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With his Oct. 23 release Letter To You, Bruce Springsteen has tied John Mayer for the most No. 1 albums ever on Billboard's Top Rock Albums Chart. Debuting atop the tally for the week ending Nov. 7, Letter To You sold 97,000 equivalent album units according to Nielsen Music/MRC, with 92,000 units comprised of album sales. The album becomes Springsteen's seventh No. 1 album on the Top Rock Albums survey, which was started in 2006. Meanwhile, the album has shot to the No. 2 position on the Americana/Folk Album Chart, and its lead single and title track is spending its second week at No. 2 on the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart. Should it top the list, which appears likely, it will mark Springsteen's first Adult Alternative Songs No. 1 since 2002's "The Rising." Following Springsteen and Mayer on the list are Tom Petty and Dave Matthews, both with six No. 1's each on the chart. - Billboard, 11/6/20...... James Taylor shared a special performance of "America the Beautiful" on Election Day (Nov. 3) on YouTube to mark the 2020 election. The singer-songwriter performed the patriotic track, which was written and composed in the late 1800s, from his home, strumming his acoustic guitar in front of a fireplace. Sharing the performance on Twitter, Taylor wrote: "Inspiration for an important day." Previously an active supporter of Pres. Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, Taylor previously performed "America The Beautiful" at Obama's second inauguration in 2013. More recently, Taylor has shown his support for former Vice President Joe Biden's Democratic ticket with Kamala Harris, sending emails and asking for donations while posting content on social media. "Joe Biden knows that, as President, he has to fight for every American, not just the ones who voted for him," Taylor wrote in a recent email. "He'll work with scientific and medical experts to forge a fact-based plan to approach this virus, and then he'll get to work building our country back better than it was before," he added. - NME, 11/3/20...... In other election news, Patti Smith and her guitarist friend Lenny Kaye delivered an impromptu performance of "People Have The Power" on Nov. 3 for voters heading to the polls in New York City. The pair performed a low-key version of the 1988 track on the streets, and were joined at one point by a selection of fans who started singing the track's chorus. "Don't forget it, use your voice! Vote!," Smith told the assembled fans. The clip was posted on Instagram by election organization Joy To The Polls, who wrote: "Singing to voters in the streets is so punk!... We love @thisispattismith bringing people power to the polls with this impromptu performance in NYC earlier this week. You don't have to be the Godmother of Punk to surprise and delight voters in long voting lines!" - NME, 11/3/20...... Queen + Adam Lambert have shared a stunning live performance of their 1976 track "Somebody to Love" on YouTube. The performance, which is included on Queen's new live album Live Around the World, is from Queen and Lambert's first UK festival appearance together at the Isle of Wight in 2016, a milestone Lambert has called "a really special night." Queen + Adam Lambert, whose planned summer 2020 UK and European tour was rescheduled to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, decided to compile Live Around the World after overwhelming fan response to their hour-long online "Queen + Adam Lambert Watch Party," which highlighted live highlights from previous tours. - New Musical Express, 11/7/20...... AC/DC have teamed up with US clothing company DCShoes for a new collection of T-shirts, footwear and accessories that pays tribute to classic albums such as Highway to Hell and Back in Black. The line, which can be purchased at the DCShoes website, includes a longsleeved sweater and T-shirt boasting the cover art to Highway To Hell, a pair of black skater shoes adorned with the iconic AC/DC logo, and a pair of loafers. The Back In Black collection, meanwhile, consists of a snapback cap, an "Access All Areas" T-shirt, and black sneakers. AC/DC will release its latest album, Power Up, on Nov. 13. - NME, 11/7/20...... Hall & Oates principal Daryl Hall has shared his thoughts on the 1980 H&O hit "You Make My Dreams" recemt;u passing the landmark of one billion total streams. "The song is certainly an antidote to the uncertainty of the world we live in now," Hall told the UK paper The Sun. "It still feels very current to me because I've been playing the song for all these years. Time really doesn't play a big factor in the way I look at anything really, but especially music," says Hall, who adds the song "wrote itself." "I remember writing the song, sitting in my apartment in New York City. I had a Yamaha CP 30 piano, which is a very distinctive sounding electric piano. And I started playing that riff, it just spoke to me... I wondered if it was too happy? Could I think of something a little more complicated? And I tried but it is what it is. It really just wrote itself." - Music-News.com, 11/6/20...... In an episode of Oprah Winfrey's new Apple TV+ series The Oprah Conversation, Stevie Wonder said he thinks America is "so close" to not being "the land of the free." Winfrey asked the Motown legend if he thought America was in a "fragile decade" right now. "Without question," Wonder replied. "Most importantly, we are so close to not being the nation that people talk about. We can talk about being the land of the free and the home of the brave, 'give me your tired' and all of that. And then there are people who hate." He continued: "I don't care what ethnicity you are, what color you are. The great thing about being blind, for me, is that I don't see color but I do see the spirit. If your spirit's not right, I can just feel it." - NME, 11/6/20...... Jimmy Page confirmed on his Facebook page on Nov. 5 that his former wife Patricia Ecker passed away in October. "It is with great sadness that I learned of the tragic death of Patricia," the Led Zeppelin guitarist wrote in a short statement. "My thoughts are with her family through this difficult time." Page was married to Ecker, who was born in Louisiana in May 1962 and worked as a model and waitress, between 1986 and 1995. Ecker gave birth to their only son, James Patrick Page III, in Apr. 1988. "My son James is a strong, brave, intelligent man and he has all my love," Page added about the couple's son. "I ask that you respect us all at this incredibly hard time." A cause of death for Ecker has yet to be revealed. - NME, 11/6/20...... Pop sensation Miley Cyrus and Stevie Nicks have teamed up for a new track which mashes up Cyrus' "Midnight Sky" with Nick's seminal track "Edge of Seventeen." The new collaboration from the pair, which has been shared on YouTube, comes after Cyrus sampled Nicks' classic on "Midnight Sky" when it arrived in August. It sees Cyrus delivering the track's verse, before she's joined by Nicks on the powerful chorus -- which heavily samples her own offering. Cyrus previously explained how she sought approval from one of her biggest musical influences to provide a new spin on "Edge of Seventeen." "I sent her the song and I said, 'I have an alternate melody, if you don't want me to kind of like pay tribute to you and your greatness and how much you've inspired me,'" Miley recalled. "And she said, 'You can borrow from me anytime.'" "Midnight Sky" is the lead single from Cyrus' upcoming album Plastic Hearts, which drops on Nov. 27. - NME, 11/6/20...... In other Fleetwood Mac-related news, music publishing company Hipgnosis Song Fund has just purchased the catalog of Kobalt Music Copyrights, which includes the rights to such Fleetwood Mac hits as "Go Your Own Way" and "The Chain." Hipgnosis Song Fund paid a reported $322.9 million for the catalog, which also includes songs by Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, 50 Cent, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, and many others. The Kobalt catalog follows other acquisitions by Hipgnosis which includes catalogs by Blondie, L.A. Reid and RZA, among others. - NME, 11/3/20...... London's Daily Mirror newspaper is reporting that the Beatles' company Apple Corps Limited earned over $50 million in 2019, the equivalent of $137,657 a day, despite the group having gone their separate ways more than 50 years ago. Of the total, surviving members Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr, along with John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and George Harrison's widow Olivia Harrison, received $6.1 million each. A large chunk of the money comes from Las Vegas stage show "Love," a joint venture with Cirque du Soleil. The figures are a huge growth on the previous year, when turnover was $36.5 million with a pre-tax profit of $5.5 million -- about $3 million less than 2019 -- and shares to Paul, Ringo, Yoko and Olivia were $3,685,000. - Music-News.com, 11/6/20...... In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Elton John's songwriting partner Bernie Taupin says he "continually encourages" Sir Elton to work on a new album. Taupin says John was planning on working on some of the songs he had sent him during his downtime in Australia when he was due to be touring there. "I did send him probably close to 16 or 18 things when he was in Australia. The original plan was that he was going to write when he was in Australia because he had so much free time down there because he was going to stay there for the duration of the Australian and New Zealand tour." However, Taupin added that: "(Elton) felt that he wanted to write... (but) that didn't happen." Taupin says that when Elton finally does "put digits to piano" he believes the tunes he sent him will turn out to be "very special": "I think we might come up with something very special. Being that he's not going to hit the road potentially until the end of next year, that gives him plenty of time. I would love to see him start to do some work. As I say, I continually encourage him to do so. How we would do it, I'm not sure. I've got some ideas in my head that he might be interested in. But I really, really would love to get back on track and back in the game." John's last studio LP was 2016's Wonderful Crazy Night. - Music-News.com, 11/5/20...... The new David Byrne film American Utopia, which is based on Byrne's smash Broadway hit of the same name and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September before screening at the London Film Festival in October, has been given a UK release date. Universal announced it will be releasing the Spike Lee-directed American Utopia on VOD services and on DVD from Dec.14, in light of the coronavirus restrictions facing UK cinemas at the moment. The Broadway show played at New York City's Hudson Theatre from Oct. 2019 to Feb. 2020, and also toured the UK between Oct. and Nov. 2018. Byrne is joined by 11 musicians from around the world onstage, while Lee films the production with 11 camera operators. The show performs a number of songs from Byrne's album of the same name, but also features a number of hits by Byrne's former band Talking Heads including "Burning Down The House" and "This Must Be The Place." - NME, 11/5/20...... A new 2021 charity calendar being marketed to fans of The Clash will help raise funds for The Joe Strummer Foundation, an organization set up in the singer's memory to develop new music talent in the U.K. and overseas. The calendar allows Clash fans to delve into iconic imagery from Strummer's solo career, and features around 123 record sleeves from Strummer's solo career. Fans looking to spread a bit of holiday cheer can also purchase a set of Joe Strummer Christmas cards too, with a new design created for 2021. Both items can be purchased on the Joe Strummer Foundation website. - NME, 11/4/20...... In a bizarre rant during an appearance on the UK talk show Good Morning Britain from his home in Los Angeles on Nov. 4, former The Sex Pistols singer John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) doubled down on his support for US Pres. Donald Trump. "I'm working-class English, it makes complete sense to me to vote for a person who actually talks about my kind of people," Lydon said. "Trump's not a politician. He's never claimed to be. How unusually, exceptionally wonderful is that for people like me? We're bored with your intellectual left-wing ideas. We can't take more of ya. You talk twaddle. Everything you do, you just miss the point of who the general population are... they now support him so loyally because he is the only hope." Lydon's comments came shortly after the president claimed he had won the 2020 election and confirmed he would seek Supreme Court action to prevent the further counting of votes. - NME, 11/4/20...... In an emotional post on Twitter, Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang Van Halen has blasted the celebrity gossip mag US Weekly for turning his dad's death into "entertainment." Wolfgang, 29, has used social media only sporadically since Eddie passed away from cancer on Oct. 6 at age 65, however he took exception to the magazine's recent cover story which features his mother and Eddie's ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli alongside the headline, "Love, Loss & Staying Strong." "F--- this, and f--- you US Weekly," Wolfgang wrote. "The only thing printed in this piece of toilet paper that's true is that we all loved my father. This is not a new interview. My mother did not speak to them for this. That is all." His post continues: "I know what a lot of you are going to say. 'Just ignore it, bro!' I'm not going to stand by and let people publish lies and make my family's tragedy someone else's entertainment." Wolfgang, who has been a member of Van Halen since replacing founding bassist Michael Anthony, also made a heartbreaking post to Instagram on Nov. 6, writing: "1 month. Not a second goes by where you're not on my mind. I miss talking with you. I miss laughing with you. I miss listening to music with you. I miss making music with you. I just miss everything. I love you so much, Pop. It's really hard being here without you." - Billboard, 11/6/20...... In other Van Halen-related news, former lead vocalist David Lee Roth has dedicated a previously-unreleased song to his late friend and bandmate. Roth has posted the audio for "Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bar and Grill" on YouTube, accompanied by an illustration of the sun and clouds, and features the message, "Hey Ed I'm gonna miss ya (sic). See you on the other side." The tune was reportedly intended for an album Roth had planned to release years ago with guitarist John 5, but it has yet to come to fruition. Meanwhile according to several published reports, Eddie Van Halen will be the object of a special salute during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2020 induction ceremony on Nov. 7. - WENN/Canoe.com, 11/3/20...... In a new interview with Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford updated fans on the status of the band's upcoming 19th studio album. "We've already started work on it," Halford said of the follow up to the band's 2018 set Firepower. "We had some great writing sessions in the early part of this year until the world came to a stop in late March. I came back here [home] to Phoenix just to chill and relax for a bit and get ready for another writing session. 'Cause that's what we need to do as a band. You make a bunch of work and then you walk away from it and then you go back to it later and re-analyse it and continue the growth of the record," Halford said. He continued: "That's what we were doing then, and we're still doing it now -- we're still putting bits and pieces together. It's an unusual way of making a record, but we're not the only band that's going through this situation in terms of creativity. You can't let this pandemic stop you; you've gotta try and still get as much out of life as you can." Halford has also recently confirmed he's currently working on a solo blues album. - NME, 11/3/20...... On Nov. 3 Neil Young shared a previously unreleased version of "Powderfinger" from his 1979 album Rust Never Sleeeps on Instagram. Although the song was released in the late '70s, the version Young has since shared was recorded on June 12, 1975 in Point Dume, Calif. Produced by Young and David Briggs, the song -- one of Young's most popular -- has been covered by the likes of Cowboy Junkies, Drive-by Truckers and more, and features Frank "Poncho" Sampedro on guitar, Billy Talbot on bass, and Ralph Molina on drums. Subscribers to the Neil Young Archives can also listen to the entire track or through the site's mobile app. Young recently announced he'll release a special 50th anniversary reissue of his 1970 album After the Goldrush on Dec. 11. - NME, 11/3/20...... The planned Bob Dylan biopic Going Electric has officially been put on hold indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Director of photography Phedon Papamichael revealed that while he doesn't believe the drama centered on the 12-time Grammy winner is "dead," but rather is "a tough one to pull off in a COVID era because it's all in small clubs with lots of extras in period costumes, so you've got lots of hair and makeup." Despite this, however, Papamichael hasn't confirmed whether talks are ongoing to outright cancel the project. Going Electric will chronicle Dylan's rise in folk music and sudden transition to rock 'n' roll. The film will also see the rock icon's interaction with 1960s' music legends which include Joan Baez and Pete Seeger. The Fox Searchlight-produced film includes the rights to the singer/songwriter's music rights and to author Elijah Wald's book titled Dylan Goes Electric. - ComingSoon.net, 10/27/20...... Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ken Hensley, a former member of the '70s hard rock band Uriah Heep, died on Nov. 5. He was 75. "I received devastating news this morning from Ken's manager Steve Weltman that Ken Hensley has passed away," Hensley's former bandmate Mick Box posted to Twitter on Nov. 5. "My sincere condolences go to his family and wife Monica and may he rest in peace." Box added he was in "deep shock" and hailed his "musical legacy that will be in people's hearts forever." During his time with the band, Hensley played a major role in popularizing the role of keyboards in heavy rock, as well as masterminding one of the band's biggest hits -- the folk-rock epic "Lady In Black." Hensley also composed "Easy Livin"" from the band's 1972 album Demons and Wizards, which became a major European hit in 1972, and a string of other hits for the band. Born in the UK on Aug. 24, 1945, Hensley began his career with the group in 1969 when they were known as Spice, before renaming themselves Uriah Heep, taking the name from a character in Charles Dickens' seminal novel David Copperfield. Hensley recorded 13 albums with the band, before leaving in 1980. Their biggest album in the UK was 1975's Return to Fantasy, which reached No 7 in the UK album charts. Hensley departed the group after growing unhappy with the band's direction, before doing stints in such heavy rock bands as Blackfoot and Cinderella. While occasional live reunions with Uriah Heep followed, he focused on solo work in the decades that followed, including 2007's Blood on the Highway, an autobiographical rock opera. Hensley recently finished a new album, My Book of Answers, which was due for release in February. His death comes only two months after that of Lee Kerslake, the band's long-time drummer, who died at age 73 after a long battle with prostate cancer. - NME, 11/5/20.

There's no all-star jam that concludes the 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions at Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of fame museum this year. Rather than the traditional live ceremony, where presenters give speeches and perform with (or in honor of) inductees, the taped special on cable's HBO on Nov. 7 at 8:00 p.m. EDT/7:00 Central plays more like a fascinating two-hour VH1 Behind the Music. We see deper into the artists' rise and influence with archival interview and performance clips, and get even more testimonials from famous fans. Among the highlights: Ringo Starr leads a colorful tribute to his late good friend Marc Bolan, the English glam rockers T. Rex's trailblazing frontman. "You see [clips of] David Bowie talking about how he and Marc were coming up at the same time, and Marc did what he wanted to do first," says special producer and Hall of Fame CEO Joel Peresman. "He influenced Bowie... it's crazy!" Also, country star Luke Bryan kicks off a lovefest to the Doobie Brothers, which features member Michael McDonald discussing the group's 50-year run as one of the most recognizable sounds of the '70s California rock scene. Other class of 2020 inductees featured include Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G. and Whitney Houston. - TV Guide, 10/26/20...... The Eagles have soared to their best Billboard chart sales week in over a decade with their new concert LP, Live From The Forum MMXVIII. Debuting with 24,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 22, Live From The Forum MMXVIII's arrival markes the largest sales week for any album by the California folk-rock group since its studio set Long Road Out of Eden sold 38,000 copies in the week ending Feb. 17, 2008. Live From The Forum MMXVIII also scores the Eagles their highest charting effort on the Hot 200 album sales chart since former No. 1 Eden placed at No. 4 in its eighth week on the list (on the Jan. 5, 2008-dated chart). Live From The Forum MMXVII is the group's first new album release since the 2016 death of co-founder Glenn Frey (and which features his son Deacon Frey and country star Vince Gill). It was available in a variety of deluxe formats, including a set with four vinyl LPs, two CDs and a blu-ray disc for $149.98. Featuring many of their favorites, the album was recorded over three nights at The Forum in Los Angeles in Sept. of 2018. - Billboard, 10/29/20...... Bruce Springsteen has set a new Billboard chart record with his new album Letter To You -- the first act with new Top 5-charting albums in each of the last six decades (1970s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s and the '20s). Bowing with 96,000 equivalent album units, Letter To You also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 album sales chart for the week ending Oct. 29 for the Boss's biggest sales week for any album since 2014. All told, Letter to You is the New Jersey rocker's 21st Top 10 and Top 5-charting album on the Billboard 200. Letter to You sold well on vinyl, with 18,000 of its sales coming from the format -- the second-largest sales week for a vinyl album in 2020. Meanwhile, Springsteen has lent his voice to a campaign commercial for Democratic presidential contenter Joe Biden. "Scranton, Pennsylvania. Here, success isn't handed down. It's forged in sweat, grit and determination," Springsteen says in the ad which has been shared on YouTube. "This is his hometown. In Scranton, good times aren't promised. But here, and in towns across America, times are harder than they ought to be. Lives are on pause, dreams on hold, futures in doubt." Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. track "My Hometown" also appears in the minute-long ad, which premiered on Oct. 30 on YouTube and aired on network TV the following night during the Penn State/Ohio State football game. On Oct. 28, Springsteen took to Twitter to call on his fellow Americans to vote Pres. Donald Trump out of office on Nov. 3. "We are lost. We've lost so much in so short a time. On November 3rd, vote them out," he captioned an audio clip explaining the damage he thinks Trump has done during his four years in office. He continued: "Where did that country go? Where did all the fun, the joy and expression of love and happiness go? We used to have a president who calmed and soothed the nation instead of dividing it. We are rudderless and joyless." - Billboard/New Musical Express, 11/2/20...... Also taking aim at Pres. Trump -- this time for his constant use of Twitter -- is Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. In a Twitter clip titled "Pride Before a Fall" and performed in a studio, the rock icon sings: "I see the preening, it's overweening, over eating, too much tweeting, and when my back is turned somebody will Push you off the wall. And just remember that pride, it comes before a fall." Jagger's jab at Trump comes after the Stones warned the president several times in 2020 to stop using their music at his rallies and events or face a lawsuit, having already served his campaign with multiple cease and desist directives after he began playing their songs including "You Can't Always Get What You Want" at events on his 2016 campaign. It was subsequently claimed that Trump adhered to the order, instead choosing to close his rallies with The Village People's "Y.M.C.A.", whose leader Victor Willis recently told the BBC News that his group has also asked Trump to quit playing their songs at political rallies. "I don't endorse Trump, I've never endorsed Trump, nor has the Village People," Willis said. "Donald Trump does what Donald Trump does. I've never seen him actually put his hands up and make the Y.M.C.A. He's changed it to M-A-G-A or something." The footage of Trump entering his rally to "Y.M.C.A." has become so widely ridiculed, it was recently lampooned by NBC's Saturday Night Live during a "Weekend Update" segment in which cast member Keenan Thompson played Willis, singing a version of "Y.M.C.A." that demanded he stops playing the song. - New Musical Express/WENN/Canoe.com, 10/30/20...... Stevie Wonder came out in support of the Joe Biden and Kamal Harris presidential ticket with a short set at a Biden campaign rally in Detroit on Oct. 31. The R&B icon kicked off his four-song set with "Higher Ground'," before heading straight into new tracks "Can't Put It In The Hands of Fate" and "Where Is Our Love Song," which were both released in late October and his first new songs in 15 years. "The only way we're going to win this fight, a fight against injustice, is by voting," Wonder told the crowd. "We must vote justice in and injustice out." Stevie went on to describe the Nov. 3 election as "the most important one of my lifetime." "When I'm in California hearing about a group of people that are trying to kidnap and murder the governor of this state, excuse my language, but that's some bullshit. Unacceptable," he said, referring to the foiled plans from a right-wing militia who are accused of attempting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. A clip of the rally, which also featured former president Barack Obama, has been shared on YouTube. - NME, 11/2/20...... A live cover of the T. Rex classic "Cosmic Dancer" by David Bowie and alternative rocker Morrissey is set to be released as a digital download and streaming on Nov. 13. A vinyl version of the single will then be released on Feb.19, 2021. On the other side of the single will be a cover of The Jam's "That's Entertainment," though as Morrissey's official website points out, it is not the same version of the track as the 1993 version available on the internet. Bowie and Morrissey paired up for the cover during a Morrissey concert at The Forum in Los Angeles in 1991, and it has been widely circulated online in the two decades since. A clip of the "Cosmic Dancer" collaboration has been shared on YouTube. In other Bowie news, the first official trailer for the upcoming Bowie biopic Stardust has been made available on YouTube. The film, which premiered on Oct. 28 at Raindance Film Festival, stars actor and musician Johnny Flynn, follows the musical chameleon as he travels across the US in 1971, shortly before he saw widespread acclaim by reinventing himself as Ziggy Stardust. With the film not containing any original Bowie songs, Flynn recently told the UK paper The Guardian that "we're potentially going to get a lot of flak from the Bowie army." Bowie's family have also previously distanced themselves entirely from the upcoming project. His son and Moon director Duncan Jones has confirmed that Stardust is unauthorised and won't feature any of his father's music in it. After seeing the film several Bowie fans took to Twitter to share their less than enthusiastic reactions, with one fan posting: "You can't have an accent that bad, a film that looks like an American soap opera and you certainly can't have a Bowie film without his music. Probs shouldn't have bothered guys." - NME, 11/1/20...... The Rolling Stones' former label ABCKO Records has shared archival footage of the band's 1968 classic "Sympathy for the Devil" for the first time. Landing on ABCKO's YouTube channel in late October, the video is a previously unreleased cut from the band's 1996 Rock and Roll Circus concert film that didn't make it into the final version. The footage features the outfit's original lineup as it was when the performance was initially filmed in 1968, comprising Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ian Stewart and Brian Jones. There's also a brief cameo from John Lennon at the 4:54 mark, having also performed as part of The Dirty Mac supergroup along with Eric Clapton, Richards and Mitch Mitchell during the show. The concert film was initially conceived as a BBC special and directed by Michael Lindsey-Hogg. In addition to the Stones and Dirty Mac performances, there were also sets from Yoko Ono, Marianne Faithfull, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal and The Who. - NME, 11/1/20...... Jimmy Page has told Rolling Stone magazine that he has only seen "a handful" of people since Britain's Covid-19 lockdown began in March as he is "very cautious" about his health. Page, 76, lives in an historic home in west London with his partner, poet and performer Scarlett Sabet. Page said he and Sabet have been following the UK's restrictions issued to prevent the spread of the virus and shelter elderly people and they take their risk extremely seriously. "The place has a garden, and you don't feel quite so under home arrest," he said. "But we've been very, very, very cautious about who we see and who we don't see, and it's been just a handful of people in the last six, seven months," he added. Instead, Page said he has kept busy by working on a new edition of his Anthology book, organising his record collection, and playing the guitar each morning. "The minute I'd locked down, I knew I didn't want to look back on my period and say, 'Oh, I wish I'd done this or that,'" he mused of his routine, adding: "I wanted to make sure I did it all." One project the star hasn't been working on is XYZ, the abortive supergroup he formed with former Yes members Chris Squire and Alan White in 1980 -- despite rumours recordings are being prepared for release. "Unfortunately, we've lost Chris now," Jimmy reflected, revealing Squire's passing in 2015 has made a release unlikely. "It was something that I always hoped to do, as some sort of project, to get hold of him and Alan. It's not even worth talking about, because it's all speculation," he added. - Music-News.com, 10/31/20...... Neil Young has shared details of the upcoming 50th anniversary reissue of his classic 1970 set After the Goldrush, which was originally released on Sept. 19, 1970. Due on Dec. 11 via Reprise Records, After the Goldrush - 50th Anniversary Edition will also be released as a deluxe vinyl box set edition on Mar. 19, 2021. Ahead of the new reissue, Young has shared a previously unreleased version of "Wonderin'" on YouTube. Meanwhile, the Canadian born singer/songwriter is set to release a new live album on Nov. 6 called Return to Greendale alongside an accompanying concert film. The project chronicles the tour behind Young and Crazy Horse's 2003 rock opera, "Greendale." Following on Nov. 20 will be his long-awaited Archives Volume II: 1972-1976 box set, which features 12 previously unreleased songs, alongside 50 new versions of old tracks. In other Neil Young-related news, the musician's 78-year-old brother Bob Young has just released his debut single "Hey America." Bob, the older sibling of Neil, says he felt inspired to release the track after watching Donald Trump on TV several years ago and "wrote down a few lines." "It took a while to be able to play and sing the song from start to finish. When I could finally accomplish that, it was a victory. The recording process all happened at once," Bob explained in a press release. A clip of "Hey America" can be viewed on YouTube. - NME, 10/31/20...... Tom Petty has returned to the top of Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart with his recent reissue Wildflowers and All the Rest. Debuting on Oct. 16, Wildflowers and All the Rest has re-entered the rock albums chart at No. 1 with 44,000 equivalent album units (38,000 via album sales) earned in the week ending Oct. 22, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Initially intended as a double album, Petty released Wildflowers in 1994 with a 15-song tracklist. The album debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 200 dated Nov. 19, 1994. With six Top Rock Albums Chart rulers, Petty is tied for the second-most No. 1's in the chart's history. The original Wildflowers album has also re-entered the Hot 200 at No. 5, its highest rank ever, following its No. 8 debut and prior peak in 1994. - Billboard, 10/28/20...... Actors Ethan and Maya Hawke will both star in a film entitled Revolver in which Maya will portray a teen who's determined to lose her virginity to Beatles legend George Harrison. Revolver, which is being helmed by Finding Nemo co-director Andrew Stanton, will see Ethan and Maya portray father and daughter in the '60s-set romantic comedy. Maya will play Jane, a teenager resident of Anchorage, Alaska. The film is set in 1966 when a flight to Japan carrying the Beatles is forced to make an unexpected stop at the city. Jane then dreams up a plan to lose her virginity to the Fab Four guitarist. Revolver will make its world premiere in November at the American Film Market festival - NME, 10/30/20...... A U.K. release date for the upcoming Bee Gees documentary How Can You Mend A Broken Heart has been announced. The first feature-length documentary about the band is set to screen in UK cinemas for one night only on Dec. 3. Directed by Frank Marshall (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), the rockdoc promises an intimate look at the lives and careers of Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb. "Like so many people around the world, I've loved the Bee Gees' music all my life," Marshall said in a statement. "But it wasn't until I did my first interview with Barry, almost 3 years ago, that I began to discover their uncanny creative instincts, their musical gifts, their humor, and the brotherhood and family that made them so unique." He added: "It's been such an honor to be involved in this movie and celebrate the massive impact The Bee Gee's have had on popular music." Meanwhile, it was recently announced a narrative biopic based on the life and career of the Bee Gees is also in the works, courtesy of Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King and screenwriter Anthony McCarten. - NME, 10/29/20...... Appearing on her chat show The Talk, Ozzy Osbourne wife Sharon Osbourne revealed that her and Ozzy's credit cards were recently "maxed out" by a fraudster. Sharon said she was first made aware of the crime when attempting to buy a birthday present for daughter Kelly Osbourne. "I give my credit card and they come back and say, 'Do you have another credit card? It didn't go through.' I say, 'Just try it again'... still didn't go through.... I hand them Ozzy's." She added: "Then, they come back and go, 'Do you have another one? It didn't go through.' Someone rang up charges and maxed out Ozzy's card and my card. I called through to the credit card company and they go, 'No, no, no, you're maxed out, so is Ozzy.' I'm like, 'I don't go to that store, or to that store.'" When asked if it was fraud, Sharon confirmed the crime, before adding that all of the fraudulent transactions on her card are currently being processed. - NME, 10/29/20...... Phil Collins will take back control of his beachfront Miami mansion from ex-wife Orianne Cevey in January, 2021, according to his attorney. The former Genesis frontman has been fighting for the property which Cevey is allegedly occupying with her new husband, according to a Miami newspaper. According to attorney Collins' attorney Jeffrey D. Fisher, Cevey and her new husband have now agreed to leave by mid-January 2021, claiming in a statement to the New York Post's gossip column "Page Six" that: "Mr. and Mrs. Bates' plan to hold Phil Collins' house as hostage to leverage a settlement during a protracted court case was upended by the new judge's bold decision to complete the injunction hearing next week." Fisher also said Collins' memorabilia, such as Collins' extensive The Alamo artefacts and music collection, will be removed from the residence, and she will maintain a 50% interest in the mansion, according to the Post. The warring ex-couple, who have two teenage sons, were married for nine years before splitting in 2008, a divorce that cost the rocker more than $46 million (£35 million). However, they reconciled in 2016 before separating again earlier this year, after which Cevey married businessman Bates in August. - Music-News.com, 11/1/20...... The official trailer for the forthcoming Frank Zappa documentary Zappa has been shared on YouTube. Due on Nov. 27 via Magnolia Films, the Alex Winter-directed doc showcases the life and work of the inimitable composer and guitar icon using never-before-seen home films, live footage and interviews from the Zappa archives. The trailer opens with Zappa introducing a song at a live show, embodying the nature of the eccentric musician. "This is a number we always play when people ask us to play more, because we know that after we play this they couldn't possibly ever want to hear us again," he says. - NME, 10/29/20...... Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, whom Willie Nelson once called "the greatest living songwriter," died on Oct. 28 in his native Texas. He was 81. Mr. Shaver is reported to suffered a massive stroke at Ascension Providence Hospital in Waco, Tex. Mr. Shaver rose to acclaim in 1973 with his debut album, Old Five and Dimers Like Me, and was often referred to as part of the "outlaw country" movement of the 1970s along with figures like Nelson and Waylon Jennings, both of whom recorded his songs. Jennings, in fact, recorded 10 songs of Shaver's on one album alone, Honky Tonk Heroes, released the same year as Mr. Shaver's debut. His own recording career encompassed 17 studio albums, the last of which was 2014's Long in the Tooth. "Shaver's always been a tough guy making trouble on the edges of a Nashville that values slickness," Q magazine wrote at the time. Mr. Shaver made an appearance in Robert Duvall's 1996 film The Apostle. In 2004, a documentary about Shaver, A Portrait of Billy Joe, was released. His personal live was the stuff of lore and legend. He wed and divorced the same woman, Brenda Tindell, three times, and once had a heart attack on stage. In 2007, he was involved in a news-making shooting incident outside a bar in Lorena, Tex. He was acquitted after claiming self-defense and later said of the incident, "Hit him right between the mother and the f-er. Fixed him right up." Mr. Shaver was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006. The following year he received his lone Grammy nomination, in the best Southern, country or bluegrass gospel album category for Everybody's Brother. - Reuters/Variety, 10/28/20.