The Beatles topped the Billboard 200 album chart with Abbey Road. The album spent 11 weeks at #1 and a total of 490 weeks on the chart.
Abbey Road was the last album The Beatles recorded, although Let It Be was the last album they finished and released before their 1970 breakup. It featured the iconic cover of the band walking across the street in single file.
The album featured such classic Beatles tunes as “Here Comes the Sun,” “Come Together,” “Something” and “Octopus’ Garden.”
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band spent Halloween night rocking Montreal, Quebec, but only acknowledged the festive day with one musical moment.
Taking the stage to scary-sounding music, Bruce and the band launched into a cover of Ray Parker Jr.‘s 1984 #1 hit “Ghostbusters,” much to the delight of the crowd, who shouted the call-and-response “Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!” part at the top of their lungs.
But after that moment of levity, the first portion of the show was downbeat, with Bruce next launching into the deep cut “Seeds,” then devoting a good chunk of the first set to songs inspired by serious topics like death, disillusionment and loss, such as “Lonesome Day,” “Atlantic City,” “Youngstown,” “Ghosts” and “Letter to You.”
At one point, Bruce made mention of the importance of the upcoming U.S presidential election, then performed “Long Walk Home,” which he described as “a prayer for my country.”
The mood eventually turned more upbeat, with “Wrecking Ball,” “She’s the One,” “The Rising” and “Badlands,” before Bruce ended the show with a nonstop string of classics like “Thunder Road,” “Born to Run,” “Dancing in the Dark” and “Rosalita” and a rave-up version of “Twist and Shout.”
As always on this particular tour, he ended with the wistful acoustic number “I’ll See You In My Dreams.” And while Bruce and the band didn’t wear Halloween costumes, many fans did, including a few dressed like Bruce circa Born in the U.S.A., with white tees, jeans and red ballcaps tucked into their back pockets.
Warren Haynes’ new solo album, Million Voices Whisper, is out now, and it’s his first solo record in more than 10 years.
The Gov’t Mule frontman tells ABC Audio that one of the reasons he decided to make another solo record after all this time was because he’d been writing so much since the pandemic, noting that most of the songs on the album “were written in the past two or three years.”
“Usually if I write a handful of songs that seem to work together but don’t seem like Gov’t Mule songs, I start getting an indication that it’s time to make a solo record,” he shares.
Haynes says that making a solo record isn’t all that different from making one with Gov’t Mule, in that he uses the same approach, “which is us side by side in the studio, looking at each other while we’re recording live, as live as possible.”
He adds, “The biggest difference would be the musicians themselves and the way everybody is interpreting the songs.”
Million Voices Whisper features already released singles “Life As We Know It” and “Day of Reckoning,” featuring Lukas Nelson and Jamey Johnson. And there’s also a very special track, “Real Real Love,” featuring Derek Trucks, which is a song that was originally started by the late Allman Brothers Band leader Gregg Allman, but never finished.
“I wanted it to be as if he were there and I wanted to write the music the way he would approach it, even down to the vocal melody and the way I chose to sing it,” he says of his approach to finishing the tune. “It came about really quickly and easily, and Gregg’s presence was there for sure.”
Wang Chung’s music will be celebrated with a new double vinyl retrospective, Clear Light/Dark Matter, set for release March 7.
The compilation features songs from the band’s more than four-decade career, including hits like “Dance Hall Days” and “Everybody Have Fun Tonight.”
In addition to the hits, the set will include never-before-released demos, the recently released Eric Kupper remix of “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” and a new live recording.
“Our songs often have an accessible front end, but there’s always a deeper layer beneath the surface—whether it’s lyrically or musically,” Wang Chung’s Nick Feldman shares. “Clear Light/Dark Matter reflects that balance between the light and the dark, the yin and yang, or as we like to say, the Wang and the Chung of what we do.”
The set is also being released as a deluxe collector’s edition that includes the double LP on clear white and black ice colored vinyl, the two-CD version of the set, a 7-inch vinyl single of the Kupper remix, an exclusive booklet featuring photos from Feldman and Jack Hues, exclusive digital content and more.
In honor of Halloween, Paul McCartney is talking spooky encounters — and apparently he hasn’t had any, at least in his everyday life.
“My dreams are very supernatural, I can go anywhere there. But not in real life,” he shares in a Q&A on his website. “I’ve never actually seen a ghost or a spirit, and I’m not a great believer in all that.”
Sir Paul says having kids kept him from being a true believer, noting, “when they’d say, ‘Dad, I’m scared of ghosts,’ I’d say, ‘There’s no such thing.’ You do a lot of that as a parent.”
“So, I don’t believe in it,” he adds. “I think the human mind is susceptible to getting a bit worked up and overexcited, and often these things have a rational explanation in the end.”
McCartney is currently on his Got Back tour and has a break for Halloween, but he’ll be on stage Friday, playing a show in Bogotá, Colombia. A complete list of dates can be found at paulmccartney.com.
Graham Nash recently told Rolling Stone that he didn’t think he’d ever perform with his former bandmates Stephen Stills and Neil Young again now that David Crosby is gone, and it sounds like Stills kind of agrees.
While promoting the new Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young archival live release, Live at the Fillmore East, 1969, Variety asked whether the three of them would reunite, and he suggested that he didn’t think it would be right.
“Well, would we, and should we, you know?” he said. “Because David was such an integral part … everybody was an integral part of it. I mean, Graham was just as creative vocally as David.”
“But it’s just the physiology of it. My little rasp, and Graham’s Celtic keen, as I call it, and David’s warm little undertones just made for a magic that can’t be duplicated,” he added.
Stills did suggest one reason he’d be open to a reunion, noting, “[T]he election might be an excuse. I would do that for Kamala Harris.”
“Otherwise, it’s a Pyrrhic exercise — it’s never gonna be quite the same,” he said. “So, I don’t know. I’m obviously at loose ends on what I’m gonna do next anyway, because I’m getting bored. So I’ve gotta get out there and do something.”
Envy of None, featuring Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, has dropped a new song timed to coincide with Halloween.
The band, which also features bassist Andy Curran, guitarist/keyboardist Alfio Annibalini and singer-songwriter Maiah Wynne, released the track “Not Dead Yet,” along with an animated Dia De Los Muertos aka Day of the Dead inspired video.
The song was written by Wynne, and the video description notes that she describes the tune as “a cathartic anthem, one that embodies resilience and defiance against the forces that aim to tear us down.”
“You have to continue to exist, to create, and to fight,” she says. “That’s the heart of the song: keep going and enjoy the ride.”
“Not Dead Yet” is the first new music from Envy of None since the release of their 2023 EP, That Was Then, This Is Now. They are currently in the studio, with a new album expected in spring 2025.
Stevie Nicks has been very vocal about our current political climate, releasing the new song “The Lighthouse,” which is a protest song she wrote in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned. But while she may be speaking out now, she admits she hasn’t always let her voice be heard, sharing that she has rarely voted.
In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning JoeWednesday, the 76-year-old Stevie shared her regret for not voting until she was 70.
“I suppose you probably know that I never voted until I was 70, but now I regret that,” she told Mika Brzezinski. “And I told everybody that on the stage for the last two years, I regret that, and I don’t have very many regrets.”
As for why she didn’t vote earlier, she notes, “You know, there are so many reasons. You could say, well, I didn’t have time. I was, you know, this and that. And you’re like, you know, in the long run, oh, yeah, you didn’t have an hour — you didn’t have an hour of your time that you could have gone and voted.”
Nicks urged folks to “vote, no matter what,” adding that if someone was ever going to vote, “Let it be this one.”
Stevie also urged her fellow musicians to speak out just like she has.
“I would say to all of my musical poets that write songs, so write some songs about what’s happening like I did,” she said. “I mean, there was a point where I was going like, I’m pretty terrified to put this song out. And then I thought to myself, you know what? At 76 years old, really?”
Nicks added, “So, I’m putting this song out and I’m loving putting it out because I do think people are listening to it.”
Led Zeppelin hit #1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart with their third studio album, Led Zeppelin III. The album spent four weeks in the top spot.
Led Zeppelin III was recorded in three locations, including the country house Headley Grange, where they used TheRolling Stones‘ mobile studio, and Island Studios and Olympic Studios in London.
The album featured such future Led Zeppelin classics as “Immigrant Song” and “Celebration Day.”
Led Zeppelin III would go on to be certified six-times Platinum by the RIAAA.
The Rolling Stones recently announced the upcoming release of Welcome To Shepherds Bush, a recording of a club show they headlined on June 8, 1999. Well, they just announced they’ll be celebrating the release with a world premiere in London.
The premiere is scheduled for Nov. 21 at Vue Leicester Square, giving those attending a chance to catch the concert in 4K with Dolby Atmos sound.
Welcome To Shepherds Bush captures a “secret gig” by The Stones that happened just a few days before they played two sold-out shows at Wembley Arena.
The concert was witnessed by a star-studded crowd, including such big names as The Who‘s Pete Townshend, Lenny Kravitz, Led Zeppelin‘s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant,and featured several rarely played tunes.
Welcome to Shepherd’s Bush will be released Dec. 6 on 4K Ultra High Definition with a Dolby Atmos audio option, the first time a Stones video has been released in that format.It will also be released as a Blu-ray + two-CD set; a limited-edition two-CD package; a two-LP black vinyl package; and a two-LP set in 180-gram white vinyl.
