The Byrds hit #1 on the Billboard singles chart with their debut single, a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man.” It became the first recording of a Dylan song to reach number one on any pop music chart.
The track would be one of two #1 hits for the group. The other, “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season),” would top the chart six months later.
Dylan’s version of the song appeared on his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. The Byrds’ version was released less than a month after Dylan’s, and became the title track of their debut album.
Both versions of the song have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Lead singer Michael Hutchence (back row, left) with INXS band members, clockwise from top right: Andrew Farriss, Tim Farriss, Garry Gary Beers, Kirk Pengilly, and Jon Farriss. (Photo by Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
The music of INXS is going to be the subject of a new ballet opening in the band’s native Australia.
The Queensland Ballet has teamed with HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, for the new contemporary ballet Elegantly Wasted, featuring dance interpretations of the band’s songs.
“INXS have always embraced exploring new ideas and the different ways our music can connect with people,” INXS founding member and composer Andrew Farriss says in a statement. “This ballet is a fresh artistic interpretation that stands in its own space. It’s not about the band’s story but shows how our music can inspire new forms of expression.”
He adds, “It’s exciting to see the work approached from a completely new perspective. … [W]e’re looking forward to seeing how it comes to life.”
The production is described as a “striking contemporary work that charts a compelling shift from artifice to awareness, from surface to soul. It invites us to question what we perform, what we conceal, and what we might rediscover if we dare to be seen without filters.”
Elegantly Wasted was the band’s 10th studio album and its final album recorded with frontman Michael Hutchence before his 1997 death.
Cover of ‘Desmond Child Rocks The Parthenon – The Live Concert Album’ (DESTON/BMG)
Songwriter Desmond Child has released a live performance of the KISS classic “I Was Made For Lovin’ You,” a song he co-wrote with KISS’ Paul Stanley.
The song is the first track released from Child’s upcoming live album, Desmond Child Rocks The Parthenon – The Live Concert Album, a recording of his June 2022 concert at the historic Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, Greece.
The album is filled with performances of songs Child wrote for other artists, like KISS, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin and more. The “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” performance features Canadian singer Justin Benlolo, one of several guests who appear on the album. Others include Alice Cooper, Bonnie Tyler, Rita Wilson and Kip Winger.
Desmond Child Rocks The Parthenon – The Live Concert Album, dropping July 24, is available for preorder now.
Covers of Whitesnake’s ‘Slide It In,’ ‘Slip of the Tongue’ and ‘Whitesnake'(Craft Recordings)
Whitesnake’s career took off in the ’80s, and now the albums that helped launch the David Coverdale-fronted band to superstardom are set to be reissued on vinyl.
The band’s three mid-’80s albums — 1984’s Slide It In, 1987’s Whitesnake aka 1987 and 1989’s Slip of the Tongue — will be reissued on standard black vinyl on Sept. 18.
Each album will also get color vinyl variants. Whitesnake will get a gold black ice variant, Slide It In will be available as an onyx variant and Slip of the Tongue will be available as a crimson moon variant through CraftRecordings.com.
In addition, Whitesnake will be released on tan smoke vinyl via Walmart and limited-edition stone marble vinyl via Revolver. The album features the band’s biggest hits — “Here I Go Again,” “Is This Love” and “Still of the Night.”
Billy Joel’s iconic track “Piano Man” is back on the Billboard chart.
The rocker’s signature tune, the title track to his 1973 sophomore album, is #1 on the Billboard Top TV Songs chart thanks to its appearance in the Prime Video series The Boys.
The song appeared in the show’s series finale, although Joel has often been referenced throughout the series because he’s the favorite artist of the character Hughie, played by Jack Quaid.
Thanks to its appearance in the show’s final episode, “Piano Man” got a boost of 19.1 official U.S. streams and another 1,000 downloads.
“Piano Man” was Joel’s first major hit, peaking at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013 and in 2015 was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
Other songs landing in the Top TV Songs chart top 10 this week include: Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day” at #3, due to an appearance in Netflix’s The Boroughs; Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” at #5, also because of The Boroughs; Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” at #6, thanks to its appearance in HBO’s Euphoria; and “I Played the Fool,” Michael Stipe and Andrew Watt’s theme song to HBO’s Rooster, at #10.
The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues’ (Capitol Records)
The Rolling Stones are giving fans another preview of their upcoming album, Foreign Tongues.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have released two new songs from the album, including the new single “Jealous Lover,” which features special guest Steve Winwood on organ.
They also premiered a new video for the track on Amazon Music, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Beef’s Charles Melton.
But that’s not all. The Stones have also released the song “Divine Intervention,” which features Winwood on piano and organ, as well as The Cure’s Robert Smith on guitar.
The Stones have now released four songs from Foreign Tongues, which drops July 10. They previously released the single “In the Stars,” as well as the track “Rough and Twisted,” which was originally released under the name The Cockroaches.
And to coincide with the new songs, The Stones have also debuted the first episode of their new podcast, Speaking in Tongues, hosted by Norah Jones. It is available now via digital outlets.
Thursday is Global Beatles Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the legendary band’s 1967 live performance of “All You Need is Love” on the BBC’s Our World special. Now fans at home can relive the performance.
This year marks the first time Apple Corps Ltd, the company founded by The Beatles, has officially recognized the fan celebration, which was launched in 2009 by lifelong fan Faith Cohen. To celebrate, The Beatles have released a colorized version of the Our World performance to YouTube for the first time.
The performance, originally broadcast to over 400 million people across 26 countries, was shot at Abbey Road Studios with The Beatles singing live over prerecorded vocals. The band is backed by an orchestra and surrounded by such superstar friends as Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Keith Moon and Marianne Faithfull.
But that’s not the only way Global Beatles Day is being celebrated.
Ringo Starr posted a message on Instagram, writing, “All you need is love, love peace and love. I send you all peace and love love love no matter what you choose. Choose love” with #GlobalBeatlesDay. Paul McCartney also acknowledged the day on Instagram, posting black-and-white shots of the band and writing, “Have a great time on what is now Global Beatles Day (good group!).”
Plus, the music collective Rockin’1000 released a video of 1,000 musicians performing “All You Need is Love” during a sold-out concert at Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy. According to the video description, “(T)his song became something more than a performance. For a few minutes, there were no strangers among us. Just instruments, voices, arms around each other, and one song connecting thousands of people.”
Paul McCartney headlined the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, performing a 38-song set on the Pyramid Stage.
The concert took place one week after McCartney turned 80, making him the oldest solo headliner ever to play the festival.
McCartney’s set opened with The Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” and was filled with Beatles and Wings tracks, as well as solo material.
It also included a special guest appearance by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, who joined him on “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Band on the Run.”
Bruce Springsteen also made a surprise appearance, performing his Born in the U.S.A. hit “Glory Days” with McCartney. They also teamed up for The Beatles’ “I Wanna Be Your Man.”
Both Springsteen and Grohl came out at the end of the set to help McCartney close the show with The Beatles’ “The End.”
Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, David Clayton-Thomas of jazz-rock group, Blood Sweat and Tears, 17th March 1975. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer and songwriter of the jazz rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears, died Wednesday at 84, the singer’s publicist confirms to ABC News.
According to the publicist, Clayton-Thomas “died peacefully” at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
Born David Henry Thomsett in Surrey, England, on September 13, 1941, Clayton-Thomas joined Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968, following the departure of the band’s original frontman Al Kooper. He landed the gig after folk singer Judy Collins heard him performing and told Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer Bobby Colomby about him.
With Clayton-Thomas singing lead, Blood, Sweat & Tears’ 1968 self-titled sophomore album became a huge hit, spending seven weeks on top of the Billboard Albums chart and winning the Grammy for album of the year in 1970, beating The Beatles’ Abbey Road.
In 1970, following the album’s success, the band went on the State Department-sponsored Iron Curtain tour visiting countries Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland, which drew criticism from fans. The tour was the subject of a 2023 documentary, What The Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
The band continued to release hit albums, including 1970’s Blood, Sweat & Tears 3, which spent two weeks on top of the Billboard 200, and 1971’s Blood, Sweat & Tears 4, which was a top-10 hit.
Clayton-Thomas left the group in 1972 to pursue a solo career, releasing his self-titled solo debut that year. He went on to release nearly a dozen solo albums over the course of his career, his last being 2020’s Say Somethin’.
Clayton-Thomas was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996, and Blood, Sweat & Tears’ iconic track “Spinning Wheel” was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. Clayton-Thomas also received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2010.
Clayton-Thomas’ life and music will be celebrated with a memorial concert at a later date. Proceeds will benefit Peacebuilders Canada.
Mick Jagger attends 2026 the New York City Ballet Spring Gala at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on May 07, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
The Beatles are getting not one but four biopics, thanks to Sam Mendes’ project The Beatles – A Four Film Cinematic Event, and it sounds like Mick Jagger is open to having a similar thing happen for The Rolling Stones.
In a new interview with British GQ, Jagger was asked about whether he’d like to see that “kind of treatment” for The Stones, to which he replied, “Yeah, it interests me.”
“I don’t want to impart it to you, but, I know how I see it,” he says of a possible film. “There’s lots of ways of doing biopics.”
Referring to the Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown, Jagger explains, “So most of the time when you do a biopic, you do one small section of someone’s life bookended by some other stuff. Take the Bob Dylan movie. You do the moment when Bob went electric.”
“You’d have to think, what are you going to zero in on?” he continues. “And where’s your two years of interest? I mean that Bob Dylan one was two years, [the] James Brown one that I produced was slightly more.” The latter is a reference to 2014’s Get On Up, which starred the late Chadwick Boseman.
So, which portion of The Stones’ career would he like a movie to focus on?
“I don’t know which section, because it’s a long period,” Jagger says.
As for whether he has an idea for someone who could play him in a film, Jagger says, “No.”
As fans wait for a future Rolling Stones film, they can simply enjoy The Stones’ music. They’ll release the new album Foreign Tongues on July 10.
