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One of the Moonman trophies Pearl Jam‘s “Jeremy” won at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards is up for sale.

The controversial video, which portrayed a bullied student shooting himself in front of his classmates, won a total of four VMAs, including one for Video of the Year. The Moonman going on sale corresponds with Pearl Jam’s win for Best Metal/Hard Rock Video and was presented to their longtime former manger, Kelly Curtis.

“MTV ‘Moonmen’ are incredibly rare,” says Wayne Johnson of Rockaway Records, which acquired and is selling the trophy. “They are made in tiny quantities, and we have only had a handful since they were first handed out in 1984. The statue for Pearl Jam’s ‘Jeremy’ is one of the coolest and rarest Pearl Jam items we have ever offered for sale.”

The “Jeremy” Moonman can be yours for the cool price of just $20,000. For more info, visit Rockaway.com.

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Slash fans can look forward to another solo album from the rocker. 

In an interview with Yahoo! Music, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist reveals he’s been working on a second solo record, which he describes as “sort of similar to my first solo record,” noting it will feature “a bunch of different singers.” His first solo record, 2010’s Slash, featured guests like Chris Cornell, Lemmy Kilmister, Iggy Pop and more.

Slash says the new record will be “more blues-oriented” than the first one and would only reveal one guest on the album: Demi Lovato. He shared that he recorded his contribution to her rock remake of “Sorry Not Sorry” after she recorded her feature on his record.

The only other detail he shared about the album is that it’s “definitely coming out next year.”

In the same interview, Slash discussed why fans shouldn’t expect to see a biopic on Guns N’ Roses “anytime in the foreseeable future.”

“I’ve just never been able to envision how you’re gonna get it [right],” he says. “It’s always some fabricated, over exaggerated, f***** bulls***; it’s very rare that you see a [rock biopic] movie that actually feels genuine. And so I don’t even wanna be a part of all that. I just don’t think that it would be done real justice.”

He adds, “I’ve seen a lot of bad [biopics] and they freak me out.”

In the meantime, Slash is currently busy on Guns N’ Roses world tour, which hits Athens, Greece, on Sunday, July 22. It returns to North America in August, with the first U.S. date happening August 11 in Hershey Park, Pennsylvania. A complete list of dates can be found at gunsnroses.com.

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Roger Waters appears to be teasing his remake of Pink Floyd’s classic album The Dark Side of the Moon.

Waters revealed he was rerecording the 1973 album back in February, and now, he’s shared a snippet of some music on Instagram alongside a video that reads “DSOTM” and “REDUX.” The short song clip appears to be the buildup to the album’s final song, “Eclipse.” 

This isn’t the first time Waters has shared a tease of the rerecording. Back in March, he posted a clip of “Us and Them” on Facebook and explained his reasoning for rerecording the album.

“It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it,” he wrote. “It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy nine year old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty nine year old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, ‘We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us’.” 

He added, “[I]t is a way for me to honor a recording that Nick [Mason] and Rick [Wright] and Dave [Gilmour] and I have every right to be very proud of.”

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If you happen to be drinking anything at the moment, you may not want to take a sip before you see the price of this Yves Saint Laurent Nirvana shirt.

The high-end fashion brand is selling a T-shirt featuring a “vintage print” of the artwork off Kurt Cobain and company’s 1992 Incesticide compilation for a total of $4,450.

The shirt is described as an “authentic vintage item curated by Saint Laurent.” You can check it out now via YSL.com.

In addition to dropping over $4,000 on a T-shirt, buyers will also receive demands to name three Incesticide songs any time they wear it.

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Queen has earned quite an honor in the U.K. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have just been awarded the Brit Billion Award, which “celebrates the band’s outstanding achievement as recording artists in surpassing the landmark of one billion career streams in the U.K.”

“Thank you for presenting Queen with a BRIT Billion Award. We’re grateful to all our fans that support us and continue to enjoy our music. Rock on BPI,” Queen’s Brian May shared in accepting the honor. Roger Taylor added, “I’m thrilled to accept the BRIT Billion Award on behalf of Queen,” noting, “I would like to say thanks to everyone who has extracted a morsel of enjoyment from our music. We are still around and we hope to entertain you a little.”

The award was given to the band by BPI, the organization which represents the U.K.’s record labels and music companies and is responsible for the Brit Awards.

“There can be few artists who have done more to popularize and promote British music around the world than Queen,” Dr Jo Twist, BPI chief executive said. “The term iconic barely does justice to their monumental achievements as recording artists.”

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On This Day, July 20, 1975…

Ahead of the release of his third studio album, Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen launched a new tour at the Palace Theater in Providence, Rhode Island. 

The show marked Steve Van Zandt’s first official gig as a member of the E Street Band and also the live debut of the future classic “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.” Other songs in the set included “Born To Run,” “Thunder Road,” “Rosalita” and more.

Born To Run was released August 25, 1975, and peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It has gone on to be considered one of the greatest albums of all time and has been certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA.

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Fleetwood Mac fans are about to get a new way to enjoy the band’s classic 1977 album, Rumours.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are set to release Rumours Live, a double live album of their August 29, 1977, concert at the Forum in Los Angeles. The 90-minute concert, the opening night of a three-night stand, features live versions of most of the songs on the album, including “Never Going Back Again,” “Songbird” and “The Chain” as well as tracks from 1975’s Fleetwood Mac, including “Landslide” and “Rhiannon.”

The new release is the first time most of these performances have ever been released live, with the exception of “Gold Dust Woman,” a bonus track on Fleetwood Mac’s 1980 release Live: Deluxe Edition. A previously unreleased live version of “Dreams” is out now.

Rumors Live, dropping September 8, is being released digitally and as a two-CD or two-LP set. It is available for preorder now. There will also be a crystal clear-vinyl edition sold exclusively through Walmart.

Here’s the track list for Rumours Live:

“Say You Love Me”
“Monday Morning”
“Dreams”
“Oh Well”
“Rhiannon”
“Oh Daddy”
“Never Going Back Again”
“Landslide”
“Over My Head”
“Gold Dust Woman”
“You Make Loving Fun”
“I’m So Afraid”
“Go Your Own Way”
“World Turning”
“Blue Letter”
“The Chain”
“Second Hand News”
“Songbird”

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Soft-hearted Rod Stewart gave a struggling family in Scotland a cash gift after one of their kids wrote a heartfelt note about their situation.

As a school project asking students about their hopes for the future, 10-year-old Sophia McKenzie wrote, “I have a dream that one day we will live in a world where the cost of living crisis stops and everything is free and nobody struggles with not being able to eat.” Her note was eventually published in The Daily Record.

Sophia’s mother Heather, a single mom with four kids, told the paper, “Sophia sees how much it upsets me when I can’t get them everything they want and she’s seen me go without food so they have enough to eat.”

Rod read Sophia’s letter and contacted the paper. “It broke my heart,” he said. “I simply had to find a way to help.” He ended up giving the family 2500 pounds, which is about 3200 dollars.

“I told [Sophia] what Mr. Stewart did and it has completely thrown her,” Heather told the paper. “We obviously never expected anything like this to happen…it is going to be amazing to see her not have to worry anymore.”

She added, “This is a life-changing amount of money and it means so much to all of us. Mr. Stewart is just an incredible person. I cannot thank him enough. I am so grateful from the bottom of my heart.”

In the past year, Rod has also helped bring a family of Ukrainian refugees to the U.K. and pledged to pay their rent and bills for a year. In addition, he’s paid for patients’ MRI scans at a hospital near his home to reduce wait times.

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Gov’t Mule kicks off their Dark Side of the Mule tour on July 22 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which will have the band celebrating the music of Pink Floyd and the classic album The Dark Side of the Moon.

Mule frontman Warren Haynes tells ABC Audio the idea for the shows originated from the band’s annual Halloween tradition, where “we give ourselves permission to play somebody else’s music.” He notes they’ve covered Neil Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix and many others.

“In 2008 we did Pink Floyd and the fans really dug it, and we released the recording and it was something the fans really like, so they encouraged us to do it more,” Haynes says.

After releasing the live album in 2014, Haynes says they thought they’d retired it. “[But] when the 50th anniversary of Dark Side of the Moon came around, we’re like, ‘All right, we’ll do it one more time,’ which I’m really psyched about.”

The Dark Side of the Moon was released in March 1973, but it’s an album that has only grown in popularity over the years — Haynes thinks that’s because it contains “timeless music.” 

“It was written and performed and recorded in a way that is never going to get old,” he says. “You know, there’s so much music. If you go back decades, some of it has a stamp on it and doesn’t live up to your expectations later on. But that music is better now than it was at the time.” 

Gov’t Mule’s Dark Side of the Mule tour, which features a full set of Gov’t Mule songs, followed by the Pink Floyd tribute, wraps August 20 in Vienna, Virginia. A complete list of dates can be found at mule.net.

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A new docuseries that explores the music of San Francisco is set to premiere in August on MGM+, formerly EPIX. 

San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time focuses on the Bay Area music scene from 1965 to 1975, a period that launched legendary artists like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Steve Miller, Santana and more to national stardom.

The two-part series, from the same team behind the Emmy-nominated music documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, will air over two Sundays, August 20 and 27, at 10 p.m. ET.

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