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Police drummer Stewart Copeland doesn’t want to make his new book, “Strange Things Happen: A Life With the Police, Polo, and Pygmies” (HarperStudio) a conventional autobiography. “It really isn’t because of all the stuff I left out, the boring stuff — I was born here, then I moved there, then I went to this [...]
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Greg Ladanyi, a Grammy-winning producer who worked with Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, Warren Zevon and Toto, died Tuesday after sustaining severe head trauma in an onstage accident last week in Cyprus. Ladanyi, 57, was on tour in with Anna Vissi, an artist signed to his label, Maple Jam Music Group.
Officials said Ladanyi [...]
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AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has issued a statement about his current state of health.
As Classic Rock recently reported, the band have had to postpone the first six shows on the next leg of their North American tour, because Johnson has undergone what has been described as a ‘medical procedure’. This as led to wild [...]
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Some of R.E.M.’s original members got back together on Monday night onstage in their hometown of Athens, Georgia. Former drummer Bill Berry was reunited with Peter Buck and Mike Mills and they played a cover of The Beatles’ track “The Ballad of John [...]
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Journey recently performed for nearly 30-thousand fans in Manila and the concert will soon be coming to DVD. The show features classics as well as newer material from the group’s 2008 album Revelation. The gig was a big deal since it marked new [...]
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Creedence Clearwater Revival are set to release a new album filled with their classic tunes. The two-disc, one-DVD package is called The Singles Collection and boasts 30 of the band’s hit singles like “Bad Moon Rising” and “Green River” as well as some [...]
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The next session of Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp was already brimming with famous musicians who’ll be teaching the campers, but it just got bigger. Doors guitarist Robby Krieger will be joining a line-up of rockers like Meat Loaf, Jon Anderson and Ace [...]
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Judas Priest singer Rob Halford’s other band, Halford, will be releasing their first CD of holiday tunes later this month. It’s called Halford III – Winter Songs, but you don’t have to wait until the album comes out on October 26th to hear [...]
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Alice Cooper is promising to make Halloween rock this year with a new single. It’s called “Keepin’ Halloween Alive” and will be released digitally through Shout! Factory. Of the tune, Alice said in a statement, “I wanted a theme for people like me, [...]
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Lita Ford’s latest album, Wicked Wonderland, has some naughty themes to it, so it makes sense that the rocker has teamed up with Stockroom.com, the world’s leading fetish site. The Web page is now offering Lita’s single, “Bed.” It marks the first time [...]
