Sam Phillips has died in Memphis at the age of 80
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Elvis Fans Website) - Sam Phillips, the US music producer who launched Elvis Presley's career, has died in Memphis at the age of 80. Phillips founded the Sun Records label in Memphis, Tennessee, and produced Presley's first record in 1954. Phillips was also credited with launching the ...
| Rolling Stones headline Toronto Sars gig
TORONTO, Canada (R. Stones Fans Website) - The Rolling Stones are headlining a massive open-air concert in Toronto on Wednesday to boost the Canadian city's damaged economy following the Sars crisis. More than 400,000 music fans were expected at Downsview Park for the gig, which is being hosted by Canadian ...
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Mick celebrates 60th birthday in Prague
PRAGUE, Czech (Rolling Stones Fans Website) - Mick Jagger is celebrating his 60th birthday with a party in Prague. He chose the Czech Republic's capital as his venue ahead of a show in the historic spot tomorrow evening. Details of his bash are a closely guarded secret, although there is speculation ...
| Dexy's Midnight Runners… are back!
Gillingham, Kent, UK, By Mikey: [email protected]) - Dexy's Midnight Runners are making a comeback; they have had two number ones - Geno and Come On Eileen - way back in the 80s. It seems 80s music is making a big comeback this year, you could say it's the 80s revival, so far we have had Erasure, ...
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500,000 to see Rolling Stones in Toronto!
TORONTO, Cananda (Toronto Sun) - The Rolling Stones-headlined concert in Toronto on July 30th is expected to be one of the largest ticketed music events ever, according to organizers. The event is an effort to combat the economic damage done to the city by the SARS crisis earlier this year. Half a million ...
| Jefferson Airplane biography Tops Amazon rock book chart for four weeks
NEW YORK (Artia Books) - In his foreword to Jeff Tamarkin's Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane (Atria Books, $27), Jann Wenner, editor-in-chief and publisher of Rolling Stone, writes, "The classic Airplane lineup were both architects and messengers of a psychedelic age, a liberation ...
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Boston sues record company
NEW YORK (Boston Fans Website) - The lack of success of the comeback album for the band Boston has lead to the band taking legal action against their record company. Donald Thomas Scholtz (Tom Scholtz) of Boston has filed with the County of New York claiming Artemis Records failed to market and promote ...
| Robert Cray's new cd and USA tour dates
LOS ANGELES (Sanctuary Press release) - As five-time Grammy� Award-winning recording artist Robert Cray awaits the release of his Sanctuary Records debut album, Time Will Tell, he and his band are preparing for a four-month U.S. tour, many of which dates (July 24 - October 17) will be co-headline shows ...
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Eagles have landed in Texas
HOUSTON, Texas (Eagles Fans Website) - The Eagles have landed in singer-drummer Don Henley's home state of Texas. The band plays the second of a two-night stand at the Compaq Center in Houston on Tuesday (June 17), and then heads to Dallas, not far from where Henley grew up, for two dates at American ...
| Bruce Springsteen's 'Troubadour of the highway' photo exhibit
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (B. Springsteen Official Website) - The photo exhibit, Springsteen -- Troubadour Of The Highway, began a 12-week run at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, this weekend. The multi-media exhibit, which premiered last September at the University Of Minnesota's ...
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Bruce Springsteen & Jon Bon Jovi at New Jersey
NEW YORK (Bon Jovi Fans Website) - New Jersey-based rockers Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Bobby Bandiera, Gary U.S. Bonds, and Southside Johnny have all signed on to perform at the Hope Concert. The benefit show takes place April 29 at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. Proceeds from ...
| Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist has surgey
LOS ANGELES (Lynyrd Skynyrd Fans Website) - Gary Rossington, a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, underwent successful heart bypass surgery this week, a spokesman said. The quintuple bypass surgery was performed Tuesday at an Atlanta area hospital, band spokesman Lathum Nelson ...
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Procol Harum new CD release 'The Well's On Fire' on Eagle Records
NEW YORK (Eaglevisionusa.com) - Procol Harum has always been based around the songwriting partnership of singer and pianist Gary Brooker and lyricist Keith Reid. They gave notice of their talent with the band�s first release, the classic A Whiter Shade Of Pale, and Procol Harum joined the very select ...
| Johnny Cash sings Nine Inch Nails' 'Hurt'
LOS ANGELES (Nine Inch Nail Fans Website/www.markromanek.com ) - At 70, Johnny Cash is rocking out with his cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt." The video for the searing song is getting play on MTV2 and VH1, and the song is in regular rotation on rock station KROQ-FM. Directed by Mark Romanek, ...
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Big stars planned for 'Salute To The Blues' concert in NY
NEW YORK (Aerosmith & Alman Bros Websites) - A host of stars were scheduled to gather at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Friday (February 7) to pay tribute to the blues. The Salute To The Blues show, the kickoff event for what the U.S. Congress has deemed the "Year Of The Blues," was set to ...
| Styx are coming back!
NEW YORK (Classic rock News Website) - Styx became cool again the minute Cartman sang 'Come Sail Away' on South Park. Now they get even cooler with the news that Tenacious D have joined them in the studio for their next record. Actors / wannabe Rockstars Jack Black and Kyle Glas aka Tenacious D perform ...
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Bill Clinton kicks off free Rolling Stones gig
LOS ANGELES (R. Stones Fans Website) - Former US President Bill Clinton has urged a packed audience at a Rolling Stones concert to help stop the destruction caused by global warming. Mr Clinton said it was up to average citizens to "stop the planet from burning up", at the free anti-global warming event ...
| Rolling Stones focus on global warming
NEW YORK (Nrdcstonesconcert.org/R. Stones Fans Website) - The band that sang "Paint It Black" is speaking out on behalf of green with a free concert dedicated to raising awareness about global warming. The Rolling Stones' concert Thursday night at the downtown Staples Center was taking place in one ...
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Fleetwood Mac release new album!
NEW YORK (Fleetwod Mac Fans Website) - Fleetwood Mac are to release their first album of new songs since 1986. Say You Will features the band's classic Rumours album line-up of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. It will be released in the US on April 15, ahead of the band's ...
| Doors drummer sues over concert
LOS ANGELES (Doors Fans Website) - The Doors' drummer John Densmore is suing two of his bandmates for using the rock group's name in a reunion concert later this week. He claims the concert, featuring Cult singer Ian Astbury on vocals and former Police drummer Stewart Copeland, cannot legally be called ...
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