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PRPhotos.comThe late-Eddie Van Halen is the latest rock legend to have their death examined by the Reelz network. Blabbermouth reported Autopsy: The Last Hours Of Eddie Van Halen will premiere on Sunday, June 5th at 8 p.m. ET. Van Halen died on October 6th, 2020 at age 65 after years of battling throat cancer. According…

Getty ImagesIt was 37 years ago today (June 1st, 1985) that Sting released his first solo album apart from the Police. Although the collection was originally conceived as just one of the three separate solo projects he, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland embarked on following the global success of the band’s Grammy Award-Winning 1983 Synchronicity…

Getty ImagesIt was 55 years ago today (June 1st, 1967), that the Beatles released the legendary Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album in the U.K. The album, which was released a day later in the U.S., was one of the most groundbreaking and influential records in history. There had been an unprecedented eight-month gap…

PRPhotos.comYes co-founder Jon Anderson has just rolled out a 13-city 50th anniversary tour saluting the band’s watershed 1972 album, Close To The Edge. Anderson will once again be backed by youngsters from the Paul Green Rock Academy — an extension of the Paul Green School of Rock Music, according to Ultimate Classic Rock. Jon Anderson,…

PRPhotos.comHappy Birthday to Rolling Stones and Faces guitarist Ron Wood who turns 75 today (June 1st)!!! Wood — the youngest Stones — will be onstage tonight when the band launches its “Stones Sixty” European tour in Madrid, Spain. Earlier this year, drummer Kenney Jones revealed the upcoming Faces reunion album with Rod Stewart and Ron…

Getty ImagesRobert Plant & Alison Krauss kick off their 2022 tour dates tonight (June 1st) at Canandaigua, New York’s CMAC. The duo is on the road in support of their second joint album, Raise The Roof. The set was released last November 19th and topped Billboard’s Independent Albums chart, hit Number Three on the magazine’s…

Getty ImagesThe Rolling Stones are back on the road for their European “Stones 60” tour. The 14-stadium run kicks off tonight (June 1st) in Madrid, Spain and plays through July 31st in Stockholm, Sweden. The band will also perform open air shows in Germany, England, Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy. The Stones’…

PRPhotos.comGreen Day’s Billie Armstrong has opened up about the emotion he felt on the band’s first night of the Hella Mega Tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer. In an interview with Kerrang!, he said, “The crowd looked like this giant flock of birds freaking out,” Armstrong said of their first tour date. Coming offstage,…

PRPhotos.comThe Wedding Band — featuring Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo played on Friday night (May 27th) at Napa, California’s Margrit Mondavi Theatre. Blabbermouth reported the gig, “Was part of the BottleRock Afterdark performances that are taking place in conjunction with this year’s Metallica’s co-headlined edition of the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival, which was…