A museum dedicated to Ozzy Osbourne is opening in his hometown of Birmingham, England.
Sharon Osbourne shared details about the upcoming exhibition during the latest episode of The Osbournes Podcast.
“He’s having all of his awards, all his stage clothes, posters … I’ve got so much memorabilia,” Sharon said. “We’re gonna do it totally interactive — every video, every live show of [Ozzy’s], everything there.”
Sharon added that the museum will also offer music classes.
“We’re gonna get friends and other musicians, and they’re gonna teach,” she said.
The opening date for the museum has yet to be announced, so stay tuned.
Dead & Company wrapped what they said will be their final tour back in July, but it sounds like this won’t be the last time we hear from the band.
While appearing on Watch What Happens Live, John Mayer said he believes the group, which also consists of Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti, will play again.
When asked about the chances of him going on the road with Dead & Company again, Mayer suggested that the words “on the road” were the issue. “We will play shows,” he said. “I have to believe we love this music so much we’re gonna play shows.”
He added, “We just are trying to figure out what that looks like for the future, but everyone has it in their hearts to keep playing.”
And while there are no plans just yet, host Andy Cohen offered a suggestion, which Mayer seems to be all for. “Two weeks at the Sphere,” Cohen said, referring to the state-of-the-art venue U2 just opened in Las Vegas, with Mayer nodding along at the possibility.
The Rolling Stones are getting even more fashionable as they get ready to launch Hackney Diamonds, their first album of new material in 18 years.
The legendary rockers just announced they are collaborating with British fashion designer Paul Smith for a collection coinciding with the release. Details on Rolling Stones x Paul Smith are coming soon, but it will include an exclusive limited-edition Hackney Diamonds vinyl, as well as collectable T-shirts.
The Paul Smith website notes that he “couldn’t be more honored to have been asked to work with the band on this incredible project.”
But this isn’t the only unique way The Stones are promoting their upcoming album. They previously announced a collaboration with Major League Baseball for limited-edition white vinyl versions of the album, tailored to each of the 30 MLB teams.
Lynyrd Skynyrd has made their New Year’s Eve plans. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will continue to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a performance on CBS’ New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash, which kicks off Sunday, December 31, at 7:30 p.m. ET.
The special will air live from Nashville’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, with country stars Thomas Rhett and Lainey Wilson also confirmed to perform, and more artists to be announced at a future date.
The concert, which is free and open to the public, will ring in 2024 with a Music Note Drop at midnight. The special will feature over 50 performances from a variety of locations across Music City.
The rockers just announced five new shows at The Venetian Theatre inside The VenetianResort Las Vegas. The new dates kick off January 26 and are followed by shows on January 27, 31, February 2 and 3.
A Styx fan club presale begins Tuesday, October 3, at 10 a.m. PT, with the general onsale set for Friday, October 6, 10 a.m. PT.
Styx fans still have plenty of chances to see the band onstage in 2023. They are set to play Shipshewana, Indiana, on October 12, with several dates on the books for October and November. A complete list of Styx shows can be found at styxworld.com.
Music fans will once again be lining up at their favorite independent record stores to snag one-of-a-kind releases on Friday, November 24, for the 2023 edition of Record Store Day Black Friday.
Among this year’s releases:
Joni Mitchell is contributing Court and Spark Demos, a collection of never-before-heard early recordings of songs off her classic 1974 album, ahead of its upcoming 50th anniversary.
The Doors‘ Live in Bakersfield, which captures a 1970 concert around the time of Jim Morrison‘s indecent exposure trial, will be available as a two-LP and two-CD set.
The March 2, 1969, Grateful Dead concert at San Francisco’s Fillmore West will be released as a five-LP package.
War’s releasing The World is a Ghetto(50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition), featuring alternative takes, reimagined tracks and more off their classic album.
The 2023 Record Store Day Black Friday will also include releases by Jerry Garcia, Faces, INXS, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, The Beach Boys, The Mamas & The Papas, Gram Parsons, Mötley Crüe, The Monkees, Gov’t Mule and the late Jeff Beck.
For the full list of releases and participating stores, visit RecordStoreDay.com.
After Lindsey Buckingham was fired from Fleetwood Mac in 2018, the band replaced him with two guitarists — Neil Finn and Mike Campbell — and continued. Now that Christine McVie has passed away, Stevie Nicks says the band is over, as far as she’s concerned.
Speaking to Vulture, Stevie says, “When Christine died, I felt like you can’t replace her. You just can’t. Without her, what is it? You know what I mean? She was like my soul mate, my musical soul mate … Christine was my best friend.”
“Who am I going to look over to on the right and have them not be there behind that Hammond organ?” she continued. “When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this. There’s no reason to.”
Stevie also talked about her new Stevie Nicks Barbie doll, which she decided should be wearing a Rumours-era outfit, complete with platform boots, chiffon skirt and feathered hair. “It’s who I was, and who I still am,” she tells Vulture.
She also reveals she has a Ken to go with the Stevie Barbie; the early ’80s model features Ken with dark hair, dressed as Elvis in a white jumpsuit.
“I named him Kenelvis, and I introduced Kenelvis to Stevie Barbie,” she says. “I have photographs of these two that will absolutely knock the world’s socks off. They look at each other in a way that’s like they’ve been in love for centuries.”
On social media, Stevie wrote of the doll, “When I look at her, I see my 27 year old self … what we have been through since 1975 … I am her and she is me. She absolutely has my heart.”
The upcoming Power Trip festival is bound to be a good time, and AC/DC is giving fans yet another way to enjoy themselves.
The rockers, who’ll be hitting the stage for the first time in seven years, just announced they’re launching their very own bar outside the festival, where those headed to the shows can stop by for a drink and a fun time.
The AC/DC High Voltage Dive Bar will be open October 5-8 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. It’s located in Indio, California, about 10 minutes away from the Empire Polo Grounds, where the festival is taking place. The bar’s Instagram page notes it will close early, at 9:30 p.m., on October 7, when AC/DC takes the stage.
“It’s the ultimate way to connect and plug in with fellow AC/DC fans over the weekend and check out iconic AC/DC props and exclusive merch,” reads the bar’s website.
Power Trip kicks off October 6, with performances from Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses, followed by Judas Priest and AC/DC on October 7, wrapping with Tool and Metallica on October 8. Complete details can be found at powertrip.live.
Queen’s Brian May has hit out at researchers who seem to have discovered that listening to the band’s music could help release insulin and keep diabetes under control in patients.
The guitarist shared an article originally posted in Forbes about the discovery, explaining on Instagram that while he’s happy “We will Rock You can be good for your health,” he’s not happy scientists “tortured mice” in order to test their theory.
“It’s now well known that many drugs and procedures that work in mice or rats do NOT work in humans,” he writes. “And, ethically, causing pain to one species to cure the ills of another is clearly unjustifiable. So the laws requiring tests on animals MUST be changed.”
He adds, “I’m horrified that these scientists could gaily make these unfortunate animals suffer to prove a point that should have been made using human volunteers. Then I would have been smiling.”
Finally, May concludes, “It’s so easy to gloss over the disgusting way we treat animals. It has to stop. It’s high time that scientists became responsible for what they do. Time they took responsibility for the way they behave,” adding, “I will NOT be celebrating this news tonight.”
While nothing can quite compare to 1985’s all-star charity concert Live Aid, someone is going to try and recreate that feeling in the theater.
Deadline reports Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof is working on a stage musical about the legendary concerts, titled Just For One Day. It’s scheduled to run at London’s Old Vic Theatre from January 26 to March 30.
Live Aid took place in both London and Philadelphia, and featured performances by such huge stars as Queen, U2, The Who, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Elton John and more.
The show, directed by & Juliet’s Luke Sheppard, is expected to feature several of the songs performed during the concerts. Sheppard tells Deadline that while Geldof will be a character in the musical, it won’t have “people dressing up as the artists and doing it as a tribute — we’ve moved very far away from that.” He notes, “It’s all the extraordinary music from that day, but it’s sung by this fierce generation of musical theater artists, who just blow the roof off.”
Sheppard says Just For One Day will put the historic concerts “in the hands of the people who made it, who were there, who experienced it,” adding, “So, it’s Live Aid for the people essentially, as opposed to a kind of tribute act version of the show.”
So far, Sheppard hasn’t confirmed which songs will be used in the musical, although with a nod of his head, he did suggest to Deadline that Queen’s “We Are The Champions” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” could be in it.
