The 2004 compilation The Animals Retrospective, featuring classic songs that famed British Invasion band The Animals and its lead singer, Eric Burdon, recorded from 1964 to 1970, will be released on vinyl for the first time on November 18.
The album, which can be preordered now, will be issued as a two-LP set on standard black vinyl, while Target also will offer an exclusive, limited-edition orange-vinyl version.
Retrospective is a 22-track collection that includes classic tunes by The Animals’ original lineup and by the group’s late-1960s Eric Burdon & The Animals incarnation, as well as “Spill the Wine,” the 1970 smash that Burdon recorded with the band War.
Hailing from Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., The Animals started as a blues-influenced rock ‘n’ roll act. The band quickly found fame in 1964 thanks to their chart-topping version of the traditional folk song “The House of the Rising Sun,” and followed that with such hits as “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” “It’s My Life” and “Don’t Bring Me Down.”
In 1966, Burdon reformed the band with a new lineup and the group, rechristened Eric Burdon & The Animals, relocated to California and began exploring a more psychedelic-influenced sound. Among this version of the band’s hits were “When I Was Young,” “San Franciscan Nights,” “Monterey” and “Sky Pilot.”
After the group’s 1968 breakup, Burdon began collaborating with the San Francisco-based funk-rock band War, scoring a #3 hit in ’70 with “Spill the Wine.”
Reflecting on the original Animals in Retrospective‘s liner notes, Burdon said, “We were the ultimate club band. We had our differences and sometimes came to blows, but we all stood together when anybody attacked us from the outside.”
Here’s the compilation’s full track list:
Side 1
“House of the Rising Sun”
“I’m Crying”
“Baby Let Me Take You Home”
“Gonna Send You Back to Walker”
“Boom Boom”
“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”
Side 2
“Bring It On Home to Me”
“We Gotta Get Out of This Place” (U.S. single version)
“It’s My Life”
“Don’t Bring Me Down”
“See See Rider”
“Inside-Looking Out”
Side 3
“Hey Gyp”
“Help Me Girl”*
“When I Was Young”*
“A Girl Named Sandoz”*
“San Franciscan Nights”*
“Monterey”*
Side 4
“Anything”*
“Sky Pilot”*
“White Houses”*
“Spill the Wine”**
* = Eric Burdon & The Animals
** = Eric Burdon & War
Taylor Swift did a bang-up job on the set of her new movie, Amsterdam, says her Oscar-winning co-star — and was even nice enough not to tell him he’s an “awful” singer.
Oscar winner Christian Bale stars in the David O. Russell film, along with John David Washington and Margot Robbie. Taylor plays Elizabeth Meekins, who wants Bale and Washington’s characters — a doctor and an attorney, respectively — to investigate the suspicious death of her father, an Army general who founded the regiment where the two men first met.
“She just became part of the team. She was fantastic,” Bale tells ABC Audio. “You know, she just showed up and she was playing her character and she fit right in….movies, they move pretty quickly, y’know, you gotta get going [right away].”
Bale says he also had “the great privilege and sort of surprise of finding myself singing alongside of Taylor,” in the film. In fact, he and Washington both sang with Taylor, despite the fact that they’re not exactly on her level, vocal-wise.
“She was incredibly generous in just not looking at me and going, ‘Please shut up. You are awful!’ because I am!” Bale laughs. “Me and JD [Washington], half the time [we were] forgetting the lyrics, being-off key.”
At one point after he, Taylor and Washington had been trying to film the singing scene for hours, Bale says David O. Russell told them, “Hey, I just got an idea: Christian and JD, how about you just shut up for a second? We’ll just record Taylor.'”
Bale laughs, “Oh, my God, we suddenly realized we had been destroying this song all day long when there was this angel right next to us singing it beautifully. And it gave me goosebumps. Her talent is incredible!”
After getting her best scores ever last week on Dancing with the Stars, Jordin Sparks and her partner BrandonArmstrong will dance Monday night starting at 8 p.m. ET, as the show presents “Disney+ Night.” Jordin says she’s excited about the theme, especially because it’s allowed her to do a special dance inspired by her four-year-old son DJ.
“I’m grateful that I’m still around to be able to do Disney Night. And it’s been opened up even more because now it’s Disney+, so it’s like Marvel and Star Wars and all those things,” Jordin tells ABC Audio, adding, “But for me, it’s very personal…the song I’m doing is ‘Remember Me‘ from Coco. I’m doing the song because it’s something I sing to [my son] every single night before he goes to sleep.”
The Oscar-winning song from the 2017 Pixar film is sung from the point of view of a musician who leaves his daughter to go on the road. It features lyrics like, “For ever if I’m far away/I hold you in my heart/I sing a secret song to you/Each night we are apart.”
“When I heard that song and I saw the movie, I related to it so much,” Jordin explains. “Being a musician, being on the road, having to be away for, you know, long hours. And so I’m doing that song for him.”
“He’s actually getting to come to the show for the first time, so I can’t wait for him to actually be there and see it!” she says excitedly. “So there’s a little bit more pressure about it because it is so personal. I really want to do well.”
Outside of the ballroom, Jordin’s just released a collaboration with the Australian duo for KING + COUNTRY called “Love Me Like I Am.”
Brett Young noticed a big shift in his songwriting process when he went in to create his third album, Weekends Look a Little Different These Days, in 2021: Instead of writing songs about what he was going through at that moment, he started drawing from the past.
“This album was all about learning to go back and draw from past experiences,” Young explains, pointing out that if he’d only written about his current life stage — as a happily married father — the songs might’ve gotten a little repetitive.
“So that there was something for everybody, and you didn’t get a lullaby record about my babies and my happy marriage. You got a little bit of everything,” he continues.
That’s not to say the songs weren’t personal: For example, “You Didn’t” was written about a time in his life when he and his now-wife Taylor called it quits for a while.
“We didn’t fight. Nobody cheated. It was none of that. We just broke up,” Brett remembers. “I was in a different place than she was.”
And even though this breakup happened years before he wrote a song about it, the singer says he was still able to tap into that pain. “I went through that. I felt that,” he notes.
What started with the dilemma of needing to write more than his current life stage became an important process of growth and learning, Brett goes on to say.
“This whole album has been a challenge for me,” he explains. “In a good way. It’s really grown and stretched me as a writer, because up until album number three, I’d written what I was going through in the moment.”
Weekends Look a Little Different These Days came out in June 2021.
Veteran British musician and producer Peter Asher is recovering from an emergency brain operation that he underwent on Friday, October 7.
The 78-year-old Asher, known as one-half of the 1960s pop duo Peter and Gordon, as well as for his work as a producer with Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor, posted a message about his health scare Saturday on his Instagram.
“As some of you may have heard, I had quite the scare yesterday,” he wrote. “I wasn’t feeling 100% for a few weeks so I went to get an MRI after my wife and daughter insisted I check things out. Good thing I did because I had to be rushed into emergency brain surgery from there. Two small holes in my head but I am on the mend and should be outta here by next week which I am really excited for.”
Asher continued, “I am honestly just bored because I’m usually so active and can’t stand having to stay in one spot but I am grateful things went so well. In the meantime I’ll be watching movies from the bed with my daughter @vickyt and the little teddy she gave to keep me company. Thanks for the kind messages!”
The post is accompanied by a photo of a smiling Peter in a hospital bed giving a thumbs-up sign, along with a teddy bear wearing a pink t-shirt that says “Feel the Heal.”
Meanwhile, Asher has postponed the upcoming October performances of his “A Musical Memoir of the 60s and Beyond” show, which had been scheduled for October 14 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and on October 15 in Plainville, Massachusetts. Visit PeterAsherMusic.com for more details.
(WASHINGTON) — The man who allegedly left two dead and six injured after he went on a stabbing spree in Las Vegas “had every intention” of killing the victims, one of the survivors told ABC News.
Yoni Barrios, 32, allegedly approached a group of performers outside the Wynn Casino on Thursday and asked to take a picture with them before removing a knife, according to an arrest report.
Barrios allegedly told police he removed a black carbon knife from a suitcase, telling the women he was a chef, and he became angry because he thought the women were laughing at him and making fun of his clothing, according to the report.
“Barrios started running and looking for groups of people so he could ‘let the anger out,'” the arrest report stated.
Surveillance video showed the suspect stab several victims, including street performer Maris Mareen DiGiovanni, before running south along the sidewalk, where he stabbed victim Brent Hallet in the back, according to the arrest report.
The suspect then continued running south and stabbed two victims before turning east along Sands Avenue and stabbing another two victims, the report stated.
Both DiGiovanni and Hallet died from their injuries.
Anna Westby, one of the street performers, told ABC News from her hospital bed that he “had every intention of killing her [DiGiovanni], killing us.”
Westby said the suspect approached them, asking for a photo with his logo. After DiGiovanni said yes, he pulled out a knife, she added.
“And we’re like, ‘That’s not a logo — the logo we were expecting,'” Westby said.
Barrios then allegedly grabbed the knife and stabbed DiGiovanni in the chest, Westby said.
Westby denied that the group of street performers was making fun of the suspect, saying, “There was not a single moment where he was provoked.”
Barrios allegedly chose his targets at random, a source told ABC News. The victims include both locals and tourists, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said during a press briefing Thursday.
He allegedly confessed to police, apologizing and acknowledging that what he did was wrong, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. Barrios allegedly did not have a coherent explanation, making it seem that he had snapped, the official said.
Surviving street performers later told police the suspect made them feel uncomfortable, according to the arrest report. One of the victims told police that Barrios told him, “sorry man,” as he stabbed him, the report stated.
As of Thursday night, three victims were in critical condition and another three in stable condition, police said. It is unclear whether their conditions have changed.
Barrios has been charged with two counts of open murder with a deadly weapon and six counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, according to police.
He was denied bail during a court appearance Friday afternoon and is scheduled to appear again on Tuesday.
Information on a defense attorney for Barrios was not immediately available.
(WASHINGTON) — Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy on Sunday called for a change in Washington’s ties to Saudi Arabia after the country and other members of the OPEC+ alliance decided to significantly cut production later this year in a move that will likely drive up the slumping cost of crude oil.
Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Murphy added to the growing number of Democrats arguing that the U.S. should, as he put it, “rethink” the relationship with the Gulf kingdom in light of the announced 2-million-barrel-per-day cut in oil production as well as Riyadh’s human rights record.
The forthcoming restrictions by OPEC+, which will begin in November, come after President Joe Biden traveled to Saudi Arabia this summer seeking, in part, to lower domestic gas prices before the midterms.
But OPEC+ said the cuts announced last week were necessary to help support the international price for oil. The global market has been roiled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and other forces.
“We are here to stay as a moderating force, to bring about stability,” a Saudi minister said Wednesday. The cuts, the minister insisted, were not about “belligerence.”
Biden told ABC News on Thursday he was unhappy with the move. And while he maintained that the trip was not essentially for oil. … It is a disappointment and it says that there are problems.”
On CNN on Sunday, Murphy said that “it’s clear that we didn’t get as much as we needed to.”
“We wanted to know that when the chips were down, when there was a global crisis, that the Saudis would choose us instead of Russia. Well — they didn’t. They chose Russia. They chose to back up the Russians, drive up oil prices, which could have the potential to fracture our Ukraine coalition. And there’s got to be consequences for that,” Murphy said.
“We sell massive amounts of arms to the Saudis. I think we need to rethink those sales,” he said. “I think we need to lift the exemption that we have given this OPEC+ cartel from U.S. price-fixing liability. I think we need to look at our troop presence in the middle East and Saudi Arabia,” he said. “For years we have looked the other way as Saudi Arabia has chopped up journalists, has engaged in massive political repression.”
Beyond rethinking the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, Murphy also focused on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto ruler, whom Biden met with in July in negotiations that drew scrutiny given that U.S. intelligence has assessed bin Salman approved the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
The prince has continued to claim he was not involved, though Biden said he raised the issue at their meeting this summer.
Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi’s fiancée, sharply criticized Biden’s “heartbreaking” decision to travel to Saudi Arabia. While running for president in 2019, Biden said he would make the country a “pariah.”
Murphy’s comments on Sunday follow similar calls from other Democrats last week for some kind of punishment after the oil production cut. A trio of House Democrats introduced a bill to remove the U.S. military presence from Saudi Arabia.
“Many argued that we had to ‘repair’ our relationship with our Gulf partners to win their cooperation in stabilizing global energy markets following Russia’s invasion, and President Biden made every effort to do so, going so far as to meet the Saudi Crown Prince personally in Riyadh, despite his role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi,” Reps. Sean Casten of Illinois, Tom Malinowski of New Jersey and Pennsylvania’s Susan Wild said in a joint statement last week.
“It is time for the United States to resume acting like the superpower in our relationship with our client states in the Gulf. They have made a choice and should live with the consequences. Our troops and military equipment are needed elsewhere,” the trio said.
The White House, while disagreeing with the production cuts, is remaining tight-lipped about how it plans to respond to OPEC+, which is unofficially led by Riyadh.
“We will be assessing and consulting closely with Congress around a range of issues on the back end of this,” Brian Deese, a top economic adviser to Biden, told reporters on Thursday. “And beyond that, I don’t want to get ahead of potential announcements by the administration.”
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s warning last week that Vladimir Putin was “not joking” about possibly using nuclear weapons was “concerning” and counterproductive to bringing an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, retired Adm. Mike Mullen said Sunday.
Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, was asked in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” to assess the nuclear risk from Russia after Putin said he would use “all available means” to protect what he called his country’s territorial integrity.
“President Biden’s language — we’re about at the top of the language scale, if you will. And I think we need to back off that a little bit and do everything we possibly can to try to get to the table to resolve this thing,” Mullen told “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz.
Mullen was referring to what Biden said on Thursday when he warned that for the “first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have the direct threat of the use of a nuclear weapon if in fact things continue down the path that they are going.”
“I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily [use] a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon,” Biden said then.
The White House has since clarified that the president was not acting on new intelligence of looming danger but was trying to underline the stakes given the current conflict in Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces have recaptured ground in the country’s contested eastern and southern regions and have pushed back Russian troops.
On “This Week,” Raddatz pressed Mullen on his proposed resolution: “How do you see him [Putin] saving face if he doesn’t come to the table? If Ukraine can’t figure anything out?”
Diplomacy and international pressure on both Ukraine and Russia would ultimately be key, Mullen argued.
“It’s got to end and usually there are negotiations associated with that,” he said. “The sooner the better, as far as I’m concerned.”
Putin is “pretty well cornered and boxed in,” Mullen said. And potential use of tactical nuclear weapons could cause problems for Russia’s president at home: “The winds all blow back onto Russia, so he would have to, in a way, contaminate his own country.”
Forecasting a possible strike, Mullen said Putin “could pick a symbolic target. He could pick [Ukraine President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy’s hometown, for instance.”
Raddatz opened Mullen’s interview Sunday by having him respond to John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, who also went one-on-one with Raddatz on Sunday.
Kirby said that the Biden administration’s strategy against nuclear threats from North Korea was both to ensure the U.S. can “defend our national security interests” and to pursue direct talks with Kim Jong Un’s regime to denuclearize the region.
“Do you see any strategy differences? Do you see anything that’s going to work?” Raddatz asked Mullen in light of Kirby’s comments.
“I believe for some time that the path to any resolution of this has got to go through Beijing — pressure brought on by Xi Jinping, with respect to dealing with Kim Jong Un,” Mullen said, referring to China’s leader. “I’m fine with us negotiating directly, if that’s what Kim Jong Un wants to do.”
“Is denuclearization really realistic at this point?” Raddatz asked.
“I think sometimes we lose perspective on how devastating these weapons are. And I think we need to do everything we possibly can to the extreme to make sure that that still is a possibility,” Mullen said. “And I’m just not willing to admit that it isn’t yet. I know it’s difficult.”
Raddatz cited Mullen’s view in 2017 that North Korea had increased the possibility of nuclear war to a historic high. “How about now?” she asked.
“I think in the end it comes down to will he [Kim] ever use it? And I just don’t know the answer to that,” Mullen said. But he was concerned: “I think it’s more possible than it was five years ago.”
(WASHINGTON) — The White House believes “the stakes are very high right now” with Russia amid Vladimir Putin’s struggles in Ukraine and his references to his nuclear arsenal, but President Joe Biden’s warning of possible “Armageddon” wasn’t about an imminent threat, a top Biden spokesperson said Sunday.
“These comments were not based on new or fresh intelligence or new indications that Mr. Putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons and, quite frankly, we don’t have any indication that he has made that kind of decision,” John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz.
“Nor have we seen anything that would give us pause to reconsider our own strategic nuclear posture in our efforts to defend our own national security interests and those of our allies and partners,” Kirby said, citing the president’s promise that “neither we nor our allies are going to be intimidated by this.”
Kirby’s comments come after Biden’s unusually stark remarks at a fundraiser on Thursday.
Biden said then that Putin, the Russian president, was “not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons” and that “we have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis” in the 1960s.
The White House was pressed repeatedly last week over whether Biden’s warning marked some shift in the administration’s assessment of Putin’s behavior, which Kirby denied on “This Week.”
“We are monitoring this as best we can, and we have been monitoring his nuclear capabilities, frankly, since he invaded Ukraine back in February,” Kirby said.
Raddatz asked what the U.S. saw as Putin’s “way out” of this war, where his forces have been losing ground in recent weeks in Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions. On Saturday, an explosion also partially collapsed a bridge serving as a crucial supply link from Russia to Crimea, the disputed peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
“Mr. Putin started this war and Mr. Putin could end it today, simply by moving his troops out of the country,” Kirby said, adding, “We all want to see this war end. … And what needs to happen is for the two sides to be able to sit down and negotiate and find a way out of this peacefully and diplomatically.”
But, so far, “Mr. Putin has shown no indications — zero, none — that he’s willing to do that,” Kirby said. And so, he said, the administration remained committed to indirect involvement in the war by supporting Ukraine via weapons and other military aid.
On the Ukrainian side, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out negotiating with Putin specifically — not Russia — and signed a decree formalizing that position on Tuesday.
Raddatz also pressed Kirby on the White House’s approach to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who launched a barrage of ballistic missiles in recent days, including over Japan, raising alarms there and in South Korea.
“I’ve seen this for decades and decades, the same thing happens through many presidents: You respond, you do drills, he keeps firing,” Raddatz said.
“What are you doing differently?” she pressed.
Kirby pointed to intelligence gathering and “military readiness” between the U.S., Japan and South Korea: “We’re going to make sure that we have the capabilities in place to defend our national security interests if it comes to that.”
But direct talks with Kim’s regime remained the goal, he said: “We want to see the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, verifiable and complete … We are willing to sit down with them without preconditions at the negotiating table to work toward that end.”
(FORT MYERS, Fla.) — Floridians whose homes and businesses were destroyed during Hurricane Ian are adamant about rebuilding the communities that were destroyed during Hurricane Ian.
Images out of some of the hardest hit regions like Sanibel Island and Fort Myers Beach show entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble after menacing storm surge and Category 4 hurricane force winds ripped through southwest Florida on Oct. 28.
Despite threats exacerbated by climate change, such as rising sea levels and the threat of more intense storm systems, and the challenges presented by the sheer level of devastation, residents are vowing to bring these coastal communities back to their former glory.
“There’s no doubt that the rebuilding efforts, the reconstruction efforts, after Hurricane Ian, are going to be very challenging, and they’re going to take longer than they ordinarily would,” Matthew Harrell, CEO of Franklin Street, a commercial real estate company that specializes in Southwest Florida, told ABC News.
As local and national news stations broadcast the effects of Hurricane Ian live, one of the most striking images were videos of storm surge rushing into The Salty Crab Bar & Grill, a community favorite situated right on the Gulf of Mexico in Fort Myers Beach.
The restaurant was completely destroyed by the storm, Jamie McElhone, marketing coordinator of The Salty Crab, told ABC News.
The damage to the restaurant has not been surveyed yet, as search and rescue teams remain focused on locating those who died in the storm and may still be among the rubble, McElhone said.
Civilians have not yet been allowed to enter the region, she added. Seventy-eight employees for the restaurant have been left scrambling to find work. Some have relocated about 200 miles north to Clearwater, where the Beachside Hospitality Group, which owns The Salty Crab, operates another restaurant.
The plan is to rebuild the restaurant, as long as the insurance and building codes allow them to, McElhone said.
The expense of rebuilding will certainly be an issue that city officials will be grappling with in the coming weeks and months, Harrell said. After a major catastrophe, there is often a “demand surge,” which involves a temporary increase in the cost of reconstruction due to high demand of materials and labor.
The rebuilding efforts are expected to take longer than usual because of breakdowns in the supply chain and labor shortages that existed prior to Ian, Harrell said.
Max Doyle and the pub he co-owns with his father, the Celtic Public House in Punta Gorda, is a prime example of successful efforts to rebuild following a hurricane.
The pub was destroyed by the winds of Hurricane Charley in in 2004.
“It looked like Mother Nature decided to redecorate our town,” Doyle said of the damage.
Even though the Doyles did not have the money or an insurance payout to fund the rebuilding, “it was just something that had to be done,” he said. They relied on community donations and eventually restored the pub, he said.
The risk of hurricanes is something “you sign up for” when you move to Florida, Doyle said. The pub has since withstood every storm, including Ian, he added.
“There’s not really anywhere in the country where you don’t have some sort of natural disaster,” he said.
It will likely take years to rebuild the regions to what they once were, President Joe Biden on Wednesday after visiting Fort Myers Beach.
“You got to start from scratch,” the president said from Fisherman’s Wharf. “You got to move again. And it’s going to take a lot — a lot of time — not weeks or months; it’s going to take years for everything to get squared away in the state of Florida to fully recover and rebuild.”
Harrell praised the resiliency of Floridians during a crisis and expects communities to build back “stronger than ever” — with an ability to withstand the next “big one” that heads their way, Harrell said.
Many of the structures that were destroyed were built decades ago, before the building codes in Florida began to take into account the threat of strong hurricanes, Harrell said. All of the newly constructed properties will be built to current codes — including impact-resistant windows and roof straps that enable roofs to withstand 155-mile winds.
The properties that remained unscathed are the ones that were built to code, Harrell said, adding that there are discussions to strengthen those codes even further in the wake of Ian. The landscape of these regions won’t look the same either, with homes being rebuilt on stilts or raising the elevation of structures with dirt to withstand the base flood elevation.
“So the likelihood of having a similar type of even like Hurricane Ian … is much less likely to happen in the future,” Harrell said.
In addition, even those insurance rates will rise, the rates for newly built properties that are up to code will be less expensive, Harrell said.
Despite the risk of hurricanes, the areas still present desirable attributes such as beautiful beaches, warm weather and economic opportunities that come with tourism, Harrell said.
“There are very few parts of the country that are safe from any sort of natural catastrophes,” he said. “We have a history of just coming out of these catastrophes stronger better than better than ever.”
