Ozzy Osbourne's Hell Gate Coming

Page has discussed the chances of recording material several times in recent years, but he's been concentrating on the Led Zep remaster series, currently being launched in batches.

The pair have exchanged strong words in the past months, with the guitarist continuing to hope for a reunion, and the vocalist insisting he's not interested - although he's offered to work with his colleague again on acoustic music.

Now Plant says: "He should get on and do something. He's a superb talent. That's the sad thing for Jimmy - he knows I'm his guy, I'm his pal. But the warmth he needs to actually enjoy the world, it's all there. Come on and give it to us."

The survey was carried out by BBC Radio 2 last month, resulting in Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love being listed in the top position. The Guns N' Roses track, taken from their 1987 debut, was their biggest US hit when launched as a single the following year, and helped propel them to the big time.

Slash has previously described the run as a "circus" melody and a "guitar exercise." Now he tells Triple M: "I definitely don't sit there and go, 'Yeah, it's the greatest riff.' It's very surreal when somebody says something like that.

"It's not tangible - there's been some sort of a poll, but you're not part of the effort of finding out that information and researching it. All of a sudden it just appears."

Last month Keenan told TeamRock that reunion discussion was underway, but that it was "going to take a lot of attention." He added: "We're talking about going to Europe and playing shows as the Deliverance four-piece and starting from there to get it back together."

Now drummer Mullin has revealed their plans include an album as well. He tells Heavy Blog Is Heavy: "We're getting together next year. We've done this three-piece enough to where we want to do something different. That's probably going to happen close to the beginning of the year."

An official Johnny Winter Remembrance Show has been put together with the approval of his brother, Edgar Winter, and Johnny's family. The show features original members from Johnny's band, which include guitarist Paul Nelson, bassist Scott Spray, and drummer Tommy Curiale; the musicians are all toured with Winter and appear on his newly-released album, "Step Back."

Along with Jay Stollman on vocals, the show will also consist of special guests as well as a screening of Johnny's documentary, "Down & Dirty: The Johnny Winter Story."

Metallica played 25 concert dates in 2013, starting with Australia's Soundwave Festival in February and wrapping up with a special show in Antarctica.

"In addition to performing live in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa," posted the band, "the year was capped off with a visit to Antarctica on December 8, 2013 to play for 120 scientists, contest winners and their penguin friends at the Argentine Carlini Station.

"We were literally at the bottom of the earth for one of the most unique, special and unforgettable days in our 30+ years as a band and low and behold, our little adventure sealed the deal for the record! Who woulda thought..."

"How's Sept. 17th @TheNationalRVA sound? Let's do it. If you pledged, check your email for details!" tweeted the Foo Fighters about the show on Wednesday.

He's since forged a career with supergroup the Winery Dogs, while continuing to work with Transatlantic and Flying Colors, among others. Dream Theater have released two albums since the lineup change.

Portnoy tells Rocksverige: "There are lots of actions you take in your life and if it brings a result you didn't want, or you weren't anticipating, it's not something you should regret. It's just something you should learn from.

Their last studio outing was 1991's The Heat, which followed their self-titled debut in 1987 and second album Slam two years later. Reed tells Rock N'Load: "We're having a really great time being back together, and that led us on to the idea of wanting to make a new record.

Def Leppard's Joe Elliott had originally been lined up to take over production duties, but had to pull back from the project due to his hectic schedule. Raskulinecz will now helm the album, and the band will rehearse the new material for a week, before laying down the tracks over a three week period at the producer's studio.

Gorham tells Metal Talk: "Right now I'm not thinking we have any particular studio sound at this point. We're the kind of band that at the end of the day what you record is how it sounds.

Speaking with Paper Magazine in a cover story, Love revealed "Me and Melissa [Auf Der Mar] and Patty [Schemel] and Eric [Erlandson] have rehearsed a few times.

"In order to pull that off," she continued, "we'd have to make some music that's relevant to now, and we'd have to get a modern producer. I'm not going to do the oldies circuit. My relationships with Melissa, Patty and Eric are all great. At this point in my life, no one is my enemy. Any grudges or issues with that past? I'm done with it."

They later confirmed their first live show since calling a halt in 2011. It takes place in Orange County, California, on September 11 - and it sold out in less than a minute. They follow that with an appearance at the Aftershock festival, also in California, in on September 14.

"It is a pleasure to announce that the legendary icon Ian Gillan will join the Rock Meets Classic tour 2015 with a wonderful Deep Purple BestOf set," announced organizers. "Deep Purple performed the first-ever combination of rock music and a complete orchestra and there's a strong partnership between Ian and the RMC project. We are delighted - welcome back Ian!"

The Deep Purple frontman is the fourth act of five to be announced for next year's tour, joining Mr. Big's Eric Martin, Asia's John Wetton and Status Quo's Rick Parfitt on the bill.

Jagger, one the producers of the project, will attend the premiere of the film along with director Tate Taylor, actor Chadwick Boseman (who plays Brown) and producer Brian Grazer.

The film, which also features Viola Davis, Dan Aykroyd, Nick Eversman and Craig Robinson among the cast, portrays Brown over a period of several decades, from his disadvantaged youth to his status as a bonafide music icon.

Barre says the 14-track work was recorded in a single day. He explains: "Fans kept asking for a CD - but rather than record a gig we thought we'd record live in a studio, with all the energy of a show but with the best sound quality possible.

The free app shows users a map with stars' birthplaces, historic music venues, album cover sites, festivals, recording studios and more rock-fueled landmarks.

Users may contribute to the database by letting the app know of any missing music landmarks. So, if you went to school with a future rock star, know a local location of an album cover photo or attended a historic gig at a certain spot, you may send your own landmarks and photos to be included in the app, which will be updated every month.

He tells PartySmasherInc's Ben Weinman: "My dad warned me, 'what you're going to try to do for a living is a one in a million chance. Hardly anyone makes it in the music business. You need to go to college, get a proper education and raise a family - that's a guaranteed good living.' I said, 'Thanks dad, but no thanks, I'm going to give this music thing a chance.'"

And he says the reason he did make it was because of his Mastodon band members Troy Sanders, Bill Kelliher and Brann Dailor. He continues: "I met the right bunch of guys that had the same vision I did and they were willing to be hungry with me and willing to eat sardines and live on mustard and stuff like that. That's the demographic you have to form with other guys in order to get to where we are now."

They've already lined up Jeff Wayne, Andy Scott, Jim Lea, Mike Batt and Sir Tim Rice for the project, tentatively entitled The David Essex Story, with more names to be added in due course.

Essex released his first single in 1965, aged 17, and played the lead role in musical Godspell six years later. In 1973 he led the stage version of The Who's Tommy then starred in the movie That'll Be The Day, returning for 1974 sequel Stardust. He played the Artilleryman in Wayne's 1978 The War Of The Worlds concept album. As a solo performer he's achieved 19 top 40 hit singles and 16 top 40 albums.

Bassist and songwriter Hopper, who started out with the Daevid Allen Trio then co-founded the Wilde Flowers before joining Soft Machine, died in 2009 from cancer, leaving a large archive of recordings. They've been curated by scholar Michael King and profits from the releases will go to Hopper's family.

The label say: "These concert and studio recordings focus on Hugh's compositions as performed by groups under his leadership. His music is a wonder to behold; he was a player of high distinction with trademark sound by turns gritty and gorgeous. This superb series, celebrating his musical legacy, is for fans, friends and first-time discovers."

Hailed by The Blues Magazine as a name to watch, Clatch has enjoyed a big year of playing live as support act for the Band Of Friends, Nine Below Zero, Catfish Keith and others, and by appearing at a string of festivals.

Perry, who's watched the decline of album sales first-hand and as a spectator, is of the Morrissey school of thought in thinking that the record labels have fallen off when it comes to promoting artists and new releases. In an interview with Yahoo! Music, Perry in part blamed the labels for the decline in Aerosmith's sales that was especially notable with their 2012 album, Music From Another Dimension!, which Perry said was "one of the best records we'd done in years and years."

"The record companies don't really invest in the artist the way they used to," he said. "In the '70s, you usually had fans that were just sitting and waiting for the next record to come out - and if they didn't like it, they bought it anyway! But that's kind of the way our whole economy is now. It's built on growth instead of quality. It's built on 'out with the old, in with the new - buy the new car because last year's car isn't cool,' rather than build a really good car that will last you as long as it should."

"The chimneys are the most powerful part of the icon," Jim Eyre, director of Wilkinson Eyre, told CNN. "Take them away, and you don't have an icon. The coal fumes has decayed the concrete, so they have to come down. But we're going to painstakingly reconstruct them."

The old power station, which was built in the 1930s, will be replaced with a building that will house "retail space, offices and luxury 'villas.'" The project's first phase is scheduled to be complete in 2016.

In April of 2014, the Battersea Power Station Development Company organized the first in what it says will be an annual party at the plant "to celebrate the iconic building's ongoing development and welcome its future community." Elton John performed for guests including Grace Jones, Jeremy Renner and Kit Harrington from Game of Thrones.

Due November 25 on limited-edition 7" vinyl, "Thunderstruck" will be released in three different 7" vinyl colours, each reflecting the lyrics of the AC/DC hit: Shot-glass clear, Can I come again please? white, and Texas cheeseburger cheese orange.

"You can't control me no more, Cleopatra," frontman Rivers Cuomo warns over the foot-stomping beat and occasional harmonica blasts. The song is the newest taste of Everything Will Be Alright in the End, the band's ninth album, which is due out Oct. 7.

The 11-track album features Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino on one song, "Go Away," while fellow new tune "I've Had It Up to Here" was co-written by Justin Hawkins of the Darkness.

Creators Roma Music Group insist: "These aren't novelty recordings. The fidelity of these recordings is at the top of the priority list. Let's face it - much like the brand name clothes you buy for your infant, this music is really for you.

Corgan performed the songs at his hometown Chicago's Ravinia Festival, calling the hit Netflix show-recalling track a "tasty, pre-holiday treat." Which is an apt description if your palate prefers slow-burning, grunge-steeped guitar songs.

"Methuselah," on the other hand, was a more daintily-picked guitar-driven track. The song, named for the longest-living man in the Hebrew Bible, was fittingly written a long time ago. Corgan wrote the track around the time of the band's 1995 sessions for their seminal album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

The tracks could presumably appear one of the Smashing Pumpkins' two upcoming albums, Monuments to an Elegy and Day for Night, which will follow up their massive Adore reissue later this month and 2012's Oceania.

Keyboardist Bradley Bell says: "Never has this band been so excited about a music video. This time we took the approach of having fun and getting everybody involved in some acting and just being their weird selves. Hopefully everyone enjoys it as much as we did."

The band formed in 2001 as The Chiodos Bros - a name taken from filmmakers Stephen, Charles and Edward Chiodo, who made the film Killer Klowns From Outer Space in 1988, but shortened the name prior to the launch of debut album All's Well That Ends Well in 2005.

The band produced the album thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised $60,691 - a move they say saved the group from splitting up. Frontman Kenneth Nixon says: "We pack this valuable tool that's an endless source of information and knowledge in our pockets in the form of a cell phone and use it for the dumbest things.

"Instead of staying informed about the world, we would rather post pictures of food and ignore the reality of what's going on out there - until it's too late.

"Twisted Halos is in some ways a call to action. let's talk about it so other have to hear about it. We can't change the terrible things about our world unless we talk about it and stay informed. In the end, it's our fault if we don't."

The cover was designed by artwork icon Roger Dean, who recently said: "In over 40 years it has been extremely rare for me to have heard the music before starting - it's just the way of the world. Talking about ideas is what does it."

He says of his record: "As an artist you're entering new territories - even though by now you pretty much know how you make a video or whatever. The territory is always new and it means, in a very positive sense, there's chaos.

Producer Meshell Ndegeocello designed the follow-up to 2012 Grammy-nominated release Let It Burn as a showcase for Foster's voice. She explains: "It's such a singular, powerful instrument, and she has such mastery of it. She can turn it on, belt it out and bring you to your knees, all in an instant.

"I wanted this album to highlight that, and also communicate her vibe, giving a fuller picture of her artistry and ability. I think we've made something that compliments and holds its own alongside the power of her voice."

I think one of the things we tried to do when writing "St. Valentine" was to look at the darker side of relationships and intimacy. Whether it's in a romantic context or not, when two people are close enough to know the other's vulnerabilities, it gives them a lot of power to hurt each other. We've observed this dynamic and a lot of people we know, but it also exists in our own friendship. I think we're so close that there's always a very deep sense of caring and consideration, but when we're mad at each other it's an all out war haha! We know how to push each other's buttons and we know each other's Achilles' heels very well. It's a fine line we walk as a musical duo, because we are aware that our yin-yang dynamic is what fuels our creative spark. The trick is not to let that cross the line into antagonism.

The process of writing the song was fairly typical for us and that it involved a lot of back-and-forth and exchange of ideas, and yes, some arguing. It was interesting because the bulk of it came together rather quickly. When I read the verse lyrics for the first time, they just kind of sung themselves and we were able to make them work really well over Brittany's main guitar figure. But then we hit a brick wall because we had no bridge. It was frustrating at first because we knew we had a really strong hook line with "you dig it when I suffer," although, when you think about it, it's kind of a heavy line to get people to sing along with. I think a lot more people relate to that than you might think, however. Eventually everything came together really well and I think ultimately the song is pretty honest mirror of our personal dynamic. In the studio we were in a huge fight and not really even talking to each other when I cut the vocals so I was really feeling those lyrics when I sang them haha. Obviously, we made up.. and lived to fight another day.