Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Peter Frampton is featured on a new cover of his classic hit “Baby, I Love Your Way.”
Jazz artist Deborah Silver has released the new take on the song just in time for Valentine’s Day. The cover features guitar contributions from Frampton, with Silver backed by the Count Basie Orchestra.
“I hope you enjoy our tribute to Peter’s iconic hit with someone you love,” Silver shared on Instagram.
“Baby, I Love Your Way” was a single on the guitar great’s fourth studio album, 1975’s Frampton, but became a huge hit after a live version was released from his 1976 multi-Platinum album Frampton Comes Alive!. The live release peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.
KISS wants to help all the couples out there get in the lovin’ mood this Valentine’s Day.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just released a new fan-curated playlist to Spotify and YouTube for the romantic holiday, titled You Never Forget Your First KISS.
The new playlist was created by longtime KISS superfan Lori Georgevich, KISS’ unofficial “Rose Girl” for the past 40 years, given that name because whenever she attends a show she hands Paul Stanley a rose during “Rock and Roll All Nite.”
Georgevich’s playlist includes such songs as “I Was Made For Lovin’ You,” “Forever” and “Anything For My Baby,” all representing some of her “first” KISS memories, like the first song she heard, her first KISS album, her first concert and more.
Georgevich has been a fan since her teen years and even met her husband because of their shared love of the band. Their wedding was KISS themed and included band member Eric Singer as a guest.
This is the second fan-curated playlist the band has shared. The first, Hidden Hits, was created by superfan Matt Porter.
Back in December, the Royal Mint announced it had teamed with Paul McCartney for a set of gold and silver coins honoring his musical legacy. Now a special bespoke set of Presentation Edition coins honoring the rocker is going for auction, part of the Mint’s Music Legend series.
The rare currency auction house Stack’s Bowers Galleries is handling the auction, which will take place March 19. Only one gold and four silver pieces will be up for auction, each weighing 5 kilograms.
McCartney and his team helped develop the coins. The gold one, which took 250 hours to make, including three days of polishing, was signed by the rocker during his 2024 Got Back tour in Paris. The person who nabs the gold coin will also get a video from McCartney congratulating them on the winning bid.
In total, only five silver Presentation Edition coins have actually been made, the four up for auction and one that was given to McCartney.
All of the coins come with a certificate of authenticity signed by McCartney.
“This feels like a huge honor,” McCartney shared when the coins were first announced in December. “It’s not anything I would have ever expected to happen when I was a kid.”
More info on the auction can be found at stacksbowers.com. McCartney and the Royal Mint will be donating a portion of the proceeds to charity.
Back in January Ringo Starr headlined two nights at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, joined by a lineup of all-star guests. Soon folks at home are going to get to see what went down.
The previously announced Ringo & Friends at the Ryman special will debut March 10 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+.
Taped on Jan. 14 and Jan. 15, the special has Ringo performing with such artists as Sheryl Crow, Jack White, Brenda Lee, Mickey Guyton, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Emmylou Harris, The War and Treaty and more.
The special will include performances of Beatles classics, Ringo solo hits and songs from Ringo’s recently released country album, Look Up, which was produced by T Bone Burnett. It will also include Ringo discussing the influence country music has had on his life and career, with the guests also sharing stories of how Ringo has influenced their music.
“It is always a thrill to play the Ryman and this time we are going country!” Ringo shared. “T Bone has put together a great show. It was two nights of peace, love and country music.”
The special also featured an all-star performance of the Beatles classic “With A Little Help From My Friends,” with proceeds from the song benefiting California wildfire relief efforts.
Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer has revealed that he’s been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and one of the side effects is that he’s no longer able to play guitar.
“Towards the end of the last Stray Cats tour I noticed that my hands were cramping up. I’ve since discovered that I have an auto-immune disease,” he shared on social media. “I cannot play guitar. There is no pain, but it feels like I am wearing a pair of gloves when I try to play.”
“I have seen some progress in that I can hold a pen and tie my shoes,” he adds. “I know this sounds ridiculous, but I was at a point where I couldn’t even do that.”
Setzer says he’s being treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, which he describes as “the best hospital in the world,” noting, “I know I will beat this, it will just take some time.”
Stray Cats released their self-titled debut album in 1981, which featured the hit songs “Rock This Town” and “Stray Cat Strut.” They disbanded in 1984, although they’d occasionally reunite over the years. Their most recent tour was in 2024, which was their first tour together in five years. Their last show took place Aug. 17 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Styx and REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin have a treat in store for fans who come out to see their upcoming Brotherhood of Rock tour.
The previously announced tour kicks off May 28 in Greenville, South Carolina, and now both acts have revealed that they will be playing one of their classic albums in its entirety on the tour.
Styx is set to perform their 1977 release The Grand Illusion, which features such hits as “Come Sail Away” and “Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man),” while Cronin, who is on the bill as the Kevin Cronin Band, will play REO Speedwagon’s 1980 hit Hi Infidelity, with songs like “Take It On The Run” and “Keep On Loving You.”
Both artists previously played these albums in their entirety during residencies in Las Vegas. This will mark the first time both have played their classic albums in full on tour.
The Brotherhood of Rock tour, featuring former Eagles guitarist Don Felder as special guest, is set to run until Aug. 24 in Milwaukee. A complete list of dates can be found at styxworld.com and kevincronin.com.
Styx and Cronin, as frontman of REO Speedwagon, first toured together in 2000 and 2001; this will mark the sixth time they’ve hit the road together.
Rocker Elton John married German-born sound engineer Renate Blauel in an extravagant wedding in Australia. The marriage didn’t last long and they split in 1988.
Elton has said he realized he was “living a lie” and later said he believed that “being married would cure me of everything wrong in my life.”
Elton’s love life took a turn for the better when he started a relationship with David Furnish in 1993. In 2005 they entered into a civil partnership in the U.K., and after same-sex marriage became legal there, they married in December of 2014. They have two sons together: Zachary Jackson Levon, who was born in 2010, and Elijah Joseph Daniel, who was born in 2013.
In 2020, Blauel sued Elton for writing about their relationship in his 2019 autobiography, Me, but the suit was quickly settled out of court.
Ozzy Osbourne has teamed up with Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison to rerecord their 2015 collaboration, “Gods of Rock Rock N Roll.”
The updated version, out now via digital outlets, adds a choir and a 61-piece orchestra to the track, alongside guitarist Steve Stevens, who also plays with Idol.
“Billy and I wrote ‘Gods of Rock N Roll’ together in a hotel room while I was touring in South America about 10 years ago,” Ozzy tells Kerrang!, which premiered the song’s accompanying video. “This rerecorded version of the song finally has all the bells and whistles. I told Billy then that it needed an orchestra and a choir, but it took 10 f****** years for him to listen to me!”
The new “Gods of Rock N Roll” appears on the deluxe version of Morrison’s 2024 album, The Morrison Project, dropping digitally on Feb. 21 and on vinyl March 7. The original record also included the Ozzy collaboration “Crack Cocaine.”
The new documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the formation of legendary rock band Led Zeppelin, up until the release of their 1969 sophomore album, Led Zeppelin II. The filmmakers — Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty — say there’s a good reason why they wanted to stick to that era.
“It was always going to be the origin story,” McGourty tells ABC Audio, “because the beginnings of things are always the most interesting.”
The film includes new interviews with the band’s three surviving members — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones — and MacMahon, the film’s director, says they “were incredibly candid, once they agreed” to participate.
“They are completely without guile, artifice or self-consciousness,” he says. “I mean, they’re literally talking to you the way that they talk to us privately when it was just us in a room.”
The film also includes archival audio from the band’s late drummer, John Bonham, and MacMahon says he couldn’t imagine making the film without it.
“Led Zeppelin, more than any other musical entity I’m aware of, you remove one of those people, [and] it wouldn’t have been Led Zeppelin and it wouldn’t have worked,” he shares. “So if one of them was missing, I think the story for me could not have been told.”
The film also features full archival Led Zeppelin performances, with McGourty explaining, “We wanted it to be like something like the Rocky Horror Picture Show that we loved, that you could go and see multiple times, like a real concert experience.”
“I mean, the music’s absolutely incredible, so we’re giving the audience the music in the purest form possible,” MacMahon adds. “It’s like, if you did a film about Led Zeppelin and … you’re not showing the whole songs in the most powerful way possible, why are you making the movie?”
Sebastian Bach has released a new video for a track off his most recent solo album, Child Within The Man.
The latest clip is for “To Live Again,” a song he co-wrote with Myles Kennedy, who also teamed with Bach for the first song released from the album, “What Do I Got To Lose?”
“‘To Live Again’ is the closest song to a ballad on the record,” Bach shares. “I could not be more proud of this song and this video.”
He added, “This video is like a fantasy dream that has been going through my head for the last year. The directors Jim Louvau and Tony Aguilera have made recurring dreams that I have had at night come to life in this beautifully shot video.”
Child Within The Man, which was released in May, is Bach’s first solo record since 2014’s Give Em Hell.
