Tuesday Rock Roundup
Paul McCartney celebrated his 65th birthday yesterday. His new album, Memory Almost Full, debuts at number-three on this week's Billboard album chart, it's sitting atop digital download charts, and it getting good reviews. Paul, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison will be back in Las Vegas on June 26th for the one-year anniversary of LOVE, the Cirque du Soleil production based on the music of The Beatles.
Now that the long-awaited re-issue of The Traveling Wilburys Volumes One and Three is in stores, Genesis Publications, a high-end U-K publisher, will publish a limited-edition book on the world's greatest super group -- Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty. The book will include numerous unseen photos, and memorabilia from the Harrison estate archives. The text will be drawn from interviews given by the various Wilburys all over the world. It will be published in the fall. Not only is the deluxe reissue of the Wilburys doing well in the States, where it is number-one on I-Tunes, but it's also number-one in England.
Motley Crue dropped a 20-million-dollar lawsuit yesterday on one of their managers, claiming that "greed," "extortion tactics" and bad career advice have cost the band millions and sullied their reputation. According to T-M-Z-dot-com, Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee claim Carl Stubner and Sanctuary Management Group attempted to pocket revenue generated by the band and forced Lee to into reality T-V projects -- namely the ratings bomb Tommy Lee Goes to College and Rock Star: Supernova -- that were bad career moves, which made Lee look "incoherent, lazy and incompetent" and "a laughing stock." The band wants eight-million bucks for revenue they claim they lost while Tommy was busy with his reality T-V career.
Rod Stewart, dressed in blue pin-striped pants and a white jacket, said, "I do" for the third time Saturday as he wed longtime girlfriend Penny Lancaster on the Italian Riviera. Family and a few friends attended the private ceremony in a 17th-century villa.
Richard Bell, the onetime keyboard player in Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band and a member of The Band in the '90s, died on Friday from cancer.
Last week Journey announced that they parted ways with singer Jeff Scott Soto. The band's statement did not include a quote from Soto, who writes on his online blog, "This version [was] released without my involvement. Mine will be out soon." In an interview with The Show Buzz, Journey keyboard player Jonathan Cain says, "We just wanted to move in a different direction sonically. We're interested in our legacy right now. We want to sound like our records and we want to sound like the 65-million units that are out there." Ironically, the singer Soto replaced last year, Steve Augeri, sounded very similar to Steve Perry, the singer of Journey's biggest songs. Meanwhile, former Journey singer Steve Perry has collaborated on some songs with the band Guff for their album, Symphony of Voices, in stores next Tuesday. He also produced and sings on the song "I Can See It in Your Eyes."
IN STORES TODAY:
Bridge to Terabithia DVD
Reno 911!: Miami DVD
Picket Fences - Season One DVD
Bon Jovi - Lost Highway...featuring guest spots from country artists LeAnn Rimes and Big and Rich, was produced primarily in Nashville. Jon Bon Jovi is well known for writing big rock anthems, but with everything that's happened with the band recently -- including Richie Sambora's divorce from wife Heather Locklear and the death of keyboard player David Bryan's father -- Bon Jovi wrote songs based on more personal experiences.
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The summer of 1967 produced some of the legendary hits of the decade. The period beginning with Monterey Pop saw rock broaden its formula with such unique hits as Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," The Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'," "The Letter" from The Box Tops and "Heroes and Villains" by The Beach Boys. They're among the 40 songs in the Time Life box set Summer of Love - The Hits of 1967, which goes on sale today. The set divides the music into "F-M" and "A-M" discs, representing the change that started sweeping radio that year. The second disc, reflecting what was then called "underground" radio, features The Byrds' "So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star," Cream's "I Feel Free" and Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company's "Down on Me." Cuts by Traffic, Vanilla Fudge and Jefferson Airplane also signify the more experimental direction some artists began to take -- especially as San Francisco emerged as the year's new capitol of pop culture. The third disc is an hour-long D-V-D -- an episode from the acclaimed 1990s History of Rock and Roll T-V mini-series that spans the period between Monterey Pop and Woodstock. There are performances and interview clips with such legends as The Doors, Janis Joplin, Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane, Carlos Santana and Graham Nash
Now that the long-awaited re-issue of The Traveling Wilburys Volumes One and Three is in stores, Genesis Publications, a high-end U-K publisher, will publish a limited-edition book on the world's greatest super group -- Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty. The book will include numerous unseen photos, and memorabilia from the Harrison estate archives. The text will be drawn from interviews given by the various Wilburys all over the world. It will be published in the fall. Not only is the deluxe reissue of the Wilburys doing well in the States, where it is number-one on I-Tunes, but it's also number-one in England.
Motley Crue dropped a 20-million-dollar lawsuit yesterday on one of their managers, claiming that "greed," "extortion tactics" and bad career advice have cost the band millions and sullied their reputation. According to T-M-Z-dot-com, Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee claim Carl Stubner and Sanctuary Management Group attempted to pocket revenue generated by the band and forced Lee to into reality T-V projects -- namely the ratings bomb Tommy Lee Goes to College and Rock Star: Supernova -- that were bad career moves, which made Lee look "incoherent, lazy and incompetent" and "a laughing stock." The band wants eight-million bucks for revenue they claim they lost while Tommy was busy with his reality T-V career.
Rod Stewart, dressed in blue pin-striped pants and a white jacket, said, "I do" for the third time Saturday as he wed longtime girlfriend Penny Lancaster on the Italian Riviera. Family and a few friends attended the private ceremony in a 17th-century villa.
Richard Bell, the onetime keyboard player in Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band and a member of The Band in the '90s, died on Friday from cancer.
Last week Journey announced that they parted ways with singer Jeff Scott Soto. The band's statement did not include a quote from Soto, who writes on his online blog, "This version [was] released without my involvement. Mine will be out soon." In an interview with The Show Buzz, Journey keyboard player Jonathan Cain says, "We just wanted to move in a different direction sonically. We're interested in our legacy right now. We want to sound like our records and we want to sound like the 65-million units that are out there." Ironically, the singer Soto replaced last year, Steve Augeri, sounded very similar to Steve Perry, the singer of Journey's biggest songs. Meanwhile, former Journey singer Steve Perry has collaborated on some songs with the band Guff for their album, Symphony of Voices, in stores next Tuesday. He also produced and sings on the song "I Can See It in Your Eyes."
IN STORES TODAY:
Bridge to Terabithia DVD
Reno 911!: Miami DVD
Picket Fences - Season One DVD
Bon Jovi - Lost Highway...featuring guest spots from country artists LeAnn Rimes and Big and Rich, was produced primarily in Nashville. Jon Bon Jovi is well known for writing big rock anthems, but with everything that's happened with the band recently -- including Richie Sambora's divorce from wife Heather Locklear and the death of keyboard player David Bryan's father -- Bon Jovi wrote songs based on more personal experiences.
- and -
The summer of 1967 produced some of the legendary hits of the decade. The period beginning with Monterey Pop saw rock broaden its formula with such unique hits as Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," The Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'," "The Letter" from The Box Tops and "Heroes and Villains" by The Beach Boys. They're among the 40 songs in the Time Life box set Summer of Love - The Hits of 1967, which goes on sale today. The set divides the music into "F-M" and "A-M" discs, representing the change that started sweeping radio that year. The second disc, reflecting what was then called "underground" radio, features The Byrds' "So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star," Cream's "I Feel Free" and Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company's "Down on Me." Cuts by Traffic, Vanilla Fudge and Jefferson Airplane also signify the more experimental direction some artists began to take -- especially as San Francisco emerged as the year's new capitol of pop culture. The third disc is an hour-long D-V-D -- an episode from the acclaimed 1990s History of Rock and Roll T-V mini-series that spans the period between Monterey Pop and Woodstock. There are performances and interview clips with such legends as The Doors, Janis Joplin, Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane, Carlos Santana and Graham Nash
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