Category Archives: Classic Hits & Oldies News – ABC Audio
She's the only one: Melissa Etheridge to duet with 'American Idol' finalist Noah Thompson on Sunday
Stephen J. Cohen/Getty ImagesMelissa Etheridge will do a special guest performance with finalist Noah Thompson on Sunday's American Idol finale. American Idol tweeted the news in a video where judge K...
May 20, 2022
The Cure's new album set to arrive by October, says Robert Smith
Simone Joyner/Getty ImagesStop us if you've heard this one before: The Cure's next album will be released later this year. Frontman Robert Smith has been teasing the follow-up to 2008's 4:13 Dream dat...
May 20, 2022
Expanded version of 1982 Police documentary 'Around the World,' plus soundtrack album, released today
Mercury StudiosA "restored and expanded" version of The Police's 1982 documentary The Police: Around the World got its release today. The film is now available on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time ev...
May 20, 2022
Eric Clapton postpones two more European shows, continues to test positive for COVID-19
Harry Herd/RedfernsAfter postponing the first two dates of his new run of European concerts this week because he recently contracted the COVID-19 virus, Eric Clapton has now postponed two more shows -...
May 19, 2022
"All I Really Want"...is for Alanis Morissette to help me meditate
Credit: Rob PriorBack in the '90s, Alanis Morissette may have been described as "angry," but these days, she's pretty chill. So chill, in fact, that she's recorded her first-ever meditation album. Cal...
May 19, 2022
Watch R.E.M.'s Mike Mills perform "Losing My Religion" for Mercer University graduates
Gary Miller/Getty ImagesLast Monday, May 16, R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills was presented with an honorary doctor of humanities degree at Mercer University in his childhood hometown of Macon, Geo...
May 19, 2022
Rod Stewart postpones 12 North American concerts with Cheap Trick to August 2023
Jim Dyson/Getty ImagesRod Stewart has announced that six of his upcoming North American concerts with Cheap Trick that were scheduled for June have been postponed until August 2023 because of "product...
May 19, 2022
Vangelis, Oscar-winning 'Chariots of Fire' composer and Jon Anderson collaborator, dead at 79
Vangelis in 1991; Rob Verhorst/RedfernsVangelis, the Greek composer and keyboardist best known for his chart-topping theme and Oscar-winning score to the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, has died at age 79...
May 19, 2022
Diana Ross teams up with Tame Impala for 'Minions 2' song "Turn Up the Sunshine"
Decca RecordsThe long-rumored collaboration between Diana Ross and alt-rockers Tame Impala has finally arrived. The Motown legend/R&B icon has teamed up the Australian psychedelic outfit for a new...
May 19, 2022
Watch young rockers, actors portraying KISS in clip from new Neil Bogart biopic, 'Spinning Gold'
KISS in 1976; Michael Putland/Getty ImagesVariety has debuted an exclusive clip from the new film Spinning Gold, a biopic about late Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, that features actors portra...
May 19, 2022