Dave Hogan/Getty Images A new portrait of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is helping to raise money for an important cause. The portrait, “The Mercury,” was painted by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and is described as “a homage to one of the greatest singers in the history of Rock music.” It featuresRead More →
Harper Collins Van Halen drummer Alex Van Halen has shared a clip of a previously unreleased song he wrote with his late brother, Eddie Van Halen. The rocker just shared a snippet of the tune, “Unfinished,” on social media. It will be featured on the audiobook of Alex’s upcoming memoir, Brothers. TheRead More →
Thomas Monaster/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images The new documentary One to One: John & Yoko reportedly features an eerie declaration from John Lennon regarding whether he felt his political activism put his safety at risk. The film covers Lennon’s planned Free The People Tour in the early ’70s, which aimedRead More →
Disney/Jennifer Pottheiser Elton John has revealed on social media that he’s been struggling with an eye infection that has affected his vision. “Over the summer, I’ve been dealing with a severe eye infection that has unfortunately left me with only limited vision in one eye,” he writes. “I am healing,Read More →
On This Day, Sept. 3, 2017 … Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker died at the age of 67, just months after he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of esophageal cancer. Becker, born in Queens, New York, was the guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter for the group, which he co-foundedRead More →
Al Pereira/Getty Images The Kinks’ Dave Davies has let everyone know how he feels about an AI-generated track that was supposed to sound like a Kinks song, and his opinion was enough to get the song taken down. “What the (f***) is this??? This Kinks AI cover is like horror show sounds (f******)Read More →
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine recently released a new single, “Wish,” which was inspired by his Beach Boys bandmates Brian and Dennis Wilson. Jardine tells Rolling Stone he first had the idea for the song about 30 years ago. “It just dawned on me how much I missed them,”Read More →
Disney/Jenny Anderson Peter Frampton is getting ready to launch his Positively Thankful tour, and after all these years performing, he likes to change things up now and again when making his set list. “Obviously there’s certain songs that have to be there,” Frampton tells ABC Audio, but after that heRead More →
Gavin Elder While many top rock bands of the ’60s and ’70s have disappeared, Pink Floyd seems just as popular today as they were back then. And nobody’s more surprised at that than guitarist David Gilmour. “It’s always amazing to me that Pink Floyd didn’t fizzle out the way others do,”Read More →
Third Man Books If you know anything about Thunderclap Newman, it’s probably that they had one hit, “Something In the Air,” produced by The Who‘s Pete Townshend. But their story is evidently interesting enough to have spawned an entire book, which comes out Oct. 1 on Jack White‘s Third ManRead More →
