August 2012

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on August 30th, 2012

There are reports that the Rolling Stones spent time in a Paris recording studio during the fourth week of August to work on material marking their 50th anniversary..... Guitarist Slash of Guns 'n' Roses and Velvet Revolver fame reveals in a recent interview with an Australian radio station that his mother had an affair with David Bowie..... The transcript of the recent parole hearing for John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman is released on Aug. 29 and reveals the 57-year-old hoped to live and work with an upstate New York minister if he was given freedom..... Ringo Starr is declared the "world's richest drummer" by the wealth-calculation website Celebritynetworth.com..... Representatives for Hall and Oates request that a Super PAC created by H-O fans for the purpose of damaging the campaign of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney be dissolved, and the organizers of the Super PAC comply..... Lynyrd Skynyrd's scheduled concert in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 26 to help kick off the Republican National Convention is cancelled due to Hurricane Isaac..... Art Garfunkel records a pair of new songs for his latest album "The Singer," which hit stores on Aug. 28..... Bob Dylan releases a shockingly violent new video for his new single "Duquesne Whistle" from his forthcoming album "Tempest."..... A pair of briefs once worn by Elvis Presley, complete with stains, will be sold at an auction in Manchester, England, in early September..... A concert celebrating the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's album "Bad" is set for Aug. 29 at New York City's Gotham Hall..... A massive 63-CD box set of late country icon Johnny Cash's material on Columbia Records will drop Oct. 30..... Tom Waits is set to make a guest appearance this fall on an episode of "The Simpsons."..... American astronaut Neil Armstrong, who uttered one of history's most famous proclamations when he became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969, dies on Aug. 25 from post-surgery complications at age 82.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on August 25th, 2012

John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman is denied parole for a seventh time by a three-member board after a hearing on Aug. 22..... The Beatles' classic 1967 film, "Magical Mystery Tour," will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on Oct. 8..... Neil Young and Crazy Horse are set to release their latest collaboration, "Psychedelic Pill," sometime in October..... Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff finalizes an arrangement on Aug. 22 for Michael Jackson's nephew T.J. Jackson to serve as co-guardian of the late pop star's three children along with the kids' grandmother, who until recently had been solely responsible for their care..... Aerosmith is streaming a new song called "Lover Alot," a bombastic rocker with a propulsive beat and pounding bassline, on iTunes..... ZZ Top announces it will release "La Futura," the Texas trio's first new album in nine years, on Sept. 10..... Kiss is celebrating their upcoming 40th anniversary and the Oct. 20 release of their 20th studio album, "Monster," by launching a massive new photo book with the same name..... British arena rockers Def Leppard release seven classic videos from their 1987 "Hysteria" album for the first time digitally via iTunes..... Legendary bluesman B.B. King performsan approximately hour-long "homecoming" on Aug. 22 in Indianola, Miss., on an outdoor stage at the city's B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center..... New Wave icons Devo will officially release its latest single, the anti-Mitt Romney song "Don't Roof Rack Me, Bro! (Seamus Unleashed)," on Aug. 26 (which also happens to be National Dog Day and the day before the Republican convention kicks off in Tampa, Fla.) via iTunes..... Gregg Allman is joining forces with such rising musicians as John Mayer and Dierks Bentley to pay tribute to the late the Band drummer Levon Helm by playing a benefit concert in E. Rutherford, N.J., on Oct. 3..... Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist-singer Lindsey Buckingham brings his "Small Machine" Tour to Austin, Tex., on Aug. 22..... Willie Nelson is reportedly hospitalized before a Colorado gig on Aug. 18, according to a Denver television station..... Pioneering female comedian Phyllis Diller, the housewife-turned-humorist known for aiming some of her sharpest barbs at herself, passes away on Aug. 20 in her Los Angeles home at age 95..... '60s pop singer Scott McKenzie, best known for the 1967 hit "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers In Your Hair)," dies on Aug. 18 at age 73 in Los Angeles after a battle with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease that affects the nervous system.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on August 30th, 2012

The New York state Dept. of Corrections announces on Aug. 18 that John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman has been granted his seventh parole hearing in the third week of August..... A fragment of John Lennon's tooth that was auctioned off last fall will become part of a work of art..... Paul McCartney Tweets a message of support on Aug. 16 for jailed all-girl Russian punk trio Pussy Riot, who await the verdict in their trial for performing an anti-Vladimir Putin "punk prayer" in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral last March..... The NASA space agency reveals the Beatles' and the Doors' music were among the songs played during the recent Mars mission to "wake up" the Mars Curiosity robot each morning..... "Scarlet Town," a new song from Bob Dylan's forthcoming album "Tempest," appears in the end credits of a new Cinemax series called "Strike Back."..... The city of West Hollywood declars Aug. 16, 2012 to be "The Doors Day" in a celebration that honored cofounding band members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger at L.A.'s House of Blues..... '70s RB hitmakers The O'Jays celebrate the 40th anniversary of their first hit, 1972's "Back Stabbers," during the Los Angeles stop on the recent Summer Music Festival Tour, which also features such artists as Patti LaBelle, Babyface, Tank and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly..... Robin Gibb's widow Dwina reveals that her late husband and Bee Gees legend refused to undergo vital scans in the early stages of his health battle because he wanted to carry on with his music commitments..... Around 75,000 fans of Elvis Presley mark the 35th anniversary of the King of Rock 'n' Roll's death on Aug. 15 by participating in the annual candlelit vigil at the rock legend's former residence, Graceland, in Memphis..... The next series of classic studio albums by legendary '70s Irish rocker Rory Gallagher will be released by Sony Legacy in the UK on Oct. 1 for a limited period in deluxe digi-packaging.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on August 16th, 2012

Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson drops a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Jackson's personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray who was convicted of causing the singer's death..... Alice Cooper makes a surprise appearance as a guest performer at the "Rock of Ages" musical in London on Aug. 14, performing his classic hit "School's Out."..... Veteran British folk-rock group Fairport Convention celebrate 45 years in music by headlining their annual convention in the Oxfordshire village of Cropredy during the second week in August..... The fight over rights to use the J. Geils Band name between the group's founder, John "J." Geils, and four other members of the band heat up as the latter say they have "every intention" of touring this year despite a lawsuit by Geils who claims they can't use the name..... Neil Diamond celebrates the 40th anniversary of his smash 1972 Hot August Night album on Aug. 12 with the first of a four-night run at L.A.'s Greek Theatre, the same venue that he performed a series of shows in '72 from which the album was compiled..... The Who is among the British rock and pop royalty who helped close out the 2012 Olympics in London on Aug. 12, playing classics like "Baba O'Riley" and "My Generation" during a multiple-song set..... '70s shock rockers Kiss and the '80s hair band Motley Crue donate money to support those affected by the Colorado movie theater shootings on July 20..... Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kick off the latest North American leg of their Wrecking Ball tour on Aug. 14 at Boston's Fenway Park..... '70s New Wave legends Devo are set to release a track later in August that is inspired by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's notorious road trip from Massachusetts to Ontario, during which he transported the family dog, Seamus, in a kennel strapped to the roof of his station wagon..... Elvis Costello announces an extensive UK tour for next summer..... A mansion in Surrey, England, that was once owned by the Beatles' John Lennon goes on the market for 15 million pounds..... A docudrama about the final days of late AC-DC lead singer Bon Scott went into pre-production in March..... Former Four Seasons singer Frankie Vallie announces plans to make his Broadway debut with seven concerts at the Broadway Theatre from Oct. 19-27..... Journey guitarist Neal Schon is putting the finishing touches on his latest solo album, "The Calling," which is due in the UK from Frontiers Records on Oct. 22..... Seventies icon John Travolta filed papers on Aug. 3 denying allegations that he sexually accosted cruise-ship employee Fabian Zanzi in 2009..... Ron Palillo, the actor best known as the nerdy high school student Arnold Horshack on the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," dies at age 63 on Aug. 14 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., of an apparent heart attack..... Soul record producer Carl Davis, who worked with legendary artists during the '60s and '70s for what was called the "Chicago sound," dies on Aug. 9 at age 77 at his home in South Carolina after battling an autoimmune disorder..... Robert Wayne Birch, a backup musician and bass player for Elton John's current band, is found dead in the Los Angeles area on Aug. 15 of an apparent suicide resulting from a gunshot wound to the head.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on August 10th, 2012

Prolific Oscar-winning film and musical composer Marvin Hamlisch, whose long list of songwriting credits include "The Way We Were," "The Sting" and "A Chorus Line," dies unexpectedly on Aug. 6 at age 68 in Los Angeles following a brief illness..... Elton John sues the "London Times" newspaper for libel over stories that he claims falsely link him to tax evasion..... On the second weekend of August Robert Plant will return to the Mississippi location where he recorded his 1999 album "Walking Into Clarksdale" with his former Led Zeppelin partner Jimmy Page..... Country-pop crossover artist Emmylou Harris organizes "Woofstock," an event set for Aug. 18 that she hopes will be the first of many to support homeless animals around Nashville, Tenn..... A free concert on the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park called Global Festival 2012 will be headlined by Neil Young, the Foo Fighters and the Black Keys..... Ozzy Osbourne's wife Sharon Osbourne clashes with the NBC over the TV network's alleged firing of her son Jack Osbourne from the reality show "Stars Earn Stripes."..... A musical inspired by the music of the Beach Boys is closing in Las Vegas after a disappointing six-week run, a Vegas paper reported on Aug. 9..... The first five albums by legendary California rockers the Steve Miller Band will be released in the UK on Oct. 8..... The surviving members of the Monkees -- Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork -- announce they'll launch a 12-date tour of the U.S. in November in memory of late former Monkess member Davy Jones..... Actor Johnny Depp joins Aerosmith onstage on Aug. 6 at L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl to run through a riotous cover of the old blues staple "Train Kept A-Rollin'"..... In an interview with a Florida newspaper on Aug. 5, Ted Nugent says Pres. Barack Obama "represents everything bad about humanity."..... Barbra Streisand announces six more North American tour dates this fall in addition to her previously announced gigs at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Oct. 11 and Oct. 13..... Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and Deep Purpl vocalist Ian Gillan will release a 2-disc compilation under the band name of WhoCares on Aug. 28..... Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford says his British heavy metal outfit, which recently wrapped its Epitaph World Tour, is "ramping things up to get back into full writing and recording mode" back home England..... Guitarist Stuart Swanlund, a guitarist in the second incarnation of the Marshall Tucker Band in the 1980s, dies in his sleep at home in Chicago on Aug. 4 at age 54..... Jimmy Jones, a sweet-voiced rhythm-and-blues tenor of the golden age of rock 'n' roll, passes away on Aug. 2 at age 82..... Veteran actor R.G. Armstrong, Jr., a rough-hewed character actor known for playing sheriffs, outlaws and other macho roles, dies on July 27 at his home in Studio City, Calif., at age 95..... Judith Crist, one of America's most widely read and influential film critics, dies on Aug. 7 at her home in Manhattan at age 90..... Actor Chad Everett, who starred on the TV drama "Medical Center" from 1969-1976, dies of lung cancer on July 24 at age 75.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on August 5th, 2012

Premium cable channel HBO announces on Aug. 1 that it will air a new documentary about the Rolling Stones this fall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the British rock band..... Steven Tyler says he "loved and hated" his two-year stint as a judge on "American Idol" but admits the popular TV singing contest was "not my cup of tea."..... Black Sabbath has a triumphant reunion gig as the headlining act on the opening night of the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago on Aug. 3..... J. Geils Band founder John Geils files a lawsuit against the other members of the Boston-based rock band on Aug. 2, claiming they are unlawfully using the band's trademarked name for an upcoming tour without him and interfering with his business activities..... Ten die-hard fans of the Who trade in their tickets from a canceled 1979 Who gig in Rhode Island for admission to the legendary rock band's upcoming show in Providence, R.I., on Feb. 26 of next year..... Citing irreconcilable differences, Stevie Wonder files for divorce from his second wife, Kai Millard Morris..... Bob Dylan tells Rolling Stone that he references actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the 14-minute title track of his forthcoming album, "Tempest."..... On Aug. 2 a judge names T J Jackson, a cousin to Michael Jackson's three children, as co-guardian with Jackson matriarch Katherine Jackson..... Johnny Winter says there's "a good chance" he'll do a "Roots 2" album and hopes to recruit such fellow iconic musicians as ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Dr. John, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, B.B. King and Buddy Guy to contribute to the album..... Bonnie Raitt says she considers her new album "Slipstream," which was released in April, to be a success in today's economy even though it only sold over 200,000 copies..... Playing for a mind-boggling four hours and six minutes, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band set themselves a new record at their final European show in Helinski, Finland, on July 30..... On Aug. 3, Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir hosts a five-hour celebration entitled "Move Me Brightly" in San Rafael, Calif., in honor of what would have been Jerry Garcia's 70th birthday..... Neil Young and Crazy Horse kick off their 2012 American tour at Albuquerque, New Mexico's Hard Rock Pavilion on Aug. 3 with a blazing two-hour-plus show of their catalog of classics as well as material from Young's next album with Crazy Horse, supposedly due out later in 2012..... Pink Floyd issues a statement on Aug. 2 saying they will not be performing at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games..... Neil Diamond will celebrate the 40th anniversary of his smash 1972 "Hot August Night" album by unveiling his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Aug. 10..... Legendary former UFO and Scorpions guitarist Michael Schenker announces on July 30 that he'll kick off a 12-city spring tour of the UK on Apr. 9 in Stockton..... Celebrated author, playwright, politician and commentator Gore Vidal dies of complications from pneumonia at his California home in the Hollywood Hills on July 31 at age 86.