Classic Rock News

More reported details are leaking out about Taylor Swift’s upcoming wedding to Travis Kelce, and it appears guests may be entertained by a two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.

A source has confirmed to Rolling Stone that Stevie Nicks will attend the wedding — allegedly taking place this weekend at New York’s Madison Square Garden — and is “expected to” perform.

Nicks’ presence at the wedding doesn’t come as much of a surprise, since she and Taylor have been friends for years. In particular, Stevie wrote a poem for Taylor’s The Tortured Poets Society album, and Taylor name-checked Stevie in a song from that album, “Clara Bow.”

Taylor also told Stephen Colbert last year of Stevie, “I feel very lucky that she’s lent her very magical, wonderful, wise approach to life to me.” During the NBA Finals, Taylor wore a T-shirt that said “Stevie Knicks” in honor of the singer and the New York team.

Stevie told Rolling Stone in 2024 of Taylor and Travis, “I hope they fall deeper and deeper in love and ride off into the sunset … and get married and have babies if she wants that. I just want all of that for her.”

According to a report from The New York Times, Taylor and Travis will hold an intimate gathering on Thursday, followed by a massive party on Friday.

Neither Taylor nor Travis have confirmed any of this, and the entire thing may be a ruse to throw people off.

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Bruce Springsteen was one of several artists honoring late music exec Clive Davis at a funeral service in New York City Monday.

“Clive was the most humble man in the music business,” Springsteen said at the opening of his speech, garnering laughs and applause from the mourners gathered at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue. “Not really.”

“Clive was big and bombastic and brave and full of ideas and just believed, believed, believed, believed,” he added. “He was born to run … everything.”

Springsteen then talked about having to come into New York City in 1972 to play for Davis before he could get signed to Columbia Records, and how kind and welcoming Davis was to him.

“He changed my life forever,” Springsteen said.

“The world that Clive was such a wonderful representative of has now vanished completely with his passing,” Springsteen said. “The world of the great record man. … Men who defined, loved and sustained the record business from their viewpoint at the top desk on down.”

“Clive changed so many artists’ and performers’ lives,” he added. “Clive not only loved music, he actually loved the people who made the music, no matter how much of a pain in the a** they were. And he loved those people deeply and permanently.”

“With his loyalty he let me know that was always the way he felt about me,” Springsteen noted. “And I loved him back. I never felt nothing but love coming from Clive.”

Others who spoke at the service included Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow and Alicia Keys, with Kenny G and Jennifer Hudson both performing.

Davis died June 22 at the age of 94.

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Foo Fighters played the second of two shows in Liverpool, England, on Saturday and didn’t leave town without paying tribute to The Beatles.

The set included the live debut of Dave Grohl and company’s cover of the Abbey Road track “I Want You (She’s So Heavy.” 

The Beatles, of course, formed in Liverpool.

Meanwhile, the Foos’ first Liverpool show included an appearance by a fan named Max, who held a sign asking to play a song if he solved a Rubik’s Cube onstage. Grohl then invited Max up, and after he fulfilled the challenge, invited him to play drums on the Foos song “Rope.”

After the performance, it was revealed that Max wasn’t a random fan, but the boyfriend of Grohl’s daughter Harper Grohl. The moment was put together to celebrate Max’s 18th birthday.

In even more Foo Fighters Liverpool happenings, the concerts were preceded by a performance of “Times Like These” by students of Liverpool’s Anfield Road Primary School. You can watch that streaming now on YouTube.

Foo Fighters are currently touring Europe in support of their album Your Favorite Toy, which dropped in April. The tour will come to North America starting in August.

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On This Day, June 29, 1984…

Bruce Springsteen kicked off the Born in the U.S. A. tour in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The tour featured the E Street Band debuts of guitarist Nils Lofgren, who replaced Stevie Van Zandt who left to record a solo album, and Springsteen’s future wife Patti Scialfa.

During opening night, director Brian De Palma shot the video for the Born in the U.S.A. single “Dancing in the Dark.” The performance clip ends with Springsteen pulling a fan onstage to dance with him. In reality, the woman, a then unknown actress named Courteney Cox, was placed in the front row so Bruce could pull her onstage to dance.

The video became a huge MTV hit and the song became Bruce’s biggest-ever single, spending four weeks at #1 and selling over a million copies.

Cox went on to become a huge star, thanks to the successful NBC series Friends, the Scream movie franchise and more.

The tour wrapped in October 1985, after hitting North America twice, Asia, Australia and Europe.

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Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery, the original guitarist for progressive rock band Marillion, have shared the first single off their upcoming instrumental album, The Roaring Waves.

The track, ”The Black Sea,” is described by Rothery as “the perfect introduction to the sonic world we’ve created between us,” adding, “We have a very special chemistry.”

“For ‘The Black Sea,’ our joint guitar sounds with the keys created a strong vibe of intrigue along with a sense of a musical dark sea adventure,” Hackett adds.

The Roaring Waves, dropping Aug. 28, is made up of seven songs that are described as ranging “from the dexterously ridiculous to the brilliantly sublime, though with one common theme: the profundity of the sea.”

The album is available for preorder now.

In other Steve Hackett-related news, Genesis has announced they’re releasing their 1974 album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, in Dolby Atmos as a standalone Blu-ray audio disc for the first time. The Blu-ray was previously only available as part of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition box set, which was released in September.

The standalone Blu-ray will be released Aug. 28 and is available for preorder now.

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The Who’s Roger Daltrey and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder are set to headline the Best of Blues and Rock Festival, happening Nov. 20-22 at Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, Brazil.

Daltrey is set to headline the festival on Nov. 21, with a lineup that also includes Chris Isaak and blues guitarist Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, while Vedder is booked for Nov. 20 and 22, alongside Glen Hansard and others.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday at 11 a.m. local time. More info can be found at bestofbluesandrock.com.

Vedder, a well known Who fan, has played with the band on several occasions. Back in October, he joined The Who on stage at the private Backyard Concert supporting Teen Cancer America and the UCLA Health Center. His most recent public show with the band was at The Who’s March 2024 Teenage Cancer Trust charity concert at Royal Albert Hall in London.

Next up, Daltrey is set to kick off a U.S. tour on Aug. 23 in Mesa, Arizona, with dates confirmed through Oct. 3 in Selbyville, Delaware. A complete list of dates can be found at TheWho.com.

Vedder’s next live dates are at his Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California, happening Sept. 25-26. Vedder is headlining Sept. 25, with Pearl Jam headlining Sept 27.

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers fans are getting a chance to hear new versions of two of his classic songs.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Petty’s iconic tracks “American Girl” and “Breakdown,” the Tom Petty estate has just released extended, newly mixed versions of the songs, both remixed from the original multitrack tapes in Hi-Res and Dolby Atmos.

Both songs are available now via digital outlets.

“American Girl” and “Breakdown” both appeared on Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ self-titled debut album, which was released in November 1976. “Breakdown” became Petty’s first top-40 hit, peaking at #40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Although “American Girl” failed to chart in the U.S. when it was initially released, it went on to become one of Petty’s most popular songs and is often ranked as one of the best rock songs of all time. It’s also the last song Petty ever played live, during his September 2017 show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Petty died just over a week later on Oct. 2, 2017.

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Billy Joel is celebrating another song joining the Spotify Billions Club.

A post on the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s Instagram account reveals that “Vienna” is now his third song to reach the milestone.

Already in the Billions Club are “Piano Man,” which joined in April and has currently been streamed over 1.3 billion times, and “Uptown Girl,” which joined in September 2024 and been streamed over 1.4 billion times.

The increase in Spotify streams is likely due in part to a popular TikTok trend that started in 2024 where women in their 20s and 30s expressed their emotional feelings about their life, pressure and more. The posts particularly identified with the song’s lyric, “slow down, you’re doing fine.”

“Vienna,” which Joel has said is one of his favorites of his songs, is a track off the rocker’s 1977 breakthrough album The Stranger and was originally the B-side of his top-10 single “Just the Way You Are.” He released an official video for the song in 2024.

It has gone on to become a fan favorite, and a song Joel often plays live in concert.

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Looks like Bryan Adams is getting ready to release a very Canada-centric song on Canada Day.

The Canadian rocker revealed on Instagram that he’ll be dropping the tune “The 51st State” on July 1, which marks Canada’s national holiday.

The title appears to be a reference to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Canada should become part of the United States, but don’t think Adams is suggesting he wants that to happen. In the caption of his announcement, he clearly states it’s something “We’ll never be.”

There’s no word on whether the song is part of a future Bryan Adams album or just a standalone single. He released his last studio album, Roll With The Punches, in August.

Adams is currently on a European tour and plays Herceg Novi, Montenegro, on Friday. His tour returns to the North America on July 24 with a show in St. Louis, Missouri. A complete list of dates can be found at BryanAdams.com.

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Ann Wilson is once again making music with the band Tripsitter.

Wilson and Tripsitter are set to release their second album together, Consecrated Ground, on Aug. 14 and have just released the album’s first single, “I Will Not Be Coming Back,” to digital outlets.

According to a press release, the single “captures themes of liberation, transformation, and unwavering self-determination.”

Wilson and Tripsitter first began working together in 2023. They released their first album, Another Door, in September of that year.

Following the release of Consecrated Ground, Wilson and Tripsitter will be heading out on the road. Their new tour kicks off Sept. 12 in Lady Lake, Florida, and wraps Oct. 9 in Ridgefield, Connecticut. A complete list of dates can be found at AnnWilson.com.

Consecrated Ground is available for preorder now. Check out the track list below:

“I Will Not Be Coming Back”
“Bone Pain”
“Me And Comanche”
“Hard Fought”
“Ruby Rosé (Lady Of The Night)”
“Hot Foot”
“Dissonance”
“Renaissance Kids”
“Reverse Chaos”

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