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Ross Hannaford performs with Daddy Cool at the Age Music Victoria Awards on Thursday 19 November 2014. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Ross Hannaford Online Donations Now Open

Ross Hannaford fans around the world who cannot attend the ‘Concert for Ross Hannaford’ event in Melbourne can now donate online.

Tagged as: Concert for Ross Hannaford, Daddy Cool, music news, Ross Hannaford

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Mark Ronson Uptown Funk Is 2015’s Biggest Song (So Far)

by Paul Cashmere

Mark Ronson ‘Uptown Funk’ is the biggest song of the year in the USA with 4,883,000 sales registered in the first half of the year.

Tagged as: Mark Ronson, music news, Nielsen Music, Uptown Funk

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Holy Holy Set 2015 Dates

by Paul Cashmere

Holy Holy, the band that spring from Dukes of Windsor, will start a national tour in Darwin to kick off the launch of their debut album ‘When The Storms Would Come’ album.

Tagged as: Dukes of Windsor, Holy Holy, music news

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Taylor Swift Has Biggest Album Of 2015 (So Far)

by Paul Cashmere

Taylor Swift crossover Pop album ‘1989’ is the biggest selling album of 2015 so far in the USA and so far also the only album to sell more than one million copies.

Tagged as: 1989, music news, Nielsen Music, Taylor Swift

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Album Sales Stabilize In The USA

by Paul Cashmere

2015 album sales to June 30, 2015 have stabilized in the USA for the first time in years.

Tagged as: music news, Taylor Swift

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Vinyl Sales Are Now Almost 9% Of US Album Physical Sales

by Paul Cashmere

Vinyl sales are now almost 9% of all physical album sales in the USA.

Tagged as: 1989, music news, Nielsen Music, Taylor Swift, vinyl sales

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The Libertines 2015 – New Album Details

by Music-News.com

The Libertines release their highly anticipated new album Anthems For Doomed Youth through Virgin EMI Records on Friday 4th September ’15.

Tagged as: Anthems for Doomed Youth, music news, The Libertines

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Boy George Explains His Culture Club Recovery

by Music-News.com

Boy George looks at the Culture Club reunion as part of his ‘recovery’.

Tagged as: Boy George, Culture Club, music news

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Paul McCartney Says The Beatles Were More Than Just John Lennon

by Music-News.com

Sir Paul McCartney has shared his “frustration” at people thinking John Lennon was the Beatles.

Tagged as: John Lennon, music news, Paul McCartney, The Beatles

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New Music Releases For 3 July 2015

by Gavin Ryan

Neil Young, Lucy Rose, Joy Williams, Miguel, Celtic Woman, Being as a Ocean and The Getaway Plan lead the new music releases this week.

Tagged as: Being as a Ocean, Celtic Woman, Joy Williams, Lucy Rose, Miguel, Neil Young, new music, new music releases

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Lost Beatles Concert Movie Blocked From Release

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Sony has successfully defended their intellectual property and stopped the release of the film The Beatles: The Lost Concert.

Tagged as: music news, The Beatles, The Lost Concert

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Breaking Benjamin Debut On Top Of US Album Chart

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Breaking Benjamin ‘Dark Before Dawn’ has debuted at no 1 in the USA with sales of 141,000.

Tagged as: Breaking Benjamin, Dark Before Dawn, music news

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Garth Brooks Dedicates Hospital Wing In Texas

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Garth Brooks was on-site to celebrate the grand opening of the newly renovated and expanded Child Life Zone at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas on June 26.

Tagged as: Garth Brooks, music news

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John Mayall New Album Find A Way To Care Details

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Forty Below Records has announced a September 4 release date for Find a Way to Care, the new CD from blues musician John Mayall.

Tagged as: Find A Way To Care, Forty Below records, John Mayall, music news

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Prince Sends The Sheriff To Streaming Services

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Just as AC/DC and Dr. Dre embrace streaming, Prince has decided to scale back.

Tagged as: music news, Prince, Rdio, Spotify

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R.I.P. Val Doonican 1927-2015

by Music-News.com

Much-loved Irish singer and entertainer Val Doonican has died aged 88.

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Katy Perry Becomes World’s Highest Paid Entertainer

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Katy Perry has been named one of the top paid celebrities by Forbes on the annual Highest Paid Celebrities list.

Tagged as: Forbes, highest paid entertainers, Katy Perry, music news

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Listen To New Prince ‘HARDROCKLOVER’

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Prince continues to release new music at an almost record pace with the new song HARDROCKLOVER.

Tagged as: Hardrocklover, music news, Prince

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Queensryche Do Battle Once Again

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

When Geoff Tate was fired from Queensryche, he immediately formed his own version of the band and, for a time, we had music released under that name from two different groups.

Tagged as: Geoff Tate, music news, Queensrhyce

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Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

Brian Wilson Plays Jones Beach New York #SETLIST

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Brian Wilson said he was too busy with the success of the biopic Love and Mercy to carry through with his British tour, postponing it until next year, but he’s obviously not too busy to hit the circuit in the U.S.

Tagged as: Brian Wilson, music news, setlist

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The Rolling Stones To Create Their Own Museum

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The Rolling Stones are setting up a new tour for 2016, this time of museums with artifacts from their career.

Tagged as: Exhibitionism, The Rolling Stones

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Amy Winehouse Demos Destroyed

by Music-News.com

Amy Winehouse won’t be releasing any posthumous material.

Tagged as: Amy Winehouse, music news

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The Prodigy Have A New EP Coming

by Music-News.com

The Prodigy recently announced a huge tour of UK arenas to close their incredible 2015, a year which witnessed the band score their sixth consecutive number 1 album.

Tagged as: music news, The Prodigy

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Journey Drummer Deen Castronovo Charged With Rape

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Journey’s Deen Castronovo is facing rape charges.

Tagged as: Deen Castronovo, Journey, music news

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R.I.P. Bruce Rowland (Joe Cocker, Fairport Convention drummer) 1941-2015

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Rowland, the one-time drummer for Joe Cocker and Fairport Convention, has died at age 74 after a battle with cancer.

Tagged as: Bruce Rowland, Fairport Convention, Joe Cocker, music news

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Jeff Lynne Hyde Park Show Heads To DVD

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

One of the highlights of the 2014 festival season was Jeff Lynne returning to the concert stage with his new version of ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) at Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park, London.

Tagged as: Electric Light Orchestra, ELO, Jeff Lyne

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Judith Durham photo by Ros O'Gorman, noise11

Judith Durham Named Victorian Of The Year

by Paul Cashmere

Judith Durham, the legendary singer for The Seekers, has been named Victorian of the Year for 2015.

Tagged as: Judith Durham, music news, The Seekers, Victorian of the year

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Ross Hannaford ‘Concert For Ross Hannaford’ Date Set For July 18

by Paul Cashmere

The music community will come together on July 18 for a show of support for Daddy Cool co-founder Ross Hannaford, who is battling a serious health issue.

Tagged as: Concert for Hanna, Kerryn Tolhurst, Mike Rudd, music news, Rockwiz, Ross Hannaford, Ross Wilson, Russell Morris

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