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Night Ranger and Ace Frehley are set to headline this summer’s Gettysburg Bike Week motorcycle rally, scheduled for July 6 to 9 at the Allstar Events Complex in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Former KISS guitarist Frehley is set to headline the Gettysburg Bike Week Main Stage on Friday night, with Night Ranger headlining Saturday and more live acts to be announced at a later date.

“We just keep rolling,” GBW event coordinator Kelly Shue shares. “We’re always trying to top the year before, and we’re giving it a run with this year’s Friday and Saturday headliners, Ace Frehley and Night Ranger!” 

In addition to the performances, the Bike Show, now in its 23rd year, features rides around the historic Gettysburg battlegrounds, along with a huge vendor village and swap meet, fun bike games, a cornhole tournament, memorial rides, the Moto Motion Stunt Show and more. Tickets can be purchased here.

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The Alan Parsons Project is set to release a new box set of their fifth studio album, The Turn of a Friendly Card. 

The limited edition set, dropping February 24, will feature three CDs and one Blue-ray, with the album remastered and remixed by Alan from the original master tapes. It will also include 42 bonus tracks, culled from Eric Woolfson’s songwriting diaries, and studio session outtakes, as well as four promotional videos.

Plus it includes an illustrated book with new essays and photos, recollections from Alan and Sally Woolfson, and a reproduction poster. Fans can preorder it here.

The Turn of a Friendly Card was originally released in 1980 and spawned two hits, “Games People Play” and “Time.” A deluxe anniversary edition of the album was previously released in 2015.

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As previously reported, Cher’s mother, Georgia Holt, passed away Saturday at age 96. Cher initially didn’t share too much about it, only tweeting “Mom is gone,” but she’s now opening up a bit about her mom’s final days.

After tweeting that she “can’t sleep very well,” Cher explained, “The truth…. She’s been Sick, & rallying, she then got bad, she was in so much pain,” adding, “Finally she coded on way to Hosp. By time we Got to Hosp….The Woman who Who Was MY KICK A** MOM was No long Here.”

Cher also noted how grateful she was for the outpouring of affection her mother has received since her death.  “Mom Would Be So Trilled That Ppl From All Over 🌎 Are Talking About Her With ❤️ & Admiration,” she tweeted. “Truth Is…I TOOK MOMS VOICE & HER DREAM & MADE THEM REAL. She Couldn’t Manifest Them, So I Did It 4 Her, & Made Her Happy,” noting, “My SISTER GEE WAS THE BRILLIANT ONE.I WAS UGLY 🦆THAT TURNED 2 🦢.” 

And if people don’t believe Cher’s comment about taking her mom’s voice, she suggested, “Look for Cher & mom sing ‘I’m just your yesterday.’ You’ll see where I stole my voice,” referring to her mom’s 1982 song.

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Patti Smith and New Order‘s Bernard Sumner will perform during the 2023 Tibet House US Benefit Concert, taking place March 1 at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.

The annual event, which will return to an in-person celebration in 2023 after the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to go virtual the past two years, raises money for Tibet House US, a nonprofit organization founded in 1987 that works to preserve Tibetan culture.

Other artists on the lineup include Laurie Anderson, Gogol Bordello, Allison Russell and artistic director Philip Glass.

For more info, visit the Tibet House US website, THUS.org.

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In the early ’90s, Michael Jackson appeared in an Advanced System-1 motion simulator game for Sega — and now rare footage of his participation has turned up online.

According to Forbes, the footage was discovered after a man named Ben Bizley found a tape of it at a car boot sale (sort of a British version of a flea market where people sell things out of the trunk of their car). Jackson appears as the narrator of the arcade game, called Scramble Training, which was created in 1993 for Sega World theme parks.

The tape was reportedly sold by a relative of someone who worked at Sega Amusement Europe. After sharing a picture of the tape on Facebook, fellow fans helped him identify its contents. He then spent money to have it digitized. It can now be seen on YouTube in 14GB of high resolution.

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The Palm Springs, California, house where Elvis and Priscilla Presley spent their honeymoon in the ’60s is now on the market. The over 4,000-square-foot, midcentury modern home, which Look magazine called the House of Tomorrow in 1962, is for sale with a price tag of $5.6 million.

According to the Compass listing, the home, which was once dubbed the Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway, has a space-like exterior, with a winged roof and four circular pods surrounding the center of the house. It has four bedrooms and three bathrooms, and amenities that include an in-home spa, indoor kitchen grill, vacuum ports, wall-mounted radios, a pool and hot tub. 

According to People, Elvis and Priscilla leased the place in 1967 after their wedding and lived there for one year, spending $21,000 on the stay.

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The stars were out in London Monday to celebrate the premiere of the new Disney+ Abbey Road documentary, If These Walls Could Sing. 

Yahoo reports Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, accompanied by wives Nancy Shevell and Barbara Bach, attended the London premiere, along with Elton John and David Furnish, Stella McCartney, Spice Girls member Melanie Chisholm, Twiggy and more.

If These Walls Could Sing is directed by McCartney’s daughter Mary McCartney and is described as the “first feature-length documentary” on London’s Abbey Road studios. Many of the Beatles’ classic albums were recorded at the studio, including Abbey Road, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, offering fans “exclusive access to these famously private studios.” In addition to interviews with Paul, Ringo and Elton, the film features Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Oasis’ Liam Gallagher and more.

If These Walls Could Sing is set to premiere on Disney+ Friday, December 16.

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Leonard Cohen died back in 2016, but now his family is in a battle over his estate. The New York Post reports Cohen’s daughter, Lorca, and son, Adam, have spent over a year trying to remove attorney Robert Kory as a trustee of the Leonard Cohen Family Trust. Cohen himself appointed Kory as trustee, overseeing the singer’s vast archives of music, poetry, novels and more, said to be valued at over $48 million. 

According to the court papers, Cohen’s adult children claim the singer “came to appreciate in his waning days that he had made a grave error by allowing Kory to insinuate himself into Leonard’s affairs and take control over virtually every aspect of Leonard’s finances and legacy.” The Cohen kids insist Kory isn’t keeping them in the loop about ways he’s trying to make money from the estate. They are also unhappy Kory hired his son to archive Cohen’s vast personal documents. 

A lawyer hired by Adam also claims they have proof documents from 2005 giving Kory control of Cohen’s legacy were forged in order to “fleece the estate of millions of dollars and steal the Hall of Famer’s legacy from his own children.” Lawyer Adam Streisand insists there are two versions of the documents, and the “one and only true version” gives the singer’s children and Anjani Thomas, Cohen’s former lover who happens to be Kory’s ex-wife, control of the Trust. They claim when Cohen died the original was “swapped out,” designating Kory as trustee.

But Kory insists he didn’t do anything wrong, and does all he can to keep Lorca and Adam in the loop on Trust matters. He describes the confusion over the documents as “a scrivener’s error.”

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Pollstar is out with its list of the Top Tours of 2022, and while Bad Bunny’s tour lands at number one on both the worldwide and North American tours lists, artists like Elton John, Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe, Paul McCartney and more are also on them. 

Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour lands at number two on both lists, bringing in over $201 million in North America alone. Elton also earned the number one spot on the year-end Artist Power Index, described by the mag as “the world’s most accurate index for an artist’s popularity.” Elton also held the top spot on that list back in February when it was first introduced. 

Other artists to land in the Top 10 on the worldwide tours list include Def Leppard/Mötley Crüe at six, Red Hot Chili Peppers at seven and The Rolling Stones at 10. For just North America, Def Leppard/Mötley Crüe land at three, Red Hot Chili Peppers at nine and Paul McCartney at 10.

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With Christmas just around the corner, it’s hard to get away from holiday tunes — and there are certainly some that are more popular than others. So, which tunes are people listening to the most this year? 

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has just come out with its list of the Top 25 Holiday Songs of 2022, with “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” written by Broadway composer Meredith Wilson, topping the list for the first time since 2019. Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters’ 1951 version is the most classic, but the tune has been recorded by the likes of Kelly Clarkson, Michael Bublé, and Megan Trainor. 

Coming in at two is “Sleigh Ride,” written by Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish, followed by “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” written by Johnny Marks, and “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” written by Jule Styne, at three. 

And of course, these days there’s no escaping Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You.” The track, which she wrote with Walter Afanasieff, reenters the Top 10 this year at nine. And new to the Top 25 is Kelly Clarkson’s “Underneath the Tree,” which she wrote with Greg Kurstin, landing at 22.

Top 10 Christmas Songs of 2022

1. “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”
2. “Sleigh Ride”
3. “A Holly Jolly Christmas”
4. “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow”
5. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
6. “Jingle Bell Rock”
7. “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
8. “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”
9. “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
10. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”

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