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Rush are to be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame on March 28.
The ceremony will happen in Toronto and tribute is to be paid to the iconic trio by fellow Maple Leafers Alexisonfire, who”ll perform the Rush song Tom Sawyer, and also Les Claypool of Primus, who will give his version of The Spirit Of Radio.
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Pink Floyd is taking legal action against their record label EMI. The group, which signed with the label over 40 years ago, is disputing how online royalty payments are calculated, according to Reuters. The band is also challenging EMI’s ability to “unbundle” their albums and sell individual tracks online. Robert Howe, Pink Floyd’s lawyer, told the High Court in London that a contractual clause “expressly prohibited” such “unbundling,” or the selling of tracks other than in their original configuration whether in physical or digital form. He added that EMI’s position was that the prohibition “applies only to the physical product and doesn’t apply online.” Pink Floyd’s back catalog has only been outsold by the Beatles.
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Guns N’ Roses will play three private shows in Brazil and Argentina during the band’s current tour of South America, the organizer said on Monday. According to Yahoo, the shows are set for undisclosed locations in Sao Paulo on Thursday and Buenos Aires on March 20th. Plans are also in the works for a show in Rio De Janeiro. Each venue will hold about 150 people. The 11-date tour marks the band’s first trek around the continent since 1992.
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Eric Clapton just added some Cream merchandise to his web site. If you need or want Cream guitar pics, Madison Square Garden tour programs, posters or t-shirts, you are in luck. The merchandise will be available for a limited time only.
· TIDBIT: Check out the site: http://www.ericclapton.com/shop/cream.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony takes place on Monday and so far, this year seems to be without much controversy. The same can’t be said of last year’s inductions, when Metallica did not invite former guitarist and current Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine to join them. Mustaine told us about his status with Metallica these days and his thoughts on the Rock Hall.
“Ah, well we don’t really talk too much. I did talk to Lars [Ulrich] about the whole Hall of Fame thing and, you know, it was unfortunate that they saw it that way. I believe that I wrote the songs and I should’ve been inducted. Lars told me my name wasn’t on the record, or that I didn’t play on the record and therefore I didn’t qualify and, as far as I know, my name is on those records. But I’m going to get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame anyway so it doesn’t matter. And if not, then the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doesn’t matter.”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony takes place on Monday in New York City. Genesis, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The Hollies, ABBA and others will be honored there. For more info, head to RockHall.com.
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Jeff Beck To Release First New Album In Seven Years
Emotion And Commotion Out April 13th 2010
First Single Featuring Joss Stone Available Now On iTunes
For his first studio album in seven years, Grammy-winning guitarist and rock n roll legend Jeff Beck returns with an eclectic mix of tracks that find the guitar virtuoso accompanied by a handpicked cast of talented musicians, as well as several songs accompanied by a 64-piece orchestra. Rhino unleashes the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s restless genius with Emotion And Commotion. The album will be available on Atco Records, an imprint of Rhino Entertainment, on April 13th at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $18.98 (CD) and $9.99 (digital).
Track Listing
1. Corpus Christi Carol
2. Hammerhead
3. Never Alone
4. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
5. I Put A Spell On You (featuring Joss Stone)
6. Serene
7. Lilac Wine (featuring Imelda May)
8. Nessun Dorma
9. There’s No Other Me (featuring Joss Stone)
10. Elegy For Dunkirk (featuring Olivia Safe)
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‘THE VERY BEST OF FREE & BAD COMPANY FEATURING PAUL RODGERS’ TO BE RELEASED 29 MARCH ON RHINO UK
CD ALBUM TO FEATURE 15-SONGS
EXCLUSIVE ITUNES DELUXE VERSION TO FEATURE BONUS MATERIAL FROM THE FIRM WITH JIMMY PAGE, THE LAW AND RODGERS’ SOLO RECORDINGS
ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF BAD COMPANY BEGIN EXCLUSIVE UK TOUR 1 APRIL
London 10 March 2010 – Rhino UK has announced the release of “The Very Best of Free and Bad Company featuring Paul Rodgers” greatest hits collection on 29 March. Featuring Rodgers’ greatest works during the legendary ’68-’73 era of Free and ’73-’82 era of Bad Company, the album collects 15-tracks from the very best of the chart-topping hits during that 14-year musical tenure. An exclusive iTunes deluxe version of the album, featuring bonus recordings, will also be available.
Selling over 90 million records during his career, Paul Rodgers is and has been one of the most sought-after and recognizable vocalists in rock music. “This collection captures the essence of some of the greatest moments in my early music career,” said Rodgers. “I hope that it serves as thanks to all our fans for their incredible support.”
Alongside the release of “The Very Best of Free and Bad Company featuring Paul Rodgers,” the original members of Bad Company, Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke will reunite for a series of eight UK shows in April 2010. This marks the first time the original members have performed in the UK together in over three decades. The opening show will take place at the Birmingham LG Arena on 1st April, wrapping up 11th April at Wembley Arena.
‘The Very Best of Free and Bad Company featuring Paul Rodgers’’ tracklisting:
1. Can’t Get Enough – Bad Company iTunes Bonus Content
2. Rock Steady – Bad Company 16. Satisfaction Guaranteed – The Firm
3. Feel Like Makin’ Love – Bad Company 17. Muddy Water Blues (Acoustic) – Paul
Rodgers
4. Rock n’ Roll Fantasy – Bad Company 18. Soul Of Love – Paul Rodgers
5. Ready for Love – Bad Company 19. Radioactive (12” Mix) – The Firm
6. Run with the Pack – Bad Company 20. Live In Peace (Live) – The Firm
7. Seagull – Bad Company 21. The Hunter (Live from BBC) – Rodgers
8. Shooting Star – Bad Company 22. Saving Grace – Paul Rodgers
9. My Brother Jake – Free 23. Midnight Moonlight Lady
10. Wishing Well – Free The Firm
11. Be My Friend – Free 24. Over You – Paul Rodgers
12. The Hunter – Free 25. Laying Down The Law – The Law
13. Little Bit of Love – Free 26. Missing You Bad Girl – The Law
14. Fire and Water – Free
15. All Right Now – Free
BAD COMPANY UK TOUR DATES – APRIL 2010:
Thursday 1 Birmingham LG
Friday 2 Manchester Arena
Sunday 4 Sheffield City Hall
Monday 5 Cardiff CIA
Wednesday 7 Newcastle Arena
Thursday 8 Glasgow Clyde
Saturday 10 Brighton Centre
Sunday 11 Wembley Arena
For more information, please visit: www.badcompany.com www.paulrodgers.com
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A Razorsharp Metal Classic Gets Its Due!
JUDAS PRIEST’S BRITISH STEEL CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY
The album that introduced “Breaking The Law” and “Living After Midnight”
Judas Priest - Winners of the 2010 Grammy Award for “Best Metal Performance”
BRITISH STEEL: LEGACY EDITION CD + DVD package:
• CD features 2001 remaster of original 9-song album with two bonus tracks
• DVD features live 16-song set from the 2009 tour (the album sequence
plus seven more tunes) plus new “Making of British Steel” interview
Available at both physical and digital retail outlets starting May 11, 2010
In the summer and fall of 2009, while on tour throughout North America and
Japan, Judas Priest celebrated the 30th anniversary of the album British Steel at each
of their concert stops. Each night featured a complete performance of their
breakthrough album – source of “Breaking The Law,” “Living After Midnight,” “Metal
Gods,” “Grinder,” and more.
Released in April 1980, British Steel became Priest’s first RIAA platinum Top 40 album in the U.S., their first Top 10 studio album in the UK. Judas Priest is comprised of lead vocalist Rob Halford, dueling lead guitarists Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing, bassist Ian Hill, and (since 1989) drummer Scott Travis.
Now British Steel’s 30th anniversary moment officially arrives, commemorating one of the most influential albums in heavy metal, a record that fellow musicians and disciples credit for unleashing metal from its blues origins.
BRITISH STEEL: LEGACY EDITION will be available through standard retail and digital outlets starting May 11, 2010, on Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
BRITISH STEEL: LEGACY EDITION features the 2001 remaster of the original 36-minute, nine-song album (plus two bonus tracks). Also included is a DVD which combines a live 16-song concert filmed in August 2009 at the Seminole Hard Rock Arena in Hollywood, Florida (the album sequence plus seven more cuts), with a 30-minute “Making of British Steel” interview that includes all four original band members.
There is no overstating Judas Priest’s position at the very top of heavy metal’s Mount Olympus, and the critical importance of their deep album catalog on Columbia Records
in the U.S., from 1977’s Sin After Sin to 1990’s Painkiller. In 2004, Halford reunited with Judas Priest and the band returned to Sony Music Entertainment. The appropriately
leather-bound and metal-spiked five-disc retrospective boxed set Metalogy was followed
in 2005 by Angel of Retribution (#13 on the Billboard 200 albums chart) and in 2008
by Nostradamus (#11).
In 2009, A Touch of Evil: Live recapped Judas Priest’s world tours of the previous four years. One of its tracks, “Dissident Aggressor” earned Judas Priest their first Grammy Award this year, for Best Metal Performance.
Indeed, Judas Priest is celebrated as progenitors of metal’s defining sound. The upgraded version of Behind The Music – Judas Priest (Re-Mastered) continues in circulation on VH1, and the band’s influence spreads far beyond the 30 million albums, singles and videos they have sold worldwide in their career. British Steel
The long-term association (eight consecutive live and studio albums) between Judas Priest and producer Tom Allom includes this classic, their second LP together. It was recorded in four weeks at Tittenhurst Park, previously owned by John Lennon, and the home of Ringo Starr at the time. Radio airplay on AOR (album-oriented rock) stations for “Living After Midnight” and “Breaking the Law” (with its early promo video clip by Julien Temple) propelled the LP to #34 in Billboard and an 18-week stay on the chart.
When the Judas Priest album catalog on Columbia was restored for the first time starting in 2001, the band members offered their own recollections (in lieu of a liner notes essay) on each individual CD. They recalled the clanging sounds of “trays of cutlery” and “billiard cues” heard in “Metal Gods,” which became a concert favorite along with “The Rage.” Of the bonus tracks, “Grinder” is a live version recorded in 1984; and “Red, White & Blue,” written as a sing-along for the Turbo album sessions in 1985, never quite made the cut. “A little tongue in cheek,” the 2001 notes declared, “it is also very patriotic and may bring a tear to your eye!”
When British Steel was issued in 1980, a Columbia Records promotion involved a giveaway contest for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle (signed by the band members) that Rob had taken to riding onstage at shows each night. Three decades later, the 2009 tour resurrected the contest with another ‘autographed’ Harley. The British Steel 2009 Live Tour
As planned, Judas Priest hit the stage running every night of their summer tour, crashing into “Rapid Fire,” the opening track of British Steel, and reclaiming the other eight songs on the record in grand style. Of course, the concerts did not end there. The band tore through another program-length of songs from the four corners of their history, starting with “The Ripper,” from their first Columbia LP, 1977’s Sin After Sin. “Prophecy” dated from their most recent studio album of 2008, Nostradamus; “Hell Patrol” was from the Columbia album of 1990, Painkiller; “Victim Of Changes” is one of the staples from their 1976 album Sad Wings of Destiny; “Freewheel Burning” was one of the stellar tracks (along with “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll”) that sent their 1984 album Defenders of the Faith to RIAA platinum; “Diamonds & Rust” is their jaw-dropping treatment of a Joan Baez song from Sin After Sin; and the show closed with “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming,” Judas Priest’s singular appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, from 1982’s Screaming for Vengeance.
Tom Allom and Judas Priest were reunited again (having worked together not so long ago on the audio for the DVD ‘Rising In The East’) for the live recordings that comprised 2009’s A Touch of Evil. Allom is responsible for the stereo and 5.1 SurroundSound mixes of the live recording from the Seminole Hard Rock Arena concert that appears in this Legacy Edition. The DVD will include bonus content as well, “The Making Of British Steel,” a 30-minute interview featuring the four original band members.
BRITISH STEEL: LEGACY EDITION by JUDAS PRIEST
(Columbia/Legacy 88697 66744 2)
Disc One: CD - BRITISH STEEL (remastered in 2001) 1. Breaking the Law • 2. Rapid
Fire • 3. Metal Gods • 4. Grinder • 5. United • 6. Living After Midnight • 7. You Don’t
Have To Be Old To Be Wise • 8. The Rage • 9. Steeler • Bonus tracks: 10. Red, White &
Blue (studio track) • 11. Grinder (live version).
Disc Two: DVD - THE BRITISH STEEL 2009 TOUR (Live at the Seminole Hard Rock
Arena, Hollywood, Florida, August 17, 2009) 1. Breaking the Law • 2. Rapid Fire • 3.
Metal Gods • 4. Grinder • 5. United • 6. Living After Midnight • 7. You Don’t Have To Be
Old To Be Wise • 8. The Rage • 9. Steeler • 10. The Ripper • 11. Prophecy • 12. Hell
Patrol • 13. Victim Of Changes • 14. Freewheel Burning • 15. Diamonds And Rust • 16.
You’ve Got Another Thing Coming.
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Earlier this year, Simon & Garfunkel surprised music fans everywhere when they announced what appeared to be a one-off headlining slot at the world-renowned Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans on April 24. More recently, the pair dazzled an audience of seasoned rock fans at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert in New York. But the best new development for fans of the iconic duo came on Monday when they announced an actual North American tour.
That’s right — Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are going back on the road, together again. Perhaps taking a cue from other touring veterans such as Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan, the pair will travel to some cities that they’ve never before performed in while visiting others for the first time in years. Also exciting: the setlist will include many of their classic hits while making room for a few highlights from their respective solo careers.
For fans in the United States, there’s just one catch: Most of the tour dates will actually be in Canada. It’s like watching 2010 Winter Olympic hockey all over again. In fact, following the Jazz Fest date, the tour even kicks off proper on April 29 in Vancouver. Click here for the full itinerary and official information.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Jeff Beck has been enjoying a comeback of sorts. The guitarist kicked off 2010 by earning his fifth Grammy Award for a live instrumental version of the Beatles‘ ‘A Day in the Life’; in February, he performed a series of sold-out arena dates with his peer — and one-time rival — Eric Clapton; and between dates of his upcoming world tour, he’ll appear at a number of US festivals, including Bonnaroo.
For his studio remake of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins‘ classic ‘I Put a Spell on You,’ Beck enlisted the vocal talents of Joss Stone, who certainly brings her young old-soul pipes to the table. But the real spell is cast when Beck cuts in with his weathered blues hand — with guitar playing this sharp, it could indeed rip new holes in the Albert Hall.
The track is from Beck’s new studio album, ‘Emotion & Commotion,’ which drops in April. But you can stream the track right here, right now in this exclusive preview at http://www.spinner.com/2010/03/09/jeff-beck-i-put-a-spell-on-you-joss-stone-song-premiere/
