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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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Def Leppard performed their new song “Rejoice” live for the first time during the opening night of their Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, and now they’re giving fans a look at what it took to get it to the stage.

The band has released a behind-the-scenes look at their rehearsals of the residency, particularly their work on “Rejoice.” Phil Collen says of the track, “It’s fun, it’s a rock song.”

He says that frontman Joe Elliott came to him and said he had lyrics about “finding yourself and coming to terms with yourself and actually enjoying who you are, kind of happy and rejoice and triumphant and all that stuff,” and asked him if he had any kind of mid-tempo music to go with it. Collen says he actually had “this thing sitting around for ages,” which they were able to turn into the song.

The video was shot during early rehearsals for the residency, and Vivian Campbell says getting the song right wasn’t necessarily easy.

“Like anything new, it’s a bit of a challenge, some songs more than others,” he says. He notes that with “Rejoice” the issue was getting the vocals and the guitar riffs to sound right together, calling the vocals “pretty relentless.”

Campbell adds that while it was only day three of rehearsals, “I think we’ve got it. It’s starting to come together.”

Def Leppard: Live at Caesars Palace The Las Vegas Residency runs through Feb. 28, with their next show on Saturday. A complete list of dates can be found at DefLeppard.com.

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Reggae legend Bob Marley would have turned 81 on Friday, and in celebration of his father, Grammy-winning singer Ziggy Marley has dropped the new song “Many Mourn For Bob.” 

The track is the first song Ziggy has ever written specifically dedicated to his father, who passed away in 1986 at age 45, when Ziggy was 12. An accompanying video features photos of Bob from Ziggy’s childhood.

According to a press release, Ziggy was inspired to write the song while producing the 2024 Marley biopic Marley: One Love.

“‘Many Mourn For Bob’ is a reflection on my father from the deepest parts of my heart and subconscious mind born from rediscovering him with new eyes,” says Ziggy.

“Many Mourn For Bob” is now available via digital outlets.

The song will appear on Ziggy’s upcoming ninth studio album, Brightside, which is being released April 18 for Record Store Day and digitally on May 1.

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The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine has announced a very special show in Los Angeles to coincide with the upcoming release of the new Beach Boys box set, We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, backed by the Pet Sounds Band aka Brian Wilson’s longtime backing band, will headline the United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles on Feb. 27. They’ll perform the 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You in its entirety for the very first time.

According to the announcement, the show will feature “other surprises” from the upcoming box set.

Tickets for the show are on sale now.

We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years, dropping Feb. 13, is a three-CD, three-LP box set highlighting Beach Boys music recorded between 1976 and 1977.

It includes a newly remastered version of The Beach Boys Love You and a whole host of bonus material, including the shelved album Adult/Child, which was recorded in 1977, and previously only available through collector’s tapes and bootlegs.

We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years is available for preorder now.

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John Mellencamp is set to appear on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday.

The night’s other guests include former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

This isn’t the first time Mellencamp has chatted with Maher. In August 2023, the rocker was a guest on Maher’s Club Random podcast.

In other Mellencamp news, his daughter — reality TV star Teddi Mellencamp — was voted off Fox’s The Masked Singer on Wednesday following a tribute performance that honored her rock star father.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, who competed as Calla Lily, performed her dad’s #1 hit “Jack and Diane.” She later shared a clip on her Instagram Story of her watching the show with Mellencamp.

“Dad you excited?” she asks her dad, to which he replies, “yeah … I flew all the way here for it.” In another video, Teddi gets him to sing a line from the song.

John Mellencamp recently announced dates for Dancing Words Tour — The Greatest Hits, which kicks off July 10 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and wraps Aug. 12 in Mountain View, California.

He’s promised fans he’ll play a set filled with hits including “Jack and Diane,” “Hurts So Good,” “Small Town” and “Pink Houses,” along with breakout tracks he hasn’t performed live in nearly a decade, including “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. (A Salute To 60’s Rock),” “I Need a Lover,” “Wild Night” and “Ain’t Even Done With the Night.”

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

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R.E.M. fans will once again be able to get their hands on the band’s 2018 live album box set R.E.M. at the BBC.

The band announced on Instagram that the box set is “Back by demand” and will be available again starting March 6.

The eight-CD/one-DVD set features rare live and in-studio recordings taken from the BBC archives, with all the performances recorded between 1984 and 2008.

The compilation includes a 60-minute Later … with Jools Holland performance, plus performances from Radio 1’s Live Lounge and John Peel Studio Sessions. There are also recordings of several live U.K. broadcasts, including R.E.M.’s 1999 set at the Glastonbury Festival, a 2004 show at St. James’s Church in London and a 1995 broadcast from Milton Keynes.

The set features performances of such R.E.M. classics as “Losing My Religion,” “Man on the Moon,” “Radio Free Europe,” “Drive,” “Everybody Hurts” and “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”

The set also includes a DVD with the short film Accelerating Backwards and the Later … with Jools Holland performance, plus three bonus videos: “I’ve Been High,” “Nightswimming” and “Bad Day.”

R.E.M. at the BBC is available for preorder now.

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LaMonte McLemore, one of the founding members of the popular ’60s/’70s soul and R&B group The 5th Dimension, died Tuesday at the age of 90.

According to McLemore’s representative, he passed away at his Las Vegas home from “natural causes following a stroke suffered several years ago.”

The 5th Dimension, whose original members also included Marilyn McCoo and husband Billy Davis Jr., Florence LaRue and Ronald Townson, scored 20 top-40 hits between 1967 and 1973. Those include the #1 track “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” a medley of songs from the musical Hair, which also won the Grammy for record of the year.

Other hits included “Up, Up and Away,” a cover of “One Less Bell To Answer,” “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “Wedding Bell Blues” and “Never My Love.”

“Up, Up and Away” and “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003 and 2004, respectively.

Remembering McLemore, McCoo and Davis said in a statement, “All of us who knew and loved him will definitely miss his energy and wonderful sense of humor.” Davis added, “[H]e will certainly be missed.”

“We were more like brother and sister than singing partners,” LaRue added. “I didn’t realize the depth of my love for Lamonte until he was no longer here. His absence has shown me the magnitude of what he meant to me and that love will stay in my heart forever.”

In addition to music, McLemore was a well-known photographer in areas of entertainment, sports and editorial portraiture, with his photos featured in Jet magazine.

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Bruce Hornsby has shared details about his upcoming album, Indigo Park, which will be released April 3.

The album will be made up of 10 songs, with Hornsby backed by his band The Noisemakers, along with guitarist Blake Mills, bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Chris Dave. The record will feature guest appearances by the late Bob Weir, Bonnie Raitt and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. It also contains two songs co-written by the late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.

According to a press release, with Indigo Park, Hornsby is looking back on “formative moments from his past, sometimes trying to resolve them, and other times looking for clues about his current-day outlook.”

“It’s just an old bastard, looking back,” says Hornsby. “To be honest, I’ve found a way, a path to grow old gracefully, with help from some newborn friends of mine.”

As a preview, Hornsby has released the album’s title track to digital outlets.

Hornsby and The Noisemakers are set to hit the road in support of Indigo Park. The tour kicks off April 9 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and wraps July 25 in Patchogue, New York. A complete list of dates can be found at BruceHornsby.com.

Here is the track list for Indigo Park:
“Indigo Park”
“Memory Palace” (feat. Ezra Koenig)
“Entropy Here (Rust In Peace)”
“Silhouette Shadows”
“Ecstatic” (feat. Bonnie Raitt)
“Alabama”
“North Dakota Slate Roof”
“Sliver of Time”
“Might As Well Be Me, Florinda” (with Bob Weir & feat. Blake Mills)
“Take a Light Strain”

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Record Store Day has unveiled its list of exclusive releases for its 2026 celebration, taking place in independent record stores on April 18.

Among this year’s releases:

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band‘s triumphant 2024 return to Asbury Park, New Jersey, at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival will be released as Live From Asbury Park 2024, a five-LP or three-CD set, featuring more than three hours of music.

Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts have contributed The Live Album, a double album on clear vinyl, that comes with a lyric poster.

Joni Mitchell’s 1972 album For The Roses is being released with the original artwork Joni had submitted for the record. It was vetoed by music exec David Geffen because he didn’t like the images of roses coming out of a horse’s behind.

Def Leppard’s sixth studio album, 1996’s Slang, will be released on two-LP pink vinyl, featuring B-sides and rarities personally curated by frontman Joe Elliott. 

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers have contributed July 16, 1978 – Paradise Theater, Boston, MA, a previously bootlegged concert, getting its first official release on pink and green translucent splatter color vinyl.

The Who is releasing the 1966 album A Quick One on two-LP colored vinyl. It will include the original album along with an LP of B-sides, alternate versions and instrumentals.

Robert Plant and his band Saving Grace have recorded a new four-song EP, Saving Grace: All that Glitters with Suzi Dian.

RSD 2026 will also feature releases from David Bowie, The Cars, Jerry Garcia, Bryan Adams, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Brian Wilson, Stewart Copeland, Foreigner, Peter Gabriel, Grateful Dead, Rod Stewart, John Lennon, George Harrison and Steely Dan.

For the full list of releases and all participating stores, visit RecordStoreDay.com.

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Def Leppard launched their Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Tuesday, treating the crowd to some live debuts and songs they haven’t played in a while.

“WOW! THAT is how you kick off a Residency,” the band wrote on Instagram, alongside photos from the show. “Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate night 1 with us. The energy was palpable.” They added, “Let’s do it again, shall we?!”

According to setlist.fm, the band kicked off the show with the first-ever live performance of their new single “Rejoice.” The set also featured their 2024 single “Just Like 73.”

They also debuted a live performance of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus,” a song they recorded in 2018, along with a cover of the David Essex‘s “Rock On,” which Def Leppard hadn’t performed live since 2019.

The band dipped back into its catalog as well, playing the Adrenalize track “White Lightning” for the first time since 1993.

Of course, the show was packed with classic Def Leppard hits, including “Animal,” “Bringin’ On The Heartbreak,” “Armageddon It,” “Love Bites,” “Rock of Ages,” “Photograph,” “Hysteria,” and the show-closing “Pour Some Sugar on Me.”

Def Leppard: Live at Caesars Palace The Las Vegas Residency runs through Feb. 28, with their next show taking place on Saturday. A complete list of dates can be found at DefLeppard.com.

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