Category: Oldies News

Will Heath/NBCDionne Warwick is reacting to the hilarious Saturday Night Live skit, in which the late night show parodied the acclaimed singer running her own daytime talk show. The Dionne Warwick Talk Show skit, which had cast member Ego Nwodim parodying the five-time Grammy winner, repeatedly brought up the singer’s complicated relationship with Wendy Williams. The bit had Nwodim’s Warwick asking Nick Jonas to get his brothers to fight the daytime talk show host and enlisting Melissa Villaseñor‘s spoof of Dua Lipa to help egg her home. Soon after, Warwick herself addressed the supposed bad blood she has with Wendy, of which she tweeted, “No,…

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagicMick Fleetwood says he’s looking forward a post-COVID time when Fleetwood Mac will be able to tour again, while admitting that he’s been envisioning an eventual farewell trek for his famous band. “I think the vision for me…is that we actually say ‘this is goodbye’ and go out and actually do that,” he tells Rolling Stone. “That has always been my vision and I’m a flatly confident that we can do that. We owe it to the fans.” Fleetwood’s remarks come in the wake of a BBC radio interview…

Courtesy of NFHS and National Music Council Steely Dan‘s Donald Fagen, Steve Winwood and Chic‘s Nile Rodgers are among a variety of artists who appear in a new video saluting teachers and school administrators who are supporting music education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The clip, which you can watch on YouTube, is part of a partnership between the National Music Council and the National Federation of State High School Associations to thank music educators in conjunction with the launch of the Music in Our Schools Month initiative. Music in Our…

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesAretha Franklin‘s sons are in the process of paying off a multi-million dollar debt the late Queen of Soul accrued with the Internal Revenue Service, The Detroit Free Press reports. According to the newspaper, Franklin’s estate owed the IRS over $7.8 million in income taxes, interest and penalties that Aretha amassed from 2010 to 2017. The Free Press reports, however, an agreement is in place that should speed up payment of the tax debt and also will result in some money from Aretha’s estate going to her four…

Omnivore RecordingsMost of the surviving original Beach Boys have teamed up with members of the band’s extended family to record a new version of the group’s uplifting 1970 gem “Add Some Music to Your Day.” The track, which is the first single from an upcoming album titled California Music Presents Add Some Music, is available now digitally, and an official video for the tune got its premiere Friday on RollingStone.com and also can be viewed on YouTube. The new rendition of “Add Some Music to Your Day” features lead vocals…

UMG/Hollywood Records/GameloftThe late Freddie Mercury sang in the popular 1980 Queen song, “Play the game, everybody play the game”…Well, now fans of the British rock legends have the chance to play the band’s very first official mobile game — Queen: Rock Tour! The play-along rhythm game, which is available now for Android and Apple devices, gives players the chance to perform with an animated version of the band, rocking guitar riffs and drum solos as you tap tiles in time along with various Queen songs. The game features 20 classic…

Credit: Austin LordPeter Frampton has released a second advance track from his recently announced instrumental covers album, Frampton Forgets the Words, a rendition of the atmospheric 1982 Roxy Music gem “Avalon.” The tune is available for streaming now, and a companion music video also has debuted at Frampton’s YouTube channel. The clip features footage of Peter and the members of his current backing group — keyboardist Rob Arthur, guitarist Adam Lester, drummer Dan Wojciechowski and bassist Steve Mackey — performing their various parts for the song separately in the same…

Courtesy of CORECarly Simon, Sheryl Crow and Sammy Hagar with his current band The Circle are among dozens of artists that will be featured performing during Rock ‘n’ Relief, an upcoming benefit livestream concert. The two-day virtual event will raise money for the Los Angeles-based organization Community Organized Relief Effort, or CORE, which was co-founded by actor Sean Penn and which is working to “provide equitable access to free testing and vaccines” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will feature both live and virtual performances. Linda Perry of 4 Non…

Parlophone RecordsDetails have been unveiled about the upcoming fifth installment of the series of six David Bowie live albums recorded during the 1990s that are being released both individually as limited single-run pressings and together in a limited-edition box set titled Brilliant Live Adventures (1995-1999). The new installment is titled Something in the Air (Live Paris 99) and will be released March 12 on CD and as a two-LP vinyl set. The album was recorded at the Elysée Montmartre in Paris on October 14, 1999. That afternoon, Bowie was awarded…

GRAMMY Museum/Getty ImagesRingo Starr will be the subject of a virtual presentation that will premiere next month as part of the Grammy Museum‘s COLLECTION:live online streaming service. The program will include new and archival interviews with the former Beatles drummer as well as a virtual version of Starr’s 2013 Grammy Museum exhibit “Ringo: Peace & Love.” The exhibit offered a look at Starr’s life, from his childhood in Liverpool, U.K., to his early years playing with Rory Storm through his historic stint with The Beatles, to his successful career as…