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Rocket 88 booksA new book about Asia co-founder, singer and bassist John Wetton is in the works. John Wetton: An Extraordinary Life is being put together by his family an...

Courtesy A BEAUTIFUL NOISE MusicalNeil Diamond turned 82 on Tuesday and got quite the birthday surprise, courtesy of the cast of the Broadway musical A Beautiful Noise - The Neil Diamon...

Denise Truscello/WireImageGuitarist Anthony “Top” Topham, a founding member of The Yardbirds, passed away Monday after a battle with dementia. He was 75. Topham, who adopted the ...

Steven Ferdman/Getty ImagesJoan Jett is set to star in a new Super Bowl commercial for the company Workday, which provides enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Jett...

Gary Miller/Getty ImagesBilly F. Gibbons is hitting the road on his own this year. The ZZ Top guitarist just announced the Billy F Gibbons: The Big One – Part 1 - &rsquo...

David Wolff-Patrick/RedfernsIf you ever wanted to play harmonica like Mick Jagger, now’s your chance. The Rolling Stones frontman has teamed up with harmonica company Lee Oskar fo...

Liveright / W.W. Norton As previously reported, a new exhibit opening in June at London’s National Portrait Gallery will feature never-before-seen photos taken by Paul McCartney during...

Cover: Tom Garner/Warner Records Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers fans are getting a new look at the band's famed 20-show residency at San Francisco's iconic Fillmore back in 1997. The b...

Blackened RecordingsMetallica’s new album, 72 Seasons, is dropping April 14, but fans will now have a chance to hear the whole thing one day early, thanks to a just-announced global li...

Samir Hussein/WireImagePhotographs taken by Paul McCartney during the height of Beatlemania will be the subject of a new exhibit at London’s National Portrait Gallery.  Paul McCar...