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The group will be honored at New York's Barclays Center on April 7 alongside Pearl Jam, Journey, Yes, Joan Baez and Tupac Shakur. "Unfortunately I will not be able to attend ELO's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame due to the fact that I am on tour in the UK with another great friend of Jeff (Lynne), Richard (Tandy) and Roy (Wood)..the legend that is 'Jasper Carrott'," writes Bevan on Facebook. "These dates have been sold out for some time and when the news broke about our induction it was too late to change them.

"It would have been fantastic to meet up with Roy, Jeff and Richard again," he continues, calling the recognition a great honor "I have been incredibly fortunate to have had a life in the music business from my first band 'Rocking Ronnie & The Renegades' to 'Black Sabbath and all the bits inbetween including The Move, Denny Laine & The Diplomats, Carl Wayne & The Vikings, Quill, The Electric Light Orchestra, the Brum Rocks concerts, Stand Up & Rock and more� surrounded by great talented musicians. It has been a blast and I still get a buzz every time I walk out on stage.

The new live package will be entitled "Rammstein: Paris" and it was captured during the band's performance at the Palais Omnisports Arena during their Made in Germany tour in March of 2012.

"Rammstein: Paris" will hit stores on May 19th in various formats including a 2 CD/Blu-ray or 2CD/DVD, a deluxe edition on 4LP/2 CD/Blu-Ray and a standard 2 CD, and digital.

The German rockers also announced that they will be playing a special one-night-only show at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on July 1st with Korn and Stone Sour.

The special edition will be released as two LP set on 180g vinyl in a gatefold jacket and come with the bonus "color-in your own" jacket along with a box of Mastodon colored pencils. Fans can preorder it here.

The group released a special remastered reissue of the album last summer which included the three bonus tracks of their renditions of "Battery," "Nothing Else Matters" and "Seek & Destroy." It's available on CD and vinyl here.

Berry had last landed in the top 40 of the chart back in October of 1972 when his album "The London Chuck Berry Sessions," which featured the hit song "My Ding-a-Ling," hit No. 8.

The tour is scheduled to kick off on July 12th in Spokane, WA at the Spokane Arena and will conclude on October 1st in Dallas, TX at the Irving Music Factory.

The four-minute song started with Church alone on guitar as a spotlight shined brightly on him. As the song picked up his band joined in while Church belted each word.

"Better Man" hit No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1995. The song was written by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder while he was in high school and featured on the band's 1994 album Vitalogy. Pearl Jam are set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this April. A major influence on rock fans, Pearl Jam have also made an impact on Church.

When Phoenix announced their 2017 summer tour dates in early March, only three American festival stops cracked the list -- the others were all in Europe. Now the band has announced a full North American tour with 13 dates in the United States and Canada; it will be its first full tour of the region since 2014.

Fans who can't make it to Shaky Knees or the Governor's Ball can see Phoenix in Orlando, Nashville, Chicago, Toronto or a handful of other cities with standalone concert dates.

"The dream is still unfolding," said Ringo in the announcement. "I love to play, and I love to play with this band. I can't say that enough, and we're on the road again."

The lyrics were written for an unpublished song about Wisconsin. Dylan had a special connection with Wisconsin. He went to camp there as a child and briefly lived in Madison in 1960 after dropping out of the University of Minnesota in May that same year. Dylan was determined to make a name for himself in Madison, which was one of the hotspots for folk music at the time. He played at various clubs, but didn't make a major impression.

The band released the live album last year and Henry Paul had this to say the track featured in the new video clip (which can be streamed here), "The song 'Gunsmoke' was written in late 1976.

"It was an early attempt on my part to write lyrical imagery specifically for The Outlaws musical personality. I was honored to get the lead track position with it on the 'Hurry Sundown' album and I think it's held up pretty well after all this time."

In the latest installment of the Kids React YouTube series, youngsters share their thoughts on Nirvana. "Sounds like a hippie name, say one child. "Sounds like a drink at Jamba Juice," says another.

The line-up for these shows will consist of Madame Mayhem on vocals, guitarists Joey Ragz and Gogi Randhawa, bassist Percy Trayanov, and drummer Ryan Bennett.

There are a few reasons it's taken this long for a follow-up - he's been a bit busy. Even as he produced critically acclaimed comebacks from Linda Perhacs and Emitt Rhodes, opened for the Who with Tal Wilkenfeld's band, and wrote songs with Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish, Beck), Price continued to write and record his own new music.

The album follows the 2015 release of the critically acclaimed career anthology, Everything Is Roses 1985-1989, which told the story of one of Music City's most innovative and beloved rock bands.

August 6th came about during a period when we were not as exactly as prolific as we would've liked to be. When we started it we were just demoing on garageband with no clear idea of what it was going to be at first, we were just throwing ideas down and seeing what stuck. After a while the idea began to form and from there it came together very quickly.

We recorded the track with producer Gavin Glass at his Dublin studio, there we finished the song and added more touches to it like the drum machine, group vocals and the ambient synth sounds that feature heavily on it. we also recorded some strange percussion parts for it, using drum sticks on radiators and floorboards that were tracked through ambient mics around the room.

During the recording process one moment that sticks out also is working on the chorus, once the initial music and vocals were done, we still felt like the chorus lacked something so we experimented with group vocals, which wound up being such a huge part of the song, the part initially only had one set of vocals on it and wound up being layered and layered with a bunch of us singing different harmonies.

Lyrically the song is about the idea of different timelines or alternate versions of events and moments in a life. I wanted the lyrics to feel like a snapshot of a bunch of different memories that one might have throughout a lifetime, but all mixed up together and not exactly moving in a straight line. When I was writing the lyrics I was really interested in the Parallel Worlds/Parallel Lives theory, the whole idea that there's another version or another result from something I found really fascinating and wanted to incorporate this into lyrics, so the song focuses on that notion that you might be one place, but there's also another version of this where you're somewhere else entirely, again though I wanted it to be somewhat sporadic and not totally specific to one thing so there's references to different times like childhood, adulthood and adolescence all in same paragraph or verse.