Classic Hits

A never-before-seen video of John Lennon and Yoko Ono performing during their One to One benefit concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden has been released.

The clip is a performance of Lennon’s solo hit “Instant Karma! (We All Shine On),” which he performed during the concerts on Aug. 30, 1972. It features newly restored and edited footage of the performance, with newly remixed and reengineered audio.

The performance of “Instant Karma! (We All Shine)” is one of the tracks featured in the new box set Power to the People (Super Deluxe Edition), produced by the couple’s son, Sean Ono Lennon. It will be released Oct. 10, on what would have been John’s 85th birthday.

The performance will also be featured in the upcoming film Power To The People, directed by Simon Hilton, which will be released next year.

Power to the People (Super Deluxe Edition) is a nine-CD/three-Blu-ray box set, featuring 123 tracks, 90 of which have either never been heard before or were previously unreleased. 

The set includes demos, outtakes, home recordings and more, along with a new version of John and Yoko’s 1972 album Sometime in New York City, plus the completely remixed One to One concerts, which were John’s only full-length concerts after leaving The Beatles.

The super deluxe edition will come with a 204-page hardcover book and more goodies. There will also be two-CD, four-LP and two-LP colored vinyl editions.

All formats are available for preorder now.’

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Cyndi Lauper is headed to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this fall, and to celebrate the final show of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, she brought out fellow female members of the Hall to join her onstage.

Cher and Joni Mitchell — the latter in only her second public appearance of 2025 — were special guests at Lauper’s show Saturday at the Hollywood Bowl, as were pop/R&B superstars John Legend and SZA.

Mitchell joined Lauper for a version of “Carey,” from Mitchell’s iconic album Blue. Lauper has performed the song herself multiple times in concert over the years.  Legend then appeared to join Lauper on “Time After Time,” and SZA popped up for “True Colors.”

The final song of the night was, of course, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” with Lauper’s good pal Cher joining her to perform that number.

You can find footage of all of these performances on YouTube.

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Dead & Company’s three San Francisco shows celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead helped promote a lot of causes that are important to the band.

Like most Dead & Company concerts, the band had a Participation Row at the San Fran shows, promoting causes like Reverb.org and HeadCount.org, and it produced some pretty positive returns.

According to a post on Instagram, the shows raised over $2.2 million for Dead Family charities. In addition, there were over 17,700 positive activations from fans, including over 5,300 voter actions and over 13,100 environmental actions.

“Dead Heads make a positive impact everywhere they go,” the band said on Instagram. “Thanks to all the fans that took action and supported @headcountorg, @reverb_org and other nonprofits, we accomplished all of this together. THANK YOU for showing up.”

Dead & Company’s three shows at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park took place Aug. 1, 2 and 3. They featured guest appearances by Phish’s Trey Anastasio and Phil Lesh‘s son Grahame Lesh, as well as Billy Strings and Sturgill Simpson.

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Bryan Adams has released a new video for the track “Will We Ever Be Friends Again” from his just-released new album, Roll With the Punches.

According to a post on Instagram, the clip was filmed in Iceland and stars Icelandic model Inga Eiriksdottir. Adams shared a video of an outtake with Inga playing the accordion.

Roll With the Punches is Adams’ 16th studio album and his first album since 2022’s So Happy It Hurts. He’s set to celebrate the release with a series of intimate club shows in England, kicking off Saturday in Leeds and wrapping Sept. 3 in Kingston.

He’ll also launch a North American tour on Sept. 11 in Kamloops, British Columbia. U.S. dates, featuring Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo as special guests, begin Oct. 25 in Uncasville, Connecticut, and run through Nov. 26 in Minneapolis.

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Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dion DiMucci is releasing a new album this fall.

The musician is set to drop The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher on Oct. 24, which will serve as a companion album to his memoir of the same name, which came out in January.

The album features six new songs written by Dion and Mike Aquilina and reimagined versions of some of Dion’s classic tunes, as well as songs he released over the last decade. The first taste of the new material is “I’m Your Gangster of Love,” which is out now via digital outlets.

The album features guest appearances by Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, guitarist Joe Bonamassa and blues musician Sonny Landreth.

Clapton, who contributed a prologue to the book, also contributes a forward to the album, calling Dion “a genius singer, writer, musician and healer.”

“He is the perfect example of how you can do what you love to do and still be available to the lives of others,” he adds.

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher is available for preorder now. Here is the track list:
“I’m Your Gangster of Love”
“New York Minute”
“Ruby Baby”
“Take It Back” (featuring Joe Bonamassa)
“New York Is My Home”
“Cryin’ Shame” (featuring Sonny Landreth)
“Dancing Girl” (featuring Mark Knopfler)
“In a Heartbeat of Time”
“Serenade/Come To The Cross”
“If You Wanna Rock and Roll” (featuring Eric Clapton)
“Ride With You”
“Abraham, Martin and John”
“King of the New York Streets”
“Runaround Sue”
“The Wanderer”
“Mother and Son”

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Bon Jovi has dropped the first two tracks off their upcoming collaborations album, Forever (Legendary Edition), which has them teaming up with other big-name artists to reimagine songs on their 2024 album, Forever.

The first released track is the album’s lead-off single, “Red, White and Jersey”; the band also released a new music video, which follows a couple and their friends having fun in the Garden State. The other track is the first collaboration to be released, “Hollow Man,” featuring fellow New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen.

Both songs are available now via digital outlets.

In addition to Springsteen, Forever (Legendary Edition), dropping on Oct. 24, has Bon Jovi collaborating with such artists as Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Jelly Roll, Ryan Tedder, Avril Lavigne, Jason Isbell, James Bay and Lainey Wilson.

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Bryan Adams‘ new album, Roll With the Punches, is out now, and he thinks it rocks, if he does so say himself.

“It’s predominantly pretty much a rock record,” he told ABC Audio. “What can I tell you? It’s the best songs I could have come up with in a year. I’ll tell you that!”

“If you like anything that I’ve done before and you like the themes that I sort of hark to, then it’s very much in that bag,” he continued, before describing some of the album’s songs.

“‘Roll With the Punches‘ is about getting up after you’ve been knocked down and just starting over. ‘Make Up Your Mind‘ is about the possibility of getting back with your ex, but your ex actually has somebody else,” he explained. “So it’s all those kind of themes.”

“I’ve got a song that’s about veterans coming back from war. I’ve got a beautiful love song on there,” he added. In fact, Bryan said he feels Roll With the Punches echoes two of his classic albums. 

“It’s kind of a cross between, maybe, Waking Up the Neighbours and Into the Fire,” he says of his 1991 release and his 1987 project.

Roll With the Punches is an independent release on Bryan’s own label, BAD Records. “It didn’t take much to convince me to do it,” he says. “Because what we did was we sort of tested the waters.”

Specifically, a few years ago Bryan teamed with the record label BMG to released a box set documenting some shows he’d recorded at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Then, last year, he put out a similar box set on BAD.

“We did as good if not better on our own than we did with BMG,” he laughs. “So, might as well do it ourselves.” 

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It’s like MTV Unplugged crossed with VH1 Storytellers — with some new technology added in.

Words + Music, a new TV series based on the Audible audio series of the same name, is coming to MGM+ Nov. 30. Among the artists who’ll be featured in the first episodes are Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, John Legend and Alanis Morissette.

Like Unplugged and Storytellers, each episode will feature artists sharing the stories behind their most iconic songs, followed by performances of those songs, either solo or with a band. There will also be an immersive video experience, courtesy of a stage that includes a 79-by-80-foot LED screen and 105 motion capture cameras, according to a press release. 

As the artists tell their stories, they’ll be surrounded by “dynamic visual narratives”: the environment around them will “transform to reflect each anecdote and song,” the release says.

The show is being produced by Gunpowder and Sky, the studio run by Van Toffler, the former president of MTV Networks. Toffler says, “The result is something as intimate as a backstage confession and as cinematic as a feature film. These aren’t just stories about iconic songs – they’re portraits of how those songs, and the artists behind them came to be.”

Toffler tells Variety that some of the visuals include photos from Crow’s childhood and Costello’s original artwork.

Also involved in the show are Alex Coletti, who produced Costello’s original Unplugged 30 years ago, and Bill Flanagan, who co-created VH1 Storytellers.

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Following the announcement that it would screen at the openings of both the New York Film Festival and the American Film Institute Festival on, respectively, Sept. 28 and Oct. 22, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere will now have its world premiere on Friday.

The film, which details the creation of Springsteen’s album Nebraska, will open this year’s Telluride Film Festival in Colorado on Friday. Jeremy Allen White, who stars as Springsteen, director Scott Cooper and Jeremy Strong, who plays Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau, will all be on hand for the screening, which takes place Friday at 6:30 p.m. MT.

Springsteen, meanwhile, is scheduled to attend the New York Film Festival premiere in September.

The movie officially arrives in theaters Oct. 24.

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Roberta Flack’s music is eternal.

A previously unreleased track by the late legend has been released, appropriately titled “Eternally.” The song was recorded in 1997, and while Flack often performed it in concert and expressed wanting to release it, it didn’t become a reality until now.

“You will stay inside my heart, in the middle of my heart/ you will stay inside my heart, eternally,” she sings on the chorus.

“Eternally” will be part of a curated collection out later this year that will feature songs from Flack’s archives that have been newly remixed and remastered.

Flack, known for her signature voice and soulful interpretations of songs such as “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” died in February at age 88.

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