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The Who’s Pete Townshend confirmed as Tony presenter

Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty ImagesThe Who’s Pete Townshend will be in New York to attend the 77th annual Tony Awards, which will air Sunday live on CBS at 8 p.m. ET. Townshend is confirmed as a presenter on the telecast, where the cast of The Who’s Tommy is set to perform. The show has been nominated for Best Revival of a Musical, where it will compete with Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Gutenberg! The Musical! and Merrily We Roll Along.This isn’t Townshend’s first encounter with […]

todayJune 12, 2024

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The Police share original ‘Synchronicity’ promo video ahead of 40th anniversary reissue

UMe/PolydorThe Police are looking back on their hit album Synchronicity and just shared the original promotional short film used over 40 years ago to celebrate the album’s release.“They don’t make album promo like they did in 1983,” the band shares on social media. “A burning telephone, eggs on the piano, a taxidermy goat. It’s got to be The Police.”The almost four-minute black-and-white clip includes all of those things mentioned, as well as a dinosaur skeleton, a collage of images of the […]

todayJune 12, 2024

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Kevin Spacey opens up about the support he received from Elton John & David Furnish

Dave M. Benett/Getty ImagesIn an extensive interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Kevin Spacey opened up about the support he received from Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, following the sexual assault allegations that derailed his Oscar-winning career.Spacey was exonerated in courts in both the U.S. and the U.K., and told Morgan both stars have stood by him through it all. "Elton was the first email I got on Oct. 30 of 2017 after the [Anthony] Rapp story had come out, saying, 'We love you, whatever you […]

todayJune 12, 2024

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Don’t expect to see a Bon Jovi Broadway musical

Disney/Chris WillardWhile artists like Billy Joel, Michael Jackson and Tina Turner have had Broadway musicals written around their songs, it doesn’t sound like you’ll ever see one featuring the Bon Jovi catalog.“I’ve been asked to do that 100 times,” Jon Bon Jovi tells Variety about the possibility of doing a jukebox musical. “Everybody wanted to write the story of Tommy and Gina [from 'Livin’ on a Prayer'], but I’m going to guess that ABBA did it and Jersey Boys did it, and […]

todayJune 12, 2024

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R.E.M. set for first group interview in almost 30 years

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagicThe four members of R.E.M. – Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Bill Berry and Peter Buck – sit down with CBS Mornings Thursday for what will be their first interview together in almost 30 years.The band is set to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame that night, and in a preview of the interview they discuss how it feels to be recognized for their songwriting.“We lived or died on the strength of our songs, so this is a huge honor,” Mills shares, […]

todayJune 12, 2024

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Her name isn’t Rio: Model who inspired Duran Duran’s ‘Rio’ cover identified after 42 years

Warner MusicThe model who inspired the cover of Duran Duran’s 1982 album, Rio, has been identified, 42 years after the album’s release.The Instagram account @nagel_angel shared a post revealing that artist and illustrator Patrick Nagel used a 1981 multipage editorial from Vogue Paris featuring model Marcie Hunt for the cover. The info was confirmed by the late Nagel’s assistant, Barry Hahn, who replied to them, “Great Catch!” “We suspect the model and maybe the band Duran Duran had no idea Nagel was influenced and used […]

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On This Day, June 12, 1982: Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor and more headline Rally for Nuclear Disarmament

On This Day, June 12, 1982 ...Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, Linda Ronstadt and Gary U.S. Bonds performed for a million protesters at the Rally for Nuclear Disarmament on the Great Lawn in New York’s Central Park. The rally was timed to coincide with a United Nations Special Session on Disarmament.The gathering was the largest anti-nuclear weapons demonstration in U.S. history. In 2018, a two-CD set featuring highlights from the rally was released, including performances of Springsteen’s “Promised Land,” Browne’s “Running On Empty,” Ronstadt’s “Blue Bayou” and […]

todayJune 12, 2024

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Two Blondie albums returning to digital services

Noble ID Blondie is bringing two of their albums back to digital services.The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band announced on Instagram that Ghosts of Download and Panic of Girls will both be returning to all digital streaming platforms on Friday.Panic of Girls, Blondie’s ninth studio album, was released in 2011 and was the band’s first album of new material in almost eight years.Ghosts of Download was the band’s 10th studio album and was released in 2014 as part of a […]

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