Classic Hits

Eric Clapton has shared a new track with fans. The singer just released “How Could We Know” featuring Judith Hill, longtime collaborator Simon Climie and Daniel Santiago. 

The song is part of the just-released double A-side, 7-inch vinyl featuring “Moon River,” Clapton’s previously released collaboration with the late Jeff Beck.

Climie, who is a co-songwriter on the track, notes, “I couldn’t dream of a more incredible line up for ‘How Could We Know.’”

Clapton is set to return to the U.S. for a new tour kicking off September 8 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He’ll also headline his two-day Crossroads Guitar Festival on September 23 and 24 in Los Angeles, with a lineup that includes ZZ Top, Robbie Robertson, Santana, Stephen Stills, Gary Clark, Jr., John Mayer Trio and more. A full list of Eric Clapton tour dates can be found at ericlapton.com.

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Back in May, Dead & Company commemorated the 46th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s iconic concert at Cornell’s Barton Hall with their own show at the venue. It turns out, that concert raised a lot of money for charity. 

The band has revealed they raised $3.1 million for the organizations MusiCares and the Cornell 2030 Project.

MusiCares helps folks in the music industry get important health and welfare services they need, while the Cornell 2030 Project works to develop climate change solutions. Both groups will receive almost $1.5 million from the band. 

“The historic performance was a highlight, and our deepest gratitude goes out to the 5,000 attendees and everyone near and far who supported the event,” the band shared. “Thank you!”

The original Barton Hall show took place May 8, 1977, and became a legendary band bootleg before officially being released in May 2017. In 2012, a soundboard recording of the show was chosen by the Library of Congress for the National Recording Registry.

Dead & Company is just about to wrap up what they are billing as their Final Tour. The final three shows at San Francisco’s Oracle Park kick off Friday, July 14, and wrap on Sunday, July 16.

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After decades of rock stardom, Bryan Adams probably isn’t fazed by anything that happens onstage — including a guy attempting to take over lead vocals on his signature hit.

On his Instagram, Bryan shared footage of a recent concert where he starts to sing “Summer of ’69.” After the first line — “I got my first real six-string” — a guy runs onstage, grabs the mic and starts singing the next two lines: “Bought it at the five and dime/ played it ’til my fingers bled.” 

Bryan just stands there as the audience continues to sing along — until a bunch of security guys wrestle the dude offstage. At that moment, he steps back to the mic and, with perfect timing, continues with the next line: “It was the Summer of ’69.”

“Sometimes you just gotta laugh,” Bryan captioned the video, adding #stagecrasher.”

A fan wrote in the comments, “I was there! What a crazy moment! Ya gotta admire Bryan’s professionalism. He just stepped back, let the crazy be crazy, let the professionals do their job, and continued like NOTHING had happened.”

However, several fans in the comments noted the stage crasher’s voice wasn’t bad, and some even thought Bryan should’ve let the guy finish.

Another fan added, “I like that it was a guy fan! Usually drunk girls run onstage and want to hug the artist. This dude just wants to be Bryan for a moment!”

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Peter Frampton has captured one of his iconic live shows for a brand new live album. The guitar great will drop Peter Frampton At Royal Albert Hall on September 1.

The album was recorded during Frampton’s sold-out concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall in November 2022. It features Frampton and his band, made up of Rob Arthur, Adam Lester, Dan Wojciechowski and Steve Mackey, performing nine tunes, including classics like “Show Me The Way,” “Baby I Love Your Way” and more.  

Peter Frampton At Royal Albert Hall will be released on CD and digitally; it’s available for preorder now.

If fans want to hear Frampton talk about music, he’ll be appearing on the new PBS series WITH on Saturday, July 15, talking about his art with his friend Trey Bruce.

Frampton is currently on the second leg of his Never Say Never Tour, which hits Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, July 15. A complete list of dates can be found at frampton.com.

Here is the track list for Peter Frampton At Royal Albert Hall:

“Something’s Happening”
“Lying”
“Lines On My Face”
“Show Me The Way”
“Georgia On My Mind”
“All I Wanna Be (Is By Your Side)”
“(I’ll Give You) Money”
“Baby, I Love Your Way”
“Do You Feel Like We Do?”

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Steve Hackett is giving fans at home a taste of his live show with the new live audio/visual album Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights: Live in Brighton, dropping September 15.

The album was recorded in Brighton, U.K, on Hackett’s 2022 tour, in which he and his band Genesis performed their classic album Foxtrot in its entirety to celebrate the record’s 50th anniversary. A performance of the track “Watcher in the Skies” is out now.

Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights: Live in Brighton will be released as a limited two-CD/Blu-ray set and a limited two-CD/two-DVD set, both featuring behind-the-scenes interviews. There will also be a limited Deluxe four-LP vinyl edition. All formats are available for preorder now.

Hackett will bring his Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour to North America this fall, with U.S. dates kicking off October 6 in Ithaca, New York. A complete list of dates can be found at hackettsongs.com.

Here is the track list for Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights: Live in Brighton:

“Intro/Ace of Wands”
“The Devil’s Cathedral”
“Spectral Mornings”
“Every Day”
“A Tower Struck Down”
“Basic Instincts”
“Camino Royale”
“Shadow of the Hierophant”
“Watcher of the Skies”
“Time Table”
“Get ‘Em Out by Friday”
“Can Utility and the Coastliners”
“Horizons”
“Supper’s Ready”
“Firth of Fifth”
“Los Endos”

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Paul McCartney’s photo exhibit is coming to America.

Currently on display at London’s National Portrait Gallery until October, the exhibit titled Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm will move to the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, starting December 5 and running until April 7, 2024.

“What struck me about these images, beyond their obvious historical value, was McCartney’s sensitivity to his subjects,” said Erik Neil, Macon and Joan Brock director of the Chrysler Museum of Art. “The empathy that is at the center of his music is equally evident in his photographs.”

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm features more than 250 photos taken by McCartney. They are all from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s own archive and were taken between November 1963 and February 1964, giving fans an insight into his point of view as The Beatles were becoming international superstars.

More info can be found at chrysler.org.

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Elton John‘s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour was the first tour in history to gross first $800 million, and then $900 million. Now, Billboard is revealing the final numbers when it comes to just how much the tour took in since it ended on July 8.

According to Billboard’s Boxscore chart, Elton’s tour grossed $989.1 million and sold six million tickets over 330 shows: 183 in North America, 101 in Europe and 46 in Australia and Asia. Of those, Elton’s North American shows brought in the most money: 61% of the total gross.

Elton has also cemented his lead as the highest-grossing solo artist in the history of the Billboard Boxscore chart, which has been reporting on tours for nearly four decades. In his career, he’s grossed nearly two billion dollars and sold almost 21 million tickets. It’s unlikely anyone will come close to matching that record in the near future.

As previously reported, Taylor Swift is likely to break Elton’s record of the highest-grossing tour of all time, but that likely won’t happen until 2024 after her Eras Tour plays a series of overseas dates.

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Queen is back with episode 35 of their weekly YouTube series Queen the Greatest Live, and they continue to look at the process of adapting songs live for the stage, this time focusing on the track “Seven Seas Of Rhye.”

The episode features a performance of the song on the second night of the band’s two-night stand at London’s Rainbow Theatre in November 1974. The performance shows Queen’s ability to recreate their elaborate studio sound live without the use of any backing tapes or additional musicians.

The Rainbow shows were released as a box set in 2014, and at the time, Roger Taylor noted, “When I listen to Queen Live At The Rainbow now, I find it extraordinary. I’d forgotten how heavy we were…”

“Seven Seas Of Rhye” was the second single off the band’s 1974 album Queen II, which also featured the hit “Killer Queen.” “Seven Seas of Rhye” became the band’s first Top 10 single in the U.K.

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On This Day, July 14, 1982…

A movie based on Pink Floyd’s classic album The Wall opened at The Empire, Leicester Square in London, England. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason all attended the premiere, as did such fellow musicians as Pete Townshend, Sting, Roger Taylor, Andy Summers and more. 

Directed by Alan Parker, with a screenplay by Waters, the film starred The Boomtown Rats’ Bob Geldof as a depressed rocker dealing with the pressures of stardom and more. In order to protect himself, he constructs both a physical and emotional wall around himself.

The movie didn’t open in the U.S. until that August; it went on to earn $22 million at the box office worldwide.

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Duran Duran has added a very special show to their summer schedule.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will play a charity concert on Saturday, August 19 at The Guild Theatre in Menlo Park, California to benefit the U.K.-based cancer charity The Cancer Awareness Trust.

Cancer has personally touched the band in recent years. This past November, just days before they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, they found out their original guitarist Andy Taylor had been fighting stage-4 prostate cancer since 2018. His condition forced him to miss the induction. The concert will help fund a revolutionary life-extending treatment that can help patients like Taylor.

“We would like to thank our fans and the organizers of this benefit who have given us the chance to help our longtime friend and colleague Andy Taylor,” frontman Simon LeBon shares. “We have always described ourselves as a ‘band of brothers,’ and that has never been more true than in this very moment.”

Pre-sale tickets for the Duran Duran VIP Fan Community begin Monday, July 17 at noon PT, followed by a general on-sale Wednesday, July 19 at noon PT.

Duran Duran will kick off the second leg of their North American Future Past tour following the charity show, with the first concert set for August 20 in Highland, California. A complete list of dates can be found at duranduran.com.

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