classic rock Archives - Page 7 of 14

Jon Stevens and Moving Pictures together with 10 other acts will gather at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion for Pure Gold Live in October.

The Screaming Jets will headline Australia’s newest music festival, Groundswell, at Lake Tyers Beach in Victoria in January.

Neil Young has been performing another unreleased rarity on his current European tour.

Tom Petty says he is concerned by current cultural trends.

For the first time, Ozzy Osbourne is compiling his biggest solo material on Memoirs of a Madman, out October 7 on Legacy Recordings.

Cold Chisel have spent the past week working on new music with producer Kevin Shirley.

Albert Productions mark its 50th year with a massive 102 track compilation documenting the company history in Australian music which gave us AC/DC, The Easybeats, Rose Tattoo, Billy Thorpe and The Angels.

Deep Purple Mk III will release a 1975 live album.

A tree planted to honour Beatle George Harrison has been destroyed by actual beetles.

Jimmy Barnes will release at 40 track limited edition deluxe version of his upcoming album ’30:30 Hindsight’.

ZZ Top have been forced to postpone their upcoming US tour because bass player Dusty Hill has had to have surgery.

Ted Nugent has hit a major milestone in his touring career. At 65, he has played his 6,500th live show.

Russell Morris ventured into Tasmania for the production of the official video for ‘Van Diemen’s Land’.

Van Morrison is planning on hitting the stage in London to not only perform but talk about his songs.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s historic ‘CSNY 1974’ album has debuted at 17, 36 and 81 in America this week.

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has released his first solo song ‘Repo Man’.

Tom Petty has slammed the Catholic Church in a song about child abuse on the new Heartbreakers album ‘Hypnotic Eye’.

Jimi Hendrix has another new home.

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been quietly working on a solo album and in late August we will get to hear his debut ‘Head Job’.

Academy Award winning director Ron Howard is working with Apple Corps Ltd., White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment on a new documentary covering the Beatles’ touring years.

Blue Sky Riders, the group formed two years ago by Kenny Loggins, Gary Burr and Georgia Middleman, are ready to record their second album and they would like fan’s help.

David Bowie has made a statement indicating that new music may be coming in the near future.

Jackson Browne’s first studio album in six years will be out on October 7 (October 6 internationally).

Dave Davies has busted the myth that Jimmy Page invented the distorted guitar sound on The Kinks classic ‘You Really Got Me’.

The Rolling Stones very first single ‘Come On’ was released exactly 50 years ago today (June 7, 1963).

Neil Young & Crazy Horse played the rarely performed Bob Dylan cover ‘Blowing In The Wind’ at the first show of their European tour in Germany last night.