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Bon Jovi has shared another look at their upcoming four-part Hulu documentary, Thank You, Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story.

The new trailer for the series features interview footage with Jon Bon Jovi, former guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist Dave Bryan and drummer Tico Torres, as well as fellow New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen, who shares, “Jon’s choruses demand to be sung by 20,000 people in an arena.” 

Toward the beginning of the trailer, Richie jokes, “I’m excited, are we telling the truth, are we gonna lie, what are we gonna do?” Later clips reveal the band will get real about Richie’s 2013 departure. 

“It was real fun and I thought everybody else was enjoying it too,” Jon says, to which Richie replies, “wrong.” He later adds, “I don’t regret leaving, I regret how I did it.” 

The clip is sprinkled with archival footage from the band’s early days, performance clips from over the years and more. It also shows Jon dealing with his recent vocal issues and worries about the future of the band.

“With every decade comes another life’s lesson. It’s all or nothing,” Jon shares at the end of the trailer. “That’s why the legacy matters.”

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, directed by Gotham Chopra, debuts Friday, April 26, on Hulu. It will have its premiere at South by Southwest on March 14.

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A lawyer for Don Henley claims the Eagles rocker has been “victimized” by the dismissal of the case against three men accused of stealing his handwritten notes, including the lyrics to well-known Eagles songs.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office requested the dismissal after Henley delayed handing over some 6,000 pages of material, using attorney-client privilege as his excuse. This made it impossible for the defense to cross-examine him about the documents, and the judge accused the rocker and his legal team of trying “to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging to their position that the lyric sheets were stolen.” 

But Henley’s newly hired attorney Dan Petrocelli tells Entertainment Weekly that Henley did nothing wrong.

“The attorney-client privilege is a foundational guardrail in our justice system, and rarely, if ever, should you have to forsake it to prosecute or defend a case,” Petrocelli tells the mag. “As the victim in this case, Mr. Henley has once again been victimized by this unjust outcome.”

He adds, “He will pursue all his rights in the civil courts.” 

Glen Horowitz, Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinki were charged with trying to sell manuscripts of Henley’s lyrics, which they knew to be stolen. They were allegedly taken in the late 1970s by an author who’d been hired to write an Eagles biography. In 2005, he sold the manuscripts to Horowitz, a rare books dealer, who then sold them to Inciardi and Kosinski.

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Little Feat is set to release their first new album in 12 years, Sam’s Place, on May 17. The record is the group’s first blues album, and the first to feature percussionist Sam Clayton on lead vocals.

The nine-track album is made up of a mixture of blues covers and one new song, “Milk Man,” which Sam wrote. The album also features a guest appearance by Bonnie Raitt on a cover of Muddy Waters’ “Long Distance Call.”

“I’m very happy because I was never expecting anything like that,” Clayton says of singing on the album. “I mean, I have wanted to, but I just wasn’t expecting it to come to fruition. It was a long wait, but it’s satisfying.”

To give fans a little preview of the record, Little Feat has just released the track “You’ll Be Mine,” a cover of a Willie Dixon-penned tune made famous by Howlin’ Wolf.  

You can listen to “You’ll be Mine” now via digital outlets and on YouTube. 

Sam’s Place is available for preorder now.

Little Feat is set to hit the road on their Can’t Be Satisfied tour starting May 31 in Berkley, California. A complete list of dates can be found at littlefeat.net.

Here is the track list for Sam’s Place:

“Milk Man”
“You’ll Be Mine”
“Long Distance Call”
“Don’t Go No Further”
“I Can’t Be Satisfied”
“Last Night”
“Why People Like That”
“Mellow Down Easy”
“Got My Mojo Working (Live)”

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Wolfgang Van Halen has responded to David Lee Roth‘s multiple shots at him, telling Billboard, “I’m honored he thinks about me as much as he does, I guess.”

As previously reported, the former Van Halen vocalist has released multiple videos aimed at the Mammoth WVH frontman, who, of course, is the son of the late Eddie Van Halen and started playing bass in the “Panama” outfit in 2006. In one, Roth refers to Wolf as “this f****** kid” as he tells multiple stories about how the younger Van Halen apparently had some of his backstage guests kicked out. In another, he appears to make fun of the last Van Halen album, 2012’s A Different Kind of Truth, which featured both Wolf and Roth.

“I would sure love to not have to be part of some sort of Van Halen drama at all,” Wolf now says. “I think I’m just gonna continue to sit in my no-comment zone … ’cause at the end of the day it’s just not worth it.”

“It’s one thing when there’s some [person] on Twitter saying a lie about me,” he continues. “But when there’s other people trying to lie about me and make me look bad? It’s just like, you can believe whatever you want, I guess. The people who hate me are gonna continue to hate me, and I’m just gonna be over here doing my thing.”

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Lawyers for Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose have filed a response to a lawsuit filed in November by former Penthouse Pet of the Year Sheila Kennedy, who claimed that back in 1989, the rocker sexually assaulted her in his hotel room after they met at a New York nightclub.

In their response, Rose’s lawyers deny a sexual assault occurred and argue that on two occasions, Kennedy acknowledged that her encounter with Rose was consensual.

The first time was in 2016 in her memoir No One’s Pet. “I was okay with this. I had wanted to be with him since the minute I’d first laid eyes on him, and now I was getting him,” she wrote. The second time was in the 2021 documentary Look Away when she said of the encounter, “I did not consider it rape. It was consensual.” 

They argue that Kennedy’s suit is an attempt to “rewrite history,” clearly implying she’s doing so for financial gain. They note her story only changed after New York passed the Adult Survivor’s Act, which allowed victims of sexual abuse to sue in cases that would have otherwise fallen outside the usual statute of limitations.

“Kennedy cannot and will not succeed in this unscrupulous attempt at a financial windfall,” they write.

In her suit, Kennedy claimed she “suffered severe emotional, physical, financial and psychological distress” from the encounter with Rose and had “issues with physical and emotional intimacy.” She is seeking unspecified damages.

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KISS surprised fans during their final show at Madison Square Garden in December when they revealed they were working on an avatar show, which they later announced would be coming in 2027. 

While fans still have lots of questions about what to expect from the show, KISS’ Gene Simmons isn’t willing to spill any details. 

“Part of the fun of Christmas is when you open your present, you’re shocked and surprised and hopefully delighted,” he shared on Artists On Record starring ADIKA LIVE. “So why would I tell you in February what you’re gonna get for Christmas?”

Still, Simmons is confident fans will be impressed.

“There’s so much hard work being done behind the scenes, and what I’ve seen will blow your mind,” he added. “So in a very real way, our end is really like the caterpillar becoming the butterfly. The end is the beginning.”

Simmons is getting ready to take the stage for his first post-KISS shows with the Gene Simmons Band. They’ll play Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 26 and then kick off a European tour in Finland on July 27. A complete list of dates can be found at genesimmons.com.

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Foo Fighters performed at a benefit concert on Tuesday, March 5, in Washington, D.C., in support of the organization Power to the Patients in an effort to raise awareness for transparency in health care pricing. Before launching into a rendition of “My Hero,” Dave Grohl dedicated the song to Chuck D, who’s also involved with Power to the Patients.

In a video of the moment, which was posted to the Foo Fighters’ Facebook, Grohl calls the Public Enemy rapper “one of my personal heroes.”

“He’s always been a hero to me, musical and otherwise,” Grohl said. “I’ve been so honored to share this event with him and everyone involved.”

He continued, “That man pulls up, he shows up when there’s something going on that needs fixing, and he does the right thing. He does the right thing every time.”

Chuck also posted the video to his social media, writing in the caption, “Crazy when one of the Greatest Rock Stars of All Time…  Dave Grohl and 1 Greatest Bands of All Time @foofighters calls you a HERO.”

Meanwhile, Chuck’s Public Enemy bandmate Flavor Flav is also a big Foos fan. When he attended November’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Flav walked the red carpet while wearing a Foo Fighters hat, and told ABC Audio a story about meeting Grohl.

“I love David Grohl, man,” Flav said. “When he heard about me being in Arizona at the [2023] Super Bowl, he came all the way across town just to meet me.”

“When I met him, yo, it was incredible,” he added. “That man is incredible.”

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There’s no doubt Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison had huge success as The Beatles, but their careers certainly didn’t end once the band broke up in 1970.

All four members went on to have successful solo careers, and now Rolling Stone is taking a deep dive into their solo material with its just-released list of the 100 best Beatles solo songs.

The list is compiled by music journalist Rob Sheffield, who knows a thing or two about The Beatles, having written the 2017 book Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World. In a post on social media he said compiling the list was a “true labor of love.”

Topping the list is McCartney’s 1970 classic “Maybe I’m Amazed,” which he wrote for wife Linda McCartney. Sheffield writes that McCartney “wrote his most soulful, passionate, unforgettable love song for Linda, in the aftermath of The Beatles break-up,” adding the tune “captures the moment when their romance was just beginning.”

The couple married in 1969 and were together for 29 years until Linda’s death in 1998.

Coming in at #2 is Lennon’s 1970 track “God,” which is described as the “most ferocious performance of his lifetime, or practically anyone’s.”

Harrison’s “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” comes in at #3, followed by Ringo’s “It Don’t Come Easy” at #4 and Lennon’s “Mind Games” at #5. 

Rounding out the top 10 are: McCartney & Wings’ “Band on the Run” at #6, Harrison’s “Isn’t It a Pity” at #7, McCartney’s “Too Many People” at #8, Lennon’s “Imagine” at #9 and Harrison’s “Pure Smokey” at #10.

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Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown will soon have Jon Bon Jovi as a father-in-law, as she’s been engaged to his son Jake Bongiovi since April 2023. So, does she have a favorite Bon Jovi tune?

“I would say ‘Runaway,’” Brown tells The Mary Sue, referring to Bon Jovi’s debut single, which was released in 1984, 20 years before she was born. 

But it’s not her favorite simply because it’s a catchy tune. The track actually appeared in Stranger Things and she sees that as some sort of sign.

“Because in Stranger Things, ‘Runaway’ plays over one of my scenes. So it was foreshadowing my engagement,” the 20-year-old explains. “I was like, ‘They knew, Stranger Things knew. Like Netflix always knows.’”

She adds, “If you’re ever in doubt, Netflix will solve it. Don’t worry. But yeah, I think ‘Runaway’ is such a good song.”

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A “jarringly late” disclosure of thousands of pages of material doomed the case against three men, Glen Horowitz, Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinki, who were accused of stealing Don Henley’s handwritten notes that included the lyrics to well-known Eagles songs, a New York judge said Wednesday.

Henley invoked, and later waived, attorney-client privilege over some 6,000 pages of material but not before he testified, depriving the defense of an opportunity to ask him about it. 

“These delayed disclosures revealed relevant information the defense should have had the opportunity to explore in cross-examination of the People’s witnesses,” Assistant District Attorney Aaron Ginandes told the judge Wednesday.

The judge agreed to dismiss the case.

“It is now clear that both witnesses and their lawyers, two of which also shielded themselves from thorough and complete cross-examination by relying on Mr. Henley’s invocation, used the privilege to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging to their position that the lyric sheets were stolen. This is a basic confrontation violation,” New York State Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber said.

The judge said the Manhattan district attorney’s office was “apparently manipulated” by Henley and his lawyer but Farber also faulted prosecutors, saying “they should have recognized that they did not have a complete understanding of their case and that potential material existed upon which the defense could rely on in their defense.” 

The judge added, “District Attorney Bragg and the prosecutorial team here, while eating a slice of humble pie, are displaying the highest level of integrity in moving to dismiss the charges. I am impressed.”

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