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The Band’s performance of “Up on Cripple Creek” on “The Ed Sullivan Show” has been uploaded to the classic variety show’s YouTube channel. The Band performed “Up On Cripple Creek” on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on November 2, 1969. The act were on the show to promote their self-titled album, which had released two months…

Britain’s Royal Mail on Thursday released images of a set of 12 Special Stamps to honor Paul McCartney. The main eight stamp set features a selection of McCartney’s most loved album covers, which have defined the music icon’s career from his first solo album McCartney (1970) through to his most recent No. 1 album, McCartney…

Gladys Knight and The Four Tops will perform during the National Memorial Day Concert honoring American heroes on May 30. Capital Concerts announced that a special presentation of the concert on PBS will be hosted by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna and Emmy Award-winning actor and humanitarian Gary Sinise with all-star performances and tributes from Washington,…

The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, a traveling museum featuring artifacts and artwork from the iconic rock band’s career, will come to the American shores this August. Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, which was launched in May 2017 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, will open at Los Angeles’ Vogue Multicultural…

Gibson has announced an authentic re-creation of Peter Frampton’s legendary 1954 Les Paul Custom guitar. The “Phenix” Les Paul Custom is the iconic guitar that graced the cover of the 1976 classic Frampton Comes Alive! LP. Thought to have been lost in 1980 in a tragic cargo plane crash, it miraculously survived and over thirty…

Bruce Springsteen has won the 2021 Woody Guthrie Prize in recognition of his “lifetime of speaking for the disenfranchised and inspiring generations to find the power of their own voices.” The Woody Guthrie Center announced that the music legend will be presented with the Woody Guthrie Prize in a members-only exclusive virtual event on May…

Heart’s Ann Wilson recently joined Gov’t Mule during a concert and performed covers of Led Zeppelin and Tom Petty. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer joined Gov’t Mule for renditions of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” “Black Dog” and “No Quarter” as well as Memphis Slim’s “Mother Earth,” Willie Dixon’s “You Shook Me” and Tom…

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant has revealed that he tested positive for the coronavirus and is in quarantine. “It’s been one heck of a week. We are all on quarantine around here due to me coming down with the virus first,” the rock band’s frontman said in a video he posted on Facebook. “And I…

AC/DC’s Brian Johnson teamed up with Foo Fighters for a cover of “Back in Black” at Global Citizen’s “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World.” “The Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World” concert took place on Sunday, May 2 at Inglewood, California’s SoFi Stadium. “Back in Black” is the title song of…

A U.S. tax court judge has ruled that Michael Jackson’s image and likeness was worth just $4.2 million at the time of his death in 2009. The Internal Revenue Service had valued Jackson’s likeness at $161 million and alleged that the estate had underpaid its tax obligation. The ruling by Judge Mark V. Holmes of…