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The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Charity is grateful to Ariana Grande this holiday season, for her continued support.

She donated lots of Christmas gifts that were distributed to babies, children and teenagers at four area hospitals in England.

Her kindness may have gone unnoticed if not for the facility posting on Instagram to thank her.

In 2017, a suicide bomber, blew himself up as fans were leaving Grande's concert in the northwest England city. The attack left 22 people dead, including an 8-year-old girl. 59 were wounded in the attack, 12 were children under the age of 16.

Following the tragedy, Manchester authorities named Grande an honorary citizen of the city for her work in the wake of the attack.

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Former Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss underwent surgery for a torn meniscus and is recovering from the procedure. Her Twitter page shows her smiling, sitting in a wheelchair with her leg elevated.

She's also the in-house guitarist for the Los Angeles Rams. About that she posted: "Surgery went as well as it could have! Super grateful for the steady hands of the Rams doctor Dr. Banffey and the great staff at the surgery center."

Strauss suffered the injury earlier this year while on tour with Alice Cooper.

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• Former Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss underwent surgery for a torn meniscus and is recovering from the procedure.

Machine Gun Kelly spent Christmas Eve at the home of friends Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian and he definitely dressed like he was at a Kardashian party.

In a group photo shared on (social media star) Mikey Tua's Instagram, he's seen rocking a leopard-print jacket. The pants had a similar print and were tight and shiny. He even had his long blonde hair styled back in a way that looked like the mane of a lion.

Barker's son, Landon is also in the photo.

Machine Gun Kelly seemingly attended the star-studded event without his fiancée Megan Fox.

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• Machine Gun Kelly spent Christmas Eve at the home of friends Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian
• He wore a leopard-print outfit..
• His fiancée Megan Fox was not there.

In a recent interview posted by Blabbermouth, Sammy Hagar, who has become a successful entrepreneur, says he would never go into non-music business with bandmate, Michael Anthony.

The 75-year-old rocker said, "it could possibly ruin our relationship, (as well as) what we do as entertainers, as artists and recording artists." The two are bandmates in Van Halen and The Circle.

Hagar, who founded the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand and restaurant chain, as well as Sammy's Beach Bar Rum, explained: "As much as I love family members, and I say the only people I can trust in the world a hundred percent is family, the business world can get ugly. There's a power game to business that some people thrive on. And I hate it."

When it comes down to it, Hagar says they have such a great relationship on stage he wouldn't want to risk it. Referring to their music, he said, "We're in business already."

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• Hagar said "it could possibly ruin our relationship, and what we do as entertainers, as artists and recording artists."

Another week, another milestone for Mariah Carey. She has now officially reached the #1 spot on Billboard Hot 100­­­, 90 times throughout her career. She posted on Instagram, "I can't even handle this news.. I'm jumping up and down in the snow..! Meanwhile Cha Cha is swimming around and Mutley is howling like a kid running around in circles feeling our energy."

The news of 90 #1's came as "All I want For Christmas Is You" topped the U.S. charts for its 11^th total week.

As if that's not enough records to break, the song also just had its biggest streaming day in global Spotify history with a 21.26 million streams on the platform.

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• She has now officially reached the #1 spot on Billboard Hot 100­­­, 90 times.

Finneas is not letting anyone talk down about his sister's relationship online. He defended Billie Eilish from an attack on her relationship with Jesse Rutherford, who's 10 years old than her.

A TikTok user commented to him, "Oh yeah? Well, your sister's dating a 31 year old man and your music is s***ty." Finneas whipped back, "I want my sister to be happy and safe and she is a 21-year-old adult perfectly entitled to make her own life decisions."

The Grammy-winning producer expressed a similar sentiment regarding Eilish's relationship and said, "Listen, as long as she's happy, I'm happy."

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The Eagles have released a remastered HD video of the 1979 Joe Walsh classic, "In The City." Originally recorded by Walsh and featured on the soundtrack to the film, The Warriors, it was also used in the final scene.

Six months later, he re-recorded the song with the band and issued it as part of The Long Run album. The newly released clip shows the band's performance in the studio.

The Eagles will be back on the road for their Hotel California tour starting with a show on February 17 in Lincoln, California. This tour highlights the full album accompanied by an orchestra and choir. They also play an additional set of their greatest hits.

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• The Eagles have released a remastered HD video of the 1979 Joe Walsh classic, "In The City."
• Originally recorded by Walsh, it was featured on the soundtrack to the film, The Warriors.

BTS member, RM has scored his first top 10-charting album. Indigo re-entered the list at # 3 following its CD release on Dec. 16. RM now becomes the first member of BTS to earn a solo Top 10 album on the Billboard 200.

Spice Girls singer Melanie Chisholm withdrew from a New Year's Eve concert in Poland to support the LGBTQ+ community. She posted: "In light of some issues that have been brought to my attention that do not align with the communities that support, I'm afraid I will no longer be able to perform in Poland as planned." Her decision was widely praised by her fans, however Poland's ruling Law and Justice party has been criticized around the world for being anti-LGBTQ+.

Now that Weezer has released the final EP in their SZNZ (pronounced Seasons) series, frontman Rivers Cuomo says it's left him with some depression.

He said, "This always happens after we finish working on an album. It really occupied most of my time for the last couple of years."

He described working on the band's music as "an incredible joy" but then afterwards he goes through a phase where, as he put it, "I don't know who I am or what I'm supposed to be doing."

As for the next project, Cuomo announced recently that Weezer is part of an upcoming television special that will honor The Beach Boys. Plus they'll be announcing a big tour soon.

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• Rivers Cuomo says now that Weezer's EP is out, it has left him depressed.
• "This always happens after we finish working on an album. It really occupied most of my time for the last couple of years."

Rob Halford of Judas Priest has recorded a message sharing his well-wishes with Ukrainian "heavy metal maniacs." In the clip, he's wearing a Santa hat, with the letters MG, for Metal God, embroidered across it.

While sharing positive vibes to people being attacked by Russia, he said: "I'm sending you all of my love, all of my strength, all of my power, to each and every one of you. I love you so much."

Then, while speaking in their language, he said "Slava Ukraini," meaning "Glory to Ukraine."

He ended the video with: "Stay strong, stay heavy, stay metal!"

Halford previously voiced his support for Ukraine on stage at Mystic Festival in Poland. While performing "Blood Red Skies." he kept repeating the phrase "Free Ukraine!"

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• Rob Halford of Judas Priest has recorded a message sharing his well-wishes with Ukrainian "heavy metal maniacs
• "I'm sending you all of my love, all of my strength, all of my power, to each and every one of you. I love you so much."

Miley Cyrus has asked to be taken off of Morrissey's upcoming album called Bonfire Of Teenagers. She recorded backing vocals for one of the unreleased songs almost two years ago. This happened as Morrissey announced on social media that he would be leaving Capitol Records.

There were several big artists that lent their talents for the record, including Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith and Flea, as well as Iggy Pop.

Morrissey's new album was originally due for release in February. Now the date is unknown.

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• Miley Cyrus has asked to be taken off of Morrissey's upcoming album.
• She recorded backing vocals almost two years ago.
• This happened as Morrissey announced that he would be leaving Capitol Records.

Pink Floyd leaned on social media to post gratitude to their fans. So far, they've helped raise "half a million pounds for charity. In U.S. dollars that's around $650,000. It's all from sales of their single, "Hey, Hey, Rise Up" of which they donated all the proceeds to Ukraine Humanitarian Relief. He posted that the funds would "help alleviate the suffering of the Ukrainian people."

This is the first original music they've recorded together as a band since 1994's The Division Bell. The song was initially released digitally in April and became #1 in 27 countries.

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• So far, Pink Floyd fans have helped raise "half a million pounds for charity. In U.S. dollars that's around $650,000. It's all from sales of their single, "Hey, Hey, Rise Up."
• Proceeds go to Ukraine Humanitarian Relief.

David Lee Roth has shared a new solo version of the Van Halen classic, "Everybody Wants Some!!". This comes four months after he released an unheard, 2007 solo version.

The new recording, like the previously released "You Really Got Me," "Dance The Night Away," "Panama," and "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love," was recorded in May during a session in Hollywood. A total of 14 songs were recorded in just two hours and the music and the vocals were tracked live with "no samples" and without the pitch-correction technology.

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• David Lee Roth has shared a new solo version of the Van Halen classic, "Everybody Wants Some!!".
• This comes four months after he released an unheard, 2007 solo version.

Billie Eilish turned 21this week (Dec. 18) and some of music's biggest stars showed up to celebrate with her. She posted several photos on Instagram with her boyfriend, Jesse Rutherford. And one was of the couple, squeezed tightly in a photo booth along with Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey.

Dressed for the holiday, she wore a red and white, off-the-shoulder Santa-inspired short dress. Trimmed in white fur just like St. Nick, she also sported long gloves and candy cane earrings.

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• She posted photos on Instagram with her boyfriend, Jesse Rutherford in a photo booth with Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey.

The drama surrounding Journey will stretch into 2023 with guitarist Neal Schon filing a cease-and-desist order against Jonathan Cain for performing the group's music at a Donald Trump rally.

The pair, who share partnership of the band, are currently embroiled in a legal battle over group's American Express account, which Schon claims he has been denied access to. Now, Variety reports, Schon is taking umbrage with Cain appearing last month at Mar-A-Lago and performing Journey's signature tune, "Don't Stop Believin'" with a "backing chorus" featuring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, conservative journalist and Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle, and failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.

Schon's complaint against Cain reads in part:

Although Mr. Cain is free to express his personal beliefs and associations, when he does that on behalf of Journey or for the band, such conduct is extremely deleterious to the Journey brand as it polarizes the band's fans and outreach. Journey is not, and should not be, political.

Mr. Cain has no right to use Journey for politics. His politics should be his own personal business. He should not be capitalizing on Journey's brand to promote his personal political or religious agenda to the detriment of the band (and is) harmful use of the brand.

Earlier this month, Journey released Live In Concert At Lollapalooza. The new live collection follows their Freedom studio set released last summer and features the band's July 31st, 2021 performance at Chicago's Lollapalooza.

Lizzo posted a selfie video with Austin Butler. In it, the two of them are singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas." After finishing their brief song, the two of them hugged.

The star of the movie, Elvis, hosted Saturday Night Live last weekend and she was there as musical guest.

Lizzo is definitely enjoying the holidays, she told Billboard that she has a half a dozen Christmas trees up at her home in L.A. She explained by saying "It's like not having stuff for a long time, and now that I've got it, I'm going overboard.

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A Quadrophenia ballet is in the works. Rachel Fuller, Pete Townshend's wife -- who had orchestrated Townshend's last version of the Who's 1973 rock opera that hit the road back in 2015 -- posted a "principal casting call" ad on social media declaring the production would premiere in London during the spring of 2024 ahead of a UK and international tour. The re-imagining Quadrophenia will be choreographed by Paul Roberts and directed by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt.

The ad calls for, "Dancers with high level professional experience and strong contemporary and classical technique, to play male and female roles." Auditions are set for February 12th and 19th in London.

The Who released their second double album, the watershed Quadrophenia on October 19th, 1973. The set featured such classic Who songs as "The Real Me," "5:15," "I'm One," "The Punk And The Godfather," "Drowned," "Sea And Sand," and "Love Reign O'er Me," among others. A film version based around the album was produced by the band and released in 1979.

Pete Townshend told us that when writing the album in 1972 and 1973, he hoped that Quadrophenia would once again connect the Who with their early fans who followed the Who back in 1964 when they played such regular haunts as the Goldhawk Club and Railway Hotel: "I kind of hit on this notion that what had happened to the Who, was that we lost contact -- not with our audience, per se -- but with our original audience, with our very first audience. And it would be interesting to look at what somebody, like a kid y'know, from, y'know, the early days of the band; what they would feel looking at the Who -- not so much in the present day, but, y'know, in three or four years on -- and whether they would find themselves in that band or not. And if they did find themselves in that band, what would they find?"

Coldplay is giving back during the holidays. They encouraged their fans to drop by their Choose Love pop-up shop to buy essential supplies like warm coats, hot food and heating fuel for refugees and anyone who is displaced and needs help. You purchase and they deliver all over the world,

They posted: "Everything you buy will go directly to the people who need them the most. This year shop with love."

If you'd like to help, you'll find the online pop up shop on their website. They posted a video of a long line of people waiting outside the real store front in London. It showed shelves inside stocked with such things as toys for children, soccer balls, children's backpacks, coats and school supplies.

In other Coldplay news… Earlier this month, singer Chris Martin revealed that the band was in the studio. So next year should bring new music.

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