Classic Rock News

If you’re a ZZ Top fan, now’s your chance to get your hands on something previously owned by the band’s late bassist, Dusty Hill, who passed away in 2021. 

Julien’s Auctions just announced a new three-day auction, The Collection Of Dusty Hill Of ZZ Top, featuring Hill’s instruments, wardrobe pieces, memorabilia and more. 

The auction, taking place December 7–9, will feature close to 1,200 lots, with the highlight being the famous fur bass guitar that Hill played in ZZ Top’s “Legs” video. The 1983 Dean Explorer bass is expected to sell for between $80,000 and $120,000. 

Other items up for grabs include: Hill’s most played instrument, his signature 1953 Fender Precision bass guitar, with an estimated price tag of $80,000 to $120,000; Hill’s bald eagle jacket with talons and feather accents, estimated to go for $6,000 to $8,000; and a black leather motorcycle jacket with custom painted skeletons and silver spikes, with “Streek Landslide” written on the back, which is estimated to sell for $1,500 to $2,500.

The auction will happen online and in person in Dallas, Texas. The auction venue will also feature a “Duzzty’s Stash” pop-up store, selling T-shirts, posters and more memorabilia.

A portion of the auction proceeds will be donated to the Recording Academy’s charitable foundation, MusiCares.

And fans will also get a chance to check out the items up for bid during special Juliens’ exhibitions, happening at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York’s Times Square November 20-26 and in Dallas November 29-December 7. 

More information on the items up for auction can be found at julienslive.com.

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Dave Grohl guests on the latest episode of Norah Jones‘ podcast, Norah Jones Is Playing Along.

The show features a long conversation between the two, from which they’d occasionally take a break to perform together. The songs they played included “Everlong,” as well as the deeper Foo Fighters cuts “Statues,” “Razor” and “Virginia Moon,” which featured Jones.

Additionally, Grohl hopped on drums during Jones’ rendition of her song “Flame Twin.” Toward the end, he started playing the beat to Nirvana‘s “In Bloom.”

You can listen to Norah Jones Is Playing Along now via all podcast platforms.

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Billy Idol’s April concerts at the Hoover Dam are coming to theaters next month. Billy Idol: State Line will premiere in U.S. theaters on November 15 and in the U.K. November 14.

The concert film will feature performances from both of Idol’s shows at the iconic site on the Nevada/Arizona state line. One was a full band show, which took place at sunset and featured guest appearances by Sex Pistol’s Steve Jones, No Doubt’s Tony Kanal and Alison Mosshart of The Dead Weather. The second was an acoustic performance with just guitarist Steve Stevens on the roof of the Hoover Dam.

A just-released trailer for the film features archival footage of the building of the dam along with clips of Billy performing “Dancing with Myself,” “Eyes Without a Face,” “Mony Mony,” “Rebel Yell” and “White Wedding.”

Tickets for the U.S. screenings go on sale Friday, October 27. More info on theaters and tickets can be found at bilyidolstateline.com.

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Mott the Hoople is ready to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their classic album All The Young Dudes. 

The band will release a limited edition 50th anniversary box set December 8, featuring the remastered album on LP and CD, both of which will be accompanied by a separate album of rare mixes and session tracks. There will also be a 12-inch single featuring “All the Young Dudes” and “One of the Boys,” plus a 72-page hardcover book, three art prints, a numbered certificate and more. 

The remastered album will also be released on limited edition double orange vinyl.

All The Young Dudes was Mott the Hoople’s fifth studio album and was recorded on the verge of the band’s breakup. The title track, written by David Bowie, who also produced the album, was a huge commercial success for the group, peaking at #3 in the U.K. and becoming a Top 40 hit in the U.S. The album also featured a cover of the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane.” 

Both the box set and the double orange vinyl are available for preorder now.

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Heart is getting back together to help ring in 2024 in their hometown of Seattle, Washington.

Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson just announced a special New Year’s Eve show with special guest Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening at the Climate Pledge Arena. The December 31 concert will be followed by a special Space Needle firework spectacular.

Tickets for the concert go on sale Friday, October 27, at 10 a.m. PT.

The New Year’s Eve gig will be Heart’s first concert since October 2019. Earlier this month, the sisters reunited onstage in Santa Rosa, California, to perform “Barracuda” during Ann’s headlining show with her band Tripsitter.

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Elton John fans know that he loves collecting things, especially fine art photography. His photography collection rivals that of most museums, but now, it’s coming to a museum.

London’s Victoria & Albert Museum has announced that an exhibit called Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection will open May 18.

According to the Evening Standard, the photos will be organized across eight themes, including fashion, celebrity, the male body, American photography and historical images documenting the Civil Rights Movement, the AIDS activism of the 1980s and the 9/11 terror attacks.

Legendary photographers like Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus are all represented, and there are celebrity portraits of icons like Marilyn Monroe and Miles Davis, among others.

“Fragile Beauty takes our collaboration to really exciting new heights, showcasing some of the most beloved photographers and iconic images,” Elton said in a statement, per the Evening Standard.

This isn’t the first time Elton has had items from his collection displayed in a museum. In 2016 and 2017, London’s Tate Museum featured an exhibit called The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection.

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Journey is headed to Las Vegas next month to help welcome F1 racing to Sin City.

The band is one of several artists booked to play the opening ceremony for the inaugural Formula 1 Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix 2023, happening Wednesday, November 15. 

The ceremony, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m. PT, will also feature performances by Andra Day, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Bishop Briggs, J Balvin, Keith Urban, Steve Aoki, Swedish House Mafia and will.i.am, with Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soleil also making an appearance. 

Fans who can’t make it to Vegas for the festivities will be able to watch the opening ceremony from home. It will be broadcast on ESPN2 and stream on the F1 YouTube channel.

The Formula 1 Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix 2023 runs from November 16-18. For fans interested in catching F1 in Las Vegas, there are still limited tickets available. More info can be found at f1lasvegasgp.com.

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Possibly the coolest couple of all time is now reportedly married.

According to TMZ, Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, and Riley Hawk, the son of skateboarding icon Tony Hawk, wed in a Los Angeles ceremony October 7. If those names aren’t impressive enough, TMZ says R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, who’s Frances’ godfather, officiated the ceremony.

Frances confirmed her relationship with Riley in an Instagram post on New Year’s Day 2022.

“I wanted to share a few moments that were captured / created this past year that brought me a great amount of joy,” Frances captioned the post, which included photos of her and Riley.

Frances was previously married to Isaiah Silva. Their contentious divorce made headlines due to a battle over Kurt’s legendary MTV Unplugged guitar, which Silva came away with in the settlement. The guitar was later auctioned off for a record-breaking $6 million.

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On This Day, October 24, 1936…

William George Perks, who went on to become The Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, was born in Lewisham, South London. 

He joined The Stones in 1962, legally changing his last name to Wyman in 1964. He recorded 19 albums with the band and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the group in 1989.

Wyman left The Stones in January 1993.  

Although he’s no longer in the band, Wyman can be heard on The Stones’ brand new album, Hackney Diamonds, which also features the late Charlie Watts.

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Green Day‘s new song “The American Dream Is Killing Me” is here.

The track, which the “American Idiot” trio had been teasing for the past month and debuted live during a recent Las Vegas show, is the lead single off the upcoming album Saviors, due out January 19.

In a statement, Billie Joe Armstrong describes “The American Dream Is Killing Me” as “a look at the way the traditional American Dream doesn’t work for a lot of people — in fact, it’s hurting a lot of people.”

You can listen to “The American Dream Is Killing Me” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying, zombie-themed video streaming now on YouTube.

Saviors is the 14th Green Day album and the follow-up to 2020’s Father of All… It also includes the song “Look Ma, No Brains!” — which Green Day played during When We Were Young. The rest of the 15-song track list has yet to be revealed.

Green Day is planning to tour the U.S. in 2024 alongside The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas. Full details for the tour are forthcoming.

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