Month: October 2024

The 50th anniversary of George Harrison’s solo album Living in the Material World is being celebrated with a series of new reissues, including a super deluxe edition featuring 12 previously unreleased recordings. Released in May 1973, Living in the Material World was Harrison’s second solo album of original material, and his second solo album to hit #1.

Harrison’s wife, Olivia, and son, Dhani, oversaw the project, with Olivia sharing, “I hope you revisit Living in the Material World or discover it for the first time, and as you listen, share George’s wish for himself and mankind.”

The first preview of those recordings is “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (Take 18),” an early acoustic version of Harrison’s second solo #1, available now via digital outlets. Other unearthed songs include a recording of “Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond),” featuring the Band’s Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, and Rick Danko, as well as Ringo Starr. That comes on a separate 7″ single in the super deluxe edition.

The super deluxe edition will be limited to only 5,000 copies, and will include two LPs and two CDs, featuring the newly remixed album, plus a separate disc with previously unreleased early editions of each song on the album. In addition to the super deluxe edition, there will be two-LP and two-CD deluxe editions that include the session outtakes. It will also be released as a single CD and LP, with limited-edition color vinyl variants available at various retailers, including a purple color vinyl from the Harrison online store.

All formats will be released Nov. 15 and are available for preorder – HERE.
Stream ‘Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (Take 18)’ – HERE.

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Creed frontman Scott Stapp is set to make his Grand Ole Opry debut on October 23rd.   Opry members Jon Pardi, T. Graham Brown, and Ashley McBryde are also slated to stand in the Inner Circle the same night. Stapp has called Nashville his home for nearly a decade.

Stapp’s appearance will feature the first live performance of his duet with Dorothy, “If These Walls Could Talk,” written by Scott Stapp with Kylie Sackley (Sam Hunt, Keith Urban, Walker Hayes), Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith, Carrie Underwood, Ozzy Osbourne, Faith Hill), and Scott Stevens (Halestorm, Shinedown).

Stapp said of being invited to the Opry stage: “I am humbled by this invitation and grateful for the Opry’s tradition of including outliers like me. The Nashville songwriting community has been an incredible source of inspiration and support through a life-changing era for me, so it is a distinct honor to step into the circle for the first time.”

Stapp’s band Creed were on the road this summer for their Summer Of ’99 Tour, and the band will be on the road this fall for the Are You Ready? tour, featuring 20 additional arena dates. The Are You Ready? tour kicks-off this November in Oklahoma City at Paycom Center, featuring special guests 3 Doors Down, Mammoth WVH, and Finger Eleven on select dates.

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Disney+ has shared the trailer for the upcoming Elton John documentary, ‘Elton John: Never Too Late.’ The documentary is framed with footage of Elton preparing for his final concert in North America at LA’s Dodger Stadium and features the new, original song by Elton called “Never Too Late.”

An official synopsis reads: “As he prepares for his final concert in North America at Dodger Stadium, Elton takes us back in time and recounts the extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows of his early years and how he overcame adversity, abuse and addiction to become the icon he is today.”

The documentary details John‘s extraordinary music career and complicated personal life; John says in the trailer: “At that time, there was an emptiness within me. My soul had gone dark, I’d gone dark. And I wasn’t a joy to be around. I didn’t have anything apart from my success and my drugs. I took a bunch of tablets. I thought I was gonna drown.”

‘Elton John: Never Too Late’ will premiere in select theaters Nov. 15, and will stream on Disney+ beginning Dec. 13. See the trailer  – HERE.

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The Cure has revealed the track list for their upcoming 14th studio album ‘Songs Of A Lost World‘ and have also released their latest single, “A Fragile Thing.”

The band previously-announced that Songs Of A Lost World will drop on November 1. In a clip from an upcoming interview about new album (seen HERE), frontman Robert Smith talked about the inspiration behind it: “It’s the ‘love song’ of the album, but it’s not really a love song in the way that [1989’s] ‘Lovesong’ is a love song. It’s about love and how love is the most enduring of emotions, I think. It’s the most powerful emotion, and it’s incredibly resilient. And yet at the same time, incredibly fragile … I know, and doesn’t really make much sense. But I think you know what I mean. You feel sometimes you’re in danger of destroying something, and yet you kind of know that it can’t be destroyed.”

A Fragile Thing is the follow-up to the album’s lead single ‘Alone’ and Smith shared of that song: “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening song, and I felt the whole album come into focus. I had been struggling to find the right opening line for the right opening song for a while, working with the simple idea of ‘being alone’, always in the back of my mind this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line should be…As soon as we finished recording I remembered the poem Dregs by the English poet Ernest Dowson… and that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.”

The Cure, initially formed in 1978, have sold over 30 million albums worldwide, and were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. The band recently announced two intimate pre-release shows in the UK slated to take place on Oct. 30 and 31.

Check out the lyric video for “Alone” – HERE and the lyric video for “A Fragile Thing.”

Songs Of A Lost World is available for pre-order now.

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The 25th anniversary of David Bowie’s album ‘hours…’ will be celebrated with two special digital EPs, featuring four previously unreleased tracks.

‘Hours…’ was initially released on September 21, 1999, marking Bowie’s 22nd studio album, and the first album by a major artist to be made available for download. The album was a top five hit in the U.K, but failed to hit the top 40 in the U.S.

Speaking at the time, Bowie said, “I am hopeful that this small step will lead to greater steps by myself and others, ultimately giving consumers greater choices and easier access to the music they enjoy.”  The album featured the songs “Survive” and “Seven,” two of three singles released in the U.K.

To preorder the 25th anniversary reissue of Hours … head HERE.

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