The Rolling Stones hit #1 on the Billboard 200 with Emotional Rescue, which went on to spend seven weeks on top of the chart.
The album’s title track was the first single released from the record, and it went on to peak at #3 on the Hot 100. Another single titled “She’s So Cold” hit the Top 40.
Emotional Rescue, the follow-up to 1978’s Some Girls, topped the charts in at least six countries; it became the Stones’ first U.K. #1 since 1973’s Goats Head Soup.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are set to headline Soaring Eagle’s Arts, Beats & Eats festival, taking place September 1-4 in Royal Oak, Michigan, just outside of Detroit.
The lineup will also include Halestorm, Russell Dickerson and Bell Biv DeVoe, along with American Authors, Collective Soul, the Tom Petty tribute band The Wildflowers, theFleetwood Mac tribute band Rumours and more.
A complete lineup and ticket information can be found at artsbeatseats.com.
There may also be another reason folks will clamor for tickets. USA Today reports the festival will feature a cannabis zone, where festival goers can use and sell the product. The area will be fully enclosed with ventilation, and concertgoers will need to verify their age to enter. Detroit metro retailer House of Dank will be providing the product.
While this is Michigan’s first festival to provide a cannabis zone, it’s not the first time this has happened at a music fest. San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival has had a cannabis area since 2018.
It’s hard to believe after seeing him rock out onstage, but Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is celebrating his 80th birthday on July 26.
Now considered one of the world’s best rock ‘n’ roll frontmen, Jagger was studying at the London School of Economics when a chance meeting with childhood friend Keith Richards at a train station changed the course of his future: the two formed a musical partnership that eventually became The Rolling Stones.
In their 60-year career, The Stones have become one of the bestselling artists of all time. They’ve had nine Billboard #1 albums and eight #1 singles, selling over 200 million records. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
The Rolling Stones have often been compared to The Beatles, as both bands found fame in the ’60s, but in a 2020 interview with Apple Music Mick described how they’re different.
“The Stones went on, we started doing stadium gigs in the ’70s, and [we’re] still doing them now,” he said. “So, you know, that’s the real big difference between these two bands. That one band is unbelievably, luckily still playing in stadiums, and the other band doesn’t exist.”
Jagger’s personal life has also kept him in the headlines over the years, although he’s technically only been married once — to Bianca Jagger, from 1971 to 1978. He’s had several high-profile relationships, including a four-year relationship with Marianne Faithfull and an unofficial marriage to model Jerry Hall.
He has eight children with five different women – daughter Karis with Marsha Hunt, who he dated between 1969 and 1970; daughter Jade with Bianca; daughters Elizabeth and Georgia and sons James and Gabriel with Hall; son Lucas from his affair with model Luciana Gimenez;and son Deveraux, with current girlfriend Melanie Hamrick.
August 1 would have been Jerry Garcia’s 81st birthday, and the New York Yankees will be celebrating the late Grateful Dead frontman for an entire week.
For the games running August 1 to August 6, the first 3,000 fans who purchase tickets will receive an exclusive New York Yankees Jerry Garcia bobblehead.
And it’s all for a good cause. A portion of the proceeds from each ticket will go to The Dead’s nonprofit, the Rex Foundation, which “provides extensive community support to small organizations making an impact in the arts, sciences, education, the environment, and social justice.”
And the Yankees aren’t the only ones celebrating Jerry. The Oakland A’s are holding Jerry Garcia Night on August 18, with special tickets that include a tie-dye Athletics T-shirt with Garcia’s face. The A’s take on the Baltimore Orioles that night, and the game will feature a pregame concert by Moonalice, as well as a special guest for the first pitch. A portion of the proceeds from each ticket will also be donated to the Rex Foundation.
Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason has been made an honorary citizen of the Italian city of Pompeii, Planet Rock Radio reports. Mason received the honor on July 24 ahead of his Pompeii concert with his current band, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets.
Mason and Pink Floyd have a long history with Pompeii; in October 1971 they shot their concert film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii at the Pompeii Amphitheater, and Mason acknowledged that history in accepting the new citizenship.
“I am overwhelmed by being here and having such a great honor given to me. What I really need to say initially is thank you, not only from myself, but the other people who made this happen. Of course, that’s Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Richard Wright,” Mason said. “I’m sorry that I can’t bring the rest of the band with me. I can’t even bring my mustache.”
He added, “We have been linked to Pompeii for 50 years now. If you told me 50 years ago that I’d be back here I would have thought that was impossible. I should have returned 30 years ago.”
Downes Braide Association, made up of Yes’ Geoff Downes and songwriter Chris Braide, is ready to release new music. The duo will drop their fifth studio album, Celestial Songs, on September 8 and have shared the first single from the record, “Clear Light.”
“As we were writing the songs for the album, they started to become thematic in emotion and feeling,” Braide shares, “more classic rock than the predecessor Halcyon Hymns. The songs were about life and death, time, love, nostalgia, spirituality. Very DBA in fact.”
Downes adds, “There’s a lot of variety on the album, too…I hope people will appreciate it and get behind it, not just the songwriting and vocals but the overall instrumentation and musicianship is very high on this album.”
The album features a cameo by Soft Cell’s Marc Almond on the track “Darker Side of Fame,” with Downes noting, “Marc and Chris’ voices blend really well.”
Celestial Songs will be released as a CD, two-LP and box set, the last of which includes a 12-inch purple vinyl, 12×12 special edition print and more. All are available for preorder now.
Here is the track list for Celestial Songs:
“Look What You Do”
“Clear Light”
“Keep On Moving”
“Darker Side Of Fame”
“Hey Kid”
“Will To Power”
“Heart Shaped Hole”
“Dear Petra”
“On The Run”
“Goodbye To You (Sister Shame)”
“Beyond The Stars”
Blondie guitarist and co-founder Chris Stein is mourning the loss of his daughter Akira, who he just revealed passed away in May from a drug overdose.
“There are a lot of you I care for that didn’t know and even though it’s not like me to post personal events publicy (sic) Akira was important to many,” he shared on Instagram. “She was wonderful and a bright place in the world. She had been struggling for years and addiction took her.”
He adds that his wife, Barbara, and other daughter, Vali, “are moving ahead but there’s a huge piece missing from our lives. Just remember her and be kind to each other and you young people please avoid this trap.”
Stein’s Blondie bandmate Debbie Harry also wrote about Akira on Instagram, in a post in which she first expressed how unbelievable it is to her to still be performing in Blondie at the age of 78.
“The flip side of this positivity is the loss of my god daughter Akira. She was just turning 20 and we lost her to fentynal,” she writes. “So my joys and sorrows are all the more extreme.”
Harry adds, “I will grieve for the rest of my life along with Barbara Sicuranza and Chris Stein, her mom and dad, and her sister Vali, at our terrible loss. Fentynal is too dangerous, seductive and easy to get.”
John Fogerty launched his solo career 50 years ago, and now, he’s celebrating the milestone with two new vinyl reissues.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is set to release his debut solo album, Blue Ridge Rangers, and its follow-up, the self-titled John Fogerty, on vinyl for the first time.
Following the demise of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fogerty released Blue Ridge Rangers in April 1973, playing every instrument on the record. It featured two Top 40 singles: “Jambalaya,” which went to #16, and “Hearts of Stone,” which went to #37.
The follow-up, John Fogerty, was released in September 1975 and featured the track “Rockin’ All Over the World,” which became a huge hit when it was covered by the British band Status Quo.
Fogerty is continuing the anniversary celebration with his current Celebration Tour, which hits Franklin, Tennessee, on Tuesday, July 25. A complete list of dates can be found at johnfogerty.com.
October will mark the 50th anniversary of Steve Miller’s classic album The Joker, and to celebrate, he’s releasing a new box set with plenty of extras for the Miller fan.
J50: The Evolution of The Joker, dropping September 15, will feature not only the original album but 27 previously unreleased recordings, some of which were taken from Miller’s personal songwriting tapes, along with studio outtakes and more. There will also be six audio commentary tracks with Miller taking fans through the “evolution” of the album.
Miller is giving fans a preview of the extensive set with the release of “The Joker Suite,” a bundle of songs aiming to show how he wrote what became his #1 hit “The Joker.” In addition to the hit single, it features previously unreleased tracks “Lidi” and “Travelin’.” You can listen to “The Joker Suite” now via digital outlets.
J50: The Evolution of The Joker will be released digitally and as a two-CD or three-LP set with a seven-inch single. The vinyl comes with a limited-edition lithograph and a vintage The Joker iron-on.
AC/DC released their seventh studio album Back in Black, which was their first album following the death of singer Bon Scott.
The album featured new lead singer Brian Johnson, and contained such future AC/DC classics as the title track, “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Hells Bells.”
Back in Black was a massive hit for the Aussie rockers, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time. It sold an estimated 50 million copies worldwide, and was certified 25-times Platinum by the RIAA.
