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11/20/2009
Ringo Starr will release his latest album called Y Not on January 12th, with the obvious highlight being his first-ever duet with Paul McCartney on the track "Walk With You." Among the other notable guests on the album are Ringo's brother-in-law Joe Walsh, Gary Wright, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Van Dyke Parks, Don Was, Joss Stone, Richard Marx, Ben Harper, Glen Ballard, and Roundheads guitarist Gary Burr, among others.
Starr wrote about teaming up with McCartney on his official website (ringostarr.com) saying, "Paul was doing the Grammys, so he came over to the house and was ...
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11/20/2009
Ray Davies credits the original reviews the Kinks received in 1964 for "You Really Got Me" for his new choral album. Davies, who's teamed up with the Crouch End Festival Chorus for the new The Kinks Choral Collection, has reworked a bunch of the group's greatest hits with a small band, and added a newly-arranged choir accompaniment.
Davies shed light on how 45 years later, the Kinks' first U.S. hit inspired the new solo disc: "I think back to when I wrote 'You Really Got Me.' And then the record came out, many people, critics, whatever, said it was a ...
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11/20/2009
Elton John and Billy Joel's troubled Face To Face tour rolls on with even more postponements -- now due to Billy Joel's unnamed illness. The "Piano Men" have postponed tonight's (November 20th) Salt Lake City show at Energy Solutions Arena until February 19th. Sunday's (November 22nd) Denver gig at the Pepsi Center is now postponed until February 22nd.
Eltonjohn.com posted a message saying Sunday's Denver tickets are good for the rescheduled date, but refunds are also available at the point of purchase. (Pollstar.com)
Phil Collins has become grandfather for the first time at age 58. Collins' 37-year-old daughter Joely Collins ...
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11/19/2009
Paul Stanley says that although Kiss has always been impressed with the band's choices of opening acts, back in the day it was Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band who really gave Kiss a run for their money.
Stanley recalls that during Seger's stint opening for the band in 1976, he set the bar pretty high for Kiss to follow every night: "Bob got his first gold album on tour with us. And there were nights, where I can remember being in the dressing room and listening to the crowd reaction, and looking at the band and saying (laughs) ...
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11/19/2009
Don Henley says that he's not sure if in the current political climate real progress can be accomplished in America. When asked by ifpress.com how he feels about the Obama administration, he explained, "In its present condition, with its rabidly partisan, corporate-controlled congress; its biased, infotainment-obsessed, ratings-driven news media -- which is now being supplanted by amateurs on the Web -- and its chronically uninformed and bitterly divided electorate, I'm not sure that the U.S. can be effectively led or governed by anybody, anymore."
When asked if like so many of his peers, he's ever thought about writing his memoirs, ...
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11/19/2009
Rod Stewart is being sued by his former attorneys for $3.3 million in back legal fees. The high-profile legal firm of Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro filed suit against Stewart on Tuesday (November 17th) in Los Angeles. The suit claims that Stewart owes them money for three separate cases they worked on -- include Stewart's cancellation of a 2000 Las Vegas show in which a federal jury deemed Stewart responsible for the $2 million fee. (The Associated Press)
Bruce Springsteen performed solo on Tuesday night (November 17th) at New York's Carnegie Hall for the Concert For Autism, which ...
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11/18/2009
The Aerosmith drama continues as the rest of the band considers potentially moving forward without frontman Steven Tyler, amid rumors that the singer has gone back to the bad habits that nearly derailed him and the band in their early days. Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford doesn't count out the possibility that Tyler has lapsed back into using drugs, as he told us: "This guy has a tremendous history of drug abuse, and you have to be suspicious that this is something that is probably going on with him. I think that that's got to be a part of this irrational ...
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11/18/2009
Jethro Tull, featuring legendary frontman Ian Anderson, has announced the first nine-dates of the band's upcoming North American spring tour. The band kicks things off on June 4th at Miami's Bayfront Park Amphitheater, before wrapping things up on June 20th in Highland Park, Illinois at the Martin Theatre At Ravinia. Additional dates are expected to be announced.
Ian Anderson says that the band prides itself on keeping their setlists interesting for the Tull diehards without alienating the many casual fans catching the shows: "It's never the same from tour to tour. We're always having fun with some different old songs. ...
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11/18/2009
The good news is Elton John is back on his feet and ready to resume his Face To Face Tour with Billy Joel -- the bad news is that now Billy's sick. The pair had to bail out of last night's concert (November 17th) at San Jose's Pavilion Arena due to Billy's undisclosed "medical reasons." Promoters are expected to announce a make-up date for the show soon. (Mercurynews.com)
Elton, meanwhile, is feeling much better after being laid low by a touch of the flu and an E. coli bacterial infection. On Monday (November 16th) he attended the Elton John AIDS ...
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11/18/2009
Former Beatles wives Cynthia Lennon and Pattie Boyd appeared together for the first time in decades on November 8th in Yerevan, Armenia for the grand opening of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts. The pair took part in a live interview with the museum's director and spoke openly about their lives while being married to John Lennon and George Harrison, respectively.
Boyd, who was married to Harrison from 1966 to 1977 -- and then Eric Clapton from 1979 to 1988 -- recalled her days of being caught up in "Beatlemania," revealing, "With a lot of help from a psychotherapist I ...
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