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Steven Ferdman/Getty Images Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood and The Police’s Stewart Copeland are among the artists coming together to help raise money for the victims of the Maui wildfires. Both artists are set to take part in #MauiStrong, a live stream event happening Friday, September 8, on YouTube.  Mick is set to perform alongside Gretchen Rhodes “and friends,” while Copeland will lead a “Drums for Maui” segment, backed by some local musicians from the island. The live […]

Buda Mendes/Getty Images Billy Idol is headed to the Super Bowl. While the rocker isn’t headlining the halftime show, he will be performing, with his show taking place ahead of the big game.  Idol announced on social media that he'll headline a special pregame concert for Club 67 and Touchdown Club guests at Allegiant Stadium. To get to see Idol, fans will have to purchase special Super Bowl experience packages, which include tickets to the game, the pregame […]

Kevin Mazur/WireImage Lady Gaga is one of the many guest stars on The Rolling Stones' new album, Hackney Diamonds, but apparently her participation in the project was pretty much an accident. Stones frontman Mick Jagger told The Associated Press at the band's album launch event in London Wednesday that Gaga just happened to be recording in the studio next door to them and popped in to say hello. That led to her contributing to the song "Sweet Sounds […]

Rogers/Express/Getty Images Personal items belonging to the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury are currently up for auction at Sotheby’s, and the rocker’s bandmate Brian May doesn’t sound too happy about it. May revealed his feelings about the auction in a sentimental post on Instagram, next to a picture of Freddie playing guitar. “Inescapably thinking so much about Freddie in these strange days,” he wrote. “At the time this photo was taken I’m sure it didn’t seem very important […]

(NEW YORK) -- Newly released data from the Guttmacher Institute shows a sharp increase in the first six months of 2023 in estimated abortions performed in states bordering those with abortion bans and in states that have protections for access to abortion. States that saw an increase in the number of abortions performed over that six-month period included Kansas, New Mexico and South Carolina, which Guttmacher said is likely due […]

Greg Bajor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The cost of a plane ticket is plummeting: Experts say domestic airfare for the fall is down 29% from the summer. "That's about $87 per ticket less expensive than trips taken in June, July, August -- the peak summer months," Haley Berg, economist at Hopper, told ABC News. Berg says the drop in ticket costs is in part due to seasonal price changes, but […]

Sotheby’s auction of Freddie Mercury’s personal items, Freddie Mercury: A World of his Own, began on Wednesday, September 6, and it’s brought in huge money. In fact, the first set of items brought in $15.4 million, with 100% of the lots sold.  The auction was curated by the late Queen frontman's good friend Mary Austin. Fifty-nine lots went up for sale Wednesday, with Mercury’s baby grand Yamaha piano bringing in the highest bid, $2.2 million. Meanwhile, a Victorian-style silver snake bangle […]

On This Day, September 6, 1968… George Harrison asked Eric Clapton to contribute a guitar solo to his new Beatles song, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Clapton initially declined Harrison’s request saying, “nobody ever plays on Beatles records," but Harrison eventually convinced him to participate, and Clapton recorded the solo that night. The song appeared on the band’s album The Beatles, also known as The White Album, which was released in November of 1968. The track was […]

Manticore Records Through Spirit of Unicorn Music The late Greg Lake may be best known for his work with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, but he also had an extensive solo career. Now, that career is being celebrated with a brand new box set. Greg Lake Magical, dropping November 10, is a limited edition, seven-CD box set featuring Lake's two studio albums, Greg Lake and Manoeuvres, and two live albums. It includes collaborations with Clarence Clemons, Toto, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Keith Emerson, Carl Palmer, Gary Moore and others. In addition […]