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Getty ImagesAfter the runaway success of biopics on Queen and Elton John, Rod Stewart is all for seeing his story come to life on the big screen. While promoting his new album, The Tears Of Hercules, Rod was asked about his story finally coming to the big screen, admitting to The Guardian, “Well, I’m praying…

Getty ImagesWest Coast music legend Billy Hinsche (pronounced: HINN-shee), renowned for his work as one third of Dino, Desi, & Billy and decades serving as a Beach Boys studio and touring musician — not to mention riding shotgun on solo tours by the late-Carl Wilson and Al Jardine, died on November 20th of lung cancer…

Getty ImagesNHC — featuring Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and Jane’s Addiction guitarist and bassist Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney — have just dropped their latest video, “Devil That You Know.” Blabbermouth reported that band’s first headlining shows, set for tomorrow night (November 23rd) at the Troubadour in L.A., sold out “almost instantly.” The band’s…

Getty ImagesRobert Plant and Alison Krauss have rolled out their initial 2022 tour dates in support of their new album, Raise The Roof. The Grammy Award-winning duo are set to play 10 U.S. shows followed by an eight-city European run. Already on the books is Plant & Krauss’ double-bill with the Eagles on June 26th…

Getty ImagesThe U.S. premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Beatles – Get Back brought out even more of the extended Beatles family. On November 18th at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre, John Lennon’s sons Julian and Sean Lennon, Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella McCartney, and George Harrison’s widow Olivia Harrison represented the Beatle brood stateside. The premiere followed…

PRPhotos.comCardi B held down her hosting duties for the very first time at the 2021 American Music Awards last night (November 21st). The Bronx rapper was welcomed on the stage at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater with shooting flames as she strutted wearing a black gown with a bedazzled neck and high split, her hair styled…

Getty ImagesIt was 26 years ago tonight (November 19th, 1995) that The Beatles Anthology premiered on ABC-TV. The three surviving Beatles, with the full cooperation of John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono, teamed up to produce the mini-series, which featured contemporary interviews with Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, as well as archival interviews with…

Getty ImagesBeach Boys’ genius Brian Wilson remains busier than ever with the release today (November 19th) of his latest solo album, At My Piano, featuring instrumental takes from his catalogue of classics. Also opening today in select theaters is the new documentary, Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road. Brian Wilson admitted that revisiting his classic works…

PRPhotos.comSting is back today (November 19th) with The Bridge, his 15th solo album and first set of new music since his and Shaggy’s 2018 Grammy Award-winning studio collaboration, 44/876. Sting will appear this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. Sting told us that due to pandemic, which forced him and band off the road mid-tour,…