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Getty ImagesOut now by noted author Luca Perasi is Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind The Songs (Vol. 1), according to The Daily Beatle. Perasi received raves for his 2013 tome Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013). A Journey Through Paul McCartney’s Songs After The Beatles, and served as one of the two official…

PRPhotos.comThe Edge is promising a revitalized-sounding U2 for its next studio set. The band will drop its new 40-track Songs Of Survival collection on March 17th — but have already begin plotting their next move, which will feature “big electric guitars.” During a chat with The Telegraph, the guitarist explained, “I’m not sure U2 are…

Getty ImagesPeter Gabriel has just rolled out 12 North American tour dates for September and October — with the promise of another dozen cities to be announced soon. As it stands now, Gabriel will launch the trek on September 8th in Quebec at Videotron Centre and wraps things up on October 13th Los Angeles, California…

Getty ImagesNearly four years since its initial release on the Hollywood Vampires’ 2019 album, Rise — the band has posted a video for “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory.” The black and white video, which showcases bandmates Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, and Johnny Depp performing the song both on stage and…

PRPhotos.comZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons took time out to pay tribute to his sadly departed friend, the late-Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington. Rossington, the last remaining original member of the band, died on March 5th following years of ill-health and numerous heart procedures. ZZ Top will be on the road this summer with Skynyrd. Gibbons told…

Getty ImagesThe Who have dropped “Imagine A Man,” the latest teaser from their new live set, The Who With Orchestra Live At Wembley. The collection will be issued as a two-CD/Blu-ray or three-LP set on March 31st. The fan favorite, deep cut is but one of the band’s emotional highlights from 1975’s The Who By…

Getty ImagesPlans are said to be in the works for a major “Live Aid-like” benefit concert in support of the Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to The Sun, organizers are hoping to attract Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, U2, Adele, Florence And The Machine, Noel Gallagher, the Killers, and Pink to play London’s Wembley…

Getty ImagesGuns N’ Roses, Elton John, and Arctic Monkeys have been announced as the headliners to England’s famed Glastonbury festival. Among the other performers set to play the grounds of Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset, England between June 21st and June 25th are Blondie, Lizzo, Yusef/Cat Stevens, the Chicks, Lil Nas X, Lana Del Rey,…

PRPhotos.comGuitarist Gary Rossington, the last remaining original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, died on Sunday (March 5th) at the age of 71. Rossington had been sidelined from the band’s recent dates following emergency heart surgery in 2021. The band issued a statement, which reads: “It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to…

Getty ImagesThe Rush reissue series continues on April 28th with new and expanded editions of the band’s beloved 1982 Signals album, which was the follow-up to their watershed 1981 Moving Pictures collection. Signals – 40th Anniversary will be available to fans in three distinct configurations, including the Super Deluxe Edition, a one-LP Picture Disc Edition,…