Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted by Administrator on August 15th, 2018

A special vigil for Aretha Franklin was held before dawn on Aug. 15 at New Bethel Baptist Church in her home town of Detroit, the church where her father was once a pastor. Franklin, 76, was widely reported to be in critical condition and near death on Aug. 12, and her family is asking for prayers for the legendary "Queen of Soul" who has battled several health problems over the past years, struggling with weight issues and also being a previous chain smoker. The prayers come one day after her good friends Stevie Wonder and the Rev. Jesse Jackson visited the ailing singer at her home, along with her ex-husband, actor Glynn Turman. Franklin announced earlier in 2018 she was canceling planned concerts after she was ordered by her doctor to stay off the road and rest. Fans, friends and musicians influenced by Franklin offered support to the iconic singer when news broke that she was gravely ill, including Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan and Tyler Perry. At her concert in Detroit on Aug. 13 with Jay-Z, Beyoncé dedicated her show to Franklin and thanked her for "her beautiful music." It was revealed on Aug. 14 that a tribute concert to Franklin's six-decade career is planned for November at Madison Square Garden in New York. The concert is being spearheaded by one of Franklin's longest supporters, Sony Music Chief Creative Officer Clive Davis. - AP/Billboard, 8/15/18...... The Kinks announced on Aug. 15 they will release a a 50th-anniversary edition of their iconic 1968 album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society on Oct. 26. While not a commercial success when it was initially released, the album is now considered one of the most influential albums from the seminal British rock band's catalog and included the singles Starstruck" and "The Village Green Preservation Society," both which failed to chart in the US. The album features timeless songs written by frontman Ray Davies about growing up in the UK and the decline of national culture and its traditional ways through wit, sadness and regret. The 50th-anniversary edition will include previously unreleased tracks like "Time Song," which was only heard by the public once at a live performance in 1973. A deluxe box set of VGPS will include extra sleeve notes, interviews, photographs and stories of the album's production, release and cultural impact. - Billboard, 8/15/18...... John Lennon's assassin Mark David Chapman is scheduled to go before New York's parole board during the fourth week of August, in what will be his 10th attempt to win his freedom. Chapman, 63, is serving a 20 years to life sentence in the Wende Correctional Facility in western New York after being convicted of shooting and killing Lennon outside his Manhattan Dakota apartment on Dec. 8, 1980. Chapman was last denied parole in 2016, with the board noting he has since described the murder as "selfish and evil." The board determined that Chapman should remain behind bars, in part because of the premeditated and "celebrity-seeking" nature of the crime. A decision on his latest hearing is expected within two weeks. - AP, 8/15/18...... In other Beatles-related news, Paul McCartney released the third single from his upcoming album Egypt Station, "Fuh You," on Aug. 15. "Fuh You" sees the singer taking more of a pop direction than the first two singles, "I Don't Know" and "Come On To Me," and features an irresistibly catchy chorus, funky bass riffs, and violins. The buoyant song tells a raunchy love story, focusing on a man's strong desire for a woman who he wants to, you know, "fuh." "With this one I was in the studio with Ryan Tedder whereas the rest of the album has been made with Greg Kurstin. We were just thinking of ideas and little pieces of melody and chords and the song just came together bit by bit," McCartney said in a press release. Macca also released the full tracklisting from the 16-track LP, which features such titles as "Opening Station," "Happy With You, "Who Cares," "People Want Peace," "Back in Brazil" and "Caesar Rock." Sir Paul has taken a hands-on approach to promoting Egypt Station, with secret shows in London and at Liverpool's famous Cavern Club where the Beatles first made their name. Earlier in August, the CBS television announced it will air a one-hour special, Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool, on Aug. 20. - Billboard, 8/15/18...... Elsewhere on the Fab Four front, a restored version of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1972 film Imagine and the accompanying documentary is returning to UK cinemas on Sept. 18. The movie, which includes the music video of the titular title track, will feature 15 minutes of unreleased footage in the new version. It's expected that the new footage will include clips of Lennon performing with his former Beatles bandmate George Harrison, as well as frequent bassist Klaus Voormann. The soundtrack for the film, which features every song on the 1971 Imagine album, has also been remixed. - New Musical Express, 8/15/18...... Meanwhile, Ringo Starr celebrated the 56th anniversary of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison asking him to join the Beatles on Aug. 15 by taking to Twitter with a sentimental post. "56 years ago Wednesday, 15 August John Paul and George invited me to become part of the Beatles it was a great day for me peace and love," Ringo tweeted. It has also been announced that cars formerly owned Paul McCartney and John Lennon will be auctioned in the US in September. McCartney's 1965 Mini Cooper S DeVille was one of four ordered for each Beatles member by their manager, Brian Epstein, in 1965. Lennon's 1979 Mercedes E 300, his last car, will also be put up for sale at the Worldwide Auctioneers Auburn Auction on Sept. 1. Meanwhile, John's son Sean Ono Lennon and Paul's son James McCartney have shared a selfie of themselves together on Instagram. Sean, the late singer's 42-year-old son, captioned the photo simply with "Peekaboo.." It can be viewed at Sean's Instagram account, sean_ono_lennon. - NME, 8/15/18...... In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Phil Collins revealed that he's open to a reunion with his iconic prog-rock band Genesis -- if his 17-year-old son Nic Collins is sitting in for him on drums. "I wouldn't say there isn't not a possibility. Me, Mike [Rutherford] and Tony [Banks] are pretty close still. I can't imagine what it would be like if I didn't play the drums, but anything is possible," Collins said. Collins says that he spoke to Rutherford and Banks when they saw his show in London last summer. "They both were raving about Nic," says Collins. "Mike made the appropriate comment of, 'He just gets it. He just gets what is needed and what is required and why you're doing this for that song.' I thought that was a wonderful thing to say. He was 16 at that point. I think that, yeah, if we did anything, I think it would have to be with Nic on drums, because I don't think I'm capable of it. I think their opinion of Nic is high enough for them to take him on board as part of the band.... I did mention to Tony very quietly if we did anything again it would be with Nic on drums. He kind of didn't say no. But I'm not sure if he heard me or not." - Rolling Stone/Billboard, 8/15/18...... It was a head-banging extravaganza down under when more than 450 guitarists gathered at the Sydney Guitar Festival in Australia to perform the AC/DC classic "Highway to Hell" in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for most people playing the same song on the electric guitar at once. Participants used small battery-powered amps while Australian band the Choirboys performed the song onstage. "They were tiny amps but they got the sound happening," festival spokeswoman Tatiana Marchant said. "It was such a great atmosphere." The previous record was 368 guitarists set in India in 2013. It could take Guinness upward of six weeks to verify the Sydney record. - Billboard, 8/15/18...... Records from the classic rock and pop era have dominated the midyear marketplace report compiled by online music retailer Discogs.com. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Michael Jackson's Thriller came in at Nos. 1 and 2 respectively atop the online vinyl/CD/cassette seller's top 30 most popular albums list. All told, Pink Floyd landed five titles in the top 30 -- and four in the top 11 (Wish You Were Here, No. 4; The Wall, No. 7; The Piper At the Gates of Dawn, No. 11) -- tying the Beatles for the most albums in that region. Dark Side of the Moon also landed atop Discogs' lists for most wanted albums, most collected albums and top catalog sales. Other artists among the top 10 of the most popular titles include Fleetwood Mac (Rumours, No. 3), the Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, No. 5; Abbey Road, No. 8), Dire Straits (Brothers In Arms, No. 6) and Led Zeppelin (IV, No. 9; Led Zeppelin II, No. 10). - Billboard, 8/15/18...... The BBC announced on Aug. 15 that it will not appeal a recent court ruling in favor of singer Cliff Richard who had sued over the U.K. public broadcaster's coverage of a police raid at his home in 2014. The BBC had reported that Richard was being investigated for claims of child sex assault in the past. Richard, who was never charged or arrested, sued for invasion of privacy for naming him and airing helicopter footage of his apartment, which was searched by police as part of the probe. In July a judge awarded the music star an initial £210,000 ($274,000 at the time) in damages, saying that possible further damages for the financial impact on Richard, such as canceled book deals or concerts, would still have to be assessed. The BBC said back then that it would look at an appeal and criticized the court decision as a threat to the freedom of press. - The Hollywood Reporter, 8/15/18...... Aerosmith announced on Aug. 15 it will launch a Las Vegas residency on Apr. 6, 2019 at the Park Theater, the same venue where Lady Gaga will launch her own residency in December. Aerosmith announced 18 shows for April, June and July. Tickets, priced from $75 to $750, go on sale Aug. 24. Promoter Live Nation says the residency will be the "world's first THX Certified live performance presented in L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound." - AP/Billboard, 8/15/18...... After hinting on his Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube accounts on Aug. 14 that he was planning a comeback of sorts, long-absent former Journey singer Steve Perry released a video on Aug. 15 for "No Erasin'," his first new song on 20 years. The mid-tempo song begins, appropriately enough, with the line, "I know it's been a long time coming," before going into a tale of "love that won't go." The video features Perry performing the song in a studio with a band. Perry also took to his website to explain his absence and announce his new album, Traces, will drop on Oct. 5 via Fantasy/Concord Records. "Years ago, I disappeared. There were many reasons, but mainly my love for music had suddenly left me," Perry writes. "I knew that simply stopping was what I had to do. If music was ever to return to my heart, then and only then I would figure out what to do," he begins. "If not so be it, for I had already lived the dream of dreams. Many years passed. One day, I began sketching some musical ideas with the creative freedom that I was the only one who would ever hear them. One song led to many. My love for music had returned. Then, another beautiful thing happened. I found love. My precious Kellie gave me a life I never knew I had. I lost her December of 2012. I now deeply understand the meaning of: 'It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.'" Perry is referring to psychologist Kellie Nash, who died of breast cancer after the couple were together only a year and a half. Perry's last album with Journey was 1996's Trial by Fire. In 1998, he recorded "I Stand Alone," a solo song from the soundtrack to the animated film Quest for Camelot. The elusive singer attended Journey's 2017 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but did not perform with the band. It has also been announced Perry will appear on CBS This Morning on Oct. 7. - Billboard, 8/15/18...... Lindsey Buckingham announced on Aug. 14 he will release a 3-disc set of his solo career, Solo Anthology - The Best of Lindsey Buckingham, on Oct. 5 on Rhino Records. The release will highlight Buckingham's career as a 3-time Grammy winning musician, and also be available the following month as a 6-LP vinyl release. Live versions of Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" and "Go Your Own Way" round out the album, and it will also feature two brand new songs, "Hunger" and "Ride This Road." Buckingham also announced he will embark on a solo 34-city North American tour behind the new release this fall, kicking off in Portland, Ore. on Oct. 7 and wrapping on Dec. 9 in Bethlehem, Pa. Buckingham's solo album and tour follow the announcement that he would not be joining Fleetwood Mac during their own North American run. - Billboard, 8/14/18...... The Guess Who have just finished recording their first new studio album in 23 years, The Future Is What It Used To Be. One of its tracks, "In America," reflects some of the ambivalence have toward their neighbors in the south. "The chorus says, 'In America, you can get anything you want, you can get anything that you need,'" says drummer Garry Peterson, the sole remaining founding member in the current lineup. "It's in the spirit that America's a land of opportunity; If you really want to work hard you can become a rock musician, you can become a brain surgeon, you can become a doctor -- you can become president, if that's really what you want to be. It kind of celebrates that," Peterson adds. Peterson also says the band's No. 1 US single "American Woman" was misrepresented at the time of its release and ever since. "From our perspective we really didn't write it as a protest or a knock on America -- where we've made all our money, in effect, in the Guess Who," the drummer explains. "America made our success. However, coming from a small place like Winnipeg and going on tour, there were all these things that are not prevalent in our world, in Canada at the time. We talk about the ghetto and the war machine; We saw all of this happening before us, and we didn't know what to make of it, and that came out in our song. It's America personified as a woman that we didn't quite know what to make of." The Future Is What It Used To Be's 10 tracks were recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville and will drop Sept. 14. In addition to the band, the set also features guest appearances by Tommy Shaw of Styx, Whitesnake bassist Michael Devin and Guess Who founding bassist Jim Kale, who retired from the band before the album was recorded. - Billboard, 8/14/18...... Tower of Power celebrated its 50 years in music on Aug. 13 by stopping by NPR's offices for the latest in its "Tiny Desk Concert" series. The 10 members of the classic funk band performed their latest hit "Soul Side of Town," the title track from their new album, along with other selections. The R&B/jazz group formed in Oakland, Calif., 50 years ago, but they're playing with the same vitality heard in the early days. Vocalist Marcus Scott fronts the group today, but the band's original songwriter and saxophonist Stephen "Funky Doctor" Kupa and bandleader/tenor saxophonist Emilio Castillo continue to write and perform, along with original drummer David Garibaldi. - Billboard, 8/13/18...... Donley Auctions announced on Aug. 9 that it will be auctioning off dozens of items owned by rock icons like Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Janis Joplin, Mick Fleetwood and more. There will be a preview event for the collection, which includes Garcia's death certificate and a guitar signed by Weir and is titled "Grateful Dead & Rock & Roll," on Sept. 7 at Donley's headquarters in Union, Ill. The full collection of items being auctioned can be viewed at https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=147147. - Billboard, 8/10/18...... Randy Newman performed a 28-song set a L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 12. The audience seemed to be just happy to see the legendary singer/songwriter after he canceled a string of dates in Europe earlier this year to undergo urgently needed knee surgery. Newman performed such classic hits as "Leave Your Hat On," Short People," "You've Got a Friend in Me," and "I Love L.A.," along with other favorites. He even name-checked Tom Jones and Joe Cocker as "other geriatric artists" who had done "Leave Your Hat On," while pointing out their cover versions were each "real excited about sex" while his writerly intent was to portray the song's narrator as more "on the fence." - Billboard, 8/13/18...... Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley accused her ex-husband of stealing "millions" from her in Los Angeles Superior Court on Aug. 14. During her testimony, Presley said she believed her estranged husband Michael Lockwood reviewed the postnuptial agreement before he signed it on November 2007. When asked by Lockwood's attorney whether she thought it was fair that Lockwood did not receive any spousal support if their marriage ended, Presley answered, "Correct." "You thought it was fair because you would not have wanted a man who wanted money from you, had you known if he was that way, right?" the attorney asked Presley. "Not true," she answered. At the heart of the legal drama between the feuding exes is whether or not the postnuptial agreement signed by Presley and Lockwood is valid. Presley filed for divorce from Lockwood on June 2016 after 10 years of marriage. They have two twin 9-year old daughters, Harper and Finley. - RadarOnline.com, 8/14/18...... Actress Patricia Benoit, who played Nancy Remington, the sweetheart and eventual wife of Wally Cox's character on the 1950s NBC sitcom Mister Peepers, died at her home in Port Chester, N.Y., on Aug. 12. She was 91. NBC's Mister Peepers, broadcast live from a New York theater for three seasons from July 1952 to June 1955, starred Cox (later the voice of the superhero Underdog and a Hollywood Squares regular) as the mild-mannered Robinson Peepers, a science teacher at Jefferson City Junior High. Benoit's Nancy was a nurse and the object of Peepers' awkward affection. Ms. Benoit also starred as a divorcee on the short-lived 1958 NBC soap opera Today Is Ours and later worked on CBS' As the World Turns as well. - The Hollywood Reporter, 8/12/18...... Morgana King, an acclaimed jazz singer who released dozens of albums but is perhaps best known for portraying the wife of Marlon Brando's Don Vito Corleone in the first two Godfather films, died March 22 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 87. Ms. King's death had gone unreported until a friend, John Hoglund, wrote about her recently week on Facebook. Ms. King had a music breakthrough in 1964 with her operatic version of "A Taste of Honey," originally composed by Bobby Scott and also recorded by the likes of Herb Alpert and Billy Dee Williams. At the 1965 Grammys, she lost to the Beatles (who also performed "A Taste of Honey" early in their career) in the category of best new artist. Ms. King, who also had a hit with "Corcovado" ("Quiet Nights"), made a comeback with 1973's New Beginnings and recorded her final nine albums for Muse Records. In Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), Ms. King as Mama Carmela Corleone dances with Brando and sings "Luna mezz' 'o mare" during the opening wedding sequence. When she didn't want to be photographed in a coffin in the 1974 sequel, Coppola's mother, Italia, doubled for her. She also appeared in Brooklyn State of Mind (1998) with Danny Aiello and on the ABC soap opera All My Children. - Billboard, 8/15/18.

Bette Midler took to Twitter on Aug. 9, which also happened to be the 44th anniversary of the resignation of Pres. Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal, to urge her current nemesis Pres. Donald Trump to follow Nixon's lead and resign. "Nixon resigned 44 years ago today," Midler wrote. "Go ahead, Donald! Today's as good a day as any, and he wasn't half the criminal you are!" Midler has been a frequent critic of Pres. Trump, often tweeting her disapproval of his actions. Five years before he became president, Trump tweeted his own jab at Midler, calling her "an extremely unattractive woman" (but) "I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct." - Billboard, 8/9/18...... A Sept. 21 release date has been given to ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons' upcoming solo album, The Big Bad Blues. An 11-track collection of Gibbons originals and covers of blues classics by the likes of Muddy Waters and Bob Diddley, the set takes a different stylistic tact than Gibbons' previous solo effort Perfectamundo, which had an African-Cuban flavor. Gibbons says that the unusual release was a "surprising success," and Concord Records chief John Burk suggested Gibbons "return to some of your blusier roots" on the next LP, which Gibbons says he immediately agreed with. Three weeks after the release of The Big Bad Blues, Gibbons will hit the road for a 24-city US tour behind the new album starting in Riverside, Iowa, on Oct. 13 with a nice little outfit" that includes drummer Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses, The Cult, Velvet Revolver). The tour wraps on Nov. 18 at the Troubadour in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Gibbons and ZZ Top will continue on the road through August, and he says the band is planning a 50th anniversary celebration in 2019. - Billboard, 8/9/18...... There are rumors that AC/DC are working on new music with their former frontman, Brian Johnson, and their ex-drummer, Phil Rudd, after the pair were recently spotted together in Vancouver. Johnson voluntarily left the band in 2016 after suffering hearing loss, before being replaced by Axl Rose. Rudd, meanwhile, departed in 2015 after a string of publicized legal problems, and was replaced by Chris Slade for the band's Rock or Bust World Tour. AC/DC have recorded all their albums in Vancouver over the last two decades, and Johnson and Rudd were spotted outside the city's Warehouse Studios, where it's thought the other members of AC/DC are working on a new LP. - New Musical Express, 8/8/18...... Hall & Oates are among the artists who are releasing a classic album from their catalog on pink vinyl to benefit the cancer charity Gilda's Club NYC. The limited edition pink vinyl LPs will be available at retailers across the country from Sept. 25 to Oct. 26, and can be ordered at bullmoose.com. Gilda's Club NYC is named after famed Saturday Night Live comedian Gilda Radner, who passed away in 1989, and has raised over $200,000 for cancer patients and their caretakers to date. - Billboard, 8/9/18...... Cher has just announced her upcoming album of ABBA covers, Dancing Queen, will drop on Sept. 28. Cher, who appears in the Mamma Mia! sequel currently in theaters, says she decided to record the LP after being reminded again "of what great and timeless songs" ABBA wrote. "The songs were harder to sing than I imagined but I'm so happy with how the music came out. I'm really excited for people to hear it. It's a perfect time," Cher says. Fans who pre-order the 10-track album at wbr.ec/dancing queen will instantly receive Cher's version of "Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)." - Billboard, 8/9/18...... A cover of classic rockers Toto's 1982 single "Africa" by the alternative rock band Weezer has reached No. 1 on Billboard Alternative Songs chart, 35 years after Toto's original climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. Weezer was inspired to record the song by an online campaign to get the band to cover it after a teen Weezer fan heard Toto's original on Netflix's Stranger Things. To return the favor, Toto has recorded a cover of Weezer's "Hash Pipe" and has just made the song available for streaming. The success of Weezer's "Africa" has also sparked other "Africa" covers, including a bizarre one by the jokey black metal band Woods of Trees, and a Burger King in North London has announced it will play the song all day at the restaurant after a campaign to do that received 1000 retweets. During an Aug. 8 Weezer concert in Los Angeles, pop music parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic even made a surprise to join Weezer for an accordian-spiked version of the song. - Billboard, 8/8/18...... During a recent interview on SiriusXM's Beatles Channel, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry seemingly confirmed his iconic hard rock band will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2019 with a residency in Las Vegas. "We're going to be doing a residency in Vegas starting next spring," Perry said. "What we want to do is something that I haven't seen before just downsizing our live show, just playing in a smaller place. We want to do something different. We're in the middle of the production now. What we're talking about is having an experience that you wouldn't be able to see on a regular Aerosmith tour," he added. Aerosmith is expected to announce the full details of the residency, which Perry says he's quite excited about, on Aug. 15 with the band performs on NBC's Today show. Meanwhile, a van used by Aerosmith has just been discovered in a Massachusetts forest during the filming of the popular antiques reality show American Pickers. Hosts Frank Fritz and Mike Wolfe stumbled upon the 1964 American Harvester Metro van while filming a new episode, and its authenticity has been confirmed by former Aerosmith member, Ray Tabano, who was with the band early on when it traveled New England playing to smaller crowds. The owner of the property in Chesterfield, Mass., about 100 miles west of Boston said the van was there when he bought the land from someone with a connection to Aerosmith. The pickers paid $25,000 for the dilapidated vehicle, with Wolfe noting it is "a piece of American rock and roll history." - New Musical Express/AP, 8/10/18...... After Paul McCartney filmed a segment for CBS late night host James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke" series in June showing the Beatles icon and Corden riding around in McCartney's icon's hometown of Liverpool and the 23-minute clip became so popular, CBS has announced it will air a one-hour special, Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From Liverpool, later in August. Featuring never-before-seen footage, the special will air in prime time on the network on Aug. 20 at 8 p.m. EST/PST. Meanwhile, McCartney took to Twitter on Aug. 6 to share a photo of himself recording his upcoming album Egypt Station at London's Abbey Road Studios. The photo depicts Paul putting the finishing touches on the LP at the edge of a sound board and empty pages of sheet music waiting to be filled. Egypt Station is due on Sept. 7. - Billboard, 8/7/18...... The estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Music have announced a celebration for what would have been Jackson's 60th birthday on Aug. 29 will be held on that evening at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. The "Michael Jackson Diamond Birthday Celebration in Las Vegas" will kick off with an early evening performance of "Michael Jackson One" by Cirque du Soleil, followed by an exclusive after-party at Daylight Beach Club. Jackson fans from around the world are expected to flock to the celebration, which is expected to be attended by Jackson's children Paris and Prince Jackson as well as his brothers, Jackie, Marlon and Tito Jackson. There is no word yet on whether Sony plans to release or reissue any Jackson material around the birthday. - Billboard, 8/6/18...... Stevie Nicks will be returning to the FX series American Horror Story this fall as it premieres its eight season, dubbed American Horror Story: Apocalypse. Ryan Murphy, the creator of the horror anthology series which will be in its eight season, tweeted on Aug. 8 that Nicks and previous cast members including Taissa Farmiga and Gabourey Sidibe will be together again and he's "so thrilled." The new season will be a crossover between American Horror Story: Murder House and American Horror Story: Coven, which Nicks guest-starred on back in 2014. The cast also includes Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Cody Fern and Emma Roberts. American Horror Story: Apocalypse premieres Sept. 12 at 10 p.m. ET on FX. In other Fleetwood Mac-related news, Mick Fleetwood made an appearance at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles on Aug. 4 to showcase a selection of his favorite music photographs, which included candid snapshots of the likes of Keith Richards, John Lee Hooker and Nicks. In 2016, the drummer and avid photography hobbyist teamed up with the Morrison Hotel Gallery to open a gallery space inside his Maui-based restaurant, Fleetwood's General Store, which features a rotating array of fine art music photography. Fleetwood was in L.A. rehearsing for the upcoming Fleetwood Mac tour, which will feature Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House. "(They're) both really credible gentleman and really talented," Fleetwood told Billboard. "We are a week into rehearsals and it's going really well and we're looking forward, in true Fleetwood Mac style." - Billboard, 8/7/18...... Dionne Warwick is denying a claim in the new Whitney Houston biopic Whitney that Warwick's sister Dee Dee abused and molested Houston, who was also Warwick's niece. Whitney contains allegations that both Houston and her half-brother Gary were molested by her cousin, Dee Dee Warwick, the sister of soul singer Dionne. "I have tried to refrain from responding to that," Warwick told Larry King in a new interview. "First of all, it's totally hogwash. My sister would never, ever have done anything to do any harm to any child, especially within our family. And for those lies to be perpetuated in this so-called documentary film [Whitney], I think it's evil." Whitney's mother Cissy Houston has also questioned the allegations made by the documentary. Whitney Houston died on Feb. 11, 2012, after drowning in a hotel bathtub. - NME, 8/6/18...... The death of Superman actress Margot Kidder has been ruled a suicide by authorities in Montana, where the 69-year-old's lifeless body was discovered in her home on May 13. At the time, Kidder's manager, Camilla Fluxman Pines, said Kidder died peacefully in her sleep, however on Aug. 8 a statement released by Park County coroner Richard Wood said that the actress "died as a result of a self-inflicted drug and alcohol overdose" and that no further details would be released. Kidder struggled with mental illness much of her life, and it was made worse by a 1990 car accident that left her in debt and led to her using a wheelchair for almost two years. Kidder and the late Christopher Reeve starred in four Superman movies between 1978 and 1987. She also appeared in The Great Waldo Pepper with Robert Redford in 1975, Brian De Palma's Sisters in 1973 and The Amityville Horror in 1979. "It's a big relief that the truth is out there," Kidder's daughter Maggie McGuane said. "It's important to be open and honest so there's not a cloud of shame in dealing with this." Kidder's death is one of several high-profile suicides in 2018 that include celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade. - AP, 8/8/18...... Former NSYNC pop boy band member Lance Bass is set to meet with bosses of cable TV's HGTV after the U.S. lifestyle channel outbid him for the iconic home shown in the opening and closing scenes of the '70s sitcom The Brady Bunch. Bass, 39, says he isn't holding any grudges after losing out on purchasing the property in Studio City, Los Angeles, which the HGTV producers say they intend to restore to its 1970s form inside and out this month. Bass has reportedly offered to host a show from the house, and HGTV producers say they are keen to involve him in a new HGTV series centered around the restored house. Bass had initially expressed outrage he lost out on the house, claiming he had already agreed on a deal with the seller, but was then outbid. However, he softened his views when he found out the identity of the buyer, tweeting "HGTV??! Aw man. I d be pretty upset if it were anyone else, but how can you be mad at HGTV? My television is stuck on that channel." HGTV bosses, who purchased the home for $3.5 million -- almost twice the asking price of $1,885,000 -- say they plan to send in renovation experts to restore the house to its original glory and then use it to host shows. The previous homeowner, who inherited the home from her grandparents, will be an executive producer on the new show. The Brady Bunch, a sitcom centered around Mike Brady, a widowed architect, his new wife Carol and their large blended family of three sons and three daughters, ran from 1969 to 1974 but has retained its popularity due to syndicated repeats and spin-off shows and movies. - WENN.com, 8/9/18...... Sitcom actress Charlotte Rae, best known as the wise housemother on the popular 1980s sitcom The Facts of Life, died on Aug. 5 in Los Angeles. She was 92. In the early 1960s, the Milwaukee native appeared as Sylvia Schnauzer on the TV series Car 54 Where Are You?, and also worked extensively on Broadway, in Shakespeare in the Park and in summer stock. Her other television work included a year on Sesame Street, and a recurring role on Hot L Baltimore, then a season on Diff'rent Strokes, where her character Mrs. Garrett was born before spinning off on The Facts of Life," for which she earned an Emmy nomination. She was married to composer John Strauss, with whom she had two sons. - Variety.com, 8/6/18...... David Stein, a longtime associate of promoter and producer Sid Bernstein, died in a Long Island hospital on Aug. 5 following complications from surgeries among other existing health challenges. He was 70. In the late 1960s and early '70s, Stein worked alongside Bernstein, who is best known for bringing bands like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Kinks to the United States. Stein was involved in several projects while working with Bernstein, such as making the deal for the famous DJ Bruce, the top 40 disc jockey also known as Cousin Brucie, to move from the station WABC to WNBC. His final project with Bernstein involved planning the promoter's trip to Edinburgh, where he plotted to obtain the U.S. management rights for the Bay City Rollers with plans to launch the band stateside by premiering its new single "Saturday Night" on the debut episode of a new Howard Cosell-hosted show called Saturday Night Live on ABC. He also founded a vinyl (and later CD) buying and selling business called Record Gems and briefly ran his own record label, All The Best. - Billboard, 8/6/18.