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What’s the latest info about about rock music and the most interesting and momentous events in its past? You can find it all here: breaking news, sales and airplay charts from the past, notable occasions, and our appreciations of recently departed artists and other musical figures of note
Bruce Springsteen on Broadway Extended To June
Is The Boss going to play Broadway indefinitely? It’s starting to look that way. The production has extended the hit solo show through June 2018
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Pete Moore, Original Miracles Member, Dies at 79
A co-founder of the Motown group, he co-wrote several major hits, including “The Tracks of My Tears” and “Ooh Baby Baby.”
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Walter Becker Estate Responds to Donald Fagen Suit
A week after the Steely Dan co-founder filed a lawsuit based on a 1972 agreement, Becker’s estate responded to the “misleading” suit that’s “riddled with half-truths and omissions”
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PBS to Air Beatles’ ‘Eight Days a Week’ Film in Nov.
Ron Howard’s Emmy and Grammy Award-winning 2016 documentary will have its broadcast premiere this fall. We called it “a non-stop rush of adrenaline”
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King Crimson Announces 2018 Tour
A revitalized Robert Fripp and Co. are busy: a new live album from summer 2017, a just-completed tour and a run of new dates
Read More Steely Dan Lawsuit: Fagen vs. Becker’s Estate
The band’s surviving co-founder seeks complete ownership of the band’s name and damages in excess of $1 million, in accordance with a 1972 contract.
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Wayne Cochran, Soul Rocker Turned Preacher, Dead
A rocking soul singer with a gravity-defying platinum pompadour, he never had any hit records but achieved renown nonetheless. Then he gave it all up.
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Stealers Wheel Collection Coming
The band’s brief run in the early 1970s–including their big hit, “Stuck in the Middle With You”– has been compiled into a box set, The A&M Years
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Rolling Stones’ Early BBC Radio Material Due: Listen
A collection of rarely heard radio recordings, featuring music from the band’s formative years, will be released on Dec. 1
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