Paul McCartney surprised New Yorkers by playing New York City’s 575-capacity Bowery Ballroom in on Tuesday, and now he’s doing it again.
The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer just announced he’s returning to the venue on Wednesday, with tickets only available at the Bowery Ballroom box office.
According to setlist.fm, Tuesday night’s show lasted about 90 minutes, with Sir Paul opening with The Beatles’ classic “A Hard Day’s Night.” Other Beatles tunes in the 22-song set included “Got To Get You Into My Life,” “Blackbird,” the Grammy-winning “Now and Then,” “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “Get Back,” “Lady Madonna,” “Let It Be” and “Hey Jude.”
He closed the show with the portion of the Abbey Road side two medley that comprises “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End.”
The set also included the Wings tunes “Letting Go,” “Jet,” “Let Me Roll It,” and others, along with McCartney solo tracks “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “My Valentine” and “Come On To Me.”
The nominees for the 2025 class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have been revealed, with eight out of the 14 artists in the running getting a nomination for the very first time.
Among those first-times nominees are Bad Company,the supergroup featuring former Free members Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke, along with The Black Crowes, Billy Idol and Joe Cocker, plus “The Twist” singer Chubby Checker, rap duo Outkast, jam band Phish and Mexican rock band Maná.
The other six nominees, who’ve appeared on the ballot before, are Cyndi Lauper, Mariah Carey, Seattle rockers Soundgarden, garage rock duo The White Stripes, British rockers Oasis and new wave pioneers Joy Division/New Order.
To be eligible for nomination, an artist or band must have released their first commercial recording at least 25 years ago, though a number of these nominees have been eligible for much longer than that. For example, Bad Company’s been eligible since 1999, and Checker’s been eligible since 1985.
This year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class will be announced in April. The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction is set to take place in Los Angeles this fall, although an exact date has yet to be announced.
Don Henley is being sued by one of the men who was accused of stealing his handwritten lyrics to several classic Eagles tunes.
Glenn Horowitz, one of three men to stand trial for the alleged theft, filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court against Henley and his manager Irving Azoff, claiming the pair always knew the lyrics in question were not stolen.
Horowitz, a rare books dealer, was tried alongside Craig Inciardi and rock memorabilia dealer Edward Kosinski, with the trio accused of trying to auction off the handwritten notes and lyrics for songs from the Eagles’ classic album Hotel California.
The trio claimed they got the sheets from writer Ed Sanders, who came into possession of the documents in the ’70s when he worked on Henley’s never-published biography. In 2005, Sanders sold the manuscripts to Horowitz, who then sold them to Inciardi and Kosinski. Henley has always maintained the manuscripts weren’t given to Sanders, so he had no right to sell them.
The case finally went to trial in February of 2024, but was dismissed due to a late disclosure of documents by Henley’s team.
In the new suit, lawyers for Horowitz argue Henley and Azoff, “knew that Ed Sanders had acquired and retained the handwritten lyrics legitimately and without theft or misappropriation.” The suit accuses the pair of malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress and more. Horowitz is seeking punitive damages.
In a statement provided to ABC Audio, Dan Petrocelli, attorney for Henley and Azoff, shared, “Don Henley was a witness and a victim in a criminal trial brought by the Manhattan District Attorney after a formal indictment of Glenn Horowitz by a New York grand jury,” adding, “The indictment highlighted the dark underbelly of the memorabilia business that exploited the brazen, unauthorized taking and selling of Mr. Henley’s handwritten lyrics. The only malicious prosecution involved here is the filing of this case by Mr. Horowitz.”
The long-lost Tom Petty documentary, Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, is coming to streaming.
The film, which was the directorial debut of Oscar winner Cameron Crowe, was released in theaters back in October to coincide with Petty’s 74th birthday and will now stream on Paramount+ starting March 11.
The flick followed Petty and the Heartbreakers during their 1982-83 tour for the album Long After Dark. It originally aired on MTV in 1983, but, according to the description, “was deemed too experimental and abruptly pulled from the air.”
The newly restored version of the film includes a new intro from Crowe, along with 20 minutes of previously unreleased footage.
“Heartbreakers Beach Party occupies a special place in my heart,” said Crowe. “Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers leaned into the making of the film with a kind of hilarious music-filled honesty that still feels fresh forty years later.”
He adds, “I’m especially happy to add a postscript with the never-seen outtake footage I always treasured. The fact that the original film was yanked from MTV after only one airing shows that it was, and still is, an outlandish feast for fans in the best ways. Turn it up!!”
You’ll soon be able to watch the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown in the comfort of your own home.
The film, starring Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, will available on digital platforms starting Feb. 25, with never-before-seen bonus extras. It will also be released on 4K Ultra High Definition Blu-ray and High Definition Blu-ray on April 1.
A Complete Unknown is up for eight Oscars this year, including best picture, best actor for Chalamet, best supporting actor for Ed Norton, best supporting actress for Monica Barbaro and best director for James Mangold.
Meanwhile, Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez in the film, finally got to meet the legendary singer in real life. The actress shared photos of her with Baez on Instagram, writing, “A beautiful night in so many ways. Absolutely surreal. Joan. You’re a legend.”
Although she doesn’t say where the meeting took place, Barbaro previously said she was making plans to meet Baez at the A Night to Honor Joan Baez concert, which was held Saturday at Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco.
Peter Frampton has added additional dates to his Let’s Do It Again tour.
The new leg consists of nine shows, kicking off June 13 in Seattle and wrapping June 29 in Las Vegas.
“It’s the Let’s Do It Again tour. Why not?” Frampton says in a video posted to Instagram. “I feel good, wanna come out and see you guys and play some music.”
A ticket presale begins Wednesday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m.
Frampton, who was inducted into the Rock Hall in October, announced his Let’s Do It Again tour in January, with the first leg set to kick off with a 10-show run starting March 30 in Uncasville, Connecticut, and wrapping April 19 in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. A complete list of dates can be found at Frampton.com.
Actor Jeremy Strong plays Bruce Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau in the upcoming movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, and he tells Variety working on the film was “utterly life affirming.”
“It’s a mentor story, like The Apprentice,” he says, referring to the Donald Trump film that earned Strong a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for playing Roy Cohn. “But if Roy is Mephistopheles, Jon is a force of light.”
“Spending time with Bruce and Jon and communing with Bruce’s music, which is a gospel of hope and faith and love, as opposed to a gospel of hatred and mendacity and nihilism, which is what Roy was, it was a tonic,” he adds. “It lifted me out of the darkness.”
As for his co-star Jeremy Allen White, who plays The Boss in the film, Strong says he “transformed brilliantly into Bruce. He sang brilliantly.”
Deliver Me From Nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper, follows Springsteen’s efforts to make his 1982 solo album Nebraska. The film is based on Warren Zanes‘ book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.
Pat Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo have announced dates for a new spring tour.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame pair, who’ve been married since 1982, will hit the road on a 26-date trek starting April 11 in Palm Springs, California, and wrapping June 1 in Selbyville, Delaware.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. A complete list of dates can be found at benatargiraldo.com.
The tour isn’t the only big thing happening for Benatar and Giraldo this year. They are also dropping the new children’s book My Grandma and Grandpa Rock! on Sept. 9.
According to the book’s description, it’s “a lyrical read-aloud that celebrates all kinds of grandparents from all walks of life―from plumbers to yoga instructors to … rock stars!”
We are used to seeing Paul McCartney play big stadiums across the globe, but he’s set to play a much smaller venue Tuesday night.
The rock legend just announced he’ll headline New York’s Bowery Ballroom, which has a capacity of 575 people, with the show dubbed McCartney Rocks the Bowery.
Tickets for the concert, which starts at 6:30 p.m., are on sale now but at the box office only, with only one ticket allowed per customer.
Bowery Ballroom is significantly smaller than the last venue McCartney played in the New York area. That was back in 2022, when he headlined New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, which has a capacity of 82,000 people.
Patti Smith is celebrating the 50th anniversary of her debut album, Horses, with a new tour.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer announced on Instagram that she and her band will perform the album at an Oct. 6 show in Dublin, sharing in the caption, “This is announcing the first concert of our Horses 50th Anniversary Tour. More to follow.”
That “more to follow” includes U.S. dates that kick off Nov. 10 in Seattle, with the tour hitting Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., and more, including two nights at the Beacon Theatre in New York. It wraps Nov. 29 in Philadelphia.
Presale tickets go on sale Wednesday, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at pattismith.net.
Released in November 1975, Horses was a huge hit with critics and landed in the top 50 on the Billboard 200 chart. It has appeared on several lists of the greatest albums of all time, and in 2009 it was chosen by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
Smith’s music is also being celebrated with an all-star tribute concert in New York. People Have the Power – A Celebration of Patti Smith, taking place March 26 at Carnegie Hall, will feature performances by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Ben Harper, Kim Gordon, The National‘s Matt Berninger, Karen O, Sharon Van Etten and more.
The night will celebrate the Horses anniversary and will also include performances of songs from Smith’s full catalog.
