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Legendary rock n' roller Jerry Lee Lewis celebrates his 87th birthday today (September 29th)!!! "The Killer," as Jerry Lee was nicknamed in high school, came of age as part of the legendary Sun Records roster in the 1950's, alongside Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins. Although he grew up with similar influences as his labelmates, his music had a much harder edge -- his acrobatic piano playing, much like his personality, was rowdy and dangerous.

Next month will see "The Killer" finally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

With the 2021 death of the-late Don Everly, Jerry Lewis stands as the sole-surviving rock n' roll pioneer, having outlived Don's brother Phil Everly, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, and "The King" -- Elvis Presley.

In February 2020, Lewis suffered a minor stroke, forcing the legend to postpone a string of dates. Back in October 2009, Jerry Lee Lewis opened both the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts at New York City's Madison Square Garden.

In 2013 it was reported that producer T-Bone Burnett was working with "The Killer," on an album that was to be released in conjunction with the HarperCollins publication of Lewis' recently published memoir -- Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story -- as told to Pulitzer-Prize winning author Rick Bragg. So far, no release date for the album has been announced.

In 2009 Jerry Lee enlisted some of rock's greatest icons -- and his own biggest fans -- to contribute to his most recent album, Mean Old Man. Among the heavyweights appearing on the set are Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, John Fogerty, Mavis Staples, Slash, Tim McGraw, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and Solomon Burke, among others -- many of whom appeared on Lewis' 2006 set, Last Man Standing.

Highlights on Mean Old Man include Jagger on the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers favorite "Dead Flowers," Jagger and Richards teaming up on a rendition of the Stones' Exile On Main Street classic "Sweet Virginia," Ron Wood on the Kris Kristofferson-written title track, Eric Clapton and James Burton playing guitars on "You Can Have Her," Ringo Starr and John Mayer joining in on "Roll Over Beethoven," and Kid Rock and Slash appearing on "Rockin' My Life Away," Sheryl Crow and Jon Brion teaming up on "You Are My Sunshine," and John Fogerty appearing on a new recording of his Creedence Clearwater Revival standard "Bad Moon Rising."

John Fogerty told us that getting to know "The Killer" was very different from some of his other idols: "Jerry Lee Lewis is a little more . . . um . . . distant, I guess you would say. You just feel like you're walking on eggshells a little bit. So you . . . you're very careful. Which I was, anyway."

Jerry Lee was asked whom, out of all the rockers on his recent albums, he enjoyed playing with the most: "That would be hard to say, I couldn't pick one. I enjoyed doin' it with all the boys and it was fun with each and every one of them. From Bruce (Springsteen) on down to Jimmy Page, you name 'em."

Jerry Lee saw only three songs hit the Top Ten during his career. Though his debut single, "Crazy Arms," didn't cause much of a stir, 1957's "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" was the record that broke through for Lewis. The song first sold 100,000 copies in the South, and then an appearance on The Steve Allen Show catapulted its sales to six million nationally.

"Great Balls Of Fire" was another 1957 hit for him, and sold more than five million copies. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" and "Great Balls Of Fire" were simultaneously in the Top Five of the pop, country, and R&B charts.

In 1958, Jerry Lee saw a third record hit the Top Ten as "Breathless" became a Number Seven hit.

Unfortunately for his career, he was the subject of popular scandal, too. The fact that he married his 13-year-old cousin in 1957 cost him the respect of many fans, and forced him to cancel a UK concert because the fans were so outraged.

Since then, he's remarried several times and endured well-documented battles with the I.R.S., drugs, and health problems.

Jerry Lee Lewis told us that he has one last project to cross off his buck list, an all new collection of gospel recordings: "I wanna do an gospel album next. Not a lot of the new-type stuff, but a lot of the old-type stuff. The old gospel (that) we sing. I was raised in the church and I play songs. . . a lot, and that has a big bearing on it."

Jerry Lee Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in its first year, 1986. He has been a major influence on a number of performers, including Bruce Springsteen, who backed him up at the Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, as well as John Mellencamp, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Elton John, and Billy Joel, among others.

In 1989 Dennis Quaid starred as Jerry Lee in the heavily whitewashed biopic, Great Balls Of Fire.

Elton John and Britney Spears released the music video for their "Hold Me Closer" collaboration Tuesday (September 27th).

Neither artist appears in the visual, but the Tanu Muino-directed video features dancers performing in Mexico City.

John wrote on Instagram that the clip "beautifully captures an immeasurable feeling of intimacy so missing from the world through the turmoil and chaos of recent times."

Fans were not happy to see that Spears was not featured in the video. One commenter on John's Instagram post wrote, "Yup! As we expected: no Britney. Rather boring." Another added, "No Britney = fail. What's the point?"

Maroon 5 is not letting Adam Levine's cheating scandal stop them from work.

A week after the band's front man denied cheating on his pregnant wife, the Grammy-winning group has been booked to headline a Las Vegas residency next year

The Park MGM announced Tuesday (September 27th) that Maroon 5 will perform 16 shows at their Dolby Live theater from March 24th, 2023, through August 12th 2023. Tickets go on sale Monday, October 3rd.

Set for release on November 18th is the Beach Boys' latest era encompassing box set, titled, Sail On Sailor - 1972. The package follows last year's critically acclaimed Feel Flows collection and will be available as a six-CD Super Deluxe Edition along with a five-LP, seven-inch EP vinyl box set. The box includes a 12.5-inch-by-10-inch hardback book featuring liner notes and rare and previously-unseen photos.

The five-LP set includes a reproduction of the original Holland promotional book telling the story of the making of the album and four collectable lithographs. Sail On Sailor - 1972 will also be available digitally and in abbreviated vinyl and CD versions.

The collection includes remastered versions of the band's 1972 album, Carl And The Passions - "So Tough" and the following year's Holland. In addition to co-founders Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine, the albums featured the group's then-latest recruits -- South African musicians Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar. The pair, along with their band the Flame, had been signed to the Beach Boys' Brother Records imprint.

Sail On Sailor features newly remixed outtakes and alternate versions from both albums' sessions -- including the legendary "holy grail" audio moment featuring the 1971 cassette recording of Brian Wilson composing "Sail On Sailor."

Among the many draws to the set is the first official release of the Beach Boys' November 23rd, 1972 Carnegie Hall concert featuring all the songs the band tackled over the two shows performed that Thanksgiving in Manhattan.

David Leaf, the author of the just-updated, critically acclaimed biography, God Only Knows: The Story Of Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys And The California Myth, shed light on where the Beach Boys and their fans found themselves in 1972: "We've had two great albums in a row. (1970's) Sunflower, which was probably the best Beach Boys album of the past 50-something years, followed by (1971's) Surf's Up, which is a terrific record -- but it suffered from the absence of Dennis Wilson. So Dennis returns for Carl & The Passions, Brian has a role with two great new songs -- 'Marcella' and 'You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone.' Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fattar, who are now official Beach Boys, each contribute songs recorded at a different studio. There's a loving piece ('All This Is That') from Al, Carl, and Mike with great vocals. But the genuine surprise of 1972 is that there are two epic songs from Dennis Wilson. Ending the album with 'Cuddle Up' is just, just spectacular."

In 1971, legendary Beach Boys photographer Ed Roach had been in Brian Wilson's home studio the day before recording a band he was producing from back home in Brooklyn. He popped by the next day and eavesdropped on history in the making: "When I got to Bellagio (Road), I buzzed the gate, and (Brian's then-wife) Marilyn (Wilson) buzzed me right in. And I could hear right away that Brian was in the studio workin'. And he was in there composing 'Sail On Sailor' with Van Dyke Parks. And I sat down. I sat down on the curb outside the studio, and honestly, I lit up a joint, I sat there -- and, gosh -- at least a half-an-hour, or 45 minutes, or so, I just sat there on the curb right outside Bellagio listening to him and Van Dyke work. While I sat there listening, obviously, what appears on that demo is what I was listening to Van and Brian record that day."

Beach Boys producer and archivist Alan Boyd explained how in 1972, then-manager Jack Rieley chose the shake up the band and its Bel Air-based recording operations in order to move the group in a new direction by transplanting them to Holland: "Jack Rieley had this idea -- if he could get all the Beach Boys together in unfamiliar, neutral territory, someplace completely different than any place they've ever experienced before, it might foster a sense of group unity and help them create an album that was really an album. As opposed to a collection of whatever songs they happened to have finished (laughs) in time for a deadline -- which is basically what Carl & The Passions was. So, he came up with this incredibly ambitious idea to move the whole group to Europe."

Beach Boys creative consultant and writer Howie Edelson touched upon the band's historic November 1972 Carnegie Hall performances, which are featured for the first time on the new box set: "The Beach Boys' Carnegie Hall shows have always represented a vindication or return to form for the group's legacy. There's no way you can listen to their performances from Thanksgiving night '72 and not be stunned by how incredibly hot and smart this ensemble was. I mean, no other veteran band that was left for dead commercially was able to capture the imagination of not only a whole new audience -- but lure their original long gone fans back. The Beach Boys -- especially in this era -- were really an unstoppable force with creativity just bouncing and sparking off them like mad."

We asked bandmember Blondie Chaplin what Beach Boys fans made of him and Ricky Fataar not only joining the band onstage and contributing to their albums -- but becoming the band's final official members: "In hindsight I thought they -- yeah, they didn't mind, for some reason. Y'know, I mean, it's 'Beach Boy,' but, Ricky -- he was 21, I was 20. They seemed to like it, but it was that limited amount of time. I don't know, I think people seemed to think it's okay that these two guys from apartheid-ville were hanging out."

Beach Boys producer and engineer Mark Linett offered up a peak into how the group's massive archives are handled in preparation for reissues and expanded projects such as Sail On Sailor: "We have been slowly digitally archiving all the tapes in the Beach Boys' archives to high-resolution, digital, Pro Tools session. This makes it possible to instantly retrieve anything we've transferred, which is probably about 95 percent of what's there. And as far as these big projects, it means that we already have a very good idea of what's there. We don't have to go pull out a 10-foot-high pile of tapes and do a bunch of transfers."

Will Rihanna perform with a guest at the Super Bowl? According to TMZ, the singer and her creative team are working hard, planning her Halftime Show performance and figuring out whether or not she will be joined by special guests. Rihanna's team has nearly 50 possible names of artists that could hit the stage with her.

Sources say that anyone RiRi collaborated with in the past may possibly appear, including Jay-Z, Kanye West, Paul McCartney, Calvin Harris, Pharrell, Drake and more.

No final decisions have been made on who may join Rihanna, but she will have the final say. There is also a chance that she may do her entire performance solo.

In other news, the singer and her boyfriend were spotted hitting a recording studio on Monday night (September 26th).

David Crosby took time out to talk about the Beatles' 1966 classic Revolver, which is set for a deluxe reissue on October 28th. Crosby, who along with fellow Byrds-bandmate Roger McGuinn, had struck up a close relationship with the "Fab Four" back in 1965, spoke about the album, telling Mojo: "Name any song on Revolver and I'll go, 'Yeah, that's amazing.' 'Eleanor Rigby'; nobody else was writing about those kinds of invisible people, so beautiful, heartfelt and kind -- and such a great song. 'Tomorrow Never Knows' was beautiful, too, especially the words, but then the words on all of Revolver evolved upwards. There was a stong anti-establishment flavor, too -- and 'Taxman' was one of the reasons; you can tell they're pissed."

He went on to say, "'Got To Get You Into My Life' was an amazing piece of construction using all the tools: the brass, the choruses, everything. Even ''Yellow Submarine,' it was warm and fuzzy, like a dog toy to be played with, it made the Beatles human and open, and it made you love Ringo (Starr) right away. . . I know the other Byrds, especially Roger, were thrilled by Revolver: anyone with a brain would have been."

Croz went on to shed light on the personal relationship between him and the band: "The Byrds and the Beatles had taken LSD together, playing music and laying around in the sun in the Hollywood Hills, but the starling part was the chemistry between people rather than the drugs. John (Lennon) was more difficult, Paul (McCartney) was more distant, but George (Harrison) was more friendly and undefended."

When we last caught up with David Crosby, we asked him about how back in the Byrds' mid-'60s heyday, the Beatles treated him and Roger McGuinn on as personal confidantes and musical peers: "They were extremely bright cats; not, y'know, reserved intellectuals from expensive schools -- these were kids off the street who had smarts. Real smarts. And a tremendous amount of talent. And hangin' out with them, y'know, it was difficult, because there was such an intense sphere of people. . . y'know, a lotta pressure. It was very difficult for them to get five minutes to themselves. The time that I did spend with them, we spent very privately and doing ordinary things. Playin' guitar, laying out by the pool, talkin,' playing music for each other that we had recorded. Y'know, stuff that was all the more precious because it wasn't a big deal. I loved showin' John Lennon a chord he hadn't seen before. Good cats. And they were very nice to us. Drove us home from gigs, invited us over for dinner, came to our shows. They were as nice as they could be."

John Mellencamp fans take note -- the man himself will be on hand tomorrow (September 29th) at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for "John Mellencamp Fan Day."

The Legends Of Rock: John Mellencamp exhibit features induction footage from the Rock Hall vault, a career defining Mellencamp playlist played throughout the Museum, with Mellencamp playing a special performance set to air live on iHeartMedia stations where he'll be talking about the Rock Hall exhibit and making a tour announcement.

With well over 45 years in business, we asked John Mellencamp how he sees himself and the state of his career in the present day: "Fortunate -- but unlucky. Unlucky enough to be a rock star. Y'know, you turn on the radio and you hear 'Pink Houses' for the 9,000th time, and you assume that's all that John Mellencamp does. Led Zeppelin was a lot more than 'Stairway To Heaven,' but, y'know, that's what you hear. Y'know, it's not just me -- y'know, the Rolling Stones are always more than 'Honky Tonk Women.' Bob Seger was always more than, y'know, 'Night Moves,' but sorry -- that's all you hear all the time. Of course you and I know that rock is over. We've had our 40 years. And so now, it's just total freedom to me. I don't have to listen to anybody (laughs), I don't do -- y'know, do exactly what I wanna do."

Shakira will stand trial for tax fraud in Spain.

On Tuesday (September 27th), a judge ruled that the pop star will be tried for allegedly failing to pay $13.9 million in taxes on income that she earned between 2012 and 2014.

The New York Post reports that prosecutors seek and eight years prison sentence and a stiff fine for the "Hips Don't Lie" singer.

The 45-year-old performer claims she only lived in Spain less than half of the time during the two-year period and her public relations firm says she has already paid all of the taxes that she owed plus interest.

Billy Corgan didn't mince words about how the music business does not produce happy people. Loudwire transcribed some of his chat on WFAN's Boomer & Geo show, in which he explained, "I don't know if you can be happy in the music business because the music business is sort of designed to mess with your head. I think the music business in particular has been very late to the game with mental health and artists."

The Smashing Pumpkins leader went on to say, "We lost Jimi Hendrix at 27 years old to addiction and think of all the music that Jimi Hendrix didn't make. We're still talking about Jimi Hendrix 54 or 55 years after his death. I get lost in there because it's so sad to me. Think of all the people my generation has lost just to addiction and suicide alone. It is a travesty that there wasn't more support systems around those artists. I don't mean to throw shade at anybody. I just know how the business works. It's one of exploitation."

Corgan went on to talk about how he feels lucky to remain one of rock's survivors: "I feel blessed, so that's the start of every sentence. I would just like people to say he made it through, and if that inspired them to try harder, great. I'm not trying to be that role model, but I don't want to be on the other end of the casualty list."

Back in 1996 when inducting Pink Floyd into the Rock Hall, Billy Corgan spoke about Syd Barrett -- one of rock's first fallen heroes and permanent victims of the drug culture: "The very root of Pink Floyd surrounds the genesis with Syd Barrett -- and as we all know, we're consistently amazed in rock n' roll with tragedy and beauty, and Syd was both. His original artistic vision that's expressed on the first Pink Floyd record really defined what this band still continues to be -- an exploration into the outer terrains of whatever it is that makes music happen."

Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction kick off their joint North American tour on October 2nd at Dallas' American Airlines Center.

A new four-part docuseries about producer Phil Spector and the 2003 murder of Lana Clarkson will hit Showtime in early-November. The docuseries, titled Spector, will "largely center" on the night of February 3rd, 2003 when Spector murdered Clarkson. It will air first on Showtime's on-demand platforms on November 4th before airing widely on the network two days later.

Rolling Stone reported, "(Spector) will strike a balance between true crime and music doc, digging into the events surrounding Clarkson's murder, the subsequent trial and media circus, as well as Spector's singular musical career and history of paranoia, anger, and violence. The film will also explore Clarkson's life, her decades of regular work in Hollywood, and the difficult place her career had reached by the time of her fatal meeting with Spector."

Phil Spector, who was renowned for his famed "Wall of Sound" record productions of the early-'60s died on January 16th, 2021 of reportedly Covid-related issues at Stockton's California Health Care Facility, California State Prison. Spector had been serving a 19-year sentence for a 2009 murder conviction of killing Clarkson in his Los Angeles home.

In 2007 a video of Phil Spector appeared on the syndicated news program Inside Edition. On the tape Spector explained that it was physically impossible for him to have killed Clarkson: "The deceased was standing when she took her own life and she was five-eleven and she would've been six-feet-two with heels on, which she was wearing at the time of her death, and that the gun was in a downward position. I am five-foot-five. It would've been physically impossible for me to have administered the death wound to her in any shape, way, or form."

Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has opened up about the death of his bandmate Taylor Hawkins. In an interview with The Plug with Justin Jay, Shiflett compared the loss of Hawkins to that of his father. He explained, "I remember for a long time after my dad died, you're sad about it, but you almost, like, forget for a second."

He continued, "Even, like, waking up in the morning ... and for a foggy second, you forget that he's dead. And then, 'Oh, f*ck, that's right, he's dead.'"

Shiflett said it's been a similar experience dealing with Hawkins' death, especially as the band prepped for the Hawkins Tribute Concerts. He explained, "Being at our rehearsal studio ... it's like you just expect him to walk in the room. That's the part that's really bizarre. ... You know it's true, you know it's reality — I don't know when that sinks in for real."

It was 48 years ago today (September 28th, 1974) that Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently" hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100. Kim was born Andrew Joachim of Lebanese descent in Montreal, Canada in 1946. He moved to New York City at the age of 16 and eventually hooked up with the legendary songwriting team of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry -- the duo responsible for "Be My Baby," "Chapel Of Love," "Hanky Panky," and dozens of other '60s classics.

Kim eventually married Greenwich and formed a songwriting partnership with Barry. Together they wrote the Archie's 1969 Number One smash, "Sugar, Sugar" -- a song originally offered to the Monkees. Kim continued to record as a solo act and scored two Top 20 hits with remakes of the Greenwich & Barry-written Ronettes classics "Be My Baby," and "Baby, I Love You."

By 1974 Kim was without a recording contract and ended up financing the recording of "Rock Me Gently" himself. He only had enough money to record two songs. Rather than waste the second tune for the record's B-side, Kim tagged an instrumental version on the back.

"Rock Me Gently" was released on June 22nd, 1974 and took over three months to reach Number One -- knocking Barry White's "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe" out of the top spot. During that same time, R&B stations were playing the instrumental B-side.

The song held the top spot for one week. Kim told Billboard in 1974: "I never mentally admitted defeat in spite of 18 months between record contracts. It's true that you can be lonely at the top, but believe me, it's lonelier at the bottom."

In 2015 Kim released his latest album, called It's Decided.

Jack Harlow will serve as co-host for a special episode of NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, October 6th.

According to a press release, the rapper will make a pit stop at 30 Rock the day before his Come Home the Kids Miss You Tour stops at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Friday, Oct. 7th.

As part of his hosting duties, Harlow is expected to help Fallon deliver the nightly monologue, co-interview guest Dwyane Wade, and introduce a musical performance from Quavo & Takeoff.

The co-hosting gig will mark the "First Class" performer's fourth appearance on The Tonight Show.

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis shed light on the band's new tribute to the late-Eddie Van Halen. The track, named "Eddie," will be featured on the band's upcoming double album, Return Of The Dream Canteen, which drops on October 14th.

Kiedis explained how the song came about, posting on Twitter, "Sometimes we don't realize how deeply affected and connected we are to artists until the day they die. Eddie Van Halen was a one of a kind. The day after his death Flea came into rehearsal with an emotional bassline."

He went on to write, "John (Frusciante), Chad (Smith) and I started playing along and pretty soon with all our hearts, a song in his honor effortlessly unfolded. It felt good to be sad and care so much about a person who had given so much to our lives."

Kiedis closed by saying, "Although the song doesn't speak to Eddie by name, it talks about his early days on the Sunset Strip and the rock n' roll tapestry that Van Halen painted on our minds. In the end, our song asks that you not remember Eddie for dying but for living his wildest dream."

Return Of The Dream Canteen once again pairs the Chili Peppers with producer Rick Rubin. Anthony Kiedis told us years ago why the band loves teaming up with Rubin whenever they can: The best way to describe Rick as a producer would be if Baron Von Munchausen were to ejaculate the Red Hot Chili Peppers onto a chess board. As the players of that board, Rick Rubin would be the perfect chess player. He's very intelligent, very emotionally in tune with hardcore soulful music. He knows how to extrapolate the best and most relaxed natural performance of a band without changing them."

Red Hot Chili Peppers will next perform on October 9th and 16th in Austin, Texas at Austin City Limits Music Festival.

The audiobook readers have been revealed for Bob Dylan's first new book in 18 years, titled, The Philosophy Of Modern Song, which will be published on November 8th. Simon & Schuster's website posted the audiobook clocks in at seven hours, with Dylan himself reading, with Uncut reporting chapters being read by such heavyweights as Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno, Sissy Spacek, Alfre Woodard, Jeffrey Wright, and Renée Zellweger.

The Philosophy Of Modern Song features 60 essays featuring Dylan's musings on other popular musicians -- including Stephen Foster, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, and Nina Simone. Dylan has been working on the manuscript for the past decade.

According to the book's official press release:

Bob Dylan analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan's unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny.

And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work's transcendence.

During Martin Scorsese's 2005 Grammy Award-winning documentary, No Direction Home, Bob Dylan touched upon starting his long journey from his humble beginnings in Hibbing, Minnesota: "I had ambitions to set out and find, like, an odyssey, goin' home somewhere. (And) set out to find this home that I, I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was -- but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the, on the way, was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all."

Charlie Puth is extending his time on the road by adding shows in Europe this fall. The Grammy-nominated artist previously announced the North American leg in support of his third studio album, CHARLIE, due October 7^th. From that album, Puth will release a new song on Friday (9-30) called "Charlie Be Quiet."

Produced by Live Nation, the run of intimate shows will first kick off with eight dates across North America before making its way to the London Coliseum on November 28^th. His One Night Only tour will wrap in Berlin in the first week of December.

TL;DR:

• Charlie Puth is extending his tour to include Europe this fall.
• He'll play eight dates across North America before heading to the London Coliseum on November 28^th.

Billie Eilish is ending her sold-out global world tour with a special livestream from the O2 Arena in London.

Eilish broke the news to her fans online and called the Happier Than Ever Tour, her "favorite tour" she's ever done.

She added, "I can't wait for you to see it!"

The event will stream exclusively on Apple Music this Friday, (September 30^th) at 10:00p ET. Eilish is one of Apple's top streaming artists worldwide.

TL;DR:

• Billie Eilish is ending her sold-out global world tour with a special livestream from the O2 Arena in London.
• Exclusively on Apple Music this Friday, September 30^th.

Ahead of her appearance at tonight's (September 27th) tribute concert at L.A.'s Kia Forum, Heart's Nancy Wilson has posted the video to her new musical salute to her dear friend, the late-Taylor Hawkins.

Wilson spoke about the tune, titled "Amigo Amiga," explaining to Consequence Of Sound: "I heard myself in tears saying 'too soon too soon,' which became a refrain in the song. I spent quite a few sleepless nights trying to express it all. He was a wonderful friend and we always had funny pet names for each other like 'Amigo' and 'Amiga' as well as 'Luv' and 'Dahling.'''

Wilson went on to say, "It is such a painful loss -- but it also feels like Taylor has galvanized and re-energized rock n' roll with so many of his musician friends and fans coming together. It's a new renaissance Taylor and the Foo (Fighters) family have gifted us all."

All profits from "Amigo Amiga" will benefit the non-profit organization MusiCares.

Neil Young's infamous 1973 Time Fades Away live album has finally been released as a standalone CD. The bundle for the album includes both a newly pressed CD along with a Time Fades Away Hi Res Download Code via Young's official website (NeilYoungArchives.org). As it stands now, the album is already sold out -- but supplies are expected to seen be replenished.

The live album was primarily recorded on the road in early-1973 while Young and his then-band the Stray Gators were touring behind his massive 1972 Harvest album. The Stray Gators featured Jack Nitzsche on piano, Ben Keith on steel guitar, Tim Drummond on bass, and drummer Johnny Barbata. David Crosby and Graham Nash joined the tour and are featured both vocally and instrumentally backing Young on several tracks.

Time Fades Away was originally released on October 15th, 1973 and topped out at Number 22 on the Billboard charts. Due to Young's dissatisfaction with the album, it was never issued on CD along with the rest of his catalogue in the 1980's and '90s.

Noise11.com reported, "The album finally had a CD release as part of the Official Release Series Discs 5-8 in 2017 but it was a very limited release. However, it has been available for streaming with Young's other catalogue and was first released digitally through Pono from December 2014."

Neil Young told us that over the course of his career, he's happy to have a diverse community of musicians that he can pick and choose from to help serve his music on a project-by-project basis: "Generally, if I'm writing some real rock n' roll songs and some real basic, primitive rock n' roll songs, usually I'll go to Crazy Horse. And if I'm writing more complicated songs or things that are, are more complex or, y'know, where the rhythm patterns are different and they require a little more refinement, then I'll go somewhere else."

Olivia Rodrigo says that Alanis Morissette "Completely changed" her life. She made the comment in Toronto over the weekend as Morissette was being honored by the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Rodrigo noted that listening to Jagged Little Pill inspired her and said that Morissette's writing was unlike anything she'd ever heard.

Rodrigo commented, "I haven't heard anything quite like it since. And that voice… fierce and tender and sometimes funny and playful. I became hooked for life."

The two met last year during a Rolling Stone cover shoot and then later performed together at a concert in Los Angeles.

Near the end of the ceremony, Morissette gave a ten-minute speech and expressed her joy and gratitude as an inductee.

TL;DR:

• Olivia Rodrigo says that Alanis Morissette "Completely changed" her life.
• Rodrigo noted that listening to Jagged Little Pill inspired her.
• Says that Morissette's writing was unlike anything she'd ever heard.
• Morissette was being honored at the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

As expected, the legendary Bonnie Raitt is hard at work on the road supporting her latest hit album, Just Like That. . . The set topped no less than six Billboard charts -- including the magazine's Folk and Top Blues lists. Raitt hits San Diego tonight (September 27th), playing the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park with special guest Mavis Staples opening the show.

With decades of studio and stage work under her belt, Bonnie Raitt explained to us that the lessons she's learned apply to the studio and concert hall alike: "A show and an album are not dissimilar. Y'know, you have a certain way of opening up things. And a certain. . . for me it's how to set the three big ballads into the record with enough recovery time after you hear them and enough build up before them. You can't put four ballads in a row and you can't put any similar grooves in a row, so after 21 records, I kinda know what works and its part of the artistry, I think."

Bonnie Raitt - with special guest Marc Cohn - tour dates (subject to change):

September 27 - San Diego, CA - The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park (Mavis Staples opening)
September 30 - Tempe, AZ - ASU Gammage
October 1 - Tucson, AZ - Tucson Music Hall
October 4 - Albuquerque, NM - Kiva Auditorium at the Albuquerque Convention Center
October 5 - El Paso, TX - Abraham Chavez Theatre
October 7 - San Antonio, TX - Majestic Theatre
October 8 - Grand Prairie, TX - Texas Trust CU Theatre
November 2 - Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater
November 4 - Sugar Land, TX - Smart Financial Center at Sugar Land
November 5 - New Orleans, LA - Mahalia Jackson Theater
November 8 - Jackson, MS - Thalia Mara Hall
November 9 - Birmingham, AL - BJCC Concert Hall
November 11 - Savannah, GA - Johnny Mercer Theatre
November 12 St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheater
November15 Melbourne, FL - King Center
November 16 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Au-Rene Theater at Broward Center for the Performing Arts
November 18 Sarasota, FL - Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
November 19 Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall

Megan Thee Stallion has launched a new website filled with mental health resources. It's called Bad B*tches Have Bad Days Too.

She confirmed the news after retweeting a fan who discovered the site. She wrote: "Bounce back like bad b*tches do."

The site pulls together organizations that provide free therapy, group programs for the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities, specific hotlines, and more.

Megan Thee Stallion has spoken openly about her mental health journey in the past, including the fact that therapy helped her after the deaths of both of her parents.

TL;DR:

• Megan Thee Stallion has launched a new website filled with mental health resources.
• It's called Bad B*tches Have Bad Days Too.
• It pulls together organizations that provide free therapy, group programs for the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities, specific hotlines, and more.

Harry Styles' single "As It Was" has now been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart for 15 weeks. That's the longest reign by any British act, as well as the longest running solo song in Billboard Hot 100 history. And keeping with theme, Styles' film Don't Worry Darling debuted at #1 at the North American Box Office.

Taylor Swift announced another song title from her next album, Midnights and of course she did it at the stroke of midnight on Monday (Sept. 26). The unveiling of a song called "Question," happened on TikTok. Swift, once again was seen spinning an old-fashioned lottery-ball cage, seemingly leaving the song up to chance. The album is due October 21.

BLACKPINK'S Born Pink moved 102,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release in the US. The milestone makes them the first all-female group to top the Billboard Top 200 albums chart since 2008. Counting BTS and Stray Kids, three different South Korean acts have now topped U.S. Billboard charts this year.