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Huey Lewis And The News Fore! album cover

Huey Lewis And The News Fore! Turns 40

by Paul Cashmere

Huey Lewis And The News’ Fore! turns 40, marking four decades since the 1986 No. 1 album produced five Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 singles.

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Collective Soul Touch And Go album artwork and Eye On You video

Collective Soul Revisit The 1980s On New Album Touch And Go

by Paul Cashmere

Collective Soul bring 1980s new wave influences into their established rock sound on Touch And Go, with Eye On You providing the album’s strongest connection to The Cars.

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Nick Cave Kicking Against The Pricks

Nick Cave Marks 40 Years Of Kicking Against The Pricks

by Paul Cashmere

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Kicking Against The Pricks turns 40 in 2026, revisiting the 1986 album that broadened the band’s musical vocabulary through covers of blues, gospel, country and pop songs.

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Wham The Final

Wham! The Final Turns 40, Marking Four Decades Since George Michael And Andrew Ridgeley’s Farewell

by Paul Cashmere

Released on 7 July 1986, The Final marked the end of Wham! and captured the chart-topping career of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in one definitive collection.

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Run DMC Raising Hell

Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell Turns 40 And The Album That Took Hip-Hop Mainstream Still Resonates

by Paul Cashmere

Forty years after Raising Hell changed the direction of hip-hop, Run-D.M.C.’s landmark album continues to stand as one of the genre’s defining releases.

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Thompson Twins

Thompson Twins Announce Definitive Career Collection Industry & Seduction

by Noise11.com

Thompson Twins will finally receive the career-spanning retrospective their fans have long been asking for. Industry & Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection will be released on 31 October 2025, available as a 3CD deluxe set, 2LP coloured vinyl and single CD edition. All tracks have been newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios.

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The Replacements, Noise11, Photo

The Replacements Reunite For Three Shows

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The Replacements have their lineup in place for three upcoming reunion shows.

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OMD

OMD Cancel Gigs After Drummer Hospitalised

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) have been forced to cancel the balance of dates on their current tour when drummer Malcolm Holmes became ill after their Toronto show on Saturday night. Holmes was hospitalised after the incident.

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Simple Minds To Tour US For First Time In A Decade

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

It has been more than ten years since Simple Minds set foot on North American shores for the purpose of a tour. That drought comes to an end starting October 15 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Alan Parsons Project

Alan Parsons Project’s I Robot Gets The 35th Anniversary Treatment

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The Alan Parsons Project were known for their refining of the concept album with their ten albums released between 1976 and 1987. The second of those albums, I Robot, is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a newly expanded 2-CD Legacy Edition.

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Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys Release New Single With Nine Remixes

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The Pet Shop Boys are releasing the track Vocal as their next single from the upcoming album Electric.

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Randy Travis

Randy Travis Suffers Stroke

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Country singer Randy Travis underwent surgery on Wednesday night after suffering a stroke.

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Deacon Blue

Deacon Blue Announce September UK Tour

by Music-News.com

Following a hugely successful sell-out tour in 2012 celebrating the 25th anniversary release of their debut album Raintown, and also the release of their Top 20 album The Hipsters, Deacon Blue return in 2013 to embark on their biggest tour in more than a decade!

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Sting photo by Ros O'Gorman

Sting To Present The Last Ship In New York

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Sting will preview and, supposedly, retire the songs from his upcoming album, The Last Ship, during a series of ten benefit concerts at New York’s Public Theater.

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Bernie Nolan

Bernie Nolan Loses Her Cancer Battle At 52

by Karen Freedman

Tributes are flooding in after Bernie Nolan succumbed to cancer aged 52. She had suffered from the disease for three years.

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Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, Photo Ros O'Gorman

Iron Maiden’s Trooper Ale Now Available In The House Of Commons Bar

by Music-News.com

Mike Weatherley, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade, has welcomed the arrival of Iron Maiden’s Trooper Ale as the ‘Guest Ale’ in the Strangers’ Bar at the House of Commons.

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Steve Gadd

Superstar Drummer Steve Gadd Releases First Solo Album In More Than Two Decades

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Steve Gadd hasn’t released a solo project in 22 years. As one of the most in demand drummers of the last fifty years, he has stayed more than busy, but he felt it was time to write and produce a set for himself.

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Family Of Roy Orbison Release Fan’s Bootleg Concert

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The family of Roy Orbison has released the second album in their bootleg series of concerts and the first submitted by a fan.

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The Beatles, Noise11, Photo

Beatles Sgt Pepper Misses Best Album List

by Music-News.com

They are the favourite argument starters on every entertainment site in the world. Along with those lists come a few certainties. Citizen Kane will be the greatest movie, Pele will be the greatest football player and the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band will be the greatest album.

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Proclaimers

The Proclaimers Release Not Cynical Single And Very Best Of Album

by Music-News.com

Following the first play this morning of their new single ‘Not Cynical’ on Chris Evans’ BBC Radio 2 show, The Proclaimers are pleased to announce the release of The Very Best Of The Proclaimers.

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Michael Jackson and Bubbles

Michael Jackson Had Everything To Live For

by Music-News.com

Michael Jackson had “everything to live for” in the days running up to his tragic death.

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Boy George, Noise11, Photo

Boy George Announces New Album And UK Tour Dates

by Music-News.com

Following on from his sell-out Meltdown performance Boy George, universally recognised as one of our generation’s most iconic artists, is back with his first new studio album of original material in almost two decades.

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Michael Jackson, Noise11, Photo, music news

Close Friend Says Michael Jackson Confided In Him About His Paternity

by Music-News.com

Michael Jackson reportedly told a close friend he didn’t father two of his children shortly before his death.

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Devo Something Else For Everyone

Devo Release 30 Year Old Live Show And Album Of Rarities

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Devo will release an album of rarities from between 2006 and 2009 when they were recording the music that would become Something For Everybody.

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Blondie Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Blondie Set To Release 10th Album

by Music-News.com

Following the amazing success of their current UK sell-out tour, Blondie have announced their tenth studio album ‘ Ghosts Of Download’ is to be release in Autumn 2013.

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Lemmy of Motorhead. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Motörhead Cancels Dates Due To Lemmy Suffering Blood Clot

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister is not having a good year. He recently had an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator installed in his chest to give his heart a mini shock when it detects a irregular heartbeat.

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Kylie Minogue, Image, Ros O'Gorman

Kylie Minogue Wouldn’t Reject A Judging Role On TV Talent Show

by Music-News.com

Kylie Minogue thinks ‘there are no shortcuts to learning your craft’.

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Chloe Demetria Bow Wow Wow

Bow Wow Wow Enlist New Singer And Tour US With Gene Loves Jezebel

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

After 32 years as the on-again/off-again lead singer of British new wave band Bow Wow Wow, Annabella Lwin left to work on her solo career.

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Belinda Carlisle, music news, noise11.com

Belinda Carlisle Releases New Single

by Music-News.com

She knew it back in 1987, when Heaven Is A Place On Earth first sky-rocketed her solo career worldwide and added yet another string to her bow as lead singer of the Go-Gos, one of the most successful female bands of all time. And she knows it in 2013, with the digital only release of

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Paris Jackson

Paris Jackson Doesn’t Want To Be Involved In Michael’s Wrongful Death Lawsuit

by Music-News.com

Paris Jackson reportedly wants to be completely removed from her family’s on-going lawsuit against AEG Live.

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