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29/10/2025

Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks will discuss the Buckingham Nicks song “Frozen Love” on the new episode of the Song Exploder podcast, which is out this Wednesday. What’s not known is if they discussed it together or separately given that their relationship has been particularly rocky since she had him fired from Fleetwood Mac in 2018.

28/10/2025

PAUL McCARTNEY: What's Next...

We know that Paul McCartney has been working on new music, and now we know to what extent.

In the foreword to his new book, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, which will be published November 4th, he writes, “Right now, I have 25 songs that I’m finishing in the next few months, new songs that are interesting.”

If and when he records and releases a new album, it will be his first since McCartney III in 2020.

In other McCartney news, a trailer for his new documentary, Man on the Run, has been released. The film, which examines his life after The Beatles broke up in 1970, will premiere on Amazon Prime on February 25th.

McCartney is on the road with his Got Back tour making a stop in New Orleans on Wednesday.

27/10/2025

ELTON: Played Ball 50 Years Ago

This past weekend marked the 50th anniversary of Elton John's back-to-back performances at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles -- October 25th and 26th, 1975.

Declared “Elton John Week” in Los Angeles by then–Mayor Tom Bradley, the city rolled out the red carpet as he had just come off the record-breaking success of Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, his first album to debut atop the Billboard Top 200. The album spent its first seven weeks at number-one and sold 1.4 million copies within just four days of release. The album was re-released on Friday in a deluxe format.

The two shows at Dodger Stadium were attended by 110,000 fans, and he was the first solo artist to perform there since The Beatles in 1966.

Dressed in his now-iconic sequined Dodgers uniform designed by Bob Mackie, he delivered an over three-hour, 30-song set list of hits including “Bennie and the Jets,” “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” and “Your Song.” The shows also featured special guests Kiki Dee, who joined Elton on their duet “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” tennis great Billie Jean King, who helped lead the backing vocals on “Philadelphia Freedom,” which he and Bernie Taupin wrote in her honor.

In 2022, Elton did the final U.S. shows of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at Dodger Stadium. It was the 186th show on the tour and his 2001st North American show.

23/10/2025

The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced its slate of nominees for its Class of 2026.

In the Performing Songwriters category you have:

Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell - America
David Byrne - Talking Heads
Richard Carpenter - The Carpenters
Harry Wayne Casey - KC of KC and the Sunshine Band
Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings - The Guess Who
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley - KISS
Kenny Loggins
Sarah McLachlan
Pink - real name Alecia B. Moore
Boz Scaggs
LL Cool J - real name James Todd Smith
Taylor Swift
Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine and Jane M. Wiedlin - The Go-Go’s.

In order to be nominated, a songwriter with a catalog of notable songs qualifies for induction 20 years after their first commercial release of a song. Eligible voting members will have until midnight ET on December 4th to turn in their ballots, with their choices of up to three nominees in each of the songwriter and performing songwriter categories.

The inductees are usually announced in January followed by the induction ceremony in June in New York City.

21/10/2025

Beall Elementary School and Frost Elementary School will be dismissing at 12:45pm today, due to a main water break in the area.
Those students riding buses 151 and 154 will be dismissed between 12:15 and 12:30pm.

21/10/2025

Joe Walsh and Zac Brown will serve as a Mega Mentors on Season 28 of NBC’s The Voice. Walsh will mentor contestants on teams for Niall Horan and Reba McEntire, and Brown will do the same on teams for Michael Buble and Snoop Dogg. The two will team up to mentor the remaining contestants as they prepare for the Knockouts round, which begins next Monday.

20/10/2025

JOHN LENNON: When He Gave Peace a Chance
John Lennon may have sung about giving peace a chance, but in the early to mid-'70s his, at times, drunken behavior during his separation from his wife, Yoko Ono, rubbed some people the wrong way.

One of them was Todd Rundgren, who tells The Guardian, "I met him at a party in the period he was drinking with Harry Nilsson and misbehaving all over Hollywood. He looked like a bundle of rags in the corner and as a Beatles fan I was disappointed that he had nothing to say. Later I was being interviewed by NME and I said something along the lines of that you can’t be a revolutionary and preach one thing if you’re behaving in another way, and that became the headline. John wrote a letter ostensibly to me but as an open letter in NME. There was a kerfuffle. Then one day I got a call and it was John, saying, 'I think we’re being used here, so let’s bury the hatchet.' I said: 'Fine' and that was that."

Rundgren also had a way of rubbing some people the wrong way, especially the members of The Band when he engineered their third album, 1970's Stage Fright.

He says, "It was my first major project as an engineer and I was a smart-ass kid, like calling Garth [Hudson] 'old man' thinking he was too old to stay awake, not realizing he had narcolepsy. I wasn’t into that kind of music and not cognitive of the fact The Band were one of the biggest acts in the world. They suddenly had all the money, drugs, drink and sycophants available to them and it affected some of the guys. Levon [Helm] got into opiates so while he may have chased me round the studio he spent as much time underneath a pile of curtains, dead to the world. In later years they all became my friends … except Robbie [Robertson], who was kind of a snob."

Rundgren starts another run of dates on November 10th in Tucson, Arizona.

17/10/2025

CCR: Halloween on the Bayou
Creedence Clearwater Revival are providing the soundtrack for Halloween with the digital release of 11 songs that lend themselves to an air of spookiness.

Titled Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou, the collection includes the title track, “Born on the Bayou,” “Tombstone Shadow,” “Pagan Baby,” “Graveyard Train,” “Sinister Purpose,” "I Put a Spell on You," "It Came Out of the Sky," "Gloomy," "Side O' the Road" and "Effigy."

Bad Moon Rising: Shadows on the Bayou is available now on all digital outlets and YouTube.

John Fogerty will celebrate Halloween -- October 31st -- on stage in Atlantic City.

16/10/2025

BILLY JOEL: For Sale
Not only is the Billy Joel exhibit at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook, New York closing on October 25th, but more than 100 pieces of memorabilia will be for sale that day.

The Billy Joel Collectors Presentation will feature Paul Fierro and Eric Fellen, two local collectors who loaned many of their items to the exhibit, will talk about the "art of collecting all things Billy,” and that will be followed by a silent auction to raise money for the museum.

Among the items being sold are backstage passes, an original pressing of The Hour of the Wolf by Billy's old band, The Hassles, a poster from Billy’s 100th show at Madison Square Garden, a Billy Joel New York Yankees bobblehead, and much more.

Many of the other items that are on display will be returned to Billy and those who loaned them.

15/10/2025

Mick Jagger's former London home, where he partied during his rise to fame, has been sold for $7.3 million to a Rolling Stones fan. The four-bedroom apartment was a hot spot for Jagger's wild gatherings. The new owner, a young British fan, purchased the home in affluent Central London. The residence features classical details, including a "hippie chill-out lounge" once used by Jagger.

14/10/2025

ELTON JOHN: He Is Only the Piano Player
Elton John has put his piano playing skills to use on "Talk to You," the new single from Sam Fender.

It'll be out on Friday. Fender called Elton a "legend" when posting about the song, while Elton chimed in on the post saying, "Love you, Sam. This is a special one."

Fender debuted "Talk to You" on his recent North American tour, and it's expected to be part of a deluxe version of his People Watching album, which was first released back in February.

In 2023, Elton played piano on "Get Close" and "Live by the Sword" on The Rolling Stones' last album, Hackney Diamonds.

13/10/2025

JOHN LODGE: Colleagues Pay Tribute
Following Justin Hayward remembering his Moody Blues bandmate John Lodge, who died unexpectedly last Thursday at 82, comes tributes from Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, Yes, whose lead singer Jon Davison is married to Lodge's daughter and manager Emily and who was also in his band, ELP's Carl Palmer, Faces drummer Kenney Jones, Moody Blues producer Tony Visconti, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, Moody Blues and Lodge's keyboardist Alan Hewitt, and Moody Blues touring drummer Gordy Marshall.

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