Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

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Pink Floyd are on track to claim their seventh UK number one album with the rerelease of the soundtrack of their legendary 1975 concert film Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII. Released on May 2 also in a Blu-ray cinema version and other formats, was directed by Adrian Maben and filmed in the hauntingly atmospheric Roman amphitheatre of Pompeii and has been remixed by acclaimed producer Steven Wilson. The legendary prog rockers' previous UK number ones included Atom Heart Mother (1970), Wish You Were Here (1975), The Final Cut (1983), The Division Bell (1994), Pulse (Live) (1995), and The Endless River (2014). Final chart positions will be confirmed on May 9 by the UK's Official Charts Company. - Music-News.com, 5/6/25...... Jimmy Page has been hit with another lawsuit over the songwriting credits of the 1968 Led Zepplin track "Dazed and Confused." Musician Jake Holmes, who is said to have written the original track that inspired the famous Zeppelin release in 1967, alleges Page heard the song in August of that year when he opened for Page's previous band, The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds went on to share their own version of the song shortly afterwards and played it regularly at their shows. Although an official studio version was never made, they did share live recordings of their version of "Dazed And Confused" in 1967 and 1968. Later, Page would share another version of the song with Led Zep that appeared on the band's 1968 debut album. This sounded very similar to the original version by Holmes (which can be heard on YouTube), although it contained new lyrics and instrumental melodies written by Page. It remains one of Led Zeppelin's most popular songs. Holmes first filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against against Page in 2010, and the settlement (decided outside of court) led to the songwriting credit on the Led Zeppelin version being changed to "inspired by Jake Holmes." It was unclear whether or not the agreement also applied to recordings shared by The Yardbirds, and now that several archival releases from the band have been shared, the lawsuit from Holmes has been revived once more. In the new lawsuit, Holmes claims that he has not been given credit nor royalties for the early versions of "Dazed And Confused" performed by The Yardbirds. The suit references the newly shared film Becoming Led Zeppelin, which has the Led Zeppelin version credited as "inspired by Jake Holmes" but the Yardbirds version as only "written by Jimmy Page." It also names Sony Pictures and music publisher Warner Chappell as defendants. Page's legal team has yet to make a public statement about the revived lawsuit from Holmes. - New Musical Express, 5/6/25...... Two months before Black Sabbath's final-ever live show at Villa Park stadium in Birmingham, England on July 5, Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler says he has some intense anxieties ahead of the gig. Speaking to the UK paper The Guardian, Butler admitted that while he's unsure of how the performance will roll out, or how band frontman Ozzy Osbourne's health may affect the show. Butler says the lofty expectations behind such a gig have left him feeling immensely anxious. "I'm already having palpitations," he noted. "In fact, I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed everything went wrong on stage and we all turned to dust. It's important that we leave a great impression, since it's the final time that people will experience us live. So it has to be great on the night." While Osbourne hasn't performed a full set since Dec. 31, 2018 -- two months before his diagnosis of Parkinson's -- he's previously lowered expectations for the upcoming gig, noting he isn't "planning on doing a set with Black Sabbath," but rather "little bits and pieces" with the group. "I am doing what I can, where I feel comfortable," he explained. Ozzy, who also participated in the interview, once again pointed out that Sabbath aren't planning on performing a full-length set. "We're only playing a couple of songs each," he explained. "I don't want people thinking, 'We're getting ripped off', because it's just going to be -- what's the word? -- a sample, you're going to get a few songs each by Ozzy and Sabbath." The event, which will raise funds for three charities -- Cure Parkinson's, Birmingham Children's Hospital and Children's Hospice -- will see the band's classic line-up -- Osbourne, Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward -- play live together for the first time in two decades, while the likes of Metallica, Judas Priest, Slayer, Anthrax, Alice in Chains, Megadeath, and myriad others also join the bill. In a new interview with the UK's The Guardian, Ozzy's wife/manager Sharon Osborne confirmed that Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is set to perform at the event too, as are the surviving members of Soundgarden. For Tyler, the gig will mark one of the few live appearances since he abruptly retired from touring in Aug. 2024. The decision was made after he suffered a serious vocal cord injury while kicking off Aerosmith's final tour. Although he has not played any full shows since the news, he has taken to the stage once since the injury -- playing at a charity event in February and breaking out some of his biggest hits. - Billboard/NME, 5/5/25...... Shortly after performing a solo set at the 2025 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, Calif. on Apr. 27, Sammy Hagar has spoken to Rolling Stone about his ongoing feud with his former Van Halen bandmate Alex Van Halen. Hagar said he wonders if "jealousy" is the reason why Alex hasn't spoken to him in 21 years. In a 2022 interview, Hagar said the drummer had completely cut him off, adding that "Alex has got a stick up his ass about something with me still." Notably, Alex also left details of Hagar's years in Van Halen out of recent memoir, Brothers, whose narrative ends before the departure of original VH vocalist David Lee Roth. Hagar told Rolling Stone that he "dreamt about Alex the other night, man." "It was crazy. And it was so friggin' real," he said. "I was saying, 'What are you pissed off at me about, man? What the f---? Now just tell me what your problem is. What did I do? Just tell me.'" Hagar also wondered if it was related to the fact that the Van Halen band has been relatively inactive in music while he himself continues to tour. "I think Al's angry because I'm out doing it, and [bassist] Mike [Anthony] and I are out doing it, and he can't," he suggests. "He's not a singer. He's not a guitar player. He is not really a band leader. And he seems like he doesn't want to play drums or can't play drums anymore, and he can't go write a new record. Alex wasn't the songwriter in the band. He was the drummer. Eddie and I wrote the songs. Dave and Eddie wrote the songs, and so we can go out and do them. I think that really bothers him that Mike and I are still out there doing it. I would feel bad. If I put myself in his shoes, I would feel terrible if I couldn't do it anymore. But I'm the happiest guy out of all of them. That pisses people off in itself. Being too happy, people don't like that." The interviewer countered with the suggestion that Alex's health could be to blame, as well as the difficulty of playing without his brother following Eddie Van Halen's death in 2020. "Yeah, I'd say so. And I'm okay with it. Al, you're fine. Just leave me alone. I'll leave you alone. Everything's good. I'm making you money, by the way, Al. I'm out there selling Van Halen records and keeping the name alive, keeping the music alive." Hagar recently released a new single, "Encore, Thank You, Goodnight," which has been shared on YouTube and includes a guitar lick he says Eddie showed him in a dream. - NME, 5/5/25...... The 2025 Met Gala dinner inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 5 was headlined by Stevie Wonder and Usher. Making his Met Gala debut with his family, Wonder was joined by a nine-person band and opened his headlining set with a capella intro of "Sir Duke," before entertaining the guests with a string of hits like "Black Man," "Higher Ground" and "Isn't She Lovely." A singalong erupted in the room as Wonder sang his early hit "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)" followed by "I Wish" and "Superstition." He concluded the set by bringing Usher, who opened the show, back out for a duet of his song "Another Star." During his time on the red carpet, the 74-year-old spoke to Vogue about the importance of Black fashion being celebrated by the Costume Institute's new exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." "It is a wonderful thing that it's being celebrated tonight. I appreciate that," he said. "But the reality is, I believe that God has celebrated what we have done since the beginning of time... since we were created we've created style, whether be it music, whether be it dance, whether be it, the most important thing, love." - Music-News.com, 5/6/25...... Neil Young's new song "Let's Roll Again," released on May 2, calls out Elon Musk and "fascist" Tesla owners amid lyrics imploring the major auto manufacturers to build clean-energy vehicles that "won't kill our kids." Singing a melody that evokes Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," Young quips, "If yer a fascist, then get a Tesla/ If it's electric, it doesn't matter." The release of "Let's Roll Again" comes six days after Young first premiered the track during his performance at the "Autism Speaks Light Up The Blues 7" concert in Los Angeles. It will appear on Young's upcoming album, Talkin' to Trees, which he announced May 2 would be arriving June 13. Also featuring January single "Big Change," the LP marks Young's first with new band the Chrome Hearts. Young and his band are currently gearing up to kick off their first world tour on June 18 in Sweden, after which they'll perform a string of shows across Europe through the first week of July. In August, they'll kick off North American leg on Aug. 8 in Charlotte, N.C. Musk is famously the CEO of Tesla, which makes battery-powered cars. In addition to owning X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX, he's also the polarizing right-hand man of Pres. Donald Trump, with Musk heading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) created in January. "Let's Roll Again" has been shared on YouTube. - Billboard, 5/2/25...... The new Bruce Springsteen documentary Bruce Springsteen: Backstage and Backstreets was nominated for an Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage Emmy on May 1. Springsteen has been nominated for three Primetime Emmys, but has yet to win. He was nominated for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (HBO, 2001), Outstanding Special Class - Short-Form Live Action Entertainment Program for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Super Bowl Halftime Show (NBC, 2009) and Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) for Springsteen on Broadway (Netflix, 2019). The 46th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented live at the Palladium Times Square in New York City on June 25 (News ceremony) and June 26 (Documentary ceremony), and will be streamed live on The Emmys website and via The Emmys apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV and Roku. Meanwhile, the New Jersey rocker continues to review his upcoming expansive box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums by sharing another track, "Faithless," on Spotify.com on May 1. Described as "the title track from a long-lost soundtrack to a movie that was never made," the Boss takes us once again down to the river, where love is found. "Well, I work by the rocks of the river/ Faithless, faithless, faithless/ Then I met you," Springsteen sings in a hushed voice over gentle, high desert-style acoustic guitar backing. "I walked 'neath the eaves of the garden/ Faithless, faithless, faithless/ Then I saw you," he adds with a chorus of female voices echoing his own. In a press release announcing the song, it is called a "meditation on purpose, belief and acceptance" that was originally intended to accompany a "spiritual Western" film that never got made. Springsteen recorded much of the Faithless album between the end of the Nov. 2005 Devils & Dust tour and the Apr. 2006 release of the We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions album. "Faithless" joins the other two pre-release songs previewing the Tracks II collection, the beat-heavy "Blind Spot" from the 10-track "Streets of Philadelphia" Sessions and the turbulent, "Rain in the River." The 83-track collection will "fill in rich chapters of Springsteen's expansive career timeline -- while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist," according to the initial release announcing the set, which noted that some of the albums got to the mixing stage before being shelved. - Billboard, 5/1/25...... In a new interview with the British tabloid Metro, Gloria Gaynor said the "biggest misconception" about her is that she is a feminist. Gaynor, whose chart-topping 1979 smash "I Will Survive" is widely regarded as one of the most iconic feminist anthems of all time, said that she does not identify as a feminist when asked what people often get wrong about her. "The biggest misconception about me? It may be dangerous to say this, but that I'm a feminist," she said. Noting that she grew up with five brothers, Gaynor added, "I love men who know who they are and are strong enough to take their place, but also strong enough to recognize a woman's strengths and allow her to exercise those strengths and realize that we are to be partners and not opponents." The disco legend's comments have already sparked pushback online, with many people pointing out that, despite her implication, loving men and feminism are not mutually exclusive. By definition, feminism is the "belief in and advocacy of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests," according to Merriam-Webster. "So Gloria Gaynor doesn't know what feminist is... got it," one person wrote on X. "So Gloria Gaynor isn't a feminist because she loves men?" wrote another user. "Feminism isn't anti-man, it's just pro-human rights. But sure, let's ignore that. i love men and I'm still a feminist." The two-time Grammy winner's new interview comes a few weeks after she announced that her new EP, Happy Tears, will arrive June 6. The first taste of the five-track project came in February, when Gaynor dropped single "Fida Known," which she told Metro is her favorite song of the bunch. - Billboard, 5/5/25...... Virgin records/airline CEO Richard Branson has recalled the time he once saved the life of Keith Richards when a man showed up brandishing gun to kill him. Branson, well known for being a close friend with countless A-List stars including the founding Rolling Stones guitarist, recalled the incident on Virgin Radio UK on May 1, saying, "I went to the front door. There was this huge guy there and he had a gun. He went, 'I've come to kill Keith Richards, he's in your house with my wife.'" While the command sounded preposterous, it appeared the angry man was correct -- as the 74-year-old Branson went on with his tale. "As I was talking to him, I saw a naked Keith Richards and a naked wife running behind him across the lawn," he recalled. "I said, 'Put the gun down and you can search the house'. He searched the house, he apologized, he left. About an hour later, a naked Keith Richards came back without the wife." Richards, now 81, has been in a relationship with model Patti Hansen since 1979 and they have been husband and wife since 1983. The couple share two children together, and Richards has three other children from a past relationship with late model Anita Pallenberg. - Music-News.com, 5/3/25...... The Beach Boys legend Mike Love took to Instagram on Apr. 28 to publicly mourn the loss of his brother, Stan Love, a onetime NBA player who spent two years with the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1970s and is the father of current NBA All-Star Kevin Love. Kevin announced his father's death at age 76 on social media on Apr. 27, with no cause of death revealed. "So many of you have shared your condolences about the loss of my brother. I guess I am still in shock; although he'd battled significant health issues for so long, I never thought I'd lose him. I really thought we would be here together; reality is not what I thought or hoped for," Mike Love, 84, wrote in his post. "My big younger brother, you called me the superstar, but to me you are the superstar!! You always had my back!," Love continued. "I am blessed to be your brother. I will cherish our lives spent together, whether spoofing on each other or reliving memories. I know you're on the big court now, pounding down 3's; don't foul out, bro. Give Mom & Dad a hug from me. Until we meet again, I love you, Brother, for eternity," he added. Among those giving Mike's post a heart was Full House star John Stamos, who has performed frequently with the Beach Boys over the years. - Parade, 4/29/25...... Joe Louis Walker, an electric blues musician who worked with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt and Mark Knopfler, passed away in late April following a cardiac-related illness. He was 75. Walker's extensive career, which spanned over six decades, saw the singer and guitarist open for such fellow blues icons as Muddy Waters and Thelonious Monk. In the blues scene and beyond, he was considered a "musician's musician" by peers, with Franklin dubbing him "The Bluesman." Born and raised in San Francisco, Walker took to playing the guitar as a child and went on to become a Bay Area regular as he gigged throughout the boom of the late '60s psychedelic rock and blues movement, finding friends in Jimi Hendrix and Mike Bloomfield -- who later became his roommate. After a stint spent in jail, Walker was working odd-jobs by the mid '70s, but started playing with gospel outfit the Spiritual Corinthians. His joining them was followed by a performance at the 1985 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which became the catalyst for his return to blues. In 2016, he was nominated for his first and only Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album with 2015 release Everybody Wants a Piece, and, earlier in 2025, revisited his 1986 debut album, Cold Is The Night. Honors earned throughout his career include an induction into the Blues Hall of Fame, being named a USA Fellow by United States Artists, and receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mississippi Valley Blues Society. - NME, 5/3/25.

On Apr. 30 Paul McCartney revealed the cover for his new book about his '70s band Wings, Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run. Set to arrive on Nov. 4, the book is compiled from over 42 hours of brand-new interviews, as well as historical interviews and newly discovered, previously unheard interviews from McCartney's personal archive. Also included are around 150 photos -- many previously unseen -- capturing the band throughout the years, along with memorabilia, including some of Sir Paul's diary page entries from the time and handwritten lyrics. The cover photo, taken by Linda McCartney, shows Wings members Paul, Linda, Denny Laine, Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell together while on tour in Spain in 1972. According to a press release, the book will recall some of the band's most memorable moments in Scotland, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Nashville, Lagos, Japan, the Virgin Islands, Morocco, Montserrat and more, and is set against the backdrop of political and social timelines of the '70s. McCartney also shared a new excerpt he wrote of the book's foreword: "Suddenly Wings has found its moment. We have a generational shift at work, and it's like being transported back on a magic carpet. Working on the book has awakened so many beautiful memories of our times back then." News of the new book first arrived in February, when it was confirmed that Macca would be sharing an oral history of his first post-Beatles band Wings. In early April, it was confirmed that an exhibition of 36 rare photographs taken by Paul in the early '60s would be opening in Los Angeles. - New Musical Express, 4/30/25...... Speaking of Paul McCartney, the former Beatle will be among several famous collaborators on a new duets album by Barbra Streisand, The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two. The diva announced her latest studio album on Apr. 30, a new project featuring a cross-genre, cross-generational list of duet partners including McCartney, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Sting; Irish rocker Hozier; Icelandic jazz singer-songwriter Laufey; English crooner Sam Smith; country hitmaker Tim McGraw and British soul singer Seal. The first taste of the album, a Streisand duet with Hozier of Roberta Flack's No. 1 1972 smash "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," has been shared on Spotify.com. "I've always loved singing duets with gifted artists," Streisand said in a statement. "They inspire me in unique and different ways... and make our time in the studio a joy." The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two is due on June 27 via Columbia Records. It follows Babs' 2023 anecdote-rich memoir, My Name Is Barbra, about her 60-plus years of blazing trails in music, film, Broadway, activism and beyond. The singer's previous two albums, Partners and Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, both reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 album chart and received Grammy nods for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. - Billboard 4/30/25...... Appearing on comedian Bill Maher's podcast Club Random with Bill Maher, actor Terrence Howard revealed that the biggest career mistake he ever made was turning down the chance to play Smokey Robinson after the Motown legend asked the actor to portray him in a movie. Howard said he turned down the role because he was already "in conversation" with director/producer Lee Daniels about playing another Motown legend, Marvin Gaye, in a separate project. Howard went on to say that he turned down the role of Gaye because he was uncomfortable with how the singer's sexuality would be explored. "I was over at Quincy Jones' house and I'm asking Quincy, 'I'm hearing rumours that Marvin was gay' and I'm like, 'Was he gay?,' and Quincy's like, 'Yes,'" Howard recalled. On the prospect of exploring Gaye's sexuality, he added: "They would've wanted to do that, and I wouldn't have been able to do that." When asked by Maher if he couldn't kiss a man on screen, Howard replied: "No. Because I don't fake it," before adding: "That would f--- me. I would cut my lips off. If I kissed some man, I would cut my lips off. I can't play that character 100 per cent. I can't surrender myself to a place that I don't understand." Gaye did not publicly explicitly state his sexuality but was married twice in his life, to Anna Gordy and Janis Hunter. But Jones once alleged in an interview with Vulture, that the late singer had an intimate relationship with late actor Marlon Brando, although it has never been confirmed. "Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherf---er you ever me," said at the time. "He'd f---- anything. Anything! He'd f--- a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye He did not give a f---!" Howard's full interview with Maher can be streamed on YouTube. - NME, 4/29/25...... The inductees of the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame were announced by Ryan Seacrest on ABC's American Idol on Apr. 27, with '70s stars Joe Cocker and Bad Company among the seven acts inducted into the performer category. Cocker and Bad Company were first-time nominees, as well as inductee Outkast. Inductees Cyndi Lauper and The White Stripes, had each been nominated once before, and inductee Soundgarden had been nominated twice before. Inductee Chubby Checker, whose "The Twist" was a global smash in 1960, had to wait even longer for induction than Cher, who was finally inducted last year, 59 years after Sonny & Cher's breakthrough smash "I Got You Babe." There are six other inductees this year in other categories. Salt-N-Pepa and Warren Zevon are set to receive the musical influence award; Philly Soul producer Thom Bell, English studio pianist/organist Nicky Hopkins and studio bass guitarist Carole Kaye (who was part of the fabled Wrecking Crew of top L.A. studio musicians) will receive the musical excellence award; and producer and label executive Lenny Waronker will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award. Sadly, several of these people didn't live to see their inductions. Hopkins died in 1994 at age 50; Zevon in 2003 at 56; Chris Cornell of Soundgarden in 2017 at 52; and Bell in 2022 at 79. The other seven nominees in the performer category who were denied admission to the Rock Hall this year include Oasis, Mariah Carey, Joy Division/New Order, The Black Crowes, Billy Idol, Man and Phish. Joe Cocker's widow Pam Cocker said she was "really surprised" her late husband was inducted into the Rock Hall. "I voted every day and watched his standing on the fan vote. 'Long overdue' -- those were my daughter's first words when we heard the news." Pam added that while her husband "wasn't obsessed with the fact he wasn't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he did want it. But he didn't prioritize it. He was always surprised at what other people were not in it more than himself." All of the Cockers, including Joe's surviving older brother Vic Cocker, are planning to attend the induction ceremony in November and are anticipating, in Pam's words, "a brilliant evening." Bad Company's Paul Rodgers told Billboard that "I know that our fans, friends and some media have wanted this for a long time, so they will be pleased at last. I am looking forward to seeing some old friends, reconnecting with (fellow inductee) Chubby Checker -- maybe do the twist?" Both Rodgers and Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke say they'll attend and perform at the RRHOF induction gala on Nov. 8 ceremony in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be live on Nov. 8 at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. The 2025 ceremony, held at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live, will once again stream live on Disney+, with a special airing on ABC at a later date and available on Hulu the next day. - Billboard, 4/28/25...... Neil Diamond will be honored with the Inspirational Lifetime Achievement Award by the Children's Diabetes Foundation at the 39th Annual Carousel Ball on Oct. 11. The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Denver, near the home of CDF's primary operations and its clinic and research facility, the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes. Diamond, 84, is just the third recipient of the award, following Sidney Poitier (2016) and Diane Warren (2024). Proceeds from The Carousel Ball benefit CDF and focus on patient support, awareness and diabetes research. The Carousel Balls, founded in 1978, collectively have raised more than $117 million. Diamond has served on CDF's advisory board and has attended the organization's fundraisers for many years, including performing in Denver in 2001, as well as at The Carousel of Hope Ball in Beverly Hills in 2012, where he memorably sang an impromptu duet of "Sweet Caroline" with George Clooney. "It's been my absolute joy to have supported the Children's Diabetes Foundation for so many wonderful years," Diamond said in a statement. "Barbara Davis and her organization have done an immense amount of good helping kids, adults and their families facing a difficult diagnosis." With a career spanning nealy 60 years, Diamond is a 2011 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and his achievements also include a Grammy, a Golden Globe Award, an American Music Award, an ASCAP Film and Television Award and a Billboard Icon Award. - Billboard, 4/29/25......Bruce Springsteen played alongside a litany of fellow music legends on Apr. 26 at an American Music Honors show at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. An intimate audience of just 700 got to witness the Boss jam alongside John Fogerty, Smokey Robinson, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, Darlene Love and Nora Guthrie in the concert organized by The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center. Fogerty, Robinson and Morello were receiving the American Music Honors at the event, as well as Emmylou Harris and Joe Ely. Springsteen himself delivered speeches for Fogerty and Ely. Springsteen and Fogerty went on to jam on the Creedence Clearwater Revival classics "Bad Moon Rising," "Proud Mary" and "Fortunate Son." Springsteen and Motown legend Robinson then played "Going To A Go-Go" together, before the Boss joined Browne for "Take It Easy" and Morello for "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out." The night drew to a close with all the artists in attendance joining together on stage for a version of Woody Guthrie's classic "This Land Is Your Land," the first time Springsteen has played the once-regular part of his setlist since 2013. - Billboard, 4/27/25...... Former Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmates Neil Young and Stephen Stills reunited on Apr. 26 for the Light Up The Blues 7 Concert charity show at L.A.'s Greek Theatre. Stills came out at the end of Young's set with his new band The Chrome Hearts for collaborations on 1978's "Human Highway" and Young's regular set closer "Rockin' In The Free World," with footage of the latter available for viewing on YouTube. Later in the night, Young returned the favour during Stills' set, joining in on a version of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth," the classic 1966 single on which they both originally played. It was a night in which political commentary dominated Young's set, with new song "Let's Roll Again" (which he has shared on YouTube) including the lyrics: "Come on America / Let's cover our back / Protect our children / If you're a fascist / Then get a Tesla / If it's electric, it doesn't matter." Other politically motivated tracks in Young's setlist included deep cuts "Ordinary People" and "Big Box," while "Rockin' In The Free World" included Young and Stills leading the crowd in a chant of "take America back." Other artists on the Light Up The Blues bill included Billy Idol, Cat Power, Nathaniel Rateliff, Rufus Wainwright and Linda Perry. - NME, 4/27/25...... An iconic photograph of David Bowie is set to feature on a limited-edition Bang & Olufsen speaker series. The high-end Danish audio tech company has announced an exclusive run of 30 Beosound A9 speakers that will include a canvas cover adorned with a rare Bowie image captured by the acclaimed British rock photographer Denis O'Regan. The item is priced at £3,995 and each speaker will come with a signed and numbered 12" x 8" print of the image, a printed box sleeve and a certificate of authenticity. The speakers are on sale now and can be found on the West-Contemporary-Editions website. O'Regan has spent decades capturing the biggest names in music and has been the official tour photographer for artists including The Rolling Stones, Queen and Pink Floyd. He also had a longstanding relationship with Bowie and was also one of the official photographers for Live Aid in 1985. He accompanied Bowie on multiple tours and produced the box set Ricochet: David Bowie 1983, which documented the extensive touring that followed the release of 1983's Let's Dance album. "Throughout my career I've been privileged to hear fans and collectors describe one of my images as their 'favourite picture of Bowie'," O'Regan said about the new release. "This favourite of mine is the image I've selected as my chosen moment for the B&O A9 speaker cover." - NME 4/26/25.