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Getty ImagesIt was 26 years ago tonight (November 19th, 1995) that The Beatles Anthology premiered on ABC-TV. The three surviving Beatles, with the full cooperation of John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono, teamed up to produce the mini-series, which featured contemporary interviews with Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, as well as archival interviews with…

Getty ImagesBeach Boys’ genius Brian Wilson remains busier than ever with the release today (November 19th) of his latest solo album, At My Piano, featuring instrumental takes from his catalogue of classics. Also opening today in select theaters is the new documentary, Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road. Brian Wilson admitted that revisiting his classic works…

PRPhotos.comSting is back today (November 19th) with The Bridge, his 15th solo album and first set of new music since his and Shaggy’s 2018 Grammy Award-winning studio collaboration, 44/876. Sting will appear this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. Sting told us that due to pandemic, which forced him and band off the road mid-tour,…

PRPhotos.comOut today (November 19th) is, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ long-awaited second album, Raise The Roof. The record, which reunites them with producer T-Bone Burnett, marks the followup to the duo’s 2007 Grammy Award-winning Raising Sand collection that helped bring Americana music into millions of new households. Plant & Krauss are rolling out a string…

Getty ImagesOut today (November 19th) is Bruce Springsteen’s The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts. The set is available in HD on physical formats — including on two CDs with DVD, two CDs with Blu-Ray, and as a double-LP. The film will be available as a digital rental starting on November 23rd. Back in 2019, as…

Getty ImagesKiss manager Doc McGhee says that the band pulling out of its 2021/2022 Las Vegas residency dates had nothing to do with reported “soft” ticket sales — but rather, health concerns for traveling fans. Loudwire reported McGhee appeared on The Rock Experience With Mike Brunn podcast and shed light on the scrapped dates at…

Getty ImagesAerosmith has posted rehearsal audio to “Movin’ Out” — one of the band’s earliest recordings from 1971. The tune, along with seven other tracks, will finally see release on Record Store Day — November 26th. The new set, titled 1971: The Road Starts Hear, features the pre-fame version of the group in its Boston…

PRPhotos.comPete Townshend is hard at work on the delayed 50th anniversary Who’s Next box set. Townshend took to Instagram to spotlight his new studio space and reveal he had been up for three straight nights sifting through Who’s Next and Lifehouse demos. No release date has been set for the collection, which will be released…

Getty ImagesIt was 30 years ago today, November 18th, 1991, that U2 released its seventh album, the groundbreaking Achtung Baby. The collection, which debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200, followed the band’s 1988 stop-gap live and studio soundtrack to the Rattle And Hum movie, and served as the creative followup to the band’s…