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"'Rock and Roll' has just got that cheeky energy about it," Jimmy Page told Rolling Stone. "It's a party. 'It's been a long time since I rock and rolled.' It says it all, really. It's great lyrics and it's a great performance."

"As a song, it was actually kind of punky; pre-punk," added bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones. "It was really fast too, onstage anyway. It just got really quick, a lot of energy. It's a lot of fun to play. The crowd loved it. We loved it."

Released in November 1971, the album - which is officially untitled - defined the sound of rock music for a generation with ubiquitous anthems such as "Stairway To Heaven", "Rock And Roll", "Black Dog" and "When The Levee Breaks". The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 1999, has been certified 23x platinum by the RIAA.

But Root tells SwedenRock (via Blabbermouth): "There are a lot of circumstances and dynamics there and I'm sure she's hurting very deeply and trying to find some way to maybe put the blame somewhere.

"Paul was our brother; Paul was very close to us. We tried putting him into treatment numerous times; we took him off of tours and we had interventions with him.

"At the end of the day, Paul was sick. What can you do? If you have a sickness, you've got to fix that sickness - but you can't keep putting somebody into treatment over and over and over again. What are you supposed to do? Babysit someone and live with them?"

"We're talking about putting a tour together for next spring," says Lifeson from the recent Saint Jude's Robby Krieger Celebrity Golf Tournament in California to raise funds for kids with cancer.

On November 11, Rush will release their 40th anniversary box set, "R40."The package includes live footage spanning all four decades of their career and presents over two hours of unreleased material, including a rare performance of entire seven-part version of "2112."

Flynn changed plans to hit the road after production on eighth album Bloodstone & Diamonds overran. That led to Laiho saying: "I will not go into details on why or what happened, but this had nothing to do with me or Children Of Bodom. But hey, you know what? Sh*t f***in' happens, life goes on."

Now Flynn responds via his blog: "The Children Of Bodom 'Hate Crew' has been out in full force tonight in light of the tour being rescheduled. It's typical sh*t talking.

"In the beginning of 1993," explains Gilmour, "we went into Britannia Row Studios and set up - just like the old days - so that the three of us could just play along with each other for the love of it and see what it came out like. Out of that, this album has grown; out of that grew 'The Division Bell' album, as well, but there was an awful lot of material."

"The Endless River" is being billed as a four-sided instrumental album with the lead single, "Louder Than Words", featuring new lyrics by Gilmour's wife, author Polly Samson.

The pairing delivered "Hunger Strike" from the 1991 project conceived by Cornell as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Seattle bands Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone.

Polish outfit Decapitated report they were involved in a "serious" crash in New Orleans, and two members of their party spent several hours in hospital before being released.

A tour bus accident in 2007 killed drummer Witold Kieltyka in 2007, while frontman Adrian 'Covan' Kowanek underwent 36 hours of surgery following the tragedy and hasn't yet made a full recovery.

The cancellations came about after complaints from a religious group called God's Will, who object to the land's lyrics. Other acts including Behemoth and Cradle Of Filth have also been affected.

Barrett tells Kaaos TV: "We tried to do eight shows in Russia, but ended up only doing four and a half due to some problems over there with somebody that was getting our shows shut down.

The fall shows were rescheduled from this past spring following the sudden passing of Mick Jagger's longtime girlfriend, L'Wren Scott. "I'm sorry we kept you waiting for so long," the Sydney Morning Herald reports Jagger told the estimated record crowd of 53,000.

The 19-song set opened with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and ran through the Stones' extensive catalogue. The band continues the 14 On Fire tour tradition of teaming up with local artists: they were joined by the Adelaide Chamber Choir for "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

Herman's Scorpions Songs will feature 14 takes from the German veterans' catalogue, and it's to be released on November 7 under the banner Herman Rarebell & Friends. He's launched a video to go with his version of Let It Shine, featuring Unbreakable's Al Crespo.

It follows a similar acoustic album last year, which he's been touring with the help of John Parr, Bobby Kimball and Michael Voss - all of whom appear on the latest record.

Rarebell said of Acoustic Fever: "I thought it would be a good idea to do a solo album of the songs I wrote or co-wrote with my the Scorpions. I'm really happy to have all those great singers on my album and I'm also thrilled that they said yes to do this."

Simmons said last month that illegal downloading and a lack of industry support had killed rock music, but he faced an immediate backlash from a string of musicians including Dee Snider and Slash.

Now Ian has waded in on the debate, telling WHEB-FM: "I think the exact opposite. I don't look at things from a strictly business standpoint like I think Gene does. Just because the media may not be paying attention like it used to, or record labels are only looking for the next 16-year-old pop star.

On hand to promote his newly-released album, "Kings & Queens Of The Underground", the rocker pretaped his live set last Friday for broadcast this week.

"Strut" is the rocker's tenth studio album and first since 2011's "Black And White America." As always, Kravitz plays guitar, bass, keyboards and drums and percussion on the project, and produced and arranged it as well.

"This record brought me back to a place of what I love so much about music, back to the feelings I had when I was in high school," he explains. "It's a real rock & roll record - it's raw, it's got soul and it came together really quickly."

Hale tells Loudwire: "A lot of these songs that came together were bits and pieces of conversations I've actually had on Twitter and Instagram and via Facebook with the few people that follow me.

"That sounds like, 'Oh wow that's so 2014 of you to say,' but it's really true. I definitely don't get out much, we've been doing 14 hour days in the studio. I've been using social media and Twitter to have just some more in depth conversations with our Halestorm fans.

The as-yet-untitled record will be his first since 2010's Deth Red Sabaoth. The covers album was announced as far back as 2012 but has not surfaced. The singer tells Examiner.com it will finally be released in March 2015, with an album of original material to follow later in the year.

Anselmo - who will reunite with Superjoint Ritual at his Housecore Horror festival this weekend - tells Talking Metal: "I have definitely postponed this book thing for quite a while. And, really, it's a tough process to do and it really takes a lot of heads-down work to do this, and I've been incredibly busy with my first love in my life, which is music.

"I'm not a book writer, I'm a songwriter, I'm a live performer, and that's what I love and that's what I've been doing. But having said that, I think I'll eventually get around to doing it and writing it.

Cain's band includes drummer Zach Ballard and guitarist Benjamin Johnson. Labar tells Hot Metal: "I've never been the frontman, the singer of a band before, but I'm going to try it out November 15 in Indianapolis and a couple more shows in December.

He'd recently completed work on Alvin, his first studio project in 30 years, which he'd described as a "departure" from the 1970s and 1980s material he's best known for.

Now Conehead Records say: "The release of the final album by Alvin Stardust will be bought forward to October 27. It's a worthy testament to a talent that endured, and a reputation that will continue.

"This is a collection reflecting a maturing performer, at home with the nuances of his remarkable voice. It's a reflective, speculative and deeply personal album that beguiles with an open honesty that recalls the best of the singer-songwriter genre."

As well as the lead single, which will feature on 2015 record Denim Devils, the EP includes two other tracks recorded during sessions for the album. Get It Bad and Heading South won't feature on the long player.

It features the group performing The Yes Album and Going For The One with the current line-up, which includes Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White and Geoff Downes.

The bands' performance of the track Starship Trooper has been made available as a trailer for the live package. Keyboard player Downes says: "These are two bodies of music that many of the most devout Yes fans wanted to hear in their entirety. I believe our performance at the Bristol Hippodrome was among the most compelling of the entire tour."

Each title will be reissued as a 2CD set containing the original album as well as an additional disc of unreleased and rare Eno work specific to each record.

The albums were all originally recorded between 1992 and 1997. The expanded Nerve Net package includes the first ever commercial release of legendary lost Eno album My Squelchy Life; The Shutov Assembly features an album's worth of unreleased recordings from the same period; Neroli includes an entire unreleased hour-long Eno ambient work New Space Music; and The Drop includes nine rarely heard tracks from the Eno archives.

Sally Estabrook, 76, disappeared three weeks ago from her home in Julian, California. She's suffering advanced-stage Alzheimer's and, says the Megadeth mainman, "couldn't put three words together."

A search led by police assisted by 300 volunteers found nothing nearby, leading Mustaine to believe that someone may have given Sally a lift, and is now uncomfortable about coming forward.

He tells 101KGB: "There's no way a 76-year-old woman can trek all the way down a mountain like that. So somebody was being nice and trying to help her. We're thinking the person who tried to help her is afraid that maybe they did something wrong.

"Even the most terrible of convicts still has a mother. The person could have pulled over and helped her, and have a criminal past and can't say anything."

Formed in 2008 in Helsinki by guitarists Anton Kabanen and Juuso Soino and drummer Pyry Vikki, the project is the follow-up to 2013's self-titled album.

Kabanen sees Unholy Savior as a step forward for himself and the group, and he says the album's theme continues his fascination with manga series Berserk.

He says: "I thirst to go further as a human being and the music on this album represents a part of the ongoing spiritual journey - that's what I tend to I call it - which is my road onward. Music-wise the songs have been expanded to a wider area as an effort to call out emotions close to those I myself had during the times of birth of these songs."

The Welsh crossover outfit explain that vocalist Benji has recently been released from prison. His parole conditions meant they're only allowed to play four shows, and all have to be within a three-hour drive of Cardiff.

Fellow vocalist Traxx says: "The full band original members are back together, ready for 2015. My brotha has a curphew. This means we can only play daytime shows and only travel so far to play. We chose to go north, east, south, west."

Frontman Jaren Johnson says: "It's been an incredible year for us and we're really looking forward to our fourth trip over. It's going to be one hell of a party - burn the tyres and light the fires!"

Get Your Buzz On, taken from debut album Tennessee Mojo, is launched on December 1 via Spinefarm Records. Tour support comes from Tax The Heat and Sons Of Icarus. The Cadillac Three also play Planet Rockstock on December 6.

The band released Gravitas, their first album with young guitarist Sam Coulson, earlier this year, and return to the UK for a run of shows later this week.

Downes, who pulls double duties with Yes, points to the fact that the British veterans are still selling out shows across the world. He tells the ReviewJournal: "We've still got a lot of fans out there. I think that's one of the reasons we've kept it going as long as we have - everyone believes in it.

Riot is a band with a great history and an extensive catalog and while Riot V is rooted in the Thundersteel era, both Mike and Donnie wanted to write songs that reflected the bands history as well as its future.

Mike wrote the music to Take Me Back and the first recording I heard was a rough recording that Mike, Frank, and Nick put together from just a digital recorder in the middle of the practice room. Even though the recording was rough, the initial riff really grabbed me and the main refrain certainly takes you back to the hard rock roots of Riot.

I normally listen to new songs while driving around in my car, because I don't usually have a lot of free time at home. After listening to the demo a few times, I was feeling rather nostalgic. All these thoughts about how life was like when we were younger and more care free started filling up my head and all of the sudden the initial chorus melody and the phrase "take me back" came into my head.

Often is seems that the best songs come to you quickly and that is what it was like for me with "Take Me Back". Once the title came to my mind, the rest of the words just started flowing.

The last piece to put in place was a great chorus melody. Originally, the song had a slightly different chorus melody that I developed, but Mike came back with a different melody suggestion that worked well with my lyrics and it really seemed to be a great finishing touch to the song.