Record label sues Behr Paint over use of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Paint It Black’

November 13, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

The Rolling Stones’ iconic tune “Paint It Black” is the subject of a new lawsuit filed against Behr Paint.

ABCKO Music & Records, owner of The Stones’ early master recordings, is suing the paint company for copyright infringement for using the 1966 chart-topper in an advertisement for its paint products that appeared on social media.

The suit notes that Behr didn’t pay ABCKO to use the song, while most third parties “pay significant fees,” which they say range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to license such ABKCO recordings for ads.

According to the suit, the “commercial use of the ABKCO Recording has forced a business association upon ABKCO that has harmed its ability to license the ABKCO Recording to Behr’s competitors that would pay for the use” of the song.

ABKCO is claiming it “suffered significant damages” thanks to the unauthorized use of “Paint it Black,” adding Behr’s “acts of infringement have been willful, in reckless disregard of and with indifference to” ABKCO’s rights.

ABKCO is seeking actual damages, to be proven at trial, recovery of any profits Behr made off the use of the song, plus statutory damages and lawyers’ fees.

Pete Townshend is open to using AI for his unfinished music

November 13, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

The Who‘s Pete Townshend has revealed that he’s got lots of unfinished music in his vaults, but he’s not so sure whether fans will ever get to hear it.

Townshend appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday, where he talked about his unfinished works, revealing he has “350, 450 pieces of music.”

“Now, a lot of it is probably terrible,” he said. “I’ve managed to wade through about half of it,” adding, “I don’t know what to do with it.”

He said he’s “quite interested in AI” and he’d be open to using the AI platform Suno or some other platform on “old songs that didn’t quite work because I didn’t get them right [the] first time round.” He explained he’d like to see “what it can make of it. It might be some hits.”

During the episode, Townshend also sat in with The Late Show band, and discussed his Quadrophenia ballet, which opens in New York on Friday, and The Who farewell tour, which wrapped in North America in October.

He insisted the farewell is “genuine,” but joked, “We’re gonna end it after we’ve done as many shows as Elton John,” which got some laughs. “He did 330, we’ve done 22, so we just have another 308 to do. And then we’ll be gone for good.”

While Townshend said he doesn’t usually enjoy touring, he did this time around.

“I decided I was going to try to make Roger [Daltrey] happy, which isn’t easy,” he said, noting singing takes a lot out of Roger. “I thought, you know, I must forget about myself and just do this for him. It could be the last thing we ever do together. And it worked.”

Ringo Starr announces 2026 dates with his All Starr Band

November 13, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

Ringo Starr is hitting the road again.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has announced a string of spring 2026 tour dates, launching May 28 in Temecula, California. The trek features several stops in the Golden State and will also hit Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, before wrapping June 14 in Los Angeles.

As usual, Ringo will be backed by his All Starr Band, made up of Toto’s Steve Lukather, Men At Work’s Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette and Buck Johnson.

A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at RingoStarr.com.

In the meantime, Ringo is hard at work back in the studio with T. Bone Burnett, who produced his 2025 country album, Look Up, with plans to release a new album in 2026.

Foo Fighters give new single ‘Asking for a Friend’ live debut at Mexico show

November 13, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

Foo Fighters performed the live debut of their new single “Asking for a Friend” during their show in Monterrey, Mexico, on Wednesday.

“That’s the first time we’ve ever tried that one live,” frontman Dave Grohl told the cheering audience after the song ended.

The set also included a rare performance of The Colour and the Shape deep cut “Hey, Johnny Park!,” which the Foos hadn’t played live since 2021.

The studio version of “Asking for a Friend” premiered in October. It marks the second new original Foo Fighters song of 2025, following “Today’s Song,” which debuted in July. The most recent Foo Fighters album is 2023’s But Here We Are.

Foo Fighters will play Mexico City on Friday. They’ll launch a world stadium tour in 2026, first in Europe in June before coming to North America in August.

Squeeze announces new album, ‘Trixies’, featuring songs written 50 years ago

November 13, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

Squeeze is getting ready to drop a new album, although the material in it isn’t new … to them.

The band will release Trixies, their first album in eight years, on March 6. The songs on it were the first tunes Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook ever wrote together back when they were teens.

The songs are described as a “collection of stories set in a fictional night club, Trixies.” They were written by the duo back in 1974 when recording was beyond their skill set.

“We fully committed ourselves to songwriting but this was three or four years before we even got to make our first record,” Difford shares. “Long story short, these were songs that we just didn’t have enough musical experience to record properly.”

Now, following the discovery of the original cassette, the band has finally turned the songs into an album, and they’ve just released the first song, “Trixies Pt.1,” to digital outlets.

“The songs that we wrote then astound me. I’m proud of them now, and I’m particularly proud that it was young us that did that,” Tilbrook says, adding, “The act of revisiting the Trixies songs had me in tears, partly because they’re so good, but also because I’m aware of all the stuff that I’ve still yet to hear and write.”

Difford notes, “It really fills me with joy that at my age we can discover that we wrote such great songs when we were teenagers. I’m very proud of that.”

Trixies is available for preorder now.

Ozzy Osbourne was hospitalized two weeks before Back to the Beginning concert, says family

November 13, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

Ozzy Osbourne was hospitalized two weeks before his farewell performance at the Back to the Beginning concert on July 5, his family says.

“We had him in the hospital, and we were just terrified that people were going to find out,” Sharon Osbourne says in the newest episode of The Osbournes Podcast, the first since Ozzy’s death on July 22.

“We had all this security in the hospital, and the hospital was amazing, they really were,” Sharon adds.

Sharon also tells a story about someone coming to the hospital claiming to be the brother of a John Osbourne, which was Ozzy’s birth name. Concerned that the person was an imposter and was trying to finagle his way into seeing Ozzy, Sharon sent down security, only to find out there was another patient in the hospital whose name was also John Osbourne, and the visitor was there to see him.

Despite the hospitalization, Ozzy performed at the Back to the Beginning concert with his solo band and his original Black Sabbath bandmates. He’d already announced ahead of time that the show would mark his final live performance, a promise that he sadly fulfilled upon his passing just over two weeks later.

Tom Petersson on Cheap Trick’s new album, ‘All Washed Up’: ‘We just want to do what we think sounds good’

November 13, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

Cheap Trick will release their 21st studio album, All Washed Up, on Friday, and bassist Tom Petersson says their approach to making records today is the same as it was when they first started out over 50 years ago.

“We just are making songs that we like, would like to hear ourselves,” he tells ABC Audio. “So it’s like we’re making it for ourselves and our friends, and then the rest, it’s like having a lottery ticket.”

Songs on the album range from fast rockers like “The Riff That Won’t Quit” to ballads like “The Best Thing,” but Petersson says they don’t go into the studio with a plan to have specific types of songs on an album.

“If one person doesn’t like it we won’t do it,” he says of the songs they record, noting they won’t include a ballad on a record just because someone tells them to.

“If somebody writes a ballad, then we go, ‘Hey, that is a good one. OK, let’s do that,’” he explains. “Now we just basically do it for our own enjoyment because that’s probably all anybody’s gonna get out of it is their own enjoyment.”

“We want to do something we’re not embarrassed to play for people,” he says, explaining that they wouldn’t want to record something they don’t like even if it could sell 10 million copies.

He adds, “We just want to do what we think sounds good.”

All Washed Up is Cheap Trick’s first album since 2021’s In Another World. It will be released digitally, on CD and on black vinyl. There will also be an orange marble variant, limited to 1,000 copies, sold through the band’s website.

Bryan Adams photo exhibit to open in LA in November

November 12, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

When he isn’t being a rock star and touring the world, Bryan Adams is also an acclaimed photographer, and you’ll be able to see his work in LA.

Adams’ latest photography exhibition, #SHOTBYADAMS, will open at the Leica Store & Gallery Los Angeles Nov. 17 and run through Dec. 1. It’s the first time the show has been staged in the U.S. Among the highlights are Adams’ photos of a smiling Queen Elizabeth II and the late Amy Winehouse, but there are other photos of notable people, as well.

The pictures are black-and-white, color and silver gelatine prints under colored plexiglass. Bryan says in a statement, “In #SHOTBYADAMS, I explore the human experience through light, composition, and authenticity. Photography, for me, is about trust and connection — it’s about capturing what exists between the subject and the lens in a single, unguarded moment.”

Adams, who inducted Joe Cocker into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday and also performed as part of Bad Company‘s induction, is on tour in the U.S. with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo through Nov. 26.

Neil Young, Jackson Browne among the 2025 Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame inductees

November 12, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame in Boston has announced its 2025 inductees, including Neil Young and Jackson Browne.

Young and Browne are recognized in the living artist category, along with Judy Collins, folk singer Tom Paxton and folks/blues singer Tom Rush. The honor goes to “a contemporary performer whose initial impact on the genre was at least 25 years before the year of induction.”

Aretha Franklin, Leonard Cohen and Muddy Watters are among the musicians recognized this year in the legacy artist category, which goes to “a performer whose initial impact on the genre was at least 45 years prior to the year of induction.” Others recognized this year include Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mississippi John Hurt.

“These inductees represent the heart and soul of Folk, Americana, and Roots music,” says J. Casey Soward, president and CEO of the Boch Center, home of the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame. “They gave voice to ordinary people and helped shape the soundtrack of this country; its struggles, its hopes, and its beauty.”

A special ceremony celebrating the artists will take place March 24, 2026, at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre in Beantown. A permanent Legacy exhibit, featuring items from all of the inductees, is also open at the Boch Center Wang Theatre.

Toni Cornell calls Rock Hall performance ‘one of the greatest honors of my life’

November 12, 2025 by Classic Rock 93.9

Toni Cornell has shared a reflection on her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony performance, during which she played Soundgarden‘s “Fell on Black Days” alongside Heart‘s Nancy Wilson in honor of her late father, Chris Cornell.

“Performing ‘Fell on Black Days’ was one of the greatest honors of my life, and one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” Toni writes in an Instagram post. “My dad’s absence is always felt, but singing his songs always makes me feel closer to him. I’m so grateful I got to share this moment for him, and with him, in some way.”

Toni notes that she was just 6 years old when Soundgarden reunited in 2010 and recalls feeling like she was “witnessing something extraordinary” while seeing her dad rejoin his bandmates for their first show since breaking up in 1997.

“Soundgarden belonged in the Rock Hall from the day they started making their revolutionary music,” Toni, now 21, writes. “A huge congratulations to [drummer] Matt [Cameron], [guitarist] Kim [Thayil], [bassist] Ben [Shepherd], and [ex-bassist] Hiro [Yamamoto], and especially to my dad, who should have been here to share this moment with his bandmates. I know how proud he is.”

In the post’s comments, Cameron replied, “Amazing job Toni.”

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