movie is based on Warren Zanes’ book Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. The film’s director, Scott Cooper, tells Entertainment Weekly that he liked the “intimacy” of the source material.

“It wasn’t about Bruce Springsteen, the icon and stadium-filling rock star,” Cooper tells the mag. “It was about Bruce alone in a rented house, trying to understand himself and his unresolved trauma through song.”

He adds that the book “captured the tension between the myth of Bruce Springsteen and the man.”

“That’s where the film lived for me,” he says. “Not in the spectacle, but in the silence, the hesitation, the uncertainty. I saw a cinematic portrait of an artist who was willing to strip himself bare.”

Cooper says the film “isn’t a typical musical biopic,” noting he didn’t want to tell Bruce’s entire story.

“It’s about honoring this particular moment — the stillness, the searching, and the emotional honesty,” he tells EW.

Cooper also had a personal reason for wanting to make a film about Nebraska.

“Nebraska was my entry into Bruce Springsteen. I was immediately struck by its minimalist quality, its power,” he says. “It seemed to come from some of the same world that I was accustomed to. You could tell that these were songs that meant something to somebody.”

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce and Jeremy Strong as his manager Jon Landau, opens in theaters Oct. 24.

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When Jon Bon Jovi‘s son got married in 2024, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer didn’t perform at the event. But Melissa Etheridge was only too happy to take the stage when her daughter got married.

People reports that Melissa’s daughter Bailey Jean Cypheridge married Jocelyn Simone Rhude Sept. 5 at a winery in Sonoma, California, and the couple insisted on having a concert take place at the reception. Among the 12 performers was Melissa, who also walked Bailey down the aisle.

According to Bailey, Melissa “performed a few songs,” including a new one that she wrote for the couple, which she plans to put on her next album.

“We got to hear the song beforehand! It was beautiful to hear it live, we passed out tissues,” Jocelyn said of the song.

Bailey is Melissa’s daughter with her former partner Julie Cypher. The two also had a son, Beckett Cypher, who struggled with opioid addiction and died in 2020. Both children’s biological father was late rock legend David Crosby.

Melissa had been on tour with Indigo Girls, but took time off for the wedding. She returned to the tour Wednesday, as she and the duo headlined New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

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