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A new Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers video is set for release on Friday.

The clip will be for the song “Never Be You,” a track that was originally recorded by Rosanne Cash, with Petty’s version appearing on the recently released Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition) reissue.

The video was directed and animated by Jeff Scher. A preview gives a glimpse of the making of the animated clip, featuring drawings of Petty, who passed away in 2016.

Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition) was released in October and featured the remastered original album, plus 12 bonus tracks, including “Never Be You” and “Ways to Be Wicked,” as well as tracks taken from sessions for French TV.

Originally released in 1982, Long After Dark featured the singles “You Got Lucky,” “Change of Heart” and “Straight Into Darkness,” and was the first to feature new Heartbreaker Howie Epstein on bass.

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A new video has just been released for Bruce Springsteen’s collaboration with Jesse Malin on “She Don’t Love Me Now,” which appears on the Malin tribute album, Silver Patron Saints.

The video takes place at the New York bar Heaven Can Wait and centers on a man drinking away his sorrows. He’s soon moved by the music and begins dancing to the tune.

Springsteen doesn’t appear in the clip, although Malin makes a quick cameo as a patron offering a nod to the dancing man.

Springsteen’s take on “She Don’t Love Me Now” features Jesse’s band backing The Boss, along with E Street Band saxophonist Jake Clemons. The tune originally appeared on Malin’s 2015 album, New York Before The War.

Released in September, Silver Patron Saints benefits Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund. The rocker had a spinal stroke in 2023 that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Other artists on the album include Elvis Costello, Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong, Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello, Bleachers and the late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer.

A benefit concert for Malin is set to take place Dec. 1 at the Beacon Theatre in New York, featuring Costello, Lucinda Williams, Jakob Dylan, members of Counting Crows, Rickie Lee Jones and others, with Malin teasing, “More surprises to come.”

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Members of the prog rock band Yes are being sued over a song that appeared on their 2021 album, The Quest. 

Riz Story, whose legal name is Rudolph Zahler, filed a copyright suit in Los Angeles claiming Yes guitarist Steve Howe and Jon Davison, the band’s lead singer since 2012, stole the music of his song “Reunion” for the track “Dare To Know,” adding their own lyrics.

In the court documents, Story says he wrote the music for “Reunion” around 1981 when he was just 15, and while it was never released as a single, it was used in the 2014 movie A Winter Rose, and he subsequently copyrighted the song.

He says in 2022 he discovered his music being used in “Dare To Know,” insisting he didn’t give them permission, and contending they violated his copyright by performing the tune and using it to promote their album.

As for how Howe heard the song, Story says it was through his relationship with Davison. They’ve known each other since being introduced by the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins around 1990. All three were in the band Anyone together.

Story also claims Davison once asked for help co-writing songs for Yes because “he didn’t think he was up to writing songs of a caliber” the band would expect, but Story refused. He says instead Davison opted to “steal” the song “Reunion,” giving songwriting credit to Howe on the album. 

The suit also notes that Story has hired a musicologist who insists the two songs have “a pitch similarity percentage of 96%, which is extremely high.” 

Story is suing for monetary damages, and wants an injunction forcing Yes to stop distributing the song and to give him sole songwriting credit for the music of “Dare to Know.”

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Toni Cornell is continuing to follow in her father’s footsteps with the release of a new song.

The daughter of the late Chris Cornell will debut a track called “Sunset of Your Love” on Nov. 21. You can presave it now and listen to a clip via Toni’s Instagram.

Back in 2017, when she was just 12 years old, Toni performed a cover of Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah” on Good Morning America in honor of her father and the late Chester Bennington, who died within just months of each other that year. 

In 2018, Toni released a duet version of Sinéad O’Connor‘s “Nothing Compares 2 U” recorded with Chris before his passing. She’s since performed it during several TV appearances over the years.

Toni also released a single called “Far Away Places” in 2019, though she calls “Sunset of Your Love” “my first song.”

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On This Day, Nov. 14, 2006 …

Led Zeppelin and Rod Stewart were among the inductees who entered the U.K. Music Hall of Fame, which honored musicians of all nationalities for their lifetime contributions to music in the United Kingdom.

The ceremony took place at Alexandria Palace in London, with Queen’s Roger Taylor inducting Zeppelin and guitarist Jimmy Page on hand to accept the award.

Stewart was inducted by U.K. artist James Morrison, who performed “The First Cut Is the Deepest” and “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy.” He accepted his award via satellite from Los Angeles.

Other inductees that year included Bon Jovi, Prince, Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, James Brown and Dusty Springfield, with The Beatles producer George Martin receiving an honorary membership.

The 2006 ceremony was the last one to be held.

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The first trailer for the upcoming Beatles documentary Beatles ’64 has just been released.

Beatles ’64, directed by David Tedeschi and produced by Martin Scorsese, follows the band’s first-ever visit to America in February 1964, and features never-before-seen footage of the legendary group and their fans during the height of Beatlemania.

The doc includes fully restored footage filmed by documentarians Albert and David Maysles, along with performances from The Beatles’ first American concert in Washington, D.C., and clips of their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

The trailer features plenty of archival clips of the band during that time, as well as snippets of new interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, who co-produced the film alongside George Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, and John Lennon’s son Sean Ono Lennon. 

“We were just like, we’re in America,” Ringo tells Scorsese in the clip, while McCartney shares, “When we came it was quite shortly after Kennedy had been assassinated, maybe America needed something like The Beatles to be lifted out of sorrow.”

Beatles ’64 will stream exclusively on Disney+ starting Nov. 29. 

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Director James Mangold’s long-in-the-works Bob Dylan flick A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, is finally hitting theaters on Dec. 25, and the director reveals in a new interview how the pandemic may have helped in the film’s development.

Mangold tells MOJO that while the pandemic delayed the film, it also allowed him a chance to get more time with Dylan himself. 

“Bob had a tour that he’d just cancelled, and he asked to read the script, and that was the start of our connection,” Mangold shares. “He liked what I was doing and saw that I didn’t have some kind of agenda.”

“Then we sat down and had a series of one-on-one meetings, four or five times for at least a half day, just the two of us drinking coffee,” he adds. “And it became a huge opportunity for me to fill in the cracks in the story that the many books about him don’t cover.”

Chalamet had been cast to play Dylan since 2020, and Mangold says, “I thought he was perfect for it from the start and remained so.”

“Timmy’s incredibly sharp, witty, ambitious, kind of wonderfully odd and cool,” he says. “I felt he kind of could really embody a lot of things that Bob was, especially in that early time in his life.”

The film, which Mangold describes as “a fable,” covers a five-year period of Dylan’s early career — and that was enough for the director.

“I don’t feel pressure to define Bob for the ages and all his work over decades,” Mangold says. “I’m just talking about the moment that this guy blossomed, he became empowered, and then moved on. And where he moved to is either another movie or another writer’s business.”

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Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett interviews his bandmates Dave Grohl and Pat Smear on the second season premiere of his podcast, Shred with Shifty.

Over the course of the conversation, the trio goes into great detail about the guitar tones, amps and effects pedals they use.

“I don’t think either one of [Grohl or Smear] have ever done an interview quite like this,” Shiflett says at the beginning of the episode. “Like a deep dive on their guitar playing and gear and tone, and all the little secret formulas to the Foo Fighter magic sauce.”

If you’re wondering whether they addressed Grohl fathering a baby outside of his marriage, which he revealed in September, a press release notes that the conversation took place in February. Foo Fighters haven’t performed since the Grohl news broke and canceled what was set to be their first show back at the Soundside Music Festival.

Shiflett launched Shred with Shifty in 2023 and has interviewed artists including Rush‘s Alex Lifeson, Weezer‘s Rivers Cuomo, Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready and Wolfgang Van Halen. Upcoming guests on the second season include Black Label Society‘s Zakk Wylde and Keith Urban.

You can listen to Shred with Shifty at Volume.com/shifty.

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Sounds like The Rolling Stones may be hitting the road again next year.

During an interview with BBC Radio’s Front Row, Ronnie Wood revealed that the band is hoping to head out on a tour of Europe in 2025.

If it happens, it would be The Stones’ first European tour since releasing their latest record, Hackney Diamonds, in October 2022. The Stones did tour the U.S. this year, launching their Hackney Diamonds tour in April.

Wood also shared that he’s been working with Faces, saying, “We’re making some continued developments of music we made back in the day. … It still sounds as no time as gone by.”

Ronnie’s interview was to promote his new art exhibit, which opened on Wednesday at the Andrew Martin store in London. It’s set to run through Dec. 3, and features new and previously unseen pieces.

Sharing how important art is to him, Ronnie says, “If I was Chekhov I’d say my lawful wife is my artwork and my mistress is my music.”

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The Beatles’ recent Grammy nomination for their single “Now and Then” has prompted more people to check out the tune.

The song earned a Record of the Year nod Nov. 8, and Billboard reports that since then streams of the song jumped 42%, from 83,000 streams the days prior to the nod to 118,000 streams in the days after.

Released in November 2023, “Now and Then” features vocals John Lennon recorded on a demo in the late ’70s, along with new contributions from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and guitar parts George Harrison recorded in the ’90s during the sessions for The Beatles’ Anthology series.

The song may have a tough time nabbing a Grammy in that category, though. It’s up against hits from Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and rapper Kendrick Lamar.

The 67th annual Grammy Awards air Feb. 2 on CBS.

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