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Ed Force One landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, February 19. And Ed Force One, with bespoke graphic art, is being piloted on the band's world tour by Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson.

Dickinson says: "When the opportunity arose from my friends at Air Atlanta Icelandic to lease a 747 for The Book of Souls world tour, of course we jumped at the chance. Who wouldn't?

"The greatest benefit of travelling in a 747 is that because of its colossal size and freight capacity we can carry our stage production and all our stage equipment and desks in the cargo hold without having to make any of the immense structural modifications needed to do this on the previous 757, the extent of which fans will have noted on the Flight 666 DVD.

The 2016 shows will see Springsteen perform the 1980 double album in its entirety. Bruce had the following to say about the trek: "It's going to take a little guessing out of the evening.

He explains, "For years I've been stubbornly telling everyone who wanted me to revive the mask to get f**ked, more or less. The idea of the mask just rotted away for me, and for a long time it was just this vile thing that I couldn't relate to. It was someone else, and everyone wanted me to go back to being someone else, so how do you think I'd react to that?

"I needed to go full circle. I suppose I had this sort of nihilistic view of the mask for a long time. It just lost all meaning to me. So I eventually worked my way through the disillusionment, hate, indifference and finally back into the reincarnated goodwill towards it.

"The return of the mask - at least for it to be part of the equation again - had to happen sooner or later. I guess I just needed to put a lot of stuff in its right place in my mind before I was ready to consider putting it back on. Let's face it, though, I'm a sucker for visual sh*t, so obviously the mask was bound to come back at some point. I just wasn't ready to admit it to myself until now, and certainly not to some entitled ass hat yelling that he wants it back."

Side A of the release features "White Walker," which was released digitally last winter as part of the Game of Thrones mixtape Catch the Throne: The Mixtape, Volume 2.

While Hagar has built a legacy for himself as a critically acclaimed musician and innovative businessman, he remains grounded and truly appreciative-for both his numerous achievements, and his family. He says, "I'm a great pop to my kids, and I'm a great husband to my wife. To my friends and family, I am just a guy I think that just really is so humbled by my success that he just goes around smilin' all the time, 'cause I'm pretty happy about it. I'm kinda shocked, you know? And I really think that that is who I really am deep down inside. And that's why I think I'm still a good performer. At 68 years old, I still go out and give everything I got because I'm so grateful."

Growing up with an alcoholic father in a family that struggled to make ends meet, music became a great comfort for Hagar. Reflecting on his childhood, he reveals, "We never owned a home, first of all. We always rented. [My father] couldn't pay the rent. He'd be in jail. My mom couldn't pay the rent. So we'd go campin'. We'd live in a tent and stuff� I didn't think we were havin' a hard time until I really started growin' up and seein' what other friends had. And then I started to realize I was really poor� So, I kinda got down and out. And then I started playin' music. Lookin' back, I can't believe I made it. And it's the thing that makes me so happy, why I go around smiling all the time."

The album is scheduled to be released in North American on March 25th and March 18th in Europe. The band recruited the album's artwork creator Chioreanu / Twilight13Media (At The Gates, Grave, Arcturus), to make the new lyric video.

Guitarist Michael Amott had the following to say about the song, "'Diamond Under Pressure' is a song that our keyboard player Per Wiberg brought in as an awesome instrumental and I proceeded to write a lyric and vocal arrangement for it, I was inspired by a late night, alcohol fuelled conversation I'd had with our producer Staffan Karlsson for this one.

The new album was produced by Andy Hull (Manchester Orchestra) and Manchester Orchestra collaborator Brad Fisher and is scheduled to be released on March 25th.

The band will be hitting the road with Foxing on March 15th in Hamden, CT at The Space and concluding the tour on April 8th in St. Louis, MO at The Luminary.

The new album was produced by The National's Aaron Dessner and was recorded at his Brooklyn studio and at Dreamland Studio in Woodstock, NY in the summer of last year.

Dessner had the following to say about the album and Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison, "Great songwriters touch a nerve, and I think Scott really touches a nerve with these songs. To me, lyrically, this album is a step above anything he's written before."

Frightened Rabbit will be kicking off their U.S. tour in support of the new record, which will feature support from Caveman, on April 21st in Portland, OR at the Wonder Ballroom.

The station reports that once they learned that Babcock's vest was spotted in the store display, they reached out to Macy's, posted a story and spoke about the discovery on air.

The show reports that on Friday (February 18th) Meshach received a package from Macy's containing his vest along with a Ralph Lauren leather jacket and a couple gift cards.

Alice's supergroup with Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry performed their new single, "As Bad As I Am", at the Grammy Awards on Monday as well as paying a musical tribute to Motorhead mainman Lemmy Kilmister.

"As Bad As I Am" is one of three bonus tracks featured on the just-released deluxe edition of the band's 2015 self-titled debut, which delivers covers of classic tunes by Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors and more. The band's live lineup includes Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, Tommy Henriksen and Bruce Witkin.

As for his upcoming solo album, Cooper reveals that in addition to featuring some of his current backing group, it will include some tunes he's co-written with the other surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band.

"[Drummer] Neal [Smith] and [guitarist] Mike [Bruce] and I just wrote two or three songs. [Bassist] Dennis [Dunaway] and I wrote some songs together," he says. "When we broke up [in 1974], we broke up as friends. We never broke up as enemies.

The former Genesis frontman and drummer last year announced he's changed his mind about ending his career, and later discussed the possibility of work with Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford again - while also saying that a reunion with Peter Gabriel was unlikely.

Collins, 65, tells Consequence Of Sound: "This thing is accelerating a little bit quicker than I would like it to. I have said that I would like to do a few shows, and now people are saying, 'You're going back on tour.'

Campbell tells KNAC (via Blabbermouth): "The unfortunate truth is that Wendy Dio never wanted Dio to be a band. She always wanted it to be about Ronnie, the solo artist.

"In her mind, it didn't matter who was in the band with Ronnie, who was standing behind him - bass player, guitar players, drummers, whatever. We were all interchangeable.

The new cover track appears on Jennings' upcoming album Countach (For Giorgio), which pays tribute to Bowie and electronic musician Giorgio Moroder.

Jennings tells Rolling Stone: "I invited Marilyn to a party, and I said, 'You know Cat People? You'd sound awesome doing it.' He was like, 'I sing that song every night before I go on stage.'"

As he walks along the beach to wait at Lifeguard Tower 28, the boy snapchats several messages, including one that reads, "I am the King of Rock and Roll�Completely."

It comes after King 810 helped deliver clean water to the residents of their hometown of Flint, Michigan. A state of emergency was declared in the city after the local water supply became contaminated with lead.