Classic Rock News

Dolly Parton’s upcoming album, Rockstar, features a collaboration with Stevie Nicks — and while it isn’t a cover, it isn’t a new song either.

Dolly tells The Hollywood Reporter that the track, “What Has Rock and Roll Ever Done to Me,” was actually written by Stevie for Fleetwood Mac.

Dolly says Stevie told her it was a song written “back when we were in the heat of our stuff,” telling Dolly she loved the song but the band didn’t think it was good enough to be on a record.

Stevie told her the song was about another rocker she had an affair with. “She wrote that about their relationship because they had fun about it. ‘What has rock ’n’ roll ever done for you?’ They said, ‘Well, everything,’ because they were both famous and rich,” Dolly explained. “She just said, ‘I just love this song. I’d like to do it just to commemorate that time in my life and that person.’”

Dolly Parton’s Rockstar, featuring special guests Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Steven Tyler, Sting and more, drops November 17. It is available for preorder now.

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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has opened a new exhibit honoring the 2023 inductees in its Cleveland museum.

The display includes a variety of artifacts related to Rage Against the Machine, Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, The Spinners and Musical Excellence honoree Bernie Taupin.

It will remain open over the next year and will close ahead of the 2024 induction ceremony.

The 2023 induction ceremony takes place Friday, November 3, in Brooklyn, New York, and will stream live on Disney+.

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Steven Tyler is in more legal trouble. Rolling Stone reports a second woman has sued the Aerosmith frontman, accusing him of sexually assaulting her when she was just a teenager.

The suit was filed in New York on behalf of former child model Jeanne Bellino, who says the incident happened in the summer of 1975 when she was just 17. It alleges she was assaulted twice on the one day she met Tyler and accuses him of forcibly kissing and groping her. 

The suit states that Bellino “has suffered and will continue to suffer, great pain of mind and body, severe and permanent emotional distress, physical manifestations of emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation, physical, personal & psychological injuries” from the alleged assault, noting she was medicated after it happened and still needs medication to cope.

She is seeking unspecified damages.

This isn’t the first time Tyler has been sued for sexual assault. In December, a woman named Julia Misley filed a lawsuit in California accusing Tyler of sexual assault, assault and battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The pair was in a relationship for three years starting in 1973, when she was 16 and he was in his 20s. She claimed she was “powerless to resist” the rock star’s “power, fame and substantial financial ability” and said he “coerced and persuaded” her into believing their relationship was a “romantic love affair.” 

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Robbie Robertson, Bono and The Edge are among the musicians who earned nominations for the 14th annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards.

Robertson, who passed away in August at the age of 80, is recognized in the Score — Feature Film category for his work on Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, while U2’s Bono and The Edge are nominated in the Song — Documentary category for the song “Forty Foot Man” from Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming With Dave Letterman.

Lenny Kravitz is also in the running for an award: His song “Road to Freedom,” from the movie Rustin, is nominated in the Song — Feature Film category. 

Winners will be announced November 15 at the Avalon in Hollywood, California. A complete list of nominees can be found at hmmawards.com.

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Billy Joel has set his Madison Square Garden residency goodbye.

The rocker will play his 150th lifetime show at the iconic New York arena on July 25, which will also be the last date of his 10-year MSG residency.

A Citi presale kicks off Monday, November 6, at 10 a.m., with the general onsale set for Friday, November 10, at 10 a.m.

“It is an honor to be here. I’m kinda flabbergasted that it did last as long as it did,” he told reporters when announcing the 150th show would mark the end of his residency. He joked that his team told him he could keep on going if he wanted but said with 150 shows, “It’s ‘Alright, already!'”  

Joel played his first show at Madison Square Garden on December 14, 1978. He kicked off his residency, the first for the arena, on January 2014, playing one show a month.

He went on to break several records for the arena. In January 2015, he broke his own record for most consecutive performances by any artist, with 13, and in July 2015, he broke the record for the most lifetime performances by any artist at the arena, with 65.

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On this Day, November 2, 1973…

It was 50 years ago that Billy Joel released the song “Piano Man,” which would go on to be his signature tune and earn him the nickname Piano Man.

The song was the title track of Joel’s sophomore album and the first single released from the record. 

“Piano Man” peaked at #25 on the Billboard chart but eventually became a fan favorite and a staple at his live shows, where he lets the audience sing the final chorus. 

In 2015, “Piano Man” was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for its “cultural, historic, or artistic significance.”

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The long anticipated final song from The Beatles is finally here.

The track, “Now and Then,” features vocals John Lennon recorded on a demo in the late ’70s. In 1994, his wife, Yoko Ono, gave the three-song demo to surviving Beatles Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. They then used it to create “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love,” which appeared on The Beatles Anthology project in the mid ’90s. 

Unfortunately, at that time, technology wasn’t good enough to extract Lennon’s vocals from “Now and Then,” but in 2021, Peter Jackson, director of The Beatles: Get Back docuseries, developed new technology to isolate Lennon’s instruments and vocals. Paul and Ringo completed the song in 2022, using guitar parts Harrison recorded in 1995.

You can listen to “Now and Then” now via digital services and on YouTube. The official video for the song is set to drop Friday, November 3, at 10 a.m.

The final track is being released as a double-A side single paired with “Love Me Do,” the band’s 1962 debut single. It is available for preorder now.

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Green Day has confirmed the details of their 2024 tour.

The North American trek runs from July 29 in Washington, D.C., to September 28 in San Diego. As previously teased during the “American Idiot” trio’s last-minute Las Vegas club show in October, the bill will also include The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas.

Along the way, Green Day will headline Montreal’s Osheaga festival, taking place August 2-4.

Tickets to the tour go on sale Friday, November 10, at 10 a.m. local time. Presales begin Tuesday, November 7.

Green Day has also announced a European tour launching May 30 in Spain with support from The Hives, The Interrupters and Nothing But Thieves, among others.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit GreenDay.com.

Green Day will be touring behind their upcoming album Saviors, due out January 19. The record includes the lead single “The American Dream Is Killing Me” along with a just-released tune called “Look Ma, No Brains!” You can listen to that now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.

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Grateful Dead fans are going to get a lot of great music in the month of November. 

The band just launched 30 Days of Dead, in which every day fans will get an unreleased live Dead track from the vault. Each high-quality MP3 download has been selected by Dead archivist and producer David Lemieux.

And that’s not all. As each track is released, fans will have a chance to win prizes if they can correctly guess where and when the show it came from took place. Each day correct answers will be entered for a chance to win a 2024 Grateful Dead wall calendar. Correct answers will also be entered to win a grand prize of the Dead’s Here Comes Sunshine box set, which is currently sold out. 

30 Days of the Dead kicked off on Wednesday, November 1, with a performance of “Comes a Time,” a song that was first played in 1971 and played for the last time in 1994.

More information can be found at dead.net.

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Kate Bush is capping an eventful couple years with a new catalog reissue series.

The “Running Up That Hill” artist is reissuing each one of her albums on vinyl and CD. Her 1985 effort Hounds of Love, which includes “Running Up That Hill,” will also be available as a special edition Baskerville Edition, which comes with updated artwork and a solar-powered LED light, as well as the Lost at Sea box set, which relates to the themes of the album’s second half.

Bush has also shared an unboxing video for the Baskerville Edition, which calls back to the inspiration behind the Hounds of Love song “Cloudbusting.”

You can preorder your albums of choice now via Bush’s website, which has been newly updated in conjunction with the reissue series.

Bush saw renewed interest in her music after “Running Up That Hill” was used in the fourth season of Stranger Things. The resurgence of the single, which hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022, was so huge that the normally press-shy Bush even gave a rare interview.

Meanwhile, Bush is among the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees. The induction ceremony takes place on Friday, November 3, in Brooklyn, New York, though there’s been no announcement yet about whether Bush will attend.

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