Eagles are ready to say goodbye to their fans overseas.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers announced they will play a three night residency at Co-Op Live in Manchester, U.K., on May 31, June 1 and June 4. They’ll also play a fourth show on June 13 at Gelredome in Arnhem, Netherlands. All four dates will feature special guest Steely Dan.
Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday, January 26, at 10 a.m. local time.
The concerts are the Eagles’ first overseas dates since they announced in July this will be their final tour. The last time they were overseas was in June 2022 for a short U.K. tour.
During a concert in December, Billy Joelteased, “We’ve got a little something we’ve been working on you might hear sometime.” Now, we know what that something is.
Billy will be releasing a new pop single February 1 called “Turn the Lights Back On.” It’ll be available on both digital and limited-edition 7-inch vinyl, and a lyric video will be released. In the song, he sings, “Did I wait too long… to turn the lights back on?”
The song, which Billy co-wrote with three other people, will be his first song with lyrics — sung by Billy himself — since his 2007 single “All My Life.” In 2008, he put out a rock single he wrote called “Christmas In Fallujah,” but it was sung by Cass Dillon.
Billy’s last pop album, River of Dreams, came out more than 30 years ago.
This news comes as Billy prepares to wrap up his 10-year residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden. He also has quite a few other shows booked for 2024, either solo or with Sting or Stevie Nicks.
Fresh off the news of their new album, Happiness Bastards, TheBlack Crowes have revealed they’ll hit the road in support of the record.
The rockers announced dates for the Happiness Bastards Tour, hitting 35 cities in North America and Europe. The trek kicks off April 2 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, and will hit big cities including Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., before wrapping May 7 in Philadelphia.
They’ll then head overseas starting May 14 in Manchester, U.K., and stop in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin and more, before ending June 9 with a set at the Stone & Music Festival in Mérida, Spain.
A ticket presale kicks off Tuesday, January 23, with the general onsale set for Friday, January 26, at 10 a.m. A complete list of dates can be found theblackcrowes.com.
Happiness Bastards. dropping March 15, is The Black Crowes’ 10th studio album and their first album of new music in 15 years. It is available for preorder now.
Paul McCartney scored his sixth post-Beatles #1 album with his band Wings’ triple live release, Wings Over America. It was the first triple album by a group to top the chart.
The album featured songs recorded during Wings’ spring 1976 tour, including live performances of Beatles tunes “Yesterday,” “Lady Madonna,” “Blackbird” and “The Long and Winding Road.”
The lead single was a live recording of the McCartney solo track “Maybe I’m Amazed,” which became a top 10 hit.
Sunday, January 21, marked the 40th anniversary of Yes’ hit “Owner of a Lonely Heart” hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Trevor Rabin, the song’s main writer, always had a feeling it would be a hit.
“I had an idea that was going to be the song because it’s very hooky and got all the ingredients,” Rabin tells ABC Audio.
Believe it or not, Rabin says he actually wrote the track on the toilet because acoustically the sound was great in the bathroom.
He notes, “When I wrote that riff, I thought, ‘Ohhh.’ I stopped and I actually pondered it and I thought, ‘This is either something really kind of cool or it might be just absolutely nothing.’”
Well, it certainly didn’t turn out to be nothing. The song, which appeared on Yes’ 11th studio album, 90125, was the only Yes single to top the charts, spending two weeks in the top spot. And the album turned out to be Yes’ bestselling release, selling over 3 million copies in the U.S.
But not everyone immediately thought “Owner of a Lonely Heart” would be a hit. Rabin says that after he wrote it he sent the song out to a bunch of people, including famed music executive Clive Davis, who told him the song wasn’t commercial enough.
But Rabin showed him, noting, “I sent him the Billboard clipping of it [at] #1.”
Jon Bon Jovi is set to appear at February’s Pollstar Live! conference, HitsDailyDouble reports.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has joined the conference’s February 7 panel called How To See a Million Faces and Rock Them All, a reference to the Bon Jovi hit “Wanted Dead or Alive.”
The band’s 40th anniversary will also be marked during the conference, with the rocker honored with Pollstar Live!’s Milestone Award.
The conference is set to take place February 6-8 in Los Angeles.
Jon’s appearance at Pollstar Live! will take place just a few days after he receives another prestigious honor. As part of Grammy week he’ll receive the MusiCares 2024 Person of the Year award at a gala held Friday, February 2, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Duran Duran is set to return to The Guild Theatre in Menlo Park, California, on Tuesday, February 6, for a concert that will raise money for Hamilton Families, a San Francisco-based nonprofit whose mission is to end family homelessness in the city.
The Guild Theatre is the same venue Duran Duran played back in August for their benefit concert to raise money for the U.K.-based cancer charity The Cancer Awareness Trust, where their former guitarist Andy Taylor was receiving treatment for stage 4 prostate cancer.
Presale tickets for the new show go on sale Monday, January 22, with the general sale set for Wednesday, January 24, at noon PT. More information on tickets can be found at guildtheatre.com.
The Alarm is returning to the U.S. for a new North American tour, and they’re bringing along two other acts from the MTV era.
Joining The Alarm on the Live Today Love Tomorrow Tour MMXIV will be The Blow Monkeys, best known for their top 20 hit “Digging Your Scene,” and Belouis Some, best known for songs like “Some People” and “Round and Round,” the latter of which was featured on the soundtrack to ’80s classic Pretty in Pink.
“This tour will be a chance for a generation of fans – both old and new – to step back into the future and celebrate a time that defined millions of people’s life soundtracks when the era of Music Television ruled the earth,” The Alarm’s Mike Peters shares. “All our bands made an initial impact through the medium of music, but it was driven deeper into the hearts and imaginations of people all over North America via Music Television.” He noted it “paved the way for a new generation of artists and fans of which had never been witnessed before.”
The tour kicks off May 1 in New Orleans, hitting Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York and more, with dates confirmed through May 29 in Boston.
A ticket presale will kick off Wednesday, January 24, with the general sale happening Friday, January 26.
Bob Dylan was one of the many A-list stars who took part in the 1985 charity single “We Are the World,” but according to Lionel Richie, who co-wrote the song, he didn’t have an easy time nailing down his contribution.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote The Greatest Night In Pop, a documentary about the making of the song, Richie reveals Dylan “was having a nervous breakdown” while recording his part.
“He’s trying to sing it. And we said, ‘No, we don’t want you to sing it, just do it like Bob Dylan,’” Lionel shares. “If you’re thrown in a room with a bunch of singers, you have a tendency to get psyched out, that you want to sound like them.”
With each artists getting only a small portion to sing, Lionel explains, “We had to make sure that whoever was singing, your voice was identifiable right away.”
“Now, Bob Dylan has an identifiable voice instantly. But he was trying to sing it another way,” he says. “We kept saying, ‘No, just sing it like Bob Dylan.’ But did you see that look on his face? He was like, well, what does that sound like?”
“We Are The World” features huge stars like Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and more, but one person who didn’t show up for the recording session was Prince.
“I was hoping he was going to come by,” Lionel says. “But there’s a point when that tape starts rolling, that’s it.”
In the end, Huey Lewis wound up taking Prince’s part.
“Poor Huey, even to this day, he still hasn’t recovered. He did a great job,” Lionel laughs.
The Greatest Night in Pop premieres January 19 at the Sundance Film Festival; it hits Netflix on January 29.
Sting, ZZ Top and Devo are among the acts booked for the 2024 BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach, California.
Sting is set to headline the festival’s opening night on Friday, May 3, with Devo on the bill for Saturday, May 4, and ZZ Top playing on the final night, Sunday, May 5.
Joining Sting as headliners are Incubus and My Morning Jacket, with Seal, Trey Anastasio, Sugar Ray, Fleet Foxes and more also on the bill.
