To coincide with The Animals’ 50th anniversary this year, Eric Burdon has released a new solo album, ‘Til Your River Runs Dry. It contains 12 songs, mostly written by Burdon, and is said to be his most personal album to date.
He is currently writing his third memoir (follow-up to I Used to Be An Animal, But I’m Alright Now and Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood). Details of an international tour will also be announced soon.
Rod Stewart’s new album Time marks a welcome return to his unique pop/rock style of the 1970s and 1980s. “It’s just a good, old-fashioned Rod Stewart album with a lot of mandolin, acoustic guitar and fiddles, and good storytelling,” said 68-year-old Rod.
It’s his first album of all-new material since 2001’s Human. For the first time in nearly 20 years, he also had a hand in writing most of the songs.
Watch the video for the first single, ‘It’s Over’, HERE…
Bruce Springsteen has announced three additional UK shows as part of the E Street Band’s Wrecking Ball world tour which has already visited 17 countries worldwide.
He will now play London’s Wembley Stadium on June 15, Glasgow’s Hampden Park on June 18, and the Ricoh Arena, Coventry on June 20.
Meanwhile, watch Springsteen performing ‘Dancing In the Dark’ live in Helsinki last July HERE …
Roger Waters is to bring his acclaimed live show The Wall back to the UK later this year, with a performance at Wembley Stadium on September 14, 2013.
“I’ve reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums,” says Waters. “I’ve had to rethink the whole thing. This wide wall stadium show couldn’t have been done 40 years ago.”
He added: “It’s even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the Arena shows.”
A new Jimi Hendrix album, People, Hell and Angels, is to be released in March. It will feature 12 previously unreleased tracks recorded in 1968 and 1969.
It is believed Hendrix originally planned to include the tracks on First Rays of the New Rising Sun, the planned double-album follow-up to Electric Ladyland which he was working on when he died.
The tracks are said to show he was developing “new, experimental directions” and exploring fresh diversions from his legendary guitarwork.
Black Sabbath have announced that the title of their new album will be ‘13’. Original members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler recorded the album in Los Angeles with producer Rick Rubin.
‘13’ is their first studio album together since 1978’s Never Say Die!. It will be released in June and marks the band’s return to their original label Vertigo.
Black Sabbath were recently crowned the most influential British hard rock act of all time in a survey of 3,600 hard rock fans. Nearly half the fans (45%) voted for the Birmingham heavy metal pioneers, while Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin came second (both with 20%).
The Who’s Pete Townshend is set to release his long awaited autobiography, titled Who I Am – A Memoir, in both hardcover and eBook form on October 11 2012.
According to publisher HarperCollins, the book will reveal Townshend’s “most intimate memories”.
“This book is not a vanity for me,” says Townshend. “It’s an essential rite of passage.”
The life and work of Thin Lizzy’s iconic frontman Phil Lynott is to be celebrated in a new exhibition at London’s O2 arena in North Greenwich.
Still In Love With You: The Philip Lynott Exhibition will be staged in the O2’s British Music Experience space between April 5 and June 24. It previously ran for eight months in Dublin last year.
Plans for an ambitious 5-disc super deluxe edition of the Doors’ 1971 album L.A. Woman have been scrapped, according to reports, because the retail price-tag for the set’s planned hard box packaging would not make it commercially viable.
A 2-disc 40th Anniversary special edition will now be released on January 24, followed later this year by a more affordable 3-disc limited edition box set comprising previously unreleased alternate tracks and outtakes. With few or no repeated tracks, the separate 2-disc and 3-disc sets would more or less equal the intended 5-disc version.
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Bruce Springsteen has confirmed that he and The E Street Band have almost finished recording their 18th studio album.
A release date has still to be set for the as-yet-untitled album, but it is expected to be available in the UK next summer to coincide with a series of live concerts at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light (June 21), Etihad Stadium, Manchester (June 22) Isle of Wight Festival (June 24) and London’s Hard Rock Calling Festival (July 14). Concert tickets go on sale on December 3.
To coincide with The Animals’ 50th anniversary this year, Eric Burdon has released a new solo album, ‘Til Your River Runs Dry. It contains 12 songs, mostly written by Burdon, and is said to be his most personal album to date.
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