Curb Records The Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley is dropping a new album, Straight from The Heart, next year, marking his first new album in more than a decade. The 12-track album, dropping Feb. 14, features special guests Michael McDonald, Vince Gill, Keb’ Mo’ and Shawn Colvin, helping Medley cover classicRead More →
Geffen/UMe An animated video for the previously unreleased Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers song “Never Be You” has just been released. The clip, directed and animated by Jeff Scher, features hand-drawn images of Petty and the band, cut with similarly drawn visuals of couples kissing, various women and even an alligator. Read More →
Jack Mitchell/Getty Images) A court in Switzerland has ruled that a watch Yoko Ono gave John Lennon shortly before his 1980 death does in fact belong to Ono, and not a watch collector who claimed he legitimately purchased the item. According to Bloomberg, the Patek Philippe watch in question wasRead More →
Dark Horse Records/BMG The new 50th anniversary reissue of George Harrison’s solo album Living in the Material World is out now, and to coincide with the release, the legendary rocker’s estate has shared another previously unheard recording. The latest is an all-star recording of “Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond),” featuring Harrison’s BeatlesRead More →
UMG Nashville Ringo Starr is sharing another preview of his upcoming country album, Look Up. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just released the new song “Thankful,” featuring Alison Krauss, a tune Starr co-wrote with his producer/engineer Bruce Sugar. It is available now via digital outlets. “I love this track … I feelRead More →
On This Day, Nov. 15, 1980 … Blondie landed their fifth U.K. #1 single with “The Tide Is High,” from their fifth studio album, Autoamerican. It would be another18 years before Blondie topped the U.K. chart again, landing at #1 in 1999 with the track “Maria.” “The Tide Is High” was aRead More →
Interscope Elton John and his pal Brandi Carlile teamed up for a new song for his new documentary, and it has finally arrived. The song, “Never Too Late,” was written for Elton John: Never Too Late, which captures Elton looking back on his life and career as he prepares forRead More →
ABC The Beatles have just revealed some new collectibles that fans are going to want to get their hands on. The first is a new limited-edition solid silver submarine to celebrating the band’s iconic 1968 film Yellow Submarine. Only 4,000 will be available, made of almost 1 ounce of pure silver. More Yellow Submarine collectiblesRead More →
Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images Papers of the late songwriter and composer Burt Bacharach, who wrote such songs as “Close To You,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and “I Say a Little Prayer,” have been donated to the Library of Congress. The collection, donated by his wife, Jane Bacharach, includes musicalRead More →
Courtesy of Talmy Enterprises Shel Talmy, the producer who oversaw seminal early recordings by The Who and The Kinks, has died. According to his rep, Talmy died in his sleep on Nov. 13 due to complications from a stroke. He was 87. Born in Chicago, Talmy moved to the U.K. in 1962Read More →
