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It was 40 years ago Saturday (June 4th, 1982) that Genesis released its double-album concert collection, Three Sides Live. The album, which was primarily recorded the previous year during the band's tour in support of its MTV breakthrough Abacab collection, was the group's third live set, following 1973's Genesis Live, and 1977's Seconds Out.

Three Sides Live, which hit Number 10 in the U.S. was the band's second Top 10 hit in the states and peaked at Number Two in the UK. An accompanying video version of the album with a slightly alternate tracklisting was an early-MTV concert staple. The U.S. version of the album featured the fourth side comprised of the band's 1982 British EP 3×3 along with a pair of B-sides from their 1980 Duke album, with the overseas edition of the set featuring a trio of live tracks recorded live between 1976 and 1980.

Highlights on Three Sides Live included such recent Genesis favorites as "Turn It On Again" "Abacab," "Behind The Lines," "Misunderstanding," "Follow You Follow Me," and "Afterglow" -- along with a nearly 12 minute dip into the early-'70s Peter Gabriel-era with the "In the Cage," medley, which featured portions from both "The Cinema Show" and "The Colony Of Slippermen."

Back in '82 Phil Collins spoke about being a full time fromtman and only an occasion drummer during the Genesis live shows: "Well, I realize that I am a singer now -- whether I like it or not. But really, I still think of myself as a drummer. I still think that if I've got any magic, it's as a drummer -- not as a singer. That's really where I'm most natural. That's my most natural habitat, (laughs) if you like, It's about a drum kit. Although I do enjoy singing. Apart from the fact that I have to, y'know, right now as talking to you, in the back of my minds is: 'Don't use your voice. Don't use your voice'; because I have to sing. Whereas with drumming, of course, as long as you can stand up straight, you can play."

Kesha has announced that she will star in Conjuring Kesha, a Discovery+ show about exploring the supernatural and paranormal. She'll also have celebrity guests and says that - to her, the supernatural comes naturally.

She posted about it on Twitter and wrote, "This is literally the most insane thing I've ever experienced and I've experienced a lot of insanity this life time. Join me on the adventure! We cry! We laugh. We wonder if we're already dead! Are we aliens?!"

She hosts a weekly podcast with a similar theme.

Conjuring Kesha consists of six, one-hour episodes and will begin airing on July 8, on Discovery+.

TL;DR:

• Kesha will host Conjuring Kesha, a Discovery+ show about exploring the supernatural and paranormal.
• "This is literally the most insane thing I've ever experienced and I've experienced a lot of insanity in this life time."
• Six, one-hour episodes beginning July 8

The Strokes canceled another show due to Covid. On Thursday (June 2), the band issued a statement via Instagram Story, telling fans that they are unable to perform their headlining set for tonight's (June 3) Primavera Sound Festival because of Covid.

They wrote: "The band is committed to returning full force in Stockholm and playing next weekend in Barcelona. We deeply apologize."

The Festival made a statement to fans to let them know they tried everything to make it work. Saying that they had been concerned since the band's cancellation of their Boston concert on May 28. The band is already in Barcelona, with the exception of one of its members, who can't travel due to health reasons.

Other than the Boston show, The Strokes also had to cancel their New Year's Eve concert in Brooklyn due to covid.

Caribou will be taking The Strokes' place in the festival lineup, while Mogwai will take Caribou's original slot.

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It was 39 years ago today (June 3rd, 1983) that Derek & The Dominos drummer Jim Gordon brutally murdered his mother. Gordon, who was officially diagnosed with schizophrenia while on trial for bludgeoning his mother with a hammer and stabbing her to death, is still regarded as one of rock's greatest drummers. But Gordon is probably best known for writing the ending piano theme to the Eric Clapton's 1970 Derek & The Dominos masterpiece "Layla." In recent years Dominos keyboardist Bobby Whitlock revealed that Gordon actually did not write the piano them to "Layla," insisting that Gordon stole the melody from his then-girlfriend, singer Rita Coolidge.

Gordon was sentenced to 16-years-to life in prison, and has served his sentence at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, Atascadero State Hospital in Atascadero, and the State Medical Corrections Facility in Vacaville. Gordon was denied parole until at least 2018 when he was denied release for the first time. A California parole board panel deemed the then-67-year-old Gordon "a danger to society if released from prison" and citing "his resistance to court-ordered medication and counseling." Rolling Stone reported Los Angeles County deputy district attorney Alexis de la Garza told the panel that Gordon is ". . . medically and psychologically non-compliant. This is one of the saddest cases that we have in prison. We have an individual who is seriously psychologically incapacitated, and he is a danger when he is not taking his medication."

Beginning with a 1963 stint drumming for the Everly Brothers, Gordon's resume literally reads like a who's who of '60s and '70s session work, having played with Barbra Streisand, John Lennon, George Harrison, Taj Mahal, Phil Spector, Jackson Brown, Dr. John, Carole King, the Beach Boys, Delaney & Bonnie, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Johnny Rivers, Minnie Ripperton, Harry Nilsson, Gordon Lightfoot, B.B. King, Randy Newman, Carly Simon, the Monkees, the Carpenters, Linda Ronstadt, Steely Dan, Traffic, Frank Zappa, and many more.

Rita Coolidge, who was briefly romantically involved with Jim Gordon in the early-'70s recalled his violent and dangerous side: "In hindsight, lookin' back, I went, 'Well, he was doin' blow, he was just over the edge' -- because if you're doing excessive amounts of drugs and you have, already, a predisposition or active mental illness, it will be exacerbated by the drugs and alcohol. So, I just figured that's what had happened. I never. . . occurred to me. . . I mean, he had been violent with me for absolutely no reason -- but I didn't know anything about the voices. I don't know if he was hearing voices then. I imagine he probably was. Probably a voice told him to take me out in the hall and punch me out. I never went near him again. I didn't wanna deal with him on any level, because I was afraid of him!"

Legendary Eagles songwriter J.D. Souther, toured with Jim Gordon during the short-lived Souther-Hillman-Furay Band days, and recalled that there were two distinct sides to Jim Gordon in the mid-'70s: "Well, he was becoming unhinged. We didn't exactly know how much, because you couldn't tell that much. He was a social nightmare, but he was great on stage every night. He never messed up. He played these brilliant sets and then one night he passed out in the urinal waiting to go back on for an encore. He was completely unpredictable, but he never played badly."

Souther maintains that although everyone around him was aware of Gordon's issues -- nobody could've predicted what the future held for him: "We knew he was a mess, but nobody knew what kind of a mess. Frankly, he had so many chemicals running around in his body that it was impossible to tell which 'Jim' you were getting at any given moment."

In 1992 Gordon shared the 1992 Grammy for Best Rock Song for Clapton's re-recording of "Layla" from his Unplugged album.

Jim Gordon reportedly plays drums in a prison band.

A Judas Priest concert without leather and studs??? According to Blabbermouth -- that's just what fans got at the band's May 31st European tour kick off at Berlin, Germany's 1,600-capacity Huxleys Neue Welt.

Priest Richie Faulkner guitarist posted a message to fans on social media, which read:

Last night in berlin was glorious and something I've never done with the band before. No leather, no studs. No screens, no motorbike. No massive light show or inflatable Birmingham bull. Exposed speakers, just jeans, t-shirts, a small club and it was all purely about the music. All of us together and the raw power of the music. It was truly a great experience and one I'd love to do again sometime.

It's great when you strip it all back to what it's all about, the music and the people of our great heavy metal community. Thank you all for making it such a special night.

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford told us that an unexplainable transition occurs prior to him hitting the stage, which turns from soft-spoken, mild mannered man offstage to "Metal God" by showtime: "Something happens -- I don't know what it is. It's kind of intangible. It's probably best left unanalyzed, because it might be (laughs) too scary to find out what the hell's going on. I know that something takes over -- that's just the full extent of the passion that I have for my music, and the fact that to some extent, it's always been my therapy."

Justin Bieber seemed to enjoy making his new commercial for the launch of Biebs Brew, a French vanilla coffee brew, for a donut company called Tim Horton's.

The popular donut shop released a playful new commercial featuring Bieber's dedication to the cold brew he co-created.

The clip shows Bieber standing in a dark conference room in front of a large brewing container of coffee. And he tells the Tim Horton's employee that he isn't leaving until the coffee is ready, even though that won't happen until the next day. As he plans to spend the night at Tim Horton's waiting on the first brew, she turns out the lights and leaves him in the dark to wait alone.

This isn't the first time Bieber has come up with a fun collaboration with Tim Hortons. In November, he worked with the company's director of culinary innovation to come up with Timbiebs, AKA… donut holes.

Fans will be able to buy the new Bieber Brew in Canada and the U.S. by June 6^th.

TL;DR:

• Justin launched his new commercial for Biebs Brew, a French vanilla brew, at a donut company called Tim Horton's.
• Fans will be able to buy the new Bieber Brew in Canada and the U.S. by June 6^th.

The Rolling Stones kicked off their European "Stones 60" tour last night (June 1st) in Madrid, Spain, marking the band's first shows of 2022. The big surprise of the night was the band performing the 1966 Aftermath favorite "Out Of Time" for the first time since their fall '66 UK tour.

The 1978 Some Girls classic "Beast Of Burden" was the Internet "fan choice" of the night -- and the band and fans got the chance to sing "Happy Birthday" to guitarist Ron Wood who celebrated his 75th yesterday.

The "Stones 60" tour plays through July 31st in Stockholm, Sweden. The band will also perform open air shows in Germany, England, Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy. There are already industry whispers about upcoming North American dates -- but nothing concrete has been announced.

Mick Jagger told us that in terms of the band's nightly setlist -- just because a song might've cooked during rehearsals, it hardly means that it'll be a hit when introduced onstage: "The thing about when you do running orders, is that it's completely hypothetical. You don't know if this song is going to work -- and you soon do. And you go out and you do it. And if it doesn't work. . . you don't know about songs."

Keith Richards was asked if after all these years he gets nervous just before jumping on stage -- especially playing venues like the massive football stadiums the Stones usually play: "No -- but there is. . . it depends what you mean by nerves. I mean, some people (get) nerves, or butterflies -- no, that don't come into it. But there is at the same time a sense of excitement. You really, gotta, like, fly. Y'know, that's what you try and do, y'know; and I got some fliers in this band."

Ron Wood, who first recorded with the Stones back in 1974 and toured with the band the following year, still remembers what it was like to be one of the band's original legion of early British fans: "Yeah, well, I still look at it from a far, y'know? It's a bit like. . . it's very surreal to be in this unit where you used to run home from school to watch on the telly, going (claps hands): 'I'm gonna be in that band!' -- Y'know, to actually be in that band."

In 1982, Chuck Leavell replaced former-Faces member Ian McLagan to become the Stones' keyboardist for the European leg of the band's tour behind Tattoo You -- a gig he's had since then. Leavell, who also played with Eric Clapton, had previously achieved fame as part of the Allman Brothers Band and his own group, the Allmans off-shoot ensemble, Sea Level.

After playing an identical show night-after-night, for the band's 1989/1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle trek, Leavell told us he pressed the Stones to stretch out and really explore their entire catalogue: "I said, 'Let's dig deep guys' -- and we did. And so I started taking notes. I would do chord charts on early songs that the band had done, or I would take notes -- 'Do we have horns? What were the horn parts? What were the background vocals? Did we change the arrangements for any reasons?' And so, I began to take copious notes during that experience. And so, I, sort of, came to be the 'go-to' guy: 'Hey Chuck, how does the middle-eight go?' 'Hey Chuck, what's the tempo of this?' I keep a lot of that in my head, but I have the notes to refer to. I now have two encyclopedic notebooks that encompasses most, y'know, I would say 90 percent of the work that the band has done."

The Rolling Stones' setlist last night in Madrid:

"Street Fighting Man"
"19th Nervous Breakdown"
"Sad, Sad, Sad"
"Tumbling Dice"
"Out Of Time"
"Beast Of Burden"
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
"Living In A Ghost Town"
"Honky Tonk Women"
Band intros & "Happy Birthday Ronnie"
"Happy"
"Slipping Away"
"Miss You"
"Midnight Rambler
"Start Me Up"
"Paint It Black"
"Sympathy For The Devil"
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"

Encore
"Gimme Shelter"
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

Billie Eilish and actor Matthew Tyler Vorce have split.

Vorce, 30, confirmed that he and Eilish, 20, had gone their separate ways He also addressed rumors and said he had not cheated on her.

According to Vorce, "Nobody" cheated on anyone. As he put it, "Relationships end. Simple as that."

The two first sparked dating rumors in April of 2021. Vorce, has appeared in horror films such Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? and Little Monsters, as well as several short films.

A representative for Eilish did not comment on the breakup when approached by People.com.

TL;DR:

• Billie Eilish and actor Matthew Tyler Vorce have split.
• According to Vorce, "Nobody" cheated on anyone. As he put it, "Relationships end. Simple as that."
• A representative for Eilish did not comment on the breakup when approached by People.com.

Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx took to social media explaining why the band will not be allowing fans backstage on the upcoming "Stadium Tour" for "meet & greets."

Sixx tweeted to fans, "It's been exhausting trying to explain to people why we can't have guests backstage. Our fans have waited almost 3 years for this tour. If one of us got Covid and had to cancel the show can you imagine the disappointment? We're not here to take f***ing selfies. This is for the fans."

"The Stadium Tour" -- featuring the Crue, co-headliners Def Leppard, along with Poison, and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts -- kicks off on June 16th at Atlanta's SunTrust Park. The 25-city trek will wrap on September 9th at Las Vegas' Allegiant Stadium.

Nikki Sixx told us that Motley Crue always has one goal whenever it goes onstage: "If we're the greatest we can be, that's exciting, and that's what I believe that Mick (Mars) and Tommy (Lee) and Vince (Neil) all want too. They want to be the greatest rock band that Motley Crue can be. That's why we always try to come up with new, twisted versions of our production, and I think our shows are so potent and, I think, contagious. It's fun and it's horrifying all at the same time."

Train has released a new video for their single, "Cleopatra."

The ‘70s-inspired clip, features a vintage-style set that captures the retro sounds of the new single and features Mexican pop singer-songwriter, Sofía Reyes.

"Cleopatra" is on Train's new album, AM Gold. And to help promote it, they'll hit the road next week with opening acts, Jewel and Blues Traveler. The trek kicks off June 8 in Mansfield, MA and will make 35+ stops across North America.

TL;DR:

• Train has released a new video for their single, "Cleopatra."
• The ‘70s-inspired video, features singer-songwriter, Sofía Reyes
• "Cleopatra" is on Train's new album, AM Gold.

Wolfgang Van Halen took to Twitter to trash this weekend's Reelz Channel Autopsy episode focusing on Eddie Han Halen's death. Autopsy: The Last Hours Of Eddie Van Halen will premiere on Sunday, June 5th at 8 p.m. ET. Van Halen died on October 6th, 2020 at age 65 after years of battling throat cancer.

Wolfgang linked to a Blabbermouth article reporting on the show and Tweeted: "F*** Reelz Channel, f*** everyone that works on this show, and f*** you if you watch it. F***ing disgusting trying to glamorize someone's death from cancer. Pathetic and heartless."

Being the caretaker of his father's legacy is something that Wolfgang Van Halen takes extremely seriously. Not too long ago, he told us that fans shouldn't bank on seeing any Eddie Van Halen tribute projects emerging from the vast tape archive he left behind.

Wolf, who is now in charge of his late-father's unreleased work housed at his 5150 California studio, explained that the process to get everything adequately cataloged is his first priority -- not getting new product out ASAP: "That's not gonna happen for a long time -- even without the intention of release, I want to -- at the every least -- archive it properly and digitize it so everything is safe for years to come. Because it's going to be an incredibly difficult process -- and a very long process to properly. . . just get the material off the old tapes, that I wanna do it right."

It was 44 years ago today (June 2nd, 1978), that Bruce Springsteen finally released his long awaited followup to 1975's Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town. The album peaked at Number Five on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and stayed in the Top 10 for a total of eight weeks.

The recording of Springsteen's fourth album was blocked for a year while Springsteen was in litigation with his former manager and producer Mike Appel. Appel's suit barred Springsteen from recording with future manager and producer Jon Landau.

The tracklisting to Darkness On The Edge Of Town is: "Badlands," "Adam Raised A Cain," "Something In The Night," "Candy's Room," "Racing In The Street," "The Promised Land," "Factory," "Streets Of Fire," "Prove It All Night," and "Darkness On The Edge Of Town."

The album's two singles -- although becoming instant FM and live staples -- fared less well on the Billboard Hot 100 -- with "Prove It All Night" hitting 33, and "Badlands" stalling at Number 42.

The Darkness sessions generated dozens of outtakes, as well as songs that went on to become successful for other artists, including "Fire" for the Pointer Sisters, "Because The Night" for Patti Smith, and "Rendezvous" for Greg Kihn and later Gary "U.S." Bonds.

On November 16th, 2010 Bruce Springsteen released the box set The Promise: The 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town' Story. The collection featured the first remastered version of the Darkness album, along with two CD's of previously unreleased outtakes titled, The Promise. The set also included an 80-page notebook, and three DVD's.

Bruce Springsteen explained that the songs during the Darkness On The Edge Of Town sessions easily -- and more often than not -- morphed into one another: "There was a lot of multi-versions of all kinds of things. We were always pulling things apart. I had like a big junkyard of stuff as the year went by. If something wasn't complete, I just pulled out the parts I liked, like pulling the parts you need from one car -- put 'em in the other car so that car runs."

Darkness On The Edge Of Town engineer -- and now famed music mogul -- Jimmy Iovine explained the core difference between the creation of Born To Run and its followup: "Born To Run, there were only, maybe, nine songs -- eight made the album. On Darkness, there were, like, 70 songs. That was a big difference. If you think about that; somebody sculpting eight songs, and then all of a sudden, the next album, they're writing 70 songs."

E Street Band rummer Max Weinberg remembered the Darkness sessions as being an intense period for the band as Springsteen forged a new path both musically and thematically: "Y'know, I've read things and, of course, discussed personally with Bruce things about that record and what he was aiming for. And, y'know, I guess when I think back, what we were all trying to do was working really hard to give Bruce what he wanted. And we were all -- we were kids, y'know? Certainly on Bruce's part -- I mean, he's the true (laughs) artist! And learning how to do it together, basically. None of us had a huge amount of experience recording. Y'know, we kinda learned that process together."

Steve Van Zandt explained that unlike nearly all of his peers, schedules be damned -- with Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Bruce Springsteen recorded and discarded songs until he found the album he was trying to make: "Basically, the first good 10 songs you write, you put 'em out -- there's your record. That process would end (laughs) -- forever, and never came back."

After 1975's Born To Run album, Bruce Springsteen redirected the romantic scenes found on the album and refocused his work onto the real lives and responsibilities of people -- like those in his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey -- who were grappling just to survive day to day: "What happened was, I got to a point where the answers that I found in my favorite rock n' roll records, they didn't work for me anymore. Y'know, I couldn't find what I wanted in a Phil Spector record anymore. The whole thing wasn't workin' out. It wasn't workin' (laughs) -- the way the old story goes -- the way you thought it was gonna work out."

Rina Sawayama's next project was inspired by Taylor Swift. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she said that listening to Swift's Folklore album, is how she came to write about personal experiences through a poetic lens.

After her debut album was released in 2020, Sawayama found herself ridden with anxiety as the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the record's promotion.

It was then that she heard the album and it helped her push through the creative rut. She laughed and said, "I remember when Taylor released Folklore, I was like, 'This bitch is writing about fake stories and she just wrote a whole album.' If she can do it, I need to do it."

She says her music will tell the story of her emotional growth over the last few years. And similar to Folklore, listeners will have to decode the stories featured within the album's lyrics for themselves

Sawayama's sophomore album, Hold the Girl, will be released September 2^nd.

TL;DR:

• Rina Sawayama's next project was inspired by Taylor Swift's Folklore album.
• She heard the album and it helped her push through a creative rut.
• Sawayama's sophomore album, Hold the Girl, will be released September 2^nd.

It was 49 years ago this week (beginning on June 2nd, 1973) that Paul McCartney & Wings topped the Billboard singles and album charts with their single "My Love" and their album Red Rose Speedway.

McCartney had formed Wings in 1971 with wife Linda, drummer Denny Seiwell, and guitarist Denny Laine, but the band did not immediately have the same kind of success McCartney had had on his own. Their debut album Wild Life and their first few singles had not climbed any higher than Number Ten on either the album or singles charts, as opposed to other McCartney solo work that had gone all the way to Number One, such as the McCartney album and the 1971 single "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey."

All that changed with Red Rose Speedway. By the time the initial sessions for the album began in March 1972, McCartney had added former Joe Cocker guitarist Henry McCullough to the band's line-up. The album included the hit "My Love," which stayed at Number One on the singles charts for four weeks, proving that McCartney's new band could be commercially successful. Red Rose Speedway also reached Number One on the album charts, staying there for three weeks.

"My Love" is without a doubt original Wings guitarist Henry McCullough's shining moment from his 19-month stint in the band. Shortly before his 2016 death, he admitted to us that the solo he played was nothing short of divine intervention -- taking McCartney completely by surprise: "He says, 'Well, what are ya goin' to play?' I said, 'I don't know.' And this is God's truth, I'm not tellin ya, a word of a lie here. I was in the studio with a 50-piece orchestra, I think it was, to put the solo on. The fired it up and pressed the (record) button and I played the solo from beginning to end. And Paul came out and said, 'Have you been rehearsin' that?' I said, 'I'll be honest with ya, I've never heard that melody or what was played -- I never heard any of it before! I said a prayer just before startin' it and set off and that's the way it turned out.'"

McCartney had originally planned Red Rose Speedway to be a double-album, but disappointing sales of Wild Life led his record company to insist on only one disc. The original two-disc set was to feature live material, contributions by the other Wings members, and some experimental tracks.

Denny Laine says that the group went into the sessions thinking they were recording a double-album: "That's why we recorded so much stuff. Maybe they weren't ready for it, didn't think it was gonna do so many. I don't know."

Renown Beatles author Bruce Spizer says that by judging from the material McCartney left off of Red Rose Speedway, he ultimately did himself a disservice by paring it down to a single record set: "The album sold extremely well because of 'My Love.' Y'know, 'My Love' is this humongous hit. (McCartney thought) 'EMI doesn't want a double album, so let me go ahead and give them the best of the ballads-type approach.' And I think that in doing so he may not have put together the strongest album considering his choices. Oddly enough, I think it would have worked better as a double album. I think this is a case where more would have actually been more (laughs), rather than more is less."

Beatlefan magazine correspondent Tom Frangione explained that Red Rose Speedway was the album that paved the way for McCartney and Wings' chart domination for the rest of the '70s: "One of his most important records probably is Red Rose Speedway. You've got a Number One single in there with 'My Love,' a real strong track line-up on side one. Some people would argue that side two was kind of trying to re-establish almost like the Abbey Road flavor with the little medley."

Paul McCartney admits he struggled to get Wings to become a viable force both in the charts and on the road: "It was a struggle trying to put it together after the Beatles. I mean, the Beatles career itself was a struggle, but then having reached those heights, to try and do it over and at the same time bring up a, a young family was quite an interesting human interest story."

Denny Seiwell, who was the first member of Wings outside of Paul and Linda, feels as though he and McCartney still share a deep musical bond. Despite Seiwell quitting the group on the eve of the Band On The Run sessions, he and McCartney remain close and talk frequently. Seiwell was asked about the chances of him recording with McCartney again after a nearly 50-year hiatus: "I'd do anything to make that happen. I told him anything you want. . . He's one of the most profound influences in my life that took the most profound effect on my life, both positive and negative. At a moment's notice, I would drop everything (to play with him.) Y'know, I think there's a need for Wings to come back." SOUNDCUE

McCartney had originally intended for legendary engineer-producer Glyn Johns to work on the record, and although several early tracks were recorded, Johns reportedly quit the album due to problems with McCartney, the band, and the quality of material brought into the sessions. Johns had previously worked with McCartney during the session for what eventually became the Beatles album Let It Be. Johns is best known for his work with such acts as the Who, the Kinks, the Small Faces, the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and the Rolling Stones, among others.

Red Rose Speedway knocked the Beatles compilation 1967-1970 out from the Number One spot, and was in turn bumped from Number One by George Harrison's Living In The Material World album. Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" also replaced "My Love" at the top of the singles charts.

The back cover of Red Rose Speedway featured a message in Braille to McCartney's good friend Stevie Wonder, stating "We Love You Baby."

Red Rose Speedway was the first of five consecutive Number One albums by McCartney & Wings.

"My Love" was McCartney's fourth biggest solo single and has frequently cropped up in his live concert setlists, having been included numerous times over the years in the piano sets of his various tours.

FAST FOWARD

Paul McCartney's Red Rose Speedway was reissued in December 2018 as a limited deluxe box set edition. It features three discs of audio including the original album remastered at Abbey Road, no less than 35 bonus audio tracks, including a reconstruction of the originally conceived double album version of Red Rose Speedway, singles, B-sides, alternate mixes and previously unreleased tracks.

The 2DVD + Blu-ray portions of the deluxe are packed with rare and previously unseen footage, including the James Paul McCartney TV Special, interviews and music videos, as well as the never before seen film The Bruce McMouse Show -- fully restored and remixed in stereo and 5.1 surround sound.

The package includes a folio containing 14 replica hand drawn original character sketches by Paul and facsimile dialogue sheets for the film, a 128-page book containing many previously unpublished images by Linda McCartney, expanded album and single artwork from the archives and story behind the album -- including new interviews with Paul McCartney, and key album personnel -- and track-by-track information, written by Amanda Petrusich, five replica handwritten lyric sheets and photo print, a 64-page 'Wings In Morocco' photo book, all housed in a numbered outer slipcase.

It was 50 years ago tonight (June 2nd, 1972) that Dion & The Belmonts reunited at New York City's Madison Square Garden at an oldies show sponsored by local radio station WCBS-FM. Despite Dion DiMucci and the group briefly reuniting in 1967 for an ill-fated studio album, called Together Again, the Garden show was Dion's first gig with the group in 12 years. Dion played acoustic guitar throughout the night and the group was backed by Billy Vera & The Beaters, who went on to score a 1986 Number One hit with "At This Moment." A live album of the event was released the following year, titled Reunion: Live At Madison Square Garden.

Dion told us that it wasn't quite the reunion he expected: "Fred Milano and Carlo Mastrangelo showed up and they said that Angelo (D'Aleo) was sick. And Angelo says he wasn't asked to be there. We went through with the show, because the Belmonts, they weren't on the records, 'The Wanderer' and 'Ruby Baby,' they weren't on a lot of those songs. When all was said and done and I listened to the album, I said, 'Angelo's gotta be on there, I can't release this without his voice.' (So) I kind of overdubbed him."

Dion & The Belmonts have performed several times over the years at various Dion solo shows. The Belmonts continued to perform with Fred Milano, who won the rights to the name from the others after a legal battle. Milano died on January 1st, 2012.

In 2005, Dion's 1987 Radio City Music Hall concert was issued on CD as Dion And Friends Live In New York City. Performing alongside Dion and his band was Belmont Carlo Mastrangelo.

In 2016, Dion released New York Is My Home, featuring Paul Simon duetting with him on the title track.

Also out now is Dion's long lost 1965 collection, Kickin' Child, which was originally recorded for Columbia Records but left unreleased until now.

FAST FORWARD

Dion's latest album, Stomping Ground ,was released on November 5th, 2021. Pete Townshend supplied the liner notes for the set, which includes contributions from such legends as Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Mark Knopfler, Bon Scaggs, Billy F Gibbons, Rickie Lee Jones, Sonny Landreth, Joe Bonamassa, G.E. Smith, Keb' Mo', and many others.

Townshend wrote in the album's notes: "Dion, like a circling star that never fades, generates the energy and fire we need to pull ourselves up and start again. Dion is a star who knows well how to start again, how to keep shining. He looks at his watch every few years. Damn! Let's make a record. Take care. This one will blow those little white things in our ears right into your brain."

Lil Nas X called out the BET Awards after being snubbed with 0 nominations. Lil Nas X tweeted and deleted, "Thank you, BET Awards. An outstanding zero nominations again. Black excellence!"

Back in 2020, Lil Nas X secured a nomination from the BET Awards for Best New Artist and lost to Roddy Rich.

After one person asked Lil Nas X why he deserved to be recognized, he said, "What you put out? And don't use that gay sh*t as excuse. Don't nobody care no more." He added, "IDK maybe 3 of the biggest songs of last year and a critically acclaimed album. I feel like that should've helped me a bit."

BTS addressed the rise of Asian-targeted hate crimes in the United States from the White House on Tuesday (May 31st).

Members of the K-Pop group joined Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as AAPI Heritage Month ended and said, "This AAPI Heritage Month, we join the White House to stand with the AAHPI community and to celebrate. We were devastated by the recent surge of hate crimes including Asian American hate crimes, but to put a stop to this and support the cause, we'd like to take this opportunity to voice ourselves once again."

The concluded, "It's not wrong to be different, and equality begins when we open up and embrace all of our differences."

Charlie Puth told Bustle on Tuesday (May 31st) that he lost his virginity at the age of 21 while playing a small gig in Boston.

The "Light Switch" singer revealed that a girl came up to him and asked, "Can you sign my chest?"

He continued, "I was like, 'I feel like a rock star.' I never saw her again. She was lovely, but it makes me sad sometimes because I wish the older version of me was like, ‘Hey, you might want to just make this like a little more memorable.'"

Puth also shared that his first solo moment of intimacy was soundtracked by Maroon 5's 2002 hit "This Love". He added, "Now I'm good friends with Adam Levine. I told him and he was like, ‘That's really weird.'"

Halsey announced Tuesday (May 31) that "So Good" is finally coming out on June 9th, with a music video arriving the following day.

The singer tweeted, "I didn't expect so much conversation about this record," the "Without Me." All I know is that I wanted you guys to hear it and now you can. So Good, song on June 9th and video the next day."

Shortly before their announcement, Capitol Records showed their support for the artist, writing, "@Halsey, we love you and are here to support you." They added, "We are an artist first company that encourages open dialogue. We have nothing but a desire to help each one of our artists succeed, and hope that we can continue to have these critical conversations."

Last month, Halsey appeared on TikTok to announce that their label wouldn't release "So Good" until they found a way to go viral on the social media app.

The Rolling Stones are back on the road for their European "Stones 60" tour. The 14-stadium run kicks off tonight (June 1st) in Madrid, Spain and plays through July 31st in Stockholm, Sweden. The band will also perform open air shows in Germany, England, Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy.

The Stones' June 9th concert at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium marks not only their first stadium show in the Beatles' hometown -- but their first Liverpool gig in 51 years. The current shows mark the band's first European dates since the 2021 death of drummer Charlie Watts.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards shed light on how they decide it's time to ramp up for another string of dates: (Mick Jagger): "It sort of runs in a pretty good cycle." (Keith Richards): "I have to wait for a phone call from Mick, saying, 'I'm getting a but antsy (laughter) -- you wanna go, and should we. . ." (Jagger): "Don't forget, there is. . . You gotta be a bit hard-headed, there is a sort of supply and demand thing here. If no one called up and said, 'We think, y'know, you should go and tour. . .' There's good times and bad times to do tours. (Richards): "In a way, Mick and I get the same feeling just around the same time. It's then -- as Mick was just saying -- y'know, does all the rest of it fall into place, y'know, the business and the supply and demands and all of that. But, basically, we say, 'Well, we're ready -- if the demand's there, we'll supply.'"

Harry Styles' critically acclaimed new album Harry's House has topped charts around the world and accomplished an array of chart records.

The new album has debuted at No. 1 in the U.S. on the Billboard 200 chart. "As It Was" returns to the No.1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth week and Harry debuted three additional songs in the Top 10: "Late Night Talking," "Music For A Sushi Restaurant," and "Matilda". Additionally, the full album is charting in the top 30.

Styles joins The Beatles, who achieved the feat for five weeks in 1964, as the only British acts ever with four concurrent Hot 100 Top 10's.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss kick off their 2022 tour dates tonight (June 1st) at Canandaigua, New York's CMAC. The duo is on the road in support of their second joint album, Raise The Roof. The set was released last November 19th and topped Billboard's Independent Albums chart, hit Number Three on the magazine's Top Country Albums list, and reached Number Seven on the Billboard 200.

Not too long ago, Robert Plant shed light on what propels his collaboration with Alison Krauss: "The great thing is -- there's so much heart. That's the great thing. I feel so hearty. Y'know, that's really quite something with all the, kind of, life I've had and the adventures. Y'know, it isn't exactly what Alison's used to -- it's certainly not what I'm used to -- and (producer) T-Bone (Burnett) is, kind of, he's just like the magician moving it around. It's great, yeah."

With the incredible success of his 2007 Raising Sand collaboration with Krauss, Plant fully committed to his current organic and folk-based musical direction: "I hate to say it, but it felt young. It felt like I didn't know what was going to happen next, and it didn't really matter -- and that was the great thing. I know the songs that I like and the songs that I always attach myself to have been of a certain genre, if they're not self-penned. And I was in very good company with people who had a very familiar lean in the same direction."

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss tour dates (subject to change):

June 1 - Canandaigua, NY - CMAC
June 3 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
June 4 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium
June 6 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
June 7 - Chicago, IL - Jay Pritzker Pavilion
June 9 - Indianapolis, IN - TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park
June 11 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 12 - Philadelphia, PA - TD Pavilion at The Mann
June 14 - Cary, NC - Koka Booth Amphitheatre
June 16 - Atlanta, GA - Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
June 17 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
June 24 - Pilton, England - Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm
June 26 - London, England - BST Hyde Park (with The Eagles)
June 29 - Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
July 1 - Hamar, Norway - Tjuvholmen Arena
July 2 - Bergen, Norway - Bergenhus Fortress
July 5 - Rättvik, Sweden - Dalhalla
July 8 - Bruges, Belgium - Cactus Festival
July 10 - Baarn, Netherlands - Royal Park Live
July 13 - Montreux, Switzerland - Auditorium Stravinski
July 14 - Lucca, Italy - Lucca Summer Festival at Piazza Napoleone
July 16 - Stuttgart, Germany - JazzOpen Stuttgart 2022
July 18 - Sopot, Poland - Opera Lesna
July 20 - Berlin, Germany - Zitadelle
August 15 - San Diego, CA - The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
August 17 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl
August 18 - Los Angeles, CA - The Greek Theatre
August 20 - Stateline, NV - Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys
August 21 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley
August 23 - Napa, CA - Oxbow RiverStage
August 25 - Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
August 27 - Troutdale, OR - Edgefield Amphitheater
August 28 - Redmond, WA - Marymoor Park
August 30 - Salt Lake City, UT - Sandy Amp
September 1 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
September 3 - Grand Prairie, TX - Texas Trust CU Theatre at Grand Prairie
September 4 - Austin, TX - Moody Amphitheater

Happy Birthday to Rolling Stones and Faces guitarist Ron Wood who turns 75 today (June 1st)!!! Wood -- the youngest Stones -- will be onstage tonight when the band launches its "Stones Sixty" European tour in Madrid, Spain.

Earlier this year, drummer Kenney Jones revealed the upcoming Faces reunion album with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood was gaining steam. Jones spoke about the still-untitled set with Uncut and explained the new collection will feature both recently recorded material mixed with archival tracks.

Released last September was Mr. Luck - A Tribute To Jimmy Reed: Live At The Royal Albert Hall. The live album -- billed to the Ronnie Wood Band -- features Wood's longtime friend and the man he replaced in the Rolling Stones back in 1975 -- guitarist Mick Taylor.

The show was recorded back in 2013 at London's Royal Albert Hall and marks the second in a trilogy of live sets from Wood, following 2019's Mad Lad: A Live Tribute To Chuck Berry.

Back in April 2021, Ron Wood admitted that during the pandemic he battled back from another bout of cancer. The guitarist told Britain's The Sun: "I've had cancer two different ways now. I had lung cancer in 2017 and I had small-cell more recently that I fought in the last lockdown. I came through with the all-clear." Small-cell carcinoma is a fast-growing type of lung cancer commonly caused by smoking.

Out now on DVD and streaming services is Somebody Up There Likes Me, the career-spanning Ron Wood documentary. The film, directed by Mike Figgis, covers Wood's life and career from making his bones in the mod-based mid-'60s London combo the Birds, through the Jeff Beck Group, the Faces, the Rolling Stones, and beyond. Among the participants in the doc are Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, the late-Charlie Watts, and Rod Stewart.

In addition to his work with the Stones, Ron Wood co-wrote such Faces and Rod Stewart classics as "Stay With Me," "Miss Judy's Farm," "Ooh La La," "Gasoline Alley," and "Every Picture Tells A Story."

Although clean and sober for over a decade, Ron Wood spoke candidly on why he drank and did drugs, and ultimately what caused him to go get straight: "Y'know, I think a lot of it is to do -- the drink and drugs -- with the celebration thing. Like, if you've done something really well, you go, 'Yeah! Let's drink to that.' And that was just getting kind of out of hand. And I realized that I wasn't getting any happier if I drank. In fact, I was getting this person that I wasn't. I was getting very depressed and quite an angry person, and very snappy with people, and I don't like to think that that is me."

Keith Richards attributes much of the Stones' longevity over the years to Ron Wood, who joined in time for the band's 1975 tour dates: "Definitely without Ronnie Wood, we wouldn't have had the cohesion to stick together. But, y'know, it was. . . he came along at just the right time. And with a guy like that around, you gotta hang around, 'cause he so damn funny (laughs)."

Ron Wood -- who first recorded with the Stones 48 years ago -- is still considered the "new guy" in the band. He told us that he was actually born a Rolling Stone, and it simply took until '75 for him to actually become part of the group: "I was born with those songs in my mouth, anyway. Y'know, you can name any song of their. . . And I was with it, y'know, I didn't have to learn it. When I joined the band back in, '74, or whenever and I had to learn 160 songs, or something -- that was my initiation down in Woodstock -- I ended up teaching them to the band! I mean, I knew the songs. I'd never played them before, but I just knew them."

Ron Wood recalled the lead up to his debut as the Rolling Stones' third and final second guitarist: "Well, it was a fragile ship when I joined, y'know, because they'd been through many ups and downs, and there was kind of a grey cloud. Even though I knew the music, I'd never actually played the songs. So, at Montauk, Keith and I hardly slept and we kept going through the songs and, like he was hittin' me -- ‘Okay, ‘All Down The Line' -- here we go (sings riff, laughs)!' And all these songs going through my head and June the 1st in Baton Rouge in 1975, that was my opening gig. Yeah, that was really. . . I said, ‘Come on, throw it at me. Whatever you've got.'"

Out now is Under Their Thumb -- How A Nice Boy From Brooklyn Got Mixed Up With The Rolling Stones And Lived To Tell About It, by rock writer Bill German. German, who's best known in music circles as being the editor of the legendary Stones fanzine Beggars Banquet, recalls his first impressions of Ron Wood as a member of the Stones: "At first I had no idea, like, why is this guy coming over from the Faces? It was like, where's Mick Taylor going (laughs), y'know? I remember -- I think I read it in (Rolling Stone's) Random Notes first, like in 1974 -- the end of '74: 'Mick Taylor Is Leaving The Stones.' But I kept an open mind, y'know? And the first thing I heard was that he played on the back of a truck on Fifth Avenue. And it was just one song, but it sounded good -- I guess I was caught up in the excitement of another Stones tour. Y'know, I read that it was working out, so I was more than happy to welcome this guy once I started to get to know who he was."

On September 5th, 2015 the surviving Faces -- Wood, Rod Stewart, and Kenney Jones -- reunited at Surrey, England's Hurtwood Park Polo Club benefited Prostate Cancer UK. The performance marked the first time in 22 years that Rod has taken to the stage to publicly front the Faces. Sadly, keyboardist Ian McLagan died in 2014 with bassist Ronnie Lane passing in 1997 at age 51 after suffering from multiple sclerosis for over two decades.

The Faces' seven song set marked the first time all three members had played live together since their 1993 appearance at England's Brit Awards. In recent years, the Faces have played a string of shows featuring Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall on lead vocals.

Recently released is You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (1970-1975), the Faces' latest box set, which features newly remastered versions of all four of the band's studio albums, plus a bonus disc of rarities.

The collection includes The First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is As Good As A Wink. . . To A Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973). All the discs feature unreleased bonus tracks recorded in conjunction with each set.

Kenney Jones told us that the Faces' sound came about due to Ron Wood reinventing himself as a musician: "When we first got together, Ronnie was learning how to play lead guitar. He was -- and still is -- a fantastic bass player. So, for him to convert from bass, it was a bit tricky, so we were with him every inch of the way when he did it. So, we were kind of learning his style along with him. So that really was a benefit to all of us -- especially me."

Over the past dozen or so years, Rod Stewart and Ron Wood have teamed up in the studio for a supposed joint album, which at one point was said to be tentatively titled, You Strum - I'll Sing. A while back we asked Rod if there's any chance we'll see him and Ron Wood teaming up for new sessions: "There may be, there may be. Y'know, it all depends on Ronnie. . . Ronnie's got another group that he's in, y'see (laughs). He wants to know what they're going to do before -- y'know, I can't put my career on hold waiting for Ronnie, who's waiting on them. So that's the way it goes on and on. Y'know, maybe one day when they pack it in, we'll have a bit more time together."

Wood's close friend, former Stones bass player, Bill Wyman remains one of Wood's biggest fans -- both on and off the stage: "Woody? He's mad (laughs). He's a clown, he's great. Good guitar player -- learns very quickly, picks up things very easily. He's a great in-between person, he gets people together and he makes you laugh, and got a lot of humor, and lots of mates. He's a good-time boy, and he's great for the band."

2015 saw the publication of Ronnie Wood: How Can It Be? A Rock & Roll Diary. Featuring a cast of characters that went on to figure heavily into his life and career -- including Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Keith Moon, Marianne Faithfull, and many more -- the story of Wood's adventures as the 17-year-old guitarist for the Birds was handwritten in his 1965 diary, which includes newly created illustrations for the book.