Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted by Administrator on October 2nd, 2026

In early September, Stevie Wonder announced he is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his landmark 1976 18th studio album, Songs in the Key of Life, with a world tour on which he will play the entire LP. And now, he's released a four-track EP to the double-album featuring previously unreleased tracks. On Sept. 28, Wonder dropped the EP featuring a quartet of classic-sounding previously unreleased tracks from the session personally curated by the singer and newly mixed by the album's original recording and mixing engineers, John Fischback and Gary O Adante. Songs in the Key of Life debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 album chart and spun off two Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles in "I Wish" and "Sir Duke," as well as winning Album of the Year at the 1977 Grammy Awards. Wonder's new EP can be streamed on Spotify.com. - Billboard, 9/28/26...... Earth, Wind & Fire's classic tune "September" has entered the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart for the first time since 1979. While the song normally gains popularity every Sept. 21 (the track's opening lyric is "do you remember the 21st night of September"), this year's cycle produces an added dimension to its success, sparking its first return to the Hot 100 since its original release cycle in 1979. "September" reentered the Hot 100 at No. 45 on the list dated Oct. 3, its first appearance since the chart dated March 10, 1979, when it ranked at No. 83. The song peaked at No. 8 and now adds an 18th week on the chart across its entire history. With the revived "September," EW&F have claimed their first Hot 100 visit since "Sunday Morning" in 1993. The R&B icons count 33 Hot 100 hits in their career, including seven top 10's and a No. 1, "Shining Star," in 1975. "September" first appeared on the 1978 greatest-hits The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1, which peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 200 album chart. - Billboard, 9/30/26....... Billy Joel reassured a fan asking about his well publicized brain disorder that it "sounds a lot worse than it actually is" during a his first-ever live call-in special on his SiriusXM "The Billy Joel Channel" on Sept. 24. Joel also answered questions about his favorite songs and lyrics, and the call-in gave one fan an opportunity to ask about an update on his Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus diagnosis in 2025. "I know people are worried about me because they read that I have a brain disorder, which sounds a lot worse than it actually is," said Joel to a fan named Mary from Texas. "I'm OK. My balance isn't that good. Lost a little bit of my hearing, but that may have to do with my age, too, and the rock and roll life and the loud volume probably didn't help. But I'm fine. I want people to not have to worry about me. I'm OK. And I appreciate your call," he said. Joel, who joked at the top that he's got a "face made for radio," also answered a call from a fan from Racine, Wisc. who wondered after performing with everyone from Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen to Olivia Rodrigo, was there anyone he never got a chance to play with that he regrets missing? "I would have liked to have performed with John Lennon. And when he was shot, that was a horrible, horrible thing for me," Joel said of Lennon's murder by a crazed fan on Dec. 8, 1980. "It was like, he was like my old brother, my older brother to me. So, John Lennon would have been one of them. I'm trying to think, I love Steve Winwood. I think he's a terrific guy." Joel's SiriusXM call-in can be streamed on YouTube. - Billboard, 9/30/26...... Meanwhile, Billy Joel's erstwhile touring partner Elton John opened London's Apple Music Hall on Sept. 28, performing a one-off show for 600 fans at the brand-new venue at Battersea Power Station. Elton performed solo at the piano and moved through an hour's worth of career-spanning favorites, including "Rocket Man," "Bennie And The Jets," "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me," "Your Song," "Tiny Dancer" and "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues," and the show was streamed live globally across Apple Music platforms, as well as projected onto the outside of the venue. Guests at the show included TV host Graham Norton, DJ Peggy Gou and Apple Music global creative director and Apple Music 1 host Zane Lowe, among others. The performance marked John's first U.K. show in more than three years, following his headline set at Glastonbury Festival in June 2023, where he concluded his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour. Since then, the superstar has made only a handful of live appearances, most recently performing at Brazil's "Rock In Rio" festival on Sept. 7. Footage from the performance can be viewed on Instagram. - Billboard, 9/29/26...... Posting on Instagram on Sept. 28, Rod Stewart announced plans to retire from mounting major tours in the future, while stressing that he's not going away entirely. "Ladies and gentlemen, after much deliberation and sadness, I have to announce that next year will be my last tour ever, ever," Stewart said. "I'm not retiring, but this will be the last rock 'n' roll tour. So I want to thank you for everything you've given me and hopefully I've given you something in return." Dressed in white pants and matching shirt and a gold brocade jacket, Stewart then leaned over to a piano and began pounding on one of the keys as he shout-sang, "So please come out and see me on the tour! It's gonna be great!" The caveat that it was his last rock tour might leave some wiggle room for Stewart to hit the road in the future to perform songs from his series of early 2000's well received American Songbook albums of pop standards. The European leg of Stewart's tour is slated to kick off on Apr. 23, 2027 at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland, and include stops in Belfast, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and London before moving on to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin and other cities before winding down on July 24 at ZAG Arena in Hannover, Germany. Stewart was forced to cancel some dates on his "One Last Time North American" tour after a series of medical issues disrupted the outing, including pausing his concert in Utah after nearly fainting on stage and doubling over in discomfort. On Aug. 9, Stewart called off the remaining dates on his North American tour following a minor medical procedure. The cancellation impacted planned shows in Kansas City, Las Vegas, Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado and a run of gigs in Mexico. Stewart, 81, has been touring for more than 60 years as both a solo act and as a member of the Faces, as well as the vocalist in the Jeff Beck Group. He's been on the road with his "One Last Time" trek since 2024 and earlier in 2026 told British sports chat show talkSPORT that after next year's shows he was planning to call it a day on major tours. - Billboard, 9/28/26...... The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has opened a new exhibition of his paintings and sketches of Jimi Hendrix at the Handel Hendrix House museum -- Hendrix's former apartment on Brook Street, Mayfair in Central London. Alongside previously unveiled paintings and sketches of the guitar legend created by Wood, the collection will also feature two new, unseen original portraits made by Wood. As well as being a longtime admirer of Hendrix, Wood was a friend of the legendary musician, having met him when he first moved to London in 1966. At the time, Wood was playing bass for The Jeff Beck Group -- and went on to briefly share a house with Hendrix in Holland Park. "I got to know him when he was a name that was already on people's lips," Wood says. "People like Eric Clapton would say, Have you seen this new phenomenon? And with the people that were in the know back in the 60s, the word would pass around very quickly that, OK, you've got to see this new boy in town." Wood says he "got a nice invitation from the people that run the 25 Brook Street who are preserving Jimi and his famous neighbor... Jimi came along and revolutionised the whole way people played guitar, so when they asked me to exhibit my renditions of Jimi, I was very honoured. I had just done a few [artworks] before I even knew that I was going to have an exhibit here, but now I've topped up the collection with a few new images." Wood says now that Rod Stewart has announced his final tour, a reunion of his old band Faces is off the table for the time being. "While I'm touring with my band and while Rod is touring with his band, we'll let those things go on their run, but then we'll carry on. We have a lot of good Faces stuff in the bag." - New Musical Express, 10/1/26...... Roger Waters and his son Harry Waters have announced details of Legacy: A Pink Floyd Show, a new touring production celebrating the golden era of Pink Floyd. The show will focus on Floyd's 1971-1979 period, with songs drawn from The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. The concerts will run for more than two hours and aim to reproduce the original recordings as closely as possible. Legacy has been created under Roger's direction, with Harry serving as musical director and leading a 10-piece band on B3 organ, piano and vocals. Roger Waters himself is not scheduled to perform in the shows. "We are going to authentically recreate the albums as close to note-for-note as we possibly can," Harry said. The stage production has been developed by Roger's team and will incorporate imagery inspired by Pink Floyd's original visual work, displayed across high-definition LED screens. "These songs have meant so much to so many people for so many years, and I'm excited for audiences to come together and experience them live again," Roger said. "Harry has assembled a terrific band, and I can't wait for fans around the world to see the special show we've created together." Harry added: "I fell in love with the music immediately. It really had an impact on me, irrespective of any bias because it was dad's music. I still love it deeply to this day." The extensive tour will begin in Columbus, Ga. on Feb. 15, 2027, and will ultimately visit more than 100 cities across North America and Europe. European shows will be announced at a later date. The tour's announcement can be viewed on Instagram. - NME, 9/29/26...... The new Paul McCartney documentary Man On The Run, was screened at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Sept. 28, and the presentation was followed by a Q+A with McCartney and documentary director Morgan Neville and hosted by filmmaker Judd Apatow. Set between about 1968 and 1980, Man On The Run starts with Paul on his isolated Scottish farm with his wife, Linda McCartney, and growing family, wrestling with what to do with his newfound freedom. The Beatles had called it quits -- "it was John Lennon's idea," says McCartney -- but the world didn't know it yet. Over the course of its runtime, Man On The Run shows McCartney as he makes his way back to headlining arenas across America and all the bumps along the way to get there. Unflinching, the documentary does not shy away from addressing the critics panning of much of McCartney's solo work, the murder of John Lennon, his brief stint in a Japanese prison and his bold choice to sue the Beatles. Key figures like daughters Stella and Mary McCartney, Mick Jagger, Denny Laine, Laurence Juber, Chrissie Hynde, Joe English, as well as Paul himself, shared stories for the documentary. Linda, who passed away in 1998, also shared several stories via archival footage, voice-over, and photos. Man On The Run is also currently available on Amazon Prime. Elsewhere, McCartney's ex-fiance Jane Asher has revealed that she has no plans to watch Sam Mendes' forthcoming quartet of Beatles biopics, in which she will be portrayed by Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody). Asher, now 80, dated Paul from 1963 until 1968, with the couple announcing their engagement in 1967 before separating the following year. In an interview with The Telegraph, Asher revealed that the filmmakers had contacted her about the project. "They approached me about it, of course, but I said my usual," she explained, referring to her long-standing decision not to discuss her relationship with the famous Beatle publicly. Asked what she made of Boynton being cast as her, Asher replied: "Well, of course, Lucy is beautiful. But I won't watch the films, otherwise everyone will ask me what I thought." She went on to explain that she had made a conscious decision decades ago to stop answering questions about her time with McCartney. "People would offer me money to talk about it, all sorts of things," she said. "But I won't discuss it. It was so long ago." The couple met in 1963, when she interviewed The Beatles at the Royal Albert Hall as a teenager. McCartney later moved into the Asher family home in London, where he lived for several years. The relationship fed into a number of songs written during one of The Beatles most prolific periods, including "And I Love Her" and "I'm Looking Through You." "For No One," from 1966's Revolver, has also long been associated with difficulties in the relationship. Asher announced that their engagement had ended during a BBC television appearance in 1968. McCartney married Linda McCartney in 1969, remaining with her until her death in 1998. He later married Heather Mills in 2002 before their divorce in 2008, and has been married to Nancy Shevell since 2011. - Billboard/NME, 9/29/26...... In other Beatles-related news, Ringo Starr is among numerous musicians and celebrities who have donated unique items for auction in Housing Works' second annual "Turn It Up!" auction. Founded in 1990 by people living with HIV/AIDS and their allies, Housing Works emerged during the AIDS crisis in response to the urgent need for housing, healthcare, and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Over the decades, the New York City nonprofit has expanded its work to address housing instability, homelessness, healthcare access, HIV/AIDS, and social justice. Ringo donated an autographed Housing Works T-shirt, and other items include original artworks by David Byrne and Joan Baez, a signed drum head from Def Leppard's Rick Allen, and a color print of Bob Gruen's iconic photo of John Lennon standing in front of the Statue of Liberty. Of the Lennon photo, the entry on the auction site reads: "The US government was trying to deport John Lennon because of his support for the peace movement during the Vietnam war so I suggested we take a picture at the Statue of Liberty to illustrate that America was supposed to welcome people," Gruen wrote. "Since Lennon's death, this photo has taken on a new meaning as people think of John Lennon in terms of personal freedom similar to the Statue of Liberty." - Variety, 9/29/26...... Willie Nelson and Family's Farm Aid went forward on Sept. 26 in Virginia Beach, Va., despite a storming Noreaster that shut down major music events throughout the New York region. Highlights included Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts offering a veritable greatest-hits set of ballads including "Comes a Time," "Old Man" and "Harvest Moon," as well as "Lost Highway" and "Earth Girl." Through the years, Farm Aid fans never quite knew which flannel-shirted Neil Young would show up -- the master of acoustic ballads or the guitar-slashing rocker -- but on that night fans got both. After the mellow tunes, out came "Old Black," Young's vintage electric guitar, and the Chrome Hearts -- with Nelson's younger son, Micah Nelson, on second guitar -- roared through "Powderfinger" and "Rockin' in the Free World" with Young's newly ad-libbed line in the chorus. "Take America Back!" he shouted. Nelson once again made his classic "Whiskey River" the opener of his set, also playing such favorites as "On the Road Again" and "Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" with a non-stop pace. "Angels Flying Too Close to the Ground," with Nelson's amazing solo on his trusty guitar, Trigger, gave the couples in attendance time for a slow dance. Then once more, Nelson gathered the day's musicians around him for the traditional closing of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and" I Saw the Light." Earlier in the evening, former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell performed with his band the Dirty Knobs. Campbell shared lead vocals with the Knobs guitarist Chris Holt on the Heartbreakers hits "Even The Losers" and "Running Down A Dream." In John Mellencamp's hit-laden Farm Aid set, "Rain on the Scarecrow" was once again a standout as he sang: "This land fed a nation/ This land made me proud/ And son, I'm just sorry/ There's no legacy for you now." In its 41st year, Farm Aid is the longest running concert for a cause. Since 1985, the festival launched by Nelson, Young and Mellencamp -- and now boasting Dave Matthews, Margo Price and Nathaniel Rateliff on its board -- has raised $90 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture. - Billboard, 9/27/26.

Elton John will make his first public U.K. performance in over three years when he plays London's Apple Music Hall on Sept. 28. The surprise performance at the the newly remodeled 600-capacity venue at Battersea Power Station will be the Rocket Man's first U.K. performance since the wrapped his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at Glastonbury Festival in June 2023. John has sporadically performed live since, most recently at Brazil's Rock in Rio festival on Sept. 7. On Sept. 22, Apple announced the opening of its new state-of-the-art space which features a 48-speaker spatial audio system and a customizable 38-foot-wide stage. In 2014, Elton performed a private concert at the venue to mark the building's residential and commercial redevelopment. Other artists including Baby Keem, Skye Newman and Troye Sivan will help christen the new venue with concerts between Oct. 2 and Dec. 2. - Billboard, 9/25/26...... In a new interview with Vulture magazine, Todd Rundgren took aim at Taylor Swift, claiming she has "ruined music" and called her the "apotheosis of mediocrity." Rundgren is the producer of Meat Loaf's classic 1977 set Bat Out of Hell which he has previously said he approached partly as a spoof of Bruce Springsteen. After being asked which contemporary artist he would target if he were making an album intended as a parody, he replied: "Taylor Swift, of course. There's an argument to be made that she ruined music. It's an understandable phenomenon. It's just that, to me, Taylor Swift is the apotheosis of mediocrity." The veteran singer-songwriter-producer then offered his theory for why female artists have come to dominate mainstream pop, arguing that a shift began in the 1990s when young male consumers increasingly spent their money on video games rather than records. "Back in the '90s, boys stopped spending money on music and started spending it on video games, and that left the music market with, 'Well, where do we go here?'," Rundgren explained. "And they said, 'Well, there's all these young girls and they've got their allowances, too. Why don't we start making music for young girls instead of Pearl Jam or something like that?'" He went on to name Swift alongside Lady Gaga and Pink, but singled out Gaga for praise as a "real musician" and a "classically trained piano player." Returning to Swift, Rundgren said: "Taylor Swift doesn't do anything particularly great except grow hair. She's not a great singer. She's not a great songwriter. She's not a great dancer." Rundgren's comments come shortly after Swift released The Life Of A Showgirl: The Encore, an expanded version of her 2025 album featuring four newly recorded tracks. - New Musical Express, 9/26/26...... Posting on Instagram on Sept. 21, Ozzfest announced it will come to the U.S. for the first time in nearly a decade after previously announcing a show in Birmingham, U.K. "Ozzfest will come to the U.K. and U.S. @theozzfest," with the caption promising, "More Info Coming Soon!!! Where are you hoping Ozzfest 2027 will pop up?" In August, Ozzfest said the hard rock festival would take place at Villa Park, Birmingham, the 42,000-capacity stadium that hosted Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell show "Back to the Beginning", which took place in July 2025. The event dates and lineup have not yet been shared for the Villa Park show, nor for Ozzfest concerts in other cities. Meanwhile, the trailer for the new Back to the Beginning theatrical film has been shared on YouTube. The minute-long trailer for the film documenting the late Ozzy's final show is packed with emotion, tension, tears and, of course, the indomitable spirit of the Blizzard of Ozz himself. "There's never been a precedent for a show like this," says the event's musical director, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello in voice-over as the camera pans over the 45,000 metalheads who gathered at Villa Park in Birmingham, U.K. on July 5, 2025 to celebrate Ozzy's nearly six-decade career in music. "Millions of people around the world who got to say, 'thank you Black Sabbath. Thank you Ozzy,'" Morello continues over footage of Osbourne performing with Sabbath at the gig. Back to the Beginning is set to debut in theaters worldwide on Oct. 28. Elsewhere, the woman who was confirmed to be the mysterious figure on the cover of Black Sabbath's 1970 self-titled debut LP has announced that she has created a new rock opera, inspired by AI and Alice in Wonderland. The woman on the cover had gone unidentified for decades until 2020 when Rolling Stone magazine shared that she was a model named Louisa Livingstone, with photographer Keith Macmillan saying he chose her for the role because she's five feet tall, and as a result, the landscape around her would look bigger. Since then, Livingstone has been releasing music of her own too, including two tracks inspired by her time on the Sabbath cover: "Witch Woman" and "The Woman by the Mill." More recently, she has been releasing music under the alias Indreba, including a five-song album called Alice, which dropped in August. Livingstone says the inspiration for Alice came to her as a memory of her father reading Lewis Carroll's classic 1871 novel to her as a child, and over time she has seen the premise through the lens of panpsychism -- the notion that all objects and items possess some form of consciousness. That, she shared, led to her exploring the narrative of "myself (or Alice) falling in love with AI", but going on to realise that it is "just a beautiful illusion along with everything else on the internet." She added that the album was about "getting back to being oneself and nature," and that she did use some AI assistance to produce the album. - Billboard/NME, 9/22/26...... On Sept. 24 The Beach Boys abruptly cancelled their "Pet Sounds 60" tour dates which was intended to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their seminal 1966 LP Pet Sounds. In July, the iconic American band had rescheduled the dates until September to allow co-founding member Mike Love time to rest and "recharge." Now, the band have axed their shows in Massachussetts, Pennsylvania, and two shows in South Carolina. No explanation was given for the cancellation. Venues planned to host the Beach Boys such as the Univest Performance Center in Quakertown and Alabama Theatre in North Myrtle Beach have said the cancellation was due to "circumstances beyond [our] control." Now the band are apparently going to restart the tour on Oct. 9 at the Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington, Ill. Multiple concerns for Mike Love's health on tour have been noted as the tour has gone by. After one May 30 concert, a reviewer for Slate said the singer's voice was "reduced to a whisper, all warbled, strange, and barely there." Days after that review went up, The Beach Boys axed a series of dates due to Love suffering from an unspecified illness. Love is the only remaining original member of the band left, following the exit of Bruce Johnston earlier this year and the recent death of their iconic frontman Brian Wilson, who died last June aged 82. In January of 2026, the BB released their lost experimental album Adult/Child after almost 50 years, recorded in 1977 and reportedly shelved due to the band's label and Wilson's bandmates not fully believing in the project. - NME, 9/24/26...... After a campaign by Rush members to erect a public art memorial to their late bandmate drummer Neil Peart that began in 2020, Rush singer Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson have presented a check for $785,000 to the Neil Peart Commemorative Task Force Fundraising sub-committee to go toward the $1 million for a Peart memorial in his hometown of Lakeside Park in St. Catharines, Ontario. "This public art memorial will be far more than a tribute to Neil Peart; it elevates the park into a world-class cultural landmark," St. Catherines city manager Eric Lamothe said. "We are thrilled to see a space that is already a beloved destination for residents and tourists become a global beacon for enthusiastic music fans to gather, reflect, and celebrate an icon for generations to come." The campaign launched in 2020 in an effort to place a statue or plaque dedicated to drummer and lyricist Peart in the park that inspired the song "Lakeside Park" on Rush's 1975 Caress of Steel album. The concept for the memorial includes two larger-than-life bronze sculptures of Peart, which will be connected by a pathway offering "experiential and interpretive features providing insight into Peart's personal and professional legacies, including his time with the band," according to the City of St. Catharines site. The memorial park is officially slated to open in late 2027, and a rendering can be viewed on YouTube. - Billboard, 9/23/26...... Giles Martin says the newly unearthed John Lennon song "Little Girl" appearing on the definitive Super Deluxe edition of The Beatles's 1965 album Rubber Soul is "just a little ditty... don't expect 'Strawberry Fields' or 'In My Life' from it." The recording is just as Martin describes -- strong in fidelity but clearly unfinished and light on lyrics, with plenty of la-la's as placeholders. "John was playing around with the word 'girl' quite a lot," Martin, son of the late Beatles producer George Martin, notes. "'You can run for your life if you can, little girl'; obviously 'Girl' was on the record; You know, he liked words. He was obsessed with Dylan Thomas, etc. So it's a valid sketch of the songwriting of the period." He adds that there was never a notion of doing more with "Little Girl" than including it amid the wealth of rarities, outtakes, alternative versions and studio chatter included on the new Rubber Soul release, which includes a 4CD/5LP edition featuring new stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes alongside the original mono mix and the original Capitol U.S. album version. The Super Deluxe edition of Rubber Soul hits stores on Oct. 2. Elsewhere, Martin says the new four-part series of Beatles films he's working on with director Sam Mendes are "gonna be very good." "I think they'll trigger a new wave of Beatlemania, to be honest with you," he says. - Billboard, 9/22/26...... Lionel Richie has undergone a procedure to correct his atrial fibrillation, an erratic heartbeat often caused by inefficient blood flow that can cause dizziness and fatigue. Richie, who recently posponed a number of shows on his headlining arena tour with Earth, Wind & Fire has been experienced heart issues off and on since the tour kicked off June 24 at Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul, Minn. While performing his '80s hit "Dancin' on the Ceiling," Richie told the audience he was feeling shaky and then sat down. "When you're feeling dizzy, sit your ass down," he said. He then took an unscheduled intermission and ultimately did not return to stage. Then following his Aug. 29 concert in St. Louis, he checked himself into a local hospital to have some tests run. Richie struggled at times during the normally high energy show, according to TMZ.com, asking for a chair during concert closer, "All Night Long." A rep for Richie says the former The Commodores member and '80s superstar is doing great and his doctor said "everything went perfectly," but will take some time off and will be back on stage soon." As he recuperates, Richie has canceled the next three scheduled shows in San Francisco on Sept. 26, Chicago on Sept. 30 and Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 2. (The latter two dates were already rescheduled from the earlier postponements.) The next concerts on his schedule are a six-show residency at Las Vegas' Encore Theater at the Wynn starting Oct. 14. - Billboard, 9/22/26...... Gary "Angry" Anderson, the feisty frontman of the '70s and '80s Australian band Rose Tattoo, one of the hardest-rocking bands to emerge from Australia in the 1970s, died on Sept. 21. He was 79. "It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Gary 'Angry' Anderson on the eve of Monday 21 September 2026, surrounded by his loved ones here in Australia," reads a statement from Rose Tattoo. Anderson had suffered a heart attack in August while Rose Tattoo was on tour in Europe. The singer was hospitalized in Germany and the remainder of the group's 50th anniversary tour was scrapped, including planned shows in Australia. With Anderson at the mic, Rose Tattoo enjoyed a string of hits in '70s and '80s including "Bad Boy for Love," "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" and "We Can't Be Beaten." Rose Tattoo was the quintessential Aussie pub rock band, and induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame came in Rose Tattoo was in 2006, in a class that included Helen Reddy. Often clad in leather or a simple singlet, revealing his arms-length collection of tattoos, Angry Anderson always looked hard as nails and as angry as his nickname. But he was a softy at heart. Raised in the school of hard knocks, Anderson was a passionate advocate for disadvantaged young Australians, his work recognized with Anderson made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 for services to the community. He also had several movie roles, including a spot alongside Tina Turner in 1985's Max Mad 3: Beyond Thunderdome, and was a familiar face on Australian TV. - Billboard, 9/23/26.