courtesy of Disney+ Beatles ’64, a documentary capturing The Beatles‘ 14-day trip to America in February of that year, is streaming now on Disney+. While there have been several docs about this particular chapter of Beatles history, this one has plenty of new stuff for fans to enjoy. “A bigRead More →
Lester Cohen/Getty Images for ASCAP In the U.K. it’s a big deal for a song to land at #1 for Christmas, and a new campaign is trying to make that happen for the classic ELO tune “Mr. Blue Sky.” According to the Official Charts site, the “Mr. Blue Sky” Christmas #1Read More →
Matthew Baker/Getty Images Roger Daltrey seems mighty impressed by a youth band’s cover of The Who‘s classic tune “Baba O’Riley.” The Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame, a nonprofit focusing on youth music education, just shared video on TikTok of Daltrey singing the praises of the Central Pennsylvania Youth All-Star Band, who covered theRead More →
L-R: Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult/photo credit: Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Blue Öyster Cult’s classic tune “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” was the subject of a now legendary Saturday Night Live sketch in 2000, which featured Will Ferrell on the cowbell and host Christopher Walken as producer Bruce Dickinson,Read More →
Courtesy of Disney+ & Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Cher is working on a new album, and we should all fully appreciate it when it arrives, because it just might be the last one we get from the ageless diva. The British paper The Sun reports that during an event inRead More →
UMe Queen’s Roger Taylor is defending the Band Aid charity after it received criticism for its decision to release a 40th anniversary remix of the charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” The original “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” was spearheaded by Bob Geldof and released in 1984, featuring a collection of U.K. starsRead More →
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic The surviving original members of the Grateful Dead just revealed that a 60th anniversary reunion was in the works prior to the October death of band member Phil Lesh at the age of 84. Bobby Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart shared the news in an interview with CBS Mornings, tapedRead More →
On This Day, Nov. 27, 1970 … The Beatles‘ George Harrison released his third studio album, the triple album All Things Must Pass, which would go on to spend seven weeks on top of the Billboard Album chart. The record, co-produced by Phil Spector, was Harrison’s first full-length album followingRead More →
Desiree Navarro/WireImage Michael McDonald is letting everyone know that he has the ability to laugh at himself. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the Doobie Brothers singer tells the magazine how he felt about a scene in the 2005 Judd Apatow-directed movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin that basically makes fun ofRead More →
Steve Morley/Redferns A rare handwritten letter by John Lennon to Eric Clapton is set to go up for auction in Spain in December. International Autographs Auctions Europe SL will auction off the eight-page document from the 1970s, which seems to be a draft of a note in which The Beatles legend writes of aRead More →
