Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

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Lynyrd Skynyrd announced on Sept. 24 their concert film Last of The Street Survivors Farewell Tour will be coming to movie theaters for one night only on Nov. 7. Part of the southern rock legends' farewell tour, the film will include footage from the concert as well as interviews with the band. "We can't wait to share this amazing night and performance with the Skynyrd Nation, especially those that weren't able to be there that evening," Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington said in a statement. "The energy, passion and reaction to the music and band was something we will never forget." Tickets for the film, which features the band's 2018 hometown stadium performance at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Fla., will go on sale Oct. 4 at FathomEvents.com and participating theater box offices. The farewell tour runs through October. Lynyrd Skynyrd recently postponed two of its August concert dates to October to allow Rossington to recover from health issues. - Billboard, 9/24/19...... Paul McCartney reacted to such topics as the recent BTS Beatles cover of "Hey Jude," his admiration of Elvis Presley, and his dreams about John Lennon during an appearance on CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Sept. 23. Host Stephen Colbert asked if Sir Paul was aware that K-pop megastars BTS had done their own Beatles homage on The Late Show earlier this year -- during which they sang an impromptu round of "Hey Jude" -- which Macca gave a hearty round of applause to as Colbert wondered 'what it was about the Beatles that transcends all language barriers?'" "Easy lyrics?" McCartney joked. After asking someone to get him the top 10 all time covers of "Yesterday," McCartney said his favorites included versions by Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and his favorite, Marvin Gaye. After Colbert asked if he still thinks of his songwriting partner John Lennon, Paul said he does "quite often... I dream about him. When you've had a relationship like that for so long, such a deep relationship, I love when people revisit you in your dreams," he said. "I often have band dreams. I have a lot of dreams about John." McCartney also plugged his new children's book Hey, Grandad!, which he said was inspired by his grandkids. Meanwhile in another new interview with BBC Newsnight, McCartney broke from his fellow former Beatle Ringo Starr's opinion about the controversial Brexit referendum. Paul said Brexit was "probably a mistake" and added he doesn't think "anyone quite knows what to do with" the U.K.'s scheduled withdrawal from the E.U. "I think it's a mess," he said, "and I will be glad when it's over." McCartney said that he didn't participate in the 2016 Brexit vote, where just over half of those voting (51.9%) supported the withdrawal. "I vote for someone I believe in, and so often, there's nobody I believe in," he said. The 77-year-old also explained that he disagreed with others in his generation who thought Brexit represented a return to "the old days." But he also expressed hope for the future: "I think we'll come through with it; I think we always do. I mean, I am old enough to remember garbage in the streets and people not being able to get buried because the gravediggers were on strike. I mean, that was a pretty rough time, and we came through it. So I think we will come through this." - Billboard/New Musical Express, 9/24/19...... In other Beatles-related news, the first ever music video for the Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" is being shared on YouTube to celebrate the Abbey Road 50th anniversary release which hits stores on Sept. 26. In a nod to the beloved George Harrison-penned song's title, the video captures a gorgeous sunrise illuminating Abbey Road Studios' Studio Two, where the Fab Four recorded most of the legendary album. "The video's sun centerpiece was filmed as it was meticulously crafted on-set in Abbey Road's Studio Two," according to a press release. The video, which premieres on Sept. 26, also features photos from the Apple Corps archive, as well as footage shot by Linda McCartney and supplied by Paul. A trailer for the new video can be viewed on YouTube. Besides session recordings and demos, the Abbey Road reissue will feature new mixes of the 17 tracks by Giles Martin -- the son of late Beatles producer George Martin -- and engineer Sam Okell. Martin's remix of the Abbey Road opener "Come Together" can be streamed on Spotify.com. - New Musical Express, 9/24/19...... Members of an 11-judge panel at a Sept. 23 hearing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said they are unsure if the copyright dispute over Led Zepplin's "Stairway To Heaven" requires a new trial. The panel harshly and consistently challenged a plaintiffs' attorney, Francis Malofiy, who argued that a new trial is justified and that jurors should be allowed to hear the recorded versions of the songs in the lawsuit that alleged Zeppelin's 1971 song was stolen from a 1968 song called "Taurus" by Spirit. The estate of the late Randy Wolfe of Spirit sued and lost at a 2016 trial that included testimony from Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant, but a three-judge 9th Circuit panel earlier in 2019 ordered a new trial and Led Zeppelin appealed to the larger group of judges. At issue is the classic introductory riff to "Stairway to Heaven," which leads into the opening lyrics. Malofiy told the court that Page, who wrote the riff, said he does not even read music, so it s ridiculous to merely consider the sheet music version of "Taurus." Led Zeppelin attorney Peter Anderson argued that Malofiy was trying to bring up an entirely new and irrelevant issue with talk of the sheet music and recording. "At no point in this case," Anderson said, "did the plaintiff ever take the position that the deposit copy was in error." The U.S. government also weighed in on the case, siding with Led Zeppelin. Government attorney Daniel Tenny said that the "Taurus" recording "could be considered under more recent copyright legislation, but under the 1909 law that applies, only the sheet music matters." - Billboard, 9/24/19...... In other Led Zeppelin news, Jimmy Page recently told the UK music mag Uncut that a Zeppelin biopic has been discussed by the band after the box office success of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody and the Elton John biopic Rocketman. "We'll have to ask [Zeppelin frontman] Robert Plant if he'll play me. See how he gets on," Page said. "It's been discussed. There are always people trying to make money out of Led Zeppelin. In Siberia and LA there's probably a meeting going on right now," he added. However, Page remains sceptical that the project will ever get off the ground. "I'm too busy with real things to care about things that won't come off," he said. "What would I want to do a film for? Listen to the albums. It's all on there." But Page was more committed to his own tell-all autobiography. "I will definitely do an autobiography," he said. "Every six months brings new things for me to write about or comment about. I have a number of ways I plan to approach it. But I am determined that I'll write it first and then go to a publisher because I don't want to be held to a deadline." LZ fans can also look forward to a forthcoming documentary to mark the band's 50th anniversary. As well as including new interviews with Page, Plant and John Paul Jones, it's also set to feature previously unseen interviews with the late John Bonham. - New Musical Express, 9/20/19...... Former The Supremes member Mary Wilson became the first dancer eliminated from the competition on ABC's Dancing With The Stars on Sept. 23. After starting brightly the previous week with a foxtrot to The Supremes hit "Baby Love," Wilson worked some dancefloor magic to "Think" by Aretha Franklin. Each of the three judges, however, gave her just five votes apiece, for a total of 15 out of 30. - Billboard, 9/24/19...... In other Motown-related news, Berry Gordy Jr., the founder of the Hitsville U.S.A. studios, announced his retirement during a Hitsville Honors ceremony on Sept. 22 at Orchestra Hall in his home town of Detroit, where he started Motown 60 years ago with an $800 loan from his family trust. Gordy, who turns 90 in November, made the surprise reveal during a good-naturedly rambling 35-and-a-half-minute speech that caused Lee Daniels, who presented a Motown Legacy Award to Berry, to put the weighty trophy he was holding on the floor after Gordy hit the half-hour mark. Gordy saved the "important announcement" until the end, telling the audience that "As I stand here I'm back where I started. I have come full circle, so it is only appropriate that... I should announce my retirement." After a response of laughter and then a warm ovation, Gordy -- who started the label in 1959 -- continued that, "For years I have dreamt about it, talked about it, threatened it and tried to do it. In fact, this has gone on for so many years that those trying to help me retire (have) retired themselves. It is time for me to spend my next 60 years reflection on how fortunate I am, how much I appreciate and love all of you and how wonderful my life has been, and will continue to be." Though Gordy sold Motown in 1988, he's remained active in creative and business concerns, including produced the Tony Award-nominated "Motown: The Musical" in 2013 and staying involved with management of the Jobete publishing catalog, now administered by Sony/ATV. Meanwhile on Sept. 22, a ceremonial groundbreaking to expand the Detroit Hitsville U.S.A. building was conducted during a weekend of events marking the company's 60th anniversary. Gordy recently announced plans to donate $4 million toward the project incorporating interactive exhibits, a performance theater and recording studios. - Billboard/AP, 9/23/19...... A guitar given to late blues guitar legend B.B. King for his 80th birthday sold for $280,000 at an auction of more than 550 items from King's estate in Los Angeles on Sept. 21. Julien's Auctions says King, who died in 2015 in Las Vegas at age 89, often used the black Gibson ES-345 prototype that was one of several guitars he called "Lucille." A spokeswoman for Juliens said that the buyer wants to remain anonymous. The auction house said the estate sale brought in $1.3 million. It included awards, photographs, King's passports, luggage, jewelry, clothing, audio equipment and other guitars. A ring that King wore in photos sold for $16,250. It is 18-karat gold and has "BB" encrusted with 22 diamonds, and its initial estimated value was $6,000 to $8,000. A collection of King's 78 rpm blues records sold for $51,200, after an estimated value of $500 to $700. - AP, 9/23/19...... A new version of the music video for David Bowie's 1977 song 'Heroes' has been released to mark the 42nd anniversary of the song's original release. Released as a single on Sept. 23, 1977, the song served as the title track for the late artist's acclaimed twelfth studio album, which was released the following month. The new 'Heroes' edit is made from footage from the filming of the original video to celebrate the song's latest anniversary, and the clip has subsequently been given the stamp of approval by Bowie's official Facebook page. "Thanks to the vast possibilities of modern digital editing, it was relatively easy to alter some of the cross cuts between the two camera angles, and moreover to correct or somewhat mask Bowie's lip-sync errors," said Nacho's Videos in a statement. - NME, 9/23/19...... Sammy Hagar has apologized for the cancellation of his upcoming "High Tide Beach Party & Car Show" in Huntington Beach, Calif., which has been canceled over permit issues, according to a notice on the festival's website. The music event, which had been scheduled for Sept. 28-29 at Huntington State Beach, was "denied the necessary permit" from California State Parks," the notice reads. "Unfortunately, there is no possibility to relocate the event." Ticket-holders will be issued a refund. The second annual event was to feature performances by Hagar and his current backing band the Circle, The Beach Boys, Vince Neil, Night Ranger, Blue Oyster Cult and Extreme. "I don't know exactly what happened," Hagar said in a Twitter video post apologizing for the cancellation. "The promoters and the city both put out press releases saying what happened. And I guess that's what happened. All I can say is I'm sorry. I'm more disappointed than anyone. I think all the fans know how much I care about them, how much I care about my parties and my music and everything that I do. But I'm gonna try to make it up." - Billboard, 9/22/19...... KISS, Iron Maiden and System Of A Down have been confirmed as headliners of the UK's 2020 Download Festival set for Donington Park between June 12-14. Each act taking top billing across the three days, with KISS kicking off the proceedings on June 12, before Iron Maiden and System Of A Down follow suit on June 13 and June 14 respectively. Other acts confirmed include the Deftones, The Offspring, KoRn, Of Mice and Men and Daughtry. "I've said it before, Download Festival audiences are the best. They are up for whatever is thrown at them," KISS bassist Gene Simmons said in a previous interview. "KISS is going to come fully prepared to rock their world in 2020 to say Thank you for always showing up for us," Simmons added. Tickets go on sale Sept. 25. - New Musical Express, 9/23/19...... A tribute tour to the Beatles' 1968 album The Beatles (aka "The White Album") headed by Todd Rundgren and Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees kicked off on Sept. 21 in Atlantic City, N.J. "There was actually a very good relationship between (the Beatles) and us," says Dolenz, a member of the famed Hollywood Vampires "softball team/drinking club" which also included John Lennon and Ringo Starr. "I put that (relationship) down to the fact that the Beatles got it. They got what the Monkees was about, which was not a group but a TV show about a group that wanted to be the Monkees. They related to us as other creative people, not as another band -- the 'Prefab Four' or anything like that," he added. Rundgren acknowledges that, like many, he viewed the Monkees as "essentially a synthesized product" back in the '60s. But he's equally certain it won't have much bearing on the show, which will feature "The White Album" album in its entirety. "Whenever you get an opportunity to play classic music, you usually take it -- especially if you've spent a lot of your life being a Beatles fan," says Rundgren, who was part of the "A Walk Down Abbey Road" tour also produced by the New York-based Flower Power Concerts Inc. The pair's "It Was Fifty Years Ago Today" tour has two legs, a 17-city east coast run that wraps Oct. 20 and another week of 5 dates during December which wraps on Dec. 11 in Los Angeles. - Billboard, 9/20/19...... On Sept. 20 a judge ruled that the lawsuit brought against HBO by Michael Jackson's estate must be moved to arbitration, after the network aired controversial documentary Leaving Neverland earlier in the year. U.S. District Court Judge George H. Wu granted a request made by Jackson's estate that HBO must adhere to a 1992 arbitration agreement that stated the network could not make disparaging remarks about the singer or "do any act that may harm or disparage or cause to lower in esteem the reputation of [Jackson]." Leaving Neverland focuses on testimony by Wade Robson, 36, and James Safechuck, 41, who both claim that Jackson sexually abused them when they were children. In the wake of the film being shown, Jackson's songs were subsequently banned on numerous radio stations around the world. Meanwhile in other MJ news, the late King of Pop's estate has reportedly earned almost $2 billion since the singer's death a decade ago. New documents obtained by TheBlast.com reveal that the late singer's estate has pulled in $1.7 billion in profits since he died in 2009. In documents submitted to the Los Angeles County Court, the Jackson estate's executor and lawyers explain how they are garnering "significant revenues." In 2018, it was revealed that Jackson had topped the list of the highest paid dead celebrities for the sixth year in the row. - NME, 9/21/19...... A new posthumous album from Leonard Cohen, Thanks For The Dance, has been announced by Cohen's son Adam Cohen. Adam developed the new LP and says he wanted to fulfill his father's dying wish to complete the "bare musical sketches" that he left behind from his final album You Want It Darker. In doing so, Adam recruited the likes of Spanish guitarist Javier Mas, who accompanied Leonard on stage for the last eight years of touring. Thanks For The Dance will drop on Nov. 22. - NME, 9/20/19...... Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple has announced that Dead Sea Skulls and Piston will be his special guests on his upcoming "Glenn Hughes Performs Deep Purple Live" UK tour this November. The 10-date tour gets underway on Nov. 16 in Bexhill and wraps on Nov. 28 in Middlesbrough. "I'm excited to return to touring 'Classic Deep Purple Live'" in the UK in November 2019," says Hughes. "I first toured [it] in Australia and New Zealand last year and it went down a storm. Can't way to play the UK again." - Noble PR, 9/20/19...... Robert Hunter, the esteemed poet, writer and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, passed away at his home on the evening of Sept. 23 of as yet undisclosed causes. He was 78. After joining the Grateful Dead in 1967, Hunter wrote the lyrics for such classic Dead songs as "Dark Star," "Box of Rain" and "Touch of Gray." Born Robert Burns on June 23, 1941, in Arroyo Grande, Calif., Hunter was one of the key figures in the burgeoning West Coast psychedelic rock movement, and was already friends with the late GD frontman Jerry Garcia before he joined, with the two having met for the first time in 1961. His lyrics often read like mysical poetry, telling ambitious tales of mythical American figures -- miners, gamblers, pioneers -- searching for an elusive truth behind the mystery of life. Hunter was inducted along with the Grateful Dead into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, becoming the first ever non-performer of a band to be inducted as a band member. As well as releasing a number of solo records and poetry collections over the years, Hunter also worked with the likes of Elvis Costello, Bruce Hornsby and Bob Dylan. He memorably worked on songs for the Dylan albums Down in the Groove (1988), Together Through Life (2009) and Tempest (2012). Hunter is said to have died peacefuly with his wife Maureen holding his hand. "For his fans that have loved and supported him all these years, take comfort in knowing that his words are all around us, and in that way his is never truly gone. In this time of grief please celebrate him the way you all know how, by being together and listening to the music," Hunter's family said in a statement, which concluded with one of his most memorable lines from the Dead ballad "Ripple," "Let there be songs to fill the air." - Billboard, 9/24/19.

Cher was among the artists appearing on the two-hour season finale on America's Got Talent on Sept. 18. The diva was featured in an animated skit with Simon Cowell, and ran through a version of ABBA's "Waterloo." Inspirational singer Kodi Lee, who warmed hearts with an emotional piano cover of Donny Hathaway's "A Song For You," was named as the season 14 winner. - Billboard, 9/19/19...... Columbia/Legacy Records announced on Sept. 19 that a rare and infamous 1969 session in Nashville by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash will be featured on the 15th installment of Dylan's Bootleg Sessions series on Nov. 1. Travelin' Thru, 1967 - 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 will showcase Dylan's two years spent in Music City and also feature unheard material from the recording sessions for Dylan's John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait albums. To help promote the new release, two previews including "I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Take 4)" and "Tell Me That It Isn't True (Take 2)" were shared on YouTube. - New Musical Express, 9/19/19...... A new play featuring a Japanese re-telling of Queen's classic 1975 album A Night At The Opera will open in Tokyo on Oct. 8. The experimental production, which flamboyant late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury would probably have loved, is from writer/director Hideki Noda of the independent NODA*MAP theater company. In a press release, Noda said he began working on the project two years ago "out of the desire to explore and bring the dramatic world of A Night at the Opera, which includes 'Bohemian Rhapsody', to life on stage in a theatrical setting." With the permission and support of the surviving members of the band, the production will feature all the songs from the album, which contains such classics as "I'm In Love With My Car," "You're My Best Friend," "Love of My Life" and, of course, "Bohemian Rhapsody." In a statement, Queen guitarist Brian May said the band is "thrilled and honoured that legendary playwright and director Hideki Noda has chosen to expand on the theatrical aspect of Queen's album A Night at The Opera and actually make it into a real live play." After its Tokyo run, the play will also visit Osaka and Kitakyushu, Japan. - Billboard, 9/19/19...... Robbie Robertson of The Band has contributed to a video of The Band's classic track "The Weight" sponsored by Playing For Change, a global nonprofit which helps provide music education to young people around the world. In the YouTube video, which leads with the words "Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a song that transcends time & space," Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is the first person on screen, sitting behind his kit with a cell phone in his hand, jokingly asking "What key is it in, Robbie? F demented?" Then Robertson, in another city, kicks off the song playing the opening lick on guitar from a Los Angeles park bench, before Marcus King comes in on guitar and vocals from Greenville, S.C. Throughout the course of the song, musicians participate from all over the world -- including Japan, Italy, Nepal, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bahrain (interestingly, no Canada where Robertson was born) -- on instruments ranging from traditional guitar to sitar and oud. Robertson, who previewed the new video after the world premiere screening of his new documentary, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, at the Toronto International Film Festival, said, "the Playing For Change people and my son Sebastian, they just did it... I've seen others and they're fantastic." - Billboard, 9/18/19...... With his contribution to Post Malone's new hit "Take What You Want," Ozzy Osbourne has ended a record break between Top 10 songs on Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart. Osbourne's last appearance on the Hot 100 was a duet with Lita Ford, "Close My Eyes Forever," which hit number 8 in 1989. Now that Malone's hit has hit No. 8 on the chart, Osbourne has ended a 30 years and three months break between top 10 hits in the chart's archives. Coming in behind Ozzy are Dobie Gray, who hit in 1973 with "Drift Away" and in August 2003 with a remake of "Drift Away" with Uncle Kracker (30 years, two months and one week), and Paul McCartney, who charted "Spies Like Us" in 1986 before making the Top 10 again in 2015 with "FourFiveSeconds" featuring McCartney, Rihanna and Kayne West (29 years and two weeks). - Billboard, 9/16/19...... After completing 11 sold out shows in the same market this spring, Elton John has added seven new concert dates to his sold out "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour in New York and New Jersey. The new tour dates hit all four major arenas in the New York area with shows April 6-7 at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan; Apr. 10-11 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn; April 15 at Prudential Center in Newark; and Apr. 17-18 at NYCB LIVE's Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. John's tour kicked off to a sold-out crowd on Sept. 8, 2018, in Allentown, Penn., where he treated fans to such hits as "Bennie and the Jets," "Rocket Man," "Tiny Dancer," and "Philadelphia Freedom." Meanwhile, Elton is confirmed to play 40 combined dates in Australia and New Zealand this winter beginning with back-to-back shows at Perth's HBF Park on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. The 72-year-old rock legend is set to crisscross Oz playing a mix of arenas and open-air shows, including Mount Cotton, a town of less than 7,000 people in Queensland with chicken farms that's a koala conservation area. In other Elton-related news, it was announced on Sept. 18 that a musical adaptation of "The Devil Wears Prada" featuring music written by John will make its pre-Broadway world debut in Chicago on July 14, 2020 and play through Aug. 16, 2020. The musical will feature all-new music by John, whose Broadway bona fides include "The Lion King" and "Billy Elliot the Musical," and lyrics by singer-songwriter Shaina Taub. "The Devil Wears Prada" follows protagonist Andy, a young writer who starts a job at a prestigious publication in New York City under a "stylish yet terrifying boss." - Billboard/New Musical Express/Deadline.com, 9/18/19...... Michael Jackson's estate has responded to the recent Emmy Award win by the controversial Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland. "For a film that is a complete fiction to be honored in a nonfiction Emmy category is a complete farce," the estate told The Hollywood Reporter on Sept. 16. "Not one shred of proof supports this completely one-sided, so-called documentary which was made in secrecy and for which not one person outside of the two subjects and their families were interviewed." Leaving Neverland earned a total of five noms heading into the Sept. 15 Emmy Awards ceremony, including: outstanding directing for a documentary/nonfiction program; outstanding documentary or nonfiction special; outstanding picture editing for a nonfiction program; outstanding sound editing for a nonfiction program; and outstanding sound mixing for a nonfiction program. It won for best documentary or nonfiction special. After Leaving Neverland's debut in January at the Sundance Film Festival, Jackson's estate called the project "a tabloid character assassination" and insisted it "isn't a documentary," while his family called director Dan Reed and the pic's two accusers, James Safechuck and Wade Robson, "opportunists." The Jackson estate and and HBO are currently locked in a fierce legal battle over a contract that allegedly bars the company from disparaging MJ. - The Hollywood Reporter, 9/16/19...... The Cook Islands, a nation in the South Pacific, has released a pair of commemorative coins in honor of two classic AC/DC albums, For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) and Razor's Edge. 1981's For Those About To Rock is honored on a two dollar coin while 1990's The Razors Edge can be found on a ten dollar coin. Both feature a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the reverse side. Both coins are minted in .999 silver, the two dollar coin has a mintage of 5000 while the ten dollar coin has a mintage of 999. The coins are the third and fourth in a series released by Liechtenstein's CIT Coin Invest AG. - New Musical Express, 9/15/19...... Attending a fundraiser in Surrey, England on Sept. 14 for the Prostate Project and European Tour Foundation charities, Rod Stewart revealed he's been given an all clear from his doctors on his 2-year battle with cancer. "Two years ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. No one knows this, but I thought it was about time I told everybody," the 74-year-old Stewart said to whoops from the crowd. "I'm in the clear now because... I caught it early. But I have so many tests and things... Guys, you've got to really go to the doctor... finger up the bum, no harm done... I've worked for two years and just been happy and the good lord looked after me," he added. Former Faces bandmates Ron Wood and Kenney Jones supported Stewart at the event, where they jammed with him on some of Stewart's most beloved hits, including "Maggie May." - Billboard, 9/18/19...... The Rolling Stones announced on Sept. 19 they will release a live album and concert film entitled Bridges to Buenos Aires on Nov. 8. The release captures the band's triumphant show on Apr. 5, 1998 in the Argentinian capital on the band's Bridges to Babylon tour. The two-hour concert was the last of a five-night, sold-out run at Buenos Aires' River Plate Stadium. Bob Dylan, who had played an opening set, later returned to the stage to perform his composition "Like A Rolling Stone" with the band. Bridges to Buenos Aires comes just months after the Stones announced the release of Bridges to Bremen, which captures a stop in the German city on the same tour behind Bridges to Babylon. Like its Bremen counterpart, the Buenos Aires concert film was restored from original footage, and the audio remixed and remastered from live multi-track recordings. Bridges to Buenos Aires will be released in DVD, Blu-Ray and digital video formats, while the live album will be available on CD, limited-edition blue translucent triple vinyl and digital audio. - NME, 9/19/19...... Fans of the late Eddie Money have streamed his 1986 hit "Take Me Home Tonight" over three million times since his passing on Sept. 4 after a battle with stage 4 esophageal cancer. On-demand streams of the song, which features The Ronettes' Ronnie Spector providing backing vocals, increased by 349% in the U.S. to 3.1 million in the three days after his passing (Sept. 13-16) as compared to the three previous days, according to Nielsen Music. "Take Me Home Tonight" was Money's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 4 on the Nov. 15, 1986-dated chart. The track additionally spent more time on the list than any other Eddie Money hit, racking up 23 weeks on the tally. The single also spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart. Money's entire catalog of songs also saw a 931% gain in on-demand streams on Sept. 13-16 versus Sept. 10-12. - Billboard, 9/17/19...... KISS bassist/singer Gene Simmons announced on Sept. 13 that the band's scheduled show at the USANA Amphitheatre in Salt Lake City the next evening would be postponed due to a medical emergency. "Apologies to the fans in Salt Lake City. We will come back and do the show at a later date," wrote Simmons of the show that was to be their final U.S. gig before the start of a November swing in Australia. "The truth is, I have to fly to LA to do a medical procedure. Nothing serious. But it must be taken care of now. Thank you for your good wishes. All is well." KISS is currently in the midst of its End of the Road world tour, which it says will likely be its final outing. KISS postponed shows in Oakland and Los Angeles earlier in September, moving the original Sept. 16 Oakland Arena date to March 6 and the Sept. 20 Staples Center date in Los Angeles to March 4 after what were described as "unforeseen scheduling issues." - Billboard, 9/16/19...... In related news, sales of The Cars' albums and songs have surged by 2,662% in the wake of the Sept. 15 death of the band's mastermind, Ric Ocasek. Nielsen Music reports The Cars' combined albums and songs sold 27,000 copies on Sept. 16 and in the late hours of Sept. 15 (following news of Ocasek's passing that evening). In the two previous days, The Cars' music and sold just 1,000. The bulk of the sales came via the band's Complete Greatest Hits album, which features 16 of the band's 18 Billboard Hot 100 hits. In terms of individual song sales, "Drive" was by far the act's biggest seller, with nearly 4,000 downloads sold. Rounding out their top five sellers: "Just What I Needed" (2,000), "Magic" (a little under 2,000), "My Best Friend's Girl" (a little under 2,000) and "You Might Think" (1,000). Ocasek's solo catalog of material also posted gains. Meanwhile, the New York City medical examiner revealed that Ocasek's death was due to heart disease, worsened by emphysema. The 75-year-old musician's wife, model/actress Paulina Porizkova, posted on Instagram that she went to bring him his Sunday morning coffee and "realized that during the night he had peacefully passed on." Porizkova said her husband had been "recuperating very well after surgery" and that their two sons were making sure he was comfortable. Porizkova, who announced she was separating from Ocasek in 2018, did not say what type of surgery Ocasek was recovering from. On Sept. 16, Porizkova thanked Cars fans for tokens left outside the couple's Manhattan home after his death. "Thank you... We appreciate the great outpouring of love," she wrote on Instagram alongside the photo of some flower bouquets, tiny metal race cars and candles left near the gate. The couple met in 1984 on the shoot for the Cars' "Drive" video shoot and and have two sons, Jonathan and Oliver, together. Also paying tribute to the late Cars frontman was Patti Smith, dedicated a performance of her 2012 song "Tarkovsy (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)" to Ocasek during her Sept. 17 concert in Detroit. - Billboard/AP, 9/18/19...... Steve Martin says his annual Bluegrass Award, which he and his wife Anne Stringfield dreamed up in 2010 after Martin noticed that some master musicians were still paying off their banjos, is in danger of disappearing due to the sheer number of qualified musicians as bluegrass music goes through a flowering. "It became very difficult to keep pace, even with all our great board members, of so many great players. In the '60s, when I was first learning, great players were rare," says Martin. "Now, if you listen to a bluegrass channel, you listen to the banjo player and go, 'Who's that?' And you've never even heard of him and they're playing incredibly sophisticated stuff I couldn't even pretend to do." Martin says he hopes some entity might take over administrating his Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, which comes with a $50,000 prize and a sculpture. The 2019 recipient was recently awarded to 19-year-old Victor Furtado of Boston, a student at the Berklee College of Music. - AP, 9/17/19...... Appearing on the British TV show Good Morning Britain on Sept. 16, Irish singer Sinead O'Connor claimed that Prince, who penned her seminal hit "Nothing Compares 2 U," once tried to "beat her up" and left a female band member with broken ribs. "Prince tried to beat me up," O'Connor said. "It was a very frightening experience. He summoned me to his house one night and I foolishly went alone. He was uncomfortable with the fact I wasn't a protege of his and that I'd just recorded the song." She added: "He was wanting me to be a protegé of his and ordered that I don't swear in my interviews. I told him where he could go and he went for me. He went upstairs and got a pillow and he had something hard in the pillow. I ran out of his house, hiding behind a tree. We meet on the highway in Malibu at five in the morning -- I'm spitting at him, he's trying to punch me. I had to go ring someone's doorbell, which my father always told me to do if I was in a situation like that." O'Connor also claimed that the late singer was "into some pretty dark drugs at the time" and said, "I'm not the only one he went at. One of the girls in his band was in the hospital with broken ribs at the time." - NME, 9/16/19...... A new documentary on the legendary music industry mogul Clive Davis, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, premiered on Netflix on Sept. 17. The film presents the visionary exec's five-decade career, during which he founded Arista Records and J Records, and shaped the careers of icons including Santana; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Chicago; Earth, Wind & Fire; Boz Scaggs; Billy Joel; Bruce Springsteen; Aretha Franklin; Aerosmith; Whitney Houston; Alicia Keys; and many more. In the film, Davis recalls the time he signed Janis Joplin to Columbia Records. "[Janis] came to my office privately. She graciously said that the mere signing of a contract in a corporate building was not adequate to represent our linkage. She wanted to commemorate it [by sleeping together]. I told her that it was a great compliment but would not be fitting to complicate our professional relationship." - Billboard, 9/17/19......Cokie Roberts, a legendary journalist who won countless awards, including three Emmys, throughout her decades-long career, died on Sept. 17 due to complications from breast cancer. She was 75. Ms. Roberts was perhaps best known as a commentator for ABC News, starting as a contributor for This Week with David Brinkley, and as the network's chief congressional analyst and anchor on This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. Known for her savvy insight and analysis of politics, government and Washington D.C., Ms. Roberts continued to appear on This Week after George Stephanopoulos and Martha Raddatz took over hosting duties. Born in New Orleans, Ms. Roberts grew up surrounded by politics. Her father, Hale Boggs, was a longtime Democratic congressman from Louisiana who served as House majority leader. "I knew Congress in a way that nobody knew Congress," Ms. Roberts recalled in the TV Academy interview. "It was very.very helpful." Ms. Roberts started in radio as a foreign correspondent for CBS in Athens, Greece, and then moved to NPR to cover Capitol Hill in 1978. "Cokie Roberts will be dearly missed," said James Goldston, president of ABC News. "Cokie's kindness, generosity, sharp intellect and thoughtful take on the big issues of the day made ABC a better place and all of us better journalists." She is survived by her husband, fellow journalist Steven Roberts, her children, Lee and Rebecca and her six grandchildren. - Deadline.com, 9/17/19.