Eurythmics star Annie Lennox was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, and now some of her props are on display for fans to enjoy.
Lennox has contributed some new artifacts to the Hall’s “Right Here, Right Now” exhibit, including the hat she wore while performing “Jolene” with Dolly Parton and other inductees during the 2022 ceremony’s finale. There’s also the baton prop she used during her induction performance of Eurythmics classic “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).”
Lennox is one of several artists contributing memorabilia to the “Right Here, Right Now” exhibit. Others include Taylor Swift, Brandi Carlile, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish and Harry Styles.
Devo is giving fans another preview of their career-spanning box set, 50 Years of De-Evolution: 1973-2023.
The band has just shared a remastered version of their 1990 song “Post Post-Modern Man” to streaming services for the first time. It’s the second song they’ve released from the set, following the 7-inch version of “Disco Dancer.”
50 Years of De-Evolution 1973-2023, dropping October 20, will be released in a variety of formats: a four-LP set pressed on clear vinyl; a 25-song, two-LP set on black vinyl; and a two-LP blue and red vinyl, which will be sold exclusively at retail stores. There will also be a 50-song, two-CD set.
Roger Waters is setting the record straight regarding his feelings about former Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour’s talent.
Waters shared a video of him answering a fan who asked if he’d ever shared his “opinions or criticisms” about Gilmour’s solos on The Wall while they were in the studio recording it.
“Of course I expressed my opinions,” Waters said, “because I was producing the record and so was he.” He added, “we would all stick our oar in.”
Waters then noted, “there’s an implication in this question that I’m somehow critical” of David’s playing but said that’s not true.
“I like all of Gilmour’s solos. I say so often. I say so, I believe, on the sleeve notes on the new record,” he said, referring to The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, which he’ll drop on October 6. “There’s nothing wrong with Dave’s solos. There’s nothing wrong with his solos on The Wall or his solos on Animals or his solos on Dark Side of the Moon … or any of the work I did with him.”
Jackson Browne is revisiting his debut album. A new version of the self-titled record will be released on CD and 180-gram vinyl on Friday, September 22, with both remastered from the original analog master tapes.
The new release will be packaged to resemble the album’s original vinyl release, which was designed to look like a burlap water bag. The cover reads, “Saturate Before Use” on top of Browne’s name, which led many people to think that was the actual title of the record.
Released January 1972, Jackson Browne featured two hits: “Doctor My Eyes,” which peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and “Rock Me on the Water,” which peaked at #48.
Here’s the track list for Jackson Browne:
“Jamaica Say You Will”
“A Child In These Hills”
“Song For Adam”
“Doctor My Eyes”
“Something Fine”
“From Silverlake”
“Under The Falling Sky”
“Looking Into You”
“Rock Me On The Water”
“My Opening Farewell”
With Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band canceling their September shows so The Boss can recover from a peptic ulcer, Nils Lofgren is free to play with Neil Young again.
Young is set to headline two shows at The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on September 20 and 21, in celebration of the venue’s 50th anniversary. He’ll be backed by his pre-Crazy Horse band The Santa Monica Flyers, which will include Lofgren now that he’s not busy on the road with The Boss.
Young announced the news on his Neil Young Archives, noting the shows will feature Lofgren, Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina, all original members of the Santa Monica Flyers, along with Willie Nelson’s son Micah Nelson.
And it certainly sounds like Young fans are in for a treat. “We will be playing two albums live,” Young shares about the gigs. “All songs will predate the original Roxy opening 50 years ago. We are stoked!”
The Roxy concerts are taking place almost 50 years to the day Young first performed for the venue’s opening. He opened The Roxy with a three-night stand September 20-22, 1973.
As for Springsteen and the E Street Band, they’re expected to return to the road on November 3 in Vancouver, Canada. A complete list of dates can be found at brucespringsteen.net.
Now that Elton John has declared he’ll never tour again, he no longer needs the home that was his U.S. touring base: a 13,500-square-foot condo in a complex in Buckhead, an upscale area of Atlanta, Georgia. It’s on the market for just under $5 million, reports The Wall Street Journal.
In 1992, Elton bought a duplex in the building and then bought five more apartments in the building over the next 20 years, combining them together into one four-bedroom space. Serving as his touring base, as he could easily get to most places in the U.S. flying out of Dekalb-Peachtree Airport, it also held his massive collection of photography.
As for why a British rock star would move to Atlanta in the first place, Elton tells the Journal that at the time, he was just out of rehab and dating someone in the area. He decided he liked the area for the people and the recovery facilities.
“The only people I knew were real people, who had normal jobs,” Elton tells the paper. “The city adopted me and I adopted it.”
He adds, “I didn’t know what the first apartment that I bought would lead to. But it was a wonderful surprise. Everything about Atlanta was a surprise.”
“After years and years of touring, it was so comforting just to come home instead of staying in a hotel,” he notes.
Elton says he’ll miss Atlanta very much, adding that he always checks the baseball scores in the morning to see how the Braves are doing.
You can see photos of the condo, including the closets holding Elton’s massive wardrobe, at WSJ.com.
Farm Aid is going down at the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana, on Saturday, September 23, and fans who can’t make it will still get to enjoy the show.
For the third year in a row, the annual concert will air on the Circle Network. The broadcast, which kicks off at 7 p.m. ET, will feature live and prerecorded segments. For fans who want even more, the complete show will air live on the Circle Now app, starting with a press conference at 11:30 a.m. ET.
This year’s Farm Aid lineup includes the organization’s board members: Neil Young, in his first return to the festival since 2019, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, MargoPrice and Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds. Also on the bill are Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack, Nathaniel Rateliff & theNight Sweats, Lukas Nelson, Allison Russell, The String Cheese Incident and Particle Kid.
The very first Farm Aid concert was held in September 1985 in Champaign, Illinois, to raise funds in support of family farmers. Since its inception, the annual festival has raised more than $70 million to support programs helping the farming community.
David Bowie topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “Fame,” his first #1 in the U.S.
The song written by Bowie, Carlos Alomar and John Lennon, was the second single off Bowie’s ninth studio album, Young Americans. It wound up being one of the biggest hits of the year, charting at #7 on Billboard’s year-end chart.
It would be almost eight years before Bowie landed his second, and final, #1 hit with “Let’s Dance,” which topped the chart in May, 1983.
Bush has premiered a new song called “Nowhere to Go But Everywhere.”
The track will appear on Gavin Rossdale and company’s previously announced best-of compilation, Loaded, due out November 10. Along with the new tune, Bush has unveiled the Loaded track list, which spans the “Glycerine” group’s discography from their 1994 debut, SixteenStone, to their latest effort, 2022’s The Art of Survival.
Loaded also includes a cover of The Beatles classic “Come Together.”
“I’m really grateful that I get the chance to make music after all of this time,” says Rossdale. “The privilege is not lost on me. I’m still in the octagon, and I think that’s healthy because I’m good at fighting.”
Bush will launch a U.S. headlining tour in November with support from Bad Wolves and Eva Under Fire. They’re also playing a New York City benefit show on September 22 in protest of gun violence, which will stream live via the platform Veeps.
Here’s the Loaded track list:
“Everything Zen”
“Little Things”
“Comedown”
“Glycerine”
“Machinehead”
“Swallowed”
“Greedy Fly”
“Mouth (The Stingray Mix)”
“The Chemicals Between Us”
“Letting the Cables Sleep”
“The People That We Love”
“Inflatable”
“The Only Way Out”
“The Sound of Winter”
“This Is War”
“Bullet Holes”
“Flowers on a Grave”
“The Kingdom”
“More Than Machines”
“Nowhere to Go But Everywhere”
“Come Together”
Eric Clapton helped Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raise $2.2 million for his campaign by performing at a private fundraiser in Brentwood, California, on Tuesday, September 19, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I am deeply grateful to Eric Clapton for bringing his musical artistry and rebellious spirit to my gathering in Los Angeles last night,” Kennedy shared. “Eric sings from the depths of the human condition. If he sees in me the possibility of bringing unity to our country, it is only possible because artists like him invoke a buried faith in the limitless power of human beings to overcome any obstacle.”
The money raised at the event will be split between Kennedy Jr. and a PAC supporting his campaign.
Earlier this year, Clapton tried to donate money to Kennedy’s campaign. He told The Real Music Observer he wasn’t allowed to because he’s not an American citizen.
