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The studio that Kanye West used inside of Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium has reportedly been listed for rent for $50,000 per hour. According to the listing on Stufinder, the studio comes complete with recording facilities, accommodates up to six people, and allows smoking.

The listing read, "Comes with recording set up. Past clients include Kanye West **Studio does not include Kanye West** bookings aren't guaranteed."

As previously reported, Ye temporarily moved into Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium to finish recording Donda. He was reportedly paying $1 million a day to stay at the stadium.

The nominations for the 2023 Kids' Choice Awards have been announced and Taylor Swift leads in the music categories with five nods. That includes two for favorite song, "Anti-Hero" and "Bejeweled." Harry Styles was runner-up with 4 nominations. The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards will air live on March 4, on CBS.

It's shaping up to be a glorious week for Sam Smith as the album, Gloria is in place to debut at #1 on the U.K. Albums Chart. The 13-track collection features the #1 song, "Unholy," a collaboration with Kim Petras, as well as "Gimme" and "Love Me More."

Harry Styles will perform on the 2023 Grammy Awards this Sunday, Feb. 5. The announcement came during the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs that aired on CBS. Styles is nominated for six Grammys, including album, record and song of the year..

Adam Levine‘s wife, Behati Prinsloo gave birth to their third child. According to People.com, The Maroon 5 frontman, 43, and the former Victoria's Secret model, 34 did not reveal the baby's birth date, name or gender. They've been married since 2014 and also have two young daughters, age 6 and 4.

Happy Birthday to Tom Petty's right-hand man, Heartbreakers co-founder and lead guitarist -- Mike Campbell, who turns 73 today (February 1st). Campbell was part of Mudcrutch with Petty prior to the pair founding the Heartbreakers in 1975, and along with Petty reunited with the band for their 2007 self-titled album. Throughout the years, Campbell co-wrote many of Petty and the Heartbreakers'' most beloved songs, including, "Refugee," "Here Comes My Girl," "A Woman In Love," "Love Is A Long Road," and "You Wreck Me," along with "Jammin' Me" -- which they co-wrote with Bob Dylan, and "Runnin' Down A Dream" which the pair co-wrote with Jeff Lynne.

Released last March was External Combustion, Mike Campbell's second album with his band the Dirty Knobs, with whom he opened for the Who in 2022.

In 2018, Mike Campbell became an official member of Fleetwood Mac. In 2018, he and Crowded House leader Neil Finn were enlisted by Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood, respectively, to replace the band's ousted driving force, Lindsey Buckingham.

In addition to his years performing with and writing for the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell is perhaps best known for co-writing two of Don Henley's biggest solo hits "The Boys Of Summer" and "Heart Of The Matter" -- not to mention co-writing with Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks' first solo hit, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around." Campbell was asked about how he came to be Fleetwood Mac's latest in a long line of guitar virtuosos: "It was my birthday and I was sitting in my backyard and I got a call: 'Hi, this is Mick Fleetwood.' I was wondering what I was gonna do -- I had a few things, but nothing quite as (laughs) big as this. I'm making this my priority until whenever."

Following Tom Petty's sudden accidental drug overdose on October 2nd, 2017 at age 66, a saddened Mike Campbell recalled to Rolling Stone the Heartbreakers' final gig at the Hollywood Bowl on September 25th, 2017: "It was magical, it was spiritual. Everybody was so happy, especially Tom -- full of glory and hope. I'm just so sad to think that I'm not going to play those songs again."

In addition to his work with Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, and Don Henley, Mike Campbell's also written songs for and with Johnny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, Lone Justice, Roger McGuinn, John Prine, Patti Scialfa, Brian Setzer, J.D. Souther, and Cheap Trick's Robin Zander. Campbell co-produced four songs on Roy Orbison's 1989 posthumously-released album Mystery Girl, and played guitar on the Wallflowers' 1996 hit "Sixth Avenue Heartache." In 2009, Campbell supplied guitar and mandolin to Bob Dylan's Together Through Life album.

On April 6th, 1992 when Eric Clapton was unable to perform with his band at what turned out to be George Harrison's final concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, Harrison deputized Campbell to play the show as the former Beatle's lead guitarist.

Over the years Campbell co-produced the Heartbreakers' albums Southern Accents, Pack Up The Plantation: Live!, Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), Into The Great Wide Open, Songs And Music From She's The One, Echo, The Last DJ, Hypnotic Eye, as well as the Petty solo albums Full Moon Fever, Wildflowers, and Highway Companion. Campbell also co-produced the Mudcrutch reunion set, and recently co-produced 2018's An American Treasure, 2019's The Best Of Everything, 2020's Wildflowers And All the Rest, and 2021's Finding Wildflowers: Alternate Versions and Angel Dream (Songs and Music from the Motion Picture 'She's The One').

We asked Mike Campbell, why it took until the Heartbreakers' 1999 album Echo to step up front and sing one of his solo compositions "I Don't Wanna Fight": "For a long time I would just write music. And then I got so much of that and got so tired of writing music and waiting for someone to come up with, y'know, something to sing on it that I just started doing it myself, just to amuse myself. And then I showed some stuff to Tom, he'd go, 'Wow, that sounds like me.' So I kept showing stuff to him. And then, when he heard that one, he thought, 'Well, you should just do that one, 'cause that'll fit on the record and you do it fine.' So that just sorta happened that way."

Campbell, who had been by Tom Petty's side through thick and thin over the decades, explained how the first Mudcrutch reunion fell into place 33 years after they split up: "It started from a phone call from Tom Petty, who got the idea of calling the guys up and seeing if we could finish some of the things up that we intended to do back in the day, and we all thought it was great idea so we put it together. And it's just kind of snowballed from there. It was something that I hadn't thought about, but when I thought about it, I thought yeah, that'd be really cool. Let's see if those guys can still play and if we have any chemistry. And it was very intriguing. It's actually turned out better than we could've hoped."

It was 40 tears ago today (February 1st, 1983) that Frontiers, Journey's eighth album was released. Frontiers, which served as the followup to the band's 1981 mega-platinum Escape collection, peaked at Number Two on the Billboard 200 album chart and spent 23 weeks in the Top 10, with nine of them stalled at the Number Two slot behind Michael Jackson's Thriller.

All told the set, which eventually went platinum six times over, featured four Top 40 hits -- "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" (#8),"Faithfully" (#12), along with "After the Fall" and "Send Her My Love," which both topped out at Number 23.

We recently caught up with keyboardist Jonathan Cain, and he walked us through how one of his and Steve Perry's greatest team-ups -- the lead single and opening track to 1983's Frontiers album -- "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" -- came into being: "We took Escape on the road and we knew we needed more teeth. We knew we needed something like 'Separate Ways,' y'know? Like, what would make our set undeniably great? And we tried to fill in what we were missing musically. I think we all sensed it. And I remember writing 'Separate Ways' with Steve (Perry) on the road. We wrote that in a hotel room -- (bassist) Ross (Valory) was going through a divorce and boom -- out comes 'Separate Ways,' and we're playin' it at the end of the Escape tour. Y'know, 'cause we needed it in the set. Now, we start fine tuning ourselves, y'know? And that's how in tune we were with our music. It was all of us, man."

We asked Steve Perry if over the years when he's heard one of his Journey classics on the radio, he keeps it on or switches it off: "(Laughs) On a good day, I'd listen -- on a bad day, I'd turn it off. Sometimes it was too reminiscent and I wasn't ready for it. But sometimes I would listen to it with fresh ears and I would go, 'Wow. That's pretty cool. That's actually (laughs) pretty cool."

In 2022, the new compilation, Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 4, featured a newly created buzzworthy Bryce Miller/Alloy Tracks remix of "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)."

Journey, led by Neal Schon, is currently on the band's 50th anniversary tour with special guests Toto. They next perform on February 4th in Allentown, Pennsylvania at PPL Center.

Miley Cyrus shared new photos to Instagram Monday (January 30^th) to celebrate the success of "Flowers."

She captioned the snaps of herself in a plunging black minidress with, "Celebrating 'Flowers' being #1 around the world again this week! I love that this record is connecting in such a positive way & it's a pleasure to continue creating music for you. These milestones are only made possible by the listeners & my incredible fans. Endlessly thankful."

The track is currently holding the No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second week in a row.

The Jonas Brothers' new album, The Album, will be released this spring.

According to Billboard, Nick Jonas made the announcement during the group's Hollywood Walk of Fame induction ceremony Monday (January 30th), saying, "It's nice to reflect on this nearly 20-year journey and to commemorate it here today, but we're looking towards the future and what's coming next. So with that, I think that we should make a quick announcement. We are excited to announce today that our new album, The Album, will be coming out May 5th, and we can't wait to see you on tour later this year."

The Album follows the 2019 release, Happiness Begins, to become the group's sixth studio album

The Kia Forum in Los Angeles honored Harry Styles Sunday (January 29th) as he wrapped his 15th sold-out show at the theater.

In a clip shared by a fan to Twitter, the "Watermelon Sugar" singer is seen throwing up his fists in victory as he looks up at a massive green banner, raised in his honor.

Now that Styles has wrapped his mini-residency, he's free to perform at the 65th annual Grammy awards, set for February 5th. He is up for six awards total, including album, record and song of the year.

The Who have just taggged nine UK stops to their upcoming European trek -- which now includes the band's first shows in Edinburgh, Scotland in 40 years. In addition to that, on March 31st, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend will issue the group's latest live set, The Who With Orchestra Live At Wembley. The collection will be issued as a two-CD/Blu-ray or three-LP set.

Roger Daltrey spoke about the upcoming dates in the official announcement:

Having not toured the UK for six years, it's great that at this time of our careers we have the chance to go to places that are not on the usual touring map. Edinburgh Castle and Derby, as well as the other cities across the country that we haven't been to for decades, will make this very special for me.

This opportunity will give our UK Who fans the chance to hear our current show, which, with the addition of an orchestra, takes our music to new heights.

The Who With Orchestra Live At Wembley features sections from the band's July 6th, 2019 one-off London show, which featured Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder joining the band for the Quadrophenia rocker, "The Punk And The Godfather." Strangely, the album closes with the acoustic Endless Wire number "Tea & Theatre," which was not performed at the Wembley show and it's unclear where the new live version was culled from.

Roger Daltrey told us he recognizes that the Who remains very much a part of the now -- both in terms of the business and a still growing legion of fans: "It's nice to have survived, because we did lose a lot of friends on the way. It is extraordinary -- and (to) still able to be able to draw an audience that in some ways is, y'know -- to what young bands kind of draw -- is enormous; thanks to things, like CSI and our songs being on there and other bands picking up Who music and saying that it influenced them. Their fans come and see us and they say: 'Woo, this is something different.' I mean, it's true, Who music is very different from most rock n' roll that's out there."

UPDATED: The Who tour dates (subject to change):

June 14 - Barcelona, Spain - Palau Sant Jordi
June 17 - Florence, Italy - Firenze Rocks
June 20 - Berlin- Germany - Waldbuhne
June 23 - Paris, France - La Defense Arena
July 6 - Hull, England - Sewell Group Craven Park
July 8, 9 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Edinburgh Castle
July 12 - London, England - O2 Arena
July 14 - Derby, England - Incora County Ground
July 16 - Gloucestershire, England - Badminton Estate
July 19 - County Durham, England - Seat Unique Riverside
July 21 - St Helens, England - Totally Wicked Stadium
July 23 - Brighton, England - 1st Central County Ground

Although many fans have been clamoring for the Foo Fighters to perform as the halftime attraction during the Super Bowl -- all is not lost. Blabbermouth posted that Dave Grohl will be featured on Super Bowl Sunday (February 12th) in a new commercial for Crown Royal Canadian Whisky.

Sophie Kelly, senior VP for Diageo -- Crown Royal's parent company -- said in a statement: "Dave is a Crown Royal super fan and the perfect partner to spread a message of gratitude to the audience that is authentic to the brand. (After) seeing the work come to life, we have some great content we will be sharing over the next couple of weeks, including a decision to up our Super Bowl commitment to running a :60 in-game."

Meghan Trainor is expecting her second baby with husband Dylan Sabra.

The "Made You Look" singer made the announcement on Today Monday (January 30th) while promoting her debut book, Dear Future Mama.

In an Instagram post, shared the same day, Trainor showed a series of ultrasound images with the caption, "BABY #2 COMING THIS SUMMER."

She and Sabra, who share a 23-month-old son, Riley, say they are planning to save the gender reveal for TikTok.

New reporting puts Mick Jagger and Keith Richards recording together in Nassau, The Bahamas at Sanctuary Studios. The Rolling Stones have been slowly working on its first set of original material since 2005's A Bigger Bang with their producer of the past three decades, Don Was.

According to Showbiz411.com: "Sources in the Bahamas say Mick and Keith (not sure about Ronnie Wood, Darryl Jones, and Steve Jordan) arrive at the studio every day at 6 p.m. and leave around midnight. And these guys are not slackers. I'll bet they're getting a lot done in those sessions."

Ozzy Osbourne recently stated that the Stones are currently working on new material with producer Andrew Watt -- who is also working with Paul McCartney and best known for producing Ozzy, Eddie Vedder as well as Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, One Republic, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, blink-182, Zac Brown Band, and Maroon 5, among others. Watt is also the guitarist for Eddie Vedder's solo band, the Earthlings.

Although the Rolling Stones have always been dealing with the shadow of their early days -- Mick Jagger explained that for the most part, they remain one of the lucky bands not lumped in with any particular era or decade: "I find it fascinating when I hear other people talking about it and other groups copying certain periods. I don't find it, very, kind of, interesting to look back too much. You can't ignore what you were, but I think to kind of take that stuff too seriously. . . I'm glad that the Stones aren't labeled a ''60's band' -- and I find increasingly that they're not. They're just not completely tracked in there. That's taken quite a lot of effort."

Due to overwhelming fan demand, Coldplay have announced additional second shows in Vancouver, San Diego, and Los Angeles for their Music Of The Spheres World Tour

The band announced Monday (January 30th) that the newly-added shows take place at Vancouver's BC Place on September 23th, San Diego's Snapdragon Stadium on September 28th, and Los Angeles' Rose Bowl on October 1st.

Tickets are on sale now.

As part of his ongoing Meat Free Monday vegetarian campaign, Paul McCartney has unearthed a collaboration between him and Jeff Beck from back in 1994. The music, performed by the two legends, was originally used the following year as part of McCartney's Oobu-Joobu syndicated radio series.

McCartney posted on the official MeatFreeMondays.com website a message about the clip: "With the sad passing of Jeff Beck -- a good friend of mine, and a great great guitar player -- it reminded me of the time we worked together many years ago on a campaign for vegetarianism. It's great guitar playing, cause it's Jeff!"

The clip featuring Beck's voice-over, "Highlights the damage caused by deforestation to create more land for cattle grazing, as well as some of the harmful knock-on effects from this. On top of the benefits to animals and personal health, there are also many environmental advantages to eating more plant-based meals."

Jeff Beck died on January 10th from a bacterial meningitis infection at age 78.

It was 60 years ago today (January 31st, 1963), that the Beach Boys completed recording their first Top 10 hit, "Surfin' U.S.A." The group's Brian Wilson lifted the tune from Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen," and once again was inspired by his younger brother Dennis Wilson's "live every moment as though it's your last" philosophy. Brian, who vicariously used many of Dennis' life experiences to help craft the Beach Boys' sound, wrote the words around Southern California's hippest pastime.

Wilson recalled after the single's release that, "My brother Dennis came home from school one day and said, 'Listen you guys, it looks like surfing's gonna be the next big craze.' He said that I should write a song about it. So I wrote a song just due to Dennis' suggestion." The song was polished off on January 31st, 1963 between 8 and 11 p.m. at Hollywood's Western Recorders. The track features the searing guitar work by Carl Wilson and David Marks, Brian Wilson on bass, piano and organ, Mike Love on lead vocals, and, despite speculation that he didn't actually play on the track, Dennis Wilson on drums. All five are featured on the song's famous "Inside -- Outside -- U.S.A." backing vocals.

We asked Mike Love if he felt that David Marks played an integral part to the band's sound in the studio and on the road: "Well yeah! I mean, he worked his ass off in the original -- in the first four or five albums. Driving around in a U-Haul and a station wagon, settin' up and breaking' down our own equipment -- that's before we found out there was this thing called 'roadies.'"

David Marks says that life on the road during the early days of the group were far from luxurious. He recalls that although the Beach Boys' early-'60s tours were exciting, the physical toll it took on the band was severe: "When we first started in the early-'60s, it was kind of hellish. You really couldn't keep a pace up like that for very long. I mean, you're crowded in a station wagon and you're towing a U-Haul with the amps and you have another car with a couple of the band members. And that's how you travel. You play four sets at a dance and drive 800 miles."

By the end of the 1960's, with their hit-filled days behind them, Brian Wilson admitted that he secretly believed that the Beach Boys still might make the long haul to legendary status: "Actually, looking back on it now, I thought. . . I had the feeling we were going to do it, but I didn't think in my brain that we were going to keep going, going and going for 40 more years. It would be impossible to conceive of."

"Surfin' U.S.A." was released on March 2nd, 1963 and peaked at Number Three on the Billboard Hot 100.

Over the years the song has been a mainstay of the group's shows, usually appearing at the end of the concert or during one of the group's encores.

Despite what you may have heard, Adele has no plans to skip the Grammy's.

She addressed the online rumor at her Las Vegas show on Friday (January 27th), saying, "Whoever started that rumor is a dickhead, ‘cause I am going to the Grammys. I would never miss the Grammys. I would never be as disrespectful to the Grammys or to other artists, and whoever started that little story needs to go and touch some grass, alright? Go and get some fresh air, alright darlings?"

Hits Daily Double reported last week that the "Hello" singer would be skipping the awards show.

The 2023 Grammy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 5th.

Harry Styles' pants ripped while he was performing at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles Thursday (January 26th) night.

While singing "Music For a Shushi Restaurant," he knelt down at the edge of the stage and busted open the crotch of his custom leather Gucci pants.

TikTok videos of the event show that he grabbed a towel to cover up before promptly apologizing to audience members.

While wearing a gay pride flag over the front of his pants, the former One Direction singer said, "Its necessary to aplogize to a certain few of you right now...I mean, this is a family show. I promise this is not part of the show, okay. It's a family show...or is it?"

To make matters worse, The Independent reports that Jennifer Aniston was in the crowd – the person Styles once cited as his first celebrity crush.

Sam Smith released Gloria, their fourth studio album, Friday (January 27th).

The official video for the artist's new single, "I'm Not Here To Make Friends," dropped at the same time, and it's stirring up controversy.

The visual includes a lot of sexualized content, including Smith wearing pasties, causing several right wing pundits to call for the video to be given an age restriction limit on YouTube.

However, their defenders claim the "Unholy" singer is only under attack because they don't conform to stereotypical body standards.

One Twitter user commented, "You know if a skinny straight man wore this you would be be saying he's subverting gender norms and pioneering for the queer community."

U2 has released a 2023 remake of their 1987 chart-topper, "With Or Without You." The song is one of 40 reimagined versions of the band's classics re-recorded for their new album, Songs Of Surrender, which drops on St. Patrick's Day -- March 17th. The set is a companion piece to frontman Bono's memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.

Back in 2017, bassist Adam Clayton revealed he wasn't sure that the band's first chart-topper, "With Or Without You," would be a hit 30 years later. Clayton, who was chatting with Rolling Stone about the band's then-upcoming 30th anniversary tour behind The Joshua Tree, was asked about the 1987 classic making a dent on the charts today, to which Clayton explained, "I think you could put it out. I think you'd have to Melodyne (autotune) the vocal. I think you'd have to squeeze and program the rhythm tracks. Eventually you'd get something that sounds familiar on the radio and it would research well, and you might get a bit of traction and it might be a hit. But I think if you put it out just as it is, it would get lost in the noise and bubble of that particular sound that's popular at the moment."

A while back, guitarist The Edge told us the band is confident its audience will be receptive to whatever the band chooses to release: "I feel there's a certain trust there between the band and the, our audience that, in the end, we are concerned about communicating. It's not just a, a case of us being self-indulgent at the expense of the people buying the records."

Britney Spears is "alive and well" following reports that police performed a wellness check on the singer last week.

On Saturday night (January 28th), the embattled pop star posted images of herself at the gym, living her "best life." She wrote, "Yep that's me … I'm alive and well."

She added in a Twitter thread, "I'm shocked as hell that when I took my Instagram down fans got worried and sent the cops to my house 🚔 ... it really was uncalled for ... l adore my fans but for those who did that aren't real fans and I honestly felt like it was a way to make me look bad !!!"

Fans began requesting wellness checks after Spears deleted her Instagram account Wednesday (January 25th).

A Ventura County Sheriff's Office spokesperson subsequently told Page Six, "I can confirm that we did get calls into our dispatch, and essentially, I can confirm that we don't believe that Britney Spears is in any kind of harm or any kind of danger."

It was 45 years ago today (January 30th, 1978) that Journey released Infinity -- its first album with frontman Steve Perry. The band had released three albums since its formation in 1973 by two former members of Santana -- co-founding keyboardist Gregg Rolie and guitarist Neal Schon, with Rollie handling vocals for the band to middling success. After an aborted attempt with temporary frontman Robert Fleischman -- later of the Vinnie Vincent Invasion -- Steve Perry signed on at the urging of Journey's then-manager Herbie Herbert.

Infinity, which also featured co-founding bassist Ross Valory, was the band's final set to include co-founding drummer Aynsley Dunbar, who left Journey due to the new, more commercial direction the group was heading in.

Infinity was produced by Roy Thomas Baker -- then best known for his work with Queen and the Cars -- and went on to peak at Number 21 on the Billboard 200. The album featured such ongoing FM staples as "Wheel In The Sky" (#57), "Lights" (#68), and "Feeling That Way / Anytime."

Steve Perry recalled to us what it was like to witness Journey onstage prior to being asked to join them: "When I was living in Los Angeles, I was looking to get a record deal, trying my very best. It was tough to get signed at those times. And I would always go to the Starwood to see Journey perform because these guys had the most amazing musical ability. I'd never seen a band like that in my life. So, every time they'd go to the Starwood club, I had to go watch with amazement. Though their musicianship was absolutely par to none (sic), there was one instrument that was flying above the entire city of Los Angeles -- that was the magic fingers of Neal Schon's guitar! (Cheering)"

During the band's heyday, Neal Schon and Steve Perry co-wrote such Journey classics as "Don't Stop Believin'," "Stone In Love" "Lights," and "Any Way You Want It." Steve Perry explained to us that Neal Schon literally had uncut gems flowing from his fingers: "It was challenging, because Neal Schon is a goldmine of potential ideas and he doesn't know, really, which are the best or not -- 'cause they're all interesting to him. But in come my set of ears and he'd play stuff and I'd hear melodies, I'd say, 'Wait, what was that?!' And (he'd say) 'Oh, I don't know, it's just 'diddle-a doh' over this with a fifth. . .' I'd say, 'I don't care what you call it -- what was that?' 'I don't know, it's just an idea I came up with last night.' I'd say, 'Well, why don't you keep playing that for a second while I come up with a melody?'"

Journey, led by Neal Schon, is currently on the band's 50th anniversary tour with special guests Toto. They next perform on February 4th in Allentown, Pennsylvania at PPL Center.

R.I.P. - TELEVISION'S TOM VERLAINE

Punk icon Tom Verlaine, the guitarist and songwriter for the highly influential band Television, died on January 28th at the age of 73 following a brief illness. Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Patti Smith, told Rolling Stone, "He died peacefully in New York City, surrounded by close friends. His vision and his imagination will be missed."

Verlaine will forever be remembered for the Television's groundbreaking 1977 debut album Marquee Moon.

R.I.P. - MOTOWN'S BARRETT STRONG

Motown songwriter, producer, and artist Barrett Strong died on January 29th at 81. Strong, who often worked along fellow label legend Norman Whitfield, was behind such hits as his own "Money (That's What I Want)" -- Motown's first bonafide hit, which was later covered by the Beatles, Edwin Starr's "War," the Undisputed Truth's "Smiling Faces Sometimes," and Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine."

Strong was also responsible in part for a string of Temptations classics, including "I Wish It Would Rain," "Just My Imagination," "Cloud Nine," "Psychedelic Shack" and the Grammy-award winning "Papa Was A Rolling Stone."

Berry Gordy, Jr. issued a statement that read:

I am saddened to hear of the passing of Barrett Strong, one of my earliest artists, and the man who sang my first big hit "Money (That's What I Want)" in 1959. Barrett was not only a great singer and piano player, but he, along with his writing partner Norman Whitfield, created an incredible body of work, primarily with the Temptations. Their hit songs were revolutionary in sound and captured the spirit of the times like "Cloud Nine" and the still relevant, "Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)."

My heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends. Barrett is an original member of the Motown Family and will be missed by all of us.

R.I.P. - THREE DOG NIGHT'S FLOYD SNEED

Original Three Dog Night drummer, Floyd Sneed died on January 27th at age 80. Sneed is best known for his drumming on such seminal group hits as "Joy To The World," "One," "An Old Fashioned Love Song," "Black And White," "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)," "Shambala," "Celebrate," and "Never Been To Spain," among many others.

Three Dog Night co-founder Chuck Negron posted a tribute on Facebook, which reads: "A wonderful man, friend, and musical peer has passed on to the next part of his journey. Floyd Sneed was a unique and powerful drummer and more importantly a kind and special human being. I will always cherish the times he stayed with my wife Ami and I at our home and the hours we spent spinning tales of our youth when we were Kings. I love you Floyd and I will keep you in my heart always."

Kanye West is under investigation after he allegedly yanked a woman's phone out of her hand and tossed it when she refused to stop filming him. According to TMZ, the incident went down at his daughter North's basketball game. Ye noticed that a woman was recording him. He confronted the woman, saying, "You didn't have to run up on me like that. If I say stop, stop with your cameras!"

After the woman said she could film him because he is "a celebrity," Ye allegedly reached into her car, grabbed her phone and threw it. Cops arrived at the scene shortly after and the woman was later seen leaving the sheriff's department.

Coming on April 7th in Kiss' ongoing "Off The Soundboard" archival series is Live In Poughkeepsie 1984. The custom, mustard yellow double-LP set features one of only two full concerts guitarist Mark St. John ever played with the band. The November 28th, 1984 Animalize tour show from the Mid-Hudson Civic Arena in Poughkeepsie, New York comes only weeks before St. John was permanently replaced by Bruce Kulick on December 8th, 1984.

Mark St. John, who replaced Vinnie Vincent and played on 1984's Animalize, developed reactive arthritis and although toured with the band -- stood off-stage while his understudy -- longtime Kiss associate Bruce Kulick actually played all but two-and-half of the tour's eventual 119-date tour.

In the 2016 audio book for his memoir, Face The Music, Paul Stanley spoke about the problems regarding Mark St. John's brief and troubled tenure in Kiss: "After we'd shot the cover photos showcasing Mark, he came down with a rare arthritic condition. It often effects people's knees but in Mark's case it struck his hand. Mark couldn't move his fingers. 'My doctor says it'll go away in two weeks,' he told, us. I called him every day -- 'Any better?' -- 'No."

Mark St. John -- whose real name was Mark Leslie Norton -- died at age 51 on April 5th, 2007, due to a brain hemorrhage brought on by an accidental overdose of methamphetamines.

The full lineup to CBS' A Grammy Salute To The Beach Boys has been rolled out. Appearing at the February 8th event are Grammy-winning artists and past and current Grammy nominees including Weezer, Beck, Brandi Carlile, Michael McDonald, St. Vincent, Fall Out Boy, Hanson, Norah Jones, Lady A, John Legend, Little Big Town, Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Pentatonix, Charlie Puth, LeAnn Rimes, and Take 6.

Tickets are available for the event at L.A.'s Dolby Theatre, which will air on CBS later this year.

Decades after first laying down their voices on tape, Beach Boys co-founde Brian Wilson says he still values the group for their contribution to his music throughout the years: "I think the magic is Mike Love's vocal performances on our songs, and Carl (Wilson) and Dennis (Wilson), and Bruce (Johnston) and Al (Jardine) and I should be congratulated for some really good background singing."