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Justin Bieber has canceled the rest of his tour to focus on his health.

According to Buzzfeed, Bieber shared on his Instagram Story that exhaustion "overtook" him this past weekend while performing in Brazil.

He explained, "Earlier this year, I went public about my battle with Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome, where my face was partly paralyzed. As the result of this illness, I was not able to complete the North America leg of the Justice Tour."

Bieber continued, "After resting and consulting with my doctors, family and team, I went to Europe in an effort to continue with the tour. I performed six live shows, but it took a real toll on me. This past weekend, I performed at Rock in Rio and I gave everything I have to the people in Brazil."

Bieber has 68 shows left in countries such as France, Austria, the UK and Germany.

Proof that rock history can usually be found in somebody's closet -- seven minutes of amazingly clear fan-shot footage from Led Zeppelin's legendary September 4th, 1970 concert at The Forum in L.A. has been discovered.

The footage, which is now up on YouTube, has been expertly synched with the classic bootleg of the show, titled On Blueberry Hill, and was shot by fan Eddie Vincent, who smuggled his family's windup 8mm Kodak Brownie into the gig, which allowed him to record in 30-second bursts.

Vincent told Classic Rock: "I had really great seats. They were right behind the band. I had seats in the front row, right behind John Bonham's kit. The only problem was that you couldn't really see John because the gong was there, but he came around and chatted to us while they were doing the acoustic set."

Jimmy Page says that pretty much from the onset of Zeppelin's career, the size of the venues grew to the point that the only place they could satisfy the demand was to play in the open air: "Right from the beginning of it, within a few months, going in to 1969 -- we can't supply the demand, that everywhere we play is full. And we start doing repeat nights it was full, full, full. So, when we're doing outside events, it wasn't confined by the four walls and you can see that it was just immense. All the way through -- all the way to 1980, we were just getting huge crowds coming in. It just kept appearing to get larger and larger."

Bassist John Paul Jones told us he's reminded of how great a live band Zeppelin was whenever he's exposed to their concert footage: "The fire in the playing was particularly noticeable, and the cockiness is there. We used to just rip from one song to another and just roar into them at frightening speeds. We were s***t-hot, as the saying goes, and we knew it."

Bruce Springsteen has revisited his 2006 Sessions Band side project for his latest archival release. Rome, Italy - October 10, 2006 was recorded at the city's Palalottomatica venue and follows the two other Sessions Band shows released as part of Springsteen's ongoing monthly official bootleg drop. Previous Sessions Band live sets include Wembley Arena, UK - November 11, 2006 and Fair Grounds Race Course, New Orleans - April 30, 2006.

Springsteen's Sessions Band was named after his then-new album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. In addition to the Americana heavy set, the new 2006 release features such catalogue favorites as "Atlantic City," "Growin' Up," "Open All Night," The River," "Long Time Comin'," "Ramrod" and others.

Billy Joel told us he was a huge fan of Springsteen's 2006 folk-driven Seeger Sessions album and tour. He believes that one has to get into a very specific mindset to do any type of covers project -- let alone one with such socio-political implications: "Sure, Pete Seeger wrote a lot of great stuff, but I think you kinda have to put yourself in that place. I think you kinda have to feel like Pete Seeger to do that. And I know that Bruce is very social-minded (and) political minded -- and of course that's what Pete Seeger was. I don't think that way. I. . . I'm an abstractionist. The music comes first. The music is the message."

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey recently discussed the hurdles in creating new Who music together, and Townshend touched upon how artists need to move in different directions -- much like Springsteen's Seeger Sessions project: "I think it's interesting that when you look at other artists, for example, as a Bruce Springsteen fan from the very, very start, y'know, I wanna hear him grow from within the framework from what I recognize, and what I believe is Bruce Springsteen at his best. I don't want him playing all that hillbilly music! All that hee-haw on the Hudson River nonsense, y'know? So, I think in a sense, we're in the same boat. (Roger Daltrey): Maybe we can do that? (laughter)."

The tracklisting to Rome, Italy - October 10th, 2006:

"John Henry"
"Old Dan Tucker"
"Atlantic City"
"All The Way Home"
"Long Black Veil"
"Jesse James"
"O Mary Don't You Weep"
"Growin' Up"
"Erie Canal"
"My Oklahoma Home
"The River"
"Mrs. McGrath"
"How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?"
"Jacob's Ladder"
"Long Time Comin'"
"Open All Night"
"Pay Me My Money Down"
"My City Of Ruins"
"Ramrod"
"When The Saints Go Marching In"
"This Little Light Of Mine"
"American Land"

Despite fans thinking Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine at the Don't Worry Darling premiere, those speculations appear to be false.

In the clip circulating online, Styles is taking his seat next to Pine at the film's premiere in Italy and the singer looks like he is doing something with his mouth when Pine stops clapping.

While fan's claim Styles spit on Pine in that moment, a rep for the actor said, "This is a ridiculous story -- a complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation. Just to be clear, Harry Styles did not spit on Chris Pine. There is nothing but respect between these two men and any suggestion otherwise is a blatant attempt to create drama that simply does not exist."

Maroon 5 frontman, Adam Levine, and his wife, Behati Prinsloo, are expecting their third child.

According to People, who confirmed the news, the couple's bundle of joy will join their two kids, Dusty Rose Levine, 5, and Gio Grace Levine, 4.

The gender of the child hasn't been shared yet.

Adam and Behati got married in 2014 and welcomed their first child, Dusty, in 2016.

Their second daughter, Gio, was born in 2018.

Kevin Federline has broken his silence on his ex, Britney Spears', conservatorship.

During an interview with 60 Minutes Australia, Federline said that he wasn't involved with Britney's conservatorship.

He explained, "I wasn't involved in any of it. So I really don't know how the conservatorship came about. I don't know who's decision it was… All I know is that you have a family that is worried about their daughter and trying to do whatever they can to help her."

However, although the two sons Britney and Kevin share were happy for her conservatorship to end, it doesn't appear that Kevin was also.

He said, "Both of them were super happy for her."

Federlne added, "Because it's not always about what's right, it's about ‘this is what mom wanted,' you know, what mom got."

Britney and Kevin were married from 2004 to 2006.

Her conservatorship was terminated back in April.

Coming on October 13th is the autobiography from AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson, titled, The Lives Of Brian. Blabbermouth reported the book, which has been delayed for a year, will be published by Dey Street Books, an imprint of the William Morrow Group at Harper Collins.

The Lives Of Brian follows Johnson's first book, Rockers And Rollers: A Full-Throttle Memoir, which detailed Johnson's life story through his love of racing and automobiles.

Dey Street Books SVP and executive editor Mauro DiPreta said in a statement: "Brian's memoir captures an unforgettable moment in rock history. Anyone who wants to understand Brian's roots as well as the moment of ignition when he joined AC/DC and helped create a monster album will be in for an unforgettable ride."

The news of a straight-on memoir took us by surprise after what Brian Johnson admitted to us a while back: "I hate autobiographies. I think they're boring and rotten and I'm not interested, 'cause it's usually just some bitter old git who wants to get his own back at everybody, y'know (laughs)"

It was 44 years ago today (September 7th, 1978) that the Who's drummer Keith Moon died at age 32. Moon's death, which was ruled accidental, was caused by an overdose of Heminevrin, a medication prescribed to help alleviate alcohol withdrawals, mixed with alcohol. According to police reports there were 32 pills found in Moon's system, some of which were not yet dissolved. He died while staying in Harry Nilsson's London apartment -- which coincidentally was where "Mama" Cass Elliott had died four years earlier. Moon was survived by his daughter Mandy and his fiancee Annette Walter-Lax.

On August 18th, 1978, the Who released their final album with Moon, called Who Are You. Earlier that month, Moon and Pete Townshend appeared on ABC's Good Morning America to promote the new album. Although Moon was bloated and heavily made up, he tried valiantly to offer a positive spin on the band's future as a live act when asked if he still had the urge to tour: "Yes, I would, I enjoy going out on the road very much. But only under certain circumstances and certain conditions. I like to play certain halls and certain towns. Y'know, do a few gigs in London, some in the States."

The night before his death, Moon and Walter-Lax attended a preview of the movie The Buddy Holly Story, thrown by Paul and Linda McCartney, on the eve what would have been Holly's 42nd birthday. According to most reports, Moon, who was drinking white wine, was slightly subdued, in high spirits, and at no point seemed drunk or inebriated in any way.

At the party after the screening, he was photographed talking with McCartney and his future Who replacement Kenney Jones. Jones recalled his last meeting with Moon: "Keith and I just went straight into each other, just talking, 'cause we hadn't seen each other for a while. I said, 'How 'bout you Keith, what've you been up to?" He said, 'Oh, I'm clean, I'm straight, I'm. . .' He was telling me that he'd given up drinking for nearly six months, and he felt so much better."

According to Walter-Lax, Moon had originally not wanted to go out that night in an effort to try to curb his drinking, but did snort a small account of cocaine before leaving their apartment.

Prior to his death, the Who were debating forcing Moon out of the band due to his debilitating alcoholism. Shortly after Moon's death Townshend told the British press, "Keith's death is something that we expected for 20 years, but when it happens you just can't take it in. I'm very upset. I've lost a man I loved."

Apart from his acrobatic drumming, Moon has gone on to be remembered as one of Britain's quickest wits, often adapting new and off-beat personas, and was known to dress up in character for days on end. Friends were used to watching Moon enjoy a night out on the town dressed as a World War One pilot, a clown, Marilyn Monroe, a nun, Dracula, Adolph Hitler, a gangster, Julius Caesar, a pirate -- or more often than not -- completely nude.

Alice Cooper was Moon's close friend and neighbor during his Malibu years in the '70s, and admitted that Moon's non-stop partying and the mania surrounding his life was exhausting: "Keith Moon was hard day-to-day. He would wear me out. He was always on. He came over and stayed at our house for a week. Y'know, just came over, stayed at the house for a week. And, I mean, there was never a time when I would come in and he'd be sleeping! He was always on: 'Let's go here, let's go there, let's go do this, let's go do that, let's go do this. . . ' And to the point where I would go, 'I can't stay with you. Y'know, I can party with you at night, okay? But during the day. . .' He was like that all day, too! (laughs)."

Dougal Butler, Moon's closest confidante and road manager, ultimately thinks that Moon's three years living in Los Angeles helped quicken the pace for his early death: "Well, he died about nine months after he got back to London from L.A. -- I would have given him six months, if that. Keith attracted and let people into his so-called 'inner-circle,' all the wrong people in L.A. I'm not trying to give L.A. a bad name -- don't get me wrong; it's a smashing place. But there are some weird and wonderful people down there, then in the '70s."

Butler says Moon's hard partying ways often got in the way of performing: "Keith never had a kit in his house -- never practiced at all. And he'd only rehearse for a couple of weeks before they went on a UK, or an American tour, or a European tour and that was it. As soon as they started rehearsing -- that was it. Keith would be getting into his usual old ways of before."

Pattie Boyd, who was to soon marry Eric Clapton, recalls a typical night out with Moon in the 1970's: "Keith was the most generous person. He was absolutely utterly adorable. I remember once Eric and I picked him up from the Hyatt House (laughs) in L.A. -- I think we were going to a party, and I think it was Led Zeppelin's party. And so we picked up Keith. He was wearing a dress! (I thought) 'Oh Keith, he's just so funny,' I didn't really think too much about it. (Laughs) and he sat in the back of the car with me (laughs) and he started chewing at the headrest, and Eric kept telling him to stop (and) y'know, behave properly. And it was so funny."

A while back, Pete Townshend wrote about Moon on his online blog, petetownshend-whohe.blogspot.com, and spoke about performing with Moon during the Who's early days, recalling that, "Keith was an eccentric player, and seemed to be showing off all the time, pointing his sticks up in the air and leaning over the drums with his face thrust forward as if to be nearer the front of stage. But he was loud and strong. Slowly too we realized that his fluid style hid a real talent for listening and following, rather than just laying down a beat."

Who producer Glyn Johns chronicled his years working with the Who -- along with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, and the Eagles -- in his new memoir, Sound Man. He told us that dealing with Keith Moon in a studio setting was nearly always a hit or miss situation: "As far as Keith was concerned it really was luck of the draw. There were some days when he couldn't really get it together and there were lots of days when he managed really well under the influence of (laughs) whatever he was under the influence of and that was just part and parcel of what you had to deal with, really. And frankly, at the end of the day, we got some pretty great results and I have no complaints."

Pete Townshend recalled how Moon's over indulgences rarely showed while performing live with the Who: "He often used to get a bit excited. He was also. . . because he had such a huge adrenalin rush as a drummer on the stage, often -- mostly -- what he took he could overcome with his body chemistry, and then after he came off he would often collapse."

In 2010, Pete Townshend posted on the band's website, thewho.com, that he actually preferred playing with Kenney Jones over Moon, writing in part, "For me, it was great to play with Kenney, someone so disciplined, after years battling to keep Keith Moon in time. At last I could relax and let the drummer keep time. The Kenney years were most enjoyable years of my performing life with the Who. It was hard playing with Moonie, and it is sometimes almost as hard playing with Zak (Starkey) when he tries to emulate Moon. Zak is far better than Moonie technically, although maybe less anarchic -- maybe! Zak respects me. Moon loved me, and exalted me, but he did not seem to respect me when we were onstage together."

Townshend added: "Moon was a brilliant wild card, and much more than a drummer. But playing with Kenney was heaven after dragging Moon through his last, tortuous struggle to play well during the filming of The Kids Are Alright. He almost died of exhaustion that day. I loved Moon the man and Moon the comedian. I wasn't crazy about Moon the drummer. He was great, I won't deny it, the Who would probably not have been so big without Moon, but I would have preferred to have worked with Kenney from the very beginning."

The Who's long-awaited Keith Moon biopic, tentatively titled The Real Me, was originally slated to begin filming in June -- with no news on when cameras are now set to officially roll. The film, which is being executive produced by Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and the Who's longtime manager Bill Curbishley, will be directed by Paul Whittington -- best known for The Crown and White House Farm, with the script by noted British screenwriter Jeff Pope, who snagged an Oscar-nom for Philomena.

White Horse Pictures, led by Nigel Sinclair and Guy East, will produce the feature, following their work on such acclaimed recent rock docs as Martin Scorsese's George Harrison: Living In The Material World, and Ron Howard's Beatles documentary Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years.

Roger Daltrey told us that he feels that Moon's life was nothing short of cinematic, and wants the film to focus on Moon's offstage life: "I think there's a great film to be made out of the life of Keith Moon. There was. . . He was an incredibly complicated character. I think he was definitely a frustrated genius. I want to show people everything they didn't know about Keith. It's not a band story at all -- it's about a drummer on his days off."

Daltrey said that above all the sadness at drummer Keith Moon dying so young and missing out on so much music, he left an incredible amount of laughter in his wake: "I mean, how could you not have a good time around Keith Moon??? He was so much fun when he was on. I never met another character like him. I mean, we had our ups and downs as people -- what people don't that were living the lives that we were living at that time. We were in each other's -- almost -- in each other's beds. Not quite, but, y'know? So, it would be impossible not to have frictions in that situation. But towards the end, I think I was one of the only stable things in Keith's life."

In 2017, the first ever Keith Moon signature drumstick was issued. The stick has been produced by Vic Firth Co., which is the world's largest and leading manufacturer of drumsticks and mallets, and according to the stick's press release, "Moon was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1982, becoming only the second rock drummer to be chosen. In 2011, Moon was voted the second-greatest drummer in history by a Rolling Stone readers' poll."

The new official drumstick was produced at the invitation and with the full cooperation from the Moon estate and matches the Who drummer's exact specifications: "The Keith Moon Signature Stick is unique in its design with the combination of a medium shaft, fast-sloping medium taper and a length just short of 16 inches. Crafted in hickory with an oval wood tip, this stick packs plenty of punch when needed and can work in a variety of musical settings."

Recently released is the latest biography on Moon, titled, Keith Moon: There is No Substitute, which was compiled by Ian Snowball with the authorization the Keith Moon Estate and Keith's daughter Amanda de Wolf. Pete Townshend supplied the forward for the book.

Rock band Wolf Alice is reflecting on hitting the road with Harry Styles.

Lead singer and guitarist Ellie Rowsell told Rolling Stone UK about their duet for her band's song "No Hard Feelings," "That duet was great. We didn't have much time to practice but it felt like a great moment and it's been a really nice memory I have to look back on. I loved being on stage with Harry and his band. It was the last day of the tour and it felt like a really nice day."

Drummer and backing vocalist Joel Amey, added, "We've had the summer of our lives going around Europe with Harry and we've been super lucky. We feel very blessed for that. When we were making this record we hoped there'd be the chance for these songs to exist in the live setting and that's happened and it's been amazing experiences."

Wolf Alice opened for Harry Styles in Paris, Stockholm and Berlin.

Today (September 7th) marks what would have been Buddy Holly's 86th birthday. Holly, who would die tragically on February 3rd, 1959, at the age of 22 in plane crash with Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, was arguably rock n' roll's first singer-songwriter. Holly's death while on tour with the 1959 Winter Dance Party remains one of music's greatest losses.

Holly's hit singles and album tracks, both with and without his backing band the Crickets, such as "That'll Be The Day," "Peggy Sue," "Rave On," "Maybe Baby," "Oh Boy!," "Think It Over," "Well . . . Alright," "Rave On," "Everyday," "True Love Ways," "Heart Beat," and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," inspired a generation of acts including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Searchers, the Who, the Hollies, who named themselves in tribute to him, and most importantly, the Beatles.

Mick Jagger explained Buddy Holly's influence on all the future British Invasion rockers: "Every English person you talk to, from my generation, at least, will tell you that Buddy Holly was -- he was a big influence as a songwriter. And he wrote all these songs in a very short period of time, and they're all very simple. And he was very big in England, I think he toured only once; I saw him on stage. But he was a very big influence."

Paul McCartney has without a doubt been the biggest champion for Buddy Holly's music over the decades: "It's great music, Buddy's. It's very evocative for those of us who were around then. Y'know, it really sums up the period. And a lot of it still plays now, still sounds good."

McCartney recalled that apart from songwriting, Buddy Holly actually inspired him and John Lennon in other ways: "The thing about Buddy was, whereas Elvis (Presley) was this unattainable, gorgeous, god; Buddy was the boy next door. And I remember John being particularly pleased -- he could now put his glasses on. 'Cause John had big horn-rimmed glasses that he always had to take off when we played or when there were girls around. John, of course couldn't see a bloody thing -- he really was very short-sighted -- so, he was very pleased when Buddy came around, 'cause he (could) actually put his horn-rims on and felt like a dude."

One of McCartney's first major publishing acquisitions for his company MPL Communications was the Buddy Holly catalogue. Although McCartney has been outspoken regarding the use of his Beatles songs in advertisements and movies, he admits that its a slippery slope for him when dealing with Buddy's legendary tunes: "It really is very difficult. With the Buddy Holly stuff I do have the right to sort of let people use it, 'cause we're the publishers of that, we can do it. So I think, generally, I don't like it -- particularly with the Beatles stuff. I don't know, there might be people out there who say that you shouldn't do it with Buddy. I don't know, I've done it once or twice with him, but I don't really like doing it, I must admit. But you get your advisers saying, 'Okay, so you're going to turn down all that money, are you?' It's a very difficult decision, y'know? If I was being purist, I'd say, 'No one should do it.' I mean, my heart says that, but, y'know, you're not always as pure as you think."

While accepting his 1998 Album Of The Year Grammy for Time Out Of Mind, Bob Dylan spoke about Buddy: "And I just wanted to say that one time when I was 16 or 17-years-old, I went to see Buddy Holly play, and I was three feet away from him. And he looked at me. I just have some kind of feeling that he was I don't know how or why, but, I know he was with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way."

Keith Richards recalled that Buddy Holly was the prototype for the rock musician who could write, record, and perform their own material: "The beauty of Buddy's thing to me is the self-containedness of it all. He didn't need anybody else, he didn't need, y'know, songs, but just put it all together. He had a great band -- God knows how he got it together, but he was the first one to do it. I mean, until the Beatles turned up and Bob Dylan, who strengthened, y'know, writing your own material, nobody was in that position -- Elvis (Presley) hardly wrote a song in his life. Jerry Lee Lewis has written one, all the other guys didn't do it. And it was in that respect, Buddy was streets ahead of his time."

We asked Graham Nash what he made of Holly upon first hearing him in 1957: "Unbelievable. He was one of us, he was a rock star that had glasses. It wasn't a sex thing, y'know, like Elvis (Presley) was with his swiveling hips. Buddy Holly touched people's hearts in how simple his music was and how attainable it was for everybody. I mean, who doesn't know a Buddy Holly song? I was looking the other day at The Rolling Stone 500 Best Songs Of All Time and he's got four of them in there! We called ourselves the Hollies for God sake. And he definitely without question influenced the Beatles."

Holly's trademark Fender Stratocaster sound, with his lean and economical solos, was a pivotal inspiration to the soon-to-be burgeoning West Coast surf sound.

His decision to not only wear glasses but to overstate the fact, by adopting jet-black horned-rimmed glasses, inspired a legion of budding musicians to pick up instruments regardless of their looks.

The Everly Brothers frequently hit the road with the other forefathers of rock n' roll, and both Don and Phil Everly struck up an immediate and close relationship with Buddy Holly. The late-Phil Everly, who was a pallbearer at Holly's funeral in 1959, recalled the scene of rock's earliest tours in an upcoming documentary called Inventing Rock N' Roll, produced by Everly Films: "The first time I met Buddy Holly was. . . Don and I joined a big package tour, y'know. . . I believe it was the Fats Domino tour. Everybody was on it -- it was something. And, what it was, everybody was down in the, like, locker rooms, like at a sports event y'know, with a -- everybody had a hook (laughs), y'know, for your wardrobe, and we all sat on benches and we were all in the same room and that's when we first met him. I was 18 at the time, so it was like going to college. Everybody was a contemporary and all that. It was like being in a fraternity (laughs), it was really, really something. We rode buses together on the tour and just was the best of. . . I always call it the golden age of rock."

Dion DiMucci, who along with the Belmonts was fourth on the bill of the 1959 Winter Dance Party, told us that despite Holly's humble Texas upbringing, he seemed wise beyond his years: "I spent two weeks with him. And he was very mature for his age. I mean, I was 19 -- he was 22. He was a very decisive guy. I don't know if it was his upbringing, but I couldn't make decisions that fast. I mean. . . Well, he rented a plane! At 22 years-old, 'Okay, listen' -- Y'know he was recruiting people -- 'Let's fly out and we'll just split it.' But you think of a 22-year-old chartering a plane, that was his kind of personality."

According to several sources, including the late country legend Waylon Jennings, who was playing bass for Holly on his final tour, Holly's post-tour plans were to reconvene with the Crickets -- drummer Jerry "J.I." Allison and bassist Joe B. Mauldin -- and carry on with current sideman Tommy Allsup on lead guitar. Holly was also planning on starting his own record label -- Prism Records -- and signing Jennings as its first artist. Not long before his death this past August 22nd at age 82, J.I. Allison recalled the deal that he and Holly made prior to him moving to New York City in 1958: "The last time I saw Buddy as a matter of fact he said, 'O.K., if you're not gonna move to New York, y'all just work as 'the Crickets' and I'll work as 'Buddy Holly' and if it doesn't work out for either one of us we'll get back together, okay?' And we said 'Fine.' And Waylon told me that Buddy was talking to him on that last tour and said 'I'm going to get J.I. and Joe B. back.'"

Holly's widow, Maria Elena, who miscarried their child shortly after his death, recalls their time living in New York City as being an eye-opener for him as he explored the Greenwich Village folk scene and jammed most mornings with musicians at Washington Square Park, which was practically right outside his apartment building the Brevoort: "He really liked the excitement, and at that time that's where -- as they say, where the action was. New York at that time was for musicians. On top of that, that's where I'm from. That's where the Brevoort is on Fifth Avenue, close to Washington Square Park. And that was something that Buddy really enjoyed, because that's where he saw that he could start a new career."

She remembers Buddy performing for free, almost daily, with local musicians at the Park: "Right in the fountain -- y'know, they'd have the benches there in the morning. We'd walk to Washington Square Park, and that's where a lot of musicians congregated. Buddy would sit with a guitar and start playing, and then all of a sudden you see all these people gravitating towards him. They'd say, 'Are you Buddy Holly -- 'That'll Be The Day'?' And then. . . little by little, we did that every day."

Released in 2011 in celebration of his 75th birthday were two star-studded Buddy Holly tribute albums: The MPL-endorsed Rave On: Buddy Holly and the Peter Asher-produced set, Listen To Me: Buddy Holly. The two albums feature such heavyweights as McCartney, Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson, Stevie Nicks, Jeff Lynne, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Nick Lowe, and Lou Reed paying homage to Buddy.

The Beatles won big over this past weekend at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Peter Jackson's 2021 The Beatles: Get Back documentary. Deadline reported the critically acclaimed doc snagged the awards for Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program for Jackson, Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program, Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series, Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera), and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera).

Interestingly, with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr sharing in the win as co-producers of Get Back -- both surviving members of the "Fab Four" are just one Tony Award away from achieving EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) status.

Director Peter Jackson said in his acceptance speech: "I'd just like to thank everyone who worked on this film, especially our family back home and our second family in London at Apple Corps. This could not have been made without the unfailing support of Paul, Ringo, Olivia (Harrison), Julian (Lennon), Yoko (Ono) and Sean Lennon who were all always there with their support and love. Finally, a big shout out to the Beatles. Thank you so much for the over 60 years of your positive, exuberant, joyous. . . Your music is so profound and I think it's actually embedded in our DNA."

Incidentally, McCartney 3,2,1 -- Paul McCartney's groundbreaking Hulu series with producer Rick Rubin lost out to Get Back in two categories: Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera) and Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera).

The Beatles' archival producer Giles Martin said that history has left an unwarranted cloud over the entire Let It Be project, from which the Get Back documentary is culled from: "I think the legend is warped, funnily enough. (Laughs) I think the Beatles told the wrong story themselves. 'Sounds an insulting thing to say, but you have to remember that Let It Be came out when the Beatles were at their worst breakup scenario and they were suing each other. However, the album wasn't made at that time. I mean, they were aware of their impending divorce, if you like, because they were going their separate ways -- and they talk about it in the film. Let It Be's a bit like a marriage, which is becoming a bit tired and they're trying to go back to their date nights by playing live again. That's what Let It Be is, in a way. It doesn't quite work for them. It's too ambitious, what they're trying to do."

In the end, Martin told us that Let It Be is not the doomed swansong history has portrayed it to be -- but actually a significant and positive experience all around: "What we see is, actually, it's an incredible document of how the Beatles work together. That's what it is. It's not a document of how the Beatles broke up, because they didn't break up. They went off and they played the rooftop concert and then did Abbey Road."

The Weeknd lost his voice during a concert in Los Angeles and abruptly ended his show. in Los Angeles on Saturday night (9-3).

It happened while in the middle of belting out his single "Can't Feel My Face." When he realized he couldn't get the words out, he ran off the stage mid-performance.

After some moments of confusion, he came back out and took the microphone to apologize to the audience.

He said, "I don't know what just happened…but I just lost my voice. You know how much this kills me, I'm sorry."

He explained that he didn't want to stop the show, but he had no choice, he promised the audience they would get their money back.

He later went online to post apologies again and said the show would be rescheduled.

It is unclear if his vocal issue will affect any other dates. His tour was previously postponed twice due to the pandemic.

TL;DR:

• The Weeknd lost his voice during a concert in Los Angeles and abruptly ended his show. in Los Angeles on Saturday night (9-3).
• After some moments of confusion, he came back out and took the microphone to apologize to the audience and said the show would be rescheduled.

Over the weekend, Adele won an Emmy Award for her show that aired in November, called Adele: One Night Only. The concert included a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey.

When added to her multiple Grammy and Oscar wins, the three categories make her an EGO winner.

Once the award was dropped off at her house, she went online and posted a few photos with it. She expressed her gratitude to those who voted for her, then joked and said that - she officially has an "EGO."

She wrote: "Bloody hell I'm pleased as punch!"

Adele has 15 Grammys and an Oscar, so she now needs a Tony to reach the status of EGOT — a winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, four of the major American entertainment awards.

TL;DR:

• Over the weekend, Adele won an Emmy Award for her show that aired in November called Adele: One Night Only.
• Adele has 15 Grammys and an Oscar, so she now needs a Tony to reach the status of EGOT

Charlie Puth has dropped a new breakup song called "Smells Like Me." In the song, he mourns a broken relationship but hopes that his lovers jacket still smells like him.

On Twitter, Puth revealed that the single was inspired by a real-life relationship. "Thank you to the person that inspired this song. I never thought pain could morph itself into musical closure."

This marks the fourth single from his upcoming third studio album, CHARLIE, due October 7.

So far, a few of his accomplishments include eight multi-platinum singles, four Grammy nominations, and three Billboard Music Awards.

TL;DR:

• Charlie Puth has dropped a new breakup song called "Smells Like Me."

Mick Jagger and Ron Wood revealed their final conversations with the Rolling Stones' late-drummer Charlie Watts. Watts died of cancer on August 24th, 2021 at the age of 80. London's Daily Mirror quoted some of Jagger and Wood's recollections as featured in Paul Sexton's Charlie's Good Tonight: The Authorized Biography Of Charlie Watts, coming on October 11th.

Mick Jagger looked back to 2021 and Charlie Watts falling ill: "It was all so quick. That was the shocking part of it. One minute I was speaking to him about the tour and what the logo was going to be and the next minute he was gone."

Jagger recalled that despite his health issues, Watts had originally planned to play on the band's last tour, telling Jagger, "'You're the cheerleader of the group and if you say I should do it, I'll do it. Of course I will. I'm happy to.'"

Jagger went on to remember, "I was speaking to him in hospital and, because he was so untechnical, I sent him a big iPad to watch the cricket on. I set it all up with the apps and he watched some of it on that. But Ronnie (Wood) had had a similar illness and got better and that's why I guess I was so confident Charlie was going to do the same thing."

Ron Wood spoke candidly about the point in which Watts realized he had taken a turn for the worse: "The last few days of his hospitalization, he was like, 'I don't like this,' because he went to a certain level of treatment, then they decided to do some extra work on him. We were already well into rehearsals when we got the news. We had a day off and thought, well, Charlie doesn't want us to sit around and mope. We'll just get on with it."

Not too long ago, drummer Charlie Watts told us he found it hard to believe so much time had gone by for the Rolling Stones: "Y'know, three decades just go like that, really, when you're there. You're looking going, 'it's stretching in front of you forever, isn't it?' It's just, I mean, it's something I've enjoyed that I've done, y'know? It's difficult to explain."

Lorde took home the top honor at the Rolling Stone New Zealand Awards. The singer and songwriter scooped the Global award in her hometown, beating out a shortlist that included Benee, Six60, L.A.B, Broods, and Crowded House.

The global award is judged by Rolling Stone's international editors. It's hard to find an award that Lorde hasn't won, but until now, this was one of the few missing from her trophy cabinet.

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• Aerosmith returned to the stage on Sunday night (September 4th) at Bangor, Maine's Maine Savings Amphitheater. The show, which marked the band's first post-pandemic gig, was also the first with a newly clean-and-sober Steven Tyler fresh out of a recent bout in rehab. As expected, missing from action was co-founding drummer Joey Kramer, who is taking 2022 off from the band to deal with personal matters following the death of his wife Linda last June. Filling for him was his drum tech John Douglas. (Rolling Stone)
  
  
• Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Johnny Van Zant revealed that the band will be winding down its live career in the near future. Currently, solo-surviving co-founding member Gary Rossington is off the road while dealing with on-going heart issues. During Van Zant's chat with The Florida Times-Union, he revealed, "We're still looking at hanging it up in the next year or so. We're going to retire from touring." He went on to add, "Musicians never retire, you just do less shows. You really miss it. You miss your fans. I'll probably always do something. . . . I've worked my whole life. It's just in my nature to get out and do something. I love music and I've been blessed, but I can't think of me turning my back. As long as I can write a song, I'm definitely doing that." (Ultimate Classic Rock)
  
  
• Paul Simon is set to play a private fundraiser on September 23rd for Ohio Senate candidate Tim Ryan. The 90-minute event, which will take place at the Canfield, Ohio home of BJ Alan/Phantom Fireworks CEO Bruce Zoldan, will also include Simon participating in a meet and greet with guests. The suggested contribution levels to attend the event are $2,500; $5,000 or $10,000. (NBC - WFMJ)
  
  
• Some of music's most respected players will be heading Down Under in 2023 to perform in Byron Bay, New South Wales at Bluesfest. The Australian music festival is set to run from April 6th to the 10th 2023 at Byron Events Farm. Among the heavyweights already on board to play are Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, Buddy Guy, Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit, Joe Bonamassa, Larkin Poe, Keb' Mo', Lucinda Williams, and Steve Earle & The Dukes. (Noise11)

Ciara and husband Russell Wilson were among several celebs spotted at the U.S. Open on Sept. 2, cheering on Serena Williams. They were guests, sitting in Serena's box in Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City. Along with other fans, including a slew of fellow celebs, the couple cheered on the tennis star as she faced off against Ajla Tomljanovic but lost the match. Ciara later tweeted to her friend and thanked her for her inspiration.

Rihanna jumped in to help a New York City restaurant staff clean up after a girls night out. The group had asked them to stay open past closing time and she decided to return the favor. A source told Page Six that she arrived at the caviar bar with a group of six girlfriends and were there until 2 a.m.

Ozzy Osbourne will perform the halftime show on Thursday, September 8th at L.A.'s SoFi Stadium when the Los Angeles Rams take on the Buffalo Bills. Ozzy's latest album, Patient Number 9, drops the next day on September 9th.

The Prince of Darkness told us a while back that he has no definitive plans to retire: "I don't wanna stop, you know. It's been the biggest love affair of my life. When you reach a certain age in rock 'n' roll, people think, 'Well, this has got to be his last tour,' or 'This has got to be his last tour,' or 'You've got to come next Tuesday 'cause he ain't gonna do it after that.' You'll know when I've come off the road permanently. I mean, you'll know!"

A Los Angeles U.S. District judge has dismissed a third and "final" lawsuit against Nirvana claiming that the cover of their 1991 album, Nevermind, is child pornography. The suits were brought by Spencer Elden, who appeared on the cover naked as a baby. He has been seeking damages from Nirvana's surviving members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well as from the estate of the late Kurt Cobain, the photographer, and multiple record labels.

Rolling Stone reports that Elden will be unable to file another lawsuit because, according to District Judge Fernando Olguin, "it is undisputed that (Elden) did not file his complaint within ten years after he discovered a violation… the court concludes that his claim is untimely."

Elden said he will appeal.

Ariana Grande is gearing up for what is expected to be a role of a lifetime. She took to Instagram to share her excitement by posting several photos, one that teased her upcoming role in Wicked.

She will play Glinda in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning stage musical. The characters are based on the book from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was turned into a movie in 1939.

Late last year, Grande and Cynthia Erivo, who will star as Elphaba were officially announced as the co-leaders of the new films. There will be two separate releases, the first is expected to be out for the Christmas season of 2024.

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Ed Sheeran, who has five number one albums and 10 number one singles so far, says he wants to emulate the success of Coldplay.

He said, "My next milestone is... Coldplay have done 20 years, so I would love to get to 20 years in my career. I feel like that's an achievable milestone."

In the recent interview with The Sun, he also said he would like to bow out at the top of his game.

He stated: "I'm very young in my career compared to someone like U2 or Coldplay, but U2 and Coldplay are two acts I look at avidly."

He went on to praise both U2 and Coldplay for their glittering careers that now grant them the ability to perform sold out arena tours filled with hits.

Sheeran first burst onto the music scene in 2011, meaning he hopes to hit his goal in the next 9 years.

TL;DR:

• Ed Sheeran, who has five number one albums and 10 number one singles so far, says he wants to emulate the success of Coldplay.
• He said, "U2 and Coldplay are two acts I look at avidly."

16-year-old Oliver Shane Hawkins, son of the late Taylor Hawkins wowed a massive audience Saturday when he sat in with his dad's band, Foo Fighters and a slew of other celebrities to honor his father. During the all-star tribute concert, the younger Hawkins looked like a pro playing drums on "My Hero."

Another one of the night's biggest moments came when Dave Grohl brought out Paul McCartney and Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders to sing "Oh Darling." McCartney said it was the first time he ever sang it as a duet. They also did "Helter Skelter."

Foo Fighters served as the house band for much of the event, playing alongside such legendary guests as AC/DC's Brian Johnson, Elton John, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Stewart Copeland from The Police, and Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor. Liam Gallagher was also there to honor and celebrate the life of the late rock star drummer who died earlier this year.

When Foo Fighters started "Times Like These," frontman Grohl was visibly fighting back tears as he began the tune solo. Then, after the song's second chorus, the stage erupted with music as the rest of the band joined in at Wembley Stadium.

Grohl told the audience: "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight we've gathered here to celebrate the life, the music, and the love of our dear friend, our bandmate, our brother Taylor Hawkins. For those of you who knew him personally, you know that no one else could make you smile or laugh or dance or sing like he could. And for those of you that admired him from afar, I'm sure you've all felt the same thing."

Drummer Josh Freese and Omar Hakim played most of the parts that Hawkins would have played and Travis Barker of Blink-182 also filled in.

TL;DR:

• Oliver Shane, son of Taylor Hawkins sat in with Foo Fighters on "My Hero."
• Dave Grohl brought out Paul McCartney and Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders to sing "Oh Darling."
• Foo Fighters served as the house band, playing alongside guests as AC/DC's Brian Johnson, Elton John, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Stewart Copeland from the Police, and Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor.