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Six million Elton fans can’t be wrong: Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour final stats revealed

Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour was the first tour in history to gross first $800 million, and then $900 million. Now, Billboard is revealing the final numbers when it comes to just how much the tour took in since it ended on July ...
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Paul McCartney’s photo exhibit coming to Virginia’s Chrysler Museum of Art

Paul McCartney’s photo exhibit is coming to America.Currently on display at London’s National Portrait Gallery until October, the exhibit titled Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm will move to the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, starting December 5 and running until April 7, 2024.“What ...
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On This Day, July 14, 1982: The movie of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ premieres in London

On This Day, July 14, 1982...A movie based on Pink Floyd’s classic album The Wall opened at The Empire, Leicester Square in London, England. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason all attended the premiere, as did such fellow musicians as Pete Townshend, Sting, Roger Taylor, Andy Summers and more. Directed by Alan Parker, with a screenplay by ...
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‘Queen The Greatest Live’ – Episode 25: “Seven Seas of Rhye”

Queen is back with episode 35 of their weekly YouTube series Queen the Greatest Live, and they continue to look at the process of adapting songs live for the stage, this time focusing on the track “Seven Seas Of Rhye.”The episode features a performance of the song ...
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Duran Duran to headline special concert benefiting cancer charity

Duran Duran has added a very special show to their summer schedule.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will play a charity concert on Saturday, August 19 at The Guild Theatre in Menlo Park, California to benefit the U.K.-based cancer charity The Cancer Awareness Trust.Cancer has personally ...
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Director Roddy Bogawa’s Syd Barrett documentary is an “intimate portrait” of the Pink Floyd co-founder

Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett is the subject of a new documentary, Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd. The film’s director, Roddy Bogawa, hopes it sheds some light on the rocker.Bogawa worked on the film with acclaimed album cover designer Storm Thorgerson, who was ...
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Gov’t Mule announces Island Exodus 14 details

Gov’t Mule is once again inviting fans to come hang out with them on the beach. The band just announced details of their Island Exodus 14, happening January 14-18, at Jewel Paradise Cove Resort in Runaway Bay, Jamaica.The island getaway will feature four nights of ...
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Billy Joel returns to the ‘Billboard’ Hot 100 as a writer thanks to Fall Out Boy

Billy Joel is back on the Billboard Hot 100 ... sort of. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer returns to the singles chart as a writer, thanks to Fall Out Boy’s update of “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” which debuts at #94 on the all-genre chart.The cover ...
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‘The Bear’s’ executive producer on getting the rights to AC/DC song: “the hype was intimidating”

AC/DC‘s “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)” is featured in season 2 of FX’s The Bear, but executive producer Josh Senior tells Billboard there was a real worry they wouldn’t be able to secure the rights to the tune.“Everybody I’ve ever talked to about licensing music always told me AC/DC ...
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Sammy Hagar puts an end to talk of a Van Halen reunion

Sammy Hagar is putting to rest any talk of a Van Halen reunion to honor the band’s late guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who passed away in 2020.Although there was talk of some sort of tribute in the past, Hagar discusses why a reunion of the band can’t really happen during ...
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