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Yusuf/Cat Stevens is ready to share his story.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer announced he will release his memoir, Cat On The Road To Findout, on Oct. 7.

According to the description, the book “is an extraordinary soul-baring journey through the triumphs, trials, and transcendental quest of one of music’s most enigmatic figures of our time,” adding it’s “a backstage pass to the mind of a man who has lived a thousand lives.”

The book will recount Stevens’ rise to fame thanks to songs like “Wild World,” “Father and Son,” “Peace Train” and “Morning Is Broken” and the release of albums like Mona Bone Jakon, Tea for the Tillerman, and Teaser and the Firecat. It will also cover his conversion to Islam, his humanitarian work and his later return to music.

In addition to his story, the book will include dozens of Stevens’ drawings, as well as archival imagery.

Cat On The Road to Findout is available for preorder now. Stevens is also planning to go on a book tour, although details have not been announced.

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Janet Jackson will be honored with the ICON award at this year’s American Music Awards, which will air live from Las Vegas on May 26 and stream on Paramount+.

The ICON award is given to artists “whose music has had undeniable cultural and global influence over the music industry.” Miss Jackson will also perform on the show, marking her first TV performance since 2018. 

Janet’s list of accomplishments include five Grammys, two Emmys, a Golden Globe, an Oscar nomination and dozens of American Music Awards, MTV VMAs and Billboard Music Awards.  In fact, she also received the ICON honor from the Billboard Music Awards in 2018.

The star will begin another run of shows as part of her Janet Jackson: Las Vegas residency at Resorts World starting May 21; she’ll do six shows through May 31.

The AMAs, hosted by Jennifer Lopez, will air on CBS at 8 p.m. ET and stream on Paramount+, live from the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Kendrick Lamar is the top nominee at this year’s show, followed by Post Malone, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Shaboozey.

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The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is producing a new film about jazz legend Miles Davis, and the cast has just been announced.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Damson Idris, best known for starring in John Singleton’s Netflix drama Snowfall, has been cast to play Davis. French actress Anamaria Vartolomei, who recently appeared in the film Mickey 17, will play French singer/actress Juliette Gréco.

The film follows a 22-year-old Davis on a trip to Paris in 1949, where he falls for Gréco. Per the description, “what begins as an intimate affair blossoms into a profound connection between two young artists — just before they became cultural legends.”

Jagger has been producing films since he started his company Jagged Films in 1991. He also co-produced the 2014 James Brown biopic Get On Up.

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The 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead will be celebrated with three Dead & Company concerts at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced on social media.

“We have some really big news. Dead & Co., three shows, August 1, 2 and 3, right here in the city that is the home of the Grateful Dead,” Lurie shared on social platform X. “What better way to celebrate? We’ll see you out here in August.”

The post promised “more details coming soon.”

San Francisco and the Grateful Dead have been synonymous with each other since the beginning. The jam band was founded in the City By the Bay in 1965 by Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann, with drummer Mickey Hart and lyricist Robert Hunter joining the group in 1967.

Dead & Company — Weir, Hart, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane — also have a tie to the city. They wrapped their Final Tour with three nights at San Francisco’s Oracle Park in 2023. They returned to live performing with their Dead Forever residency at the Sphere Las Vegas in 2024 and currently have three more shows of their 2025 Sphere stand, happening May 15, 16 and 17.

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Lionel Richie is going on tour, but not to play music.

The R&B star has announced on social media that he’ll be going on a book tour to promote his upcoming memoir, Truly, which will be released Sept. 30.

“My highly anticipated memoir is here this fall, and I can’t wait to celebrate it with you all!” he shared. “Catch me on book tour for a one-of-a-kind event, where I’ll be talking about my no-holds-barred memoir.”

Lionel adds that the tour will feature him “in conversation with surprise guests,” noting, “I’ll share my intimate, deep, and candid moments.”

Lionel Richie An Evening With Friends consists of four dates: Sept. 29 in New York, Oct. 1 in Austin, Oct. 2 in Las Vegas and Oct. 6 in Los Angeles. Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time and include a copy of the book.

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John Mellencamp is teasing fans with a new album coming next year.

The rocker shared a clip on Instagram of him reading lyrics to a song called “Eternity,” noting it would be featured on his “upcoming 2026 album ‘Orphan Train.'”

“There will surely come a time when every crime and every sign of corruption will be washed away and we will join in and share the enlightenment we find there from now until eternity,” John says in the clip. “Our time will slip away and the years and the days like the sun will shine a ray of a little bit of brightness on our face from now until eternity.”

“Eternity, eternity just waiting now for you and for me,” he adds.

Mellencamp didn’t give an exact date for the release of Orphan Train. It will be his first album since 2023’s Orpheus Descending, which was his 25th studio album.

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In November, Madonna asked fans via Instagram if they thought her life story should be a feature film or a TV series. In the comments, many fans voted for her story to be told in a series — and now it appears as though that’s what’s going to happen.

Variety confirms that Netflix is developing a limited series about the Queen of Pop’s life and career. Madonna is working with Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy on the project. No word on who will portray Madonna in the series.

The series is said to “unrelated” the biopic that Madonna spent years developing, which was put on hold in early 2023. That project would have starred Julia Garner as the pop icon. However, in July 2024 Madonna shared photos of herself working on a screenplay called Who’s That Girl?, leading to speculation that the project was back on.

In November, Madonna noted of her life story, “I did not have a normal life. I cannot make this in the normal way.”

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Foreigner is set to play the season 27 finale of NBC’s The Voice, airing May 20 at 9 p.m. ET.

The band is expected to play a medley of their greatest hits, including “Feels Like The First Time,” “Juke Box Hero” and “I Want To Know What Love Is.”

It was recently announced that a new musical, Feels Like The First Time – The Foreigner Musical, directed by Rent’s Adam Pascal, will have its world premiere at Long Island University’s Little Theatre in April 2026. The show, featuring the band’s greatest hits, is set to have workshops and staged readings this fall.

Foreigner recently completed a tour of South America, for which they were joined by original frontman Lou Gramm. They are set to kick off a U.S. tour on June 11 in Highland, California. A complete list of dates can be found at Foreigneronline.com.

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On This Day, May 12, 2017…

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their #1 album The Joshua Tree, U2 kicked off a world tour in Vancouver, Canada.

The tour had the band playing the 1987 album in order in its entirety, which included the live debut of the track “Red Hill Mining Town.”

The tour hit North America, Europe and South America, and then U2 came back in 2019 to bring the tour to Oceana and Asia.

The 2017 leg grossed $317 million and was the highest grossing tour globally, selling more than 2.71 million tickets from 51 shows.

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Bruce Springsteen is revisiting his 1999 reunion tour with the E Street Band for the latest release in his Live Archives series.

The New Jersey rocker just released a live recording of his Oct. 28, 1999, concert at Oakland Arena, which was the final show of a three-night stand in Oakland, California.

The 24-song set opens with the Darkness on the Edge of Town track “Adam Raised a Cain,” and features performances of “Prove it All Night,” “Atlantic City,” “The Promised Land,” “Out in the Streets,” and “Land of Hope and Dreams” as well as a stripped down version of the title track to Springsteen’s solo album The Ghost of Tom Joad, and another song from the same album, “Sinaloa Cowboys,” which was the only full band performance of that song ever.

The set also features an appearance by Southside Johnny on “Hungry Heart,” as well as such Springsteen staples as “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out,” “Backstreets,” “Thunder Road” and “Born to Run,” with the night ending with his Greetings From Asbury Park N.J. track “Blinded by the Light.”

The show is now available to stream or purchase at nugs.net.

Springsteen and The E Street Band are getting ready to launch a new tour. They’ll kick off the Land of Hope and Dreams tour of Europe and the U.K. on May 14 and 17 in Manchester, England.

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