The Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere has reportedly found its Little Steven.
Deadline reports that actor Johnny Cannizzaro, who starred in Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of the musical Jersey Boys, has been cast to play Springsteen’s longtime friend and E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt in the film, about the making of The Boss’ 1982 album Nebraska.
Crazy Heart writer/director Scott Cooper is directing the film, which will star The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen. The cast also includes Odessa Young, Paul Walter Hauser and Harrison Sloan Gilbertson.
The project is an adaptation of Warren Zane’s 2023 book, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.
Foreigner is set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday, but it turns out founding members Mick Jones and Dennis Elliot won’t be attending the festivities.
In a post on Instagram, the band revealed that they are “greatly looking forward” to Saturday’s celebration, with Foreigner performing with Demi Lovato, Sammy Hagar and Kelly Clarkson “in a set celebrating the induction of the guys who started it all almost fifty years ago.”
The post reveals that the only band members who’ll be attending the ceremony will be singer Lou Gramm, keyboardist Al Greenwood and bassist Rick Wills, noting the trio will “accept the awards on behalf of the band’s leader and founder Mick Jones and Dennis Elliot along [with] those of Ian McDonald and Ed Gagliardi who passed away some years ago.”
The 2024 induction ceremony, taking place at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, will stream live on Disney+ at 7 p.m. ET. On Jan. 1, ABC will air the special 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, featuring performance highlights.
In other news … Foreigner is set to perform at the halftime show during Sunday’s Cleveland Browns game against the Cincinnati Bengals. The performance is part of the Browns’ celebration of this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees.
U2 is throwing it back to 2004, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb with a look at the video for the album’s first single, “Vertigo.”
The band announced they’ll release a behind-the-scenes video detailing the making of the song’s music video on Friday.
The video for “Vertigo,” directed by the team of Alex & Martin, was shot in Spain and had the band performing in a desert. It won a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video in 2005.
U2 is also celebrating the 20th anniversary of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb with the release of what they’re calling a “shadow album,” featuring songs from the original album’s recording sessions. Dubbed How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb, the album features 10 previously unreleased tracks from the band’s archive. It will be released Nov. 29 as an exclusive for Record Store Day Black Friday, along with a digital release.
In addition, on Nov. 22 U2 will release a special 20th anniversary remastered edition of How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, featuring the bonus track “Fast Car,” as well as a package with the remaster and the shadow album together, dubbed How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Re-Assemble Edition).
Paul McCartney dusted off a classic Beatles tune for his fourth and final Got Back show in São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday.
According to setlist.fm, McCartney added the 1963 track “All My Loving” to the set about four songs in, marking the first time he’s played the tune on this tour and the first time he’s played it in concert since 2019.
Although “All My Loving” wasn’t officially released as a single in either the U.S. or the U.K., it got enough radio play to become a hit for The Beatles. It was actually the first song they performed during their debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964.
As for the rest of McCartney’s São Paulo concert, he played a total of 37 songs, including Beatles tracks like “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Got To Get You Into My Life,” “Love Me Do,” “Blackbird,” “Get Back,” “Hey Jude” and the most recent track, “Here and Now,” as well as Wings tunes “Live and Let Die,” “Let Em In” and “Jet.”
It also included McCartney solo songs like “Maybe I’m Amazed”; “My Valentine,” which was dedicated to Paul’s wife, Nancy Shevell; and “Here Today,” which was dedicated to John Lennon.
McCartney has one more show in Brazil on Saturday in Florianópolis, with upcoming shows in Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico. A complete list of dates can be found at paulmccartney.com.
Former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee has shared a statement as he continues to recover from being shot in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Lee writes in a Facebook post, “I deeply appreciate all the concern and well wishes. Makes everything going on a little better.”
Lee was walking his dog, Coco, early in the morning when he was shot three times.
“Don’t want to go into details now, I’m tired, but I feel relatively very lucky,” Lee writes. “The police found 15 shell casings at the scene which means he emptied his clip on me. I could only dodge so many so one bullet went through my forearm, one through my foot, and one in the back which broke a rib and damaged a lung.”
“Priority now is to keep draining my lung till it’s done crying,” he continues. “Then we can pull that tube out and concentrate on the more minor injuries.”
Lee concludes by assuring, “Coco’s fine and appreciates your inquiries!”
Lee played in Ozzy’s band from 1982 to 1987. In a statement to TMZ, Ozzy said, “It’s been 37 years since I’ve seen Jake E. Lee, but that still doesn’t take away from the shock of hearing what happened to him,” adding, “It’s just another senseless act of gun violence … I just hope he’ll be OK.”
Bruce Springsteen released his fifth studio album, The River – his only double album to date.
The project was originally intended as a single album called The Ties That Bind, but Springsteen canceled its release at the last minute and wrote more songs. Retitled The River, the album’s 20 tracks featured a deliberate mix of fun, upbeat tunes and darker material.
The River went on to become Bruce’s first #1 album and contained his first top 10 hit, “Hungry Heart.” It has since been certified quintuple Platinum by the RIAA.
Many songs on the album became fan favorites, including “Out in the Street,” “Sherry Darling,” the title track and “You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch),” with many becoming staples of The Boss’ live shows.
In 2015, Springsteen released the box set The Ties That Bind: The River collection and celebrated the original album’s 35th anniversary with a tour in which he performed the double album in its entirety.
Jake E. Lee is on the mend after he was shot multiple times in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
That’s according to a text exchange between the former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist and former Guns N’ Roses and Sixx:A.M. shredder Ashba, who posted a screenshot of the conversation in his Instagram Story.
“Please tell me you’re okay??” Ashba texted Lee, who then responded, “Doing surprisingly well.”
“I am one luck mother f*****,” Lee continued. “Just make sure your bday bash is wheelchair accessible! Just jestin’.”
According to a statement from Lee’s management, Lee was shot while walking his dog early Tuesday morning in what is believed to be a completely random incident. The statement added that Lee is “expected to fully recover.”
Lee played in Ozzy’s solo band from 1982 to 1987. In a statement to TMZ, Ozzy said, “It’s been 37 years since I’ve seen Jake E. Lee, but that still doesn’t take away from the shock of hearing what happened to him today. It’s just another senseless act of gun violence. I send my thoughts to him and his beautiful daughter, Jade. I just hope he’ll be OK.”
Madame Tussauds is set to honor Elton John with a brand new wax figure.
The museum just revealed a preview of a new gravity-defying statue featuring Elton’s signature 1970s keyboard handstand move. The figure is expected to debut later this year in Madame Tussauds London’s Impossible Festival music zone, which already features statues of Queen’s Freddie Mercury and David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, as well as Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande and Amy Winehouse.
“We’ve been creating figures of Sir Elton John since the beginning of his legendary career, and he has always inspired us to go above and beyond in our creations,” Steve Blackburn, general manager at Madame Tussauds London, says. “Back in the 1970s, his first figure was our first talking figure, and in 2024 we’re determined to go big again.”
He adds, “The figure’s iconic, gravity-defying pose will capture the essence of Elton’s legendary early performances in a way that only Madame Tussauds London can.”
A new class of musicians will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday, and Sting, a Hall of Fame member himself, is excited by some of this year’s inductees.
The rocker tells ABC Audio he’s particularly happy to see Peter Frampton and Mary J. Blige get in this year.
“I’m a big fan of Peter Frampton,” Sting says. “I think he’s had an amazing career from way back when he was in England and I was a kid. So, yeah, it’s great.”
He adds, “Mary’s a dear friend of mine. We worked together, so that’s fantastic.”
Sting’s also happy to see the late British blues musician Alexis Korner get recognized in the Musical Influence category.
He notes Korner was a “very, very influential figure in London in the blues scene, in the jazz scene,” sharing, “The Rolling Stones came out of that thing and so many other people,” a reference to the fact that Stones drummer Charlie Watts was in Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated,along with several other artists.
Sting, whose Sting 3.0 tour hits Miami on Sunday, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 as a member of The Police. During their induction he reunited with bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland to perform three songs: “Roxanne,” “Message in a Bottle” and their #1 hit “Every Breath You Take.”
Meanwhile, the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held Saturday at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland. It will stream live on Disney+ at 7 p.m. ET and will be available to rewatch following the ceremony.
On Jan. 1, ABC will air the special 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, featuring performance highlights. It’ll be available the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
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