AC/DC‘s “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)” is featured in season 2 of FX’s The Bear, but executive producer Josh Senior tells Billboard there was a real worry they wouldn’t be able to secure the rights to the tune.
“Everybody I’ve ever talked to about licensing music always told me AC/DC was hard to get, hard to pay for, hard to contact, hard to deal with,” he says. “And we knew we wanted that song.”
It turns out, all Josh’s worry was for nothing. He notes, “They ended up being amazing and awesome. But the hype was intimidating.”
“If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)” appears on AC/DC/s sixth studio album, Highway To Hell, which was the last to feature lead singer Bon Scott. It appears in episode 9 of The Bear,as the restaurant gets ready to open.
Sammy Hagar is putting to rest any talk of a Van Halen reunion to honor the band’s late guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who passed away in 2020.
Although there was talk of some sort of tribute in the past, Hagar discusses why a reunion of the band can’t really happen during an appearance on the That Rockspodcast.
“It’s the same old story. It’s the same old f***** story,” Hagar says. “Alex [Van Halen] won’t respond to me. I reach out to him. I haven’t done it in a long time now, ’cause it’s, like, ‘Hey, you wanna talk to me? Call me.’ But there’s not going to be a Van Halen reunion,” he continues, adding, “it’s too late.”
If it were to happen, Sammy says Eddie’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen, “would be the perfect guy” to be a part of it, but he’s too busy now with his own band Mammoth WVH. When it comes to the band’s other frontman, David Lee Roth, Hagar says, “there’s no way he would cooperate with me.”
“So if [Dave] goes out by himself, that’s not a Van Halen reunion; that’s half a Van Halen reunion. If I go out by myself without him, it’s a half a Van Halen reunion,” Hagar explains. “Only good news about that is that I could sing his songs just fine.”
Sammy and bassist Mike Anthony are still close and perform together; Sammy says he’d love to have Alex come play with them as well, but “the thought of a Van Halen reunion without Eddie, no, there’s no such thing.”
Duff McKagan got a new tattoo paying tribute to Ozzy Osbourne.
The Guns N’ Roses bassist shared an Instagram post showing off his latest ink, a bat on top of his hand.
“I FINALLY got my @ozzyosbourne tattoo!” McKagan writes in the caption.
Ozzy, of course, infamously bit the head off a bat during a 1982 concert. As one fan quips in the comments of McKagan’s post, “This is a fake! The bat still has a head!”
In addition to being a big fan of the Prince of Darkness, McKagan worked with Ozzy on his last two solo albums: 2020’s Ordinary Man and 2022’s Patient Number 9.
The Beach Boys are finally getting ready to tell their story. The band is set to release their first official book, The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys, via Genesis Publications.
The book was created using new interviews with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston as well as archival interviews from Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson. It will feature personal photos from the band as well as photos culled from both the Capitol Records and the band’s archives. Among them are behind-the scenes pics from recording sessions, live concert and rehearsal shots and more.
The book will also feature an abundance of archival memorabilia, including tour posters, programs, handwritten notes, lyrics, newspaper clippings and more, as well as contributions from artists like Eric Clapton, ElvisCostello, Bob Dylan, Def Leppard, Lindsey Buckingham, Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend and others.
Genesis will release a deluxe edition of The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys, limited to only 415 numbered copies, with all of them signed by Wilson, Love, Jardine and Johnston. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Surfrider Foundation.
Billy Joel is getting closer to wrapping his residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden, but he’s just added another date.
The latest addition to the schedule is January 11, 2024, which will mark the 10-year anniversary of the start of the residency, which kicked off in January 2014 and has sold more than 1.6 million tickets.
There will be various presales starting January 17, with the general onsale set for Friday, July 21, at 10 a.m.
Joel is set to wrap his residency in July 2024, which will be the 150th MSG show of his career. His next MSG show is happening Monday, July 24. A complete list of dates can be found at billyjoel.com.
Metallica has shared a new trailer for the Live from Texas concert film.
The two-day event will showcase the metal legends’ upcoming performances at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, taking place August 18 and 20, with live broadcasts in movie theaters across the world.
You can watch the trailer, which features footage from Metallica’s recent European tour, streaming now on YouTube.
The Live from Texas shows are part of Metallica’s global M72 tour supporting their new album, 72 Seasons. For each city on the tour, Metallica is playing two separate nights with completely different set lists.
The U.S. leg of the M72 tour launches August 4 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The members of David Crosby’s final band say the rocker wanted to try and mend his relationship with his bandmates, Graham Nash, Neil Young and Stephen Stills, and had planned to make the first move with music.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Crosby’s son James Raymond and guitarist/singer Steve Postell say before Crosby’s death, they had been rehearsing a set of songs from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young‘s (CSNY) catalog, including “Long Time Gone,” “Woodstock,” Carry On,” “Ohio” and more. Postell notes there was a good reason Crosby chose these tunes.
“We decided this was not just a celebration of Crosby — it was about the music of CSNY. That was the concept, and it was David’s idea. David loved all those guys,” Postell shares, adding, “He knew he’d made some mistakes and wanted to make amends as much as possible. Part of doing that was playing some of that music.”
Crosby and the band were supposed to play two shows in February to celebrate the Lobero Theatre’s 150th anniversary, but that never happened because Crosby passed away January 18.
Now, the band, billed as Stand and Be Counted, will play the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, California, on August 20, performing the set Crosby planned to play at the original shows. The concert will feature Shawn Colvin and promises other special guests, but so far, there’s no indication that will include Crosby’s former bandmates.
“We haven’t gotten no’s, but we haven’t gotten yes’s either,” Lobero executive director David Asbell tells the mag. “David had interesting relationships with his bandmates. So it’s hard to know where it all ended up.”
Tickets for the concert go on sale July 13. More information can be found at lobero.org.
The star-studded Live Aid charity concerts were held at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.
The concerts, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, featured performances by Queen, David Bowie, U2, Sting, The Who, Elton John, Paul McCartney and others in London, and Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Mick Jagger,a reunion of Led Zeppelin and more in Philadelphia.
Phil Collins actually performed at both shows, flying from London on a Concorde flight and then transporting to and from each stadium via helicopter.
Both concerts raised money for African famine relief. They were broadcast around the world, with an estimated audience of 1.0 billion, in 150 nations.
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While Bryan Adams is best known for his music, he’s also a skilled photographer — and now fans are getting a chance to see his latest work. The rocker will be the subject of a new exhibit, Bryan Adams in Colour, making its world premiere at the Atlas Gallery in Chicago on June 27 and running until August 12.
According to the announcement, the exhibit was inspired by the phrase “seeing things through rose-tinted glasses.” It has him experimenting with multicolored plexiglass to share a new point of view of his catalog of portraits, including those of stars like Mick Jagger and Amy Winehouse.
The gallery notes it “adds even more to the sense of the celebrity appearing to be viewed as if behind a screen, at a distance from the viewer, but somehow also themselves trapped.”
More information on the exhibit can be found at atlasgallery.com.
As for his day job, Adams is currently on his So Happy It Hurts tour, with opener Joan Jett. The trek hits Phoenix, Arizona, on July 25. A complete list of dates can be found at bryanadams.com.
It turns out a lot of fans want to see the Eagles on their Long Goodbye farewell tour.
While the general sale doesn’t begin until Friday, July 14, demand during presales was so overwhelming that the band has already added more dates to the schedule. New shows include a second night, September 8, at Madison Square Garden in New York, along with second shows in Boston, Denver, Indianapolis, Atlanta and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Presales for the newly added New York and Denver shows have already begun, while presales for the other added dates are happening Thursday, July 13, at 10 a.m. local time. The general sale for all shows begins Friday, July 14, at 10 a.m. local time.
The Eagles’ Long Goodbye final tour, with special guest Steely Dan, kicks off September 7 in New York. The tour is expected to continue into 2025, as the band plans to play as many shows in each city as the audience demands. Tour dates can be found at eagles.com.
