Today's Day in Rock Stories

Paul McCartney Plays Surprise Club Show

Alongside The Sensational Space Shifters, Plant takes on "Whole Lotta Love" as part of a mash-up with Willie Dixon's "I Just Want To Make Love To You" and Bo Diddley's "Hey! Bo Diddley" as the final song in the broadcast, which marks the rocker's return to the acclaimed PBS series for the first time in more than a decade.

Following the release of performances of "In The Mood" and "Black Dog", the PBS show has issued footage of Plant and company doing the folk song, "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You", as well as a web exclusive of the Howlin' Wolf track "No Place To Go."

The phenomenon began in the US earlier this year, when police forces in several states investigated sightings of people in clown dress behaving suspiciously.

Taylor told BBC2 topical comedy show No Such Thing As The News: "The effects have been such that even our dear Clown has downgraded himself to 'Mime' in order to distance himself from these hedonistic doppelgangers until the coast is clear." He added: "Remember, a real clown doesn't need a knife to intimidate - just a bat and a good cold stare."

The follow-up to 2013's One Of Us Is The Killer is on sale Friday (October 14), after they confirmed they'd go their separate ways when their current touring duties are complete.

The Independent reports: "For the first time, Dillinger wrote and recorded far more material than has ended up on the record, and Weinman is adamant these songs will see the light of day.

"Plans to release all the material as a double-album were scrapped early on, in the interests of making a cohesive album, rather than simply throwing everything into the mix."

The 3-disc Deluxe Edition will feature the original album alongside a disc of previously unreleased alternate takes and demo versions of songs from the era, and a collection of live performances from 1981 that combines solo tracks with Fleetwood Mac classics.

The new release will feature the band's performances from London's Wembley Arena in the UK, along with their show at Tampere's Ratina Stadion, Finland. It'll launch on December 9.

Keyboardist and songwriter Tuomas Holopainen says: "The title Vehicle Of Spirit came from a friend of Troy Donockley's, who, after seeing our show a few years ago defined Nightwish as, 'A vehicle of spirit that defies category.'

She tells K9 Magazine: "I'm inspired by Steve Vai and there's a song in the Alice Cooper catalogue, which not a lot of people know, but Steve Vai plays one of the guitar solos on it and the song is called Feed My Frankenstein.

"Every time we play that song on stage I get to play Steve Vai's solo and it's a little bit of a moment for me to pay tribute to my hero. I learnt the solo note for note how he recorded it, and so each time I play it I get to think about how he inspired me so much while playing his notes.

And in a new Classic Rock feature on people who have stepped into the role left by famous axemen, Thayer says he had to do things by the book when he was finding his feet with Kiss.

He says: "It's a big role to fill. I've been playing lead guitar in KISS for almost 15 years and I've got very comfortable with it. With KISS, particularly since I've been in the band, the style and direction has always been very defined. With the solos and the guitar parts, the idea was to play them exactly as they were written and performed before me."

And he says that although work is continuing on the follow-up to 2014's Manslaughter, the album centers around themes of violence as "it's in our DNA."

He tells Revolver: "Making records is a very interesting process. You work really hard on something and finish it and then you'll be like, 'Yo, that sounds like somebody else's record.' Or, 'Hey, didn't we just make that record three days ago?'

Last month, Deftones announced they had teamed up with San Diego brewery Belching Beaver to created their own Phantom Bride beer - named after their track featuring Alice In Chains mainman Jerry Cantrell.

Moreno tells Draft: "I was jealous of other bands putting out beers, loving beer as much as I do. So I pitched the idea of doing a collaboration with a few different breweries, and Belching Beaver was the first one to come back and really be engaged.

Rivero tells TeamRock: "Flags are coming from all the continents, travelling the globe, with just one goal - to create the biggest Metallica flag ever to be made by fans.

Directed by Wayne Isham, the clip was filmed during the band's show in Edmonton, AB last month as part of a Canadian tour. Due November 18, "Prayers For The Blessed" by the trio of vocalist James Michael, bassist Nikki Sixx and guitarist DJ Ashba is the second volume and companion to "Prayers For The Damned", which was issued this past spring.

And he reports that the direction of metal is gradually moving away from his tastes, and thinks that older music has more identity than current musical trends.

He tells Metal Wani: "I think the metal scene is saturated. Even if I think it's true, I don't think it's suffering at all from it. It goes in waves, or in circles. All of sudden, a retro sound is popular again and everybody's, like, 'This is so f***ing cool,' because it sounds like Black Sabbath. Or the djent thing.

"I don't know where it's going to go, but I believe it's probably going to go in the direction where I don't necessarily want to listen to it." He continues: "I like the old. I'm always talking about old music. I am very nostalgic about it but I also think it was so much easier back in those days with the identities of bands - the bands that I grew up with. It was so easy to tell them apart. There was a lot of bands, but not as many as today.

Georgia Pine is the third single and title track from the Birmingham, UK, band's recent EP release. The Georgia Pine EP was previously only available on CD and digital formats, but will be issued on limited edition and numbered 10-inch vinyl on November 9.

It brings their tour up to 10 UK dates, with the trek kicking off in Cardiff on March 12 and wrapping up in Manchester on March 25. Tickets for the new London date go on sale at 10am on October 14 (Friday) via Myticket and Seetickets.

And asked what he'd have for his dream post-fight meal, Hegg says: "Wild boar. There is a place where I buy boar meat that actually has been hunted, but not by me.

"It's always absolutely fantastic and super nice to barbecue. It's beautiful, a great meat. So boar would be a good choice. And I would drink large quantities of quality beer. Obviously."