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The Eagles have several shows booked for 2026, but time may be running out to see them live. During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Don Henley indicated that this year will be the last for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group.

“You know, I think this year will probably be it,” he said. “And I’ve said things like that before, but I feel like we’re getting toward the end. And that will be fine too.”

When asked again if 2026 was truly the end of the Eagles, he replied, “I think so, yeah. And I’m OK with that.”

And while Henley said he often has to psych himself up to play the same songs he’s played for 50 years every night, he noted there’s a good reason he does it.

“You know it’s not about us, it’s about what (the songs) mean to the people we’re playing them for and therefore you have to play them every night with your heart in it, and you do it because of those people out there,” he said. “What makes us happy is that we make other people happy. We say that music is medicine and people need some medicine right now.”

Eagles return to the Sphere Las Vegas on Feb. 20, with shows booked through March 28. They will also play New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 2. A complete list of dates can be found at Eagles.com.

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In addition to introducing the New England Patriots at the Super Bowl on Sunday night, Jon Bon Jovi made a cameo in a State Farm insurance commercial, which featured Bon Jovi‘s “Livin’ on a Prayer.” Jon says he decided to appear in the ad because it brought him “joy.”

Speaking to Billboard, Jon says he feels that State Farm ads are “a part of American pop culture right now,” adding, “They’re fun, they’re funny, they’re whimsical. And when they came to me with it, I saw the script and I found joy in it. I just smiled — as simple as that. I couldn’t say no to that.”

In the ad, Danny McBride and Keegan-Michael Key play two guys who start a company called Halfway There Insurance, whose coverage is vastly inferior to State Farms, as co-star Hailee Steinfeld learns over the course of the spot. At the end, Jon and Jake from State Farm pull up in a car next to Hailee. Jon asks, “Need a lift?” and they drive off.

Jon also tells Billboard about Bon Jovi’s upcoming tour — their first since 2022 and their first since he underwent treatment for vocal cord issues.  He says the shows will feature “all the obvious hits, in all the right keys we’ve always performed them.”

“I can honestly say there’s nothing in the catalog of the 18 albums that I couldn’t sing … . It’s locked again,” he says of his improved vocal prowess.

For now, there are only 15 dates, and he insists there will “absolutely not” be any additional shows added this year. However, he reveals, “In ’27, based in joy and gratitude and humility, we’ll go out [again].”

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On This Day, Feb. 9, 1964…

The Beatles made their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, which was their first time performing in front of an American audience.

The band hit the stage with the songs “All My Loving,” “Till There Was You” and “She Loves You” and later returned to perform “I Saw Her Standing There” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

The performance was seen by a then-record 73 million viewers, helping Sullivan top the nightly ratings for the first time in seven years.

The show is considered one of the seminal moments in pop culture and launched Beatlemania in America.

In 2014, exactly 50 years later, CBS celebrated the iconic appearance with The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles. The show featured performances by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with other artists who covered Beatles tunes.

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Paul Simon, Elvis Costello and ZZ Top’s Billy F Gibbons are among the artists set to perform at the 10th annual Love Rocks NYC concert, taking place March 5 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

Other artists on the bill include Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes, Goo Goo Dolls, Hozier, Linda Perry, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Jon Batiste, Susanna Hoffs, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Trombone Shorty, plus special surprise guests.

All artists will be backed by a house band, led by bassist Will Lee, best known as a member of the Late Show with David Letterman band.

A ticket presale kicks off Wednesday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m.

Love Rocks NYC is a benefit for the nonprofit God’s Love We Deliver, which delivers meals to people who are too sick to prepare them themselves.

The Love Rocks concerts, which first launched in 2017, have raised $65 million — enough to fund 6.5 million meals for New Yorkers in need.

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A new set of limited-edition prints celebrating The Beatles will be released in March.

The two prints feature imagery from artist Em Cooper’s 2022 oil-painted music video for The Beatles’ 1966 song “I’m Only Sleeping,” which was created using more than 1,300 of Cooper’s hand-painted oil paintings.

The prints include “Early in the Morning,” which depicts John Lennon’s morning routine as seen at the start of the video, and “In The Middle of a Dream,” which features images of all four members of the band.

The limited-edition prints will be available through Avant Arte starting March 4 at 9 a.m. E, but only for 48 hours. More info can be found at avantarte.com.

Released in November of 2022, Cooper’s video for “I’m Only Sleeping” won a Grammy for best music video. It was released in conjunction with the 2022 reissue of The Beatles’  seventh studio album, Revolver.

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Bryan Adams has been stripping down his songs for fans.

The “Run To You” rocker recently launched a new acoustic series on YouTube, treating fans to performances featuring just him and his guitar. The latest release is a performance of the song “Hey Baby,” from his most recent album, Roll With the Punches.

Adams launched the Acoustic Fridays series on Jan. 30, kicking things off with a stripped-down version of another Roll With the Punches track “Love is Stronger Than Hate.” All performances were filmed at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, Canada.

Released in August 2025, Roll With the Punches was Adams’ 16th studio album and his first album since 2022’s So Happy It Hurts.

Adams is currently on tour, playing Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday. He also has dates booked in Singapore, Egypt, Puerto Rico, Mexico and more. A complete list of dates can be found at BryanAdams.com.

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Mariah Carey gave una performance fantastico during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy on Friday.

Wearing a sparkly white and silver dress and matching floor-length feather boa, Mariah stood onstage in the middle of San Siro Olympic Stadium in Milan, Italy, and sang the beloved Italian song “Volare.” The song, recorded by Domenico Modugno, topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958.

It marked the first time she’s sung in Italian, which is likely why she appeared to be focusing on a teleprompter.

At the end of that track, she broke into one of her patented “whistle tones,” before segueing into her song “Nothing Is Impossible” from her 2025 album, Here For It All.

The Winter Olympic Games will stream on NBC and Peacock.

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Elton John testified via video in a U.K. court on Friday about a British newspaper’s “abhorrent” “invasion” of his and his family’s privacy.

Elton and his husband, David Furnish, are among several notable people, including Prince Harry and Elizabeth Hurley, who are suing The Daily Mail for writing articles about them based on “unlawful information gathering.” The newspaper’s publisher has denied any wrongdoing.

Specifically, Elton and David have identified 10 articles written about them between 2000 and 2015 that feature information they claim was obtained by tapping their phones, hiring private investigators and illegally obtaining medical records.

Elton wrote in his witness statement, “From a personal level, I have found The Mail’s deliberate invasion into my medical health and medical details surrounding the birth of our son Zachary abhorrent and outside even the most basic standards of human decency.”

Elton went on to write, “David and I have now seen documents proving that The Mail were digging into me during times when I was in hospital and because I was in hospital. We have also seen documents proving their intense digging into and around the birth of our first son Zachary.”

“We do not believe there could be any legitimate ways that they discovered details about our egg donor, embryos and questions of paternity. Those were among the most confidential matters in our lives at the time,” he added in the statement.

Elton wrote, “It has been truly sickening for David and me to see the disclosure in our case, with Zachary as a target when he was just born, with David and me as targets, with me as a target when I was sick and unwell.”

According to the U.K. paper The Independent, the trial is due to conclude in March.

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James Taylor was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night, where the host got him to reveal his five favorite songs from his catalog.

The list included Taylor classics like “Sweet Baby James,” the title track from his 1970 sophomore album, and “Carolina in My Mind,” from his 1968 self-titled debut. He also chose three songs because they were liked by other rock stars.

He said that Paul McCartney told him the song “Mean Old Man” was the reason he bought Taylor’s 2002 album, October Road, so Taylor put that in the top five. He also included “Millworker,” from the 1979 album Flag, which was a track that Bruce Springsteen liked and performed. Rounding out the list was “The Frozen Man,” from 1991’s New Moon Shine, because Bob Dylan told him he liked the track.

Colbert also asked Taylor why there hasn’t been a biopic on his life yet, to which he responded, “It’s because God is merciful.”

He noted that he did an Audible memoir, which only covered his life to age 21, joking, “Nobody could really check it because there’s no proving or disproving any of it and most of the people involved are dead or don’t care anymore.”

Taylor added, “Once I get past 1970, basically, I start running into trouble … those people are still walking around.”

Taylor also performed on the show. Joined by his son Henry Taylor, he performed “You Can Close Your Eyes” from his 1971 album, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. They also offered up a bonus performance of “Line ‘Em Up” from the 1997 album Hourglass.

James Taylor is set to hit the road starting April 26 in Highland, California. A complete list of dates can be found at JamesTaylor.com.

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A documentary about Paul McCartney will naturally have plenty of music, and now it’s been announced that his upcoming film, Man on the Run, will have an accompanying soundtrack.

Man on the Run – Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack will feature classics from the Paul McCartney and Wings catalog, including “Silly Love Songs,” “Band on the Run” and “Coming Up.”

The soundtrack will also include bonus material, such as three previously unreleased tracks: a rough mix of “Arrow Through Me” from sessions for the 1979 album Back to the Egg; a live version of “Live and Let Die” from the 1980 concert film Rockshow; and  “Gotta Sing Gotta Dance” from the 1973 TV program The James Paul McCartney TV Special.

Man on the Run – Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack will be released Feb. 27, the same day the documentary premieres on Prime Video. It will be released on a variety of formats, including CD, black vinyl and digitally, which are available for preorder now. The soundtrack will also be released on limited-edition New York taxi yellow vinyl via Jack White‘s Third Man Pressing plant and limited-edition tangerine peel orange vinyl through Amazon.

Directed by Morgan Neville, Man on the Run chronicles McCartney’s life after the breakup of The Beatles, including the formation of his band Wings. The film will premiere in theaters for one day only on Feb. 19.  Tickets are on sale now.

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