“We had a blast — and you were the blasters!” Paul McCartney told the crowd at the end of his surprise Tuesday show in New York City. McCartney played a spontaneous gig at the Bowery Ballroom, a beloved rock bar on the Lower East Side that holds only 575 people. …
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Bourbon & Beyond, the Louisville, Kentucky, festival that combines live music with whiskey culture, has announced a bonkers 2025 lineup. Phish, Sturgill Simpson, Noah Kahan, and the Lumineers are all in headlining slots, with names like Jack White, Benson Boone, Megan Moroney, Alabama Shakes, Khruangbin, Joe Bonamassa, Goo Goo Dolls, …
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Back in the Eighties and Nineties, the release of a major rock star memoir was a fairly uncommon event. Noteworthy ones like George Harrison’s I, Me, Mine (1980), Iggy Pop’s I Need More (1982), and David Lee Roth’s Crazy From the Heat (1997) popped up every once in a while, …
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Nashville is reaching peak Ringo. On the heels of his new country album, Look Up, Ringo Starr will make his Grand Ole Opry debut next month. The former Beatles drummer was invited to perform on the long-running country-music radio show by Emmylou Harris, herself an Opry member. Harris popped the …
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Ringo Starr will team with Jack White, Sheryl Crow, Billy Strings, and others to celebrate his catalog —with a country twist —in a CBS concert special airing this spring, with some proceeds going towards California wildfire relief efforts. Ringo and Friends at the Ryman will tape Jan. 14 and 15 …
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The same day the Beatles took the stage for what would be their final live concert in front of paying fans, the Fab Four were approached by a tall figure with a baritone voice. It was the Man in Black, in attendance that Aug. 29, 1966, at San Francisco’s Candlestick …
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Ringo Starr’s new album Look Up returns the former Beatles drummer to his love of country music, particularly classic country. “I like old country, old style, and that’s what we’ve got,” he tells Rolling Stone in a new interview. But Starr also raised our eyebrows when he revealed he was …
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Ringo always wanted to be a cowboy. He grew up in the toughest corner of Liverpool, dreaming of escaping to the Wild West, hoping to emigrate to Texas. He was the biggest country fan in the Beatles, the one who sang the Buck Owens classic “Act Naturally” as well as …
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Paul McCartney closed out his Got Back Tour on Thursday night at London’s O2 and took the opportunity to reunite with his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr. During the performance, his last gig of the year, McCartney also introduced the Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood and played an old bass guitar that …
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Ridley Scott may have inadvertently revealed some major casting news during a Q&A with Christopher Nolan last night in Los Angeles. During a conversation with Christopher Nolan that followed a screening of Gladiator II at the Directors Guild of America, Scott confirmed his next project will be thriller The Dog …
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