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The original artwork for David Bowie’s iconic album Aladdin Sane, shot by photographer Brian Duffy aka Duffy, is going up for auction.

The original dye transfer artwork print will be part of The Mona Lisa of Pop: The Duffy Archive auction, taking place Oct. 22 through Nov. 5 at Bonhams in London and bonhams.com. The print is expected to sell for somewhere between $340,000 and $400,000.

The cover art is one of many Aladdin Sane-related pieces that will be part of the auction. Others include the original dye transfer print of the album’s inside cover; the original Hasselblad camera used by Duffy to shoot Aladdin Sane and 1980’s Scary Monsters; the stool Bowie sat on for the Aladdin Sane photo; contact sheets from the photo shoot; and a handwritten note by Duffy explaining the cover’s lightning bolt design.

“Duffy’s iconic photography, paired with Bowie’s incomparable artistic vision, captured the spirit of a generation and cemented their place in cultural history,” Claire Tole-Moir, head of Bonhams’ Popular Culture Department, says. “As collaborators, they produced a body of work that defined the visual language of the 1970s and beyond, influencing music, fashion, and photography.”

She adds that the auction “will be a rare and thrilling opportunity for collectors and fans to own a piece of Duffy/Bowie history.”

Aladdin Sane was released in April 1973. The cover featured a red-haired Bowie, with a red-and-blue lightning bolt down the middle of his face.

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Scott Cooper, the director of the upcoming Bruce Springsteen film Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, says fans should expect to learn some new things about The Boss in the movie.

“[Bruce] said to me, ‘Scott, the truth about yourself isn’t always pretty,'” Cooper, who previously directed 2009’s Crazy Heart, tells Empire in a new interview. “We discussed that this was going to be a film so far removed from the mythology of the rock star. The thing that was most important to him was that this would be no hagiography,” meaning he didn’t want an idealized biopic.

“There’ll be things in this film that will be new information to even Bruce’s most ardent fans — not covered in his Broadway show, or in documentaries, or in his memoir,” Cooper tells the mag, noting Springsteen “never once asked me to sand off the rough edges.”

“But would you expect anything else from Bruce Springsteen?” he says. “This man who’s the reluctant moral conscience of America?”

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere follows the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer as he makes his 1982 solo album Nebraska. It stars The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen and Succession‘s Jeremy Strong as his manager, Jon Landau. It opens in theaters Oct. 24.

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In 2013, Richie Sambora left Bon Jovi in the middle of a tour amid troubles in his personal life. Now, Jon Bon Jovi says he still has a lot of “heartbreak” over the way his bandmate departed.

While speaking to Jelly Roll‘s wife, Bunnie Xo, on her Dumb Blonde podcast, Bunnie asked Jon to describe his relationship with Sambora. “The great thing that I have said about him throughout our lives was you would be lucky to call him your friend, and I mean that,” Jon said. “Talented beyond, beyond as a guitar player, as a singer, as a collaborator, wonderful, right-hand man, awesome. Couldn’t ask for more.”

“My heartbreak with him is the way he walked out on us, compounded by the fact that it took him years to come back in the room just to have a meal with [drummer] Tico [Torres] and [keyboardist] David [Bryan] and I and say, ‘I’m sorry,'” he continued.

“It’s unfortunate. It’s heartbreaking … but if what he wanted was to be just ‘Richie Sambora,’ not a member of Bon Jovi, do it! I always encourage all of my guys, because my attitude was, ‘Bring the information back that you learn outside. It’ll only help us.'”

“And so for whatever reason, he walked out, and then that was that. But I can’t defend or accuse … it’s just not worth it anymore,” Jon added. “It’s been so many years, I just … if you can’t figure [it out] or get it together, then it’s not on us. I love the man; heartbroken that he walked out on us.”

In the 2024 documentary Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story Sambora apologized to the band and to the fans for how he left Bon Jovi.

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Last year’s 40th anniversary of The Cars’ Heartbeat City is being marked with a new expanded reissue of the album.

Dropping Oct. 31, Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition) is a four-CD/one-LP set that comes with the original album on both LP and CD, along with two CDs of bonus material made up of unreleased studio recordings, B-sides, early mixes, alternative takes and demos, including a demo for the band’s top-10 hit “Drive.”

There’s also a CD with a live concert recorded at The Summit in Houston on Sept. 11, 1984. The concert was originally released on VHS and Laserdisc, and this marks its first-ever CD release. The package also comes with a color booklet with photos, liner notes by keyboardist Greg Hawkes and an essay by drummer David Robinson.

Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition) is available for preorder now.

Heartbeat City was produced by Mutt Lange and released in March 1984. It became a huge hit for The Cars, peaking at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart and hitting #1 on the Billboard Rock Albums chart. It went on to be certified four-times Platinum by the RIAA.

Much of the album’s popularity was due to singles like “You Might Think” and “Drive,” both of which reached the Billboard Hot 100 top 10. They both benefited from videos that received huge airplay on MTV, especially “You Might Think,” which went on to win the first-ever video of the year award at the MTV Video Music Awards.

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Barry Manilow is back with new music.

The iconic singer just released the new single “Once Before I Go,” produced by Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds and Demonte Posey, and written by Peter Allen and Dean Pitchford.

“Once Before I Go” is available now via digital outlets.

Coinciding with the song release, Manilow has announced nine new shows, which will mark his final concerts in each of the cities.

The new dates kick off Jan. 6 in Sunrise, Florida, with Manilow also playing final shows in four other Florida cities: Orlando, Tampa, Estero and Jacksonville. He’s also announced final shows in Charleston, South Carolina; Greensboro, North Carolina; Duluth, Georgia; and Columbus, Ohio.

Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

Manilow’s next show is in Las Vegas. He begins a new set of dates at the Westgate Las Vegas on Oct. 9.

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Tears for Fears is celebrating the 40th anniversary of their multi-Platinum album Songs From the Big Chair with a variety of special-edition reissues.

The album, featuring hits singles “Shout,” “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Head Over Heels” and more, will be released Nov. 14 in a variety of formats, including a limited-edition two-LP set on transparent red vinyl, which will feature unused artwork and tracks previously unavailable on vinyl.

In addition, the album will be reissued as a three-CD deluxe set, which includes B-sides, single versions and remixed tracks; a limited-edition LP on Coke bottle clear vinyl; and a single vinyl picture disc.

Released in February 1985, Songs From the Big Chair was a breakthrough album for the duo, made up of Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. The album hit #1 in the U.S. and #2 in the U.K.; the singles “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” hit #1 in the U.S. “Head Over Heels” was also a top-five hit, peaking at #3.

The album went on to be Tears for Fears’ most successful album to date and has been certified five-times Platinum in the U.S.

All formats are available for preorder now. 

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On This Day, Sept. 23, 2019 …

Lyricist Robert Hunter, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead, died at his home in San Rafael, California, at the age of 78.

Hunter began working with the Grateful Dead early in their career and contributed songs to several of their albums, starting with 1969’s Aoxomoxoa. Many of the band’s signature tunes were either written or co-written by Hunter, including “Ripple,” “Terrapin Station,” “Sugar Magnolia,” “Box of Rain,” “Dark Star” and “Truckin’.”

Following the death of The Dead co-founder Jerry Garcia and the disbanding of the band, Hunter continued his songwriting, working with artists like Bruce Hornsby, Elvis Costello and others.

Hunter was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 with the Grateful Dead, and he and Garcia were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.

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Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham recently reissued their debut album, Buckingham Nicks, and it’s got Stevie in a nostalgic mood.

The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer shared on Instagram a handwritten letter she wrote to her family while working on the album, revealing in the caption, “My mom saved it and it’s been in a drawer for over 50 years.”

“I am getting very tired of sitting around listening to 12 hours of music per day,” she writes in the note. “Oh well, I know it will pay off in the end, and when I am sitting in my small but luxurious Beverly Hills home overlooking my small but tasteful pool that is totally secluded, where I can sun in the nude and tan my entire fat body while waiting for my plastic surgery leg lift — it will all be worth it.”

She then reflects on her upcoming 25th birthday.

“I have decided that we should set aside the entire month of May to celebrate the fact that I am now 1 quarter of a century old,” she writes. “A new landmark like this should not simply be passed over as yet another birthday, but should include a gala celebration.”

She ends by telling her family that she wishes they could hear the music she and Lindsey are working on. Referencing the song “Don’t Let Me Down Again,” she writes that Lindsey “may go down in history as one of the ‘greats’ in guitar playing. It really is quite amazing.”

Finally Stevie asks them to “hold good thoughts about this thing.”

Released in 1973, Buckingham Nicks was the only album the artists released a duo. It eventually led to them being invited to join Fleetwood Mac.

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Rod Stewart is the father six children, two with current wife Penny Lancaster, and in a new interview Lancaster reveals that kids were a bit of deal-breaker in their relationship.

She tells the British magazine Saga that early in their relationship Stewart indicated that he didn’t want more children, which is something she wasn’t OK with. In fact, she says she would have left the rocker if he hadn’t changed his mind.

“And that would have been very hard,” she says. “But we just went with the flow.”

Stewart did eventually agree to having more kids and they welcomed two sons, Allastair Stewart in 2005, and Aiden Stewart in 2011.

“Now Rod always says, ‘I wish I’d said yes [to babies] earlier, because then we could have had more children,'” she shares. “Even five years ago we were talking about adopting, but it ended up not happening. We thought there might be too much of an age gap.”

Plus, it sounds like Lancaster already has enough to deal with, joking that her husband is like a kid himself.

“Actually, I have three because there’s another big baby who needs my attention in a different way,” she says. “I think all women would say that about their husbands.”

Penny is out promoting her new memoir, Someone Like Me, which drops Thursday. Stewart shared his ringing endorsement of the book in an Instagram video: “Wow, this is incredible, Penny, absolutely blood curdling information here,” he says, before pointing to a specific page. “You shouldn’t have put that in the book, Penny.”

He ends the video by getting serious, saying, “It’s just the best. I’m so proud of her.”

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Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman is being honored with a new stamp collection.

Isle of Man Stamps and Coins has announced that the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s work is being celebrated in a new set of six stamps. The collection features illustrations by artist Roger Dean, best known for his work designing album covers for musicians in the ’60s and ’70s. His first album cover for Yes was 1971’s Fragile, which was the first to feature Wakeman.

Dean says he’s “always enjoyed working” with Wakeman, who he met when he was working on Fragile. He notes, “Designing this new set of Isle of Man stamps has been a joy and a tribute to that long collaboration.”

According to the description, the stamp collection highlights “key moments from Wakeman’s remarkable career,” including his solo albums Journey to the Centre of the Earth and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

“I am honored to have my career featured on these stamps having spent many years as a resident of the Isle of Man,” says Wakeman, who moved to the island in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland, in 1987. “Roger Dean’s artwork has always felt like a natural extension of the music I’ve created, and to see our worlds brought together on stamps is both surreal and wonderful.”

The stamps are available to order now at iomstamps.com.

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