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Out today (November 11th) is Bruce Springsteen's soul covers set, titled Only The Strong Survive. The album, which was recorded without the E Street Band, features two duets with Sam & Dave's Sam Moore -- "Soul Days" and "I Forgot To Be Your Lover."

Among the other covers on the set are the Walker Brothers' "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore," Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted," Jerry Butler's "Hey, Western Union Man," the Temptations' "I Wish It Would Rain," the Four Tops' "7 Rooms Of Gloom," the Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together" -- and even the Commodores' 1985 hit "Nightshift."

In the video announcement for the set, Springsteen explained, "I decided to do something I had never done before: make some music that is centered around singing, around challenging my voice. Now, in my own memoir, I give my voice a little short shrift by saying I didn't think I had much of one. But once I started on this project, after listening to some of the things we cut, I thought, 'My voice is badass!'"

Over the years, Bruce Springsteen has remained adamant that the Top 40 singles he heard throughout his teen years made him not only the musician he became -- but the man he is today: "Rock is primarily about longing. All the great rock songs are about longing. 'Like A Rolling Stone' is about longing; 'How does it feel to be without a home?' -- 'Louie, Louie' (laughs)! You're yearning for --'Where's that big party that I know is out there, but I can't find it' (laughs), or 'Where's that girl that I know, or that partner, that's out there, but I can't find her?' Well, rock's a little map to those things and it's like a little pill you take that they can't give 'em to ya, but it can create a spark in you that leads you to them."

IN OTHER SPRINGSTEEN NEWS

Bruce Springsteen will promote the new album on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon over several nights.

"The Boss" will appear with Fallon as the show's lead and musical guest on November 14th, 15th, and 16th. Springsteen will also make a special appearance on November 24th, for The Tonight Show's Thanksgiving episode.

RM will be the next member of BTS to release a solo project. He posted details online and shared a photo of a bright blue patch of denim, and revealed the title as Indigo. Look for it to be available on December 2.

A press release noted that various artists will be featured, but names were not mentioned.

Even though this will be RM's first full-length solo album, it's not his first release. He shared solo material in 2015 when he dropped his first mixtape which contained 2 singles.

The announcement of RM's solo album arrives shortly after fellow BTS member Jin released his own solo track titled "The Astronaut." That song is currently #51 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Mariah Carey is set to host a new two-hour holiday special called Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!

The global superstar has become known as the queen of Christmas over the years thanks to her 1994 record-breaking hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You."

The primetime show will air on CBS and Paramount+ on December 20. It will be filmed at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden.

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• Mariah Carey is set to host a new two-hour holiday special called Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!
• December 20 on CBS and Paramount+

In celebration of his 80th year, on December 2nd Paul McCartney will release his 7-Inch Singles Box. The massive, numbered limited-edition collection of 80 7-inch singles spanning 1971 to the present was personally supervised by McCartney and contains recreations of 65 singles/promos using restored original artwork from 11 different countries.

The set features 15 singles never-before-released on 7-inch 45 r.p.m. discs. The package also includes one exclusive test pressing randomly selected from the manufacturing process. The Singles Box features a 48-page book containing foreword from "Macca," an essay by Rob Sheffield, recording notes, release dates, and chart information on each of the singles. The physical set runs for $611 and will also be available digitally.

Paul McCartney wrote in the box set's introductory essay:

I still respect the B side -- where else can you find songs like (the Beatles') 'You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)' or 'Ode To A Koala Bear' (the flip-side of 'Say, Say, Say)? So, when my team suggested we put out this box of 45's, one of my hopes was that both sides of the record will be of interest to you.

It includes my first solo single, 'Another Day' b/w 'Oh Woman, Oh Why.' And it includes my latest single, 'Women And Wives' b/w St. Vincent's great 'three' imagining. . . It doesn't include my last single because I haven't written that one yet.

Paul McCartney talked to the BBC's Dermott O'Leary and shed light on his state of mind going it alone as a solo artist at the start of the 1980's after a decade with Wings: "I was a little bit nervous, ‘cause you're, sort of, now starting a new period; but it's exciting ‘cause you've written some new songs, you wanna get in the studio. And I was getting in with George Martin, so that was really exciting, starting to work with George again. So, I knew I loved working with him, he's just a fantastic person. I mean, in truth, I always think it's an exciting time to make music, no matter what's going on, ‘cause the focus to me is the making of the music. But that time it was good, because -- as we said before -- it was a new phase for me. It was something I was going to be working on my own as a solo artist. And what was that going to bring me? Was that going to work, or was it not? Y'know?"

Sam Smith has revealed more details about their upcoming album. Featured artists include Ed Sheeran, R&B-pop singer Jessie Reyez, Reggae performer Koffee and of course, Kim Petras is on their new history making single, "Unholy."

While collaborations with Sheeran, Koffee and Petras mark firsts for the singer, Smith and Reyez have worked together in the past — the pair teamed up with Calvin Harris for the DJ's 2018 single "Promises".

Sam Smith's new album, Gloria features 13 new songs and will be released on Jan. 27.

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• Sam Smith's album, Gloria features Ed Sheeran, Jessie Reyez, and Koffee
• It will be released on Jan. 27.

Doja Cat called out new Twitter owner, Elon Musk this week when she was having problems with her account. Doja changes her account name to match the holidays and since Musk made some changes to the platform she was stuck with the name - Christmas.

One of Twitter's new policies makes it so that existing verified users can't change their display names anymore. As she was figuring it out, she immediately went online and gave him a cussing and asked him for help at the same time.

After a few tweets back and forth, they seemed to get things worked out and in the end, looks like she'll be able to change her name again once Christmas is over.

TL;DR:

• Doja Cat called out new Twitter owner, Elon Musk this week when she was having problems with her account.
• After a few tweets back and forth, they seemed to get things worked out.

Happy Birthday to Neil Young, who turns 77 on Saturday (November 12th)!!! Neil Young & Crazy Horse will release their latest album, World Record, on November 18th. The new 10-track collection was produced by Rick Rubin and recorded at his Shangri-la Studios in Malibu -- which was originally the Band's headquarters after being used as a brothel for years.

Coming on December 2nd will be Young's 50th anniversary edition of his 1972 classic, Harvest. The triple disc set features a trio of session outtakes and a live BBC concert from February 1971. The collection also features a DVD of the BBC show along with the two-hour documentary, titled Harvest Time, featuring footage from in and around the Harvest sessions.

Back in 2019, Young, who is Canadian but had lived in California for the previous 56 years, finally became a U.S. citizen.

Neil Young married actress Daryl Hannah on August 24th, 2018.

Although Neil Young has tried extremely hard to keep his life private over the course of his career, he wants it known, he's hardly a recluse: "The fact that I don't, y'know, that I don't go out of my way to be seen and go to places where I know that my picture's gonna be taken and things like that makes them think that I'm hiding. I'm not hiding from anything. I'm just not interested in any of it. I have other things that I'm more interested in that don't have to do with getting my face on People magazine."

Graham Nash says that making music with Young as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young has always led to fascinating results: "I love to make music with Neil. It's very different with Neil. Y'know, it's a very different band -- there's more edge, it's darker, it's funkier. It's just different."

Although Waging Heavy Peace marked Neil Young's own personal autobiography, 2002's semi-authorized Shakey, written by Jimmy McDonough, was based on 300 new and exclusive interviews -- including a reported 50 hours of taped chats with Young himself. Graham Nash told us at the time, that like many readers, he found Shakey to be illuminating, particularly its anecdotes about Young's often nasty treatment of his musical colleagues: "I learned a lot about my friend that I didn't know, and I learned a lot about my friend that I thought I knew (laughs). To me, that's not the way I want to live my life. I am consumed by creation, but in my life, creation takes a second. . . not second, but a, certainly an equal footage to my life. I don't want to hurt people -- ever -- because to me, there's enough pain in this world."

Retired Crazy Horse guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro says that despite Young's constant need to shake things up by playing with different musicians, he seems to consider the band his musical home: "When you look at it, there is only one band that Neil continues to play with. He's played with a lot of different bands, but I'd have to say that we are, overall, the most consistent of all the bands he's played with -- even though he's played with Crosby, Stills & Nash quite a bit, but I think he's even played with us more than them."

David Crosby told us that Neil Young's moral integrity has always stood side-by-side with his talent: "That's basically the deal. I think it's one of the things that I've always admired about him, is that right, wrong or indifferent, he continues to grow. And I think that's always been something that I've always wanted to do and continue to do."

It was 52 years ago today (November 11th, 1970), that Elvis Presley's first concert film, Elvis - That's The Way It Is, premiered. The movie, which chronicled the Los Angeles rehearsals and the opening shows of Presley's third Las Vegas stand at the International Hotel, provided a behind-the-scenes look at Presley at work and at play.

The rehearsal footage, taped in Los Angeles' MGM Studios, shows Elvis working up material with the core of his TCB Band: lead guitarist James Burton, keyboardist Glenn D. Hardin, bassist Jerry Scheff, drummer Ronnie Tutt, and rhythm guitarist John Wilkerson.

The second part of the film, which features highlights of Elvis' first six shows of the Vegas stand, shows "The King" at the top of his game, both vocally and physically. Among the highlights in the film are his renditions of the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," B.J. Thomas' "I Just Can't Help Believing'," Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline," and his own recent chart topper "Suspicious Minds."

Elvis also is seen performing a handful of his '50s and '60s hits including "Little Sister," "Love Me Tender," "Hound Dog," "Blue Suede Shoes," and "Can't Help Falling In Love."

On February 27th, 1970 during a rare press conference in Houston, Texas, Elvis explained why he returned to performing after laying low throughout the 1960's: "I just missed it. I missed the closeness of an audience, of a live audience. So, as soon as I got out of the movie contracts, I started to do live performances again."

Guitarist and bandleader James Burton performed alongside Elvis at every show he played between July 1969 and June 1977. He says that Presley always kept the musicians on their toes: "Every show was different because Elvis didn't want to do the same thing every night. And even though he went by that song list, he never went by that song list, he'd jump all over the place."

The soundtrack to Elvis - That's The Way It Is peaked at Number 21 on the Billboard 200, and at Number Eight on the magazine's Country charts.

Although Presley had made several successful TV concert specials, including the 1973 Aloha From Hawaii and 1977's posthumous Elvis In Concert, he only made one other full-length concert film, 1973's Elvis On Tour.

Just reissued is the classic 1984 "Body By Jake" workout album by fitness icon Jake Steinfeld. The Body By Jake: Don't Quit (Music From The Original Video Soundtrack) collection, which is being rediscovered by a new generation after more than 35 years, served as precursor to the type of curated playlists found on Peloton and the streaming services.

The album features tracks by current Toto frontman Joseph Williams, and former Steve Wonder sideman and "Maniac" hitmaker, Michael Sembello.

Jake Steinfeld revealed to us that by not including his buddy, the late, great Glenn Frey on the classic Body By Jake album -- he ended up scoring his TV show an unforgettable theme song: "Y'know, I trained Glenn and then I had one of my brothers training Glenn. And then Glenn and I became very friendly -- he coached my older son Nick in basketball with his son Deacon, who since has taken over for him. We kinda always hung. And when he heard that I did an album, he said, 'You did an album? You didn't ask me?' He said, 'Look, if there's ever anything you need -- just let me know.' Now, in '87, I had a first-run syndicated television show called Body By Jake. So, I said, 'Hey buddy, you asked if I need anything' -- I said, 'I need a theme.' He said, 'Every time you hear Jake, you're always saying, 'don't quit.' Let's call (the song) 'Don't Quit.' I said, 'Fine, let's call it 'Don't Quit.' When you hear it -- I tell you -- it's better than 'The Heat Is On.'"

Machine Gun Kelly says he suffers from Peter Pan syndrome. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter he compared himself to the character he plays in his upcoming movie, Taurus. Saying they were both "broken" and didn't want to grow up.

Describing how he felt, he said "You're a lost boy, but you have Wendy, and Wendy doesn't want to be with the lost boy, but she's like, 'Come back home and be a grownup with me.'"

Experts caution that Peter Pan syndrome is not an actual medical diagnosis, but more of a popular metaphor to describe adults, who feel like kids at heart.

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• Machine Gun Kelly says he suffers from Peter Pan syndrome.
• He compared himself to the character he plays in his upcoming movie, Taurus and said they were both "broken" and didn't want to grow up.

It was 54 years ago today (November 11th, 1968) that John Lennon and Yoko Ono released their first album together, the infamous Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins. The album, which featured John and Yoko nude on the front and back covers, has been jokingly referred to over the years as the "most talked about album to have never been played."

The album was recorded in May 1968, supposedly during John and Yoko's first night together, and features an assortment of oddly mixed random noise, screeching, backwards tape loops, and other "found sound."

An early supporter of the album was Paul McCartney, who accompanied John and Yoko to the office of EMI Records chairman Sir Joseph Lockwood to persuade him to allow EMI to distribute the album. When Lockwood pressed the couple as to why they wanted to issue the album with the nude photos, Yoko replied "It's art." Lockwood's legendary response was, "Well, why not show Paul in the nude, he's so much better looking."

The album was released only weeks after John and Yoko's pot bust in London while staying in Ringo Starr's Montague Square apartment -- where the Two Virgins cover was shot -- and further alienated Lennon from his British fans, who were increasingly confused by the chief Beatle's odd behavior. Many stores would only carry Two Virgins wrapped in brown paper.

Shortly before her recent death, the late Cynthia Lennon recalled the period in which she was granted a divorce from Lennon and Two Virgins was released. She felt that the couple's drug bust during those weeks was a form of "Instant Karma" for the way in which Lennon abandoned her and their son Julian to run off with Yoko: "And yes, they were busted. I'm a great believer of 'action-reaction.' And I felt that because of what they had done, and made everything so public in such a cruel way, then something was going to happen in reaction to that. And what happened was that the police decided that they were going to make an example of him."

Paul McCartney felt that the deeper Lennon fell for Yoko the more clear it became to him that the Beatles' days were numbered: "When John hooked up with Yoko so, sort of, intensely; that was obviously -- it was kind of obvious that there could be no looking back after that. Y'know, he. . . I always felt that he had to clear the decks of us in order to give her enough attention."

Two Virgins was released on Apple Records, but EMI and its U.S. subsidiary Capitol refused to distribute the album because of the cover. In Britain, the Who's label Track Records distributed the disc, and in the U.S. Tetragrammaton Records, which was co-founded by Bill Cosby, pressed the album.

UK sales at the time peaked at 5,000, with the U.S. sales totaling about 25,000. A further 30,000 copies were confiscated in a warehouse in Newark, New Jersey due to obscenity laws.

Although the album received no substantial airplay, having the distinction of being the first solo John Lennon album ensured that it made the charts by topping out at Number 124 on the Billboard album charts in early 1969. Two Virgins didn't chart in Britain.

Iggy Pop has announced a new solo album entitled Every Loser. The punk icon's 19th solo album will be released via Atlantic and Gold Tooth Records. Pop said in a recent statement, "I'm the guy with no shirt who rocks; Andrew and Gold Tooth get that, and we made a record together the old-fashioned way. The players are guys I've known since they were kids, and the music will beat the sh*t out of you."

The album will be released on January 6th.

Ozzy Osbourne says that although he's done with Black Sabbath -- he'd like to continue working with co-founder Tony Iommi, according to Blabbermouth. On SiriusXM's, Ozzy Speaks show, Ozzy was asked about collaborating with Iommi on his solo track the track "Degradation Rules" from Ozzy's recent latest album, Patient Number 9: "(It) was great. I mean, now you don't have to sit in a room; you can do it over the phone. That track would have been a great Black Sabbath track on the 13 album. I wasn't really in love with that 13 album."

Regarding his lack of interest in recording or performing with Black Sabbath anymore, Ozzy said, "Well, it's kind of, like, how many times do you wanna do the same. . . it's the same format, y'know? It was very successful for a lot of years, and people wanted to see us. I did that farewell tour. And the only thing about that which was sad (was) Bill Ward wasn't there. But I've spoken to Bill since. He's all right. I would work with any of them individually. But as Black Sabbath, I think it's (over). We couldn't really beat what we've already done."

Tommy Iommi spoke a while back about the respect that Black Sabbath earned over the years: "For a while, nobody would take us seriously. But as we went on, the more we carried on, the more we proved, the more we stayed there, y'know? And I think we got the respect from that."

Britney Spears doesn't appear to be interested in having Millie Bobby Brown play her on the big screen.

The Stranger Things star told Drew Barrymore on Tuesday (November 8th), "I want to play a real person. I think for me it would be Britney."

She continued, "I think her story really resonates with me. Just growing up in the public eye watching her videos, watching interviews of how when she was younger. I see the scramble for words in her interviews and I don't know her, but when I look at pictures of her, I feel like I could tell her story in the right way and hers only."

Spears wrote on Instagram the same day Brown's interview aired, "I hear about people wanting to do movies about my life … dude I'm not dead !!!

Once again on Monday night (November 7th), Bruce Springsteen headlined the annual "Stand Up For Heroes" benefit benefitting the Bob Woodruff Foundation. The 2022 event, which took place this year at Manhattan's David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, also featured mainstay Jon Stewart along with fellow comedians Hasan Minhaj and Iliza Shlesinger, among others.

Springsteen, performing acoustically, live-premiered his 2020 Letter To You standout, "House Of A Thousand Guitars" and dedicated his 2007 Magic favorite "I'll Work For Your Love," to Eddie and Jill Vedder, who were in attandance. "The Boss" performed one more Letter To You tune -- "I'll See You In My Dreams," before finishing with "Dancing In The Dark."

The event kicked off the 16th annual New York Comedy Festival and is but one of over 100 performances held across New York City and runs through November 13th.

Variety reported, "The foundation -- which Bob Woodruff and his wife Lee started after he suffered a traumatic brain injury while embedded with troops in Iraq in 2007 -- has helped more than 12 million veterans by giving more than 560 grants. This year's event added $4.5 million to the coffers including more than $700,000 raised in donations from audience members."

Bruce Springsteen told us that he believes his role as an American songwriter extends far beyond the entertainment community in which he works: "You're supposed to remain interested in the world. Y'know, my job was always to put you in somebody else's shoes and, and have you walk a while in those shoes, I've said a lot in the past. You're out there, and you feel what's in the air out there, and you feel what's on people's minds. People are looking for ways to have a dialogue about these ideas, about these issues. They're looking for ways to try to get a handle and, and make sense of, of what's happening, y'know? And I think that music and film and, and art has a service to perform in, in that fashion."

Justin Bieber is allegedly scared of Judge Judy.

Judge Judy Sheindlin told Access Hollywood that the "Peaches" singer lived next door to her in 2017 and went out of his way to avoid her. She said, "He's scared to death of me. There was a period of time before he grew up, when he was foolish and doing foolish things."

She added that he even had his security team alert him of when she was outside so they wouldn't cross paths.

Before they became neighbors, Sheindlin shamed Bieber when discussing his 2014 DUI with CBS Los Angeles. At the time, she told the outlet he was a "marginal singer" who was "doing a very good job of making a fool out of himself."

Sam Smith says they never thought they'd have to deal with homophobia as a famous pop star.

The "Unholy" singer told Zane Lowe on his Apple Music show, "It's still hard to be queer. There's still backlash. I still get things said to me on the street, even now. The weirdest thing is you can be famous, you can be a pop star and still get it."

Smith continued: "Because I thought I'd become a pop star and I'd never get a bad word said to me ever again. I'd never have homophobia. I'd never experience it if I became a star. And then it happens and it's still there. It's still there."

The pop star added it's their responsibility to "talk about it all" because there are LGBTQ+ kids out there who "need us to talk about it."

Peter Gabriel has announced a 22-date European tour to coincide with the spring release of his latest album, titled, I/O. The dates mark the Genesis co-founder's first tour since his 2016 joint trek with Sting.

A North American itinerary and the release date of I/O will follow soon. Joining Gabriel on the road will be longtime bandmates bassist Tony Levin, guitarist David Rhodes, and drummer Manu Katché. I/O, which is Gabriel's 10th original studio set, will be his first all new release since 2011's New Blood.

Peter Gabriel said in a statement: "It's been a while and I am now surrounded by a whole lot of new songs and am excited to be taking them out on the road for a spin. Look forward to seeing you out there."

Amazingly, aside from soundtrack projects, Peter Gabriel has only issued four mainstream studio albums since the release of 1986's So. Gabriel explained that the main reason why his albums take so long is that the lyrics always seem to come at a snail's pace: "I'm much quicker getting the musical ideas than I am sort of sorting out and finishing lyrics, which, to get past my editor, is a lot harder. That's me, I'm afraid. Y'know, your own sort of quality control, but the point at which you say, 'OK, that's all right to go out. I'm not gonna be embarrassed by that one,' I can do that very quickly with music and very slowly with lyrics."

JUST ANNOUNCED: Peter Gabriel 2023 European tour dates (subject to change):

May 18 - Krakow, Poland - Tauron Arena
May 20 - Verona, Italy - Verona Arena
May 21 - Milan, Italy - Mediolanum Arena
May 23 - Paris, France - AccorHotels Arena
May 24 - Lille, France - Stade Pierre-Mauroy
May 26 - Berlin, Germany - Waldbuehne
May 28 - Munich, Germany - Koenigsplatz
May 30 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Royal Arena
May 31 - Stockholm, Sweden - Avicii Arena
June 2 - Bergen, Norway - Koengen
June 5 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome
June 6 - Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpaleis
June 8 - Zurich, Switzerland - Hallenstadion
June 10 - Cologne, Germany - Lanxess Arena
June 12 - Hamburg, Germany - Barclays Arena
June 13 - Frankfurt, Germany - Festhalle
June 15 - Bordeaux, France - Arkea Arena
June 17 - Birmingham, England - Utilita Arena
June 19 - London, England - The O2
June 22 - Glasgow, Scotland - OVO Hydro
June 23 - Manchester, England - AO Arena
June 25 - Dublin, Ireland - 3Arena

Shakira and her sons are moving to Miami now that she has split from their father, Gerard Pique.

The former couple told TMZ in a statement, "We have signed a custody agreement. Our sole objective is to provide our children with the utmost security and protection and hope that they can continue with their lives in a safe and calm environment."

The "Hips Don't Lie" singer will be taking the kids from Barcelona to Miami next here as that is where her family is located.

Joe Jonas seems amused by his younger brother's Halloween costume. Last month, Frankie Jonas dressed up as a 2008 version of his big brother while his girlfriend wore a Taylor Swift costume. Joe told Entertainment Tonight, "He got some laughs. It was good, he looked good. I like it. I think that's my shirt – I need it back."

Olivia Culpo thought she was going to marry heNovember 7th) episode of The Culpo Sisters that dating the Jonas Brother was "a very formative experience." She explained that after the two-year relationship ended she felt "no sense of identity," and added, "My whole identity was in him, which was a very common story of a young person in love. I thought we were going to get married."

The son of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich admitted he wasn't up for offering his kids music lessons early on. Myles and Layne Ulrich are the sole two members of the Taipei Houston with their debut set, Once Bit Never Bored, out now. 24-year-old Myles drums and handles guitar duties, with 21-year-old kid brother Layne singing and playing bass.

Myles told Classic Rock how the new album came about, "We kinda just ended up back in San Francisco during lockdown and had a lot of time on our hands. Being brothers, we've been making music together on and off for a long time. This felt like a real opportunity to dig deep and really focus and get into it. We started writing all the time."

When pressed as to whether his legendary dad showed his boys some tricks of the trade when they started getting interested in music, Myles admitted: "Honestly, when I started, he completely steered clear. He was like, 'Go do it with your friends or get a drum teacher!' Not because he didn't want to do it himself, but because he wanted us to find our own paths musically, which is really cool and that's what we've tried to do. I don't know if there's a soundbite piece of advice he gave us. We both came into being interested in music our own way, listening to bands like Arctic Monkeys, stuff like that."

Back in the day, Lars Ulrich explained to us that Metallica becoming parents only strengthened their bond within the band: "(James) Hetfield and me having kids at the same time roughly has even brought us closer together. I think we just see much more eye-to-eye about things in terms of touring schedules and all that type of stuff. But I think the other thing that's also happened is that projects – recording projects, creative projects – are much more, I think, both vital and interesting than they were, y'know, in the earlier days."

Original Nazareth frontman Dan McCafferty died on November 8th at the age of 76, according to Ultimate Classic Rock. McCafferty, who co-founded the band in 1968, retired back in 2013 due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Bassist Pete Agnew posted of McCafferty's passing on Facebook, writing, "Dan died at 12:40 today. This is the saddest announcement I ever had to make. Maryann and the family have lost a wonderful loving husband and father, I have lost my best friend and the world has lost one of the greatest singers who ever lived. Too upset to say anything more at this time."

Scotland's Nazareth will always be best remembered in the U.S. for their 1975 Top 20 Hair Of The Dog album, with its Top 20 title track and the band's classic cover of the Everly Brothers' "Love Hurts," which peaked at Number Eight.

It was 56 years ago today (November 9th, 1966) that John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met. Yoko was preparing a conceptual art show at a London's Indica Gallery, which was owned by Lennon's friend John Dunbar. Lennon was invited to peruse the exhibition the night before the show opened, which led to the future couple being introduced. Lennon recalled the meeting to Rolling Stone in 1970, saying, "I got the humor in her work immediately. I didn't have to have much knowledge about avant garde or underground art, but the humor got me straight away. . . There was a fresh apple on a stand and it was 200 (British pounds) to watch it decompose."

Lennon eventually went on to sponsor several of Yoko's exhibitions, prior to the pair becoming lovers in the spring of 1968. Lennon and Yoko were married on March 20th, 1969.

John Lennon recalled meeting Yoko in 1966: "I'm looking for action, y'know? I see this thing, 'Hammer A Nail In' -- it's a board with a chain and a hammer hanging on it and a bunch of nails at the bottom. I said, 'Well, can I hammer a nail in?' (Yoko laughs) She says, 'No.' But she came over and says, 'You can hammer one in for five schillings. I said, 'Are you. . . I'll give you an imaginary five schillings and hammer an imaginary nail in, alright?' And that's when we fell -- (sings) da da da da."

George Harrison's first wife Pattie Boyd says that the days of all the Beatles' wives being a close-knit group pretty much ended with Yoko entering the inner circle: "John fell in love with Yoko and that was that. She was more a man's woman than a woman's woman. She would never have girlfriends, I don't think, anyway. Y'know, that was fine, so I knew I'd never get close to her. She was quite friendly toward me. I mean, she and John once stayed in our house and she was just so intent on John all the time. John was her only focus, really and truly."

Despite the tension between Paul McCartney and Yoko over the years, in his recent book, titled McCartney, author Christopher Sanford uncovered a first-hand source that alleges that in 1966, prior to hooking up with Lennon, Yoko and McCartney were actually romantically linked. Sanford's unnamed source places himself at McCartney's London townhouse throughout the duration of a social call by Yoko.

Sanford says that judging from McCartney's taste in women alone, it's not too far fetched to believe that the affair took place: "He was known for his attraction to women who were not necessarily, shall we say, traditionally good looking. And we have the source I mentioned, who says that (Paul and Yoko) displayed notable affection for each other. They went up the stairs, and he was seen hugging and squeezing her as she left later that afternoon."

John Lennon recalled that linking with Yoko Ono as his partner ultimately meant that his days as a Beatle were fading fast: "But I presumed that I would just be able to carry on and bring Yoko into our lives, but it seemed I had to be married to them or Yoko. And I chose Yoko, y'know? And I was right."

IN OTHER BEATLES HISTORY

Today also marks the 56th anniversary of what was rumored to be the day Paul McCartney died (November 9th, 1966). The legendary conspiracy theory that McCartney died in a horrific car accident was first brought to the public's attention nearly two years later, shortly after the release of the Beatles' Abbey Road album.

According to legend, an angry McCartney stormed out of a Beatles recording session in the early hours of November 9th, 1966, which was supposedly referenced by the band as "Stupid bloody Tuesday" in 1967's "I Am The Walrus." He then supposedly died in a car crash. And because the Beatles feared that their fans would never accept his death, they supposedly hired an unnamed winner of a British McCartney look-alike contest, named William Campbell, to replace McCartney. The band was said to have included various death clues in their songs and album covers to slowly break the news of McCartney's demise to fans.

The first hole in the theory, which many "Paul Is Dead" conspiracists seem to overlook, is that the Beatles didn't hold a recording session on that day -- their first session that autumn was on November 24th.

A second obvious hole is that November 9th, 1966 actually fell on a Wednesday -- a clue that some enterprising fans believed was referenced in "She's Leaving Home": "Wednesday morning at five o'clock."

Aaron Carter's autopsy is complete.

According to the Los Angeles Medical-Examiner Coroner's office, the cause of death has been deferred pending further examination.

Deadline reports the medical examiner is requesting additional information to determine the cause and manner of death.

TMZ writes that Carter was struggling with an addiction to huffing compressed air and that investigators found evidence of that at the site of his death. Law enforcement officers told the outlet that multiple cans of compressed air and prescription pills were found in the singer's bathroom and bedroom.