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Genesis‘ sixth studio album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and to mark the occasion a new remastered version of the album is being released, with plenty of extras.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition, created with input from the band’s members — Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford — will be released March 28 in a variety of formats, including five-LP/Blu-ray audio, four-CD/Blu-ray audio and digitally, with Dolby Atmos.

The set includes the remastered album, done at Abbey Road Studios; a Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos mixes, done under the supervision of Gabriel and Banks; never-before-released demos; and a 60-page coffee table book, featuring interviews with all five band members, said to be the only time they’ve all been interviewed about the album since its original release. The book also includes previously unseen photos, a poster and a replica concert ticket.

The set also includes The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Live At The Shrine Auditorium, recorded Jan. 24, 1975. While most of the concert was previously released as part of the Genesis Archive 1967-75 box set, this version includes two additional encore tracks, making it the first time the full concert and complete encore is being released.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition is available for preorder now.

Released Nov. 22, 1974, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was a concept album based on an idea by Gabriel, about a Puerto Rican youth named Rael who goes on a journey of self-discovery. During the tour for the album, Gabriel announced to the band he was leaving Genesis once the tour was over.

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Foo Fighters‘ Chris Shiflett has announced a new signature guitar with Fender.

The Cleaver Telecaster Deluxe is named for its sound, which a press release declares “positively slashes through the mix with a voice that snarls dirty as well as it sings clean.”

“We put a lot of love and research into creating the American made version of my signature model, The Cleaver,” Shiflett says. “It’s been road-tested, dropped on its head, kicked around, x-rayed, strummed, chicken-picked, and arpeggio swept! I’m excited to announce we’ve made a great guitar that’s adaptable to all situations. Can’t wait to get this into the hands of players everywhere!”

The guitar comes in two finishes, Dakota red and charcoal frost metallic, and costs $2,499.99. For more info, visit Fender.com.

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Memorabilia from Roger Daltrey and The Who are among the items up for auction at the annual Teenage Cancer Trust Star Boot Sale.

Some of the items available include a signed Daltrey photograph, taken as part of the Love Music Love Food book; a Teenage Cancer Trust guitar man T-shirt, signed by Daltrey; a signed poster from Daltrey and Wilko Johnson’s one-off show at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on Feb. 25, 2014; a Daltrey-signed set list from The Who’s 2015 Glastonbury appearance; and a pair of artist proofs from The Who’s 2024 Royal Albert Hall concerts, autographed by Daltrey and Pete Townshend.

In addition to The Who items, there’s a guitar signed by Queen’s Brian May and a photo of Amy Winehouse taken by Bryan Adams, plus items from Noel Gallagher, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and more.

The Star Boot Sale runs until Dec. 2 at 10 a.m., with proceeds benefiting Teenage Cancer Trust and the work it does providing care and support to young people facing cancer across the U.K.

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Timothée Chalamet and director James Mangold will be honored at the 2024 Gotham Awards for their work on the upcoming Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown.

The pair will be awarded Gotham’s Visionary Tribute award, which “recognizes groundbreaking collaborations that push the boundaries of storytelling in film.” 

“In A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold have beautifully captured Dylan’s emergence in 1960s New York not just as an artistic evolution, but as a meditation on the necessity of change,” Jeffrey Sharp, executive director of The Gotham Film & Media Institute, shares. “Together, they have created a work that will not only resonate with longtime Dylan admirers but also introduce his revolutionary artistry to a new generation.”

The Gotham Awards are happening Dec. 2 in New York City.

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Gov’t Mule frontman Warren Haynes is heading out on the road next year in support of his recently released solo album, Million Voices Whisper.

Haynes just announced dates for the Million Voices Whisper tour, which will have him backed by the Warren Haynes Band: drummer Terence Higgins, Gov’t Mule bassist Kevin Scott, Matt Slocum on keys and Greg Osby on sax. The tour kicks off Feb. 7 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and wraps Feb. 22 in Buffalo, New York. He’ll also play an April 5 show in Columbia, South Carolina, which is a rescheduled show from September.

Following a fan club presale on Wednesday, local presales will kick off Thursday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. Haynes will donate $1 from each ticket to help with hurricane relief. 

A complete list of dates can be found at warrenhaynes.net. 

And speaking of hurricane relief, Haynes is set to perform at the upcoming Soulshine benefit concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Nov. 24. If you can’t make it to the Big Apple you can still enjoy the show. The concert, which also features Dave Matthews Band, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and Goose, will stream live at 7 p.m. ET via SoulshineMSG.com.

Additional special guests include Phish‘s Trey Anastasio, Mavis Staples, Robert Randolph, Joe Russo, Trombone Shorty, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks.

Soulshine will raise money in support of Hurricane Helene and Milton relief efforts.

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Nov. 19 marks the 40th anniversary of Don Henley’s sophomore solo album, Building the Perfect Beast, the follow-up to his 1982 solo debut, I Can’t Stand Still.

The album, which had the Eagles rocker working with guitarist Danny Kortchmar, as well as Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench and Stan Lynch of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, peaked at #13 on the Billboard 200 chart. It spawned four top-40 singles, including “The Boys of Summer,” which hit #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and earned Henley a Grammy.

The song’s success can be partially credited to its video, featuring Henley singing on the back of a truck, which got a huge amount of play on MTV. 

Craig Marks, co-author of I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, tells ABC Audio that despite the video’s success — it won Video of the Year at the 1985 MTV VMAs — Henley was “a reluctant participant in the music video revolution.”

“I think Hanley said something in his acceptance speech like, ‘I just was on the back of a flatbed pickup truck, lip-synching, and I really didn’t do anything else.’ And it’s true, he didn’t,” Marks shares. “But it managed to turn Don Henley into a pop star, which is the power that MTV had in 1984 and onwards.”

Thanks to “The Boys of Summer” and the album’s other hits — “All She Wants To Do Is Dance,” which went to #9, “Not Enough Love in the World” and “Sunset Grill” — the record was a huge commercial success for Henley and has been certified three-times Platinum by the RIAA.

Henley recently celebrated Building the Perfect Beast’s anniversary with a new remastered edition of the album, available digitally and as a two-LP set.

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Want your house to smell like a mansion in the English countryside this Christmas? Elton John‘s got you covered.

He’s partnered with Slatkin + Co. to create a line of holiday candles inspired by the scenes and vibes of Woodside, his country home. There are 24 custom scents in all, which Elton tells People are “all inspired by my personal holiday memories.”

“The collection will transport you through scent to my English estate,” he adds, noting that the different smells evoke things like the plants growing on the property, the holiday marmalade his family makes from their fruit trees and even his favorite holiday dessert, gingerbread pudding. 

For example, he says, “I walked into my gardens at Woodside and we magically created a scent that captured the white flowers all in bloom.”

However, his favorite candle is the English Oak and Amber candle. He says, “It is inspired by a beautiful tradition between my friends and I. Each year we gift each other trees to plant on our property, creating lasting beauty for years to come. This candle was inspired by an English Oak I was gifted by a dear friend.”

The first selection of candles, for which Elton says he “smelled and tested every oil,” is now available on QVC. There will eventually be 37 items in the collection; more will be unveiled Nov. 23.

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A live bootleg of a classic Tom Petty concert is being released in late November. 

The Petty estate has teamed with Jack White‘s Third Man Records to release Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Live In Edinburgh 1982: The Gennaro Tapes, a concert taken from a bootleg recording by sound mixer Gennaro Rioppo.

“This rare recording has not been touched since the day it was captured,” reads the announcement on Petty’s Instagram.

The concert took place during the band’s 1982 Long After Dark tour and features performances of such classic Petty tracks as “American Girl,” “You Got Lucky,” “Don’t Do Me Like That,” “Breakdown” and “Refugee.”

The Gennaro Tapes will be released as a three-LP vinyl collection, pressed from the original cassette, on Nov. 29, with an exclusive turquoise vinyl variant available through the Tom Petty store.

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Elvis Costello and longtime collaborator Steve Nieve will hit the stage together for a new tour next year.

The duo will play 15 U.S. dates, starting off Feb. 19 in Easton, Pennsylvania, with the tour hitting such cities as Woodstock, New York; Port Chester, New York; and Ann Arbor, Michigan. It will wrap with a three-night stand in Chicago.

For the Chicago shows, Costello and Nieve will be joined by Eleanor Whitmore on fiddle, Tony Garnier on double bass, Shaye Cohn on cornet and Sean McKeon on Uilleann pipes.

An artist presale launches Wednesday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m.

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We’re finally going to get the definitive story of Fleetwood Mac straight from the band’s mouth. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are going to be the subject of a new documentary, which has the backing of the band.

Apple Original Films is behind the “fully authorized” documentary, directed by five-time Academy Award nominee Frank Marshall. According to the description, it will be the first time the band will “share their extraordinary story in their own words.”

“I am fascinated by how this incredible story of enormous musical achievement came about,” says Marshall. “Fleetwood Mac somehow managed to merge their often chaotic and almost operatic personal lives into their own tale in real-time, which then became legend. This will be a film about the music and the people who created it.”

The doc is expected to cover both the highs and lows of the band, with the description noting it “will explore what allowed this combination of artists to create singular musical work again and again, and what drew them back together and held them there when every possible pressure, both outside and inside the band, threatened to blow them apart.”

So far there’s no word on when the currently untitled documentary will debut.

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