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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band wrapped a three-night stand in Madrid Monday night, treating fans to three tour debuts.

According to setlist.fm, after opening the show with “Lonesome Day,” Bruce broke out the Born in the U.S.A. track “Cover Me” for the first time on the tour, marking the first time he’s performed the song since 2017.

Later in the show he offered up the tour debut of the Tracks song “My Love Will Not Let You Down,” as well as another Born in the U.S.A. song, “Working on the Highway.”

Of course, the set included plenty of Springsteen classics, like “Born To Run,” “Dancing in the Dark,” “Born in the U.S.A.” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out,” as well as “Hungry Heart,” “Thunder Road” and “Bobby Jean.” 

Next up, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band bring their tour to Barcelona for two nights starting Thursday. A complete list of dates can be found at brucespringsteen.net.

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On This Day, June 18, 1977 …

Fleetwood Mac hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “Dreams,” which would turn out to be the only chart-topping single of their career.

The song was the third single off the band’s 11th studio album, Rumours, which spent 31 nonconsecutive weeks at #1.

In 2020 “Dreams” returned to the chart after a TikTok video created by Nathan Apodaca in which he was skateboarding to the tune went viral. The song returned to the Billboard Hot 100 at #22, peaking at #12 a week later.

Although “Dreams” was their only #1, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours featured several songs that went on to become classics, including “Don’t Stop,” “Go Your Own Way,” “Songbird,” “The Chain” and “You Make Loving Fun.”

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Stevie Nicks has been forced to postpone a second show on her solo tour.

The two time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer announced on her Instagram Story that the Tuesday, June 18, show in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is being postponed “due to illness,” and has now been rescheduled to September 24. 

Stevie previously postponed her Saturday, June 15, show in Hershey, Pennsylvania for the same reason, and that show has now been rescheduled for September 28.

Tickets for the postponed shows will be valid for the new dates. 

Stevie’s next concert is scheduled for Friday, June 21, in Chicago, with Stevie noting she “looks forward to seeing fans” at the show. 

A complete list of dates can be found at stevienicksofficial.com.

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A new collection of memorabilia from The Beatles is now up for auction through ANALOGr.  

Coinciding with Paul McCartney’s 82nd birthday on June 18, the new auction includes handwritten original lyrics to The Beatles’ “Birthday,” written on the back of an Apple Studio recording sheet. It even includes chord diagrams helping John Lennon and George Harrison with the guitar parts. 

The unique piece of Beatles history has an estimated sale price of between $125,000 and $200,000.

Other items up for auction include a reproduction of sculptor Frederic Remington‘s famous “The Rattlesnake” statue that was owned by Lennon; a George Harrison Brainwashed collection, featuring a poster signed by Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Pattie Boyd and session drummer Jim Keltner; a CBS Records employee jacket signed by Ringo; and a Beatles 1964 Pepsi vending machine transistor radio, given to the band upon their arrival in America on Feb. 7, 1964. 

“We are incredibly excited to present the second round of the ANALOGr Beatles auction,” said Thomas Scriven, CEO at ANALOGr. “This collection is a treasure trove of Beatles history, and we look forward to sharing these rare and unique items with fans and collectors around the world.”  

The auction is open now and runs through July. More info can be found at analogr.com.

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Blue Öyster Cult is continuing the celebration of their 50th anniversary with the release of a new live album.

50th Anniversary Live – Second Night, dropping Aug. 9, features a concert recorded during the band’s 2022 three-night stand at Sony Hall in New York. It has the band performing their sophomore album, Tyranny and Mutation, in its entirety, along with such classic tracks as “Burnin’ For You” and “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.”

As a preview of the record, Blue Öyster Cult has also released a live performance video of the track “7 Screaming Diz-Busters.”

The residency at Sony Hall had the band playing their first three albums in their entirety, one each night; Frontiers Music is releasing each night separately. The first release, 50th Anniversary Live – First Night, featured the band performing their self-titled debut album. It was released in October.

50th Anniversary Live – Second Night is available for preorder now.

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KISS’ Gene Simmons reveals in a new interview that he wishes he had handled things differently with his former bandmates Ace Frehley and Peter Criss so they could still be with them celebrating the band’s long career. 

During an interview with Backstage Pass, Simmons was asked if there was anything about the band that he would have done differently, and he expressed regret about how he dealt with Ace and Peter and their substance issues.

“I’m sad in retrospect. You know, hindsight’s 20/20,” he said. “I’m sad that I wasn’t more hard on Ace and Peter, the two original guys who played guitar and drums in the band,” noting that he has never gotten high and never drank.

“I’ve always been an outcast in that way,” he said. “The rest of the world seemed to be drug-fueled.”

Simmons acknowledged that Ace and Peter deserve as much credit for the band’s initial success as he and Paul Stanley.

“There’s no question it was that chemistry. And they both had unique voices, unique personalities and all that,” he said. “And they should have been here with us 50 or 55 years later and enjoying the fruits of their labor. But sadly, they’re not.”

Regarding their departures, Simmons shared, “It’s their own doing. They were in and out of the band three different times. They were let go three different times because of the same old thing.” 

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David Gilmour is giving fans another taste of his upcoming solo album, Luck and Strange.

The Pink Floyd rocker has released the new song “Between Two Points,” featuring vocals and harp from his daughter Romany Gilmour. 

He’s also released a video for the track, directed by Gavin Elder, which was shot in London and Manchester.  

“Romany performs this song with an extraordinary level of fragility, vulnerability and understated control,” Elder shares. “There’s a subtle, yet deep emotional rapport between David and Romany, captured with hand held cameras, enhancing the tension within the video.”

Gilmour is set to release Luck and Strange on Sept. 6. The album consists of eight new songs and one cover, with the title track featuring a contribution from late Pink Floyd keyboard Richard Wright, taken from a jam session at Gilmour’s barn back in 2007.

Gilmour is set to play select tour dates in support of the album in Rome, London, New York and Los Angeles. A complete list of dates can be found at davidgilmour.com.

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Bon Jovi is on the charts once again.

The band’s latest album, FOREVER, debuts at #5 on the Billboard 200 Album chart, making it the band’s 14th top-10 hit. 

The New Jersey rockers moved 52,000 equivalent album units to land in the top five. Thanks to 50,000 of that being complete album sales, FOREVER also debuts at #1 on the Top Album Sales chart.

FOREVER is now Bon Jovi’s 22nd album to chart on the Billboard 200. Their first was 1986’s Slippery When Wet, which was also their first #1 album.  

Bon Jovi also landed #1 albums in the ’90s, 2000s and 2010s, so with FOREVER, they join AC/DC, Def Leppard, Metallica and U2 as the only bands to have a top-10 album in each of the last five decades.

Meanwhile, in the U.K., after a close battle for the top spot, FOREVER wound up debuting at #3 on the Official Charts, behind Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department at #1 and Charli XCX’s BRAT at #2.

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Paul McCartney has added more dates to his Got Back tour.

The latest leg will have the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer headed to Europe, with shows in Spain, France and the U.K.

The European tour will kick off with two nights in Paris, Dec. 4 and Dec. 5, followed by two nights in Madrid, Dec. 9 and Dec. 10, and two nights in Manchester, Dec. 14 and Dec. 15, before wrapping with two nights in London, Dec. 18 and Dec. 19.

The shows will be McCartney’s first in the U.K. since he headlined the Glastonbury Festival in 2022. It will also be his first time playing Paris in six years, and the first time in Spain in eight.

Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time. More information on presales can be found at PaulMcCartney.com.

The European tour dates come just one week after McCartney announced a tour of South America, which kicks off Oct. 1 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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Stevie Nicks has shot down any hope Fleetwood Mac fans have that the band will one day tour again. Nicks tells MOJO that a tour isn’t possible following the 2022 death of singer/keyboardist Christine McVie.

“Without Christine, no can do,” she says. “There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn’t work.”

Fleetwood Mac previously toured without McVie between 1998 and 2014, but they still had Lindsey Buckingham in the band at that time. Buckingham split from the group in 2022, and Stevie doesn’t see him coming back.

“Even if I thought I could work with Lindsey again, he’s had some health problems,” she says, a reference to Buckingham’s 2019 heart surgery. “It’s not for me to say, but I’m not sure if Lindsey could do the kind of touring that Fleetwood Mac does, where you go out for a year and half. It’s so demanding.”

Regarding Christine’s death, Stevie shared, “It was all stunningly strange, because there wasn’t any lead up to it.” 

“We got a call, and I was going to rent a plane and go see her, but her family said, ‘Don’t come, because she may not be here tomorrow.’ And the next day, she passed away,” she says.

Stevie adds that she wanted a chance to sing to Christine, joking, “which definitely would have made her pass away faster.”

“But I needed to be with her. And I didn’t get to do that. So that was very hard for me. I didn’t get to say goodbye.”

Meanwhile, Nicks postponed her June 15 concert in Hershey, Pennsylvania, just hours before she was supposed to take the stage “due to an illness in the band.” So far a new date for the show hasn’t been announced.

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