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Although Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson are enjoying separate creative paths these days -- singer Ann is eager for the band to celebrate its 50th anniversary next year with a new album. Ann will release her latest solo set, Fierce Bliss, on April 29th and has a string of dates with her backing band Amazing Dawgs set for the spring and summer. Sister and guitarist Nancy is prepping to hit the road later this year with her own lineup of Heart featuring her hand-picked backing band. So far, Nancy and the band have nearly a dozen Canadian dates on the books this fall in support of Styx.

Ann Wilson spoke to Rock Cellar and explained what she hopes to achieve with Nancy for the 50th anniversary set: "When Heart makes another record it will be all new original songs that I've written, hopefully that's she's written. Next year is our 50th anniversary. I'm having an event, I'm going to invite everyone who's ever been in the band and that will be recorded. And then we'll see what happens beyond that. I can't say for sure when but it's my mission to get that going."

She went on to admit, "At this point in my life and career, I measure success by how good I feel about what I'm doing. And the people that I'm working with, the joy of doing this. I've had times when I was much younger where I measured it by having a hit record, by feeling glamorous and glorious, by chart positions. But right now it's really not about that for me. It hasn't been for some time, probably since the 1980's. It's been more about getting back to the creative experience. Why did I even start to do this, and work so hard to make it happen? It's all about the music. It's all about having a voice. Having something to say and saying it."

For Ann Wilson going through the motions with Heart simply isn't an option: "Y'know, Heart was started back in the '70s in an atmosphere of super high ideals, and about it being real and about it being, y'know, authentic. So, I really don't want to see it get to a point of being numb or automatic, or just a cash cow, y'know? That's just immoral to me."

Machine Gun Kelly is already making a list of groomsmen he wants in his upcoming wedding ceremony to Megan Fox and one of them is Pete Davidson.

Kelly and the Saturday Night Live star are longtime friends. In fact Kelly calls their friendship a "bromance." In an interview with Howard Stern, he joked that during the wedding, they should give Davidson a microphone for commentary.

A wedding date has not been announced, but since Machine Gunn Kelly is on tour through October, speculation is that it will be sometime after that.

TL;DR:

• Machine Gun Kelly says Pete Davidson will be a groomsmen in his wedding.
• Calls their friendship a bromance.
• He joked that they should give Davidson a microphone for commentary.

A 2007 Amy Winehouse concert performance will soon be released on vinyl. Live at Glastonbury, from Pyramid Stage will be out on June 3rd.

The double-live album set is a recording of her second Glastonbury appearance and includes irreverent soundbites and songs like "Tears Dry On Their Own," "Rehab," and "You Know I'm No Good," as well as early soul classics like "Monkey Man."

Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, she was 27.

TL;DR:

• A 2007 Amy Winehouse concert, Live at Glastonbury, will be out on June 3rd.
• A double-live album that includes songs like "Tears Dry On Their Own," "Rehab," and "You Know I'm No Good," as well as early soul classics like "Monkey Man."

It was 48 years ago today (April 14th, 1974), that the Who's Pete Townshend played his first ever solo concert in London at The Roundhouse. The concert, which took place on Easter Sunday, was scheduled during a break from Townshend's recording sessions for the Tommy - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. He had originally envisioned a mellow low-key gig to benefit the Camden Square Community Playhouse Theatre, but heavy publicity from the British rock trades made the show the high-profile show of the spring.

Townshend spent about a week rehearsing the show and creating tape loops and rhythm tracks to provide backing for his acoustic and electric set, in which he also played the clavinet -- an electric keyboard. Tapes of the show that have been making rounds with collectors reveal a particularly rowdy crowd -- with Townshend handling himself pretty well against at least one drunken heckler.

Among the Who classics performed were "The Seeker" -- which opened the show, "Happy Jack," "Substitute," "See Me, Feel Me," "Tattoo," "Let's See Action," "Pinball Wizard," as well as covers including Tim Hardin's "If I Were A Carpenter," Traffic's "No Face, No Name, No Number," Jimmy Reed's "Big Boss Man," "Amoureuse" by Veronique Sanson -- later the wife of Stephen Stills, and the Bob Dylan-related standards "Girl From North Country," and "Corina, Corina."

The show marked Townshend's live debut his 1966 tune called "Join My Gang" which he had written for the British pop singer Oscar -- better known as Paul Nicholas.

During the show, he took the time to play his original demos of "My Generation" over the venue's P.A. system. He later encored with the song, in a medley with the Who's "Magic Bus."

Performing solo wasn't a decision that Townshend took lightly. That said, he always felt that his work was one of a singular artist who adapted his material to fit the Who's structure: "Well, obviously, every writer, every individual that creates has to draw on their own experiences and when I set out to write songs -- I shoot from the hip. I don't actually write for any particular voice."

The Roundhouse concert -- which is legendary among die-hard Who fans -- has gone down as a curious footnote in Townshend's performing career. It would be over five years before he would step onstage solo again.

It was 59 years ago today (April 14th, 1963) that the Beatles and the Rolling Stones first met. The Beatles, who were new on the scene in London, had heard about the group through word of mouth, and were in the audience at the Stones' show in Richmond at the Crawdaddy Club at the Station Hotel. Shortly thereafter, George Harrison personally recommended that Decca Records -- the same label that had passed on the Beatles -- sign a deal with the still-unknown Stones.

In 1988 when Mick Jagger inducted the Beatles into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he recalled first laying eyes on the group while on stage, remembering that, "We were playing a little club in Richmond and I saw right in front of me, there they were -- THE FAB FOUR. The four-headed monster. They never went anywhere alone. And they had on the most beautiful long, black leather trench coats." Jagger joked that, "I thought to myself, 'If I have to learn to write songs to get one of those, I will.'"

The two bands, which were pegged as being rivals in the rock press, were actually very close. John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the Stones' second single, "I Wanna Be Your Man" -- which the Stones chose as their secind number on December 8th, 2012 at the kick-off of their 50 & Counting shows in Brooklyn, New York. The concert also fell on the 32nd anniversary of John Lennon's murder. Throughout the '60s, McCartney and Jagger coordinated their record release schedules and staggered their releases, so that they wouldn't have overlapping hits, which would force fans to pick one band over the other.

Keith Richards was an immediate fan and friend of The Beatles. He admits that following manager Andrew Loog Oldham's brief that the Stones become the opposite of the lovable "Mop Tops" was ingenious and important in separating the Stones from all the other British beat groups that followed in the Beatles wake: "There was no competition between the bands, per se, y'know -- but in the greater world, the Beatles were the "Fab Four," y'know? As I say, that's wearing the ‘white hat.' So the only other (laughs) place to go is to wear the ‘black hat' (laughs), y'know? And at the same time, we were pretty natural, and I think all we really did was, we didn't ‘showbiz' ourselves up."

Mick Jagger admitted that the Beatles' opened all the doors for the Stones by recreating the music business in the early-'60s: "They were both rivals and they were also, I mean, they were also showing the way, 'cause they were the first at this kind of. . . They were kind of trailblazers in a lot of ways, and they went to the United States first, y'know, they showed the way, they were big international stars -- because in England, most people have never really been stars outside of England. You had your little patch and that was it. And the Beatles kind of showed you could be big internationally."

The Stones' late-drummer Charlie Watts remembered that as big as the Rolling Stones got, they never penetrated the global psyche the way that the Beatles did: "The Beatles, the phenomena of them was something else. But I don't think, I don't think you could put the same sort of madness that they had going (on the Rolling Stones). I think there was at concerts where you'd turn up and play, but I mean generally where you had every joke on television was a Beatle joke, or something -- or The Brady Bunch would say 'I'm going to a (Beatle concert).' Y'know, on that level."

In 2005 when the Stones performed as the Super Bowl's halftime act the year after McCartney, he echoed Lennon's 1970 statement that the Stones did everything the Beatles did a year later: "It's not bitchy, but if you look at the career of the Beatles and the Stones, they always do stuff a year after we do. So we do Sgt. Pepper and about a year later they do Satanic Majesties, they do their psychedelic album. The Beatles come to America, about a year later the Stones do. So I like it. They're holding true to form."

Over the decades, The Beatles and The Stones have enjoyed both a personal, and at times professional, relationship:

The Beatles' inner-circle on the mid-'60s "Swingin' London" club scene included Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and the Animals' Eric Burdon.

George Harrison was at Keith Richards' house just prior to Jagger and Richards' infamous 1967 drug bust.

Jagger and Richards attended several Beatles recording sessions, including the legendary orchestral overdub of the group's "A Day In The Life" track.

In 1967, the Stones' late co-founder Brian Jones played saxophone on the Beatles' "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number), which was eventually released in 1970 as the B-side to "Let It Be."

Lennon and McCartney contributed backing vocals to the Stones' 1967 single "We Love You," and Jagger returned the favor by attending the "All You Need Is Love" global satellite broadcast.

That summer, Jagger and his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull traveled with the Beatles to Bangor, Wales for a weekend lecture with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It was there that the Beatles learned of the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. Around that time, the Beatles and the Stones tossed around the idea of starting their own joint record label.

John Lennon made his first-ever solo appearance at the Stones' December 1968 taping of their Rock And Roll Circus, performing "Yer Blues" with the makeshift band called the Plastic Mac, which included Keith Richards on bass, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Mitch Mitchell on drums. For a brief time in 1969, the two bands shared a manager, the American-born accountant Allen Klein.

In July 1969, Paul and Linda McCartney, who was once romantically linked to Jagger, attended the Stones' comeback gig at London's Hyde Park. It was at that show that the Stones premiered their new single "Honky Tonk Women," which was rumored to be inspired in part by Linda, who according to legend was "the divorcee in New York City."

In 1971, both McCartney and Ringo Starr -- who were not on speaking terms -- attended Mick and Bianca Jagger's wedding in St. Tropez.

During the summer of 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono visted the Stones in France during the recording of Exile On Main St.

Lennon and Jagger collaborated several times in the studio. In 1973 Jagger added guitar to Yoko's Approximately Infinite Universe album, and in 1974 Lennon produced a version of Jagger singing "Too Many Cooks," which has only recently been released.

In 1979 Ringo Starr and former Stones bassist Bill Wyman performed together on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.

In 1981, Stones guitarist Ron Wood co-wrote produced several tracks for Starr's Stop And Smell The Roses album. Keith Richards also took part in the sessions.

In 1986 McCartney performed onstage with Jagger and David Bowie, playing acoustic guitar during the Prince's Trust Concert, when the pair performed their hit remake of "Dancing In The Street." Jagger, who was unhappy with his performance, wouldn't let his and Bowie's portion air in America.

Julian Lennon performed with Keith Richards in 1986 during the filming of Chuck Berry's 60th birthday concert film, Hail! Hail! Rock N' Roll. He later recorded a cover of the Stones 1967 hit, "Ruby Tuesday. His brother Sean Lennon was briefly romantically linked to Mick Jagger's daughter, Elizabeth Jagger.

In Keith Richards' 2010 autobiography, he revealed that he and McCartney had actually struck up a close friendship starting earlier in the decade.

In 2012 Paul McCartney -- along with Rod Stewart -- served as Ron Wood's best man at his wedding to Sally Humphreys.

On March 27th, 2013 Wood and McCartney joined McCartney's son James McCartney onstage during his performance at London's Ambassador Club.

Most recently, on February 15th, 2015, Keith Richards introduced Paul McCartney's performance of "Maybe I'm Amazed" on NBC's Saturday Night Live - 40th Anniversary Special.

Last October 14th, while performing in L.A., Mick Jagger took a swipe at Paul McCartney during the Stones' concert at SoFi Stadium. Jagger was commenting on the former-Beatle's recent take on the Stones to The New Yorker, when he offered up, "I'm not sure I should say it, but they're a blues cover band, that's sort of what the Stones are. . . I think (the Beatles') net was cast a bit wider than theirs."

While chatting with the crowd at the Stones gig -- Jagger couldn't help but poke "Macca" when he said, "There's so many celebrities here tonight, of course, y'know? Naturally. Megan Fox is here, she's lovely. Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga. Kirk Douglas -- aah, misread that one. Uh, Paul McCartney is here; he's going to help us — he's going to join us in a blues cover later."

56 years ago today (April 14th, 1966) the Beatles recorded their 12th U.S. chart topper, "Paperback Writer." The song, which was recorded during the group's Revolver sessions, was the first to prominently feature Paul McCartney's Rickenbacker bass guitar as a lead instrument.

The Beatles' legendary engineer, the late-Geoff Emerick told us that he thought that by mic'ing McCartney's bass with a loudspeaker he could break new ground with how a bass sounded on the radio: "So my theory was that if a loudspeaker could push a bass out then a loudspeaker can take it back in. And use that loudspeaker as a moving core microphone, and that's exactly what I did. And it did have a certain roundness and a fullness to it."

"Paperback Writer" was not included on Revolver, but released as the group's spring single. It went on to top the charts for two weeks in the spring and early summer of 1966. It was the only song from their current set of sessions to be included on the 1966 tour, which proved to be their last.

McCartney resurrected the song in 1993 and played it on his New World Tour. It was eventually included on that year's Paul Is Live album. "Paperback Writer" -- now featuring McCartney on lead guitar and including an extended coda -- is now in his current concert rotation and featured on the 2009 Good Evening New York City live album.

Metallica's Kirk Hammett is but one of the many rock legends interviewed for Classic Rock magazine's 300th issue, and shed light on his love for both the publication -- along with his favorite musicians the publication covers.

Hammett explained, "I don't read articles about myself! I read about what Jeff Beck was doing in 1971 with Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert, what David Bowie was doing in 1976 in L.A. I read to find out about Spooky Tooth, what was going on with Mountain when they were at Woodstock. I'm a product of the '70s. The foundation of all Metallica music is '70s hard rock. It stops at the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal."

He went on to say, "I'm a fan of so much '60, '70s stuff. I love reading about Tangerine Dream, Neu!. I read Prog, also. I only discovered prog about five years ago. I was never into it. I spent a lot of time listening to jazz, bossa nova, blues, classical, soul, and reggae."

Hammett touched upon the pros and cons of being a budding rock musician in 2022: "It is harder for these younger bands to get their music out there. I'll tell you one thing: because of covid there's upwards of half a billion new guitar players in the world, bro. That bodes very well for the future of music. It was inspirational for me just knowing there's gonna be that many more musicians in the world trying to make great music. There's so much disorganization in the world right now, so much division. Music brings people together. Music organizes people and their thoughts. Maybe because there's more musicians it'll make for a better future for everyone. I'm just being optimistic (laughs)."

Kirk Hammett was always amazed when his heroes actually became his friends. Not too long ago he shed light on his unique friendship with the Ramones' late-guitarist Johnny Ramone: "Johnny was a big influence early in my life, and later in my life too. Y'know, I became pretty good friends with Johnny about, I don't know, 1996 or something, and, yeah, it's hard to articulate, but I just wish he was still around. I mean, 'cause later on he was a really big influence in my life too, just hanging out with him."

Metallica next performs on April 27th in Santiago, Chile.

The band's next North American date is set for May 27th in Napa, California at BottleRock at Napa Valley Expo.

Lucius recently told The Los Angeles Times that they feel they were unfairly denied a featured artist credit on the Harry Styles track, "Treat People With Kindness."

Although the duo is credited on the song as vocalists, they don't receive a prominent featured artist credit on streaming platforms.

Vocalist Jess Wolfe told the outlet, "We start the song, we sing every chorus, just us. We trade off at the bridge. It is us and Harry Styles. Harry Styles and us.

She continued, "Here was an opportunity to spread the love a little bit, which he purports to do all the time. And it could've really helped us."

"Treat People With Kindness," released in 2021, was the sixth single from Styles' Fine Line album.

In a new interview with Vogue, Rihanna opened up about her pregnancy and relationship with A$AP Rocky. Rihanna said that she had A$AP in the friend zone for a long time until they went on a road trip from Los Angeles to New York and got to know each other better.

She said, "People don't get out of the friend zone very easily with me….And I certainly took a while to get over how much I know him and how much he knows me, because we also know how much trouble we can land each other in."

RIHANNA AND A$AP ROCKY GOT CLOSE DURING THE PANDEMIC

RiRi revealed that she and Rocky got close during the pandemic, saying, "He became my family in that time." She went on to describe the road trip from L.A. to NYC gave them time to fall in love, saying, "I love the simple things but also the grand adventures….There's no pretentious my-brand-your-brand bullsh*t, it's just us living….I just feel like I can do any part of life by his side."

The singer also revealed what she loves most about their relationship, saying, "Transparency with everything: how we're feeling, what our goals are, what our fears and insecurities are. The vulnerability to be able to say what you feel about each other."

RIHANNA SAYS HER PREGNANCY WASN'T PLANNED

Rihanna also revealed that her pregnancy was not planned, saying, "I wouldn't say planning. But certainly not planning against it. I don't know when I ovulate or any of that type of sh*t. We just had fun."

On her pregnancy fashion, she said, "When I found out I was pregnant, I thought to myself, There's no way I'm going to go shopping in no maternity aisle. I'm sorry—it's too much fun to get dressed up. I'm not going to let that part disappear because my body is changing."

RiRi added, "I'm hoping that we were able to redefine what's considered ‘decent' for pregnant women. My body is doing incredible things right now, and I'm not going to be ashamed of that. This time should feel celebratory. Because why should you be hiding your pregnancy?"

Sam Asghari says that he and Britney Spears should have had kids years ago.

In an interview conducted with the BBC prior to the couple's pregnancy announcement on Monday (April 11th), the 28-year-old actor said, "I mean this should have happened three years ago to be honest with you. When you're in a relationship with someone that you're truly in love with, you want to re-create, and so this is something I want to do."

Spears modeled some new outfits and showed off her "small belly" on Instagram one day after making her pregnancy announcement. She also received congratulations from her ex-husband, Kevin Federline.

His lawyer, Vincent Kaplan told Page Six, "Obviously when you have a happy co-parent, it's the best thing for your children, so Kevin is wishing her a happy and healthy pregnancy, and he wanted to extend his congratulations to Britney and Sam Asghari, and they have a gain through the excitement of planning parenthood together."

Federline and Spears are parents to 16-year-old Sean Preston and 15-year-old Jayden James.

The Rolling Stones are planning some sort of announcement today at 10 am ET. The band posted a clip on its social media of Keith Richards onstage hitting the opening riff to "Street Fighting Man" before the typeface announced "Wednesday 13th April - 3pm BST / 10am EDT / 7am PDT."

Fans are already conjecturing that the band is rolling out its full 'Stones 60' world tour itinerary -- or the long-awaited release date for its first all original album in 16 years -- or both.

When we last caught up with Ron Wood, he told us that the eight or so Mick Jagger - Keith Richards originals already in the can from their then-recent sessions might end up being there for a while: "Well, those things have to cook awhile, y'know, the new songs. No, I thought I'd leave this up to Mick this time, and, y'know, Keith was saying, 'Well, let's see where it's gonna take shape.' 'Cause, I always come in with songs if they haven't got any (laughs). I like to see what they come up with first. But those songs are gonna sit a while and maybe be re-done, whereas the blues songs, we just hit it once (claps) -- bang! Y'know, next song! We had the album in two, three days."

The Rolling Stones' 14-stadium European run kicks off on June 1st in Madrid, Spain and plays through July 31st in Stockholm, Sweden.

Hailey Bieber is fed up with people speculating about her relationship with Justin Bieber.

The model took to TikTok Tuesday (April 12th) with a simple request for commenters, "Leave me alone."

She said in the clip, "Leave me alone at this point. I'm minding my business. I don't do anything, I don't say anything. Leave me alone, please. Enough time has gone by where it's valid to leave me alone. I beg of you. Truly. That's my only request. Be miserable somewhere else, please."

Bieber has been fed up with comments about her personal life for some time now. She WSJ Magazine in February that she would no longer be commenting on her home life because "the media has always been a disgusting thing."

Fans have been waiting for new Jimmy Page music since 1998's Walking Into Clarksdale collaboration with Robert Plant. During a new chat with Classic Rock magazine, the Led Zeppelin co-founder was pressed about what he's been doing creatively since lockdown began. Page said, "Archiving, working on various paths and routes of projects, but I'm not going to say what the projects are. There's various things I'm working towards. It's not just one thing, it's multiple things, and I don't want to even give a hint, because if. . . you give a one-sentence sound bite, and then if it doesn't materialize it's like: 'Why didn't you do a solo album?' So I don't want to say what it is that I've got planned, because I don't want to give people the chance to misinterpret it."

Page remained cryptic as he went on to say, "I really can't put on record what the new record is. I'll leave it to your imagination. The thing is there are so many ways I could present myself. . . within a space of time (laughs). I've come across all these various projects I did. And one of the things I did recently is listen to a recording I made of the Marrakesh Folk Festival, with the tribes coming in from all over Morocco, in 1975. It's fascinating. Tribal stuff passed on from father to son and kept alive because of the folk festivals, Essaouira, and all the rest. Where there are people who want to hear the Berbers. I certainly do, it's good for the soul."

Jimmy Page recently explained the benefits of making music in collaboration: "The fact of playing with other, y'know, personalities -- musically, so, to speak -- can be an inspiration and you take it in an organic sense, the same way that we got here at this point. Y'know, working with the Egyptians, the Moroccans, and y'know, the Celtic areas. I mean, you can be inspired my working with these people; and that's basically what it is. If you get in a room and there's a particular, sort of, identity of sound coming from somewhere, and you can get inspired by it, and who knows what comes next? But up till this point, it's been pretty good." SOUNDCDUE

IN OTHER LED ZEPPLELIN-RELATED NEWS

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss have updated their North American itinerary with a string of summer dates set for after the their European run. The duo is touring in support of in support of their second album, Raise The Roof.

UPDATED: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss North American 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
August 15 - San Diego, CA - The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
August17 - 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

The George Harrison estate has partnered with the hemp brand Dad Grass for the new signature line, "All Things Must Grass," a play on the late-Beatle's 1970 classic solo album All Things Must Pass. The packaging also features the actual artwork to the famed triple-record set. The new CBD product was launched "to remember the legend, his album, and his love of good grass."

According to the announcement: "The collection is led by George Harrison Signature Edition Pre Rolled Joints containing organic CBD and CBG blends for a mellow stress-relieving, mood-improving buzz. There's also an All Things Must Grass Dad Stash (to hide your goods) as well as rolling papers, a rolling tray, an ashtray, matches, and merch."

Rolling Stone reported, "The joints achieve this effect using a mixture of CBG and CBD -- two non-psychoactive properties found in cannabis plants. Early studies suggest that both may help reduce pain, as well as symptoms related to depression and anxiety, among other benefits." For more info, log on top: https://bit.ly/3jxlTGg

During a 1982 chat on Good Morning Australia, George Harrison spoke frankly about his relationship -- or lack thereof -- with marijuana and hard drugs: "We smoked it and the best thing about that was that we used to drink whiskey and the moment marijuana came, we just knocked the whiskey on the head. But, y'know, it's just like anything, it was not bad. I never, ever, wanted to know about heroin. I just kept away from it and a lot of my friends died -- and they're still dying, y'know? But I think -- well, I was a bit lucky, I felt I had a tilt mechanism. Y'know, I could get a bit loaded, but I'd always cut out: 'Okay, that's enough. Now go and get straight.'"

It was 35 years ago today (April 13th, 1987) that Fleetwood Mac released their first new studio set in five years, Tango In The Night. The album peaked at Number Seven and spent a whopping seven months in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 album chart.

Tango In The Night, which is the band's second biggest selling album -- following 1977's Rumours -- and spawned four hit singles "Little Lies" (#4), "Big Love" (#5), "Everywhere" (#14), and "Seven Wonders" (#19). The album, which topped the charts in the UK, has since sold over seven million copies worldwide.

Lindsey Buckingham recalled that during the time of Tango In The Night, the creative process was literally the opposite way around for him and the band: "The Tango In The Night album has tracks on it that were the beginnings of my third solo record. And I started that, and the group sort of moved in and said, 'Hey, we gotta do this.' So, the song 'Big Love' switched gears and got into the group thing. There was more than one time when I was tempted to sort of go out and leave the group -- but it's like anything else; you have to check your own impulses and make sure that you're really doing the right thing and you're ready for it."

Buckingham famously quit the band just prior to the Tango In The Night tour and explained to us that it had gotten to the point where he had to submerge too much of his creativity to keep the commercial continuity of the band in motion: "In '87, you had a working atmosphere that could not really be called 'creative' -- I mean, everyone was so zonked out, for one thing -- and there was very little unity. Somebody had to make up for the lack of what should have been happening more naturally as a band, and wasn't. It was really a challenge just getting anything to happen."

2017 saw the releases of deluxe and expanded editions of Tango In The Night. Both versions include a disc of rare recordings -- including unreleased gems like the alternate version of "Mystified," a demo for the album's title song, plus the rare B-sides: "Down Endless Street" and "Ricky." Also included is a third disc that compiles more than a dozen 12-inch mixes. Dub versions of "Seven Wonders" and "Everywhere" are featured along with an extended version of "Little Lies" remixed by John "Jellybean" Benitez.

The collection also comes with a DVD featuring videos for five singles: "Big Love," "Seven Wonders," "Little Lies," "Family Man," and "Everywhere" -- with the deluxe edition including Tango In The Night as a 180-gram vinyl LP.

Camila Cabello revealed Tuesday (April 12th) that he hoped to achieve "better mental health" with her new album, Familia.

When Today host Carson Daly asked the singer what she wanted to achieve with this album she replied with, "Better mental health. I really just wanted to be free. I wanted to feel joy in the studio, I wanted to be as transparent as possible, and I feel like so many of these songs. … That's what I love about music. It's like, I could talk to you about how I'm feeling all day long, but I feel like these songs really sound like how I was feeling on the days that I wrote them."

She also told Hoda Kotb that at the age of 25, she knows herself much better than she did with her previous two albums.

The former Fifth Harmony member added, "So I think that through doing the inner-work, whether it be therapy or really practicing authenticity and practicing vulnerability and being honest, you find who you are, and now I'm in a place where I'm like, ‘Oh, I know who I am and I like who I am.' And so I just practice being who I am."

Nicki Minaj's attorney Judd Burstein has responded to Jennifer Hough's attorney Tyrone Blackburn, who has accused the rapper of "supporting sex offenders." As previously reported, Blackburn represents Hough, who accused Minaj and husband Kenneth Petty in a 2021 lawsuit of intimidating and harrassing her her in hopes that she would "recant her legitimate claim that defendant Petty raped her."

At the beginning of this year, Hough voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit -- only to refile it in California, but the default judgment motion has Minaj calling for Hough's lawyer to be "severely punished."

According to Rolling Stone, Minaj is seeking fees and costs as well as a referral to the federal court's Attorney Disciplinary Committee against Blackburn, who Burstein claims pursued "frivolous" and "extortionate" litigation against the rapper "in such a reprehensible manner."

Yesterday (April 12th), Burstein said in court, "Faced with a claim that he should be sanctioned because … of his entirely irrelevant accusation—made without any evidentiary support —that Minaj belongs to a murderous street gang, one would have expected Mr. Blackburn to limit his response to an explanation why that allegation was appropriate or at least made in good faith. He did not do so. Instead, he did something far worse: he has now outrageously alleged that Minaj supports the sexual abuse of children."

Burstein added: "Mr. Blackburn surely included this outrageous accusation knowing that the media will likely report on the lie, thereby creating the very reputation which he had no basis for alleging in the first place."

Alice Cooper has just rolled out a 20-city North American fall tour. Cooper -- who plays on Thursday (April 14th) in Calgary with special guests Buckcherry -- kicks off the autumn run on September 7th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and carries on through October 8th when he wraps the year up in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Alice Cooper told us that the days of blowing an audience's mind with stage theatrics have really changed over the decades: "I don't think you can shock an audience anymore, really. I mean, CNN's more shocking than anything Marilyn Manson or I can do, because (laughs), they used to hang me onstage, now you see people really getting hung on TV. So, the idea is just to bombard the audience with vaudeville-type of burlesque comedy -- but make sure the music is the basis of everything. I mean, you can't put icing on the cake without the cake. So a 10-hour rehearsal is nine hours on the music, and one hour on the theatrics."

UPDATED: Alice Cooper's North American tour dates (subject to change):

April 14 - Calgary, AB - Winsport Arena (with Buckcherry)
April 15 - Penticton, BC -South Okanagan Events Center (with Buckcherry)
April 16 - Abbotsford, BC - Abbotsford Ent & Sports Centre (with Buckcherry)
April 19 - Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (with Buckcherry)
April 20 - Seattle, WA - McCaw Hall (with Buckcherry)
April 22 - Reno, NV - Grand Sierra Resort (with Ace Frehley)
April 23 - Paso Robles, CA - Vina Robles Amphitheatre (with Ace Frehley)
April 24 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre (with Ace Frehley)
September 7 - Bethlehem, PA - Wind Creek Event Center
September 9 - Alton, VA - Blue Ridge Rock Festival
September 11 - Windsor, ON - The Colosseum at Caesar's
September 13 - Buffalo, NY - Shea's Buffalo (with Buckcherry)
September 14 - Binghamton, NY - Visions Arena (with Buckcherry)
September 16 - Albany, NY - The Palace Theater
September 17 - Atlantic City, NJ - Tropicana Casino & Resort
September 18 - Wallingford, CT - Toyota Oakdale Theatre
September 20 - Muncie, IN - Emens Auditorium
September 21 - Grand Rapids, MI - DeVos Hall
September 22 - Hammond, IN - The Venue at Horseshoe Casino
September 24 - Louisville, KY - Louder than Life Festival
September 25 - Chattanooga, TN - Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium
September 27 - Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theater
September 28 - St. Louis, MO - Stifel Theatre
September 30 - Cedar Rapids, IA - Paramount Theater
October 1 - Springfield, IL - Bank of Springfield Center
October 4 - Loveland, CO - Budweiser Event Center
October 6 - Prescott Valley, AZ - Findlay Toyota Center
October 8 - Las Vegas, NV - TBA

Happy Birthday to soul legend Al Green who celebrates his 76th birthday today (April 13th)!!! In 2014, Green was among the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors from President Obama at a gala performance in Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. Tribute performances included Earth, Wind, & Fire on "I Can't Get Next To You," "Love and Happiness," and Jennifer Hudson on "Simply Beautiful." Usher performed "Let's Stay Together," and Mavis Staples and Sam Moore teamed up with a choir to duet on "Take Me To The River."

In 2008 Green released Lay It Down, his third album since returning to secular music in 2003 with I Can't Stop, which reunited him with his longtime collaborator and producer, the late-Willie Mitchell. Green and Mitchell collaborated on most of Green's biggest hits from the '70s like "Let's Stay Together" and "I'm Still In Love With You." In 2010, Green's 1974 classic, "Take Me To The River" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Al Green, who's been an ordained minister since 1976, was asked if he ever thought he would have attained so much in his lifetime: "No, I never did think . . . I'm a sharecropper's son. I'm nobody. I have a little bag of songs over here, I've got a bible over here, and that's all I got. People come out, remember these songs better than me, and some of the songs are older than the people, so I think that I am blessed."

He told us that although he's not judging today's musical talent, one thing is clear to him -- it is very different from the pop-R&B sounds of the mid-'60's: "Today's music is a whole different animal from the Four Tops, or from the Temptations or Martha Reeves & The Vandellas or the Supremes. It's talking, more talking as a rap style -- and I'm not jumping up and down on our kids. Because, no matter what you think of them, or no matter what I think, they are our -- I said underline our -- offspring."

Known for the pop hits "Let's Stay Together" and "I'm Still In Love With You," among others, Green says gospel music is just as important to him, if not more so. He explains the need for making gospel music in today's world: "Because I think the need for 'a rose is still a rose' mentality, and that pureness that comes out of gospel music is necessary for today to kind of curb all of the negative postures of music in reference to the language and various other videos that suggest very strongly this or that. I think the gospel music has a tendency to make it kind of lean up straight a little bit, just a little more, and everything is able to go right on."

Green acknowledges that some of his fans turned their back on him in 2003 when he went back to releasing secular music. He says that he can't worry about the select group of fans who have a problem with him being both a gospel and a soul artist: "You gotta be yourself. I can't be nobody else. I have to be Al. I'm a gospel preacher, and I sing R&B rhythm and blues, and I sing gospel songs too. I'm just Al, and that's all I really wanna be. I don't really wanna be. . . Can't nobody beat me being myself."

Green told us that he finds it hard narrowing down a concert set list from all his great songs : "It's hard to kind of narrow 'em down, 'cause they all your children, see? It's like my kids -- I can't say I like this one better than I like that one, because that would be preferring one over another. So, it's like 'I'm Still In Love With You,' you know, I like that too, but I like, still like 'Let's Stay Together.' I like 'Love And Happiness' because I wrote it."

Al Green spoke about his musical legacy: "Well, I think that's a lot of making babies, I mean in London they was asking us 'do you know how many kids been born since you been making this music?,' I'm going 'huh?' The music is what it is, and it's about love and it's about compassion and it's about affection, it's about family, it's about, it's about time for me to go, bye!"

Back in 2005 it was announced that a feature film based on Green's life was heading to the big screen starring former-ER leading man Mekhi Phifer, but so far there has been no word on if and when production will begin.

Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron -- who is also a member of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil have come together to form a new band called 3rd Secret.

The band is led by vocalists Jillian Raye of Giants in the Trees and Jennifer Johnson. Guitarist Bubba Dupree of Void is also a member of the band.

According to Rolling Stone, the new supergroup released a surprise self titled debut album last week.

See the tracklisting for the album below:

1. "Rhythm of the Ride"
2. "I Choose Me"
3. "Last Day of August"
4. "Winter Solstice"
5. "Lies Fade Away"
6. "Live Without You"
7. "Right Stuff"
8. "Dead Sea"
9. "Diamond in the Cold"
10. "Somewhere in Time"
11. "The Yellow Dress"

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are expecting their first child together.

The "Toxic" singer announced on Instagram Monday (April 11th) that she took a pregnancy test after returning from her recent Maui trip.

She wrote, "I obviously won't be going out as much due to the paps getting their money shot of me like they unfortunately already have."

Asghari wrote on an Instagram post of his own, "Marriage and kids are a natural part of a strong relationship filled with love and respect. Fatherhood is something i have always looked forward to and i don't take lightly. It is the most important job i will ever do."

The 40-year-old pop star, who is already a mom to 16-year-old Sean Preston and 15-year-old Jayden James, also opened up about her previous battle with perinatal depression. Spears wrote, "It's hard because when I was pregnant I had perinatal depression … I have to say it is absolutely horrible … women didn't talk about it back then … some people considered it dangerous if a woman complained like that with a baby inside her … but now women talk about it everyday … thank Jesus we don't have to keep that pain a reserved proper secret."

She added that she's planning on doing yoga every day for her entire pregnancy.

As expected, the latest Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album, Unlimited Love, debuted this week at Number One, marking the band's first chart-topper since 2006's Stadium Arcadium. Billboard reported, the album, "bows with 97,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 7th, according to Luminate. . . Of Unlimited Love's 97,500 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 82,500 (it's the top-selling album of the week); SEA units comprise 14,500 (equaling 18.96 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs); and TEA units comprise 500."

Unlimited Love marks the return of guitarist John Frusciante, who leaft the band in 2009. Heroin addiction originally took Frusciante out of action in 1993, but he rejoined the Peppers six years later, playing on 1999's massively successful Californication and 2002's By The Way. He left again after 2009's Stadium Arcadium, making some 14 studio LP's during an eclectic solo run.

Drummer Chad Smith told us a while back that he never imagined that his career would go as far as it has: "Never in my wildest dreams if you had come up to me and said, 'Hey, y'know, you're gonna move to California and join the Chili Peppers and then 25 years later you're gonna be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and you're gonna sell millions of records and travel all over the world and blah blah blah blah blah. . .' I'd have just said, 'You are hiiiiiigh.' I can't really comprehend it too much."

The key to the Chili Peppers remains the bond shared by frontman Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea. Not too long ago we asked Kiedis to sum up what it is about his friendship with Flea that has inspired all this incredible music: "Oh, I don't know because I'm a little too deeply in the forest to really see the trees like that. I can tell you how it hasn't changed. We still love each other with all of our hearts. Like with any long-term, intimately close friendship like that, you have a lot of highs and lows and this is just one of those marriages that persists."

Conan Gray has announced that will release his second full-length album, Superache, on June 24th.

The singer wrote in his Instagram Story Monday (April 11th), "Disastrously excited to announce my sophomore album, Superache. This is a world I've been living in for over two years. It's a story of heartbreak, friends, yearning, and the almost hysterical existence of being young and emotional."

Gray is currently crisscrossing the country ono The Conan Gray World Tour 2022 and will play Coachella 2022 this weekend.