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Brian May, Mick Fleetwood & others pay tribute to Steve Cropper

Queen's Brian May and Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood are among the artists paying tribute to the late Booker T. and the M.G.'s guitarist Steve Cropper, who passed away Wednesday at the age of 84.May, who appeared on Cropper and his band The Midnight Hour's ...
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Grateful Dead earns Guinness World Record

Grateful Dead has earned a new Guinness World Record.The band's most recent Dave's Pick, Dave's Picks Vol. 56: Rainbow Theatre, London, England - 3/20/81 & 3/21/81, debuted at #25 on the Billboard 200 chart, making it their 66th top-40 album. That earns them the ...
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Yes releases remastered single edit of ‘Tales from Topographic Oceans’ track

Yes has released a new track from their upcoming super-deluxe reissue of 1973's Tales from Topographic Oceans.The latest is a newly remastered single version of "The Remembering (High the Memory)," which cuts down the album's 20-minute song to just under three minutes.Tales from Topographic ...
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Additional cast members announced for Sam Mendes’ Beatles films

A new round of cast members have been announced for Sam Mendes' upcoming films about The Beatles, The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event.The latest additions round out the members of The Beatles' entourage and include Paul McCartney's father, Jim McCartney, who'll be played ...
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On This Day, Dec. 4, 1980: Led Zeppelin announces breakup

On This Day, Dec. 4, 1980...A little over two months after the death of their drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin released a statement announcing their breakup."We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided ...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens cancels North American book tour

Yusuf/Cat Stevens postponed the North American book tour supporting his memoir, Cat On The Road To Findout, in September due to visa issues. At the time, he had expressed hope that the tour could be rescheduled, but he's now announced that it's not going ...
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Booker T. and the M.G.’s guitarist Steve Cropper dies at 84

Booker T. and the M.G.'s guitarist Steve Cropper died Wednesday at the age of 84. The news was confirmed on Cropper's Facebook page, which noted he "died peacefully in Nashville.""Steve was a beloved musician, songwriter, and producer whose extraordinary talent touched millions of lives ...
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Ronnie Wood reflects on his 50 years in The Rolling Stones: ‘What a joy’

In celebration of his 50th anniversary as a member of The Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood recently released a new art collection, Paint it Black, and says his goal was to capture the feeling of him and his bandmates - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and ...
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Jimmy Buffet’s ashes smuggled into 2024 Rock Hall induction, says Kenny Chesney

Jimmy Buffett was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 in the Musical Excellence category, and even though he passed away in 2023, it turns out he was still able to attend the ceremony.Kenny Chesney and James Taylor performed ...
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Duran Duran teams with We Are Rewind for new special-edition cassette player

Duran Duran has teamed with the company We Are Rewind for a new one-of-a-kind cassette player.The WE-001 Duran Duran Special Edition features chrome details for '80s nostalgia, and comes with an exclusive reissue of the band's 2000 album, Pop Trash, on cassette. It also ...
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