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Foreigner is revisiting their multi-Platinum album 4 with a new super deluxe edition.

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. There’s also a whole host of extras, including five previously unreleased songs, early and alternative versions of tracks, instrumentals, and live performances recorded on tour between 1981 and 1982.

Foreigner founder Mick Jones shares that recording 4 “took the better part of two years,” noting the band and producer Mutt Lange felt it “was something that just had to be right.” He adds, “This package, and particularly the stunning Atmos mixes present a spectacular culmination of one of the most exciting periods of my life.”

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.

Released in 1981, as the album’s title suggests, 4 was Foreigner’s fourth studio album. The title also refers to the band now being a foursome following the departure of Ian McDonald and Al Greenwood.

The album spent four weeks at #1, thanks to top-five hits “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “Urgent,” as well as the classic tune “Jukebox Hero.” The album has gone on to sell over 10 million copies worldwide and has been certified six-times Platinum in the U.S.

To celebrate the release, Foreigner has announced dates for the Foreigner 4 Deluxe Tour, which will feature original lead singer Lou Gramm joining the band for some songs. The tour kicks off with two nights, Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, in Port Chester, New York, and runs through Dec. 13 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

A complete list of dates can be found at ForeignerOnline.com.

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Phil Collins’ blockbuster solo album No Jacket Required is getting a special vinyl reissue in celebration of its 40th anniversary.

No Jacket Required (Fully Tailored), dropping Sept. 12, is a four-LP box set featuring a remastered edition of the original album, along with a three LPs of bonus material, including B-sides, and live and rare performances that are getting their vinyl debut.

Among those bonus recordings is a live, stripped down version of the #1 hit “One More Night,” as well as Collins’ Live Aid performance of “Long, Long Way to Go.”

On the same day, a Blu-Ray audio disc will be released featuring the original 1985 mix of the album, along with a Dolby Atmos, 5.1 surround sound mix and stereo mix by producer Steven Wilson.

Both are available for preorder now.

No Jacket Required, Collins’ third studio album, was released in May of 1985, and went to #1 in 11 countries, including the U.S. It featured four hit singles: “Sussudio” and “One More Night,” which both went to #1; “Don’t Lose My Number,” which went to #4; and “Take Me Home,” which peaked at #7. 

The album won three Grammy Awards, including album of the year, and was a huge commercial success for Collins, earning him a Diamond certification by the RIAA. 

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A new photo exhibit highlighting the Grateful Dead is coming to Los Angeles in July.

An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995 is set to open at the David Kordansky Gallery. Timed to coincide with this year’s 60th anniversary of the iconic band, the exhibit will feature photos curated by photographer Jay Blakesberg and his daughter, Ricki Blakesberg.

The exhibit will include 28 large photos and 32 smaller prints highlighting the band’s 60-year career. According to the description, the exhibit “provides many windows into the core of the Grateful Dead experience, in which the energy between the performers and the audience was constantly feeding off each other.”

“An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995 is not just a celebration of the band— it’s a visual journey through three decades of cultural evolution, community, and creativity,” says Jay.

An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995 will open on July 15. Opening day will feature a panel discussion with Jay, as well as well-known Dead photographers Ron Rakow, Rosie McGee and others. 

In addition to the exhibit, there will be an accompanying coffee-table book featuring 275 photographs from well-known Dead photographers. It will be released Aug. 1, to coincide with Jerry Garcia’s birthday, and will be available for preorder starting July 12.

More info on the exhibit can be found at davidkordanskygallery.com.

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Queen is continuing their celebration of the upcoming 40th anniversary of Live Aid by raising money for charity with a new line of Live Aid merch.

The new official limited-edition Live Aid + Queen merchandise includes two T-shirts — one featuring Queen’s Live Aid set list and one with a picture of the band — as well as a poster, all of which were designed and overseen by Brian May, Roger Taylor and Live Aid co-founder Bob Geldof.

Proceeds from the sales will benefit Queen’s Mercury Phoenix Trust, which raises funds for the fight against HIV/AIDs, as well as the Band Aid Trust, which raises money to eradicate hunger and poverty in Ethiopia and other countries.

All items are available for preorder and will ship on July 11.

This is just one way Queen is marking the Live Aid anniversary. As previously reported, on July 13, the actual 40th anniversary of the event, Queen will show their Live Aid 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.

Live Aid, organized by Geldof and Midge Ure, took place at London’s Wembley Stadium and Philly’s John F. Kennedy Stadium. The benefit concerts raised more than $150 million for Ethiopian famine relief.

CNN is also set to mark the anniversary with the new four-part docuseries Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took On the World, premiering July 13 at 9 p.m. ET. The docuseries features interviews with Geldof, as well as U2’s Bono, Sting, Phil Collins and others, along with “rare archival footage” of Live Aid performances and backstage.

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Zak Starkey has been through a lot since April, when he was fired, then rehired, then fired again from The Who. 

Despite losing the gig, he tells the U.K.’s The Independent that Roger Daltrey has told him to leave his drum kit in The Who’s storage — just in case. And Starkey doesn’t seem surprised by all the drama.

“The thing is, this is The Who, man. The most unpredictable, aggressive, arrogant people, lovely people who are my family, but you never know what’s gonna happen, and that’s why it’s The Who,” he says. “They have an addiction to friction.”

Starkey calls The Who “the oddest, maddest group there is,” but doesn’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.

“If you look at The Who through the years, all the way back, there’s four completely opposite people. One of them writes all the songs and thinks the other three are an art installation. And they don’t know what that means,” he tells the paper. “They are the craziest, weirdest group there’s ever been. That’s what’s great, isn’t it, that they’re so untraditional with everything that they’ve ever done.”

Problems arose between The Who and Starkey during The Who’s Teenage Cancer Trust shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March, with Daltrey calling out Starkey’s playing during “The Song is Over.” He was fired in April, but then rehired by the band, only for The Who to announce in May he was once again let go.

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Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival, which features Bob Dylan as one of the headliners, has canceled its Tuesday show in El Reno, Oklahoma, due to what’s being described as “unforeseen circumstances.”

“An extreme weather event on the evening of June 29th in Ridgedale, MO at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena produced heavy rains and high winds forcing the crowd to evacuate,” reads a post on the festival’s Instagram page. It notes that “much of the Outlaw Music Festival’s equipment and artists’ instruments were damaged and waterlogged.”

The post shares that organizers aren’t sure there’s enough time to figure out whether it will be safe to use the equipment for the Oklahoma show.

“The potential damage has halted the festival production as they recover and replace what’s necessary for the tour to resume,” the post says. “The tour looks forward to resuming in Austin on July 4.”

The promoters apologized to fans for the cancellation, sharing that those with tickets will be receiving full refunds.

In addition to Nelson and Dylan, performers for this year’s Outlaw Music Festival include Sheryl Crow, Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, The Avett Brothers, Wilco, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers and Lucinda Williams.

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ZZ Top’s first four albums were released as a high fidelity vinyl box set in 2024, and now their next five albums are getting the same treatment.

Rhino is set to release From the Top (1979–1990) on Friday, featuring 1979’s Degüello, 1981’s Loco, 1983’s Diamond-certified Eliminator, 1985’s Afterburner and 1990’s Recycler. All copies are cut from the original stereo master tapes and pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl.

Only 3,000 individually numbered copies of From the Top: 1979-1990 will be available and can be preordered now exclusively at rhino.com.

Last year’s box set, From the Top: 1971-1976, included vinyl reissues of 1971’s ZZ Top’s First Album, 1972’s Rio Grande Mud, 1973’s Tres Hombres, 1975’s Fandango! and 1976’s Tejas. It was a sellout.

ZZ Top is set to hit the road this summer for more dates of their Elevation tour. After a performance at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, Idaho, on Aug. 1, the tour kicks off Aug. 2 in Sioux City, Iowa. A complete list of dates can be found at ZZTop.com.

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On This Day, July 1, 1967 …

The Beatles hit #1 with their eighth studio album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which featured such classic Beatles tunes as the title track, “With a Little Help From My Friends,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” “When I’m Sixty Four,” “Lovely Rita” and “A Day in the Life.”

Sgt. Pepper’s was The Beatles eighth #1 album and spent 15 weeks at the top of the charts in the U.S. It went on to win the Grammy for album of the year, the first rock album to ever win the top award, and was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2003.

A critical and commercial success, Sgt. Pepper’s has been certified 11-times Platinum by the RIAA.

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Celebrations are in order as Blondie‘s iconic frontwoman Debbie Harry is turning 80 on Tuesday.

Harry co-founded Blondie with guitarist Chris Stein in New York in the ‘70s. The band hit it big in 1979 with the release of their third studio album, Parallel Lines, a top-10 hit in the U.S. thanks to songs like “Heart of Glass,” their first #1 single, “One Way or Another” and “Hanging on the Telephone.”

The band went on to have four #1 singles, have sold over 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. And they’re still making music, with Stein revealing that a new album’s expected out sometime this year.

Harry also launched a solo career in 1981 with the album KooKoo and dabbled in acting, appearing in such movies as 1988’s Hairspray and 2002’s Deuces Wild.

She’s also been a fashion icon throughout her career; in a new interview with Vanity Fair she discussed the pressure she’s felt to look good, sharing she’s had plastic surgery because it “made me feel better about myself.”

“Maybe it made me feel happy, or more confident. It was just something that I felt necessary at the time,” she explains. “I wanted to work, and so much of women being attractive, and being a selling point, is clearly showbiz. If you’re going to be in the business, be in it.”

As for how Harry plans to celebrate 80, back in January she told the U.K. paper The Times, “I’m going to have a whopping great party with everyone there. Though one of the bad things about aging is everyone’s gone already.”

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ABBA’s iconic tune “Dancing Queen” has reached a new milestone.

The video for the track, first uploaded to YouTube in 2009, has now reached 1 billion views on the site, making it the Swedish band’s first video to accomplish such a feat.

In a message on Instagram, ABBA’s Frida Lyngstad shares that the band’s “overwhelmed” that so many people have viewed and listened to the song, noting there are only about 300 other videos that have reached 1 billion views.

Frida writes that one of her “most cherished” memories is of the first time she and Agnetha Fältskog heard the backing track Benny Andersson wrote for “Dancing Queen,” noting they “cried listening to it” because even back then they “found it to be simply perfection.”

She adds, “And we knew – this must be a hit, because we loved every bit of it and still do!”

“So thank you from the bottom our hearts for sharing our love for this special song and keep on enjoying it forever,” she ends the post.

Released in 1976, “Dancing Queen” was the lead single off ABBA’s fourth studio album, Arrival. It topped the chart in several countries and was the band’s only #1 hit in the U.S. The video for the track was filmed in 1976 and directed by Lasse Hallström, who went on to direct such films as What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat.

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