The Osbourne family will soon be adding a new member.
Kelly Osbourne, the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon, has announced that she’s expecting her first child.
“I know that I have been very quiet these past few months so I thought I would share with you all as to why,” Kelly, 37, writes in an Instagram post. “I am over the moon to announce that I am going to be a Mumma.”
“To say that I am happy does not quite cut it,” she adds. “I am ecstatic!”
Kelly’s post, which includes photos of her holding up images from an ultrasound, was also shared by her mom.
“My [heart] could not be more full!” Sharon writes. “So excited to share the beautiful journey ahead with you.”
Slipknot‘s Sid Wilson, who was confirmed to be in a relationship with Kelly earlier this year, posted an ultrasound photo, as well.
Kelly’s announcement is an especially bright bit of news amid a tough few weeks for the Osbourne family, which saw Ozzy, Sharon and Kelly herself test positive for COVID-19.
Fanny: The Right to Rock, a 2021 documentary about the pioneering all-female band Fanny that includes appearances by Def Leppard‘s Joe Elliott, Todd Rundgren and other rock stars, will be shown in select U.S. theaters in the coming weeks, starting on May 27 in New York City.
The film tells the story of Fanny, a group formed in the late 1960s in Sacramento, California, by two Filipina-American sisters, Jean and June Millington — who played bass and guitar, respectively — along with keyboardist Nickey Barclay and drummer Alice de Buhr. The documentary looks at the various obstacles that the band dealt with — including issues of race, gender and sexuality — as they worked to achieve success in the music business during the 1970s.
The movie includes interviews with the Millington sisters, de Buhr, and with later members Patti Quatro and Brie Darling, as well as with Elliott, Rundgren, Bonnie Raitt, ex-Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine, The B-52s‘ Kate Pierson, The Lovin’ Spoonful‘s John Sebastian, Runaways singer Cherie Currie and David Bowie touring guitarist Earl Slick and bassist Gail Ann Dorsey.
Fanny released five studio albums between 1970 and 1975, including 1973’s Mothers Pride, which was produced by Rundgren. The band scored its biggest hit in 1975 with the single “Butter Boy,” written about Bowie, who was a big fan of the group. The song reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1975, although Fanny had broken up by that time.
A few years ago, the Millington sisters and Darling reunited to form a group called Fanny Walked the Earth, which released a self-titled album in 2018.
To check out a list of confirmed screenings of Fanny: The Right to Rock, visit FilmMovement.com.
A new limited-edition vinyl box set featuring reproductions of 18 singles and EPs that The Rolling Stones issued during the first few years of their career will be released on June 10 in commemoration of the band’s 60th anniversary this year.
The Rolling Stones Singles 1963-1966 boasts 18 seven-inch vinyl discs recreating singles and EPs originally released on the Decca and London Records labels in the U.K. and the U.S. The tracks were all remastered by Grammy -winning engineer Bob Ludwig, and each disc is housed in a “period-correct” picture sleeve.
The collection also includes a poster, five photos cards and a 32-page book with liner notes by Rolling Stones expert Nigel Williamson, as well as rare photos and other historic images.
The box set’s discs span from the band’s 1963 debut single, featuring a cover of Chuck Berry‘s “Come On,” through the U.S. version of the band’s 1966 hit single, “19th Nervous Breakdown.”
Other well-known Stones songs features on the single replicas include “I Wanna Be Your Man,” “Not Fade Away,” “It’s All Over Now” and “Time Is on My Side,” “Heart of Stone,” “The Last Time,” “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Get Off of My Cloud” and “As Tears Go By.”
The box set also features three EPs — 1964’s The Rolling Stones and Five by Five, and 1965’s Got Live If You Want It!Five by Five features songs that The Stones recorded at Chicago’s famed Chess Studios, while Got Live If You Want It! was the band’s first collection of in-concert performances.
A companion vinyl box set, The Rolling Stones Singles 1966-1971, is due out next year.
You can pre-order The Rolling Stones Singles 1963-1966 box set now at ABKCO.com. Here’s the full track list:
“Come On” (released June 1963)
Side A: “Come On”
Side B: “I Want to Be Loved”
“I Wanna Be Your Man” (released November 1963)
Side A: “I Wanna Be Your Man”
Side B: “Stoned”
The Rolling Stones E.P. (released January 1964)
Side A: “Bye Bye Johnny,” “Money”
Side B: “You Better Move On,” “Poison Ivy”
“Not Fade Away” (released February 1964)
Side A: “Not Fade Away”
Side B: “Little by Little”
“Tell Me” (released June 1964)
Side A: “Tell Me”
Side B: “I Just Wanna Make Love to You”
“It’s All Over Now” (released June 1964)
Side A: “It’s All Over Now”
Side B: “Good Times, Bad Times”
Five by Five E.P. (released August 1964)
Side A: “If You Need Me,” “Empty Heart,” “2120 South Michigan Avenue”
Side B: “Confessin’ the Blues,” “Around and Around”
“Time Is on My Side” (released September 1964)
Side A: “Time Is on My Side”
Side B: “Congratulations”
“Little Red Rooster” (released November 1964)
Side A: “Little Red Rooster”
Side B: “Off the Hook”
“Heart of Stone” (released December 1964)
Side A: “Heart of Stone”
Side B: “What a Shame”
“The Last Time” (released February 1965)
Side A: “The Last Time”
Side B: “Play with Fire”
Got Live If You Want It! E.P. (released June 1965)
Side A: “We Want The Stones,” “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,” “Pain in My Heart” “Route 66”
Side B: “I’m Moving On,” “I’m Alright”
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (U.S. version, originally released June 1965)
Side A: “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
Side B: “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man”
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction)” (U.K. version, released August 1965)
Side A: “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
Side B: “The Spider and the Fly”
“Get Off of My Cloud” (U.S. version, released September 1965)
Side A: “Get Off of My Cloud”
Side B: “I’m Free”
“Get Off of My Cloud” (U.K. version, released October 1965)
Side A: “Get Off of My Cloud”
Side B: “The Singer Not the Song”
“As Tears Go By” (released December 1965)
Side A: “As Tears Go By”
Side B: “Gotta Get Away”
“19th Nervous Breakdown” (U.S. version, released February 1966)
Side A: “19th Nervous Breakdown”
Side B: “Sad Day”
Limited-edition black vinyl versions of The Who‘s first third and fourth studio albums, 1967’s The Who Sell Out and the band’s landmark 1969 rock opera, Tommy, will be released on July 6 as the second installment of a recently launched series of half-speed-mastered vinyl editions of the band’s records.
Both albums were mastered at London’s Abbey Road Studios by longtime Who engineer Jon Astley and cut for vinyl by acclaimed engineer by Miles Showell. The discs will be packaged in sleeves replicating the albums’ original designs, and will come with certificates of authenticity.
The Who Sell Out is noteworthy for being one of the first rock concept albums. It featured the band parodying the British pirate radio stations that were popular at the time, and included fake commercials written and recorded by the group that connected some of the songs. The album only reached #48 on the Billboard 200, but it included The Who’s first U.S. top-10 hit, “I Can See for Miles.”
Tommy is widely regarded as one of the most important albums in rock history, a double-disc collection that tells the story of a “deaf, dumb and blind kid” who becomes a pinball champion and then a spiritual leader. Tommy peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 and features many enduring Who songs, among them “Pinball Wizard,” “I’m Free” and “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” which includes the famed “See Me, Feel Me” segment.
The Who launched their half-speed mastered-vinyl series earlier this month with reissues of their first two U.K. studio albums: 1965’s My Generation and 1966’s A Quick One.
Side 1
“Armenia City in the Sky”
“Heinz Baked Beans”
“Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand”
“Odorono”
“Tattoo”
“Our Love Was”
“I Can See for Miles”
Side 2
“Can’t Reach You”
“Medac”
“Relax”
“Silas Stingy”
“Sunrise”
“Rael (1 and 2)”
And here’s the full track list of Tommy:
Side 1
“Overture”
“It’s a Boy”
“1921”
“Amazing Journey”
“Sparks”
“The Hawker”
Side 2
“Christmas”
“Cousin Kevin”
“The Acid Queen”
“Underture”
Side 3
“Do You Think It’s Alright?”
“Fiddle About”
“Pinball Wizard”
“There’s a Doctor”
“Go to the Mirror!”
“Tommy, Can You Hear Me?”
“Smash the Mirror”
“Sensation”
Side 4
“Miracle Cure”
“Sally Simpson”
“I’m Free”
“Welcome”
“Tommy’s Holiday Camp”
“We’re Not Gonna Take It”
Red Hot Chili Peppers are no longer performing at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.
The show announced Wednesday that the “Under the Bridge” outfit had to drop off due to “unforeseen circumstances.” The performance was set to be RHCP’s first on the BBMAs in 23 years.
In place of the Peppers, contemporary rocker Machine Gun Kelly has joined the performers lineup, marking his BBMA debut.
Previously announced performers include Florence + the Machine, as well as Silk Sonic, Megan Thee Stallion, Travis Scott, Ed Sheeran, Miranda Lambert and Mary J. Blige, among others.
The 2022 Billboard Music Awards will air this Sunday, May 15, on NBC.
Red Hot Chili Peppers are scheduled to kick off a world tour in support of their new album, Unlimited Love, on June 4 in Seville, Spain. The North American leg of the trek gets underway July 23 in Denver.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of The Rolling Stones‘ classic 12th U.S. studio album, the double-disc Exile on Main St.
The 18-track collection found the British rock legends diving deep into their American roots-music influences, including the blues, country, gospel and, of course, early rock ‘n’ roll.
Exile on Main St. was the second in a streak of eight consecutive Stones studio albums that reached #1 on the Billboard 200, spending four weeks atop the chart in June and July of ’72. The record yielded two hit singles, “Tumbling Dice” and the Keith Richards-sung “Happy,” which peaked, respectively, at #7 and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Other standout tracks on the album included “Rocks Off,” “Sweet Virginia,” “Loving Cup,” “All Down the Line” and “Shine a Light.”
Many tracks on Exile on Main St. were recorded in the U.K. between 1969 and 1971, at London’s Olympic Studios and Mick Jagger‘s Stargroves country house, but much of the album came together after The Rolling Stones relocated to France in 1971 as British tax exiles. While the band members were in France, the bulk of the recording was done a makeshift studio set up at a villa called Nellcôte that Richards rented near the city of Nice.
While at Nellcôte, Richards reportedly struggled with heroin addiction, causing the sessions to drag on for months. Overdubs, vocals and other additions were recorded later in Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound at sessions overseen by Jagger.
Exile on Main St. was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2012, and was ranked at #14 on Rolling Stone‘s 2020 list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”
Here’s the album’s full track list:
LP 1
Side A
“Rocks Off”
“Rip This Joint”
“Shake Your Hips”
“Casino Boogie”
“Tumbling Dice”
Side B
“Sweet Virginia”
“Torn and Frayed”
“Sweet Black Angel
“Loving Cup”
LP 2
Side A
“Happy”
“Turd on the Run”
“Ventilator Blues”
“I Just Want to See His Face”
“Let It Loose”
Side B
“All Down the Line”
“Stop Breaking Down”
“Shine a Light”
“Soul Survivor”
A four-CD box set gathering together recordings from various solo concerts that longtime Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman played during the mid-1970s will be released this Friday, May 13.
The Myths and Legends of Rick Wakeman features Wakeman showcasing songs from his first three solo concept albums — 1972’s The Six Wives of Henry VIII, 1974’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth and 1975’s The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Disc one features performances from shows that Rick played in North America in 1974, disc two was recorded at a 1975 concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom, disc three captures a 1976 concert at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, and the final disc features a 1976 performance from the Farnham, U.K., venue The Maltings.
“It’s really lovely to see some of the music I’m most proud of, released in a new way and presented so well,” Wakeman says about the box set. “I’m still wondering though if I am more of a myth than a legend!!!”
The collection includes a 16-page booklet offering liner notes and archival photos. You can order the box set and check out its track list at CleoRecs.com.
Meanwhile, in a new update on his official website, Wakeman reports that he’s busy writing new material for his next album, which he’s planning to have finished by mid-June.
The 72-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer also reveals that he’s been “struggling with osteoarthritis and diabetes,” noting that he’s “slowly getting them under control.”
In addition, he reports that he has a new book coming out around Christmas time titled Ramblings of a Grumpy Old Rock Star, and is working on an official biography that he plans to complete “sometime next year.”
A few rock-related TV shows and films have been nominated for 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards.
The Beatles: Get Back documentary series, which premiered in November 2021 on Disney+, received a nod for the Best Music Documentary honor. Other nominees in that category include Oasis‘ Knebworth 1996 concert film, and documentaries about Janet Jackson, Kanye West and Olivia Rodrigo. The award will be given out as part of the MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED ceremony, a reality-focused spinoff of the original show.
Over on the scripted side, the Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy, which tells the story of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee and actress Pamela Anderson‘s infamous sex tape, is up for two awards: Lily James received a nod for Best Performance in a Show for her portrayal of Anderson, and while the show was nominated in the new-for-this-year category Here for the Hookup.
Both the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards and the MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED will air live from Los Angeles on June 5. You can vote for your favorites now via Vote.MTV.com.
Bob Dylan‘s music catalog from his contributions to the super group the Traveling Wilburys has been acquired by the Primary Wave Music company, Variety revealed in an exclusive report.
According to the outlet, the deal includes Dylan’s “master royalties and neighboring rights royalties” for both of the band’s albums — 1988’s Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 and 1990’s Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 — as well as the 2007 box set The Traveling Wilburys Collection.
Traveling Wilburys initially consisted of Dylan, ex-Beatles guitarist George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne. Orbison died of a heart attack shortly after the release of the debut album, which featured the classic songs “Handle with Care” and “The End of the Line,” and peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200.
The group continued as a quartet and released one more album, Vol. 3, which reached #11 on the Billboard 200. The box set featured both albums, plus bonus tracks, as well as a DVD. Dylan is credited with co-writing all of the Wilburys’ original tunes along with the group’s other members.
During the past two years, Dylan has sold his recorded-music catalog and publishing rights, respectively, to Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, respectively, for nine figures each. As Variety points out, “most people probably did not realize” that the folk-rock legend’s Traveling Wilburys catalog was included in those deals.
Primary Wave Music executive Samantha Rhulen said in a statement, “To acquire even a small portion of Bob Dylan’s work as part of Traveling Wilburys is exciting, to say the least. We’re honored to add this bit of history to our growing music catalog.”
The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a North American tour alongside Jane’s Addiction.
The arena run, dubbed the Spirits on Fire tour, will launch October 2 in Dallas, and will conclude November 19 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Depending on the date, either Meg Myers or pop/metal artist Poppy will also be on the bill.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 13, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit SmashingPumpkins.com.
To celebrate the tour announcement, the Pumpkins are headed to the TCL Chinese Theater in Los Angeles later today to put their handprints in cement at the historic cinema. They’re also performing on CBS’ The Late Late Showwith James Corden Thursday night.
