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Olivia Rodrigo took time out during her concert in Los Angeles on Tuesday night (May 24) to talk to her audience about common sense gun legislation. Her emotional plea came only hours after the mass school murder of 19 children and 2 adults at a Texas elementary school.

While telling the crowd she was devastated and heartbroken about the latest mass shooting, she talked about how America needed stricter gun control laws.

Videos were posted online of her short speech and she said, "I wish we would never have to worry about our safety or our lives at places that are dedicated to our learning and growing,"

The 19 year old was one of many artist that spoke out. Others included Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez.

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• Olivia Rodrigo took time out during her concert in Los Angeles on Tuesday night (May 24) to talk to her audience about common sense gun legislation.
• She said, "I wish we would never have to worry about our safety or our lives at places that are dedicated to our learning and growing,"

Although devastating for him personally, Pete Townshend admitted that the 1978 death of Who drummer Keith Moon was actually liberating for him musically.

Townshend's new two-hour Audible Original mini-biography, titled Somebody Saved Me, finds the Who genius talking frankly about that period in his life and career -- and explain that having a more durable and staid drummer in Kenney Jones, he was able to flourish onstage during the Who's legendary 1979 tour: "What I liked (laughs) about, y'know, the second phase of the Who, was is that it felt to me like I didn't have to pretend anymore. If I felt bad -- I would just be bad. Y'know, if I felt good, I would be good, I would look good. Y'know, if I felt like I didn't want to work on the stage, I wouldn't work. I just concentrated on the music. And I, I didn't bother with showmanship and I didn't bother with any fancy guitar stuff, I just played the chords and wanged away and. . . Yeah. I enjoyed it. It was a good change for me."

Green Day leader Billie Joe Armstrong says he owes a debt of gratitude to the Sex Pistols. The legendary '70s punk unit is the subject of Pistol, a six-part FX on Hulu miniseries premiering on May 31st. Pistol, which is directed by Danny Boyle, is based on Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones' 2017 memoir, Lonely Boy: Tales Of A Sex Pistol.

Billie Joe Armstrong spoke of his love and admiration for the Pistols, recalling to Rolling Stone, "Never Mind The Bollocks was one of the first punk records I ever heard. . . The first thing that popped into my mind when I heard 'Holidays In The Sun" is how those guitars sounded so gigantic and real; and hearing (Johnny) Lydon's vocals, how he was just sort of this anti-singer (laughs). For me, it just had a huge impact. Everything about it, from the lyrics to the guitar sounds to the songs, I thought was just perfect."

Armstrong went on to say, "When Green Day first started playing, we were called Sweet Children. It was me and Mike (Dirnt) and rotating drummers, and we covered 'Holidays In The Sun.' Hardcore was everywhere, and everything was about playing as fast as humanly possible. And to me, it was like, 'There's no groove in that!' But the Pistols, they had a groove! Paul Cook is such a great drummer, and the way he and Steve Jones just completely locked in and played off each other, it's sort of like they were brothers."

Billie Joe Armstrong told us a while back that it's important for rock artists to stay connected to what's happening in the world when they write: "I think that rock stars, or whatever they like to call themselves nowadays, when they tend to get pretty big, a lot of people go way deep inside themselves and sort of shut out the world and kinda become disconnected with what is going on. I think it's really important, especially in music, that you have to have some sort of connection and you have to be some sort of member of society to comment on it. Or else people are just sorta like, 'Well, you're just this whiny rock star. Y'know -- what are you talking about?'"

Green Day will next perform with Weezer on June 1st in Berlin, Germany.

Blink-182's Mark Hoppus has teamed with others to launch Verswire, which will utilize a venture capital approach to help artists make money and grow their business without going into deep debt while doing so.

The company will help artists with distribution, sponsorships, artist development and Web strategy.

Hoppus said, "So many times, labels will sign something that's hot, hope they can get a hit and then move on quickly. We want to go back to, ‘OK , you're a band starting out. What do you need? What can we bring to you? How can we make this thing blow up?'"

Opposite of a major label, artists will participate immediately in revenue streams with Verswire and keep majority ownership of their masters.

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz will also be involved as a strategic advisor.

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Happy Birthday to Stevie Nicks, who celebrates her 74th birthday today (May 26th)!!! Nicks kicks off her next string of tour dates on June 10th in Ridgefield, Washington at Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater.

Back in the fall of 2020, Stevie Nicks released the double-disc live album and film, Live In Concert: The 24 Karat Gold Tour. The collection features 17 tracks including such classics as "Stand Back," "Gypsy," and "Edge Of Seventeen," as well as the first ever live recording of the pre-Fleetwood Mac, 1973 Buckingham Nicks favorite "Crying In The Night," among other live rarities.

That same month, Nicks released a new socially charged solo single, tilted "Show Them The Way," featuring Dave Grohl on drums and a video directed by Cameron Crowe.

Nicks recently revealed that she was busy working on a multimedia project based around her 1975 Fleetwood Mac classic "Rhiannon," telling Rolling Stone in 2020, "Last year I made a pitch to everybody that when this Fleetwood Mac tour is over. I'm taking next year off because I want to work on my Rhiannon book/movie (based on the original Welsh myth that inspired her song). And I want to maybe work with some different producers. I don't know what I want to do! I just know that I don't want a tour! So I think it's not as hard for me as it is for the bands that had a tour coming up this year. Because they'd be getting ready to go into rehearsal right now. So not only is your tour canceled and your rehearsal cancelled, but you're quarantined to your house?"

She went on to explain, "I have some Rhiannon poetry that I have written over the last 30 years that I've kept very quiet. I'm thinking, 'Well here I have all this time and I have a recording setup.' And I'm thinking I'm going to start doing some recording. I'm going to start putting some of these really beautiful poems to music, and I have the ability to record them."

2019 marked the year that Stevie Nicks finally entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, and was inducted by Harry Styles. During her four-song performance, old flame Don Henley took the stage and duetted with Nicks on their 1981 classic, "Leather And Lace."

Out now is Stand Back: 1981-2017, the 50-track, triple-CD Stevie Nicks solo compilation. Among the highlights on Stand Back are Nicks' collaborations over the years, including "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, "Whenever I Call You Friend" with Kenny Loggins, "Magnet & Steel" with Walter Egan, "Leather And Lace" with Don Henley, "You're Not The One" with Sheryl Crow, and "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems" with Lana Del Rey.

The set also features a pair of Fleetwood Mac classics from the 1981 Bella Donna tour -- "Dreams" and "Rhiannon," and from her 2009 live album The Soundstage Sessions, a live take of the Tusk classic "Sara" and a cover of Dave Matthews Band's "Crash Into Me."

In October 2014, Stevie Nicks released her latest album, 24 Karat Gold - Songs From The Vault. The tracks are re-recordings of her long unreleased and unfinished demos -- many written in the early-'70s, while The album, which hit Number Seven on the Billboard 200 album charts, was co-produced by Nicks, Dave Stewart, and Waddy Wachtel.

That fall, Nicks launched her first photo exhibit in New York City. The show, featuring a selection of Nicks' formally lit and posed Polaroid photographs, ran for a week at Manhattan's Morrison Hotel Gallery in SoHo.

Stevie Nicks was the 2014 recipient of the prestigious BMI Icon Award and honored at the 62nd Annual BMI Pop Awards held at L.A.'s Beverly Wilshire Hotel. BMI.com posted that over the course of her career, Stevie Nicks received 12 BMI million-performance citations, along with 12 BMI Pop Awards, a BMI Urban Award, and a BMI Country Award for such hits as "Landslide," "Rhiannon," "Dreams," "Leather And Lace," and "Gypsy," among others.

Nicks' 2011 album, In Your Dreams, entered the Billboard 200 chart at Number Six, selling 52,000 copies during its first week of release, and marked her first Top 10 album in a decade. Her documentary on the album -- also called, In Your Dreams -- played at over 50 theaters across North America and is now out on DVD. The film showcases the "inner life of Nicks -- including costume parties, elaborate dinner feasts, tap dancing, fantasy creations and revealing songwriting and recording sessions, all of which are captured on film." The doc also features cameos by Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, and Reese Witherspoon, alongside several "home-movie" style music videos.

Stevie Nicks was contemplating quitting music in December 1974 when she and then-boyfriend and bandmate Lindsey Buckingham got the break of a lifetime when Mick Fleetwood was checking out Sound City Studio in Los Angeles, where he was considering recording the band's next album. Staff producer Keith Olson played Fleetwood a Buckingham Nicks track called "Frozen Love" that had been recorded at the studio, with Fleetwood deciding upon first listening that he wanted Buckingham to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham told Fleetwood he would join the band -- but not without Nicks, and the rest is, as they say, history.

Although it's been over 45 years since Buckingham and Nicks parted ways as lovers, estranged bandmate Lindsey Buckingham told us the public at large can't really grasp how tough it was for him to continue being a bandmate and producer with his former longtime live-in girlfriend: "For me personally, it was difficult to continue to produce songs for Stevie, and to do for her -- do the right thing, obviously -- but in the context of her moving away from me. And it was painful. Obviously, I think the same would be true for John and Christine (McVie)."

Stevie Nicks said that the emotional trauma of everyone in the band suffering through a romantic breakup during the sessions for 1977's Rumours pushed the group towards cocaine -- which kick-started a decade-long addiction that nearly killed her. As cocaine took over the industry, Nicks says that most people believed it was entirely non-addictive: "Y'know, I thought as I was going through the '70s and cocaine was introduced into everybody's life, and told that it was recreational, and that it was not dangerous. But, y'know, that's what we were told, really. On the other side of that, we were also told, 'Don't ever do heroin, because if you do it once, you'll have to do it every day, because you'll never feel that good again, and you'll be chasing that, that high for the rest of your life.' So, it was like, I was told not to do heroin and told why and didn't. But cocaine, we were all told was cool -- that's why we did it. Of course, then we all got extremely addicted to it."

Sheryl Crow told us that Stevie Nicks was her ultimate hero during her teen years: "I thought she was the one young rock n' roll woman I could relate to and see myself being like. And up until that point I really only had Mick Jagger and people like that, Robert Plant to sort of look at and think, 'God, I´d like to be like that.' I never really related to Janis Joplin so much. She was sort of not, in my mind, she wasn't very together even though she was definitely an artist. When Stevie came around, that rang a real clear bell with me."

The Eagles' Don Henley and Stevie Nicks were romantically linked back in the late-'70s, and scored a 1981 Top Ten hit with their duet "Leather And Lace." The pair went on to tour with each other in 2005. Henley shed some light on his deep friendship with Nicks: "We go back a long way. We don't see very much of each other these days. I mean, she's got her life and I've got mine, and there's certainly nothing going on here on a romantic level. But we're friends. We feel like we've been through a lot of the same things in our careers."

Stevie Nicks has been a solo superstar for over four decades now. We asked her how she feels about juggling two very high profile careers over the years: "A solo career and Fleetwood Mac are a really great thing to go back and forth to. Because, y'know, you can do your solo work and then you could do Fleetwood Mac, and then you can go back to your solo work and then you could do Fleetwood Mac. It really is kind of a blessing in many ways. You never get bored, so you can do your thing until you start to get bored and then you can go to the other thing. (Laughs) And then you can do that until you start to get bored and go back to the other thing. And it really makes for staying in a much more excited and uplifted humor for everything that you do when you're not just doing one thing."

Despite her many personal and creative changes over the years, Stevie Nicks told us a while back she's essentially remained the same as she was as a teen in Northern California back in the 1960's in high school with Lindsey Buckingham: "As I say to Lindsey sometimes, when we talk about how we've changed; in a lot of ways, I'm not really very different than the girl I was when I first met him. How I perform has not changed very much. I mean, I saw Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and Grace Slick and I watched carefully and I took from them what I wanted from my own stage performance. And I pretty much stuck with that."

Late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins was honored over the weekend when more than 1,000 musicians from 25 countries gathered at Stade de France in Paris for the Rockin'1000 concert. Hundreds of singers, guitarists, bassists, and drummers turned out to offer a special performance of "My Hero," as well as 20 other songs including covers of The Who, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, The White Stripes, and Guns N' Roses, according to consequence.net.

Rockin'1000 was originally devised as a way to lure Foo Fighters to Cesena, Italy. The event was the subject of the 2020 documentary We Are the Thousand.

James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett performed the National Anthem during Metallica Night at the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night (May 24th).

Hetfield sang a few notes from the band's classic "Master of Puppets" at the end of the performance. They also played "City Connect."

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band have announced the initial dates for their 2023 world tour. "The Boss" will kick off the year in North America next February with a string of arena dates still yet to be announced, followed by three months in Europe playing stadiums across the continent and hitting Spain, Ireland, France, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Austria, and Germany.

The opening night of the European leg is set for April 28th in Barcelona, Spain at Estadi Olímpic. The concerts mark the E Street Band's first road trek since the 2016/2017 tour behind The River. They last played together on December 20th, 2020, when they served as the musical guest on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Springsteen said in the tour announcement: "After six years, I'm looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year. And I'm looking forward to once again sharing the stage with the legendary E Street Band. See you out there, next year -- and beyond."

Bruce Springsteen admitted that the shape of his concerts is constantly evolving in his mind throughout any given tour: "It's always a work in-progress. So, I'm laying in bed and I'm going, 'Okay, the other 35 nights, what did I play after 'The Promised Land? Well, what can I do in Belgium that's gonna be different tonight (laughs)?' So, on any given night, I know that these five songs work after this song and still keeps the narrative of what we're talking about intact."

Steve Van Zandt explained why the E Street Band has been able to serve Bruce Springsteen's music in a way no other group of musicians could: "He picked guys that could handle a wide variety of things and could basically follow orders. We had a really fast, 'know, ability to learn. Every one of us -- there was a lot of spontaneity goin' on in the show. A lot. We, we gotta move like one thing, one entity, y'know, no matter what move he makes. Y'know, he never does a song the same way twice."

JUST ANNOUNCED: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band tour dates (subject to change):

April 28 - Barcelona, Spain - Estadi Olímpic
May 5, 7 - Dublin, Ireland - RDS Arena
May 7 - Dublin, Ireland - RDS Arena
May 13 - Paris, France - La Défense Arena
May 18 - Ferrara, Italy - Parco Urbano G. Bassani
May 21 - Rome, Italy - Circo Massimo
May 25 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Johan Cruijff ArenA
June 11 - Landgraaf, The Netherlands - Megaland
June 13 - Zurich, Switzerland - Stadion Letzigrund
June 21 - Düsseldorf, Germany - Merkur Spiel Arena
June 24, 26 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Ullevi Stadium
June 30 - Oslo, Norway - Voldsløkka Stadion
July 11, 13 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Parken Stadium
July 15 - Hamburg, Germany - Volksparkstadion
July 18 - Vienna, Austria - Ernst Happel Stadion
July 23 - Munich, Germany - Olympiastadion
July 25 - Monza, Italy - Prato della Gerascia, Autodromo di Monza

Harry Styles has announced an additional five New York and five Los Angeles dates to his massive Love On Tour 2022 in support of his new album Harry's House.

Coming off two special One Night Only shows in New York and London, the highly anticipated 2022 tour will allow fans to have access to multiple nights in each major city turning iconic venues into Harry's House for the run of shows.

Tickets for the massive 42-city trek go on sale Thursday (May 26th).

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler has voluntarily checked himself into rehab forcing the band to scrap their June and July "Deuces Are Wild" Las Vegas shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM. Tyler, who's now 74, has been open over the years regarding his continued battle to remain sober.

The band issued an official statement, which reads:

As many of you know, our beloved brother Steven has worked on his sobriety for many years. After foot surgery to prepare for the stage and the necessity of pain management during the process, he has recently relapsed and voluntarily entered a treatment program to concentrate on his health and recovery.

We are truly sorry to inform our fans and friends that we must cancel our first set of Las Vegas Residency dates this June and July while he focuses on his well-being.

We will continue our 2022 dates starting in September, and we'll let you know any further updates as soon as we can. We are devastated that we have inconvenienced so many of you, especially our most loyal fans who often travel great distances to experience our shows.

Thank you for your understanding and for your support for Steven during this time.

Back in 2013, Steven Tyler appeared on the syndicated Dr. Oz show and made a bold claim as to who's to blame for getting drugs out to the masses these days: "Y'know who the new dealers are? They're doctors. The dealers aren't on the street. It's not a (applause) shady guy on the street. Y'know how many doctors I've gone to and said, 'I, I, I'm in a 12-Step program, I've been sober for. . .' He goes, 'Ah, good for you!' On the way out he says, 'You need something to sleep tonight?' (Dr. Oz): (laughs) Gosh. . . (Steven Tyler): And I'm trying to tell him that I can't take anything that's mood altering, 'cause if I do, I like to ride it. We all do, right? You get on a water ski, you wanna go again next week. Kiss her -- I wanna do it again (laughter)! It's 'euphoric recall,' it's not so odd. It's what humans -- y'know, we're all touchy-feely; even those that say that they're not and men that don't cry, they still want to be touched by their mothers. Skin is the biggest organ in the body. So, we like that feeling of, y'know, opiates."

Aerosmith will next perform on September 4th at Bangor, Maine's Maine Savings Amphitheater

Calvin Harris confirmed Tuesday (May 24th) that his next single, "Potion" is a collaboration with Dua Lipa.

In a TikTok video captioned, "How I made Potion," Harris included the step, "Facetime Dua" where the singer "absolutely" agreed to provide vocals.

The two last collaborated on "One Kiss" in 2018.

"Potion", which is rumored to also feature Young Thug, will be released on Friday (May 27th).

Lorde shared her admiration for Kendrick Lamar in her latest newsletter.

In an email sent to fans on Tuesday (May 24th) the singer called him the "most influential artist in modern music."

She wrote, "I'm loving Kendrick. I cannot get over the most popular and influential artist in modern music displaying a working nervous system, admitting mistakes, trying to process intergenerational trauma and prejudice. I love the way the album opens, the pace and heat of the first few songs, and later 'Count Me Out,' the build and strings in 'Auntie Diaries' … special."

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea recalled the emotions the group was dealing with when they fired the band's guitarist for a decade -- Josh Klinghoffer -- upon John Frusciante's return to the band. Klinghoffer, who started out as Frusciante's guitar tech, as now tours as Pearl Jam's supplemental live guitarist, was let go by the Chili Peppers in December 2019.

Flea told Classic Rock that it was decision he didn't take lightly: "I crashed my car into the garage, I was so freaked out about it. Look, Josh is an amazing person. He was helpful for me personally, as someone I could go to when I was hurting and crying on the road. He played great, he contributed, he's an awesome person. But we had a language with John that we developed when we were all much younger."

He went on to explain the allure of John Frusciante as a guitarist and bandmember: "John Frusciante is the best musician I've ever played with. It's in everything from the little details to the big picture. His relationship to music is so pure and has so much integrity and knowledge and work and practice. Every note he plays is born of this immense heart. It's so beautiful."

John Frusciante, who has already quit the Chili Peppers twice before, was pressed as to whether the third go-'round with the band will be for good, and explained, "There's no way to see into the future. . . The beauty of playing with this band is that we really do love listening to each other. I love hearing the way they make me sound. We have a chemical effect on each other. We bring things out of each other that we can't bring out of ourselves. The way I play guitar with them is a style I can't play on my own. The chance to make another record like that has meant everything to me. We're all just glad this is happening right now. Our hearts are in it, and so it feels right."

A while back John Frusciante told us that there was a time when skateboarding was more important to him than guitar. "When I was a little kid I was a skateboarder at Marina Del Rey (California) Skate Park in like 1978 until they closed in '81, and that's when I started playing guitar and stopped skateboarding. I would imagine a lot of the emotional rudiments in the feelings of flying that took place in skateboarding, I probably am trying to emulate those same things with music."

Red Hot Chili Peppers next perform on June 4th in Seville, Spain at Estadio La Cartuja De Sevilla.

Duran Duran is riding high in 2022 with a high profile summer tour on the books and their November 5th induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Los Angeles. Co-founding bassist John Taylor spoke to Spin and discussed where Duran Duran fits into the rock universe, explaining, "I've spent 40 years sort of figuring out where we stand in the continuum of 20th century electric music. And I'm okay. I'm good with it. The thing about accolades is that, Duran Duran. . . we've always been a people's band. We were never overlauded by the institutions, and so we don't live or die by awards. I mean, it's nice. It's going to be great to perform. It's a great opportunity to perform with our peers. I had a fantastic time a couple of years ago, when Simon (LeBon) and I inducted Roxy Music. I really, really had a great time. Yeah. And that's what it is -- and life goes on."

Taylor went on to say, "We've been going a long time. I mean, 40 years is four times the Beatles. If you do anything -- if you're a writer, whatever it is that you do when you've been doing for that long -- you've really had to dig deep. I have to dig deep as a musician, as a bassist, to pick up that bass and practice. I've got to have a pretty deep philosophy about what it is I'm doing and what it's all about."

He added that keeping a group together for decades is perhaps the ultimate achievement: "We've got four out of our five original members (in Duran Duran). And to keep people together like that, and to keep us interweaving -- and it not be like, just passive aggression -- and just dialing it in to keep it fresh, we all have to dig deep."

John Taylor admitted that any time the band hits the road or releases new music, they've got a lot to live up to: "You can't take anything for granted. Y'know, and until the tickets go on sale, the record's in the stores, you just can't, y'know, you just can't. But, historically, we know, it can have a big effect on an audience, y'know, if the lights are right. We're hoping that when we take it to the people, they're gonna get it. They're gonna feed off our energy." (16 OC: . . . off our energy)

On August 6th, Peter Frampton will headline the Buddy Holly 85th Birthday Celebration in the legendary rocker's hometown of Lubbock, Texas. Joining Frampton at the Helen Devitt Jones Theater for the birthday concert will be Duane Eddy, Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson lead guitarist James Burton, E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent, Everly Brothers guitarist and collaborator Alvin Lee, Stax icon Steve Cropper, and Crickets guitarist and Buddy Holly collaborator and songwriter, Sonny Curtis.

The concert is being presented by the Lubbock Entertainment Performing Arts Association and the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation

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

Tickets go on sale to the public on Thursday, May 26th at 10 a.m. (CT) and may be purchased at BuddyHollyHall.com and ETIX at 1-800-514-3849.

Eminem announced on social media Tuesday (May 24th) that the 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition of The Eminem Show will drop this week.

He wrote, "Well, if you want Shady, this is what I'll give ya" 📺 #TheEminemShow 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition drops Thursday 5/26."

The original, released on May 26th, 2002, was the rapper's fourth album and his second career No. 1 atop the Billboard 200.

Halsey revealed on TikTok that her forthcoming single, "So Good," won't be released until she starts trending on the social media app.

The singer teased the new track in a video with text on the screen that read, "ive been in this industry for 8 years and ive sold over 164 million records and my record company is saying that I can't release it unless they can fake a viral moment on tiktok. everything is marketing. and they are basically doing it to every artist these days."

In a follow up video she played a snippet of a planning call with her rep using the caption, "I wish I was kidding lol."

Olivia Rodrigo reflected on the one-year anniversary of the release of Sour Saturday (May 21st).

She wrote on Instagram, "it is impossible for me to sum up in words how much this album means to me and how grateful I am to have gotten the privilege to make it and watch it exist in the world. thank u @dan_nigro for making it with me and believing in me more than anyone. and thank u to everyone who has embraced my 17 year old lamentations and forever changed my life in the process."

In a separate Reel, the singer also reflected on the time since the album dropped, saying, "I graduated from high school. I went to the White House, which was amazing. And I won three Grammys, which is absolutely insane."

PopCrave reports that she also celebrated her debut album's anniversary by adding new Sour merch to her website, including three new vinyl colors set to release on May 27th.

Paul McCartney has once again topped London's Sunday Times' "Rich List" for the UK and Ireland with a staggering net worth of $1.08 billion. The former-Beatle's wealth increased by a whopping $56.1 million since 2021.

Coming in at Number Two is U2 with $780 million, at Number Three is composer / producer Andrew Lloyd-Webber with $618 million, Elton John at Number Four with $493 million, and rounding out the Top Five is Sting with a flat $300 million.

At a reported $3.5 million per gig, Paul McCartney remains one of the top paid entertainers in history. He admits that he's constantly amazed at how much time the press spends analyzing his net worth: "Y'know what? I do love it, because people make up about my finances. I mean, even I and my accountants don't actually know my finances, but it's marvelous. (A) couple of years ago I was up to $400 million, and then suddenly, two years later, I'm now up to $700 million? Well, thank you very much. It's not true -- but that's really cool."

The 10 richest musicians in the UK and Ireland, according to London's Sunday Times:

1. Paul McCartney - $1.08 billion
2. U2 - $780 million
3. Andrew Lloyd-Webber - $618 million
4. Elton John - $493 million
5. Sting - $300 million
6. Mick Jagger - $397 million
7. Keith Richards - $378 million
8. Olivia and Dhani Harrison - $368 million
9. Ringo Starr - $356 million
10. Ed Sheeran - $324 million

Billie Eilish opened up to David Letterman about living with Tourette's Syndrome during the latest episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.

The singer revealed that it started with "small" tics when she was a child. She said, "For me, they're very exhausting" but admitted she had "made friends with it now."

She also told the host that several other artists have the same condition, adding, "What's funny is so many people have it that you would never know."

Billie Eilish, Coldplay and Shawn Mendes have partnered with Global Citizen for an open letter calling on governments, private sector leaders and billionaires to take urgent action against poverty and climate change.

The open letter was announced on Sunday (May 22nd), Day One of Global Citizen NOW, an urgent gathering to defeat poverty and protect the planet bringing together 200 leaders across the private sector, advocacy, entertainment, government, and philanthropy.

The letter says, "We're calling for leaders to step up by fully committing the funding necessary to tackle the challenges we face. We need to improve opportunities for girls around the world, address the systemic barriers that keep people in poverty, and halt the climate crisis. But we can only succeed at addressing these issues by eliminating the barriers that have prevented us to end extreme poverty and committing to financing levels that will allow for real sustainable progress and not just a temporary fix."

Other artists who signed the letter include 5 Seconds of Summer, Adam Lambert, Alessia Cara, Alok, Bill Nye, Billy Porter, Bridget Moynahan, Camilo, Cathy Freeman, Charlie Puth, Chloe x Halle, Connie Britton, Criolo, Cyndi Lauper, Deborra-lee Furness, DJ Cuppy, Dikembe Mutombo, DJ Cuppy, Duran Duran, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, Femi Kuti, FINNEAS, Hugh Jackman, Lali, Lang Lang, Loren Gray, Made Kuti, MÅNESKIN, Muzi, Nancy Isime, Nile Rodgers, Nomzamo Mba, and Tropkillaz.

As the Rolling Stones gear up to hit the road once again in Europe, Mick Jagger admitted that he's still mourning the loss of the band's late-drummer and musical bedrock, Charlie Watts. Watts died of cancer last August 24th at the age of 80.

Rolling Stone reported during Jagger's chat with The Times UK, he explained how Watts' passing has affected him: "I don't really expect him to be there any more if I turn round during a show. But I do think about him. Not only during rehearsals or on stage, but in other ways too. I would have phoned him up and talked about last night's Arsenal (soccer) game because he supported Tottenham and I'm Arsenal. I miss him as a player and as a friend."

Jagger went on to say, "In the show, when we come to the front and bow at the end, there's no Charlie. He'd always be the last one down. I'd go: 'Come on, what have you got to do?' He'd be fiddling with his sticks because he always had to have them in a row before he'd get off the seat."

When pressed about current pop sensation Harry Styles -- who bares more than a passing resemblance to rock's ultimate bad boy, Jagger said, "I like Harry -- we have an easy relationship. I mean, I used to wear a lot more eye make-up than him. Come on, I was much more androgynous. And he doesn't have a voice like mine or move on stage like me; he just has a superficial resemblance to my younger self, which is fine. He can't help that."

Mick Jagger has been dealing with the side effects of superstardom since he was 20-years-old. He admitted that it's a pretty heady experience when you figure that he and the Stones have affected the lives of millions of people that'll never get to meet: "I mean, it's fantastic that you can do that. People say to me, 'I lost my virginity when they played 'Beast Of Burden,' and I sometimes go out and think of that when we play the song, y'know? That is really. . . makes me feel really good."

Reports say that Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are planning to raise their new baby in Barbados. According to The Jasmine Brand, reports say that a source revealed that two have been making arrangements to leave their L.A. home after the baby is a few months old.

The source said, "Rihanna loves Barbados and she loved growing up there….Both her and ASAP's family are in Barbados, so the couple are planning to move there in a few months' time."

The source added that the couple want to raise their baby away from the entertainment industry, saying, "She wants to give her baby the same experience she had – away from the world of showbusiness."

Elvis Presley's granddaughter, Riley Keough, admitted that the new biopic on "The King" affected her deeply. Keough, an actress own her own right, was at the Cannes Film Festival for both the Elvis screening as well as the premiere of her directorial debut, War Pony.

Elvis, which opens on June 24th, was directed by Baz Luhrmann with Austin Butler portraying Elvis and Tom Hanks as the legendary Col. Tom Parker.

AFP reported Keough spoke about the Elvis film at Cannes telling the crowd she had watched the film with her mother, Lisa Marie Presley and her grandmother, Priscilla Presley: "It was a very emotional experience. There's a lot of family trauma and generational trauma that started around there. It was a very intense experience. The first movie I ever watched in a theater where I knew I wanted to make movies was Moulin Rouge! when I was 12. That made me emotional and I started crying five minutes in, and didn't stop, so I need to watch it again."

Back in 1972, Elvis Presley spoke about his deepest musical influences, which started in -- but weren't limited to -- the church: "I grew up with this, because my folks took me there. When I got old enough, I started to sing in church. But I liked all type of music. Y'know, when I was in high school, I had records by Mario Lanza (laughs) and the Metropolitan Opera. I just loved music. And Spanish, I liked the Mexican-flavored songs. But this thing here, the gospel thing here, is really what we grew up with more than anything else."