Classic Rock News

Mother Nature has forced Billy Joel and Sting to postpone their Friday show at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

“Due to inclement weather conditions, tonight’s Billy Joel and Sting concert at Busch Stadium has been rescheduled to this Sunday, September 29,” reads an announcement on social media. “The safety of the fans, artists, crew, and staff is paramount.” The announcement notes that tickets for the Friday show will be accepted Sunday night. 

“We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding,” the post concludes.

The St. Louis show is one of several co-headlining dates for Billy and Sting, including one more this year, Oct. 9 at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium. They also just announced four new shows for 2025 in Indianapolis, Syracuse, Charlotte and Salt Lake City.

Citi presales for all new shows begin Monday at 10 a.m. ET, with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Oct. 4 at 9 a.m. ET.

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The upcoming movie about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s album Nebraska has reportedly found the actor to play the rocker’s father.

According to Variety, English actor Stephen Graham, who’s had roles in Peaky Blinders, Snatch, Boardwalk Empire and more, has been cast to play Springsteen’s dad in Deliver Me From Nowhere, which stars Jeremy Allen White as The Boss.

Springsteen’s father, Douglas Frederick “Dutch” Springsteen, passed away in 1998. The rocker has been very open about the rocky relationship he had with his dad growing up and even wrote about it in his 2016 biography, Born to Run. Their relationship inspired such songs as “Adam Raised A Cain” and “Independence Day.” 

Deliver Me From Nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper, is based on the Warren Zanes book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, which follows Springsteen’s efforts to make his 1982 solo album, Nebraska.

In addition to White, the cast includes Paul Walter Hauser and Odessa Young. Reports in May claimed Succession star Jeremy Strong was in talks to play Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau, but so far there’s been no confirmation that he’s been cast.

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Neil Young is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his fifth studio album, On The Beach.

The milestone will be marked with the release of a limited-edition clear vinyl pressing of the album, which will feature “50” on the front cover. 

Originally released in July 1974 following the huge success of 1972’s #1 album Harvest, On The Beach features Young backed by Crazy Horse members Billy Talbot on bass and Ralph Molina on drums. It also features contributions from The Band’s Levon Helm and Rick Danko, David Crosby and Graham Nash, and Ben Keith, Rusty Kershaw, Tim Drummond and George Whitsell.

On The Beach 50th Anniversary Edition will be available at the Greedy Hand Store at Neil Young Archives, as well as at music retailers.

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Slash is prepping his next record with his solo band, Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators. 

In an Instagram post featuring a photo of himself alongside bassist Todd Kerns and drummer Brent Fitz, the Guns N’ Roses shredder writes, “Back at it for new record coming sooner than later.”

“The three of us starting the initial framework,” Slash continues. “Then [guitarist] Frank [Sidoris], then Myles. Recording in November.”

The upcoming album will be Slash’s fifth with the Conspirators and follows 2022’s 4. He also released a solo blues covers compilation, Orgy of the Damned, in May.

Kennedy, meanwhile, also fronts Alter Bridge and is releasing a new solo album, The Art of Letting Go, on Oct. 11.

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On This Day, Sept. 27, 2016 …

Bruce Springsteen published his autobiography, Born to Run, named after his iconic 1975 album. He began writing it the day after he headlined the Super Bowl halftime show in 2009.

The book recounted The Boss’ childhood in Freehold, New Jersey, his early days as a musician in Asbury Park, the rise of the E Street Band and more.

Born to Run was released to critical acclaim. The audio book, which Springsteen narrates, received a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album and also earned him the 2018 Audie Award for Autobiography/Memoir.

The Boss later took the stories recounted in the book and turned them into a Broadway show, Springsteen on Broadway, which opened in October 2018. Springsteen on Broadway earned the rocker a special Tony Award.

And now Springsteen fans are about to get a behind-the-scenes look at his most recent tour when the documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band debuts on Hulu and Disney+ Oct. 25. 

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Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry stars in a new campaign for fashion brand Gucci.

The campaign, We Will Always Have London, was shot by famed photographer Nan Golden. It’s described as “an ode to the timeless allure of London,” which is the city where the collection debuted. 

The ad was shot in various locations throughout London, aimed at promoting “the spirit of the Gucci Blondie bag and Cruise 2025 collection.”

Harry is seen in the ad riding in the back seat of a car, wearing a red leather jacket and holding the Gucci bag. The whole clip is soundtracked by a haunting version of the Blondie hit “Heart of Glass.”

This is the second fashion campaign Harry has headlined in recent weeks. She was recently featured in a new campaign for British luxury eyewear brand Cutler and Gross.

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Stevie Nicks‘ new song “The Lighthouse” is here, and according to the music legend, it might be not only the most important song she’s ever written, but the most important thing she’s ever done.

Stevie describes the song, about women’s rights, as an “anthem.” She’s the one leading the charge, singing, “I wanna be The Lighthouse/ Bring all of you together.” In a note, she explains she started the song a few months after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

“It seemed like overnight, people were saying ‘what can we, as a collective force, do about this,'” she recalls. “For me, it was to write a song. It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning, I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me, explaining what the loss of Roe v Wade would come to mean.”

“I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night,” she continues. “That was September 6, 2022. I have been working on it ever since. I have often said to myself, ‘This may be the most important thing I ever do. To stand up for the women of the United States and their daughters and granddaughters and the men that love them.'”

Elsewhere in the song, Stevie sings, “They’ll take your soul, they’ll take your power/ Unless you save it/ … I wanna teach ’em to fight/ I wanna tell ’em this has happened before/ Don’t let it happen again.”

“The Lighthouse” is Stevie’s first new music since she released a cover of Buffalo Springfield‘s “For What It’s Worth” and her first new original song since 2020’s “Show Them the Way.” She’ll perform on Saturday Night Live on Oct. 12.

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Peter Frampton is clearing the air over comments he made blaming Megadeth for him having to cancel a show in Virginia. 

During his Sept. 19 concert in Philadelphia, Frampton said he canceled his Sept. 17 show at Virginia Credit Union Live in Richmond partially due to weather and partially due structural damage to the stage, which he suggested may have happened during Megadeth’s soundcheck a few days before.

Megadeth responded that Frampton was misinformed, saying they didn’t even soundcheck due to damage to the venue’s grid system. “It’s disappointing when someone you admire talks out their a** about you,” the band’s frontman, Dave Mustaine, said.

Frampton is now setting the record straight, telling ABC Audio his comments were simply a joke and he feels bad about it.

“I sent them an apology. It was just one of those things that people took me serious. … I made it all up just for the comedy,” he says. “I turned into Don Rickles for a minute there.”

And Frampton, who’s set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Oct. 19, understands why Mustaine was angry.

“If I were Dave Mustaine and the guys in Megadeth, I would be p***** too,” Frampton says. “So, you know, he says I talked out of my a**. Well, yeah, that’s where it came from.”

“I didn’t mean any harm at all, but it was a very, very serious situation and I made light of it not knowing the facts,” Frampton continued. “So that was a huge lesson for me and I apologized to them.”

As for Mustaine saying he admired Frampton, the guitar great notes, “He is a good guy,” adding that after Megadeth finishes touring he needs to “take him out for a meal or something.”

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Queen has released a performance video of the track “Son and Daughter,” recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon on Dec. 24, 1975.

The performance is one of the rare live tracks featured on the upcoming six-CD + one-LP collector’s edition reissue, Queen I, which revisits the band’s 1973 self-titled debut album.

The set, made up of 63 tracks with 43 brand-new mixes, will include the original album with a new track listing, along with its originally intended running order and the addition of “Mad the Swine,” a song that was absent from the 1973 release. There are also alternative takes, demos and rare live tracks, along with “fly-on-the-wall audio” that gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at Queen in the studio.

In addition to the box set, Queen I will be released as a single CD and two-CD deluxe edition, as well as on vinyl, picture disc and cassette. 

Queen I will be released Oct. 25. All formats are available for preorder now.

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Elton John‘s “Tiny Dancer” is about a woman who hangs around with musicians — Bernie Taupin has said it was about his wife at the time. But now the classic tune has been used to soundtrack the trailer for a movie about a woman who hangs around with guns, knives and anything else you can use to kill someone in gnarly fashion.

The movie is From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, a spin-off of the Keanu Reeves action movies. It starts with a young girl listening to a music box, which features a ballerina spinning to an instrumental version of “Tiny Dancer.” We then see that young girl, now bloodied and beaten, led away by John Wick star Ian McShane, who promises to take her to a school where they “teach dancers.”

Except, it’s not exactly a ballet school. It’s a school for assassins. We see the little girl, Eve, played as a grown woman by Ana de Armas, undergoing training in various deadly arts. As we hear Elton’s song — with its line “Ballerina, you must’ve seen her” — she interacts with other fixtures of the John Wick universe, including the Continental Hotel, its concierge, Charon, and McShane’s character, Winston.

Then, there’s a lot of killing, as Eve dispatches various opponents with firearms, a flamethrower, knives and even an ice skate. At the end, she comes face to face with John Wick himself. 

Ballerina comes out in 2025.

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