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Fans of The Beatles now have a little more time to make their way to Cleveland to catch the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s popular exhibit The Beatles: Get Back to Let It Be. The Rock Hall just announced the exhibit will remain on display throughout 2023.

The exhibit is described as an “immersive compliment” to Peter Jackson’s Emmy-winning docuseries The Beatles: Get Back. The exhibit gives fans the chance to experience what it was like to be in the studio for The Beatles’ January 1969 Let It Be rehearsals. 

Broken down into three screening rooms, each features video footage from locations featured in the docuseries — Twickenham, Apple Studios and the Apple Corps rooftop. The footage takes fans through the recording sessions, plus it features clothing, memorabilia, handwritten lyrics and more. 

Rock Hall President & CEO Greg Harris says over half a million fans from around the world have already come to Cleveland to experience the exhibit, adding, “We remain grateful for the support of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison, Apple Corps Ltd., and Peter Jackson for helping us tell this important story, and look forward to welcoming fans all year.”

In addition to the exhibit, the Rock Hall will host Beatles Fridays this summer, featuring exclusive screenings of The Beatles’ rooftop concert, educational programs, live music and other special events.

Tickets for the museum are available at rockhall.com.

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Elvis Costello is set to kick off his 10-night residency at New York City’s Gramercy Theatre on Thursday, which will have him going through a good portion of his music catalog.  

Dubbed 100 Songs and More, the residency will have him performing a different set each night, amounting to over 200 songs in total. The first five nights will have Costello performing solo. He’ll be joined by his longtime pianist Steve Nieve for the final five shows. The residency is set to run through February 23.

Fans who go to the shows will at least know a little bit about what to expect. Costello has already revealed 10 songs that will be featured on each night’s set list, with at least 10 more to be added each night.

Opening night is set to include:

“Welcome To The Working Week”
“Hoover Factory”
“Red Shoes”
“Stranger In The House”
“Poison Moon”
“Wave A White Flag”
“Radio Sweetheart”
“Mystery Dance”
“Cheap Reward”
“Alison” 

Songs featured on the other nights can be found at elviscostello.com.

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Guitarist Joe Satriani has announced new dates for his fine arts tour next month, hitting two Wentworth Gallery locations. 

Satriani is confirmed to appear at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s Atlantic City, New Jersey, location on March 11, followed by an appearance at the King of Prussia location in Pennsylvania on March 12. The exhibit will feature one-of-a-kind pieces on original canvases, as well as some hand-painted guitars. At both events, Satriani will perform a private, intimate concert for clients attending the shows.

“Music and art are my passions. I like making the invisible, visible, and the unimaginable, real. The image on a canvas, or, an electric guitar for that matter, can make you feel something unexpected and revealing, something that is the beginning of a greater personal insight,” Satriani shares. “When I paint and play my guitar, I strive to be in a state of exhilaration and communicate that feeling to my fans.”

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The Who is giving fans another taste of their upcoming live album, The Who with Orchestra Live At Wembley, which is set to drop March 31. The band has shared a video of their performance of the classic “Baba O’Riley,” accompanied by the Isobel Griffiths Orchestra. 

The live album was recorded during the band’s July 6, 2019, headlining show at the famed London venue. The concert has them performing classic tunes from albums like Quadrophenia, Tommy, Who’s Next and Who Are You, backed by a 50-piece orchestra. 

The Who with Orchestra Live At Wembley is dropping in a variety of formats, including a limited edition yellow, orange and red three-LP set, triple black vinyl and a two-CD/Blu-ray set with the audio remixed in Dolby Atmos. It is available for preorder now.

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REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin is one of the rockers set to appear on Dolly Parton’s upcoming rock album, Rock Star, and he’s spilled the tea on the track they’ve recorded together.  

While chatting with the Totally 80s podcast, Cronin revealed he and Dolly recorded a cover of the band’s classic “Keep On Loving You,” although he notes their version is a “dark duet.”

In the song Cronin sings about his woman’s infidelity and his decision to stay with her, but says he realized,  “I kind of portrayed myself as more of the good guy than perhaps I was.”

“Perhaps it takes more than one snake in the grass, ‘all coiled up and hissing,’ to tango — if you catch my drift. That’s the reality of the song, you know?” he explains. “So, it gave me the idea that Dolly could sing the first verse, and in the first verse, I’m cheating on her. But then I take the second verse, and in the second verse, I go, ‘Oh yeah? Well, I know all about those men!’”

The two then come together and sing the chorus in harmony, but he notes, “It just slays me, because that’s how the song was meant to be performed; I just didn’t realize it until Dolly called me the other day. So that’s how we’re doing it, and I’m just so stoked.”

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The Rolling Stones are the subject of a new Vevo-hosted YouTube series that launched on Thursday. The Rolling Stones Chronicles, co-produced by BBC Motion Gallery and ABKCO, is comprised of six documentary shorts, with each focused on a different Stones hit from the ’60s.

Each clip features interviews with the band, along with historical documentary footage of world events that were taking place at the time.

The weekly series kicks off with The Last Time (EP1), soundtracked by the top five single of the same name, which reveals how early rock ‘n’ roll and Chicago blues influenced the band. In addition to archival interviews with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it features footage of B.B. King, Little Richard and others.

“The Rolling Stones Chronicles puts the band’s music in context with history,” says Robin Klein, executive producer of the series. “While they were very much of that time, The Rolling Stones themselves served as a vehicle for, and reflected and inspired change.” 

Future episodes will be set against such Rolling Stones classics as “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “She’s A Rainbow,” “Street Fighting Man” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” wrapping March 16 with an episode featuring “Gimme Shelter.” 

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Red Hot Chili Peppers are headlining stadiums during their current tour of Australia, but drummer Chad Smith took a brief detour to play a much, much smaller venue.

In between shows, Smith showed up at Australia’s Cherry Bar to play with a local AC/DC cover band. According to a Facebook post by the Cherry, only 17 people were in the bar to see the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer play.

The Cherry seems to be the go-to place Down Under for big name rockers to stop by. Others who’ve made surprise appearances at the bar include Axl Rose and Arctic Monkeys.

RHCP’s Australian tour, which also features Post Malone on the bill, will wrap up Sunday. They’ll launch a U.S. tour in April.

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Roger Waters has been in the news a lot lately because of his views on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But in case you missed it, in a recent interview with the German magazine Berliner Zeitung, he dropped some big news about his music.

The article, which has been translated on Waters’ website, reveals that he is rerecording Pink Floyd’s classic album The Dark Side of the Moon, which next month will celebrate its 50th anniversary.

“The new concept is meant to reflect on the meaning of the work, to bring out the heart and soul of the album, musically and spiritually,” he tells the mag. “I’m the only one singing my songs on these new recordings, and there are no rock and roll guitar solos.” 

For those who’d rather just listen to the original, Pink Floyd is set to mark the album’s 50th anniversary with a special The Dark Side of the Moon deluxe box set on March 24.

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Graham Nash reveals in a new interview with AARP that he believes his former bandmate David Crosby was trying to mend fences with him before his death last month.

“The fact is that we were getting a little closer at the end. He had sent me a voicemail saying that he wanted to talk to apologize, and could we set up a time to talk,” Nash tells the mag. “I emailed him back and said, ‘Okay, call me at eleven o’clock tomorrow your time, which is two o’clock on the East Coast.’ He never called, and then he was gone.” 

Nash says Crosby tried to contact him about a week and a half before his death, and he believes his bandmate probably knew he was dying. “I wouldn’t put it past him to know that he was actually at the very end,” he says. “The truth is … we’ve been expecting David to pass for 20 years.” 

While the pair had been on the outs for years, Nash is trying to focus on the “good times” they had together and the “great music that we made.” Nash explains, “I’m only going to be interested in the good times, because if I concentrate on the bad times, it gets too weird for me.” He adds, “But if he was willing to call me and apologize for what he had done and how he had hurt me, it made his death a little easier for me to accept.”

As for Crosby’s legacy, Nash offers, “David’s gift was the unbelievable uniqueness of him as a musician. He really was in many ways the heartbeat of this band. I mean, he was incredibly talented and unique as a musician. That’s what he brought.” 

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On This Day, February 9, 1964

The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which was their first exposure to an American audience. 

The band performed the songs “All My Loving,” “Till There Was You,” and “She Loves You” and then later returned to perform “I Saw Her Standing There” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” 

The performance was seen by a then-record 73 million viewers, and helped Sullivan top the nightly ratings for the first time in seven years.

The show is considered one of the seminal moments in pop culture and launched Beatlemania in America.

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