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Queen is celebrating the 50th anniversary of their fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera, with vinyl reissues.

The album will be reissued on crystal-clear vinyl with gold labels on Oct. 17 in the U.S., with the release coming out in the U.K. on Oct. 18 for National Album Day. In addition, on Oct. 31, the album’s iconic single, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” will be released on transparent blue heavyweight 12-inch vinyl, as a 12-inch picture disc and as a blue cassette single.

“A Night At The Opera was a hugely important album for us,” says Queen guitarist Sir Brian May. “It opened up the world for us.”

“We were at the peak of our confidence,” adds drummer Roger Taylor. “It felt like there wasn’t anything we couldn’t do, and it shows on that album.”

Released in November 1975, A Night at the Opera was Queen’s first #1 on the U.K. album charts; in the U.S., it peaked at #4. In addition to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which spent nine weeks at #1 in the U.K.,  the album includes the Queen classic “You’re My Best Friend,” as well as future live staples “Love of My Life” and “I’m in Love with My Car.”

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Paul McCartney wants fans to know that if they don’t hear about something from him, it’s likely not real.

The topic came up in McCartney’s latest “You Gave Me The Answer” Q&A on his website, which was focused on the topic of AI.

“With so much AI out there now how do you deal with the misinformation or AI created content that is supposedly you?” read the question from a fan. “How can we be sure what might be official?”

Paul started his response with a joke, writing, “How do I know if this question isn’t even AI generated? Ha!”

“Seriously though, there’s so much of it about and it can be hard to know what is real,” he shares. “I think most people can still tell the difference but some of it is getting pretty clever.”

McCartney says it’s not uncommon for friends to let him know about things he allegedly said or had done that were not true. “Or there are songs appearing with me apparently on them,” he adds. “Some of it is really wild!”

As for how fans can differentiate fact from fiction, McCartney has a simple answer.

“I always say that it’s best to check my website and my own social media accounts to see if it’s official, as that’s where we share news about what I’m up to,” he says. “If it’s not there then the chances are that it’s fake news!”’

Here’s something that is not fake news: McCartney is getting ready to hit the road on a new North American leg of his Get Back tour. After a warm-up show on Sept. 26 at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California, he’ll kick off the tour on Sept. 29 in Palm Desert, California.

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Holiday classics from The Beach Boys, Elton John, John Lennon and Paul McCartney will be featured in a new Christmas-themed box set.

The Christmas Holiday Singles Box will include 14 7-inch colored vinyl singles, featuring 28 songs. Each single features a holiday classic on the A-side, paired with another festive tune from the same artist on the B-side.

Holiday staples featured in the set include The Beach Boys’ “Little Saint Nick”/“Old Lang Syne”; Elton’s “Step Into Christmas”/“Ho Ho Ho (Who’d Be a Turkey at Christmas)”; Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”/“Listen the Snow Is Falling”; and McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”/“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae.”

The set also includes Christmas classics from Brenda Lee, The Jackson 5, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Bobby Helms, Bing Crosby and more.

The Christmas Holiday Singles Box, dropping Oct. 31, will be housed in a red and white candy cane-inspired carrying case. It is available for preorder now.

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Bob Dylan has been added to Saturday’s Farm Aid lineup, organizers announced Wednesday.

This year’s event, which marks the 40th anniversary of Farm Aid, will take place at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

Dylan, who’s been touring on Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival this summer, joins a lineup that already includes Farm Aid board members Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Margo Price. Young will be performing with his band Chrome Hearts, while Matthews will perform with frequent collaborator Tim Reynolds.

The last time Dylan played Farm Aid was in 2023 as a surprise guest. That year’s event took place in Noblesville, Indiana.

For those who can’t make it to Minneapolis, Farm Aid 40 will be broadcast on CNN starting at 6 p.m. CT, and will also stream live on nugs.net and FarmAid.org.

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The BBC‘s Ozzy Osbourne documentary has a new release date.

The film, titled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, will debut on Oct. 2 after being delayed from its originally announced Aug. 18 premiere.

The BBC had pulled Coming Home from air just hours before it was set to broadcast without explanation. The network later said, “We are respecting the family’s wishes to wait a bit longer before airing this very special film.”

Coming Home was first announced on Aug. 7, just over two weeks after Ozzy’s death on July 22. It was originally conceived in 2022 as a reality series called Home to Roost before being reworked into a standalone film.

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Slash has announced a new live album, Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival.

As its title suggests, the set was recorded during the Guns N’ Roses shredder’s S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival tour, which supported his 2024 solo blues covers album, Orgy of the Damned. Specifically, it captures his performance at Denver’s Mission Ballroom on July 17, 2024.

Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival is due out Nov. 7 and will be accompanied by a concert film that also includes behind-the-scenes interviews with Slash. You can listen to and watch the performance of the song “Oh Well” now.

Orgy of the Damned includes collaborations with artists including AC/DC‘s Brian Johnson, Iggy Pop, ZZ Top‘s Billy F Gibbons and pop star Demi Lovato.

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David Byrne, and Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham are set to appear on the deluxe edition of Miley Cyrus’ latest album, Something Beautiful, which is dropping Friday.

The deluxe edition features two new songs, one of which is “Secrets,” the song Miley gave to her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, for his birthday. Billy Ray previously revealed that the tune featured his “favorite musicians Fleetwood Mac.” In a post on Instagram Miley confirmed reports that those musicians are Fleetwood and Buckingham.

The other new song is “Lockdown,” a collaboration with Byrne. This isn’t the first time Cyrus and Byrne have been associated with each other. In 2024, Miley contributed to a Talking Heads tribute album, recording her own version of one of the band’s signature songs, “Psycho Killer.”

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David Gilmour has released another performance from his concert film Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome, which is in theaters and IMAX now.

The latest is a performance of the Luck and Strange track “Between Two Points,” featuring Gilmour’s daughter Romany Gilmour.

The song is available now via digital outlets.

Live at Circus Maximus, Rome, was recorded during one of Gilmour’s Luck and Strange concerts at the famed Italian venue set against the backdrop of the ancient ruins of Rome.

In addition to the film, Gilmour will release The Luck and Strange Concerts on Oct. 17. The four-LP or two-CD set will feature 23 tracks recorded during the tour. There will also be a super-deluxe edition that includes a 120-page book, David Gilmour Luck and Strange Live, featuring tour photos taken by Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson.

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Aerosmith and Yungblud are teaming up for more than just one song.

After teasing a collaborative track called “My Only Angel,” the two acts have announced a joint EP titled One More Time. The set is due out on Nov. 21, and “My Only Angel” will premiere on Friday.

Along with “My Only Angel,” One More Time includes three other new songs Yungblud wrote with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, plus an updated version of Aerosmith’s “Back in the Saddle.”

Yungblud performed with Tyler and Perry during the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7 for a tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne.

Here’s the One More Time track list:
“My Only Angel”
“Problems”
“Wild Woman”
“A Thousand Days”
“Back in the Saddle” (2025 Mix)

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Bob Dylan is getting ready to release another installment in his bootleg series.

Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963 is described as “a unique account of Dylan’s early years, when he honed his talent, and transformed traditional folk songs and lyric sketches into some of his greatest and most enduring songs.” It will drop Oct. 31.

The eight-CD set features 139 tracks, including 48 performances that have never been released before, and 28 “super rare” cuts. Among that bonus material is unheard home recordings, studio outtakes, and performances from coffee house and nightclub shows.

The set also includes a previously unreleased recording of Dylan’s Oct. 26, 1923, concert at Carnegie Hall in its entirety, as well as a hardcover book with liner notes and over 100 photographs.

And Dylan is giving fans their first preview of the set with the song “Rocks and Gravel,” which is out now.

In addition to the eight-CD set, there will be a two-CD or four-LP highlights edition made up of 42 tracks, 18 of which have never been released before.

Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 is available for preorder now.

Dylan launched his bootleg series in 1991 with The Bootleg Series Vol. 1–3: Rare & Unreleased 1961–1991. His last installment, The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996–1997, was released in 2023.

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