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Def Leppard will hit the road this week for the start of their Summer Stadium Tour with Journey. They’ll come armed with new music in the form of their latest single, “Just Like ’73.” Guitarist Phil Collen says fans should expect further surprises: “We changed the whole set,” he tells UCR. “The stage show is drastically different.” Def Leppard has been rehearsing this week in St. Louis in advance of the official start of the tour on Saturday night (July 6). “It’s going to take a lot of energy. There’s going to be a lot of running around,” Collen explained. “So I’m working out, trying to get th...
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Not long ago, Journey seemed to be on the brink of a split. Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain argued over control of the band, over a visit to the White House, and over money. Yet, somehow, Journey has soldiered on. Freedom became their first studio album in more than a decade, and they’re returned to the band’s typically rigorous road schedule: A 23-date stadium tour with Def Leppard and Steve Miller kicks off on Saturday in St. Louis. How’d they stitch things back together? “We just decided that the music is the music,” Schon tells Los Angeles-based music journalist Lyndsey Parker. “We worked rea...
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Deep Purple has released a video for their new song “Lazy Sod,” taken from the upcoming album =1. The follow-up to 2021’s covers collection Turning to Crime is their first with guitarist Simon McBride, who replaced Steve Morse two years ago. “Lazy Sod” is the third single from the LP, after “Portable Door” and “Pictures of You.” The 13-track =1 arrives on July 19. The track listing and the “Lazy Sod” video can be seen below. Subscribe to Ultimate Classic Rock on Youtube “Recently, a young journalist asked me how many songs I had written in my life,” singer Ian Gillan said of the new song in a ...
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Willie Nelson has pulled out of his scheduled Tuesday performance on the Outlaw Music Festival Tour, the latest in a string of cancellations. The country icon was set to appear at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts. His team announced the cancellation in a statement and said he would rejoin the tour on July 4 in Camden, New Jersey. His son, Lukas Nelson, will perform in his place. “Willie Nelson is looking forward to seeing everyone in Camden on July 4. He will not be performing in Mansfield today,” the statement said. “Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and Celisse will pe...
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Heart has postponed the remaining dates on their 2024 North American tour following concerns about Ann Wilson‘s ongoing health issues. The band canceled European tour dates in late May for what was then called a “time-sensitive but routine medical procedure.” In a new statement, Wilson and Heart address the specifics of her recent health issues. “Dear friends,” she writes, “I underwent an operation to remove something that, as it turns out, was cancerous. The operation was successful and I’m feeling great but my doctors are now advising me to undergo a course of preventive chemotherapy and I’v...
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Well, it’s one for the money … Elvis Presley’s iconic blue suede shoes have sold at auction for $152,000, the top end of what auction house Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. had expected to fetch for the lot. The shoes were expected to command anywhere between $126,000 and $152,000 when bidding recently began. The auction ended on June 28 with the shoes going for the highest expected amount. READ MORE: 25 Elvis Presley Songs From the ’70s You Need to Hear Presley received the shoes not long after his version of Sun Records labelmate Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes” appeared as the opening track on Pre...
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America will release a new live album, America – Live From the Hollywood Bowl 1975, on Sept. 6, featuring conducting by George Martin. Recorded on Aug. 3, 1975, at the famous Los Angeles venue, the concert saw Martin directing a symphony orchestra behind the band. The never-before-heard tapes were recently restored and remastered for the upcoming release, which includes all 20 songs that were performed that evening. A complete track listing can be found below, along with the first song, “Ventura Highway.” READ MORE: Did an America Song Inspire Rod Stewart’s ‘Tonight’s the Night’? “We had devel...
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Dennis DeYoung had big touring plans for 2020. But the former Styx vocalist, like his peers, had to cancel all his road work in early March that year due to the pandemic. As time passed, it felt like an unexpected milestone had been added to his timeline and he doesn’t like it. “The greatest disappointment to me is that I didn’t know my last show was my last show,” DeYoung tells UCR. “So in the back of my mind, I have to correct that at some point here.” But as we learned during a recent conversation with the songwriter, it hasn’t been idle time. He’s been working to complete a memoir and was ...
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Taylor Swift dedicated the live debut of her new song “Clara Bow” to Stevie Nicks on Sunday during the third and final date of her Eras Tour at Dublin, Ireland’s Aviva Stadium. The contemplative track, which appears on Swift’s latest album The Tortured Poets Department, pays tribute to the Fleetwood Mac singer with the lyrics: “You look like Stevie Nicks / In ’75, the hair and lips / Crowd goes wild at her fingertips / Half moonshine, a full eclipse.” Swift shared praise for Nicks before playing “Clara Bow” on acoustic guitar as the first of two surprise songs during her set. “The reason I wan...
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Age is just a number to Paul McCartney, who’s continuing to build a new world tour after turning 82 in June. McCartney will now play stadium shows on Oct. 15 and 16 at Allianz Parque in Sao Paulo. He’s also appearing at Estadio da Ressacada on Oct. 19 in Florianopolis, Brazil. These new shows follow announcements for 2024 concerts across South America, Mexico, the U.K. and Europe. Shows in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico are set for October and November. Tour stops in Europe and the U.K. follow in December. See an updated list of McCartney’s dates below. READ MORE: Top 10 Wings Song...
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