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Iron Maiden’s scheduled concert at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles has been pushed back one day due to a scheduling conflict with a college football game.

The show, originally set for Sept. 26, was set to take place on the same day that the USC Trojans take on the Oregon Ducks at nearby Memorial Coliseum stadium. It’s now been moved to Sept. 27.

“We were completely shocked when we were told about this unique situation affecting our sold out LA show on the Saturday night,” says Maiden manager Rod Smallwood. “We have worked with the team at Live Nation and rather than cancelling this second show we were thankfully able to move the show to the following night.”

Smallwood adds, “We are naturally mortified at the issues and inconvenience raised for our fans who hold tickets but there is sadly nothing we can do other than move the show a day later.”

Iron Maiden is also set to play BMO Stadium on Sept. 25; that date remains unaffected.

The LA shows are part of Iron Maiden’s Run for Your Lives tour, which celebrates the band’s 50th anniversary and focuses on their first nine albums.

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Mick Jagger is giving fans a little look at his latest Egyptian vacation.

The Rolling Stones frontman posted a carousel of vacation photos on Instagram, captioning the shots, “Wandering through Egypt.”

Photos include Jagger posing in the dessert; several of him in front of the pyramids and other archaeological sites; and one of him on a boat with an image of Bob Marley in the background.

This isn’t the first time Jagger has posted photos from his travels on Instagram. In November he posted photographs from “Somewhere on the Med,” and in August he shared photos from his “summer break in Portugal.”

In other Rolling Stones news … guitarist Keith Richards is going to be a great-grandfather. The rocker’s granddaughter Ella Richards, daughter of Marlon Richards, Keith’s son with Anita Pallenberg, announced on Instagram that she’s expecting. She posted a black-and-white photo showing off her baby bump, tagging the baby’s father, photographer Sascha von Bismarck, who, according to People, is her boyfriend.

Keith commented on the post, “Sending love and looking forward to welcoming my first great grandchild!”

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Bonnie Raitt, George Thorogood and Hot Tuna’s Jorma Kaukonen are among the artists paying tribute to blues singer and guitarist John Hammond, who passed away Feb. 28.

The Grammy-winning Hammond, who over the years played with such artists as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Levon Helm, Duane Allman and Stevie Ray Vaughan, was the son of record producer and talent scout John H. Hammond Jr., who signed artists like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Columbia Records.

In a post on Instagram, Raitt revealed that the younger Hammond “was the inspiration for teaching myself blues guitar and learning how to sing these songs we loved so much. He made it cool and all right.”

“Not only was he a virtuoso on guitar, harp, singing and choosing songs, to me it felt like he was totally possessed by the blues,” she added. “I’ve never witnessed anyone as swept up and away as John playing his music live.”

Thorogood called Hammond “an icon, a professional role model and, most importantly, a friend.” He added, “While we mourn his passing, we celebrate what the man and his music meant to us, and to so many.”

Kaukonen wrote a long tribute to Hammond on Instagram, describing their first meeting at Antioch College.

“As an artist, John seemed to have sprung full grown from the womb. He might have been inspired by tradition but he was never a replicator… he always did things his way,” he wrote. “As a blues singer, he was always nonpareil. You can recognize John’s voice anywhere, any time! I know a lot of great guitar players but no one, and I mean no one, played like John!”

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Bruce Hornsby has released the new single “Ecstatic,” which features backing vocals from Bonnie Raitt.

The track is the second song Hornsby has released from his upcoming album, Indigo Park, following the title track. It was inspired by chants he heard watching his son play basketball.

This isn’t the first time Hornsby and Raitt have worked together. In fact, their first collaboration was on Raitt’s iconic ballad “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” which appeared on her 1991 album, Luck of the Draw.

Accompanying the release of “Ecstatic,” Hornsby has released a video for the song that features the Louisiana State University Tigers’ women’s basketball team. The clip was shot on campus, where Hornsby’s son Keith Hornsby played basketball and is currently a graduate assistant for the LSU Tigers men’s team.

“Ecstatic” is available now via digital outlets.

Indigo Park, dropping April 3, has Hornsby backed by his band The Noisemakers, along with guitarist Blake Mills, bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Chris Dave. In addition to Raitt, it features guest appearances by the late Bob Weir and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. It also contains two songs co-written by the late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.

Hornsby and The Noisemakers are set to hit the road in support of Indigo Park. The tour kicks off April 9 in Cincinnati, Ohio. A complete list of dates can be found at BruceHornsby.com.

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Sting is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his fifth studio album, Mercury Falling, with a just-released expanded edition of the album.

The digital-only Mercury Falling (Expanded Edition) includes the original album along with 19 tracks, several of which were previously unavailable on digital services. The bonus material includes various B-sides and remixes, the song “Moonlight” from the 1995 film Sabrina and three live recordings: “You Still Touch Me,” “Lithium Sunset” and The Police classic “Message in a Bottle.”

Mercury Falling (Expanded Edition) is now available via digital outlets.

Released March 4, 1996, Mercury Falling peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 and included such singles as “Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot” and “I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying.”

The album went on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA and was nominated for a Grammy for best pop vocal album. “Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot” also earned Sting a Grammy nod for best male pop vocal performance.

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Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison has announced a new solo album featuring a whole bunch of guests.

The record, titled Hollow, is due out in August and includes contributions from Godsmack frontman Sully Erna, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Marilyn Manson, Dexter Holland of The Offspring, Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, Billy Idol’s Steve Stevens and rappers Chuck D, B-Real and DMC. 

The first single is called “Becoming” and will feature Erna and Bettencourt. It’ll premiere on March 27.

“The guests on this record are at the core of the collaborative spirit that I try to put in the center of these records,” Morrison says in a statement. “Every single person I worked with stepped up, brought their A game and helped me produce an album that crosses genres, features some really diverse songwriting, and yet has a truly cohesive, and powerful sound.”

He adds, “Ultimately, I am just grateful to everyone involved for allowing me to do this again.”

Hollow follows Morrison’s 2024 effort, The Morrison Project, which includes the Ozzy Osbourne collaboration “Crack Cocaine.”

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After being forced to cancel their planned reunion tour due to frontman Dee Snider’s health, the remaining members of Twisted Sister have found someone else to front the band.

Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda announced on Instagram that former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach will be taking over lead singer duties for “a handful of select dates this fall.” The post features a clip of Twisted Sister’s “You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll,” which appears to feature Bach on vocals. 

It also adds that the shows with Twisted Sister “do not affect or conflict with Sebastian’s current or future solo touring schedule, which remains fully intact.”

Dates for Twisted Sister with Sebastian Bach have not yet been announced.

The planned Twisted Sister reunion with Snider was supposed to kick off April 25 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. On Feb. 6, the band announced the tour cancelation “due to the sudden and unexpected resignation of Twisted Sister’s lead singer Dee Snider brought on by a series of health challenges.”

A statement released on behalf Snider said that a “lifetime of legendarily aggressive performing has taken its toll” on the singer, noting the 70-year-old suffered from degenerative arthritis and recently found out that “the level of intensity he has dedicated to his life’s work has taken its toll on his heart as well.”

Bach is currently on a solo tour and will play Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday. He has dates confirmed through Oct. 3 in Saint Charles, Missouri.

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Bret Michaels, Rick Springfield and Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini are among the acts booked for  The Mountain Music Festival, happening Aug. 21-23 at the Gatlinburg Convention Center in the Great Smokey Mountains of Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

The three-day classic rock festival features over 25 artists on three stages, with the lineup that also includes 38 Special, Night Ranger, Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach, Warrant, John Waite, Lita Ford, Jackyl and more.

Three-day and two-day passes for the festival are on sale now, with single day general admission passes going on sale this spring/summer. A complete lineup can be found at TheMountainUSA.com.

The Mountain Music Festival debuted in October 2021 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd’s classic “Free Bird” has gotten a chart boost thanks to the Winter Olympics.

After the song became the unofficial anthem for the U.S. men’s and women’s gold medal winning hockey teams, the track has hit #15 on Billboard’s Rock & Alternative Songs chart, #1 on the Rock Digital Songs Sales chart and #6 on the Digital Song Sales chart.

“Free Bird,” from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s debut album, (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd), is one of the band’s signature songs. During its original chart run in 1975, it peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In addition to the Olympics, the song was recently used in Budweiser’s “American Icons” Super Bowl ad.

Lynyrd Skynyrd will be spending the summer on the road on the Double Trouble Vision tour with Foreigner. The tour kicks off July 23 in Atlanta and wraps Aug. 29 in Rogers, Arkansas. A complete list of tour dates can be found at lynyrdskynyrd.com.

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Paul McCartney was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1999, but it turns out he was expecting it to happen a lot earlier.

Vanity Fair just published a 2015 interview with McCartney that was conducted for a biography about Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner and in it McCartney reveals Wenner, who co-founded the Rock Hall, went back on a promise regarding his solo induction.

McCartney explained that when John Lennon was inducted into the Rock Hall as a solo artist in 1994, Wenner asked him to handle the induction, and while he agreed, it got him thinking about himself. 

“Then I put the phone down. I thought, Well, what about me? I’m not inducted. Now John’s going to go in,” McCartney said. “The thing about John Lennon and McCartney was we were always equal. But, of course, once John got murdered, he became the martyr—the Buddy Holly, the James Dean character—because of the atrocity.”

McCartney said he eventually called Wenner and said, “Well, wait a minute. What about me? Maybe I’ll do John, and then maybe I should go in.”

McCartney said Wenner told him they couldn’t do that, with McCartney noting, “In all my dealings with him, it’s never up to Jann. It’s up to these other people down the corridor somewhere. He happens to have ‘owner-editor’ on his door, but they’re responsible for things?”

McCartney says Wenner eventually told him his solo induction would happen the next year.

“I said, ‘Okay.’ And I bought the deal,” McCartney said. “Next year came around … Crickets.”

McCartney noted, “Eventually I did creep in there, and my daughter Stella wore a T-shirt [that said] ‘About f***** time.”

According to the article, Wenner claimed to not remember making the deal with McCartney.

Both McCartney and Lennon were inducted as members of The Beatles in 1988.

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