Aside from his 2018 album, Traces, and his 2021 Christmas album, The Season, Steve Perry hasn’t done a lot of recording in the past 20+ years. But apparently, the former Journey singer couldn’t resist an invitation from arguably one of the most beloved celebrities on the planet: Dolly Parton.
The country icon and newly minted Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee tellsAccess Hollywoodthat for her forthcoming rock album, she’s recorded Journey’s classic “Open Arms” and has Perry singing with her on it. She adds that she’s also recorded an Elton John song and that she hopes to get Steven Tyler to join her on the project as well.
“Hopefully, I’m gonna just ask all the girls and the guys to sing with me,” Dolly continued, noting that she is personally contacting people to ask them to collaborate, rather than letting her manager or publicist do it. “I think it’s gonna be a good album,” she concludes.
Dolly performed a song from the album when she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night in Los Angeles.
In other Steve Perry news, it seems he does pay close attention to what’s happening in the music biz. He tweeted on Saturday, “Back when I was the singer in Journey we sold out 5 nights at the LA Forum. Well my deepest Congrats to #HarryStyles for selling 15 nights out — Truly amazing Harry…Congrats!”
Harry’s has been performing for multiple nights in major cities across the country on his current Love on Tour trek.
Is the nu metal scene about to get its own When We Were Young festival?
Over the weekend, bands including Deftones, Incubus, System of a Down, Evanescence,Korn andChevelleall posted a video on Instagram teasing something called “Sick New World.” The posts all featured the same animated video of devilish creatures flying around Las Vegas.
If you go to SickNewWorldFest.com, you’ll find a blank lineup poster advertising something on May 13, 2023 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, which is also where When We Were Young was held.
Nothing official has been announced yet, though, so stay tuned.
When We Were Young went viral earlier this year with its lineup loaded with 2000s emo and pop-punk artists, headlined by My Chemical Romance and Paramore. Two of its scheduled three days were held in October; the first day was canceled due to extreme weather conditions.
Next year’s When We Were Young is scheduled for October 21 and will be headlined by Green Day and the reunited Blink-182.
Following the loss of his brother Aaron on Saturday, Nick Carter still performed with the Backstreet Boys in London on Sunday, but the group made sure to pay tribute to him on stage.
During the show at London’s O2 arena, a photo was shown onscreen, along with the words “Aaron Carter 1987-2022.” Kevin Richardson spoke on the group’s behalf, telling the crowd, “Tonight we’ve got a little bit of heavy hearts ’cause we lost one of our family members yesterday. And we just wanted to find a moment in our show to recognize him.”
As Nick teared up, AJ McLean and Brian Littrell rushed to embrace him as Kevin continued, “Nick’s little brother Aaron Carter passed away yesterday…and he’s a part of our family and we thank you guys for all the love, all your well wishes and all your support.”
Howie Dorough spoke next, saying, “We’d like to dedicate this next song to our little brother Aaron Carter…may you rest in peace.”
The group then performed an a cappella rendition of the song “Numb,” whose lyrics go, “I suffocate without you…/It was good, what we had/Yeah, that was better times, can somebody take me back?/And it hurts looking back/If this is for the best, then tell me why it hurts so bad.”
Aaron died Saturday at the age of 34 at his California home. The cause of death has yet to be revealed.
Meanwhile, Aaron’s twin sister Angel took to social media to mourn her brother. “To my twin… I loved you beyond measure. You will be missed dearly…I know you’re at peace now. I will carry you with me until the day I die and get to see you again.”
Fresh off his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame over the weekend, Lionel Richie has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Icon Award at the 2022 American Music Awards.
The Icon Award honors an artist for their achievements in the music industry on a global scale. Lionel, a 17-time AMA winner, will be on hand to accept the award and take a look back at his most iconic songs and AMA achievements. He’s reportedly the only artist in history to be featured on the AMAs stage in every decade since the show’s inception in the 1970s.
“I’m immensely grateful for a career that has taken me to places I never imagined that I’d go, from arenas worldwide to studio sets to the AMA stage,” Lionel says in a statement. “I can recall one of the first times I got to perform at the AMAs. It was to sing ‘We Are the World’ among the most iconic musicians of my generation, so it is surreal to be receiving this recognition 36 years later.”
The 2022 American Music Awards, hosted by Wayne Brady, airs live from Los Angeles on Sunday, November 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
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Los Angeles Harry Styles fans will have to wait a little while longer to see him in concert, as the shows were postponed due to the singer catching the flu.
Styles announced the unfortunate news in an Instagram Story on Saturday and expressed that he was “devastated” about not being able to perform.
“Towards the end of the show on Wednesday I started feeling ill and I’ve been in bed with the flu ever since,” he wrote, per Entertainment Tonight. “I’ve been doing everything I can to be able to sing tonight, but I’m leaving the doctor now and I’m devastated that it’s just not possible.”
The “Watermelon Sugar” singer continued, “Until very recently I haven’t had to postpone a show due to illness in the 12 years I’ve been touring. I’m so sorry to do it, and if there was anyway I could do the show I would.”
Styles was originally set to perform at LA’s Kia Forum on November 5, 6, snd 7. The dates have now been rescheduled to January 26, 27, and 29, respectively. Tickets for the original dates will be honored. All other tour dates are expected to resume as scheduled.
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Eminem, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis and Lionel Richie were among the artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night in Los Angeles.
Dr. Dre inducted Eminem, recalling that he saw something in the rapper when others didn’t.
“I knew that his gifts were undeniable,” Dre said. “Each of us was what the other one needed — and I was willing to bet my entire career on it.”
After Dre’s heartfelt introduction, Eminem performed a medley of hits, including “My Name Is,” “Sing for the Moment” with surprise guest Steven Tyler, and “Stan,” with Ed Sheeran jumping in to sing the chorus and play guitar.
In his acceptance speech, Eminem honored the hip hop genre and listed off the artists that influenced him, including Tupac, Notorious B.I.G and a whole lot more.
“I’m a high school dropout with a hip-hop education and these are my teachers,” he said. “And it’s their night just as much as it is mine.”
Legendary producing duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were inducted in the Musical Excellence category by longtime collaborator Janet Jackson, who spoke about the experience of working on her 1986 album Control with them.
“We felt like we were kids in a sandbox,” she said. “We talked and laughed so much that sometimes it didn’t even feel like we were making a record.”
In their acceptance speech, Terry spoke at length of his gratitude, prompting Jimmy to reply, “That’s the most I’ve ever heard Terry talk in my whole life.”
Lionel Richie received his induction from Lenny Kravitz.
“The man doesn’t have a pretentious bone in his body,” Kravitz said. “…When Lionel shows up, everyone gets happy.”
Lionel then performed “Hello,” the Commodores‘ “Easy” with the help of rocker Dave Grohl, and “All Night Long.” In his speech, Richie spoke of being a “creative artist” in the industry and being told in the past that he wasn’t “Black enough.”
“Rock and roll is not a color; it’s a feeling, it’s a vibe,” he said.
Other inductees included Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Pat Benatar, Carly Simon and Dolly Parton. Harry Belafonte received the Early Influence Award.
The induction ceremony will air on Saturday, November 19, at 8 p.m. ET on HBO and will stream on HBO Max.
Darius Rucker is a big fan of the CMA Awards’ hosting lineup this year. With Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning at the helm of the awards show, the country superstar (and former CMA Awards co-host) thinks it’s sure to be an incredible night.
“Love it. Peyton’s hilarious,” the singer says of the decision to add the Pro Football Hall of Famer to the bill.
“He’s one of my best buddies, and he’s hilarious,” Darius goes on to say. “I think him and Luke are gonna be great at it. I mean, [the script writers for the show] must be in heaven writing that — it’s gonna be awesome.”
Darius and Peyton have had plenty of chances to get to know each other over the years — they’re both huge sports fans, and they both attended Brad Paisley’s all-star Zoom drinking parties during the COVID-19 pandemic.
And now they’ve got a couple more things in common, since not only have they both stepped into the hosting gig at the CMAs, but they’re both one half of all-star hosting duos.
Darius’ hosting partner was Reba McEntire, who shared those duties with him at the 2020 show. Darius says he came out of that experience admiring Reba more than ever before — and he was already a huge fan of hers to begin with.
“Reba has been nothing but awesome to me since I’ve known her,” he says. “Since I came to Nashville, she’s been one of my champions, and also, when we did the CMAs together, I’ve never seen anybody more giving than she was when we did that.”
Most recently, Darius teamed up with Reba as a guest star on ABC’s Big Sky, which features Reba as a series regular this season.
Dolly Parton sings “Jolene” with Judas Priest’s Rob Halford; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
After famously attempting — unsuccessfully — to withdraw her name for consideration, Dolly Parton was finally inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night in Los Angeles. “I’m a rock star now!” she gleefully told the crowd at the ceremony, as they cheered wildly.
Dolly was inducted by pop star Pink, who said, “Dolly, you’re amazing. You bring people together and you put so much light and joy into the world and we all love you so much.” Accepting the honor, Dolly announced her intention to do a rock album, and added, “Any of you rock stars gonna help me out on that?” When the audience cheered, she laughed, “Good, ’cause I’m gonna hold you to it!”
Pink and Brandi Carlile went on to sing “Coat of Many Colors,” while Zac Brown and Sheryl Crow duetted on “9 to 5.” Dolly, wearing an Elvis-inspired jumpsuit, debuted one of the new rock songs she said she’d written for the rock album project. She sang, “Since I heard the big beat/I ain’t never been the same/Because they’ve done put me in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
Dolly then called up many of her fellow inductees and performers — including Duran Duran‘s Simon Le Bon, Eurythmics‘ Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Pink, Brandi, ’80s rocker Pat Benatar and even Rob Halford of heavy metal legends Judas Priest — to help sing “Jolene.” It just goes to show…everyone loves Dolly.
The night ended with a tribute to the recently passed rock and country legend Jerry Lee Lewis, performed by Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp.
The induction ceremony will air on Saturday, November 19, at 8 p.m. ET on HBO.
Lionel Richie sings “Easy” with Dave Grohl on guitar; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, which took place in L.A. on Saturday, enshrined some of the biggest acts of the ’80s — Lionel Richie, Eurythmics, Duran Duran and Pat Benatar — alongside heavy metal gods Judas Priest, rap icon Eminem, singer/songwriter Carly Simon and mega-producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
Duran Duran was inducted by a shaven-headed Robert Downey Jr., who recalled that when the band played his 50th birthday party, the wife of a “prominent Hollywood director” threw her bra onstage in the middle of the performance. The band performed “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Girls on Film” and “Ordinary World.” At the podium, singer Simon Le Bon read a letter from original guitarist Andy Taylor, explaining that he couldn’t be there because he’s been battling stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer.
Janet Jackson then took the stage to induct Jam and Lewis, who produced her career-defining albums Control, Rhythm Nation 1914 and janet., and dozens more for other artists. “I feel like we broke through the music industry together,” she said.
Sheryl Crow inducted Pat Benatar and her husband/musical partner Neil Giraldo. She held up a copy of Rolling Stone magazine from 1980 which featured the duo on the cover, and recalled that when she was 18, she “wanted to be Pat Benatar.” Benatar and Giraldo played “All Fired Up,” “Love Is a Battlefield” and “Heartbreaker.” Referring to the fact that she’d been passed over for induction for years, Benatar told the crowd, “All is forgiven.”
Carly Simon missed the ceremony because two weeks ago, according to Rolling Stone, her two sisters died of cancer just one day apart. Sara Bareilles inducted Simon, and then performed her smash “Nobody Does It Better,” from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.Olivia Rodrigo then took the stage to perform Carly’s famed kiss-off anthem, “You’re So Vain.”
U2‘s The Edge inducted Eurythmics, who reunited for their first performance since 2019, doing “Would I Lie to You,” “Sweet Dreams” and “Missionary Man.” “After 45 years, we still rock,” said Dave Stewart. Annie Lennox, who got a standing ovation, told the crowd, “We musicians are a diverse and peaceful people. We spread love, not hatred and division.”
Lenny Kravitz inducted Lionel Richie, saying that the crooner “happens to be the funniest person I’ve ever met.” Lionel performed “Hello,” and then brought out Foo Fighters‘ Dave Grohl to play with him on “Easy.” Of course, he concluded with “All Night Long.”
The night ended with Pink inducting Dolly Parton. She and Sheryl Crow also helped perform some of Parton’s songs, and joined Dolly to sing her classic “Jolene,” along with Benatar, Lennox, Simon LeBon and Judas Priest‘s Rob Halford.
The night’s final jam session included a tribute to the recently departed Jerry Lee Lewis, featuring Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp.
Backstreet Boys‘ Nick Carter has released a statement following the passing of his younger brother, Aaron Carter.
“My heart has been broken today,” Nick wrote in an Instagram post shared Sunday. “Even though my brother and I have had a complicated relationship, my love for him has never ever faded.”
He continued, “I have always held onto the hope, that [Aaron] would somehow, someday want to walk a healthy path and eventually find the help that he so desperately needed. Sometimes we want to blame someone or something for a loss. But the truth is that addiction and mental illness is the real villain here.”
Nick concluded by saying he will miss Aaron “more than anyone will ever know.”
“I love you Chizz., now you get a chance to finally have some peace you could never find here on earth….God, Please take care of my baby brother,” he wrote, alongside a series of photos of the two from when they were younger.
Aaron, a singer and former child star, passed away Saturday at age 34. A cause of death has not yet been released.
Others in the entertainment industry also shared their reactions to his death, including Hilary Duff, who dated Aaron as a teen, New Kids on the Block, songwriter Diane Warren and more.
