Rush is celebrating another milestone anniversary with the release of Signals – 40th Anniversary, the latest edition to their 40th anniversary album series. Dropping April 28, Signals – 40th Anniversary will be available in three configurations, including a one-LP picture disc edition and a Dolby Atmos digital edition.
There will also be a super deluxe edition that includes one CD, one Blu-ray audio and one black-vinyl LP with new artwork from original album designer Hugh Syme. It will also include four 7-inch singles, “Subdivisions,” “Countdown,” “New World Man” and “The Weapon (Single Edit),” all with new artwork.
In addition, the super deluxe edition comes with a 40-page hardcover book, featuring song illustrations and new artwork from Syme, as well as unreleased photos from the Signals Tour. There’s also a double-sided 24-inch by 24-inch poster featuring Syme’s new Signals artwork and an outtake photo of the original album cover, plus a lot more.
The official Rush online store will also be selling a limited edition super deluxe box that comes with eight lithographs of the late Neil Peart’s original hand-drawn lyrics for each song on Signals.
Originally released in September 1982, Signals was Rush’s ninth studio album. It peaked at 10 in the U.S. and went on to be certified Platinum by the Recording Industry of America.
Paul McCartney’s world tour came to Tokyo, Japan with Sir Paul playing six sold-out nights at the Tokyo Dome.
McCartney’s set included such Beatles classics as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “Let It Be,” “Hey Jude” and more, as well as Wings tunes like “Band on the Run,” “Let ‘Em In” and others.
The shows were part of McCartney’s first world tour under his name, and his first major tour in over ten years, following the Wings UK Tour 1979.
Season two of Queen The Greatest Live continues, with this week’s episode titled “Flash and the Hero.”
Episode seven once again focuses on the opening of the show, this time the band’s January 5, 1982 concert at Milton Keynes Bowl in the U.K. It shows how Queen got the audience going with their one-two punch opening number, a medley of their songs “Flash” and “The Hero.”
The band builds excitement in the crowd by playing “Flash,” from the 1980 film FlashGordon, over the PA system as they take the stage, and then launch into “The Hero,” the second track from the film’s soundtrack.
Queen’s Milton Keynes show was part of the 30-date European Hot Space Tour. Queen On Fire – Live at the Bowl was released on DVD/CD back in 2004.
Over the past nine years, Billy Joel has performed in stadiums and other venues around the world, but each month — barring illness or a global pandemic — he comes back to New York to do a concert at Madison Square Garden as part of his ongoing residency. Billboard reports those shows alone have just crossed the $200 million mark in total earnings.
Through Billy’s Valentine’s Day show — the 87th of the residency, which kicked off in 2014 — Billboard reports that his total grosses are $201.5 million and he’s sold 1.6 million tickets. Of course, he’s also raking in the bucks from his other, non-Garden concerts.
Billy has said that he’ll continue his residency as long as there’s interest, and according to Billboard, there certainly is: The shows continue to sell out nine years on. What’s more, Billy’s earning more per show: Back in 2014, he was taking in nearly $2 million per show, but now he makes more than $3 million, mostly due to the increased ticket prices that come with dynamic pricing.
According to Billboard, since 1986, which is the first year that data is available, Billy has earned over $1 billion on the road and sold more than 14 million tickets.
The Piano Man will be adding to his huge take starting next week when his co-headlining tour with Stevie Nicks kicks off in LA’s SoiFi Stadium.
Lynyrd Skynyrd can thank American Idol for their latest chart resurgence. The band’s classic track “Simple Man” has returned to the Billboardcharts following Idol contestant Colin Stough‘s performance of it on the season premiere of the ABC talent competition.
“Simple Man” is currently at 23 on the Hot Rock Alternative Songs chart, thanks to 3.6 million new U.S. streams and 1,000 new downloads. The tune is also up to 11 on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart.
Stough earned a golden ticket with his performance, which has since been viewed over 1 million times on YouTube.
One of Lynyrd Skynrd’s most popular tunes, “Simple Man” appeared on the band’s debut album, (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd). It has spent over 100 weeks on Billboard’s Rock Streaming Songs chart and another 25 on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart.
Journey band members Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain have been at odds for a while now, with dueling lawsuits, cease-and-desist letters and more. But in a new article, Billboarddelves into their very public feud.
Amidst the details of their conflict, the mag reveals things have gotten so bad that the bandmates have hired security guards to watch over their dressing rooms in order to keep each other out.
A source tells Billboard Schon first hired two police officers to watch his room during the band’s 2022 tour because he thought “people were out to get him.” Then at a Florida show last spring, Cain caught an assistant, sent by Schon and his wife, Michaele, snooping around his dressing room. There’s no word on what they were looking for, but that prompted Cain to hire security to guard his room during the tour, as well.
The insider says the rest of the tour was filled with fights over whose guard outranked whose. The source notes of the Schons, “That’s just the level of pettiness and control and conspiracy they came to believe in.”
Journey is currently on their 50th anniversary Freedom tour; Billboard notes things are so bad between Schon and Cain that at their January 27 show they stood “at least 20 yards apart at all times, on opposite sides of the stage.” The tour hits University Park, Pennsylvania, on Friday.
According to Deadline, the Metallica frontman has been cast in the upcoming movie The Thicket, based on the 2013 novel of the same name.
The film, which Deadline describes as a “dark western thriller,” stars Game of Thrones‘ Peter Dinklage, who is also producing.
Hetfield made his dramatic acting debut in 2019’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, which you may remember as the movie starring Zac Efron as infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. The “Enter Sandman” rocker played the police officer who first arrested Bundy.
In addition to his acting gig, Hetfield and the rest of Metallica are preparing to release their new album, 72 Seasons, on April 14. Metallica will support the record on a massive world tour, which begins in Europe in April before coming to the U.S. in August.
Spinning Gold, the movie about music producer Neil Bogart and Casablanca Records, is hitting theaters this month, and it’s getting a soundtrack featuring lots of classic tunes covered by the stars of the film.
Bogart is credited with launching the careers of such artists as Donna Summer, Gladys Knight, The Village People and even KISS. The soundtrack features covers of such classic tunes as KISS’ “Beth” and “Rock and Roll All Nite,” Summers’ “Bad Girls” and “Dim All The Lights,” Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” and more.
The movie stars Tony winner Jeremy Jordan as Bogart, with X Ambassadors vocalist Sam Harris as KISS’ Paul Stanley, Casey Likes as Gene Simmons and All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth as Peter Criss. Other artists portrayed in the film include George Clinton, played by Wiz Khalifa; Ron Isley, played by Jason Derulo; Gladys Knight, played by Ledisi; Bill Withers, played by Pink Sweat$; and Donna Summer, played by Tayla Parx.
Spinning Gold and its soundtrack will be released March 31.
Here is the track list for the Spinning Gold soundtrack:
“It’s Your Thing” – Performed by Jason Derulo
“Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)” – Performed by Wiz Khalifa
“Shout It Out Loud” – Performed by Sam Harris and Casey Likes
“Bad Girls” – Performed by Tayla Parx
“Midnight Train To Georgia” – Performed by Ledisi
“Ain’t No Sunshine” – Performed by Pink Sweat$
“Love To Love You Baby” – Performed by Tayla Parx
“Rock And Roll All Nite” – Performed by Sam Harris and Casey Likes
“Cherry On Top” – Performed by Jeremy Jordan
“One Toke Over The Line” – Performed by Alec Benjamin
“Lean On Me” – Performed by Pink Sweat$
“Dim All The Lights” – Performed by Tayla Parx
“Mothership Connection” – Performed by Wiz Khalifa
“Ooh Child” – Performed by Trevis Romell Harris
“Oh Happy Day” – Performed by Jeremy Jordan
“Who Is He (And What Is He To You)” – Performed by Pink Sweat$
“Beth” – Performed by Alex Gaskarth
“Last Dance” – Performed by Jeremy Jordan and Tayla Parx
“Greatest Time (Spinning Gold)” – Performed by Jeremy Jordan and Cast
Motörhead disbanded in 2015 following the death of frontman Lemmy Kilmister — and according to drummer Mikkey Dee, it’ll stay that way.
During an interview with The Metal Voice, Dee was asked whether he and fellow surviving member Phil Campbell would ever tour as Motörhead again, to which he replied, “That, to me, is stepping over the line.”
“We will never, ever, ever tour with Motörhead as a name ever and bring someone else in [to replace Lemmy],” Dee said. “That will never happen.”
Still, Dee isn’t opposed to performing Motörhead songs live, as long as it isn’t being billed as “Motörhead.” For example, he mentions that he recently played some at a show under his own name.
“It has nothing to do with trying to be Motörhead,” he said. “This [show] is not advertised as Motörhead, it’s advertised ‘Mikkey Dee with Friends,’ for instance. So there’s definitely a line there.”
Meanwhile, a reissue of Motörhead’s final album, 2015’s Bad Magic, was released last month.
