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Getty ImagesJoe Perry revealed that Aerosmith is currently working on a new 50th anniversary box set featuring rare audio and visuals from “Boston’s bad boys.” Blabbermouth ran quotes from Perry’s recent chat with Philly’s WMMR, where he described the package as a “box set that kind of hits on every decade and some videos to…

The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn is working on a new project that he started over 50 years ago. He says that In 1969, he was approached by lyricist Jacques Levy, who’d worked with Bob Dylan on his 1976 album, Desire, and wanted to collaborate. They created a musical called Gene Tryp. Some of those songs, like…

PRPhotos.comEx-Judas Priest vocalist Tim Ripper Owens says that he never got a call from his former bandmates about them finally getting inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. He told Rolling Stone: “It’s a shame that the hall can’t bring in members that were in the band almost 10 years and had a…

Getty ImagesIt was 57 years ago today (July 20th, 1965) that Bob Dylan released “Like A Rolling Stone.” The song not only revolutionized the way pop lyrics were written and sung, but ultimately pushed the boundaries as to how long a hit single could actually be. “Like A Rolling Stone,” which clocked in at 6:06,…

Getty ImagesDef Leppard has released the sixth in a series of behind-the-scenes episodes from The Stadium Tour, which kicked off on June 16 in Atlanta, Georgia. The new online episode takes you onstage in Detroit, Michigan and Hershey, Pennsylvania and includes some great guitar stories. Plus, you’ll see Joe Elliott and special guest Billy Joel…

PRPhotos.comQueen just surpassed the seven-million milestone with the 1981 Greatest Hits album. That makes history as the best-selling album of all time in the U.K. The record includes classics such as “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “We Will Rock You.” In an online video with bandmate, Brian May… Roger Taylor said: “The British public and their infinitely-great…

Getty ImagesJourney’s new album, Freedom has debuted at #1 on the Current Rock Chart. Band members celebrated by posting the big news online and they also kicked off a Vegas residency featuring a special symphony orchestra at Resorts World Casino. It was announced earlier this week, that the album charted at #2 on both -…

Getty ImagesIt was 42 years ago today that Billy Joel scored his first Number One single when “It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me” hit the top spot for the first of two weeks. The song, which was the second single pulled from his multi-platinum, six-week chart-topping Glass Houses album, followed the set’s lead single,…

Getty ImagesJourney will be back on the road early next year to promote its new, critically acclaimed studio set, Freedom. The band is currently on tour in support of the new album, which marks their first new music in 11 years. Journey’s Freedom has made quite a showing on the assorted Billboard charts: #2 Current…

Getty ImagesJust published is the first-ever standalone biography of the late-Andy Gibb. The unauthorized Arrow Through The Heart: The Biography Of Andy Gibb by author Matthew Hild features new and exclusive interview with friends and colleagues shedding new and important light on the doomed pop sensation. Gibb, the kid brother of the Bee Gees, died…