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The package include a long anticipated track from Queen and Michael Jackson, "There Must Be More To Life Than This", a previously unfinished Mercury-Queen track "Let Me In Your Heart Again" originating from the band's "The Works" album recording sessions, and a new stripped-down ballad version of Mercury's first solo hit, his Giorgio Moroder collaboration, "Love Kills."

The rest of the package brings together Queen hits, classic tracks, and new takes on well-known songs, matched with band recordings Brian May describes as "things that we have collected together that are representative of our growth rather than the big hits" in a collection immaculately assembled by May and Roger Taylor themselves. The tracks are all linked to represent a definitive collection of Queen's timeless love songs.

Sharon said on her US TV show: "I've never discussed it out of embarrassment. I was 27 and I was just going out with Ozzy at the time. When we first got together we'd drink a lot. We had a session of partying and it's about four in the morning. He says to me, 'How much do you really love me?' And I'm saying, 'I'd do anything for you. Anything, I absolutely adore you. I'd give my life for you.'

"I'm like, 'I'd die for you.' I went to a room service table and there was a steak knife. I get the knife and I'm like, 'I love you so much' - and slash, slash, slash on my wrist."

Korn, released in October 1994, is considered to have established the nu metal genre, and it's sold more than 10 million copies worldwide to date. Davis tells 93.3 WMMR:

"On festivals we're going to play the first album in its entirety. Once the 20th anniversary hits we'll start doing it. We're even going play Daddy - I said I would never do it, but I'm going to do it anyway. We're going to do the complete album in its entirety then tag on some songs at the end of the show."

"lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar" marks Plant's third straight top 10, following 2010's "Band Of Joy" and 2007's "Raising Sand" (with Alison Krauss).

"Hold tight Redheads - I'm waiting for the dust to settle down in Cabo," writes Hagar. "The military and government are in charge right now & once the town is a little more stable, I will figure out what to do to help. I want to thank all of you fans for your ideas and willingness to give and the best thing to do is just wait for now. Many of my friends, partners and employees that are in Cabo are doing all they can at the Cantina to help people."

"In the meantime," he continues, "I'm working on a place that can handle a gathering on short notice for Redheads who can't be in Cabo. One big bash somewhere - I hate sitting home on my birthday. Thank you and stay tuned."

"There's gonna be another album, definitely ... soon," the producer said -- although he didn't say when. Visconti played down any suggestion that Bowie might tour the new material.

"I don't think he's gonna busk in the Tube ... on the Underground. As far as a concert is concerned I have no idea. He clearly didn't promote 'The Next Day' with a concert and whether he does for the next one I don't know and I couldn't predict that - it's up to him. It's whatever takes his fancy."

"Alright. I'm getting back there," Lemmy tells VH1. "We've just done two tours. It doesn't really matter what you do, it's how you do it and how you feel.

"I gave up smoking more or less. I have one now and again but that's about it. And I more or less gave up drinking or I switched to vodka instead of Jack Daniels, which is better for you apparently. If you're going to drink, that's the least harmful."

He laughingly quoted Brockie, who, when asked about Grohl, gave a particularly brutal (and NSFW) answer: "'Dave Grohl, he's actually had his teeth removed so he could fit more GRAMMY d***s in his f***ing mouth.' So, right now, I give it up to Brockie!"

Naturally, GWAR responded in a very GWAR way. "I had every intention of going to Foo Fighters' show to kill Dave Grohl, but he said something really nice about Oderus," drummer JiZMak Da Gusha said. "I decided I'm going to spare his life this time."

Lombardo had accused Slayer's backroom staff of paying the members $400,000 in 2011 - while receipts showed their work had earned more than $4.4 million.

Now he Lokaos Rock Show: "I don't know anything about the new members except Gary. I don't know the other guy. After the two members are gone, the manager's probably going to use other members of the band - other musicians to continue the name."

The band haven't begun work on the follow-up to 2012's Resolution, which is why the frontman can't offer any details. Blythe tells Jamey Jasta on The Jasta Show: "The new album and the book will be released in the early part of next year, close together. It's hard to say with the record because we haven't written it yet - but the book is almost done."

It's likely guitarist Mark Morton will contribute lyrics. "We haven't discussed it," says Blythe, but adds: "With lyric writing, very rarely do we disagree about something. He's more into the way things sound, and that's why he's good at writing the hooks. Sometimes with my words, I'll get him to help me figure out how to phrase things. But this record, I'm sure he'll add some."

Recorded live on August 3, 2013, "Raise The Dead" will be available as DVD + CD digipack. The DVD contains 22 songs plus an interview with Alice, while the double CD contains the complete concert.

With "Raise The Dead - Live From Wacken", the German label UDR is starting a new live series of legendary Wacken performances. When Alice learned about the purpose behind it, he was very happy to be one of the first to participate and support the Wacken Foundation.

They discuss their third album World On Fire, which is available now as a Classic Rock Fanpack - a month before general release. The conversation includes an exchange about the former Guns N' Roses axeman's self-taught background, and its comparison to his colleague's more formal education.

Slash tells host Nicky Horne: "Myles teaches me stuff. Technically he's much more proficient than I am. He knows way more about all that stuff. There's been a few times where he's shown me licks, runs, arpeggios or scales and I'm like, 'What was that?'"

But Kennedy counters: "I'll show him a little thing he might like - something I've spent months perfecting to execute. Then I'll hear him play it that that night. He'll run through it once then he'll play it that night perfectly. He's a natural and he won't give himself credit for that."

They say in a statement: "In just a few months we are celebrating our 25th anniversary in the name of death metal. Can you believe it? 25 years filled with blood, sweat and tears and one hell of a pile of good albums to be really proud of.

"But this celebration is not only to look back and be nostalgic - it's also to embrace the very bright future of this band. We feel great at the moment and we will make 2015 the best year so far. We have definitely done our best to produce a death metal classic."

He tells Caliber TV: "We got in a room and started writing and whatever came out, came out. A good gauge of that is So Others May Live and I think the response to that song has been really awesome, so we're stoked."

Miguel admits the band were "going through the motions" before they decided to go on hiatus and that caused them to take stock. He continues: "Towards the end of that last run, we were all fried and burnt out - we were all sick. There was no morale left and we were just going through the motions - well I was, anyway.

Frontman John Allen had the following to say about the album: "Battles is about struggle - from small to large. It's about perseverance, loss, and the hope of triumph.

"From the opening cut Tear It Apart, to the fading last note of Let It Go, the album speaks, lyrically, from the heart about tenaciousness from the start of life until the bitter end."

White tells Rolling Stone: "I was talking to Bob and I said, 'In a way, you guys had it so lucky in the Sixties.' All these recording techniques that had never been tried before, the Civil Rights movement was coming to a head, the Vietnam War. The whole world was changing; there was so much to sing about. It was like shooting fish in a barrel."

He can't find the same encouragement in the modern world. "I don't see beauty in teenagers sitting next to each other texting and not talking face to face," he says. "I don't see beauty in the way that pop music is all recorded on computers and autotune, and presented in that really plastic way."

The band have revealed 7 shows for the 2-week run, which starts January 15 in Santiago, Chile and wraps January 31 in Bogota, Columbia. Venue and tickets details will be announced soon.

Due November 10 and produced by Butch Vig, "Sonic Highways" is the band's 8th studio album. The project will be launched with a companion HBO series about the recording of the album.

The single will feature on Craven's upcoming third full-length recording, tentatively titled Last Chance To Hear - the follow-up to 2011's Great & Terrible Potions. And he reveals he's trying a new business model so he can involve fans throughout the recording process.

Craven explains: "This project is being driven by music industry commentators saying the album is dead. I agree it's an endangered species, at least commercially.

"As a musician and a listener, I'm very attached to the concept of albums as coherent collections of songs and all the emotional ties we make with them. So for this album I'm trying a different business model where I can engage the audience at every step of the recording process, officially leak songs well before they're finished, and hopefully even get paid!"

Also announced is a November 11 release for "The Lot", a comprehensive 12CD/1DVD set encompassing all of Taylor's work. Originally issued in Europe last fall, the package is now getting a North American release.

"The Lot" comprises Roger's solo albums "Fun In Space" (1981), "Strange Frontier" (1984), "Happiness?" (1994), "Electric Fire" (1998) and "Fun On Earth", as well as the three albums by his band The Cross - "Shove It" (1988), "Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know" (1990) and "Blue Rock" (1991).

"Michael used to come see us a lot," guitarist Brian May told Rolling Stone late last year. "He was a big big fan, especially of Freddie, and Freddie and Michael got on real real well. Michael was very impressed with our lighting rig, I remember. I can't remember which tour it was. We had pods of lights that moved above the stage that had pilots in them.

"He said, 'I'm stealing that,' and sure enough on the 'Victory' tour they had something very similar. But Michael really was very fond of Freddie and sort've idolized him. Michael really felt he wanted to be a rock star."

While Apple issued a tool to help users remove the free record from their systems, the new eRase U2 service goes a step further as you'll see in the video.

Apple recently released "Songs Of Innocence" free to more than a half a billion iTunes customers as part of their launch of the iPhone 6, but Apple and U2 have both faced a backlash from users who weren't pleased with the publicity stunt.

Anyone who had the "Automatic Downloads" feature turned on in their iTunes software, iPhone or iPad got it pushed to their device whether they wanted it or not, sparking complaints when people discovered it was not as easily removed. "If you would like U2's Songs of Innocence removed from your iTunes music library and iTunes purchases, you can choose to have it removed," explains the web page. "Once the album has been removed from your account, it will no longer be available for you to redownload as a previous purchase."

The band's first appearance in the city after 16 years was kickstarted by a Crowdhoster campaign launched in March by Andrew Goldin. Goldin and his fellow organizers, Brig White, John McAdorey and Lucas Krost, set a goal of selling 1,400 tickets at $50 each to the hypothetical concert in order to convince the band to return.

Donors' credit cards would only be charged if the show sold out, and the contributions would be returned if the band didn't agree to play. The campaign surpassed its goal of raising $70,000 to make the event a reality.

Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones declared September 17 "Foo Fighters Day" in the city as part of welcoming the band back to Dave Grohl's former hometown.

Kravitz played his new single, "The Chamber", before joining finalist Miguel Dakota for the rocker's cover of The Guess Who's "American Woman."

"The Chamber" appears on Kravitz' forthcoming album, "Strut", which is due September 23. The project is Lenny's tenth studio album and first since 2011's "Black And White America."

Playing a bill that included Coldplay, Usher, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande, the group played a 3-song set that included "Home Sweet Home", "Girsl, Girls, Girls" and "Kickstart My Heart."

The Las Vegas show was the first for Motley Crue since bassist Nikki Sixx underwent a double hernia operation on September 3. "Still in a bit of pain after the operation but I feel confident I'll be able to bring the juice tomorrow at the IHeartRadio Music Festival with Motley Crue," Sixx posted on Thursday "Being onstage for over 35 years you learn, like an athlete, to push yourself in situations like this. Adrenaline is a great drug."

The fall dates are shows that were rescheduled from this spast spring following the sudden passing of Mick Jagger's longtime girlfriend, L'Wren Scott.

The updated version will include two cuts from their upcoming live album plus a rare studio number recorded in 2003. Drummer Tomas Haake says of the reissue:

"The 21-minute madness that is the song I is something we've always been extremely proud of. It wasn't written in the normal sense, but recorded without anything more than guidelines as to what style we wanted each part to have."

Exit Wounds is the follow-up to 2011's Unseen and it features the return of vocalist Marco Aro and drummer Adrian Erlandsson, alongside new guitarist Ole Englund.

Aro last year discussed his decision to rejoin after a 10-year absence, saying: "With my drug addiction and everything back in the day, it didn't really sit right with my family. I had to know they were on board. The guys laid out the format for The Haunted for 2013 and onwards, and it sounded appealing, so I went for it. I really, really missed the boys."

The album was produced via a successful Kickstarter drive, which saw them raise $60,669 - far in excess of the $10,000 they were originally looking for. And the band were quick to praise those who pledged cash, calling it an "amazing display of true fan support."

They said: "We always knew our fans were some of the most devoted fans on the planet and they proved it by stepping up, being a part of something new and supporting us.

"This was an amazing display of true fan support and we could not be more proud of everyone who helped raise the money to record this album."

The Way will be released on September 29 and marks the Buzzcocks' first album since 2006's Flat-Pack Philosophy, and is the first record featuring new bassist Chris Remmington and drummer Danny Farrant, who join veterans Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle.

Hale tells Gearphoria: "We've definitely evolved. The one thing that has remained the same is that we're all perpetually 14 year old inside, so we're all very immature.

"That hasn't changed much. But the animal or monster of Halestorm has gotten bigger, and obviously there's more responsibility and a little more on the line. But for the most part we've continued to do what we've always done, which is chase after whatever gets us excited."

It follows 2012's Fog Electric, which Prog described as "the Nexus of pop, prog, post-rock and shoegaze." Frontman Sam Healy had the following to say about the promo clip:

"We became fascinated with the Codex Seraphinianus, an illustrated encyclopaedia of an imaginary world created by Italian architect Luigi Serafini. The video is a sort of homage to Serafini's astounding work - we imagine what his creatures, plants and gizmos might do if they could leap off the page."

Mainman Dave Gregory, formerly of XTC, says: "It was important to us all that we made the best album we possibly could - and without a doubt, that's what we've achieved."

Prog last month premiered the band's video for Summer Now and described Scorch as "an album brimming with painstakingly detailed miniatures located within a bigger picture."

The digibook edition contains quotes from books with permission from their authors, including horror master Stephen King. Keyboardist Dries Gaerdelen says:

"The lyrics are based on both classic and modern literature. They explore the pure nature of horror as perceived in different times and media. They complete the songs by adding the untouchable and the uncomfortable in an organic and unforced way."

Say your best friend was in love with your spouse. So in love, in fact, that he or she wrote a passionate ode to your spouse that became one of the biggest hits in rock radio history. Awkward, right? It would pretty tough to stay friends under those conditions, would it not?

But, as well all know, rock stars are a different breed. And so, after a bit of weirdness between George Harrison, who was married to Patti Boyd, and Eric Clapton, who would soon marry her, it was all good. So good, that Harrison was the best man at the Clapton/Boyd wedding, as George explains in this interview.

And not only that: they still played music together. At the time of this interview, Harrison was plugging his comeback album, 1987's Cloud Nine which Clapton played lead guitar on (the album also featured Harrison's fellow Traveling Wilbury Jeff Lynne, Elton John and Ringo Starr, among others). A few years later, Harrison contributed "Run So Far" (and played guitar on the track) to Clapton's 1989 Journeyman album.

Alas, the Boyd/Clapton marriage didn't last either; they divorced in 1989. She tells her side of the story in her 2007 memoirs, Wonderful Tonight (named after the song that Clapton wrote about her).