Bruce Springsteen landed at #1 with his eighth studio album, Tunnel of Love, which he recorded without the E Street Band.
The record featured the hits “Brilliant Disguise,” which peaked at #5; the album’s title track, which peaked at #9; and “One Step Up,” which went to #13.
Although he didn’t record the album with the E Street Band, Springsteen did tour with them, launching the Tunnel of Love Express Tour in February 1988.
The album went on to be certified triple Platinum, and the song “Tunnel of Love” earned Springsteen a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo.
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Bruce Springsteen wasn’t supposed to attend the annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit for the Bob Woodruff Foundation — held November 6 in New York City — but he showed up anyway.
Bruce was originally scheduled to be on the road during the annual event, which raises money for veterans’ causes. But since he postponed those concerts due to a diagnosis of peptic ulcer disease, he was able to make it to the show, along with John Mellencamp, Josh Groban, Jon Stewart, Tracy Morgan and Tom Hanks.
Bruce performed solo songs and duetted with Mellencamp; the two sang “Wasted Days” from Mellencamp’s 2022 album Strictly a One-Eyed Jack. According to the Asbury Park Press, Bruce also sang “The Power of Prayer” from 2020’s Letter to You, Born In the U.S.A. cuts “Working on the Highway” and “Dancing In the Dark,” and debuted his recent release “Addicted to Romance” from the movie She Came to Me.
The Boss also continued his tradition of telling dirty jokes in between his songs.
Mellencamp, who introduced Springsteen as the “big brother” who he’s “looked up to … my whole life,” also performed his hits “Jack & Diane” and “Small Town.”
The Weeknd‘s fans from Down Under will have to wait a little while longer to see the performer in concert as he’s postponed the Australia and New Zealand segment of his After Hours Til Dawn Tour just two weeks before the scheduled kick-off.
“Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must reschedule the Australia/New Zealand tour,” the “Starboy” singer shared in a statement posted on the tour’s website. “New dates will be announced next year, and current tickets will be valid for the new shows. Refunds will be available for those unable to attend the new dates. Deeply disappointed but can’t wait to be there with you!”
The site also shared a message from Live Nation Australia & New Zealand, expressing understanding for the fans’ disappointment and a commitment to collaborate with The Weeknd to secure a new tour schedule. Further announcements are expected shortly.
The tour was originally slated for an 11-date journey across Australian and New Zealand cities, beginning on November 20 in Brisbane and concluding on December 9 in Auckland. The After Hours Til Dawn Tour was set to celebrate his 2020 album After Hours and the 2022 release Dawn FM.
Jung Kook appeared on NBC’s Tonight Show on Monday and discussed the success of his single “Seven,” among other things.
At one point, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallonasked the BTS member if there was a Golden World Tour in our future.
“Of course I want to do a world tour as a solo artist, but I don’t think I have enough songs for that,” he replied, speaking in his native language as subtitles appeared at the bottom of the screen. “So I want to complement them more and make more songs, and maybe when I’m ready, I can do the tour in full swing.”
Meanwhile, the “Seven” singer’s first live solo concert, Golden Live on Stage, featuring songs from the album will be livestreamed on November 20.
Fallon also revealed that after “Seven” became the fastest song in history to reach 1 billion streams, the single achieved platinum status earlier on Wednesday.
“You really make it sound like I’m a huge global pop star,” he commented, drawing cheers from Fallon’s audience.
Celebrations are in order as legendary singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell turns 80 on November 7.
Born Roberta Joan “Joni” Anderson in Alberta, Canada, Mitchell’s rise to fame began in the ’60s and ’70s with such classic songs as “Big Yellow Taxi,” “Chelsea Morning,” “River” and “Both Sides Now.” She also wrote “Woodstock,” which later became a huge hit for her friends Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
Mitchell has released 19 studio albums over the course of her career, but it’s her fourth album, 1971’s Blue, that is considered by many to be one of the best pop and rock albums in history.
Her biggest commercial success came with the 1974 release Court and Spark, which features the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit “Help Me.”
Turning 80 is a pretty big deal considering in 2015 Mitchell suffered a brain aneurysm. She once revealed that she had to learn to walk again following the medical emergency. She made few public appearances after that but hadn’t performed live in 20 years when, in 2022, she surprised audiences at the Newport Folk Festival, joining Brandi Carlile for a guest-filled “Joni Jam.”
Mitchell again returned to the stage in June 2023, headlining a night at Carlile’s Echoes Through the Canyon festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington. The set again featured a “Joni Jam” with guests like Annie Lennox and Sarah McLachlan.
Joni has received several accolades over the course of her career. She was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2021 and was awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2023.
Kendrick Lamar is set to headline Move Afrika: Rwanda, a groundbreaking touring project by Global Citizen and Lamar’s creative entity, pgLang.
The inaugural Move Afrika event will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, on December 6 at the BK Arena and marks the first step in the organization’s ambitious plan to expand its festivals throughout the African continent.
In addition to Kendrick Lamar’s performance, the lineup for the December 6 event will feature more regional artists yet to be announced. Tickets are available through the Global Citizen website.
Move Afrika: A Global Citizen Experience is designed to create job opportunities in Africa through a live music touring circuit. Beyond invigorating the local economy by providing opportunities for regional artists and crews, these shows will underscore Global Citizen’s mission to combat poverty and raise awareness about critical issues such as women and girls’ health, the climate crisis, and food security.
Rwanda will be the host country for these shows for the next five years, with plans to include more countries in the tour schedule annually. By 2025, the organization aims to expand to five countries.
Pop Evil‘s “Skeletons,” the title track and current single off the band’s new album, has hit #1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. While the country-tinged tune brings a different kind of sound to Pop Evil’s discography, the song itself is about all of our similarities.
“‘Skeletons,’ it’s very simple, we all got ’em,” frontman Leigh Kakaty tells ABC Audio. “Whether it’s in our closet or we’re hiding them deep, deep down as secrets, or whether it’s just the bones in our body, we all got ’em, and that’s what makes us all similar, even though we’re all so different.”
He adds, “It’s up to us to find those similarities to make us love rather than hate.”
With both the song and the album Skeletons, Kakaty hopes to “send some kind of positivity out in the world.”
“Hopefully it comes back to help somebody, and they can relate to understand that, you know, you’re not alone, man,” he says. “That person, you may not get along with them, but they got that same kind of skeleton right in their body, as well. They still bleed red.”
The idea of “Skeletons” is present throughout the album — Pop Evil knew they wanted to call the record Skeletons even before coming up with the song — and the word also pops up in the cut “Worth It.”
“When you’ve got an album and you can really embrace the concept, it comes out in the other songs,” Kakaty says.
Skeletons the album was released in March. Pop Evil’s current Flesh & Bone tour in support of the record concludes November 22 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Måneskin will release a deluxe version of their RUSH! album on Friday, November 10, and it appears that the record will be accompanied by a new video.
In a Facebook post, the Italian rockers have shared a clip of the bonus track “VALENTINE,” accompanied by black-and-white footage of an impassioned performance.
“VALENTINE” is one of five extra songs included on the deluxe RUSH!, along with “OFF MY FACE,” “THE DRIVER,” “TRASTEVERE” and the single “”HONEY (ARE U COMING?),” which dropped in September.
The original RUSH! debuted in January, and includes the singles “SUPERMODEL” and “THE LONELIEST.”
The perfect holiday gift for the Bruce Springsteen fan in your life may end up costing you more than a ticket to see one of his shows in 2024.
Photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who dated Bruce in the ’70s, has documented his Darkness on The Edge of Town era in a new book, which is being published this month. Because Goldsmith had inside access to Bruce and the E Street Band, she was able to capture him and the band in intimate moments, as well as moments when they, as Goldsmith writes, “left everything on the stage to create a musical performance that suggested the failures and glories of being human.”
Springsteen writes in the book’s foreword, “These photos remain a record of a time when I truly played for my life, night after night.”
The lavish, 364-page hardcover book is a limited edition of only 1,978 copies, each numbered and signed by Goldsmith. You can order it now, but the bad news is that it costs $750.
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Neither of them are Scottish, but Elton John and The Who were among the winners at the Scottish Music Awards, held November 4 in Glasgow.
Elton received the Global Artist Award, which was accepted by his bandmate, Scot Davey Johnstone. But when Johnstone was given the Outstanding Achievement Award, Elton appeared via video to congratulate him.
According to the Scottish Sun, Elton said to Johnstone, “You’re certainly the best guitarist, I think, to ever come out of Scotland, and that’s saying a lot. I’ve had the best time playing alongside you … you’re an incredible musician and have been with me so long.”
“You’ve always inspired me with your brilliance. I can’t think of anyone who deserves this award more than you and I love you dearly,” he added.
The Who won the Icon Award, and Roger Daltrey accepted remotely. The Scottish Music Awards ceremony raises money for Nordoff & Robbins, the U.K.’s largest music therapy charity, which The Who has supported for decades.
