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Celine Dion - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Celine Dion Records New Original Song For Beauty and the Beast

In 1991, Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson went to number 9 on the Hot 100 and 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart with her version of the title song from Disney's animated Beauty and the Beast.

January 20, 2017
Lionel Richie SXSW 2012 - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Lionel Richie To Make Sammy Davis Jr Biopic

Lionel Richie is producing a biopic about late entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.

January 20, 2017
Chip Taylor
Chip Taylor To Release New Song ‘A Song I Can Live With’

Brand new Songwriter Hall of Fame member Chip Taylor is set to release his latest album, A Song I Can Live With, on February 17 via Train Wreck Records.

January 20, 2017
Kasey Chambers Dragonfly
New Music Releases For 20 January 2017

Major new titles coming this week from: Kasey Chambers, AFI, Run the Jewels, Marillion, Firewind, As it is, Mike Oldfield and the latest Skitz Mix.

January 20, 2017
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Noise11, Ros O'Gorman, Photo
Ozzy Osbourne Launched Solo Career To Reject Failure

Ozzy Osbourne feared being a “loser” after Black Sabbath dropped him.

January 19, 2017
Ken Sparkes
Jukebox Saturday Night Tops Australia’s DVD Chart

Jukebox Saturday Night, the DVD based around the late Ken Sparkes Saturday night music cable show, is the number one DVD in Australia.

January 19, 2017
Daryl Braithwaite performs at APIA Good Times Tour at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda on Saturday 28 May 2016. Photo by Ros O'Gorman https://www.noise11.com
Daryl Braithwaite To Return To Work On January 26

Daryl Braithwaite is recovering after his recent hospital admission but will return to active duty on January 26.

January 19, 2017
James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, Metallica, Soundwave 2013, Photo Ros O'Gorman
Metallica To Perform At The 2017 Grammy Awards

Metallica will perform at the Grammy Awards is Los Angeles next month.

January 19, 2017
The Beatles
Paul McCartney Moves To Re-Acquire Beatles Catalogue

If everything goes by the word of the law, Paul McCartney will reacquire his music written with John Lennon while with the Beatles.

January 19, 2017
Bob Seger, music news, noise11.com
Bob Seger Releases ‘Glenn Song’, A Tribute To Glenn Frey

Bob Seger has released ‘Glenn Song’, a tribute song to Glenn Frey on the first anniversary of his death.

January 19, 2017
OK Go
OK Go Cover Morrissey To Slam Trump

OK Go have recorded a cover of Morrissey’s ‘Interesting Drug’ as a blatant slap to 'the second most voted for person' at the recent US election, Trump.

January 19, 2017
Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys Score Third Consecutive US Top 10

Celtic punk is not a genre that you see often toward the top of the charts, but it is this week as the Dropkick Murphys put their new 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory at number 8.

January 19, 2017
Brian May Queen Melbourne 2014, photo Ros O'Gorman
Brian May To Release 3D Queen Photographs

For many years, Brian May has been studying stereoscopy, a photography technique that was originally developed in the 1800's where two photographs are taken, slightly offset from one another, and when viewed through special glasses appear to show a three-dimensional scene.

January 19, 2017
Michael Buble image by Ros O'Gorman Noise11 photo
Michael Buble Pulls Out Of BRIT Awards To Concentrate On Ill Son

Michael Buble has reportedly pulled out of hosting next month's Brit Awards so he can focus on his young son's cancer battle.

January 19, 2017
Bono, U2 perform at Etihad Stadium. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
U2 Adds More US and European Dates

U2's The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 is looking to be one of the biggest of the year as over 1.1 million tickets were sold in the first 24 hours they were on sale.

January 19, 2017
Grateful Dead
Amazon Acquires Grateful Dead Doco

The new four-hour Grateful Dead documentary Long Strange Trip will debut at the Sundance Film Festival, which begins tomorrow in Park City, UT, before moving to the Amazon streaming service in May.

January 18, 2017
Sam Moore
Hold On Sam Moore Is Coming For Trumped Up Party

Sam Moore, one-half of the great R&B duo Sam & Dave, has said that he will perform at the Thursday Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration.

January 18, 2017
Roy Orbison and Bruce Springsteen
Roy Orbison Black and White Night Expanded

On September 30, 1987, Jackson Browne, T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and Jennifer Warnes came together at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles to backup one of their idols, Roy Orbison.

January 18, 2017
Greg Kihn Band
R.I.P. Steve Wright of the Greg Kihn Band

Steve Wright, the original bassist for the Greg Kihn Band, has died after suffering a heart attack on Monday.

January 18, 2017
One Electric Day at Werribee Mansion on Sunday 27 November 2016 with Russell Morris, Icehouse, James Reyne, Jimmy Barnes.
Russell Morris Red Dirt Red Heart Was ARIA’s No 1 Blues Album For 2016

Australian music legend Russell Morris had the biggest selling blues album of 2016 according to ARIA.

January 18, 2017
Jesus Christ Superstar, Melbourne, 2013, Ros O'Gorman, Photo
Tim Minchin’s Anti-Pell Song Nominated For APRA Song of the Year

Tim Michin has been selected in an eclectic list of songs for APRA Song of the Year with his scathing response to the George Pell paedophile hearing 'Come Home Cardinal Pell'.

January 18, 2017
Gene Simmons, Kiss. photo by Tim Cashmere
Gene Simmons Can’t See The Point Of Making Another Kiss Album

According to Gene Simmons, there isn't going to be another KISS album unless there are some major changes in the way music is consumed.

January 18, 2017
The Living End. Photo by Ros O'Gorman.
The Living End Reveal Jimmy Barnes, Dan Sultan and Josh Pyke As Special Guests For Zoo Shows

Dan Sultan will join The Living End for Melbourne Zoo Twilights and Josh Pyke has been confirmed for the first Twilight At Taronga show with Jimmy Barnes added for the second one in March.

January 18, 2017
The Avalanches
The 12th AMP Shortlist Revealed

The 12th Australian Music Prize has gathered up some of 2016’s most creative releases in anticipation of the prize to be announced in March.

January 18, 2017
George Michael, photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
George Michael Cousin Believes Singer OD’d

George Michael's cousin suspects the singer died from an accidental drugs overdose.

January 18, 2017
Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Photo: Ros O'Gorman
Radiohead Book US Dates Around Coachella

With Coachella spanning two weekends, it is not unusual for foreign artists to look for ways to fill their time during the week in between.

January 18, 2017
George Harrison, photo by Paul Cashmere
George Harrison Vinyl Box To Be Released

Had he lived, George Harrison would have turned 74 on February 25.

January 18, 2017
Spoon
Spoon Album Details Released Then Unreleased

It looks like someone at Matador Records is in a bit of hot water.

January 18, 2017
Fleetwood Mac photo by Ros O'Gorman
Lindsay Buckingham and Christine McVie To Release Duets Album

While news of a new Fleetwood Mac album has been circulating all week, there are still a lot of questions on who will participate and when it will be recorded and released.

January 18, 2017
Spandau Ballet photo by Ros O'Gorman
Brad Pitt Joins Sting and Chris Cornell For Charity Gig

Brad Pitt turned his attention to charity on Saturday as he joined rockers Sting and Chris Cornell to raise funds to fight a rare skin disease.

January 17, 2017