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Len DeLessio/Getty Images When Foreigner gets inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday, only three members of the band — singer Lou Gramm, keyboardist Al Greenwood and bassist Rick Wills — will be on hand to accept the honor. Dennis Elliott and Mick Jones won't be in attendance, and the trio tells ABC Audio their bandmates not being there is a bit of a letdown.“I mean, we knew Mick was very doubtful for being here because of his illness,” Wills […]

Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival Dave Matthews Band is being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday in Cleveland, in a ceremony that will stream live on Disney+. At a ceremony at the Rock Hall Friday, during which a plaque honoring all of this year's honorees was unveiled, Dave Matthews recalled his first encounter with another one of this year's inductees: Foreigner."When I was […]

David Tan/Shinko Music/Getty Images It looks like David Lee Roth may be responding to all the Van Halen news that’s been coming out since Alex Van Halen started doing interviews to promote his upcoming memoir, Brothers, which drops Tuesday.The former Van Halen frontman just reposted a video to Instagram of his song “Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Back Then Anyway,” which was originally released two years ago. The song has him […]

Legacy Recordings Ozzy Osbourne has announced a new vinyl box set titled See You on the Other Side 2.0.As with 2019's See You on the Other Side package, the 2.0 collection features all of the Prince of Darkness' solo studio albums, as well as two live albums and the Flippin' the B-Side rarities compilation. Newly added to the updated set are Ozzy's last two solo records, 2020's Ordinary Man and 2022's Patient Number 9. Ozzy's also put out a new video […]

Disney/Jenny Anderson Peter Frampton will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday, and he'll also be performing on the show. He tells ABC Audio narrowing down what to play took a little bit of work. Frampton says he was originally given 7 1/2 minutes to perform and opted to play just one song.“I’m not a mash-up guy,” he said, “so we'll do one number that is 7 1/2 minutes long,” although he didn’t name […]

David Tan/Getty Images On Thursday it was revealed that Foreigner’s Dennis Elliott and Mick Jones would not be attending Saturday’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, and Elliott has explained his reasoning for skipping the event.“We were finally given the schedule last night, and it is not to our satisfaction. So we are staying home,” he wrote on Facebook. “We have been asking for this for weeks, and they […]

Harper Collins Alex Van Halen wants folks to know his memoir, Brothers, out Tuesday, isn’t a tell-all.“It’s not about the dirt,” Alex tells Billboard. “If I start throwing dirt, it’ll never end ... I think it divides the audience, and we’re not here to divide.”Instead, Alex says he wrote Brothers to get the truth out about his brother and Van Halen bandmate Eddie Van Halen, who died in October 2020.“I really […]

Rhino Talking Heads have shared a previously unreleased live performance of “Uh-Oh, Love Come to Town,” recorded during the band’s final concert at the legendary New York punk rock club CBGB in October 1977.The song, available now via digital outlets, is one of 13 previously unreleased live recordings included in an upcoming box set celebrating the band’s debut album, Talking Heads: 77. Talking Heads: 77 (Super Deluxe Edition), dropping Nov. 8, will […]

On This Day, Oct. 18, 1974 ...Fifty years ago, The Rolling Stones released their 12th studio album, It’s Only Rock 'n’ Roll, which was their last album to feature guitarist Mick Taylor.The album reached #1 on the Billboard Album charts, one of nine number ones The Stones have had throughout their more than 60-year career.The album’s lead single, “It’s Only Rock 'n’ Roll (But I Like It),” peaked at #16 on the Billboard […]