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On This Day, Jan. 7, 2020: Rush drummer Neil Peart passed away

On This Day, Jan. 7, 2020 ...Rush drummer Neil Peart passed away following a battle with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. He was 67.Peart had been diagnosed with the disease over three years earlier, but kept his condition a secret from the public.Peart joined Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson in Rush in 1974, six years after it had been formed. They went on to release 19 albums together and sell millions of records, earning 14 Platinum and three multi-Platinum albums […]

todayJanuary 7, 2025

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Bon Jovi’s ‘Slippery When Wet’ deluxe and vinyl versions coming in February

UMeIf you've always "Wanted" a deluxe edition of Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet — "Dead or Alive" — your dream has come true.The band will release a deluxe version of their world-beating 1986 album on Feb. 28, 2025, as well as various vinyl variations of the original album. Those variations include a limited-edition picture disc and — appropriately, given the LP's title — a limited-edition liquid-filled disc. If you're feeling very nostalgic, there's also a cassette version.The deluxe edition, available digitally […]

todayJanuary 7, 2025

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Blondie’s Debbie Harry on the downside of turning 80: ‘Everyone’s gone already’

Mike Coppola/Getty Images for The Daily Front RowBlondie's Debbie Harry will turn 80 in July. So, how does she feel about celebrating such a milestone birthday?“I don’t walk around thinking every minute, oh my God, I’m going be 80 — but that’s sort of how I feel,” she tells the U.K. paper The Times. “My mother used to say in her head she was 25 and I’m the same. But thinking about it all the time could be your downfall.”“And I don’t really […]

todayJanuary 7, 2025

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After more than 300 weeks, Elton John album may finally hit #1

Sonja Flemming/CBSTalk about a slow climb to #1: An Elton John album is looking like it's finally going to top the U.K. chart after hanging around in the Top 40 for more than 300 weeks.Elton's greatest hits compilation Diamonds, originally released in 2017, has spent a total of 325 weeks inside the U.K. Top 40, but the highest it's gotten to date has been #2. However, thanks to the release of a super-deluxe Blu-ray edition and a limited-edition vinyl version, […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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Bruce Springsteen to guest on new album from The Waterboys

Sun RecordsBruce Springsteen is set to make a guest appearance on a brand new album from The Waterboys.Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, the band’s 16th record, is set to drop April 14, with Springsteen lending his voice to the track “Ten Years Gone.” The album also features guest appearances by Steve Earle, Fiona Apple, The Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine, Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith and others.The 25-track album is described in a press release as an ode to the late Oscar-winning actor Dennis Hopper, noting […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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U2’s Bono pens essay on freedom following Presidential Medal of Freedom honor

Leigh Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesU2 frontman Bono received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Saturday, and in honor of the occasion he’s penned a new essay for The Atlantic, titled The Gorgeous, Unglamorous Work of Freedom.“Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs,” he writes. “How we love to free-associate about freedom. On occasion, we’re good for a 'Chimes of Freedom' (at least Bob Dylan is), but if we’re honest, the freedom musicians are most […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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The Black Crowes to play Boston Calling in May

Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesThe Black Crowes are set to play Boston Calling this year. The three-day festival is happening Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25, in Allston, Massachusetts.The band is part of the May 24 bill, which will be headlined by Fall Out Boy and also feature Avril Lavigne, Cage the Elephant and others.Luke Combs and Dave Matthews Band are the festival's two other headliners, with the lineup featuring over 50 acts, including Sheryl Crow, TLC, Spin Doctors, Vampire Weekend and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. A presale for […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reveal biggest regret about final tour

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Comedy CentralRush launched their final tour in 2015, which hit only the U.S. and Canada, and surviving band members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reveal they regret they couldn’t bring their show to other countries."I’d pushed really hard to get more gigs so that we could do those extra shows and I was unsuccessful," Lee tells Classic Rock in a new interview. "I really felt like I let our British and European fans down.”He adds, “It felt to […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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Julian Lennon says he isn’t part of The Beatles’ ‘inner circle’

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesWhile The Beatles broke up in 1970, they're still very much part of popular culture, with the past few years seeing the release of Peter Jackson’s Got Back docuseries, the recent documentary Beatles ’64, their final new song, “Now and Then,” and more. And while Julian Lennon may be Beatle John Lennon’s son, he says he’s usually out of the loop when it comes to new projects associated with the band. “It’s news to me half the time. I’m not […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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