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The Weeknd let fans in on his upcoming HBO series The Idol, by posting a short clip from the studio. In the video you can see him along with producer, Mike Dean watching and listening as an orchestra plays a beautiful arrangement. He captioned it "The Idol Vol. 1."coming soon (double fantasy & jealous guy just a taste)."

The Idol‘s premiere date has not been announced, but he and Dean will both be part of the cast, alongside Lily-Rose Depp, BLACKPINK's Jennie, and several others.

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On May 13th, Sammy Hagar will headline the eighth "Acoustic-4-A-Cure" benefit at San Francisco's The Fillmore with proceeds going toward the Pediatric Cancer Program at the University of California San Francisco's Benioff Children's Hospital. Rolling Stone reported Hagar will be joined by Michael Anthony, Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, Heart's Nancy Wilson, Don Was, Chris Isaak, and Circle bandmate, Vic Johnson -- with more guests still to be announced.

Sammy Hagar said of the benefit's first live show in three years, "I'm thrilled that we're back for an eighth year and back home at the Fillmore in San Francisco where it all began. Most of all I'm so grateful to my friends and partners who lend their unconditional support year after year. We're able to produce an arena level show at an intimate venue and keep the ticket prices affordable because these incredible artists donate their time and deliver unbelievable performances so all of the profits can go directly to an incredible cause. That's my kind of philanthropy!"

General sale for 2023's "Acoustic-4-A-Cure" will begin on Friday, April 14th at 10 a.m. PST via Live Nation.

Set for release on June 2nd is the 40th anniversary super deluxe edition of Black Sabbath's first official concert collection, Live Evil. The new version has been expanded to four CD's and features two versions of the legendary live set -- a newly remastered version by Andy Pearce along with a new mix created from the original analog multi-tracks by longtime band associate Wyn Davis.

The physical versions also come with illustrated hardback books that include new liner notes and replicas of the concert book and poster from the Mob Rules tour, which featured Ronnie James Dio on vocals, Tony Iommi on guitar, Geezer Butler on bass, Vinny Appice on drums, with Geoff Nicholls supplying keyboards.

According to press release for the new Live Evil expanded set, "The recordings capture the ferocious chemistry and dark magic that defined this incarnation of Black Sabbath with thrilling live versions of recent tracks like 'Neon Knights,' 'The Sign Of The Southern Cross,' 'Voodoo,' 'Children Of The Sea.' The album also honored the band's original lineup with Dio-led versions of Sabbath classics like 'Paranoid,' 'War Pigs,' 'Iron Man,' and 'N.I.B.'"

Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash told us a while back that the late, great Ronnie James Dio was a voice that immediately captivated and inspired him: "He's just somebody I was influenced by. I played all the Rainbow stuff, I played the Dio stuff, the Sabbath stuff when I was in, y'know, high school. I don't think that it's really set in what a, y'know, huge figure in rock n' roll we lost, y'know. Really major. Probably one of the most influential heavy metal singers of all time."

Happy Birthday to soul legend Al Green who celebrates his 77th birthday today (April 13th)!!! In 2014, Green was among the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors from President Obama at a gala performance in Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. Tribute performances included Earth, Wind, & Fire on "I Can't Get Next To You," "Love and Happiness," and Jennifer Hudson on "Simply Beautiful." Usher performed "Let's Stay Together," and Mavis Staples and Sam Moore teamed up with a choir to duet on "Take Me To The River."

In 2008 Green released Lay It Down, his third album since returning to secular music in 2003 with I Can't Stop, which reunited him with his longtime collaborator and producer, the late-Willie Mitchell. Green and Mitchell collaborated on most of Green's biggest hits from the '70s like "Let's Stay Together" and "I'm Still In Love With You." In 2010, Green's 1974 classic, "Take Me To The River" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Al Green, who's been an ordained minister since 1976, was asked if he ever thought he would have attained so much in his lifetime: "No, I never did think . . . I'm a sharecropper's son. I'm nobody. I have a little bag of songs over here, I've got a bible over here, and that's all I got. People come out, remember these songs better than me, and some of the songs are older than the people, so I think that I am blessed."

He told us that although he's not judging today's musical talent, one thing is clear to him -- it is very different from the pop-R&B sounds of the mid-'60's: "Today's music is a whole different animal from the Four Tops, or from the Temptations or Martha Reeves & The Vandellas or the Supremes. It's talking, more talking as a rap style -- and I'm not jumping up and down on our kids. Because, no matter what you think of them, or no matter what I think, they are our -- I said underline our -- offspring."

Known for the pop hits "Let's Stay Together" and "I'm Still In Love With You," among others, Green says gospel music is just as important to him, if not more so. He explains the need for making gospel music in today's world: "Because I think the need for 'a rose is still a rose' mentality, and that pureness that comes out of gospel music is necessary for today to kind of curb all of the negative postures of music in reference to the language and various other videos that suggest very strongly this or that. I think the gospel music has a tendency to make it kind of lean up straight a little bit, just a little more, and everything is able to go right on."

Green acknowledges that some of his fans turned their back on him in 2003 when he went back to releasing secular music. He says that he can't worry about the select group of fans who have a problem with him being both a gospel and a soul artist: "You gotta be yourself. I can't be nobody else. I have to be Al. I'm a gospel preacher, and I sing R&B rhythm and blues, and I sing gospel songs too. I'm just Al, and that's all I really wanna be. I don't really wanna be. . . Can't nobody beat me being myself."

Green told us that he finds it hard narrowing down a concert set list from all his great songs : "It's hard to kind of narrow 'em down, 'cause they all your children, see? It's like my kids -- I can't say I like this one better than I like that one, because that would be preferring one over another. So, it's like 'I'm Still In Love With You,' you know, I like that too, but I like, still like 'Let's Stay Together.' I like 'Love And Happiness' because I wrote it."

Al Green spoke about his musical legacy: "Well, I think that's a lot of making babies, I mean in London they was asking us 'do you know how many kids been born since you been making this music?,' I'm going 'huh?' The music is what it is, and it's about love and it's about compassion and it's about affection, it's about family, it's about, it's about time for me to go, bye!"

Back in 2005 it was announced that a feature film based on Green's life was heading to the big screen starring former-ER leading man Mekhi Phifer, but so far there has been no word on if and when production will begin.

Ariana Grande is speaking out about body shaming after fans expressed "concern" with her weight.

The Wicked star said in a TikTok video Tuesday (April 11th), "The body that you've been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body. I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them and eating poorly. I was at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my healthy, but that in fact wasn't my healthy."

She also encouraged fans to "be gentle to others and with yourselves."

George Thorogood & The Destroyers have been forced to scrap a series of shows due to Thorogood undergoing emergency surgery for an undisclosed ailment.

An announcement was posted on the official GeorgeThorogood.com website, which read:

With great sadness, we must announce the cancellation of our Canadian & U.S. tour dates from April 27, 2023 through May 21, 2023. George has been diagnosed with a very serious medical condition that will require immediate surgery and quite a few weeks of recuperation and healing.

You, our fans, mean the world to us, and we know this news is not want you wanted to hear, but rest assured George Thorogood & The Destroyers will be back. We'll keep you updated as we know more.

As it stands now, Thorogood and the band will be back on the road on July 14th for his show in Jefferson, Wisconsin at the Jefferson County Fair Park.

CANCELLED: George Thorogood & The Destroyers tour dates:

4/27/23 - Commodore Ballroom / Vancouver, BC
4/28/23 - Commodore Ballroom / Vancouver, BC
4/29/23 - Trade and Convention Centre / Penticton, BC
4/30/23 - CN Centre / Prince George, BC
5/2/23 - Bonnetts Energy Centre / Grand Prairie, AB
5/4/23 - The Venue at River Cree / Edmonton, AB
5/5/23 - Grey Eagle Resort & Casino Event Centre / Calgary, AB
5/6/23 - Casino Regina / Regina, SK
5/8/23 - TCU Place / Saskatoon, SK
5/9/23 - Burton Cummings Theatre / Winnipeg, MB
5/11/23 - DreamMakers Theater / Sault Ste Marie, MI
5/12/23 - Sudbury Arena / Sudbury, ON
5/13/23 - Peterborough Memorial Centre / Peterborough, ON
5/14/23 - MTelus / Montreal, QC
5/16/23 - Centre in the Square / Kitchener, ON
5/17/23 - Fallsview Casino Resort / Niagara Falls, ON
5/19/23 - Foxwoods Resort Casino / Mashantucket, CT
5/20/23 - Wind Creek Event Center / Bethlehem, PA
5/21/23 - Michelob Ultra Summer Stage at Tag's / Big Flats, NY

Despite billing his last tour as his official "farewell" -- Peter Frampton has just surprised fans by announcing a 26-date summer run, dubbed the "Never Say Never" tour. Frampton has been forced to slowly quit the road upon discovering he's suffering from a degenerative muscle disease called Inclusion-Body Myositus (IBM), that slowly weakens the body's muscles.

The new trek kicks off on June 21st in Huber Heights, Ohio at Rose Music Center and winds down two months later on August 21st at Sandy, Utah's Sandy Amphitheater.

Frampton issued a statement explaining his choice to return to the road, which reads:

At the end of every Finale Tour show I did say, "Never Say Never" and I am always full of hope for the impossible. I'm very pleased to let you know that I am feeling strong and my fingers are still roaming the fretboard. Every note I play now has more meaning and soul. I love playing live and this fighter wants to stay in the ring for as long as he can. I'm so happy to be able to see you all one more time this summer. Much love, Peter.

Prior to Peter Frampton's last tour, we pressed him about how he makes his nightly setlist decisions: "I've been going through some of the old albums and thinking about what to do. I don't know what my criteria is for choosing the old ones or what I'm. . . What I'm willing to do, but with me, it's always a gut feeling of if it feels good when we rehearse it, we'll do it, y'know?"

JUST ANNOUNCED: Peter Frampton tour dates (subject to change):

June 21 - Huber Heights, OH - Rose Music Center
June 22 - Cincinnati, OH - PNC Pavilion
June 24 - Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheater
June 25 - Charlotte, NC - Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 27 - Alpharetta, GA - AmerisBank Amphitheatre
June 28 - St. Augustine, FL - The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre
June 30 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live Orlando
July 2 - Clearwater, FL - The Sound at Coachman Park
July 3 - Hollywood, FL - Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
July 13 - Gilford, NH - Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
July 15 - Bethlehem, PA - Wind Creek Event Center
July 16 - Atlantic City, NJ - Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena
July 18 - Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall at Fenway
July 20 - Oxon Hill, MD - The Theater at MGM National Harbor
July 22 - Ledyard, CT - Foxwoods Resort Casino
July 23, 25 - Port Chester, NY - The Capitol Theatre
July 26 - Huntington, NY - The Paramount
July 28 - Verona, NY - Turning Stone Resort Casino
July 29 - Niagara Falls, ON - Fallsview Casino Resort
August 10 - Troutdale, OR - McMenamins Edgefield
August 12 - Lincoln, CA - Thunder Valley Casino
August 13 - Highland, CA - Yaamava Theater
August 15 - San Francisco, CA - The Masonic
August 18 - Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl
August 19 - Sandy, UT - Sandy Amphitheater

Sting has rolled out over a dozen North American stops for this fall as part of his ongoing "My Songs" tour. Newly added dates on the career-spanning trek have the former-Police leader hitting New Jersey, Massachusetts, Colorado, Utah, California, and Arizona -- along with a pair of Canadian shows in Toronto and Vancouver.

Sting and his band kick things off on September 1st and 2nd at Vienna, Virginia's Wolf Trap and wind things down on October 12th in Rogers, Arkansas at Walmart AMP.

Sting admitted to us a while back that an allure to life on the road is that it alleviates the pressure to write new material: "I mean, I love touring -- I love being on tour. It also, um, y'know, prevents me from having to sit down and face a blank page again. There's not much thinking involved."

Sting told us that the element of surprise is key in keeping music interesting and ageless -- which is something he tried to inject into the musical reinventions of My Songs: "I've never been afraid to challenge people's expectations; and for me, the most important element in any music is surprise. I need to surprise people within four bars, eight bars. . . When I listen to music, I need to be surprised otherwise I stop listening -- if I know what's coming next. I think of those songs no matter who I'm working with at the time. Y'know, I'm a songwriter, I always have been. But I'm always excited by other people's take on the basic bones of the song."

Sting performs tonight and tomorrow (April 12th and 13th) in Sacramento, California's Hard Rock Live.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Sting North American tour dates (subject to change):

September 1, 2 - Vienna, VA - Wolf Trap
September 3 - Atlantic City, NJ - Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena
September 5 - Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage
September 7 - Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall at Fenway
September 20 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
September 23 - West Valley City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
September 29 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena
October 2 - Concord, CA - Concord Pavilion
October 4 - San Diego, CA - Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU
October 7 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
October 9 - Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Financial Theatre
October 12 - Rogers, AR - Walmart AMP

Britney Spears is speaking out about a trainer who recently told her she needs to get her old body back.

The pop star lashed out on Instagram Monday (April 10th) after seeing some unflattering paparazzip photos.

Spears said that the first thing the trainer did to her was "pinch the skin on my stomach and legs and told me I need to get my younger body back."

The :"Toxic" singer took matters into her own hands rather than rely on the body-shamer.

She added, "God knows my body ain't perfect but I did want to share what my body looks like at the moment … I worked my ass off and for some people like that trainer who might see those nasty pap pics and secretly smile … Yup, y'all got it"

BTS will celebrate their 10th anniversary with an "immersive fan experience."

Hybe and Bighit Music announced Tuesday (April 11th) that BTS Exhibition: Proof is set for May in Los Angeles.

Rolling Stone reports that the exhibition is set to be "an immersive visual journey that explores the members' past, present, and future through photographs, videos, and experiential installations in a multi-room walkthrough experience."

Fans can sign up for registered ticket sales through April 17th.

On May 26th, Aerosmith's Joe Perry will release a revamped version of his last solo album, Sweetzerland Manifesto -- now renamed Sweetzerland Manifesto MKII. Ultimate Classic Rock reported the collection features alternate versions of the tracks from the original 2018 set along with newly recorded material.

The Joe Perry Project, featuring Gary Cherone on lead vocals, kicks off a six-show East Copast and Midwest run on Saturday night (April 15th) at Mashantucket, Connecticut at Foxwoods Casino Resort.

Sweetzerland Manifesto MKII includes a cover of Barry McGuire's 1965 chart-topper, "Eve Of Destruction" and features such high profile guests on the album are the Who's Zak Starkey and Johnny Depp on drums, bass by Stone Temple Pilots' Robert DeLeo with vocals by Joe Perry, Gary Cherone, Chris Robinson, Terry Reid, David Johansen, and Cheap Trick's Robin Zander. Out now is the album's lead single, "Fortunate One," featuring Chris Robinson and Robert DeLeo.

I n the official announcemnet for the new album, Joe Perry said, "We had so many songs and with everything going on with the (Hollywood) Vampires, Aerosmith, Covid, not touring and touring, this music kept riding along for me. It was like the engine of a train that wasn't going to stop. I'd wanted to put these songs out, and the idea of adding them to a vinyl release or 'Deluxe Version' turned into doing MKII. I tend to think in terms of albums. The first one had a vibe, and MKII is a little more rocked out. I almost prefer it. It's one of those records I can play from front to back live."

Joe Perry told us that he always fools around with a few covers to open himself up to the songwriting process: "To get inspired to go down and write, I would go down and cover some of my favorite old rock songs or blues songs. So I'd go down and do, like, 'Little Red Rooster' -- y'know, sing it, play it, and do the whole exercise and, and finish a song. And then the next day, I would write something new."

It was 30 years ago today (April 12th, 1993) that Bruce Springsteen released his In Concert / MTV Plugged live set. The collection was recorded on September 22nd, 1992 at L.A.'s Warner Hollywood Studios and featured Springsteen's solo ensemble just prior to heading out on Springsteen's first world tour without the E Street Band. The album mixed classics with cuts from his then-new 1992 sets Human Touch and Lucky Town. Among the evergreens performed by "The Boss" and his new band were "Darkness On The Edge Of Town," "Atlantic City" and "Thunder Road."

The concert was originally broadcast on MTV on November 11th, 1992 with an accompanying radio simulcast. In addition to the previously released new tracks and classics, two Springsteen tunes made their debut on the MTV Plugged set -- the concert-opening acoustic track, "Red Headed Woman" and "Light Of Day," which Springsteen had premiered on the 1988 E Street Band tour and had previously been gifted to Joan Jett & The Blackhearts for inclusion in the 1987 movie of the same name.

Although In Concert / MTV Plugged went gold, selling over 500,000 copies, the album stiffed on the charts, "peaking" at a dismal 189 on the Billboard 200. The VHS version of the show featured five additional tracks -- "Local Hero," "Growin' Up," "The Big Muddy," "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)," and "Glory Days" -- with the eventual DVD adding "Roll Of The Dice."

Upon hitting the road with the solo band in 1992, Bruce Springsteen explained why he went over four years between releasing 1987's Tunnel Of Love collection and the double-shot 1992 albums: "One of the reasons I had a long time off between records was because it was the only way that I could really reflect on what was happening on me outside of my work life. (And) have a chance to experience and come up with something new that I'd have to bring to an audience. I think the two most important relationships are the relationship with my son and my wife and my close friends and then the relationship that I've worked for over for 20 years with my audience. So, (I'm) tryin' to find a way to do both as (laughs) best as possible."

The original tracklisting to Bruce Springsteen's In Concert / MTV Plugged album is:

"Red Headed Woman"
"Better Days"
"Atlantic City"
"Darkness On The Edge Of Town"
"Man's Job"
"Human Touch"
"Lucky Town"
"I Wish I Were Blind"
"Thunder Road"
"Light Of Day"
"If I Should Fall Behind"
"Living Proof"
"My Beautiful Reward"

Ed Sheeran joined America's Got Talent alum Mike Yung for a performance of "Eyes Closed" on a New York City subway platform.

A clip of the performance was posted on the Subway Creatures TikTok Tuesday (April 11th).

Katy Perry is no longer the most followed woman on Twitter.

As reported by Social Blade, Rihanna has overtaken the "Firework" singer with her 108,278,326 followers on the social media platform.

The Fenty Beauty founder is also the fourth most followed person on Twitter overall.

Foo Fighters has announced their confirmed six more new headline concert dates for this year. Support on the Spokane, Salt Lake City, Stateline and Virginia Beach dates will be The Breeders.

Check out the new dates below:

August 4 - Spokane, WA - Spokane Arena
August 8 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
August 10 - Stateline, NV - Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey's
September 19 - Virginia Beach, VA - Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
October 3 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheater
October 5 - El Paso, TX - Don Haskins Center

Previously announced dates:

May 24 - Gilford, NH - Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion (SOLD OUT)
May 26 - Boston, MA - Boston Calling Music Festival
May 28 - Columbus, OH - Sonic Temple Arts & Music Festival
May 30 - Washington DC - The Atlantis
June 2 - Nürburgring, DE - Rock Am Ring
June 4 - Nürnberg, DE - Rock Im Park
June 14 - Rogers, AR - Walmart AMP (SOLD OUT)
June 16 - Pelham, AL - Oak Mountain Amphitheatre (SOLD OUT)
June 18 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
July 8 - Quebec City, QC - Festival D'ete De Quebec
July 12 - Ottawa, ON - Ottawa Bluesfest
July 15 - Milwaukee, WI - Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival
July 29 - Naeba, JP - Fuji Rock
August 11-13 - San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands Festival
September 3 - Aspen, CO - Jazz Aspen Snowmass
September 9 - Sao Paulo, BR - The Town
September 17 - Asbury Park, NJ - See.Hear.Now
September 21 - Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life
October 1 - Dana Point, CA - Ohana Festival

It was 57 years ago today (April 12th, 1966), that Jan Berry of Jan & Dean suffered a horrendous car crash that left him brain damaged and severely disabled for the rest of his life. Berry was speeding on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and crashed his Stingray into a parked truck. The wreck was so horrific, and Berry's injuries so severe, that the first paramedics on the scene actually thought Berry was dead before they checked his vital signs and found a weak pulse.

After numerous brain operations, Berry spent six weeks in coma and awoke severely brain damaged, unable to speak, and completely paralyzed on his right side. Friends and family credited Berry's infamous ego, which enabled him -- although tremendously handicapped -- to return to the recording studio the next year to work on material for a long-unreleased Jan & Dean project, Carnival Of Sound.

Fans have long referred to the patch of Sunset Boulevard near Whittier Boulevard as "Dead Man's Curve," after the Jan & Dean hit which was eerily released just-over two years before the crash. In the years since the accident, the city of Beverly Hills has made the curve much safer for motorists, and the actual site of the crash is now part of a park.

Berry, who had been the creative force behind all the duo's hits, including "Surf City," "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena," and the foreboding "Dead Man's Curve," persevered throughout his setbacks and never stopped recording music, up through the late-1990's.

In 1978, hot on the heels of the TV movie Deadman's Curve, which chronicled Berry's ordeal, he and Dean Torrence officially reunited to open for the Beach Boys, and continued to tour until 2004.

Jan Berry died in March 2004 from a brain seizure, one week shy of his 63rd birthday.

The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean enjoy a long and combined history. Beach Boy Bruce Johnston remembers his teenage days in the 1950's growing up in Bel Air with the late Jan Berry: "He would come to my house every morning and we'd play doo wop songs for 15 or 20 minutes -- he just lived up the street -- and then we'd take the school bus to high school."

Beach Boys co-founder David Marks told us that Berry's accident curtailed a major talent: "He didn't have a fair chance to express himself and to get his music out. He was just starting off. I mean, 'Jennie Lee' and 'Baby Talk' -- that was genius. Right at the time in the '50s, that was typical rock n' roll."

A while back, the late, great Glen Campbell, who played on the majority of Jan & Dean hits, told us that unlike Berry's contemporaries Phil Spector and Brian Wilson, Berry personally notated the score for the studio musicians to play: "Oh Jan, Jan was brilliant. He wrote everything out. He wrote notes out, all the chord progressions out. It didn't matter what it was.'"

Recently published is Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, And The Myth Of The California Paradise by legendary writer Joel Selvin. Selvin traces the early days of the L.A. rock scene, and charts the course of key L.A. players -- Phil Spector, Lou Adler, Brian Wilson, and Jan Berry, among others. Selvin explained how stars aligning at just the right moment in Southern California allowed Jan Berry to leave his mark: "It's a really amazing time and place for those teenagers. It was just an extraordinary set of coefficients. All those things they did were possible then. In a very short time, they would no longer be possible. Jan Berry walking into a recording studio to get a dub for three bucks -- the first time he'd ever even been inside a recording studio. And some guy hears him and follows him home to see, y'know, exactly what he's doing. And the next thing you know: bing, bang, boom -- he's on the charts."

Out now is Carnival Of Sound -- the long-unreleased album from 1966 and 1967 that Berry was working on both prior to and after his car accident.

Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn were reportedly discussing marriage prior to their split a few weeks ago.

People reports that multiple sources say the couple had been "talking about marriage as recently as a few months ago."

One insider told the outlet, "Taylor didn't see them working out in the long run."

They added, "Joe has struggled with Taylor's level of fame and the attention from the public. The differences in their personalities have also become harder to ignore after years together. They've grown apart."

According to Page Six, the "Lavendar Haze" singer remains "100% single."

Although the Who is still selling out venues on this side of the Atlantic, Roger Daltrey is unsure whether the band will ever make it back to North America. Out now is the new live set, The Who With Orchestra Live At Wembley, and they'll kick off a 14-date European tour on June 14th in Barcelona, Spain.

When pressed as to what comes next for the band, Roger Daltrey told USA Today: "Nothing at the moment. I don't know if we'll ever come back to tour America. There is only one tour we could do, an orchestrated Quadrophenia to round out the catalog. But that's one tall order to sing that piece of music, as I'll be 80 next year. I never say never, but at the moment it's very doubtful."

Daltrey admitted in many ways it's tougher to tour today than it was in the past: "Touring has become very difficult since Covid. We cannot get insured and most of the big bands doing arena shows, by the time they do their first show and rehearsals and get the staging and crew together, all the buses and hotels, you're upwards $600,000 to a million in the hole. To earn that back, if you're doing a 12-show run, you don't start to earn it back until the seventh or eighth show. That's just how the business works. The trouble now is if you get Covid after the first show, you've (lost) that money."

He went on to explain his love for performing hasn't diminished in the least: "We're enjoying it. Y'know, Pete (Townshend) can't quite jump 10-foot in the air anymore. He can do three-foot, so he's not bad! (Laughs) I don't swing the microphone hardly at all now because it doesn't matter to the sound anymore. Before, when all of those things used to work, it was a circus act. We're more than that now. I'm proud that our music has come of age and I think you could say this is the most modern classical music out there."

Pete Townshend shed some light on the Who's longtime relationship America: "For us, the U.S.A. is our primary market. And it's where we can do the most work in an intense period of time. But I think Roger and I get very envious of people that can, y'know, do a week's work and then go home. Y'know, in the old days, that's how we used to work here in the UK. We used to drive to Newcastle, do a show and then drive back that night and take the kids to school the next morning. Y'know, it felt as close to normal life as you were ever gonna get."

Suga's forthcoming solo album will feature a collaboration with one of his BTS bandmates.

The singer revealed the track list for D-Day Monday (April 10th). The 10-track solo effort, which will be released under the moniker Agust D, includes the song "HUH?! (feat. j-hope)."

D-Day drops on April 21st.

Mike Campbell's Dirty Knobs have enlisted the aid of former Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers drummer Steve Ferrone to play with the band for their upcoming tour, according to Best Classic Bands. Ferrone, who was the Heartbreakers' official drummer from 1994 to Petty's 2017 death isn't the first Heartbreaker drummer to set behind the kit for Campbell. Last year, Mike Campbell tapped original Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch to fill in for Matt Laug, who was otherwise booked on the road.

Stan Lynch, who quit working with Tom Petty back in 1994 after the sessions for the band's 1993 Greatest Hits compilation, spent 18 years with the band before being replaced by Steve Ferrone.

Mike Campbell, who's been receiving good notices for the Dirty Knobs' second album, External Combustion, admitted to us that carrying on in the wake of Tom Petty's 2017 death is still tough for him: "I don't know if you've ever lost a brother or a family member, but it's. . . I'll never get over it completely. I'm still, y'know, going through the grief stages. But there was a short period of just, kinda, shuttin' down and shock. And then you pick yourself up and go, 'What and I gonna do? Sit around and be sad about this or get on with my music, y'know?' And so, that's what I'm doing."

Although Steve Van Zandt is happy to play anything Bruce Springsteen chooses for the E Street Band's nightly setlist -- he admitted he does have favorites. Van Zandt spoke to USA Today and described Springsteen's current road trek as one that, "combines a theme of mortality with a proof of vitality. This show is a hurricane from beginning to end."

Van Zandt first started playing with Bruce Springsteen the mid-1960's, and officially joined the E Street Band in 1975. He left in 1983 prior to the release of the following year's blockbuster Born In The U.S.A. album. He was back onboard for the E Street Band's 1999 reunion tour and has been side-by-side with "The Boss" ever since.

When pressed about his favorite Bruce Springsteen songs, Van Zandt said, "A lot of my favorites we don't play," before going on to list the long unreleased Darkness On The Edge Of Town outtakes "Restless Nights," "The Little Things (My Baby Does)" and "Gotta Get That Feeling" -- along with the tune he's previous called his personal favorite -- the now famous cast-off from The River sessions, "Loose Ends," Steve Van Zandt went on to say, "But I love the show we're doing. The guy has not written a song that I don't enjoy."

Bruce Springsteen's 1980 double album, The River, which served as the blueprint as to how rock was recorded in the 1980's, was the first of only two Springsteen albums to be co-produced by Steve Van Zandt. With Van Zandt celebrating 24 years back in the band, we asked him why he hasn't taken his spot behind the boards for Springsteen in the ensuing years: "I think he went in different directions and wanted to try different things, different people. I will do anything he asks to help out; I'm happy to help any way I can, and if he wanted me to, I would start producing the records again, for sure -- absolutely! But, y'know, it's up to him. He wanted to try some different people, different things -- I wasn't always around, y'know, and even now, the way he records, he recalls when he feels like it, y'know, in his own studio, he's got his engineer, kind of always around. So, it's a matter of convenience, I think, and y'know, circumstance."

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The Briti9sh singer posted a selfie of the two Sunday (April 9th) with the caption "When sucker met sour."

The "Drivers License" singer responded in the comments with, "Love You."