Pink Floyd landed their first #1 with their eighth studio album, The Dark Side of the Moon.
The album, which features such songs as “Money” and “Brain Damage,” spent only one week at #1. But it went on to spend 741 weeks on the Billboard Albums chart between 1973 and 1988, and has since gone on to spend 990 weeks on the chart.
The Dark Side of the Moon became one of the band’s most commercially successful releases ever. As of 1998, the album had been certified 15-times Platinum by the RIAA.
In 2023, Pink Floyd celebrated the 50th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, releasing a box set that featured a remastered version of the album, along with a live concert recorded in 1974 at Wembley Empire Pool in London and more. Roger Waters also released his own reimagining of the album, The Dark Side of the Moon, Redux.
Dave Grohl made a surprise appearance during a charity concert in Los Angeles on Saturday.
The Foo Fighters frontman was joined by a band including Foos keyboardist Rami Jaffee for a set of covers. Footage posted by the fan account Foozie’s Foo Fighters News shows Grohl leading a rendition of the LCD Soundsystem song “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House.”
The set list also included performances of The Knack‘s “My Sharona” and Queen and David Bowie‘s “Under Pressure” alongside Luke Spiller of The Struts.
The LA concert follows Grohl’s surprise appearance at Coachella weekend two alongside conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic as he’s been slowly starting to perform again following his 2024 infidelity scandal. He also reunited with fellow surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear during the FireAid and SNL50 concerts.
Bad Company is thanking fans for the support that helped them get chosen for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year.
“Thank you to all of our fans and voting members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame committee,” the band writes on Instagram. “Congratulations to all our fellow inductees. We stand alongside some amazing artists, past and present. What an absolute honor.”
Frontman Paul Rodgers tells Billboard it’s “pretty amazing and very cool to be part of an iconic American institution that celebrates music, musicians and sometimes unsung heroes behind the scenes,” adding he’s “looking forward to seeing some old friends, reconnecting with (fellow inductee) Chubby Checker — maybe do the twist?”
Drummer Simon Kirke adds he’s “very happy” to be chosen. The band’s been eligible for the Rock Hall since 1999 and Kirke notes, “It’s been a long time coming… I’m not taking anything away from the (Rock Hall) committee; they had their reasons, but it’s a welcome addition if you will.”
The band’s only other surviving member, guitarist Mick Ralphs, says he’s “elated” by the decision, although Billboard notes Ralphs, who suffered a stroke in 2016, won’t be able to attend the November ceremony. Both Rodgers and Kirke are just happy Ralphs is here to know the induction is happening.
“To be honest, every year we were not nominated it was another blow, not necessarily for me but we wanted Mick to be able to see this,” Kirke shares. “So that’s been rectified, and we’ll give him a shout from the podium in November.”
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction is happening Nov. 8 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles and will stream live on Disney+. A highlights special will air on ABC at a later date and stream on Hulu the next day.
Vicky Cornell, the widow of late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, has shared her reaction to the band’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
“Thank you @rockhall,” Vicky writes in an Instagram post. “And huge thanks to all the fans who voted who’s constant love and support keep his legacy alive.”
Chris Cornell died in 2017. Soundgarden was first nominated for the Rock Hall in 2020, and were on the ballot again in 2023 before finally being chosen for induction as part of the 2025 class.
“It’s always bittersweet but Chris would be so honored and it is well past due and beyond well deserved!” Vicky writes. “On behalf of Chris and our family -thank you!! Loud love.”
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place Nov. 8, and will stream live on Disney+. Other inductees include The White Stripes, Bad Company, Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, Joe Cocker and Chubby Checker.
Bad Company, Joe Cocker, Soundgarden and The White Stripes are among the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, who were announced Sunday on American Idol.
Also getting into the Rock Hall this year are“Girls Just Want To Have Fun” singer Cyndi Lauper, “Twist” king Chubby Checker and rap group Outkast.
While they’ve both been eligible for decades, Bad Company, the supergroup featuring former Free members Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke, and Cocker are getting in on their first nomination, as is Checker.
“Each of these inductees created their own sound and attitude that had a profound impact on culture and helped to change the course of Rock & Roll forever,” said John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. “Their music gave a voice to generations and influenced countless artists that followed in their footsteps.”
The Rock Hall will also induct the late “Werewolves of London” singer Warren Zevon and rap group Salt-N-Pepa with the Musical Influence Award, while the late keyboardist/session man Nicky Hopkins, renowned session bassist Carole Kaye and R&B producer Thom Bell will be inducted with the Musical Excellence Award.
Among the 2025 nominees who didn’t get in this year are Billy Idol, The Black Crowes, Oasis, Mariah Carey, Mexican rock band Maná and Phish, who won the fan vote.
The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place Nov. 8 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles and will stream live on Disney+. A highlights special will air on ABC at a later date and stream on Hulu the next day.
The Bruce Springsteen Archives Center for American Music has launched a new charity auction in connection with its annual American Music Honors, which this year will honor John Fogerty, Smokey Robinson, RageAgainst The Machine’s Tom Morello, Emmylou Harris and Joe Ely.
The auction includes plenty of Springsteen-related items, including a chance to meet The Boss, take a ride along the Jersey Shore with him and go home with his 2000 JPB Confederado motorcycle.
Other items in the auction include: tickets to a 2025 Springsteen concert of your choice; a signed Springsteen Born to Run photo; a black Squier Stratocaster signed by The Boss; a Telecaster signed by Springsteen and this year’s honorees, along with E Street Band members Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa and Stevie Van Zandt; and framed photos of Fogerty and Smokey, signed by photographer Danny Clinch.
Bidding is open until May 8. More info can be found at charitybuzz.com. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music.
The third annual American Music Honors will take place Saturday at the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, the home of the Bruce Springsteen Archives. The awards are handed out each year to artists “who have demonstrated artistic excellence, creative integrity, and a longstanding commitment to the value of music in our national consciousness.”
While his main gig is frontman for The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger has also dabbled in a solo career, and now a compilation of his biggest solo tracks is coming to vinyl for the first time.
The Very Best of Mick Jagger was originally released digitally and on CD back in 2007, but the album is getting its first-ever vinyl release on May 1.
The two-LP set consists of 17 tracks, including such songs as “Dancing in the Street” with David Bowie, “Just Another Night” and “Lucky In Love.” There are also three tracks that up until now have never been released on vinyl: “Too Many Cooks,” which was produced by John Lennon, “Checking Up On Baby” and “Charmed Live.”
Jagger has released four solo albums throughout his career: 1985’s She’s The Boss, 1987’s Primitive Cool, 1993’s Wandering Spirit and 2001’s Goodness In The Doorway. “Dancing in the Street” is his only top-10 solo hit.
Bruce Springsteen fans are anxiously awaiting the release of Tracks II: The Lost Albums on June 27, and E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg says they won’t be disappointed.
“I’ve heard everything and I think the fans are going to love it,” Weinberg tells the U.K. outlet The Times. “There is one album [Inyo] Bruce played me where he utilized a mariachi band of musicians, Hispanic musicians. It was just incredible, incredible music.”
Tracks II contains seven unreleased Springsteen albums, recorded between 1983 and 2018. That means one album that’s not part of the set is the long-rumored full band recording of Bruce’s 1982 solo acoustic album, Nebraska, nicknamed Electric Nebraska by fans. But Weinberg hopes the public will one day get to hear it.
He says those recordings were “kick-**, great versions” of the album’s songs, noting, “There’s been this myth that they weren’t well played but we played the hell out of them.”
He adds, “I know the songs were recorded, the tracks are there, so I hope one day Electric Nebraska does make the light of day.”
For now, fans are going to have to settle for a film about the making of Nebraska. Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White as The Boss, is due out later this year.
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The Who may be known for their live shows, but it turns out Pete Townshend may not exactly be enjoying his time on the stage.
In a new interview with Spain’s RockFM, Townshend shares that he doesn’t necessarily love performing.
“Most musicians are not like me. Most musicians do two things that I don’t really do or don’t enjoy doing. One is they love performing,” he says. “I don’t love performing. I don’t like being on a stage. I don’t mind being on a stage. I don’t hate it, but it doesn’t fill my soul in the way that you see some performers, just their soul is filled through being on the stage. That’s not me.”
The other thing he doesn’t love to do is collaborate with other artists, sharing, “For me, collaboration is something that I find very difficult.”
“If I was in a studio, like with a really, really great musician, or with a group of really great musicians, I think I would find it very hard. I often do find it very hard,” he says. “I find it difficult to collaborate. I find it very difficult looking in the eyes of another musician. I find myself looking to my own energy to express myself. So, I’m very different to most musicians in that respect,” although he notes that he does “admire the process of collaboration.”
While he may not love performing, Townshend will be doing just that in July. The Who have two shows coming up, both in Italy: July 20 in Padua and July 21 in Milan.
KISS co-founder Peter Criss is releasing a new solo album, which will be his first in almost 20 years.
Criss revealed the news in an announcement video posted by the KISS FAQ podcast, sharing, “I have my new rock ‘n’ roll album to KISS Army guys coming out in the fall, and I really hope you like it, man.”
The podcast’s host, Julian Gill, went on to describe the record as a “hard rock kick-a** album,” noting that he got to listen to it and that it’s “absolutely amazing to hear this new music.”
“It was vibrant and powerful,” he adds. “I think KISS fans are gonna love this album.”
According to Gill, the album features guest appearances by John 5, bassists Billy Sheehan and MatthewMontgomery aka Piggy D, the legendary Paul Shaffer and more.
“I had an absolute blast doing this album, and everyone was so much fun to work with — they were just amazing,” Criss told Rolling Stonein a separate interview.
So far there’s no word on a title or exact release date for Criss’ album. It will be the drummer’s first solo album since 2007’s One For All.
