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Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for ABA Along with hearing Tony Iommi play on a song with English pop star Robbie Williams, you can now watch him do that, too.Williams has premiered the video for "Rocket," his collaborative single with the Black Sabbath guitarist. Iommi pops up in the clip while rocking the track's guitar riff and standing back-to-back with Williams on the streets of England."Rocket" the song dropped on Wednesday. It will […]

On This Day, May 23, 2024 ...Bruce Springsteen was celebrated in London as he was honored as an Academy Fellow of The Ivors Academy.He was the first international songwriter to receive the honor by the U.K. organization, which presents The Ivor Novello Awards, celebrating excellence in British and Irish songwriting. Paul McCartney, an Academy Fellow himself, was on hand to give Springsteen his honor. During his speech, The Boss recalled his […]

ABC/Michael Yada It's been eight years since the last U2 album, but Bono and the boys are back.The BBC reports that backstage at The Ivors ceremony in London on Thursday, where the band was given a prestigious fellowship of The Ivors Academy, they said they were in the studio making new music, complete with drummer Larry Mullen Jr. He'd been sidelined due to a neck surgery and was absent from […]

Photo by Criss Cain Heart returned to the road earlier this year with their Royal Flush tour, and fans who caught their show saw a set that was filled with more than just Heart classics.The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band is known to cover Led Zeppelin in concert, and Nancy Wilson says there’s a good reason they include those songs in the set."We're kind of built to play Zeppelin," she […]

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Deadline reported in March that pop star Lizzo would star as rock 'n' roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe in an upcoming biopic. But now, news comes that Mick Jagger, in partnership with Live Nation Productions among others, is producing a feature film on Tharpe. This film appears to have no connection to the Lizzo project.Oscar-nominated actress Aunjanue [ingenue] Ellis-Taylor has been tapped to write the movie, which has been granted the rights […]

Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images Here's a sentence you probably never thought you'd read: A bar in Toms River, New Jersey, won't allow a Bruce Springsteen cover band to perform there. And the reason has nothing to do with the actual band.According to NJ.com, Riv's Toms River Hub had booked a Springsteen cover band called No Surrender to perform on May 30. However, after Springsteen made headlines by criticizing President Donald Trump's administration […]

Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Palms Resort & Casino Robert Plant is the latest rocker to express his support for Bruce Springsteen, whose onstage comments during his shows in Manchester, England, have drawn the ire of President Donald Trump.In fan-shot footage of his May 18 show in Finland with the band Saving Grace, Plant tells the crowd, "Right now in England, which is where we come from ... Bruce Springsteen's touring right […]

Rhino/Warner Records Jethro Tull really is living in the past with a new reissue that expands their 1972 double compilation album, Living in the Past.Still Living in the Past, a five-CD/Blu-ray box set, is due out July 11. It includes remixes, edits, demos, live tracks and four promotional films. If that's too much Tull for you, there will also be a two-LP vinyl edition featuring stereo remixes of the album by Steven […]

On This Day, May 22, 1976 ...Paul McCartney & Wings hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “Silly Love Songs,” which spent five weeks on top of the chart.The tune, from the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound, was McCartney’s answer to critics who suggested he only wrote lightweight love songs.“Silly Love Songs” was McCartney’s fifth #1 as a solo artist and his 27th #1 as a songwriter, […]