Paul McCartney’s world tour came to Tokyo, Japan with Sir Paul playing six sold-out nights at the Tokyo Dome.
McCartney’s set included such Beatles classics as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “Let It Be,” “Hey Jude” and more, as well as Wings tunes like “Band on the Run,” “Let ‘Em In” and others.
The shows were part of McCartney’s first world tour under his name, and his first major tour in over ten years, following the Wings UK Tour 1979.
Season two of Queen The Greatest Live continues, with this week’s episode titled “Flash and the Hero.”
Episode seven once again focuses on the opening of the show, this time the band’s January 5, 1982 concert at Milton Keynes Bowl in the U.K. It shows how Queen got the audience going with their one-two punch opening number, a medley of their songs “Flash” and “The Hero.”
The band builds excitement in the crowd by playing “Flash,” from the 1980 film FlashGordon, over the PA system as they take the stage, and then launch into “The Hero,” the second track from the film’s soundtrack.
Queen’s Milton Keynes show was part of the 30-date European Hot Space Tour. Queen On Fire – Live at the Bowl was released on DVD/CD back in 2004.
Lynyrd Skynyrd can thank American Idol for their latest chart resurgence. The band’s classic track “Simple Man” has returned to the Billboardcharts following Idol contestant Colin Stough‘s performance of it on the season premiere of the ABC talent competition.
“Simple Man” is currently at 23 on the Hot Rock Alternative Songs chart, thanks to 3.6 million new U.S. streams and 1,000 new downloads. The tune is also up to 11 on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart.
Stough earned a golden ticket with his performance, which has since been viewed over 1 million times on YouTube.
One of Lynyrd Skynrd’s most popular tunes, “Simple Man” appeared on the band’s debut album, (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd). It has spent over 100 weeks on Billboard’s Rock Streaming Songs chart and another 25 on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart.
Spinning Gold, the movie about music producer Neil Bogart and Casablanca Records, is hitting theaters this month, and it’s getting a soundtrack featuring lots of classic tunes covered by the stars of the film.
Bogart is credited with launching the careers of such artists as Donna Summer, Gladys Knight, The Village People and even KISS. The soundtrack features covers of such classic tunes as KISS’ “Beth” and “Rock and Roll All Nite,” Summers’ “Bad Girls” and “Dim All The Lights,” Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” and more.
The movie stars Tony winner Jeremy Jordan as Bogart, with X Ambassadors vocalist Sam Harris as KISS’ Paul Stanley, Casey Likes as Gene Simmons and All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth as Peter Criss. Other artists portrayed in the film include George Clinton, played by Wiz Khalifa; Ron Isley, played by Jason Derulo; Gladys Knight, played by Ledisi; Bill Withers, played by Pink Sweat$; and Donna Summer, played by Tayla Parx.
Spinning Gold and its soundtrack will be released March 31.
Here is the track list for the Spinning Gold soundtrack:
“It’s Your Thing” – Performed by Jason Derulo
“Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)” – Performed by Wiz Khalifa
“Shout It Out Loud” – Performed by Sam Harris and Casey Likes
“Bad Girls” – Performed by Tayla Parx
“Midnight Train To Georgia” – Performed by Ledisi
“Ain’t No Sunshine” – Performed by Pink Sweat$
“Love To Love You Baby” – Performed by Tayla Parx
“Rock And Roll All Nite” – Performed by Sam Harris and Casey Likes
“Cherry On Top” – Performed by Jeremy Jordan
“One Toke Over The Line” – Performed by Alec Benjamin
“Lean On Me” – Performed by Pink Sweat$
“Dim All The Lights” – Performed by Tayla Parx
“Mothership Connection” – Performed by Wiz Khalifa
“Ooh Child” – Performed by Trevis Romell Harris
“Oh Happy Day” – Performed by Jeremy Jordan
“Who Is He (And What Is He To You)” – Performed by Pink Sweat$
“Beth” – Performed by Alex Gaskarth
“Last Dance” – Performed by Jeremy Jordan and Tayla Parx
“Greatest Time (Spinning Gold)” – Performed by Jeremy Jordan and Cast
David Bowie is being celebrated in New York this June. The David Bowie World Fan Convention is set to take place June 16 to 18 at the Manhattan club Racket.
The event will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Bowie’s Let’s Dance and the 50th anniversary of Aladdin Sane. It will feature appearances by several Bowie associates, including producers Tony Visconti, Mark Plati and Tim Palmer, guitarists Carlos Alomar and Kevin Armstrong, and pianist Mike Garson.
It will also feature Deryck Todd‘s BowieBall, which will be hosted by Bowie performer Michael T, with performances from Bowie tribute band Sons of the Silent Age and vocalist Ava Cherry, as well as Bowie DJs TheMenWhoFell2Earth.
Tickets for the convention, which includes the BowieBall, are on sale now.
Roger Waters recently announced he’s rerecording the classic Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon, which turned 50 on Wednesday. Well, now he’s giving fans the first taste of what to expect with his new recording.
“When we recorded the stripped down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of Dark Side of The Moon was looming on the horizon,” Waters shares in a post on Facebook. “It occurred to … me that Dark Side of the Moon could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album.”
The post featured a snippet of Waters’ take on “Us and Them.” He says when he and his collaborators first discussed the idea of making the record, they were “giggling and shouting ‘You must be f***ing mad'” at one another before eventually taking it on.
“It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it,” he says. “It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy nine year old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty nine year old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, ‘We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us’.”
Waters also shares, “[I]t is a way for me to honor a recording that Nick (Mason) and Rick (Wright) and Dave (Gilmour) and I have every right to be very proud of.”
Leonard Cohen’s heirs are due in court later this month in their battle with the singer’s former manager over Cohen’s trust, Variety reports.
As previously reported, Cohen’s daughter, Lorca, and son, Adam, are trying to remove Cohen’s former manager Robert Kory as a trustee of the Leonard Cohen Family Trust. They are accusing Kory and his legal representative of forging a document that appointed him as a trustee. In their most recent motion they note that Kory previously admitted to removing a page from the signed trust and switching it out for one that named him a trustee.
The parties are due in court March 29, and Lorca and Adam are asking a judge to remove Kory as trustee, allowing them to take over control. They also want the court to force Kory to give back any money he earned as trustee, including funds from the 2022 deal that sold the rights to Cohen’s catalog to Hipgnosis Songs, reportedly worth $58 million.
Kory, who previously described the confusion over the documents as “a scrivener’s error,” has since claimed his former attorney Reeve Chudd is to blame for the forgery, noting he didn’t look at Chudd’s document before signing it. He said Chudd had “modified a document unbeknownst to anybody.” The heirs say his excuses “strain credulity.”
David Lee Roth is once again sharing his solo take on a Van Halen classic. This time it’s the track “Unchained,” which originally appeared on the band’s fourth album, Fair Warning.
This is the sixth time Roth has shared a solo version of a Van Halen song. Previous releases include “Everybody Wants Some!!,” “You Really Got Me,” “Dance The Night Away,” “Panama” and “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love.”
All the tunes were recorded at Henson Studios in Los Angeles in May 2022. They feature Al Estrada on guitar, Ryan Wheeler on bass and Francis Valentino on drums.
John Francis Bongiovi Jr. was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, later changing his name to Jon Bon Jovi for his musical career.
In 1983 he formed Bon Jovi with keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John Such and drummer Nico Torres; they were later joined by guitarist Richie Sambora. They released their self-titled debut album in 1984, which featured the top-40 hit “Runaway.”
The band has gone on to release 15 records, including 1986’s Slippery When Wet, which spent eight weeks at number one and has been certified 12-times Platinum by the RIAA, and 1988’s New Jersey, which also went to number one and produced five top-10 hits, including two number-one songs: “Bad Medicine” and “I’ll Be There for You.” It was certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA.
Bon Jovi also released two solo albums. His solo single “Blaze of Glory” from the soundtrack to Young Guns II won a Golden Globe Award and earned him an Academy Award nomination.
In 2018, Jon was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Bon Jovi. In 2009, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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The seventh annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert is happening next week at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, but if you can’t make it to the Big Apple you can still enjoy the show.
For just $20, fans will be able to stream the concert, which features a lineup that includes James Taylor, Pat Benatar and Neil Geraldo,Sheryl Crow, the John Mayer Trio, Warren Haynes and R&B legend Mavis Staples.
The annual concert is a benefit for God’s Love We Deliver, which delivers meals to New Yorkers who are unable to shop or cook for themselves. That $20 livestream ticket will translate to two meals. To date the concerts have raised more than $25 million. This year the charity expects to deliver more than 3 million meals, which are provided free of charge.
