Category Archives: Classic Hits Music News
Eddie Van Halen 'Autopsy' Episode Airs Thie Weekend
The late-Eddie Van Halen is the latest rock legend to have their death examined by the Reelz network. Blabbermouth reported Autopsy: The Last Hours Of Eddie Van Halen will premiere on Sunday, June 5th...
May 31, 2022
Flashback: Sting Releases 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles'
It was 37 years ago today (June 1st, 1985) that Sting released his first solo album apart from the Police. Although the collection was originally conceived as just one of the three separate solo proje...
May 31, 2022
55 Years Ago Today: The Beatles Release 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'
It was 55 years ago today (June 1st, 1967), that the Beatles released the legendary Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in the U.K. The album, which was released a day later in the U.S., w...
May 31, 2022
Yes' Jon Anderson Set For 50th Anniversary 'Close To The Edge' Tour
Yes co-founder Jon Anderson has just rolled out a 13-city 50th anniversary tour saluting the band's watershed 1972 album, Close To The Edge. Anderson will once again be backed by youngsters from t...
May 31, 2022
The Rolling Stones' Ron Wood Turns 75 Today!!!
Happy Birthday to Rolling Stones and Faces guitarist Ron Wood who turns 75 today (June 1st)!!! Wood -- the youngest Stones -- will be onstage tonight when the band launches its "Stones Sixty" European...
May 31, 2022
The Rolling Stones Launch 'Stones 60' Tour Tonight
The Rolling Stones are back on the road for their European "Stones 60" tour. The 14-stadium run kicks off tonight (June 1st) in Madrid, Spain and plays through July 31st in Stockholm, Sweden. The band...
May 31, 2022
Robert Plant Looks Back On Jimmy Page Studio Reunion
Robert Plant took time out on his recent Digging Deep podcast to look back on his and Jimmy Page's only full studio album apart from Led Zeppelin -- 1998's Walking Into Clarksdale. The album, ...
May 30, 2022
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Speaks On The Emotion Of The Hella Mega Tour
Green Day's Billie Armstrong has opened up about the emotion he felt on the band's first night of the Hella Mega Tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer. In an interview with Kerrang!, he said, "The...
May 30, 2022
Metallica Members Jam On Punk Favorites After BottleRock
The Wedding Band -- featuring Metallica's Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo played on Friday night (May 27th) at Napa, California's Margrit Mondavi Theatre. Blabbermouth reported the gig, "Was ...
May 30, 2022
Elvis Costello And Teenage Bandmate Reunite For New EP
Set for release on July 1st is Elvis Costello's reunion set with pre-fame bandmate, Allan Mayes, titled, The Resurrection Of Rust. Back in the early-'70s the pair was part of a fledgling pub r...
May 30, 2022