Weekly Music News 29.09.24
This week, David Gilmour launched the tour supporting "Luck and Strange" with a moving show at Rome's ancient Circus Maximus. Gilmour played a 20-song set balancing his solo career and Pink Floyd. After six nights at the Circus Maximus, he will play a series of shows at London's Royal Albert Hall, California's Hollywood Bowl and Intuit Dome, and New York's Madison Square Garden. This may be his final tour, so anyone who has not bought tickets should hurry.
And speaking of Gilmour, "Pink Floyd" has reached a $400 million deal with Sony to sell its music catalog, after years of reports of friction among the band members over the issue. The British rock band agreed to sell its recorded-music rights, its name and the members' likenesses, but not its songwriting rights. The deal, described by Variety as "one of the largest of many in recent years", follows years of arguments over the sale's details, as well as controversial comments, mainly by Roger Waters, that reportedly complicated the process.
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A star-studded lineup including Maynard James Keenan, Zakk Wylde, Rob Trujillo and others is set to honor Ozzy Osbourne with performances at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony later this month. The Hall has also confirmed that Billy Idol, Jelly Roll, Chad Smith, Wolfgang Van Halen, Steve Stevens and Andrew Watt, as well as Jack Black, will appear in tribute to the Prince of Darkness.
Fever 333 releases its second album, "Darker White". The 14-track album arrives five years after the powerful debut "Strength in Numb333rs", released in 2019. As you may recall, last week we reported the cancellation of the band's planned tour, due to begin October 17, as singer Jason Aalon deals with depression.
Holy shit... "Three Days Grace" officially announces Adam Gontier's return as a vocalist alongside Matt Walst, who will also remain on vocals. Adam left after the band's fourth album, and Matt, who happens to be bassist Brad Walst's brother, was recruited to take his place. The band says it is also working on new material with Adam in the studio, planning a tour, and will have more announcements to follow.
The band "Bring Me The Horizon" releases a video of "liMOusIne", performed live in Japan with AURORA. Bring Me and AURORA joined forces at ZOZO Marine Stadium to give fans the live debut of "liMOusIne", from this year's much-anticipated "Post Human: Nex Gen". Watch this incredible performance, especially after Oliver Sykes fires up the crowd and screams, "Show AURORA a fucking mosh-pit!"...
And staying with "Bring Me The Horizon", this week the band reached a billion streams in the UK, with the BRITs presenting Oliver Sykes with a BRIT Billion award to mark the achievement. How impressive is that? The band released only its seventh album, "Post Human: Nex Gen", this year and has already earned that distinction. The album amassed 70 million streams, making BMTH the most-streamed rock band on the planet during its release week.
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The band "Coldplay" releases its tenth album, "Moon Music". It follows 2021's "From Earth with Love", both part of the band's "Music of the Spheres" project. Both albums are supported by the Music of the Spheres world tour. Guests on the album include Jon Hopkins, Burna Boy, Little Simz, Elyanna, Tini and Ayra Starr.
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And speaking of "Coldplay", ticket prices for its shows in India have reached $11,000 and caused an uproar. Fans eagerly awaiting Coldplay's return to India after eight years were stunned when all tickets for the three shows sold out within minutes, only to reappear on other platforms for 960,000 rupees ($11,458). For perspective, World Bank figures put India's current GDP per capita at $2,500 a year!!!
A little more on "Coldplay": this week the band was named the UK's most-played band of the 21st century, ahead of second-place Queen. According to the figures, Coldplay's songs have been played 40,000 more times in the UK than Queen's. The band's top UK song is "Viva La Vida", released in 2008, averaging 27 plays a day since its release. Other notable entries include the Beatles in fifth place, Oasis in sixth and the Rolling Stones in tenth.
And if you have not had enough of "Coldplay", Chris Martin recently confirmed that the band will retire after its 12th studio album. "We are only going to do 12 proper albums and that is real. Yes, I promise. Because less is more, and for some of our critics..." Martin added: "There are only seven Harry Potters. There are only 12 and a half Beatles albums, there is about the same for Bob Marley... Having that limit means the quality control is so high right now that, for a song to make it, it is almost impossible..."
Believe it or not, Tony Iommi will apparently appear on Robbie Williams' new album. Although neither has commented, Williams' drummer and musical director Karl Brazil said on the "Percussion Discussion" podcast that Robbie has a new album in the works and has recorded a song called "Rocket" with Tony Iommi. Karl added that the next album will be guitar-driven, with something of a return to Robbie's 1990s sound.
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One of our favorite artists, Paul McCartney, resumed his "Got Back" tour this week in Montevideo, Uruguay, and performed the Beatles song "Now and Then" for the first time. Released about a year ago, it is based on a John Lennon demo tape. The Got Back tour began April 28, 2022, at Spokane Arena in the US and is due to end December 19, 2024, at London's O2 arena. It is the 82-year-old artist's first tour since the pandemic, which forced the cancellation of his previous tour.
Original Anvil guitarist Dave Allison of "Anvil" has died at 68. He played on Anvil's first five studio albums and left the band in 1989.
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Singer and actor Kris Kristofferson died this week at 88. Kristofferson, considered one of the most influential country artists of the 1970s, first found major success as a songwriter. His songs include "Me and Bobby McGee", made famous by Janis Joplin and later referenced in Shlomo Artzi's "Shir LaChayal". Kristofferson also had a successful Hollywood acting career during the 1970s, starring in films including 1973's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", with its soundtrack by Bob Dylan, and 1976's "A Star Is Born", in which he starred alongside Barbra Streisand and which had a successful soundtrack.
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We hesitated... but Eric Clapton released an album today called "Meanwhile". The album includes 14 tracks, eight of them singles Clapton has released in recent years, such as opening track "Pompous Fool". Collaborators include Van Morrison, Bradley Walker, Judith Hill, Daniel Santiago, Simon Climie and Jeff Beck on "Moon River".
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