Peter Gabriel And Sting Teaming Up For North American Tour

It was just four days after his 70th birthday and two days after he received word of his health diagnosis. Now, TMZ reports the rocker's death certificate lists prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia and congestive heart failure as the official causes of death.

Now, Azoff tells The Wrap that the latter two were caused by medications that he was taking for the inflammatory disorder. "The colitis and pneumonia were side effects from all the meds," explained Azoff. "He died from complications of ulcer and colitis after being treated with drugs for his rheumatoid arthritis which he had for over 15 years."

Speaking with NME, Coldplay's drummer Will Champion said vocalist Chris Martin wrote Bowie asking if he would contribute harmonies to a song they had written that seemed suited for his particular style. Bowie's response? "It's not a very good song, is it?"

"Blink album is coming together. I'm excited. I don't want to reveal too much. I don't know how many songs we're gonna write before we say 'this is the group of 12 songs we're putting on the album.' We have 15-20 songs right now, but I really feel like it's a process."

He said last year that he planned to work with Corabi again and he has since posted an update on his Facebook picture. He is recording at Blackbird Studio, in Nashville, Tennessee, and has posted an image of himself and Corabi at the desk.

The second will be onboard the Rock Legends Cruise from January 19-23, 2017. It departs from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And the lineup featuring guitarists Scott Gorham and Damon Johnson, frontman Ricky Warwick and keyboardist Darren Wharton, have invited Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee to join them.

Gorham says: "With Black Star Riders taking some time off the road to work on their third album, I thought it would be really cool to do some Thin Lizzy shows as it's an anniversary year, to have some fun and to re-live the good old days.

The run includes appearances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in April and Bonnaroo in June and pairs of stadium shows at Boston's Fenway Park and Chicago's Wrigley Field in August.

The debut episode of the 6-program series sees Hagar head to Sunset Boulevard to reminisce at the Whisky A-Go-Go before visiting with Lee at his house. After cooking together and exchanging stories, the pair are joined by bassist Michael Anthony to jam in the drummer's studio.

The session was filmed prior to the end of Motley Crue's farewell tour, which wrapped up on New Year's Eve at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The band's final show was filmed for a theatre and Pay-Per-View release later this year.

And they'll kick off a 29-date tour in Texas on March 16, after a February show at the Radio Contraband Convention in Las Vegas. Following the headline tour, they'll perform at WYBB Rockfest in South Carolina. Support on the headline tour will come from Memphis May Fire and 36 Crazyfists.

The follow-up to 2013's Disarm The Descent is the band's second since Jesse Leach returned to the frontman role. He previously said: "Disarm The Descent was sort of my comeback album, and was about us feeling out the new vibe.

The project has been in the pipeline since 2011, with Rabin initially telling Prog that the three former Yes members were planning on doing an album together. And last week it was confirmed that work was underway and that they'd tour together.

Now Wakeman has shed further light on the project. Wakeman says on his website: "Jon, Trevor and I have been talking about this for some time and following the very sad passing of Chris Squire, felt it was the right time to get together and produce both new music and perform some of the classic material as we feel it should be performed. We have no connection with any other former members and indeed intend this to be very fresh in every approach."

The limited edition vinyl album documents Bad Religions' 2010 30th anniversary tour. The shows saw the iconic punk rockers perform a collection of their greatest anthems to sold-out crowds. The album was mixed by Max Fraser, and marks the first time these recordings have been available physically.

And Schenker, who had two stints with the band and left for good in 1979, has directed his ire towards his former bandmate and brother Rudy. Schenker tells Gigs And Festivals: "There are things that I know today, and I must say I'm actually very disappointed in my brother because I just found out that a lot of things have been incorrect in the past.

"Me, being seven years younger than the other guys, I think I was taken advantage of right from the beginning. I wrote most of the songs on Lonesome Crow and it was credited to all members.

Based on the 2014 book "13 Hours" by Mitchell Zuckoff, the project - in theaters now - tells the story of the six members of a security team who fought to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi following a terrorist attack on September 11, 2012.

The film stars James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Max Martini, Toby Stephens, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa and Freddie Stroma.

Mainman Wayne Hussey says: "30 bloody years! Who would have thought it, eh? As we were well renowned for our, ahem, lifestyle choices, shall we say, I remember Melody Maker ran an office pool betting which member of The Mission would die first.

"I seem to remember Mick Brown was the favourite, with yours truly running a close second. Well, we're still here, alive and well and still going strong. It seems to me that anyone who survives past the age of 50 in this business these days is given honorary legendary status. It's cheaply given, in my opinion, but we'll take it."

He continues: "I seriously never thought I'd see this day but 30 years is a remarkable achievement. Not one we could have achieved without the support and patronage of our brilliant audience. This celebration is for them as much as it is for our retirement funds."

Last year, mainman Al Jourgensen said he planned only a few more tours with Ministry and that they wouldn't release a new album because recording without guitarist and close friend Mike Scaccia - who died in 2012 - didn't feel right.

He said: "I decided it's not the same. It would be like Zeppelin playing without Bonham or the Who playing without Moon." On the UK tour, DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara says: "Ministry and DevilDriver on the same bill, that's a f***ing concert worth showing up to. Al is a close and dear friend and Ministry is an iconic band for me and helped form my youth.

Bonamassa says: "I want people to hear my evolution as a blues-rock musician - somebody who isn't resting on accomplishments and who is always pushing forward and thinking about how music can evolve and stay relevant.

"Lyrically, you'll hear the proverbial trains, mountains, valleys and other blues references about heartbreak and loneliness. But there are also some poignant moments about getting away from the stressful, crazy demands of life and losing yourself with your special someone."

They issued a stream of their track Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose last month, along with a teaser trailer for the record featuring five tracks. Mainman Tobias Sammet has also revealed he and the band have been asked by their label to take part in the German preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest.

He says on his website: "My mother's gonna be proud. Or not. We'll see. Anyway, it seemed like a quite unusual idea to compete with anyone in music - to play music against someone� like in jazz music.

Frontman Kavus Torabi says: "After The Unravelling, which took over a year to complete, we deliberately wanted to change the variables - to alter the approach in order to make something different.

"I love The Unravelling but it was a very difficult record to make. Rather than spending so long in the studio, constructing, arranging, recording, re-recording and adding layers of additional instruments and noises, this time we wanted something rawer, more live sounding."

Vocalist Emmanuel Jessua tells TeamRock: "The album Shores Of The Abstract Line tells the story of a journey on an imaginary island that consists of five different shores.

"Each shore is represented by a song, though some of these songs are actually split in two. We follow a protagonist that travels these different shores. Every shore tells us a different memory the character holds.

"But as the island is a circle, the walk the character takes, is a condemned one, as he has to start over and over again � just like Camus' Sisyphus. Shores Of The Abstract Line is meant to represent the inner cartography of the character that was developed throughout the two previous albums. Each shore is a fragment of a past forgone that the character crosses.

He adds: "The North Shore is divided into two parts: The Abstract Line and Sea Made of Crosses. This line is the last path on his travel, before his journey seems to end. The Abstract Line links together the Northern and the Southern shore, creating an inner path between life and death - infinite rebirth.

The group features former members from other Iowa metal bands, including Painface, PygWalk, and Mars on Fire. Steele performed as part of the original Slipknot line-up from the band's inception in 1995 until he left in 1996.

"He's a huge influence on not just me, but a lot of the bands that I listen to and a lot of the type of music that I listen to," explains Scrivens. "For me, he's probably the epitome of heavy metal and rock music in terms of not just his music, but his attitude, his persona, his look. He's an ugly guy, he's got a gruff, ugly singing voice. He says what he thinks all the time, he's swearing all the time, and it wasn't an act.

"I think that's the thing that came across from him, nothing was for show. You knew that when he went home and talked to his kid he was probably the exact same way."

Scrivens hooked up with Eye Candy Air artist Steve Nash for the design, which was needed when the goalie was traded from the Edmonton Oilers on December 28, the same day Kilmister died.

"Ben just said we have to do this because I love that guy," says Nash. "All the credit to Ben. It was his idea. I just put his thoughts to paper. I think it came out really nice. Lemmy helps a lot with that cool factor. I guess you put Lemmy on anything and it will be cool."