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Fleetwood Mac founder Mick Fleetwood made a special appearance Saturday night at the second annual Maui Music and Food Experience.

The two-day event took place Friday and Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa in Hawaii, with Fleetwood turning up for a Jimi Hendrix tribute during a set by Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk. Other special guests during the performance included The Isley Brothers‘ Ernie Isley; Bernard Fowler, best known for his longtime career singing backup for The Rolling Stones; and blues rock guitarist Wayne Baker Brooks.

The Maui Music and Food Experience helped raise $200,000 for the Hua Momona Foundation and its charitable efforts to help the Lahaina community. The organization plans to hold another event on Nov. 7 in Chicago.

Fleetwood also performed at the inaugural Maui Music and Food Experience, as did Neville and Fowler. It took place in September 2024, and raised money for essential services like food and housing for the survivors of the 2023 Maui wildfires. Fleetwood himself was a victim of the fires; his Maui restaurant, Fleetwood’s on Front Street, was one of the many businesses destroyed.

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New York’s Ellis Island was once the biggest immigrant processing station in the country, and now a whole other type of foreigner will be taking over the historic site.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band Foreigner has announced a special 50th anniversary concert on Ellis Island on Sept. 6. The concert, with the Statue of Liberty in the background, will feature original lead singer Lou Gramm and surprise guests. It will be filmed for a documentary to be released in 2026.

Only 250 fans will be able to attend the show; the band is giving away 10 pairs of tickets through Instagram and Facebook, with winners selected at random on Aug. 29. Information on how to enter can be found on Foreigner’s Instagram page. There are also a limited number of Premium or Live Concert Experience tickets on sale now. 

Next up, Foreigner brings their tour to Walla Walla, Washington, on Aug. 27. A complete list of dates can be found at ForeignerOnline.com.

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Neil Young famously blasted corporate sponsorship invading rock and roll in the 1988 song “This Note’s For You,” and it appears that he’s still not happy about it.

During his show Sunday night, he performed the song during his encore, which according to setlist.fm marked the first time he’s performed the track since 1997. The song directly calls out corporations like Coke, Pepsi and Budweiser in its lyrics. The choice to add it to his set Sunday was notable as he was headlining a venue sponsored by a corporation, the Budweiser Stage in Toronto.

“This Note’s For You” was the subject of some controversy when the song was released. The title was inspired by Budweiser’s “This Bud’s For You” campaign, and the video for the track parodied popular ads that featured music and appearances by artists like Eric Clapton, Genesis and others, and included impersonators of Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson.

MTV initially refused to air it but the network eventually added it to the rotation and it went on to win video of the year at the 1989 MTV VMAs.

And Young fans in Canada may get to hear him perform the song again. He’s set to play the Budweiser Stage in Toronto again on Tuesday. 

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Back in April, former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar released the song “Encore, Thank You, Good Night,” revealing that the tune was inspired by a dream he had about his late bandmate Eddie Van Halen. Well, now Van Halen’s other lead singer, David Lee Roth, has weighed in on it.

Fan shot footage posted to YouTube shows that during a concert in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, earlier this month, Roth seemed to mock Hagar’s dream, revealing that he too got a visit from Eddie’s ghost.

Calling Hagar “one of my esteemed colleagues” with a “great voice,” Roth joked, “I don’t know what the odds are, but last night the ghost of Eddie Van Halen visited me at the f****** hotel room. I was watching the weather report and he came in and he was laughing. His f****** ghost was laughing.”

“I said, ‘What did you do now?’ He said, ‘Dave, Dave … Dave, you know that song I gave Hagar?’ I said ‘What now?’ He said, ‘It’s actually [Iron Butterfly’s hit] ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ backwards. Don’t f****** tell him,'” Roth continued, tongue in cheek.

Roth said after laughing and sharing a cigarette together, he let Eddie know how he felt about him.

“I hugged my brother Ed, and I said, ‘Man, do I f****** miss you.’ And he said, ‘I miss you too, Dave,'” Roth shared. “He said, ‘But you know what? You should still go to hell.’ And I said, ‘Save me a seat.'”

Roth is set to bring his tour to Gary, Indiana, on Tuesday. A complete list of dates can be found at DavidLeeRoth.com.

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On This Day, Aug. 18, 1986…

Bon Jovi released their third studio album, Slippery When Wet, which wound up being a huge breakthrough for the band.

The album, produced by Bruce Fairbairn, spent eight weeks at #1 on the Billboard Albums chart, and was the band’s first #1 album.

It produced two #1 singles, “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Livin’ on a Prayer,” both of which were written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child. The album’s third single, “Wanted Dead or Alive,” was a top-10 hit, peaking at #7 on the Hot 100.

Slippery When Wet would go on to be Billboard’s top-selling album of 1987, and has since been certified 15-times Platinum by the RIAA.

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The premiere date for a BBC documentary on the late Ozzy Osbourne has been postponed.

The film, titled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, was set to air Monday, but has been moved to an as-yet unannounced date. In a statement, the BBC says, “The film has moved in the schedules and new transmission details will be confirmed in due course.”

Coming Home follows Ozzy’s return home to England after long living in the U.S. leading up to the big Back to the Beginning concert on July 5, which marked his and Black Sabbath‘s final live performance. Ozzy died just over two weeks later, on July 22.

“Filmed over three years, [Coming Home] captures the extraordinary roller-coaster of their lives as Sharon [Osbourne] and Ozzy attempt to complete their long-held dream of moving back to the UK, Ozzy heroically battles to get fit enough to perform, and the family deal with the dramatic consequences of his ill-health,” a press release reads.

Coming Home was originally planned as a documentary series called Home to Roost, which was first announced in 2022. Details of the standalone doc were announced on Aug. 7.

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Ronnie Rondell, Jr., the American stuntman who appeared on the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Were Here, has died.

An obituary announcement posted online reveals that Rondell passed away Aug. 12, at the age of 88.

The cover of Wish You Were Here, from design studio Hipgnosis, was photographed by Aubrey “Po” Powell, and featured two businessmen shaking hands, one of which was Rondell, who was set on fire.

In addition to the Wish You Were Here cover, Rondell appeared in TV and movies, including 1974’s Blazing Saddles, 1987’s Lethal Weapon and 1994’s The Crow.

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John Fogerty and his bandmates in Creedence Clearwater Revival did not break up on the best of terms in the ’70s. The acrimonious split resulted in a rift between John and his brother and bandmate, Tom Fogerty, which lasted until Tom’s death in 1990.

“We certainly were estranged,” John tells People, noting that things were so bad between them that at one point Tom sided with Fantasy Records exec Saul Zaentz, the owner of John’s old label, who also owned the royalties to the CCR catalog.

Tom actually called Zaentz his “best friend” once, which John says was “like a dagger in my heart at the time.”

“But many, many years after that, long after Tom had passed away, I actually made it a point in my own consciousness to forgive Tom for all of that,” John tells the mag. “If he’d gotten a chance to survive, I think he would’ve come to the place where we’d say, ‘All that stuff’s crap,’ and let it go.”

He also thinks they may have suggested making music together again, which would have helped them heal and “realize our much stronger bond as brothers.”

“We didn’t get that chance, but I feel that, at least on my side of it, I’ve felt happy and positive toward Tom,” John adds. “The idea of meeting him in the afterlife would be a very joyful thing.”

John, who regained the rights to his music in 2023, is set to release the new album Legacy: the Creedence Clearwater Revival years, on Friday. The album was recorded with his sons Shane Fogerty and Tyler Fogerty and features rerecorded takes on CCR classics.

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The Who kicked off their The Song Is Over North America Farewell Tour Saturday in Sunrise, Florida, treating fans to a song they’ve never played live before.

According to setlist.fm, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers performed the Who’s Next track “Going Mobile,” with Pete Townshend’s brother, guitarist Simon Townshend, handling lead vocals. It marked the first time The Who had ever played the 1971 song live in concert.

“Going Mobile” was part of four straight songs from Who’s Next, with the band performing “Bargain.” “Love Ain’t For Keeping” and “Behind Blue Eyes” right before it. Later in the concert they also played “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “The Song Is Over,” and “Baba O’Riley,” from the same album.

The set was filled with a whole host of other Who classics. They opened with “I Can’t Explain,” and also played tracks like “Who Are You,” “I Can See For Miles,” “Pinball Wizard,” “My Generation,” “You Better You Bet,” “The Real Me,” “Eminence Front,” and more.

According to USA Today, while the band did work through some technical difficulties during the show, Roger Daltrey noted it would make the gig more memorable. 

“You’ll never remember the perfect show,” Daltrey said after an issue before “You Better You Bet.” “You’ll remember the f***-ups.”

They also joked about their drummer drama, referring to the fact that they they fired, then re-hired, then fired drummer Zak Starkey earlier this year. When introducing new drummer Scott Devours, the drummer for Daltrey’s solo tours, Townshend joked, “I have no idea who he is.”

The Who’s The Song Is Over North American Farewell tour hits Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday, with dates confirmed through Sept. 28 in Las Vegas. A complete list of dates can be found at TheWho.com.

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The legendary Talking Heads have teamed up with Welcome Skateboards for a once in a lifetime collaboration.

The skateboard company has just launched a limited-edition merch collection celebrating the band’s debut album, Talking Heads: 77. The line includes two graphic tees and a custom skateboard deck, with all items featuring early shots of Talking Heads taken by the late photographer Mick Rock.

“We’ve always been inspired by artists who disregard rules and create new genres, and Talking Heads are the epitome of that,” said Jason Celaya, founder of Welcome Skateboards. “This collaboration is a nod to the creative rebellion that Talking Heads brought to the music world.”

The Talking Heads X Welcome collaboration is currently available online and at select skate shops worldwide.

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