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Lynyrd Skynyrd Icon Has Heart Surgery, Tour Put On Hold

In character as The Thin White Duke, Bowie ventured heavily into soul music and, as "The Gouster" unfolded creatively, it eventually morphed into the "Young Americans" album.

"Gouster was a word unfamiliar to me but David knew it as a type of dress code worn by African American teens in the '60's, in Chicago," producer Tony Visconti explains in the liner notes from the forthcoming box set. "But in the context of the album its meaning was attitude, an attitude of pride and hipness. Of all the songs we cut we were enamored of the ones we chose for the album that portrayed this attitude.

"David had a long infatuation with soul as did I. We were fans of the TV show Soul Train. We weren't 'young, gifted and black' but we sure as hell wanted to make a killer soul album, which was quite insane, but pioneers like the Righteous Brothers were there before us."

Perry and the group updated fans on the news via their social media sites Thursday, as the summer run is set to wrap up with four final shows on the west coast starting Friday.

During the second song of The Hollywood Vampires show at the Ford Amphitheater in Coney Island, Perry stumbled offstage and, according to sources, soon lost consciousness and apparently went into cardiac arrest, with police on the scene reviving him.

The band swapped out "Sorry" for the song, which Axl Rose reportedly wrote as a critique of the J.D. Salinger book in dedication to John Lennon after watching a documentary on his murderer Mark David Chapman.

It's the fifth tune from the 2008 album that the group has performed on the Not In This Lifetime tour, alongside "This I Love", "Better", "Sorry" and the title track.

"Live At The NEC" features both of the band's keyboard players - Lord and Don Airey, who would go on to take over his duties. Airey serves as the principal keyboardist throughout the show, culminating in a solo before the lights drop, with Lord appearing for "Perfect Strangers." The two share keyboard duties for the rest of the night, in a fitting passing-of-the-torch moment.

Lord passed away July 16, 2012 at the age of 71 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. With Purple, the keyboardist co-wrote many of the group's legendary songs, including "Smoke On The Water," and played with many bands and musicians throughout his career.

Newsted is also set to perform two acoustic benefit shows with as-yet-unnamed friends at Lafayette's Mighty Fine Guitars in California for music charity Little Kids Rock on August 5 and 6.

They released their debut album Hybrid Theory in 2000, which went on to huge commercial success. But some questioned the integrity of their sound, which challenged the concept of what metal could be.

But reflecting on their first album and the reaction to it, Bennington says Linkin Park were partially responsible for bringing metal into the 21st century.

Vocalist Tyler Joseph recently looked ahead to their next album, saying he and Dun were anticipating a more confident record than they'd produced previously.

He said: "I feel a greatest sense of freedom and less pressure. I felt a lot more pressure going from Vessel to Blurryface. I feel so much confidence that I can look at myself and say, 'I know what we're making is for a group of people out there that want to hear it.' That's all the confidence I need.

They also revealed that the follow-up to 2014's From Parts Unknown will feature a guest appearance from Panic! At The Disco mainman Brendon Urie. Low Teens is described as their "most poignant and impassioned album in a career full of sardonic illuminations and pit-inciting fervour."

A press release adds: "The band was on tour in Toronto in December when Keith received a phone call that his wife was in the hospital with a life-threatening pregnancy complication.

He claimed �300,000 in compensation from Network Rail, saying he suffered disabling thumb injuries while at work. But when his claim was exposed as a fraud by a video showing him performing with Guns Or Roses, he dropped the case. Dermody, from Altrincham, now faces a charge of contempt of court.

Earlier this month he discussed the possibility of recording a follow-up to 2012's Monster, their 20th title, but admitted it might be "more for my own satisfaction than anybody else's."

Now Stanley tells Radio.com: "It's a very conflicted subject. In one sense there's no reason to put out any new music, because the delivery systems that are available don't pay.

"We're in a situation where artists have to take what they can get, as opposed to what they deserve. For me it's more of a moral issue than anything else - I don't have to worry about paying the rent, but what about new bands?"

He adds that another consideration is fans' preference for classic tracks over new ones, and the time it takes for material to be regarded with more warmth.

The Serenity Of Suffering, which features a guest appearance from Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor, was produced by Nick Raskulinecz and it's available for pre-order now.

Korn hired Sons Of Anarchy actor Tommy Flanagan to appear in the video, which was shot in a century-old former brothel in downtown Los Angeles. Frontman Jonathan Davis tells Rolling Stone: "Rotting In Vain was written about being in that black place, being in situations that I don't like in life - feeling you're stuck and you're just being abused, and you just sit there and rot.

Johnson is recovering from injuries sustained in last year's fatal crash which resulted in the death of the driver of the band's tour bus and the driver of the other vehicle involved.

Frontwoman Cristina Scabbia had the following to say about the new clip, "We filmed our parts for this video in one evening while we were on the US tour this past May. We used a Go-Pro against a black backdrop and we wanted something that would be purposely rough, something that could remind some weird lost videos found after years and years.

"The whole video edited together with the parts filmed by the director with an actress turned out as a very strange sort of a trip, where a girl tries to tight up memories and details together to try to find her sanity back, somehow.

Rolling Stone debuted a clip from the film, which finds Manson standing on one side of the door and delivering a crackling, understated speech to his opponent who paces the room like a caged animal.

Manson previously acted in the FX series Sons of Anarchy, an opportunity that opened the doors to the film. "Mark [Boone Junior] brought me into the project," Manson said. "We were friends from Sons of Anarchy. He's sort of my unwanted mentor. He tells me what to do. He's always encouraged me, but he's very bossy about it. He says things like, 'You gotta do this, motherf***er. You'll like this.'"

Anderson tells Prog: "They signed me and old whats-his-name - Phil Collins - in the same month. Then Phil goes to no.1 with Face Value for a thousand years. Gosh, I misjudged that situation."

The singer claims the Genesis man scuppered his chances once again years later when his 1988 album In The City Of Angels flopped everywhere in the world - except Quebec.

Anderson says: "I played a festival in Quebec and it was still being played on the radio. The promoter told me, 'This was a big album here.' I said, 'Really? This is the only place in the world it was, then.'"

The promo includes a guest appearance from Billy Ray Cyrus, who says he was "honoured" to be in the clip. He says: "If you are ready to hear a great band with an incredible song, hit play. I was honoured when they asked me to bring The Rambler to life. Make something real? Hell yeah. I'm in."

The tune - which originally appeared on 1969's "Led Zeppelin II" - was the opening number of Plant's 11-song set with The Sensational Space Shifters at the annual event.

Alongside several other Zeppelin tunes, Plant and the band also delivered a few originals and covers of tracks by Joan Baez ("Babe, I'm Going To Leave You") and Bukka White ("Fixin' To Die").

Plant and the band are currently on the road playing dates across Europe. Earlier this year, the singer revealed work had begun on a follow-up to 2014's "lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar."

The new album is their first work to feature guitarist Neil Tiemann and drummer Justin D'Amond. Mainman Dez Fafara recently said: "Trust No One is one of the most poignant records I've ever written lyrically.

Landu warns that while it is still to premature to say much about the new album, he believes that it will prove to be 'a very different kind of record" for Springsteen.

"All I can say is that there is a solo record," he continued. "And when I say solo record, I'm not talking about an acoustic record. It is, in fact, a very expansive record, a very rich record. It's one of Bruce's very creative efforts. Stay tuned, and we'll see exactly how that shapes up next year."