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Getty ImagesMen At Work leader and chief songwriter Colin Hay explained that the Grammy Award-winning original group was not destined to make old bones. Hay, who’ll be out on the road this summer as part of a triple bill headed up by Rick Springfield and also featuring John Waite, will be billed as he periodically…

PRPhotos.comThe Black Crowes will release a new covers EP on May 4th, via Amazon Music, titled 1972. Glide magazine reported the band tracked the tunes back in January 2022 at L.A.’s famed Sunset Sound, with the project’s first single — a new take on the Temptations’ “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” out now. The other…

Getty ImagesRingo Starr & His All Starr Band have added an 18-show fall leg to their upcoming tour. The new dates kick off on September 23rd at Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Hartford Healthcare Amphitheatre, and wind down south of the border with a pair of gigs on October 19th and 20th at Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional. The…

PRPhotos.comAs expected, the latest Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album, Unlimited Love, debuted this week at Number One, marking the band’s first chart-topper since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. Billboard reported, the album, “bows with 97,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 7th, according to Luminate. . . Of Unlimited Love’s…

Getty ImagesFans were in for a surprise when Rolling Stone posted that the Dead & Company’s upcoming summer jaunt world be the band’s last. The magazine, claiming to repeat sources close to the Dead organization, appeared with egg on its face when co-founder Bob Weir tweeted a link to the article while adding, “News to…

PRPhotos.comOzzy Osbourne has wrapped production on his latest album and 13th solo set. Ozzy posted a new Ross Halfin photo of him on social media, with a message to fans reading: “I’m so happy to let everyone know that I finished my new album this week and delivered it to my label Epic Records. I’ll…

Getty ImagesOn Friday (April 8th), which was also his 59th birthday, Julian Lennon sang his father, John Lennon’s global peace anthem “Imagine” for the first time publicly as part of Global Citizen’s Stand Up For Ukraine. Julian, who over the years has turned down countless requests to perform his father’s best-loved solo song, sang the…

Getty ImagesHappy Birthday to Julian Lennon, who turns 59-years-old today (April 8th). Julian, who is John Lennon’s first son with college sweetheart, the late-Cynthia Powell Lennon, holds the distinction of being the first natural child of any the Beatles, being born on April 8th, 1963. Julian is also the first of the next generation to…

PRPhotos.comGwen Stafani told Ellen DeGeneres about the time she auditioned for a leading role in the movie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, where she would have played opposite Brad Pitt. As they joked about Stefani losing to Angelina Jolie, who met and ultimately married Pitt following the movie, Stafani said, “That could’ve been a different story!”…