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A classic Loverboy concert from the ’80s is being released in high definition for the very first time.

The Canadian rockers, best known for their classic track “Working for the Weekend,” are set to release Live in ‘82 as limited-edition CD + Blu-ray and LP + DVD sets on June 7. The footage has been restored from Loverboy guitarist Paul Dean‘s personal archive of 16mm film.

“The 1980s was an amazing time, but it’s still amazing now,” Dean shares. “The fact that Loverboy are still together and playing these same songs almost every night – Who’d have thought?”

And the band is giving fans a preview of the concert with the release of a live performance of their top 40 hit “Turn Me Loose,” which is available via digital outlets and on YouTube.

Loverboy’s Live in ’82 is available for preorder now.

Loverboy is set to hit the road this summer as a special guest on Sammy Hagar’s The Best of All Worlds tour, which kicks off July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida. A complete list of Loverboy dates can be found at loverboyband.com.

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Santana’s album Supernatural won a record-breaking nine trophies at the 42nd annual Grammy Awards, which broke the record held by Michael Jackson’s Thriller for most Grammys won by a single album in one night.

Supernatural was named Album of the Year, making Carlos Santana the first Hispanic artist to win that award. 

The album’s hit track “Smooth,” featuring Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas, took home Song of the Year and Record of the Year, as well as Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, with Santana and Thomas teaming for a performance of the song during the telecast.

Another track, “Maria Maria,” won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
 

Released in June 1999, Supernatural had Santana collaborating with a variety of artists, including Thomas, Lauryn Hill, Eric Clapton and more. It reached #1 in 11 countries, and spent 12 weeks on top the Billboard 200 Albums chart.

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There’s no doubt Mick Jagger is in great shape, especially for 80, and now The Rolling Stones frontman is giving fans some insight into how he stays that way. 

The rocker has just shared his workout playlist for Apple Music’s Music That Moves Me series, including tunes by Prince, Marvin Gaye and Daft Punk.

“Sometimes I like to exercise in silence other times I like to be in the gym with Mozart,” Jagger shares, “but most of the time I like to exercise to music like this.” 

The Stones are represented on the list with their Hackney Diamonds track “Mess It Up,” with the Jagger solo tune “God Gave Me Everything” also part of the playlist. Mick also likes to work out to songs like “Erotic City” by Prince, “Got To Give It Up, Pt 1” by Gaye, “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League, The 1975’s “Sex,” “There Was A Time” by James Brown & The Famous Flames and “Rockafella Skank” by Fatboy Slim.

And Jagger is going to need to step up his exercise routine because he’s got some big shows to get ready for. The Rolling Stones kick off their Hackney Diamonds tour on April 28 in Houston, Texas. A complete list of dates can be found at rollingstones.com.

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Swing Fever, Rod Stewart‘s new album with bandleader and TV host Jools Holland, is out February 23. It’s a collection of standards like “Pennies From Heaven” and “Ain’t Misbehavin‘” done in an upbeat, big-band style. Rod had actually started making a swing album before this, but scrapped it because, as he tells ABC Audio, it was “too polite.”

“It didn’t have a rude edge, which is what I wanted,” he adds. “So I went to Jools.”

Once Holland realized that the call he got from Rod Stewart inviting him to make a record wasn’t a prank, he jumped onboard.

“He said, ‘I want it really sort of a bit rough around the edges,'” Holland tells ABC Audio. “And I said, ‘Well, you’ve come to the right man.'” 

As it happens, they both have extensive knowledge of swing tunes of the ’20s and ’30s. “I’ve known these songs all my life,” Rod says. “My family played Glenn Miller, all that stuff, Rosemary Clooney.” 

“My grandmother’s family all sang the old songs at Christmas,” Holland adds.

As a result, says Rod, “There were no arguments. We all agreed on everything: the songs that we chose, the rhythms, the arrangements — everything was just a pleasure. It was quick … Jools rehearsed the songs in the morning and recorded in the afternoon, sometimes two or three a day.”

However, there won’t be a Swing Fever tour in 2024.

“Our schedules are very full,” Rod explains. “Maybe next year if the album does considerably well, we could do it.” 

In the meantime, Holland says what he wants fans to take away from the album is “joy.” 

“We really loved making this record,” he says. “And I hope that people feel the same way as we felt when we were making it.”

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Peter Frampton’s music has been turned into art that’s helping raise money for a good cause.

The legendary guitarist announced he has teamed up with artist Tim Wakefield and the Soundwaves Art Foundation for a series of art pieces made from sound waves of his classic songs “Show Me The Way” and “Baby I Love Your Way.” A limited run of autographed copies will be sold to aid organizations helping provide the music community with access to health care.

Proceeds from the sales will go to the Music Health Alliance, MusiCares, Porter’s Call and The Onsite Foundation through Gibson Guitars’ charity arm, Gibson Gives.

Frampton’s autographed pieces range in price from $450 to $3,200, with unsigned versions selling for $75. They are on sale now at soundwavesartfoundation.com.

Frampton was recently nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame fan vote is open until April 26, and fans can vote for up to seven artists daily.  

Inductees will be announced in April, and the 2024 induction ceremony will take place in Cleveland in the fall.

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Iron Maiden has announced a collaboration with the video game Dead by Daylight.

In Dead by Daylight, players can either be a Killer or one of four Survivors. As their titles suggest, the Killer is tasked with eliminating the Survivors, who must work together in order to do just that.

As part of the partnership with Maiden, Dead by Daylight players can now choose from a variety of costumes inspired by albums including Powerslave and Senjutsu for the Killer character to wear. Survivors can also suit up in a Maiden tour T-shirt.

You can check out a trailer now via the Dead by Daylight YouTube.

Iron Maiden has long been involved in the video game world with their Legacy of the Beast mobile game. In Legacy of the Beast, you play as Maiden mascot Eddie as you try to defeat different enemies. It’s also featured crossovers with bands including Disturbed, Ghost, Motörhead, Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch.

In Iron Maiden music happenings, the metal legends will launch a U.S. tour in October. Meanwhile, frontman Bruce Dickinson will release a new solo album, The Mandrake Project, on March 1.

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The Who is set to headline Teenage Cancer Trust benefit shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall on March 18 and 20, but Pete Townshend wants fans to know he will not be taking part in a separate Teenage Cancer Trust concert celebrating his bandmate Roger Daltrey. 

Townshend announced on Instagram he won’t be able to make the March 24 show, Ovation, a Celebration of 24 Years of Gigs for TCT, because of his commitments to Tommy the Musical, which opens on Broadway on March 28.

The concert is a celebration of Daltrey’s tenure as host and curator of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust concerts; he’s stepping down from the post after this year.

“I’m sorry for anyone who feels I have let them down,” Townshend shared in his post, “my New York dates have been in my calendar for several months and I have tried to address this calendar conflict with Roger and Who management without any result.”

He adds, “That said, Roger is perfectly capable of blowing your minds in a solo show without me, and has a wonderful array of guests lined up to celebrate his 24 years of producing and performing at the annual Teenage Cancer Trust Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.”

“I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, Roger should have a knighthood for his Teenage Cancer Trust campaigning,” Pete writes.
 

As for those “wonderful array of guests” who’ll be joining Roger, they include Robert Plant with Saving Grace, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Stereophonics’ Kelly Jones and Paul Weller.

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U2’s 1991 album Achtung Baby has won Ireland’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize for Classic Irish Album. 

In announcing the choice, the judging panel, made up of Irish music media and industry professionals, said “you cannot deny the album’s authenticity and significant cultural impact as one classic song after another unfolds over 55 minutes.”

They add, “To this day, it still resonates as a collection of songs that capture the spirit of change at both a personal as well as a societal level, when the Berlin wall came tumbling down, and Ireland sensed a change in the air.”

The panel also points out how the band’s Zoo TV tour “helped to reinvent the studio show,” and how U2 is doing that again with their Las Vegas residency dedicated to the album, U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere.

The RTÉ Choice Music Prize was established in 2005 to highlight the best in Irish music and “promote and showcase the health and growth of the local industry both within Ireland and overseas.”

The first-ever Classic Irish Album Award was handed out last year to Sinéad O’Connor’s 1990 release I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.

U2’s Achtung Baby, produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, went to #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and featured two top 10 hits, “One” and “Mysterious Ways.” The band is playing the album in full during their Las Vegas Sphere residency, which only has four dates left: February 23 and 24, and March 1 and 6.

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Billy Joel is set to play a venue he’s never played before. That’s because it hasn’t actually opened yet. 

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced a one-off show at the brand new Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on October 15.

The venue, the future home of the Los Angeles Clippers, is expected to open in August, with Billy one of the first artists to announce a concert there. 

A presale for tickets kicks off Monday, February 26, at 10 a.m., with the general sale starting Friday, March 1, at 10 a.m.

Joel, who recently released “Turn The Lights Back On,” his first new single in 17 years, returns to the stage on Saturday, February 24, for a co-headlining show with Sting in Tampa, Florida. A complete list of Billy dates can be found at billyjoel.com.

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Judas Priest has dropped yet another track from their upcoming album Invincible Shield, which drops March 8. The latest is the song “The Serpent and the King,” described as “the most fist pumping track on the album.”

You can listen to “The Serpent and the King” via digital outlets and on YouTube.

This is the fourth single Priest has released from Invincible Shield. They launched the album with “Panic Attack,” followed by “Trial By Fire” and “Crown Of Horns.”

Invincible Shield, Priest’s first since 2018’s Firepower, is available for preorder now.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are set hit the road in support of Invincible Shield in March. They kick off a U.K. and European tour in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 11 and will bring the tour to the U.S. starting April 18 in Wallingford, Connecticut. A complete list of dates can be found at judaspriest.com.

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