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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band bring their tour home this week, playing New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium August 30, September 1 and September 3. To mark the occasion, a New Jersey photo gallery is extending its hours so all the fans in town for the shows can check it out.

Photographer Danny Clinch has shot Springsteen several times over the years, and his Transparent Clinch Gallery in Asbury Park is giving fans extra hours to visit and see the extensive collection of his photographs.  

“It’s always super exciting to see people traveling to Asbury Park from all over the world to see Springsteen,” the gallery shared on social media. “Stop in to say hi (and) let us know where you’re coming from.” It adds, “Lots of Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band prints available, ready to grab and go!”

To coincide with the Springsteen shows, the gallery will be open Tuesday, August 29, and Wednesday, August 30, from noon to 6 p.m.; Thursday, August 31, and Sunday, September 3, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Friday, September 1, and Saturday, September 2, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Information about the gallery can be found at transparentclinchgallery.com.

Following the New Jersey shows, Springsteen brings the tour to Syracuse, New York, on September 7. A complete list of dates can be found at brucespringsteen.net.

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KISS is getting closer to the end of their final tour, and Gene Simmons is feeling good about the band’s decision to retire from the road.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Simmons says he feels “a great sense of pride” about the band’s long career.  

“The idea that anybody would give me a chance … to be able to get a job that allows you to wear more makeup and higher heels than you ever wore and get paid well for it … It doesn’t get better than that,” Simmons said.

But after 50 years on the road, he wants to end things with “a little dignity,” noting his thought is they should “get off the stage before it’s too late. So, [I’m] still looking good. Hair’s there. A little less hair, but it’s there.”

He added, “I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I’m deliriously happy.” 

KISS will launch the final leg of their End of the Road World Tour on October 19 in Cincinnati, Ohio. They’ll play their final two shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden December 1 and 2. A complete list of dates can be found at kissonline.com.

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Foreigner is currently on their Farewell tour, and it looks like they are ready to say goodbye to their Las Vegas residency as well.

The band just announced their final shows in Sin City, dubbed the Feels Like The Last Time Farewell Tour residency at The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. The residency will consist of 16 shows taking place in two parts: March 6-April 6 and October 25-November 9. 

Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, September 1, at 10 a.m. PT. The complete schedule can be found at venetianlasvegas.com.

In the meantime, Foreigner’s Farewell tour continues through November. It hits Clarkston, Michigan, on Wednesday, August 30. A complete list of dates can be found at foreigneronline.com.

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Peter Frampton has given fans a preview of his upcoming live album, Peter Frampton At Royal Albert Hall, which will be released September 1.

The rocker shared the live performance of his classic track “Show Me The Way,” which was the lead single off his 1975 album, Frampton. The live version, which appeared on Frampton’s classic 1976 album, Frampton Comes Alive, was a top 10 hit for the artist. 

Peter Frampton at Royal Albert Hall was recorded during the guitarist’s sold-out concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall in November 2022. It will be released on CD and digitally and is available for preorder now.

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Sinéad O’Connor’s family is thanking the public for their love and support following the singer’s July death at the age of 56.

“The children of Sinéad together with Sinéad’s extended family wish to thank the countless kind people who sympathised and offered condolences on Sinéad’s recent passing,” reads a message on the notice board of The Irish Times. “Their helpful support for the family is much appreciated.”

It goes on to thank the media “who celebrated Sinéad in song and story while showing respect for the privacy requested by the family” as well as all those who came out to pay their respects during her funeral procession in Bray, Ireland.

The family also expresses their gratitude “for the national and international outpouring of love and affection for Sinéad from the time of her passing,” adding, “The prayers and thanks of the extended O’Connor family are with you all.”

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Bruce Springsteen has been getting some flack for not changing up the sets each night on his latest tour with the E Street Band, but he proved he can still throw in some surprises. 

During their second show at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Saturday, August 26, The Boss added two songs to the set that he hadn’t played in years. 

According to setlist.fm, the surprises started right at the opening, with Bruce treating the crowd to the tour debut of The Rising track “Lonesome Day,” the first time he’s played it live since 2017. In addition, during the encore, Bruce played a cover of the Moon Mullican song “Seven Nights To Rock,” also a tour debut, for the first time with the E Street Band since 2017.

The rest of the show featured a pretty standard set list with songs like “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” “Born To Run,” Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” “Dancing in the Dark” and more, ending the show like he has all tour with a solo version of the Letters To You track “I’ll See You In My Dreams.”

And it certainly looks like Bruce was having a good time onstage. According to the Asbury Park Press, during “Out in the Street,” Bruce saw New Jersey native Caroline Madden wearing a tiara that read, “Bruuuuce,” plucked it off her and put it on. “He looked good,” Madden said. “I was laughing the whole time.”

Next up, Springsteen comes home to the Garden State, with a three-night stand at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, August 30, and September 1 and 3. A complete list of dates can be found at brucespringsteen.net.

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Elton John is on the mend after being taken to the hospital following a fall at his home in the South of France over the weekend.  

“We can confirm that following a slip yesterday at his home in the South ofFrance, Elton visited the local hospital as a precautionary measure,” Elton’s rep tells ABC News. “Following checkups, he was immediately discharged this morning and is now back at home and in good health.”

Elton should have plenty of time to rest and recover with no more touring on his schedule. He wrapped his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour back in July in Stockholm, Sweden. The tour started September 10, 2018, and by the time it was over, Elton grossed $989.1 million and sold six million tickets over 330 shows.

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On This Day, August 28, 1993…

Billy Joel hit #1 on the Billboard 200 Album chart with River of Dreams, his final pop/rock record.

The album, with a cover painted by Joel’s then-wife Christie Brinkley, was Billy’s fourth #1 and spent three weeks on top of the chart.

The album’s title track went on to become a top five hit, Joel’s last on the Billboard Hot 100. The record also featured “Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel),” which he wrote as a tribute to his daughter, Alexa Ray.

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Green Day turned former president Donald Trump‘s mugshot into a T-shirt.

The shirt featured Trump’s booking photo from when he turned himself in at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on Thursday, August 24, as part of his indictment over charges of election interference in Georgia. The mugshot is styled like the cover to Green Day’s 1997 album, Nimrod, and features the word “nimrod” plastered over Trump’s face.

In a Facebook post, Green Day refers to the shirt’s subject as the “ultimate Nimrod,” adding, “Good riddance,” a reference to the album’s song “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).”

The shirt was only available for 72 hours and appears to now be gone from Green Day’s web store. It raised money to help provide food to those affected by the Maui wildfires.

Green Day reissued Nimrod in January to celebrate the album’s 25th anniversary.

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Sammy Hagar is giving fans a peek into his taste in movies in the latest edition of his Storytime with Sammy video series. 

In the clip, Sammy reveals that he’s “not a big movie guy,” but says Pulp Fiction and the first Star Wars are among his favorites. “Movies like that just blew me away,” he says. “I’m not gonna walk out on this movie because I know something’s gonna happen I need to see.”

And that’s particularly true for Pulp Fiction. “That was the craziest movie,” Sammy says, noting he loved Samuel L. Jackson’s big speech in which he quotes from the Bible before blowing someone away. “I know it sounds wicked, I busted out laughing so hard that people started asking me to shut up,” Sammy says. “I could not stop laughing, it blew my mind.”

Hagar praises director Quentin Tarantino for pioneering movies that mess with your head, adding, “It’s got to be one of the greatest movies ever made, probably one of the most influential movies to other filmmakers.”

Released in 1994, Pulp Fiction starred Jackson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman and others. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Tarantino an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.)

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