October 2012

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on October 29th, 2012

An all-star Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute concert for rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry is held at the State Theater in Cleveland, Oh., on Oct. 27..... '70s rocker Meat Loaf throws his substantial weight, if you will, behind Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney, performing a particularly rousing rendition of "America the Beautiful" at a Romney rally in Defiance, Ohio, on Oct. 25..... Motown legend Stevie Wonder releases a new track called "Keep Moving Forward" in support of Pres. Barack Obama's re-election effort..... The Rolling Stones play an energetic warm-up gig at the 700-capacity La Trabendo venue in Paris on Oct. 25 for a few hundred fans in preparation for their forthcoming arena shows in London and the New York City area..... Soul veteran Bobby Womack is awarded a Best Album Award by Britain's Q magazine on Oct. 22 for his latest album, "The Bravest Man in the Universe."..... British media outlets report on Oct. 28 that former '70s glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter was arrested by UK police as a result of child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile..... The Who's music figures prominently in baseball's 2012 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Detroit Tigers as broadcaster Fox Sports uses several of the band's songs to provide music for the event..... Rod Stewart, whose new holiday album "Merry Christmas, Baby" hits stores on Oct. 30, says he's already recorded 10 tracks for his first new straight rock album since 2006's "Still The Same - Great Rock Classics of Our Time."..... In a recent interview with the UK's The Guardian, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler said the world would be a much better place" if people made more time to get laid."..... Paul McCartney gears up for the Christmas season by releasing a jazzy, smooth rendition of the yuletide classic "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" which will be included on his forthcoming Christmas album "Holidays Rule."..... Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino is set to star in a new movie about a fictional rock star who turns his career around after finding a letter from John Lennon..... Neil Young takes to his Twitter.com account on Oct. 24 to joke with his Twitter followers and debunk some rumors..... David Gest, who was a close friend of Michael Jackson, wades into the Jackson family debate over whether the will of the late pop superstar is fake, saying he has doubts about its authenticity..... Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal physician at the time of his death who was convicted of causing Michael Jackson's death, could reportedly be released by Christmas because of fears of overcrowding in Los Angeles jails..... '70s reggae legend Bob Marley tops a poll to find out which musician's work most helps people to learn the English language..... Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover tells a Russian newspaper that his band has completed 14 songs for their as yet untitled follow-up to 2005's "Rapture Of The Deep."..... . The "supergroup" Black Country Communion, will release their third album, "Afterglow," on Oct. 29..... German avant-garde composer Hans Werner Henze, whose prolific and wide-ranging work included a wealth of operas and 10 symphonies, dies in Dresden, Germany, on Oct. 27 at age 86.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on October 4th, 2012

Attending a red carpet premiere of their new documentary "Crossfire Hurricane" in London on Oct. 18, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones says the band has been rehearsing around 70 songs for a series of 50th anniversary concerts at London's O2 Arena on Nov. 25 and 29 and Newark, N.J. in the U.S. on Dec. 13 and 15..... Crosby, Stills and Nash wrap their 2012 international 80-date tour as well as their five-night run at New York City's Beacon Theatre on Oct. 22 with what may have been one of the more memorable gigs of the group's long career..... Neil Young holds his annual Bay Area Bridge School Benefit concert in Mountain View, Calif., on Oct. 20 and 21, with co-headliners Jack White, Guns N' Roses, Foster the People, Steve Martin, the Flaming Lips and kd Lang..... Barry Manilow announces he'll return to Broadway in 2013 with a 17-show stand at the St. James Theatre beginning on Jan. 18..... . Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett releases "Genesis Revisited II," a double disc that's the follow-up to "Watcher of the Skies - Genesis Revisited."..... Director Spike Lee will debut his new Michael Jackson documentary, "Michael Jackson - Bad 25," on Nov. 22 on ABC..... An unreleased Michael Jackson duet with Queen legend Freddie Mercury is being featured in the new Mercury documentary, "The Great Pretender."..... Bruce Springsteen holds a free concert in Charlottesville, Va., for Pres. Barack Obama on Oct. 23..... In a recent interview with the UK paper The Sun, Gene Simmons of Kiss claims that he was once given $200 million to reform Led Zeppelin..... According to a story in Britain's The Sun, late Bee Gees star Robin Gibb left a $148 million fortune in his will..... Peter Frampton will release "FCA! 35 Tour: An Evening With Peter Frampton," highlights from his year-long 35th anniversary tour of his classic 1977 live set "Frampton Comes Alive!," on DVD on Nov. 13..... The high school alma mater of '70s TV icon Carol Burnett, Hollywood High School, announced on Oct. 23 that it is naming an award after the "Carol Burnett Show," and that Burnett will be its first recipient..... Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, whose role in the famously arty 1970s X-rated film "Emmanuelle" catapulted her to fame in 1974 at age 22, dies on Oct. 18 in Amsterdam at age 60 after a battle with cancer..... George McGovern, a proudly liberal former Democrat U.S. senator and unsuccessful 1972 presidential candidate against Pres. Richard Nixon, dies at age 90 in the early morning hours of Oct. 21 at a Sioux Falls, S.D., hospice.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on October 19th, 2012

Campaigning on behalf of Pres. Barack Obama's reelection effort in Parma, Oh., on Oct. 18, Bruce Springsteen opens his solo acoustic set with "No Surrender," a song he performed regularly at campaign events for John Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008..... The Rolling Stones announce on Oct. 15 that they will perform two concerts in London and two near New York as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations..... Mick Jagger's ex-wife Jerry Hall and the couple's stunning daughter Elizabeth Jagger pose naked in a new campaign by the marine environmental group Fishlove..... In an interview with ABC News radio on Oct. 15, Stevie Nicks confirms that Fleetwood Mac will embark on a reunion tour in April of 2013..... Barbra Streisand extends her historic Billboard Hot 200 album chart record with her new album "Release Me," becoming the first act to take multiple new albums into the Hot 200 chart's Top 10 in every decade since the 1960s..... Neil Diamond will be honored with Billboard magazine's prestigious Legend of Live Award at the 2012 Billboard Touring Awards on Nov. 8 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York..... J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf, currently in the midst of a solo U.S. tour that will wrap on Nov. 3, says the J. Geils Band will ride again in 2013 despite a feud with guitarist and band namesake John "J." Geils..... Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon is in the early stages of a North American tour with his long-running post-Pistols band, Public Image Ltd..... David Bowie makes a rare public appearance in his New York neighborhood, recently spotted picking up lunch from the Italian Bottega Falai Cafe..... The Grateful Dead are joining forces with a Delaware microbrewery to produce a new brand of suds named after their famous album, "American Beauty."..... John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and their son Sean Lennon, along with the environmental group Artists Against Fracking, urge New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo not to rush a study investigating the potential health effects of permitting hydraulic fracturing, or fracking..... . Paul McCartney begins work on a new release that includes collaborations with Mark Ronson, producer Ethan Johns has revealed..... A new graphic novel by Vivek J. Tiwary is based on the life of the Beatles' original manager, Brian Epstein, is due in 2013..... An abstract painting by German artist Gerhard Richter and owned by Eric Clapton sold for $34 million at a Sotheby's auction in London on Oct. 12..... Elvis Costello announces he will return to Australia with his band the Impostors for a string of seven shows at wineries in 2013 beginning on Jan. 26 in Yarra Valley's Rochford Wines..... Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson stuns onlookers at the Black Music Awards in Las Vegas on Oct. 13 when he opened his suit jacket to reveal a holster attached to his belt..... Journey guitarist Neal Schon proposes marriage to his longtime girlfriend, Michaele Salahi, during a Journey show in Baltimore, Maryland, on Oct. 14..... The former cruise ship Pacific Princess that was featured on the hit ABC series "The Love Boat" is heading to the scrapyard to be broken up and sold for scrap metal..... Legendary actor and TV and beauty pageant host Gary Collins dies of natural causes at age 74 in the early morning hours of Oct. 13 at the Biloxi Mississippi Regional Medical Center.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on October 13th, 2012

The Rolling Stones release their first new single in over six years, "Doom and Gloom," on Oct. 11 to mixed reviews..... Former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, whose band has just been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013, says he "couldn't care less" if his legendary hard rock band is tapped for induction this time..... A weeklong celebration of rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry will open at the Cleveland-based Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum on Oct. 18..... The former home of Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla in Beverly Hills, Calif., is being put up for sale for $12.9 million..... Pop songstress Dionne Warwick is among some 500 people and businesses who California's tax board say owe taxes to the state..... A new Michael Jackson book by fashion designer Michael Bush offers a behind-the-scenes look at the iconic superstar and the development of his signature clothing style..... In an interview with a Florida radio station on Oct. 11, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry rip into Kiss, calling their former tourmates a "comic book rock band."..... Steely Dan's Donald Fagen says he wanted his upcoming fourth solo album, "Sunken Condos," to stand on its own after three interconnected solo albums..... A series of previously unseen letters by John Lennon were published on Oct. 9 to mark what would have been the Beatles legend's 72nd birthday..... The Beatles' "Hey Jude" is named the song most often referred to in works of literature in a list compiled by the website Small Demons, which gathers mentions of topics of songs in books..... Led Zeppelin clashes with reporters at a press conference on Oct. 9 at New York's Museum of Modern Art while promoting their new film, "Celebration Day."..... Tom Petty is auctioning off one of his favorite cars -- a champagne convertible Jaguar XJS -- eBay for charity..... Barbra Streisand dismisses Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney as a "chameleon" during her a concert at Brooklyn's new Barclays Center on Oct. 11..... A new musical inspired by Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, Jr. will open at New York City's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway on Apr. 14..... Queen guitarist Brian May confirms on his blog on Oct. 11 that a planned Freddie Mercury biopic starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Mercury is on track for an early 2014 release..... Stevie Nicks apologizes for some aggressive statements she made towards Nicki Minaj after Minaj reportedly threatened Mariah Carey on the "American Idol" set..... A major David Bowie exhibition of vintage posters and memorabilia from the rocker's golden years (1969-1981) will go on display for the first time in London on Nov. 17..... Country music legend Charlie Pride announces three concerts in the UK this fall..... Recording engineer Howard H. Scott who pioneered the vinyl LP in the 1940s while working for Columbia Records, dies at age 92 from cancer.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on October 9th, 2012

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its nominations for induction in next year's ceremony on Oct. 4, and making the cut this time are Rush, Deep Purple, Heart, Randy Newman, Procol Harum, Kraftwerk, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Donna Summer, Public Enemy, Albert King, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Marvelettes, the Meters and N.W.A..... Beatles fans in the group's hometown of Liverpool, England, come together on Oct. 5 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four's first chart entry, "Love Me Do," by delivering a record-breaking rendition of the song..... A new book of rare Beatles photos, "LIFE With the Beatles," gives an inside peek at the band..... In a recent interview with the UK paper Daily Mail, Rod Stewar reveals he grew tired of sex in his 20s as he was "bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls."..... Art Garfunkel announces he's canceling the remainder of his 2012 comeback tour due to ongoing voice problems..... Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards tells a British magazine that the band has been booked to play live shows in London and New York before the end of the year..... Led Zeppelin mastermind Jimmy Page tells Rolling Stone that he "doesn't see" another Led Zep reunion like the one the band did in 2007 in London..... Cofounding Beach Boys member Mike Love writes a guest editorial in the Oct. 5 edition of the Los Angeles Times in which he says that "divisive and ugly rumors" that he sent Brian Wilson packing from the BB are all the result of a misunderstanding..... Janis Joplin's surviving siblings Michael and Laura Joplin say a new musical revue based on the life of their famous sister, "One Night With Janis Joplin," celebrates Janis's achievements, not her demons..... In a new interview with the UK's The Guardian paper, Neil Young hints that he may reunite with his '60s band Buffalo Springfield..... An attorney representing Janet Jackson sends a letter to Vanity Fair magazine asking for an apology and retracted for an article it published which alleged Janet delayed her brother Michael Jackson's funeral over a financial dispute..... Barbra Streisand kicks off her first tour in six years in Philadelphia on Oct. 8..... Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack Osbourn weds his girlfriend Lisa Stelly in a private ceremony attended by family and friends in Hawaii on Oct. 7..... R-B singer R.B. Greaves, best known for his 1969 single "Take a Letter, Maria" which climbed to No. 2 on the US hit parade in Oct. 1969, dies at age 68 on Sept. 27 in Los Angeles.

Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

Posted in Main by Administrator on October 4th, 2012

Crooner Art Garfunkel scraps two concerts in Sweden over the last weekend in September for unknown reasons..... A traveling exhibit that showcases the platinum-selling '70s Swedish quartet ABBA will get a permanent home in a new museum in Stockholm in April or May of 2013..... Producer T-Bone Burnett says Elton John is writing more songs for his forthcoming LP "The Diving Board" because some of the songs originally planned for the album "were maybe too happy for the overall identity of the album."..... Items donated by veteran country music singer Charlie Pride will become part of the Smithsonian's upcoming National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open in 2015..... Kenny Rogers offers a revealing look into his life and 50-plus-year musical career in his new book "Luck or Something Like It," which hit stores on Oct. 2..... John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, stars of the hit 1978 '50s nostalgia movie "Grease," are reuniting to record a Christmas album that will feature contributions from 13 guest stars..... Previously unseen footage of the Beatles making their 1967 film "Magical Mystery Tour" is being shown online at thespace.org website..... The winning entry in a contest sponsored by EMI and Genero TV that asked fans to create their own music videos for David Bowie's hit 1972 single "Ziggy Stardust" can be viewed online..... Patti Smith pays tribute to legendary pop art icon Andy Warhol during a concert on Sept. 29 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art..... Led Zeppelin announce four film premieres for their "Celebration Day" concert film, which documents the band's 2007 reunion show at London's O2 Arena..... Neil Young splits his time between the easily charted tales of his five-decade career as a musician and off-the-cuff asides about his favorite cars and his model-train collection in his new book, "Waging Heavy Peace."..... . Neil Young and Crazy Horse headline the massive Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park on Sept. 29..... Music legend Quincy Jones is honored with the 21st annual Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award at a Chateau Marmont party in Los Angeles on Oct. 2..... '60s-'70s pop songstress Dionne Warwick will be honored as a "living legend" during a "Black Girls Rock!" ceremony on Oct. 13 in the Bronx, N.Y.