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PRPhotos.comPeter Frampton is currently working on his first entirely self-written album in over 45-years. The last time the guitar legend issued an album with no co-writes or cover versions was 1975’s Frampton collection — which featured two of his most beloved tunes — “Show Me The Way” and “Baby, I Love Your Way.” Now, at…

Getty ImagesFresh off their North American “Stadium Tour,” Motley Crue and Def Leppard are paring off next years a set for a 28-date South American and European trek dubbed the “World Tour.” The news comes on the heels of the massive success of 2022’s North America’s “Stadium Tour” with under-bill performers Poison and Joan Jett…

Getty ImagesIt was 49 years ago today (October 20th, 1973) that the Rolling Stones’ “Angie” hit Number One. The track, which was the lead single from the band’s chart-topping Goats Head Soup collection, marked their second Number One single of the 1970’s — following 1971’s “Brown Sugar.” The Stones would go on to top the…

Getty ImagesJust released is The Who: Concert Memories From The Classic Years, 1964-1976, by author Edoardo Genzolini. According to the book’s announcement, “The reader will be thrown into untold stories, hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, and uncirculated recordings clarifying the misinformation, myths, and legends. It’s a labor of love from a fan for fans that…

PRPhotos.comIt was 45 years ago today (October 20th, 1977), that a plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in a swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi. At the time, the group was en route to its next show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The crash took the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant; guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister,…

Getty ImagesPre-orders are now being taken for Def Leppard’s first official band biography, titled Definitely: The Official Story Of Def Leppard. The book, which is being published via Genesis Publications, is described as “Part memoir, part scrapbook,” and will be the ultimate official record of Leppard’s legendary career. According to the press release, the tome…

Getty ImagesKurt Cobain’s estate has slammed the adaptation of Gus Ban Sant’s dramatized film Last Days by London’s Royal Opera House, saying that the production is an “unauthorized attempt” to continue exploiting the fictionalized story the late singer’s final days. The estate said in a statement, “Last Days has been created and written without permission.…

Getty ImagesIt was 49 years ago today (October 19th, 1973) that the Who released their second double album, the watershed 1973 collection, Quadrophenia. The set featured such classic Who songs as “The Real Me,” “5:15,” “I’m One,” “The Punk And The Godfather,” “Drowned,” “Sea And Sand,” and “Love Reign O’er Me,” among others. A film…

PRPhotos.comAs a teaser to the upcoming Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers box set, Live At The Fillmore (1997), a new nearly-nine-minute teaser has popped up online. The new short film, dubbed, “The Fillmore House Band,” features clips of Petty and the band tearing through such classics as “Listen To Her Heart,” “Runnin’ Down A Dream,”…

PRPhotos.comAC/DC frontman Brian Johnson has listed some of the most important records of his life. Blabbermouth reported Johnson, who just published his long-awaited memoir, The Lives Of Brian, appeared on BBC 2’s Tracks Of My Years program and picked records by Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Little Richard, Roy Orbison, Ike & Tina Turner, Dire Straits,…