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Graham Nash is recovering from a fall.

The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, who is known to share pictures and video on Instagram of his walks around New York City, let his followers know why he hasn’t gone on a walk in a while.

“Well…. about six weeks ago I fell and broke my patella. Oops,” he shared alongside video of him walking with a cane and his leg in a brace. “I’ve been laying low, taking things slowly but surely and am well on the healing path!”

“Most importantly, I feel great, my spirits are up, I’m not in pain, and I’m doing everything I should be to get stronger each day,” the 83-year-old adds.

But Nash isn’t going to let his injury stop him from performing.  He’s about to head out on the road, sharing, “if it’s okay with all of you, I might just have a seat for our shows this time around and sing you some songs like that.”

“Hope you won’t mind. I’ve still got the best band playing with me and we are ready to make you smile,” he writes. “Your good energy will be part of what will boost me up each day. So, here I come! One small but steady step at a time.”

Nash kicks off a new leg of his More Evenings of Songs and Stories tour on Tuesday in Red Bank, New Jersey. A complete list of dates can be found at GrahamNash.com.

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The Band‘s Richard Manuel is the subject of a new biography, Richard Manuel: His Life and Music, from the Hawks and Bob Dylan to The Band.

One of The Band’s three main vocalists, as well as pianist, occasional drummer and sometime songwriter, Manuel died by suicide in 1986. The book by Stephen T. Lewis has new interviews with friends, family and colleagues, like Eric Clapton and Van Morrison, plus detailed commentary on Manuel’s entire musical output. 

Lewis tells ABC Audio he decided to focus on Manuel after watching the 2019 documentary Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band.

“I think I was hoping for more out of [the film],” Lewis says. “And while the idea had been spinning around, all that kind of gave me the inspiration to say, ‘Hey, let’s dive a little deeper into this guy’s life.'”

Lewis details Manuel’s background, his musical roots and his self-destructive tendencies.

“I think once fame took over, it was hard for him to stay creative,” Lewis notes, describing Manuel as a perfectionist who couldn’t take the pressure. “The record label was like, ‘We need 12 songs.’ Robbie [Robertson], a different kind of guy, is like, ‘Twelve songs. Let’s go!’ Richard’s like, ‘Twelve songs?!’ … That was his undoing in a lot of ways.”

The Band was hugely influential, inspiring the likes of Clapton, The Beatles and Elton John, but they’re not often mentioned with other top bands of that era. Lewis feels his book might help correct that.

“Their music was so honest and so real that it wasn’t popular,” he says. “But over the years, I feel like it’s getting the respect that’s due. And that’s kind of the reason I wrote about Richard, is if you have a band that moves rock music in an entire direction, he’s got such a critical part in that.” 

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Foreigner just announced they’re releasing a deluxe version of their 1981 multi-Platinum album 4 with lots of bonus material, and now they are giving fans a preview of one of those extras.

The band has released the track “Fool If You Love Him,” featuring the original Foreigner band members. It’s one of five previously unreleased songs on the set.

According to the description on YouTube, the song was initially recorded and left unfinished during the 4 recording sessions at New York’s Electric Lady Studios. Original frontman Lou Gramm returned decades later to add a new verse, record new vocals and finish the song.

Foreigner 4 Deluxe, dropping Sept. 12, is a five-disc CD/Blu-Ray package that includes newly remastered stereo and Atmos remixes of the album, as well as previously unreleased songs, early and alternative versions of tracks, instrumentals, and live performances recorded on tour between 1981 and 1982.

The deluxe edition will also be released digitally, while the remastered and remixed album will get a vinyl release. All versions are available for preorder now.

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The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger will make a guest appearance on the upcoming album from Nigerian singer/songwriter Burna Boy.

Burna Boy will release his album No Signs of Weakness on July 11 and just revealed the track list, which includes the tune “Empty Chairs” featuring Jagger.

Jagger and his bandmates recently appeared on a tribute album celebrating the late King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier. The band covered the track “Zydeco Sont Pas Salés” on A Tribute to the King of Zydeco, which is out now.

As for their own music, The Stones haven’t released any new music since 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, which was their 24th studio album and their first album of new material in 18 years. The album won best rock album at the 67th annual Grammy Awards. 

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Aussie group Air Supply is the latest band to be chosen to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The group is among the 2026 honorees in the Recordings category, along with Miley Cyrus, The Clark Sisters, Josh Groban, Lyle Lovett and others.

Any artists can be nominated for a star on the Walk of Fame. According to the Walk of Fame’s website, criteria for receiving a star includes “professional achievement, longevity in the category of five years or more, contributions to the community and the guarantee that the celebrity will attend the dedication ceremony if selected.”

Air Supply, made up of Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock, formed in Melbourne in 1975. They scored eight top-five hits in the U.S. in the ’70s and ’80s: “Lost in Love,” “All Out of Love,” “The One That You Love,” “Every Woman in the World,” “Here I Am,” “Even the Nights Are Better,” “Sweet Dreams” and “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.”

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Singer Connie Francis, who recently went viral on TikTok thanks to her song “Pretty Little Baby,” has been hospitalized due to extreme pain.

In a post on Facebook, the 87-year-old singer shares that she is “back in hospital where I have been undergoing tests and checks to determine the cause(s) of the extreme pain I have been experiencing.”

The hospitalization has caused Francis to cancel an appearance at an upcoming Fourth of July concert.

“My thanks for your many get well soon messages,” she added. “I will endeavor to keep you updated.”

She later let fans know that after undergoing tests and exams she’d been transferred from intensive care to a private room.

Francis has been dealing with health issues since June. At that time she told fans she was undergoing tests to “determine the cause of pelvic pain on my right side,” sharing that she had been diagnosed with a fracture.

In June, Francis’ obscure 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” went viral with more than 27 billion views on TikTok. Following the success, she joined the popular social media site.

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A newly remastered extended version of the Prince track “America” is about to get its first-ever digital release.

“America” was the fourth single off Prince’s 1985 album Around the World in a Day, which was a #1 hit for the late R&B star. The artist previously described the tune as a “straightforwardly patriotic” track.

And folks are getting a lot of music with the extended 12-inch version of the song, as it clocks in at 21 minutes and 51 seconds. The record and single versions were much shorter, with a press release noting they were edited from an original performance that was “only cut short as the tape ran out.”

“America (12″ Version)” will hit digital services Friday at 12 a.m. local time.

In celebration of the release, the Prince Museum at Paisley Park is launching an exhibit spotlighting the song, which will run from Friday to Thursday, July 10. There will also be an “America” T-shirt with artwork inspired by the song at the Official Prince Store.

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Ringo Starr is profiled in a new article in the New York Times, and his Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney discusses the importance of their more than six decades of friendship. 

With their bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison gone, McCartney says they understand “nothing lasts forever.”

“So we grasp onto what we have now because we realize that it’s very special. It’s something hardly anyone else has,” he says. “In fact, in our case, it’s something no one else has. There’s only me and Ringo, and we’re the only people who can share those memories.”

In the article, McCartney recalls his December reunion with Ringo onstage at McCartney’s show at the O2 Arena in London, where they played “Helter Skelter” together. McCartney shares that while the song was “an out-and-out rocker” he got “a little bit emotional” during the performance.

McCartney also had nothing but praise for Ringo’s abilities, telling the paper, “Even though I’ve played with other drummers, he’s the best. Ringo has got a certain feel that is very difficult for other drummers to capture.”

He adds, “He’s Ringo. And nobody else is.”

But one area where Ringo wasn’t so confident, at least in the beginning, was in his writing songs. 

“It’s hard to come to the front when you’ve got John and Paul,” he says. “I’d say, ‘I’ve got this song.’ And halfway through they’d all be laying on the floor laughing, because I wasn’t writing new songs. I was writing new words to old songs.”

McCartney adds, “We’d say, ‘Yeah, that’s a great one. That’s a great Bob Dylan song.'”

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John Mellencamp is giving a shoutout to Olivia Rodrigo after the pop star was photographed wearing a Mellencamp T-shirt at the Glastonbury Festival over the weekend.

The 73-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer reshared a photo of the 22-year-old Rodrigo in a vintage tee from his The Lonesome Jubilee era, simply writing, “‘Thank You’ @oliviarodrigo.”

The post also featured a clip of the Mellencamp song “Thank You,” which appeared on his 2019 box set On The Rural Route 7609.

Rodrigo wasn’t even alive when Mellencamp released The Lonesome Jubilee in 1987. It was the rocker’s ninth studio album and featured three hit singles, “Paper and Fire,” “Check it Out” and “Cherry Bomb.” The album peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200.

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Queen’s performance at Live Aid in 1985 is often considered one of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest live performances, but it turns out they could have missed out on the gig had Brian May not talked frontman Freddie Mercury into it.

In a new interview with the U.K.’s Radio Times, May shares that they were hesitant to sign on since at the time they weren’t on tour. He notes, “It seemed like a crazy idea, this talk of having 50 bands on the same bill.”

He says while Roger Taylor was on board, he, Mercury and John Deacon weren’t so sure, but May quickly changed his mind after tickets went on sale.

“I said to Freddie: ‘If we wake up on the day after this Live Aid show and we haven’t been there, we’re going to be pretty sad,” May says. “He said: ‘Oh, f*** it, we’ll do it.'”

But the band didn’t take the stage without first getting advice from Live Aid founder Bob Geldof.

According to May and Taylor, Geldof told them, “Don’t get clever. Just play the hits – you have 17 minutes.”

Queen wound up wowing fans with a set filled with hits, as well as an infamous “Ay-Oh” call and response with the audience. Taylor says he knew they did a good job during “Radio Ga Ga,” noting, “It did seem that the whole stadium was in unison.”

He adds, “But then I looked up during ‘We Are the Champions,’ and the crowd looked like a whole field of wheat swaying.”

Queen is set to mark the 40th anniversary of Live Aid on July 13: they’ll show their set on their YouTube channel for 24 hours starting at 6:41 p.m. BST, the same time Queen took the stage at Wembley Stadium.

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