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Getty ImagesOzzy Osbourne has canceled his October 6, headlining appearance at the Power Trip Festival in Indio, California. On Monday (7-10), he released a statement online that read: “As painful as this is, I’ve had to make the decision to bow out.” He said that his original plan was to return to the stage in…

Getty ImagesIron Maiden hit Gold status in the U.K. with their album, Senjutsu. They were presented the award for selling over 100,000 physical copies at the first of their two sold-out shows at London’s O2 Arena over the weekend. They posted a photo online of them receiving the plaque from their label, Warner Music. Lead…

PRPhotos.comJethro Tull’s album, The Broadsword And The Beast will be rereleased as a 40th Anniversary deluxe edition. Leader and flutist, Ian Anderson said, “There was some great playing on it by the band. I think that was very much to do with the rhythm section of Dave Pegg and Gerry Conway. it was very solid…

PRPhotos.comOver the weekend, Dio announced the return of The Bowl For Ronnie, an annual event which raises funds for cancer research. The non-profit was formed in honor of lead singer Ronnie James Dio, who died of stomach cancer in 2010, he was 67. The date is set for November 16 in Studio City, California. More…

Getty ImagesForeigner officially kicked off their farewell tour. The first show was in Atlanta (on 7-6) and the band played a 13-song set. Bassist Jeff Pilson told Ultimate Classic Rock, “The audience was fabulous. You could really kind of feel the emotions of people knowing that this is the beginning of our farewell tour.” As…

PRPhotos.comEddie Van Halen was asked to appear in the science-fiction comedy movies, Bill & Ted, but turned it down every time. The story was revealed by Alex Winter, who played Bill in the movies. He said, “When we got to Bill & Ted 3, we had a whole sequence which ended up being the Dave…

Getty ImagesElton John performed the last concert of his farewell tour over the weekend in Stockholm Sweden. He told the audience that it was 52 years to the day that he first played there. Before his last song, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” he thanked his fans, band, and family during an emotional speech and said,…

Getty ImagesOlivia Rodrigo is on the August cover of Vogue, and went record shopping with the magazine for the accompanying feature promoting her upcoming second album, GUTS. She got on the topic of Bruce Springsteen after coming across one of his live albums from 1984. “He’s my biggest celebrity crush of all time,” she gushed.…

Coming up in October, U2 will release a 30th Anniversary Limited Edition of Zooropa. It will be a transparent yellow vinyl pressing celebrating their Grammy-winning eighth studio album. It was originally released in July of 1993. The band will also do a special global livestream on July 12 &13 to promote it. On September 29,…