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Items from Taylor Hawkins' tribute concert will be going up for auction. According to NME.com, various pieces of gear used in two recent tribute concerts for the late Foo Fighters drummer will be auctioned off next week. Proceeds will be donated to MusiCares and Music Support.

The auction, organized by "world breaking auction house to the stars" Julien's Auctions, will be taking place at the Hard Rock Café in New York and online via the Julien's Auctions website from next Friday (November 11th to Sunday (November 13th).

SWIFTIES CONVINCED 'SPEAK NOW' WILL BE RERECORDED NEXT: Swifties are convinced that Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is coming. According to Billboard, The biggest clue appears to be her announcement of the forthcoming Eras Tour in which she said she was "enchanted" to make the announcement. "Enchanted" is the ninth track on Speak Now.

ED SHEERAN FILMING A VIDEO FOR HIS NEXT ALBUM: Ed Sheeran is currently filming a music video for his new album, set to drop next year. He announced on Instagram Wednesday (November 3rd) that he was shooting the video in honor of "Shivers" hitting a billion streams on Spotify – his 11th as an artist and 15th as a writer.

It was 50 years ago today (November 4th, 1972), that Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" hit the Number One spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Nash, who was born in Houston in 1940, broke the color barrier while still a teenager on Texas TV when he became the first African American featured on a local variety show called Matinee. In 1956 Nash appeared on the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts show, and he went on to release several Top 40 singles in the late '50s and early '60s. Nash had first traveled to Jamaica in 1958 while co-starring with Burt Lancaster in the movie Take A Giant Step, which featured Nash in a dramatic role portraying a black man coming of age in America.

Nash was fascinated by the island's scenery and music. He returned in the late '60s to use Jamaican musicians for a pair of singles, which included a cover of Sam Cooke's "Cupid," which bombed in the U.S., but hit the Top 10 in the Britain. Nash relocated to London in 1971 and hired future reggae legend Bob Marley as a songwriter. Among the tunes that Marley wrote for Nash was "Stir It Up," which was a hit for both Marley and Nash. Marley used the money he received from writing songs for Nash to start his Tuff Gong record label.

In 1972 Nash returned to Jamaica and recruited most of Bob Marley's backing band, the Wailers, to help him record an original composition called "I Can See Clearly Now." The track entered the Hot 100 on September 9th, 1972, and hit the top spot on November 4th, 1972, staying there for a solid month. Noted rock critic Robert Christgau described the song as "the kind of record that gets you through a traffic jam."

"I Can See Clearly Now" has since been featured in several major motion pictures, including 1991's Thelma & Louise and 1997's Grosse Point Blank.

A cover version by reggae legend Jimmy Cliff -- who also played on the original recording -- was featured as the theme to 1993's Cool Runnings, a movie about the Jamaican bobsled team. Cliff's cover version hit the Top 20 in 1994.

Sadly, Johnny Nash died of natural causes on October 6th, 2020 at his Houston home. He was 80-years-old.

Happy Birthday to Art Garfunkel, who turns 81 on Saturday (November 5th)!!! Garfunkel, who is best known for his string of hits as part of Simon & Garfunkel, has gone on to enjoy a long and varied career since his 1970 split with Paul Simon. Out now in paperback is Garfunkel's critically acclaimed 2017 memoir, What Is It All But Luminous - Notes From An Underground Man. The book chronicles his life and career, shedding new and important light on his relationship with Paul Simon and the evolution of Simon & Garfunkel's sound and rise to fame.

Back in May 2015, Garfunkel slammed Simon for continuing full force on his solo career, seemingly oblivious to both Garfunkel and their fans' pleas for yet another Simon & Garfunkel reunion, saying he had "created a monster" by befriending and supporting Simon while school kids back in Queens and referred to Simon alternately as a "jerk" and an "idiot" for splitting with him in 1971 at the peak of the duo's success. Garfunkel also went on to agree with the interviewer who suggested that the five-foot, three-inch Simon might suffer from a "Napoleon complex."

After that, during Garfunkel's chat with The Guardian, he once again touched upon his relationship with Simon, saying, "Paul Simon is a man who has enormously enriched my life, period. . . we've enriched each other's lives. What would have been his life if his friend Artie didn't sing so good and been so good and produced those records so good? What would it have been? Something smaller."

Before the Simon & Garfunkel split in 1970, Garfunkel began his acting career, debuting in 1969's Catch .22, followed by 1971's Carnal Knowledge, and the 1980 drama Bad Timing. Since 2010, Garfunkel has slowly battled to regain his voice after suffering from a paralysis of his vocal cords, which thankfully have fully healed.

In 1973 he released his first solo album, Angel Clare, which went to Number Five on the charts. His 1975 album Breakaway featured the Simon & Garfunkel reunion track "My Little Town," which became a Top 10 hit. In 1978, Garfunkel again teamed up with Simon and good friend James Taylor for a remake of Sam Cooke's "(What A) Wonderful World." That same year, Garfunkel embarked on his first-ever solo tour.

After the success of Simon & Garfunkel's 1981 reunion in New York's Central Park, the duo spent the better part of 1982 and 1983 touring Europe and the U.S. Although plans for a reunion album fell through in 1983, the pair reunited on stage in 1993 and again for their Old Friends tour in 2003-2004.

In 2006, Garfunkel released his first album of standards called Some Enchanted Evening. The set featured such evergreens as "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Life Is But A Dream," "What'll I Do," and the title track "Some Enchanted Evening."

Paul Simon recently broke down the magic behind Simon & Garfunkel's classic sound: "With Simon & Garfunkel, we would sing a take together on mic -- on one mic. And when we got the take that we wanted, then we would double it individually. I would sing my part individually on mic, and Artie would sing his individually on mic. And when you combine them together, and they would be, y'know, perfectly in sync; that's what Simon & Garfunkel sounded like. That's what the sound was."

Art Garfunkel told us that he's never felt the need to chase fads or adapt to new industry trends: "Well, I'm true to my sense of Simon & Garfunkel, and everything since. A great medium-paced record, if the groove is there, is a wonderful thing. And I sing 'em gluey. I hold my notes and I feel the rock n' roll of my era in my style."

Garfunkel revealed that usually likes to start his day by listening to music in the early morning hours: "I cherish those early hours and it's great to commune with what matters to you before the rest of the world faxes their way into your consciousness. The solitary thing is (laughs) the last shred of sanity in modern life."

Despite being born and raised in New York, Garfunkel admits that he's always been a Philadelphia Phillies fan: "It occurred to me when I was a kid that if you're a New Yorker you don't have to be a Brooklyn Dodger fan or a New York Yankee fan, and those few New York Giant fans. . . not for me. And then one day I saw the Dodgers at Ebbetts Field play the Phillies and I just loved those red uniforms, they were pinstripe and there was Richie Ashburn and Robin Roberts. I thought, 'There's my team.'"

Art Garfunkel admitted to us that after years of being humble about his talents and accomplishments, he's finally reached the point of being comfortable being up front about them: "I am that sound that we know of the last 40 years. Y'know how I look at it? I'm proud of being a really good singer. I want to get that fact up front more than ever. I'm overdue for my straight-out praise. Who does these songs better? I don't want to wait to die before they go, 'Y'know, he wasn't a good singer, he was a very good singer.'"

Like many Simon & Garfunkel fans that love the duo's periodic reunions, the ultimate wish for many is to see the two reunite for their first full-fledged studio album since their 1970 multi-platinum swan song, Bridge Over Troubled Water. Good friend and one of Garfunkel's major solo collaborators, singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, told us that a Simon & Garfunkel reunion album could only be a win-win situation: "Anything you hear about them is only. . . It's like taking a snapshot on an ongoing train-wreck. I think it would be great for them to make another album, and I think maybe. . . maybe they'll both realize that someday at the same time. There's a complex relationship there; there's a lot I don't know about it, and it would be a great thing, I think a great thing if they for them and the fans if they did another record."

When we last caught up with Art Garfunkel -- who has grabbed headlines over the past few years by slamming Simon for refusing to commit to a Simon & Garfunkel reunion -- we asked him about the status of his relationship with Paul Simon these days: "I observe myself as a man who is devoted to music and musicianship. And if somebody is your old friend from the old neighborhood, and he's a brilliant musician, you are very deeply connected to him. Because the music has captured you. So, I can see how much a blood brother Paul Simon is because his musicianship is first rate."

During a recent chat with journalist Christine Amanpour, Paul Simon spoke candidly on the collapse of his and Art Garfunkel's friendship and the state of their partnership today: "There's too much damage that was done. Y'know, it's, like, somebody that I've known since I'm 11. So, I understand. I think I understand why it happened, but I think it's best to stay away. . . to stay away for safety sake -- and so I do. It just. . . It just. . . it doesn't work. What can I say? It doesn't work."

Recently released is the critically acclaimed Art Garfunkel solo compilation, The Singer. The set, which debuted at Number Seven on Billboard's Folk Albums chart, was compiled with Garfunkel's assistance, and spans his entire career -- from Simon & Garfunkel through such solo classics as Angel Claire, Breakaway, Watermark, Scissors Cut -- up through his most recent collection, 2007's Some Enchanted Evening.

Art Garfunkel will next perform on December 8th in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts.

Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks have rolled out a one-night-only 2023 stadium gig. The concert is set for this coming April 8th at Arlington, Texas' AT&T Stadium. The concert marks the first time the pair have ever shared a stage in the Lone Star State.

Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning on Friday, November 11th, at 10 a.m. There's been no official word as to whether Billy and Stevie are planning any more joint gigs in 2023 -- although Stevie Nicks posted on social media that the pair was, quote, "Hitting the road" and adding, "More soon!"

Billy Joel said that there's an element of absurdity in performing for tens of thousands of people as a way to make your living: "It's my job, that's what I do. When I go home, I mean, I take that hat off. Hey -- it helps to get in a restaurant; I'll give you that. Y'know, I can always get a table. I think it's funny. I haven't lost sight of the fact that it is, kinda, really silly. It's a silly job. It's the best job I've ever had."

Stevie Nicks credits nightly vocal training for allowing her to sing so strongly while in her '70s: "I have an amazing vocal coach that I've had since 1997. And I do, it's like 30 minutes, from, like, if I'm playing at eight o'clock at night, I have to be finished at five. So, from three to three-thirty, I do the first half. And then at four-thirty to five I do the second half. So, it's like, 27 minutes and then, like 11 minutes. Buy, y'know what? It's amazing. You can't just walk onstage and sing two hours! So I had a lot of bad nights, up until 1997."

Stevie Nicks next performs on Saturday (November 5th) at Phoenix's Ak-Chin Pavilion.

Selena Gomez told Vulture Wednesday (November 2nd) that she's dying to leak music from her new album.

The singer told the outlet, "We've actually been working for years on this new record, only because I want to be able to grow through my music. I am the person who's terrified of what will happen once it's out, so I want it to be really well done and representative of where I am. There is a bunch of fun stuff that I'm so eager to leak, if I'm being honest. I shall not. But I'm so excited. It'll be fun and refreshing, I think."

Gomez revealed to Variety at the premiere of her new documentary My Mind And Me that new music will drop, "Hopefully, next year."

Christmas has come early for Mariah Carey.

The "All I Want For Christmas Is You" lawsuit has been dropped.

According to Rolling Stone, plaintiff Andy Stone dismissed his claim, which accused the pop star of copyright infringement because her 1994 hit had the same title as his 1989 song.

Stone filed court documents to dismiss the case "in its entirety, without prejudice" on Tuesday, November 1st, which everyone on the internet, including Carey, agrees is the official start of "All I Want For Christmas" season.

HAIM can't get over the fact that they're going on tour with their bestie, Taylor Swift.

Este told E! News Tuesday (November 1st) that they are "excited" because, "We get to do it with our friend, which is going to be so much fun."

While the sisters have teamed up with Swift for songs like "Gasoline" and "No Body, No Crime," the band members wouldn't reveal if there will be any onstage collabs.

Peter Frampton revealed that he's open to a full-on catalogue and publishing buyout. The legendary guitarist kicks off his final European dates this Saturday (November 5th) in Stoke-on-trent, England. 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.

Frampton told us that like many of his peers, a career spanning deal for his classic tunes and masters is most likely in the cards: "Obviously I'm not in the same position as a Bob Dylan or a Bruce Springsteen -- or Sting, or anybody, but it would definitely be nice chunk of change right now, yeah. And anything that I do from now on is not part of it. So yeah, I'm definitely thinking about it. And I'm 72, so they've served me well. It's all good either way."

The video for Pink's "Never Gonna Not Dance Again" drops on Friday (November 4th).

The singer posted previews on Instagram Wednesday (November 2nd). One shows her singing while roller skating through a grocery store while the other has Pink giving out free samples that are "spicy AF."

The post instructs fans to call 1-888-262-PINK for a "chance to win a free sample." When you call the toll-free line you hear the "Rasie Your Glass" artist say, "Hi, you're reached P!nk, the creator of Vicious B—-es Chips'es," after which she offers three options.

Press one to hear a sneak preview of the single, press two for a text with a link with more updates on the track and option three offers Pink's tip of the day.

Kanye West has reportedly settled with a former employee who alleged that he had used antisemitic language in the workplace. According to MSNBC, six people who have worked with Ye or witnessed him in a professional settings over the past five years said they had heard Ye praise Adolf Hitler or mention conspiracy theories about Jewish people.

In the settlement reviewed by NBC News, Ye paid a former employee who alleged having witnessed more than one incident in which Ye praised Hitler or Nazis in business meetings. Ye denied the claims made by the former employee in the agreement.

During a cross-generational chat with alternative rocker Yungblood, Roger Daltrey proved he's still a died-in-the-wool, old school rocker. Daltrey, who's now 78, revealed, "I don't do the internet at all. I have a very bad opinion of social media, I'm afraid. It kind of turned bad once they put the 'likes' in on Facebook. And then people start to play for the 'likes,' which is their ego, and egos destroy you. So, I don't even go there. I don't care what you say about me, do what you like."

While discussing the changing trends in rock fashion, the Who frontman let it slip: "I've got to tell you, when Axl (Rose) first appeared with shorts and T-shirts onstage, we all f***ing laughed."

Daltrey took time out to critique the sound of the Who's last album, 2019's Top Two WHO collection, by asking, "What is it with American producers? The last album we did, we had an American producer, I won't mention his name (Dave Sardy), but I couldn't work with him because he wanted everything in the pocket. Music's not like that. Music comes from inside. If it straddles the beat, it don't matter."

Roger Daltrey has been adamant that his main purpose for being on stage has always been to help the audience lighten its collective load: "There's enough people having a miserable time out there, and live music -- 'great way to lift your spirits. I want to give people a good time and if we have fun, they'll have fun."

The Who closes out its North American tour on Friday and Saturday (November 4th and 5th) at Las Vegas' Dolby Live.

Paul Stanley shed light on his 50-year-friendship with Gene Simmons. During a fans Q&A while on board the latest Kiss Kruise, Stanley spoke frankly, with Blabbermouth transcribing portions of the chat, in which he said of his creative partner, "We're very different, but we certainly share a pride in what we do, a work ethic. Maybe because our parents came from Europe where I think that that's important stuff, is that pride in the work you do and to work hard for your money. Other than that, I think one of the things that took me a long time to learn -- and I think Gene, by the way… I mean, he's family to me; he's a brother. I remember there were things about him that used to drive me crazy. Then I realized that that's not his issue; that's my issue."

Stanley went on to say, "When people do things and it bothers you, you need to figure out why it bothers you, not expect them to change. It's not about them. And things that used to bother me about Gene, I just had to kind of figure out, 'Wait a minute. That's my issue that bothers me. And why does it bother me?' Because he can only be the best he that he can be; he's never gonna be me, and I'm never gonna be him. So it's just a matter of putting a lot of that stuff aside. We're not gonna change anybody else, so we need to figure out why it bothers us."

When we last caught up to Paul Stanley, he admitted to us that it's taken a lot of work to keep the pair moving forward and on the same page: "Oh, sure. That over the years that's been an ongoing t heme in our relationship. But time is the ultimate judge, and there have been times where I've been very angry and resentful -- and I'm not saying momentarily -- I'm saying for long periods of time. But, again, over time, everything falls in place and you get a better perspective -- hopefully. If you don't expect from someone what's not possible, then you won't be disappointed."

Kiss will next perform on November 30th in Japan at the Tokyo Dome.

The Beach Boys' Mike Love will appear at L.A.'s Grammy Museum for a special event promoting the band's latest archival box set, Sail On Sailor - 1972, which drops on December 2nd.

On November 16th, Love will be in conversation with Beach Boys creative consultant Howie Edelson as they discuss the group's legendary early-'70s period, which saw the band produce two of their most progressive sets -- 1972's Carl And The Passions - "So Tough" and the following year's Holland, with the evening also including the world premiere of Sail On, an animated short film.

For more information on the "Celebrating The Beach Boys' Sail On Sailor - 1972" event, log on to: https://tinyurl.com/35ak6vwj

Mike Love recalled how the band shook up its Bel Air-based studio operations in order to record for the first time in Europe: "I know Holland was quite the exercise. I mean (our manager), Jack Rieley said, 'Let's go over to Holland,' and we rented houses and we stayed there for six months. And it had to have been a very expensive album because we brought all kinds of equipment over, set up in a farmhouse -- that was our studio. I enjoyed it myself, personally. It was interesting musically, I thought."

NEW 'I'M ONLY SLEEPING' VIDEO

Just released is a new video for "I'm Only Sleeping," but one of the many standouts on the Beatles' Revolver collection. The tune is featured in several versions on the album's new "Super Deluxe Edition" box set. The new video, which features the original, newly remixed album track, was directed by Em Cooper and utilizes a swirling, computer-generated paint "dreamscape" to accompany the song.

One of the key sounds found across Revolver is Paul McCartney's Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar. The Beatles' legendary late-engineer Geoff Emerick, who helped develop the bass sound on the group's latter day records starting with Revolver, shed light on how he recorded McCartney on bass: "Paul didn't like reverb. And it was that one thing when I used to with his bass, y'know, as you know I used to try everything. And I thought, well, I've got to try to place his bass. . . and I used to put a little bit of the echo chamber on it, and very slightly -- but he always heard it and it was only one track I ended putting reverb on his bass. Now, Paul was very conscious of reverb and I don't know why."

OLIVIA HARRISON & MARTIN SCORSESE SET FOR NYC CHAT

George Harrison's widow, Olivia Harrison and director Martin Scorsese will appear together on November 19th at Manhattan's 92nd Street to celebrate the release of Olivia's debut book of poems, Came The Lightening: Twenty Poems For George. According to the announcement: "On the 20th anniversary of George Harrison's passing, Harrison and Scorsese candidly discuss the incandescent life behind George's songs, as they did in Scorsese's 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living In The Material World. Hear them delve into the intimate stories of grief and sustained emotional connection told through Olivia's deeply moving poems, Scorsese's longtime fascination with George's music, and much more." For more information, log on to: https://tinyurl.com/yc35ccww

Olivia Harrison shared most, if not all, of George's spiritual beliefs. We asked her if George ever felt hurt by some of the negative reviews his solo work garnered due to much of it dealing with God and religion: "I don't know. I don't think he cared. He wrote what he felt, what he wanted to write. And recently I heard an interview (and) he said, 'Y'know, sometimes you mention God, or you mention the word 'Lord' and it makes people's hair curl.' And he said, 'Maybe I served some useful purpose (laughs).'"

Huey Lewis & The News have sold their catalogue in a partnership with the high-end acquisition company Primary Wave Music for a reported $20 million. Variety posted the deal, "encompasses the band's entire commercially released music catalog from inception through 1994, the period of its biggest hits. Included in the partnership are such hits as 'Heart Of Rock & Roll,' 'Hip To Be Square,' 'Workin' For a Livin', and the band's chart-topping 1985 hit 'The Power Of Love' from the blockbuster film Back To The Future."

Primary Wave Music's David Weitzman said, "In the 1980's, everyone heard Huey Lewis & The News' many smashes on radio and saw their iconic & fun videos which appeared on MTV in endless rotation. Their incredibly crafted songs still made me smile, remind me of that seemingly more innocent era, and make me want to sing along at the top of your lungs. Primary Wave look forward to working with Huey to create new opportunities for his storied song catalog into the future."

Huey Lewis has always been known in the rock world as being an "average Joe" who's never pulled a star trip or found his private life splattered all over the tabloids. He says that nearly four decades after breaking onto the scene, being a working musician is all the attention he needs for his own ego: "People say that they play rock n' roll because they want to be rich and famous, or meet girls, or whatever, and it's really, of course, not the case. You do it for the same reason anybody does anything -- they love it. And the object for us was always to be able to, y'know, write songs, record them, and tour. And that's what it means -- it means that some things we wrote, some stuff has, has endured, and that's flattering." (21 OC: . . . and that's flattering)

In 2020, Huey Lewis & The News released their first new album in a decade, titled Weather. The collection marked the band's first new studio set since 2010's covers collection Soulsville.

The group's last collection of original material was released way back in 2001 on the critically acclaimed Plan B. album.

In celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Monkees' classic 1967 Headquarters album, a new box set and commemorative tour by Micky Dolenz have been announced. Coming on November 18th is Headquarters: Super Deluxe Edition, featuring a whopping 69 previously unreleased recordings, including the entire album newly mixed from the original multitrack elements, which were resynched to create the best fidelity version of the album ever available.

The new box set "features the debut release of backing tracks made for an abandoned Don Kirshner-led version of the album, as well as the band's earliest surviving demos, plus recordings that would be completed in 2016 for the Monkees' final studio album, Good Times!"

Headquarters: Super Deluxe Edition contains four CD's and a seven-inch vinyl single with "All Of Your Toys" b/w "The Girl I Knew Somewhere." Limited to 4,000 copies worldwide, the set will be released for $69.98, exclusively at Monkees.com.

Headquarters, the Monkees' third album, was originally released on May 22nd, 1967. The set, which was the group's third back-to-back chart-topper, was the first in which the band had full creative control over their sessions and found them playing nearly all of the instruments. The album was Number One for only one week before the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band replaced it for a 15-week run.

Back in the day, the late-Mike Nesmith couldn't help being frustrated by the fact that due to the Monkees' dependence on session players, the press deemed the band's fakes who were incapable of playing live: "I gotta tell you, I was standing at a place we were playing. We were backstage and it's like two minutes before we're supposed to go on. And this guy walks up to me, he's a reporter, y'know, like that anyway. I'm standing with my guitar over my back, he walks up to me and says, 'Is it true that you don't play your own instruments?' I said, 'Wait a minute! I'm fixin' to walk out there in front of 15,000 people, man. If I don't play my own instruments I'm in a lot of trouble!' I don't know why even talk about it? It's ridiculous."

It's been 55 years since the Monkees won the right to record the music they wanted with Headquarters. Micky Dolenz looked back with us at the band snagging creative control: "It was also the first time in, the Monkee, y'know, history that we -- the four of us -- had been allowed to even have anything to say about who was gonna write the songs and how they were gonna be recorded and what songs would be in the album. That was the first time we had fought for it -- through Mike Nesmith -- had fought for the right to do that, and that was one of the first times. So there was also this feeling that we actually had something to say about, y'know, whether this song was gonna be recorded or not."

Micky Dolenz will next perform on November 19th in St. Charles, Illinois at The Arcada Theatre.

JUST ANNOUNCED: The Monkees celebrated by Micky Dolenz (subject to change):

April 1 - Orlando, FL - The Plaza Live
April 2 - Clearwater, FL - Bilheimer Capitol Theatre
April 4 - Virginia Beach, VA - Sandler Center for the Performing Arts
April 5 - Annapolis, MD - Maryland Hall
April 7 - Atlantic City, NJ - Ocean Resort
April 8 - Vienna, VA - The Barns At Wolf Trap
April 10 - Chester, NY - Sugar Loaf PAC
April 11 - Huntington, NY - The Paramount
April 12 - Englewood, NJ - Bergen PAC
April 14 - Ridgefield, CT - The Ridgefield Playhouse
April 15 - Beverly, MA - The Cabot
April 16 - Jim Thorpe, PA - Penn's Peak
April 18 - Warren, OH - Robins Theatre
April 19 - Kent, OH - The Kent Stage
April 22 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre
April 23 - Milwaukee, WI - The Pabst Theater
April 25, 26, 27 - Niagara Falls, ON - Avalon Theatre at Fallsview Casino Resort

Taylor Swift announced Tuesday (November 1st) morning that she'll be embarking on The Eras Tour next year.

The singer will be supported by Paramore, beabadoobee, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, MUNA, HAIM, GAYLE, Gracie Abrams, and OWENN as she makes her way across North America, starting in Glendale, Arizona on March 18th.

The stadium tour will hit cities like Atlanta, Nashville, Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit before wrapping up with two dates at Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium on August 4th and 5th. Presale begins on November 15th.

Swift wrote in her social media announcement that the tour will be "a journey through the musical eras of my career (past and present!)."

One song that fans can be sure will be on the setlist is "Delicate." On Tuesday, Swift commented "Done" on TikToker xoxoalexmarie's "official petition to bring "Delicate" back for eras tour."

International dates for The Eras Tour will be announced at a later date.

Justin and Hailey Bieber have welcomed a new addition to their family.

They both shared pictures of their new dog, Piggy Lou Bieber, on Instagram Monday (October 31st).

Their new "dog daughter" joins their existing "dog son," Oscar, a Maltese Yorkie they adopted in December 2018.

Pharrell Williams has teamed up with the members of BTS for his next project, Phriends.

Pharrell and BTS' RM revealed in the latest issue of Rolling Stone that they worked on a song together remotely.

The "Happy" singer told the outlet, "It's a song from my album that they sang, and I'm super grateful. Everyone who hears it is like, ‘Whoa.'"

Elsewhere in their candid Musicians on Musicians conversation for the outlet's Audible podcast, Pharrell admitted that he has wanted to work with RM since they met backstage at the 2018 Billboard awards.

We've all been pronouncing Adele's name wrong. According to E! News, the singer recently hosted a Q&A in celebration of her "I Drink Wine" music video where she praised a fan for properly saying her name.

Instead of pronouncing it as "ah-dell," she put the emphasis on the second syllable: "uh-dale."

The 34-year-old singer raved, "Love that. She said my name perfectly."

Billie Eilish has made her relationship with The Neighborhood's Jesse Rutherford Instagram official.

Early Tuesday (November 1st) morning, she posted a Halloween photo dump on the social media app, including a picture of herself and Rutherford celebrating the holiday in their controversial costumes.

The couople got flack from fans online for poking fun at their ten-year age gap by dressing up as an old man and a baby.

It was 48 years ago today night (November 2nd, 1974) that George Harrison launched his "George Harrison & Friends North American Tour" becoming the first solo Beatle to tour North America. Harrison opened the tour on November 2nd, 1974 at Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum. The 30-date tour was particularly grueling for Harrison, who had blown out his voice in the rush to complete his Dark Horse album, resulting in some reporters mockingly referring to the dates as the "Dark Hoarse" tour. To make matters worse, Harrison and his band were often playing two shows a day, with some dates not selling out. The show, which already had pacing problems due to Harrison's choice of material, featured guest spots by saxophonist Tom Scott and Billy Preston, as well as two long Indian music sets by sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar interspersed within the concerts, which all but wrecked any momentum the "rock" aspects of the show had gained.

Although Harrison and the press liked to portray the concert audiences as hostile toward his performances, underground recordings of concerts -- taped in such cities as Fort Worth, Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Baton Rouge -- show boisterous fans cheering the show, including the songs from Harrison's soon-to-be critically bashed Dark Horse album -- which didn't hit the stores until the tour was halfway over.

For many, the main problem with the tour was Harrison tampering with the lyrics and arrangement of Beatles classics. "Something," which surprised many as the second song of the night, had its lyrics changed to "When something's in the way we move it"; "For You Blue" was changed from an acoustic-based 12-bar romp into an extended up-tempo jazz number; "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" became "While My Guitar Tries To Smile"; and Harrison's update on John Lennon and Paul McCartney's "In My Life" had Harrison declaring during the song's chorus, "In my life, I love God more."

Among his solo hits performed on the tour were "What Is Life" and the Number Ones "My Sweet Lord" and "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)." Conspicuously absent from the tour was Harrison's Beatles hit "Here Comes The Sun."

Billy Preston performed show-stopping renditions of his hits "Will It Go 'Round In Circles," "Outta Space," and "Nothing From Nothing."

Harrison had his share of friends visit him throughout the tour, with Bob Dylan checking out both his afternoon and evening Los Angeles Forum shows, John Lennon and girlfriend May Pang catching one of the Nassau Coliseum shows on Long Island, and Paul and Linda McCartney attending one of the New York City shows at Madison Square Garden. McCartney tried to disguise himself in an afro wig and fake mustache, but was easily spotted by die-hard fans.

Beatlefan magazine reported that David Bowie visited Harrison backstage in Memphis, but that he and Harrison "didn't hit it off that well."

After the dates, Harrison was so turned off to performing that it was 17 years before he embarked on his next tour, a series of dates in Japan far away from the glaring Western media.

Harrison explained that the rock press didn't do him any favors when reviewing the shows: "I think the public were just -- didn't know what was happening, it was too much for them. Although, the public as a whole enjoyed it. It was always standing ovations -- even for the Indian section. But they got on my case, the press -- some of them anyway. And I don't know if I learned anything from that; it would probably be never to go on tour again."

Robert Rodriguez, author of the groundbreaking, Revolver - How The Beatles Reimagined Rock 'N' Roll , the two critically acclaimed Beatles FAQ books, and the recent Solo In The 70s: John, Paul, George, Ringo: 1970-1980, explained that the '74 Harrison shows added up to be much more than the two line quip history has afforded it: "I think, maybe the Ravi (Shankar) stuff might've been hard to take if people were going to the concert hall expecting to see, y'know, 'Beatle George,' or (The Concert For) Bangladesh - part two, or something. I think as. . . I put the quote in there from (Harrison drummer) Jim Keltner, y'know, 'George was breaking all the rules in a beautiful way.' He was so ahead of the curve in what he was trying to present; this whole integrated musical, rock jazz, funk, ensemble."

Mark Lapidos, who that same year founded what is now known as The Fest For Beatlefans, caught several of Harrison's 1974 New York shows and said that the press were too harsh on Harrison: "Y'know, after a while the headlines take over; Dark Hoarse, H-O-A-R-S-E, the Dark Hoarse Tour as it became known as. I don't think that the people were bothered by his voice. I noticed that it was a little bit off. My objection (laughs) was when he did 'In My Life' (and) he changed the words. I would have rathered him not to, but he was religious and that was his thing."

Harrison's widow, Olivia Harrison, who was with him for the duration of the '74 tour, says that although it's still on the back burner, she's planning some type of major retrospective around the tour, including a live CD and DVD -- a taste of which was featured in 2011's documentary, Living In The Material World: "There's a lot of footage and a lot of history around that 1974 tour. Y'know George filmed quite a lot, so I think that it needs a little more time to sort that out. Because there's this great footage, y'know he filmed backstage, he filmed in lots of cities, so many things happened on that tour, as well as a live album."

In future years, George Harrison sporadically appeared onstage with friends such as Bob Dylan, Carl Perkins, and Eric Clapton, along with assorted one-off charity performances or tributes. Barring a brief -- and incredibly lucrative -- 12-date December 1991 tour of Japan, George Harrison stayed far away from the road in the wake of the infamous 1974 tour.

Metallica's James Hetfield posted a photo on the band's social media platforms showing him dressed as Stranger Things' "Eddie Munson" for Halloween.

Back in July, Metallica met up with and jammed with actor Joseph Quinn, who portrays "Eddie" and had performed the band's 1986 song "Master Of Puppets" during show's season four finale. Stranger Things' use of the classic track spurred the song to hit the charts again after a new generation of fans discovered the tune.