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The Rolling Stones are revisiting their 1976 album Black and Blue ahead of its 50th anniversary.

The band is set to release a five-LP or four-CD super-deluxe box set on Nov. 14, with both versions also coming with a Blu-ray. The set includes a 2025 remix of the album by producer Steven Wilson, along with an album of outtakes and jams. It also includes a recording of a 1976 concert at Earls Court in London, which was part of a six-night residency at the venue.

The Blu-ray includes the Wilson remix and the Earls Court concert in Dolby Atmos, plus an unreleased TV broadcast of the band’s 1976 concert at Les Abattoirs in Paris.

The six-track album of outtakes include four Stones instrumental jams from the 1975 recording sessions, plus a previously unreleased track, “I Love Ladies,” written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. There’s also a take on Shirley & Company’s “Shame Shame, Shame,” which is out now via digital outlets. A video for the track will be released Thursday.

The set also includes a 100-page hardcover book and replica tour poster.

The Black and Blue reissue will also be released in a variety of other formats, including a limited-edition five-LP black and blue marbled vinyl set; two-disc and one-disc formats on both vinyl and CD; and a limited-edition zoetrope vinyl.

Most formats are available for preorder now.

Released in April 1976, Black and Blue was The Stones’ 13th studio album and the first since guitarist Mick Taylor left the group. His eventual replacement, Ronnie Wood, is featured on three songs. The Stones used the recording sessions as auditions for Taylor’s replacement, with other guitarists like Jeff Beck, Robert A. Johnson and Wayne Perkins taking part.

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On This Day, Sept. 24, 1979…

The Eagles released their sixth studio album, The Long Run, which hit #1 on the Billboard Albums chart.

The album featured the singles “Heartache Tonight,” which went to #1, as well as the title track and “I Can’t Tell You Why,” which were both top-10 hits.

The Long Run was the Eagles’ first album to feature Timothy B. Schmit, who replaced founding member Randy Meisner, who left the group during their Hotel California tour in 1977. Schmit wrote and sings lead on “I Can’t Tell You Why.”

The album was also the last full album to feature Don Felder, who was fired from the group in 2001.

The Eagles would break up less than a year after the release of The Long Run, although they would reunite in 1994. It took them until 2007 to release a new album, Long Road Out of Eden, which would go on to hit #1.

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The original artwork for David Bowie’s iconic album Aladdin Sane, shot by photographer Brian Duffy aka Duffy, is going up for auction.

The original dye transfer artwork print will be part of The Mona Lisa of Pop: The Duffy Archive auction, taking place Oct. 22 through Nov. 5 at Bonhams in London and bonhams.com. The print is expected to sell for somewhere between $340,000 and $400,000.

The cover art is one of many Aladdin Sane-related pieces that will be part of the auction. Others include the original dye transfer print of the album’s inside cover; the original Hasselblad camera used by Duffy to shoot Aladdin Sane and 1980’s Scary Monsters; the stool Bowie sat on for the Aladdin Sane photo; contact sheets from the photo shoot; and a handwritten note by Duffy explaining the cover’s lightning bolt design.

“Duffy’s iconic photography, paired with Bowie’s incomparable artistic vision, captured the spirit of a generation and cemented their place in cultural history,” Claire Tole-Moir, head of Bonhams’ Popular Culture Department, says. “As collaborators, they produced a body of work that defined the visual language of the 1970s and beyond, influencing music, fashion, and photography.”

She adds that the auction “will be a rare and thrilling opportunity for collectors and fans to own a piece of Duffy/Bowie history.”

Aladdin Sane was released in April 1973. The cover featured a red-haired Bowie, with a red-and-blue lightning bolt down the middle of his face.

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Paul McCartney headlined three club shows at New York’s Bowery Ballroom in February, and now he’s giving fans an insiders look at the shows.

The rocker is set to release a new tour diary, Paul McCartney Rocks The Bowery, on Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube.

“In February 2025, Paul McCartney took over New York City’s iconic Bowery Ballroom for a surprise and historic three-night run,” reads the description on YouTube. “Find out how it all went down, featuring the fans who were there, the team who pulled it off, and an exclusive behind-the-scenes look with Paul himself.”

Bowery Ballroom was a major underplay for McCartney. The 575-person-capacity venue is certainly much smaller than the stadiums and arenas he usually headlines. The shows were the lead-up to McCartney’s appearance on SNL50: The Anniversary Special, which aired on NBC.

McCartney is getting ready to head back to those bigger venues. He’ll return to the stage with a warm-up show Friday at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California, before kicking off the North American leg of his Got Back tour on Sept. 29 in Palm Desert, California. The tour wraps Nov. 25 in Chicago.

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Scott Cooper, the director of the upcoming Bruce Springsteen film Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, says fans should expect to learn some new things about The Boss in the movie.

“[Bruce] said to me, ‘Scott, the truth about yourself isn’t always pretty,'” Cooper, who previously directed 2009’s Crazy Heart, tells Empire in a new interview. “We discussed that this was going to be a film so far removed from the mythology of the rock star. The thing that was most important to him was that this would be no hagiography,” meaning he didn’t want an idealized biopic.

“There’ll be things in this film that will be new information to even Bruce’s most ardent fans — not covered in his Broadway show, or in documentaries, or in his memoir,” Cooper tells the mag, noting Springsteen “never once asked me to sand off the rough edges.”

“But would you expect anything else from Bruce Springsteen?” he says. “This man who’s the reluctant moral conscience of America?”

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere follows the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer as he makes his 1982 solo album Nebraska. It stars The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen and Succession‘s Jeremy Strong as his manager, Jon Landau. It opens in theaters Oct. 24.

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Pearl Jam has welcomed some unique pieces of memorabilia into their headquarters in Seattle.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers shared video on Instagram, set to their hit “Jeremy,” showing their extra-large Funko figures being brought into their space. They announced that the band’s headquarters will now be the permanent home for the figures. 

The statues were originally on display at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle as part of the Pearl Jam: Home and Away exhibit. They also made “an excursion” to frontman Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival in 2021.

And speaking of the Ohana Festival, the annual event in Dana Point, California, is taking place Friday through Sunday, with headliners Eddie Vedder and his band the Earthlings, as well as Green Day and Hozier.

Other artists on the bill include Kings of Leon, Cage the Elephant, Wet Leg, Garbage, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Kim Deal, Royel Otis and James.

A complete lineup can be found at OhanaFest.com.

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In 2013, Richie Sambora left Bon Jovi in the middle of a tour amid troubles in his personal life. Now, Jon Bon Jovi says he still has a lot of “heartbreak” over the way his bandmate departed.

While speaking to Jelly Roll‘s wife, Bunnie Xo, on her Dumb Blonde podcast, Bunnie asked Jon to describe his relationship with Sambora. “The great thing that I have said about him throughout our lives was you would be lucky to call him your friend, and I mean that,” Jon said. “Talented beyond, beyond as a guitar player, as a singer, as a collaborator, wonderful, right-hand man, awesome. Couldn’t ask for more.”

“My heartbreak with him is the way he walked out on us, compounded by the fact that it took him years to come back in the room just to have a meal with [drummer] Tico [Torres] and [keyboardist] David [Bryan] and I and say, ‘I’m sorry,'” he continued.

“It’s unfortunate. It’s heartbreaking … but if what he wanted was to be just ‘Richie Sambora,’ not a member of Bon Jovi, do it! I always encourage all of my guys, because my attitude was, ‘Bring the information back that you learn outside. It’ll only help us.'”

“And so for whatever reason, he walked out, and then that was that. But I can’t defend or accuse … it’s just not worth it anymore,” Jon added. “It’s been so many years, I just … if you can’t figure [it out] or get it together, then it’s not on us. I love the man; heartbroken that he walked out on us.”

In the 2024 documentary Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story Sambora apologized to the band and to the fans for how he left Bon Jovi.

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Green Day headlined Riot Fest in Chicago on Sunday, and fan-shot footage shows frontman Billie Joe Armstrong pulling a fan named Argyle onstage to join them for the song “Know Your Enemy.” Well, it turns out the move helped ease the stress of the kid’s mom.

Argyle’s mom, Bobbi Dunn Cantrell, commented on Armstrong’s Instagram photos from the show, which the rocker posted as a screenshot. Cantrell writes that she was in “panic mode” during the concert because she and Argyle had gotten separated.

“I was in panic mode all day because we got separated when I went to the bathroom and couldn’t get back to him,” read the comment. “He parked by the stage around noon and didn’t leave all day.”

She went on to thank Armstrong “for making my amazing kid’s dream come true and for easing my anxiety.”

“As soon as I saw him on stage I screamed ‘OMG THAT’S MY KID!!!!!’” she added. “What an amazing night! I am a new fan forever.”

Green Day has a couple more festivals on their schedule this year. They play Oceans Calling in Ocean City, Maryland, on Friday, and Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California, on Sunday.

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Last year’s 40th anniversary of The Cars’ Heartbeat City is being marked with a new expanded reissue of the album.

Dropping Oct. 31, Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition) is a four-CD/one-LP set that comes with the original album on both LP and CD, along with two CDs of bonus material made up of unreleased studio recordings, B-sides, early mixes, alternative takes and demos, including a demo for the band’s top-10 hit “Drive.”

There’s also a CD with a live concert recorded at The Summit in Houston on Sept. 11, 1984. The concert was originally released on VHS and Laserdisc, and this marks its first-ever CD release. The package also comes with a color booklet with photos, liner notes by keyboardist Greg Hawkes and an essay by drummer David Robinson.

Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition) is available for preorder now.

Heartbeat City was produced by Mutt Lange and released in March 1984. It became a huge hit for The Cars, peaking at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart and hitting #1 on the Billboard Rock Albums chart. It went on to be certified four-times Platinum by the RIAA.

Much of the album’s popularity was due to singles like “You Might Think” and “Drive,” both of which reached the Billboard Hot 100 top 10. They both benefited from videos that received huge airplay on MTV, especially “You Might Think,” which went on to win the first-ever video of the year award at the MTV Video Music Awards.

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A previously unreleased performance by Nirvana is up for auction. The video and audio footage captures the band’s Feb. 17, 1990, live show at Iguanas in Tijuana, Mexico.

According to the description, the footage shows Nirvana “in their formative early days promoting their debut studio album Bleach.” The Seattle rockers play 13 songs during the concert, and during the show frontman Kurt Cobain “dives onto the floor seven times, and smashes two guitars and (playfully) into Camera 1.”

The auction includes two original master tapes featuring raw footage of the concert, with each tape a recording from a separate camera. In total there’s 45 minutes of footage, and the package comes with the U.S. Copyright Office Certificate of Registration for the content, a poster for a show two nights earlier at the Los Angeles nightclub Raji’s, an original Sub Pop pressing of Bleach on white vinyl and more.

The auction, hosted by Bonhams, is open until Thursday at 12 p.m. PT. The footage is estimated to sell for between $100,000 and $150,000.

More info can be found at Bonhams.com.

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