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Metallica’s members are all in their 60s, and their music is way more physically demanding than anything their classic-rock forebears have had to tackle onstage — but lead guitarist Kirk Hammett tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that he doesn’t see retirement on the horizon.

“As long as we have our health and our mind, I think we can just keep on going,” says Hammett, whose new coffee-table book, The Collection: Kirk Hammett, dives into his world-class arsenal of vintage guitars. “Sometimes I forget how old I am,...

Doc Holliday is one of the most interesting men in the history of the Western genre. A dentist-turned-gambler-turned-gunfighter, his real-life story has been fictionalized through countless portrayals in film and TV. Throughout the years, Doc has been portrayed in a wide variety of ways, ranging from the cold and calculating to the charming and unpredictable.

Among the many actors who have taken on the role, Val Kilmer and Adam West stand out for their takes on the character, even though they played him decades apart. Kilmer’s portrayal in Tombstone remains one of the most iconic, playing Doc as a brilliant and witty man battling tuberculosis. West, on the other hand, took on the role in the late 1950s and early 1960s in a series of TV Westerns, bringing a more classic version of the gunslinger. Despite these differences, both actors made their portrayals memorable, adding to the character's legendary status in the Western genre.

How does a truly terrible song end up an otherwise flawless album? Blame ego-appeasing band-politics concessions, drug-fueled studio experiments, songwriters working through a few too many personal demons, and artists who just ran out of songwriting steam a little too soon. Or maybe it all comes down to bad judgment.

In any case, Rolling Stone‘s Andy Greene recently found 50 examples of classic albums with at least one bad song, and he goes through his entire list with host Brian Hiatt on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now.

Half a century on from the sublimely ridiculous Tommy, the passionate abandon that distinguished Russell’s films – from composer biopics to the infamous The Devils, among other bonkers oddities – is needed now more than ever

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the release of one of the most important and groundbreaking pop movies of all time: Ken Russell’s psychedelic screen adaptation of the Who’s rock opera Tommy (1975). Marketed with the eye-catching tag lines “Your senses will never be the same” and “He will tear your soul apart”, the film starred Roger Daltrey as the traumatised kid who becomes a Pinball Wizard and (more importantly) a cult messiah.

Blending themes to which Russell would return throughout his career (the transformative power of music; the alchemical madness of genius; the dark power of false religion), Tommy was a typically wild ride that swung between the sublime and the ridiculous.

Attention, MTV Generation, your ship has come in! Paramount+ is opening the floodgates to bring classic episodes of MTV Unplugged, VH1 Storytellers, and CMT Crossroads to the streaming platform. Over 50 episodes of MTV Unplugged were recently added, and there are dozens of episodes of VH1 Storytellers and CMT Crossroads to experience and explore.

According to Paramount+, many episodes “haven’t been available in 20+ years.” The MTV Unplugged offerings alone are a reason to consider getting a Paramount+ subscription, with iconic performances from bands like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Tori Amos, Staind, Korn, The Cranberries, Aerosmith, Alicia Keys, Duran Duran, and more up for grabs. MTV Unplugged is a legendary series of performances in unique and intimate settings, typically with acoustic versions of classic songs performed for the first time.

Meanwhile, VH1 Storytellers is similar to MTV Unplugged in that it’s a concert series in an intimate setting. However, the...

Paramount+ has opened up its vault of classic MTV Unplugged episodes. Over 50 episodes of the live performance series have been added to the streamer, alongside dozens more episodes of VH1 Storytellers and CMT Crossroads.

According to a press release, many of the episodes “haven’t been available in 20+ years.” Coming from Seasons 1-8 and 10-13, the MTV Unplugged episodes include iconic performances from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Paul McCartney, Oasis, R.E.M., Alanis Morissette, Alice in Chains, and Bob Dylan.

Meanwhile, the VH1 Storytellers episodes are taken from Seasons 1-9, 11-13,15, and 16, featuring standouts like David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Alicia Keys, and Elton John.

See the full list of more than 125 episodes below.

MTV Unplugged

Aerosmith (1990)

Alanis Morissette (1999)

Alice in Chains (1996)

Alicia Keys (2005)

Allman Brothers (1990)

Annie Lenox (1992)

Arrested Development (1993)

Babyface & Friends feat. Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, and K-Ci & JoJo (1997)

Bob Dylan (1994)

Bryan Adams (1997)

Chris Isaak (1995)

Cranberries (1995)

Crowded House...

To many progressive rock fans, Yes, Genesis, and King Crimson represent the holy trinity of the genre. And the only person freakishly talented enough to log time in all three of them is drummer Bill Bruford, who pulled off the feat between 1972 and 1976. “I’m also the guy who left all three of those bands,” Bruford jokes with Rolling Stone via Zoom from his home in Surrey, England. “I’m famous for leaving bands.”

More recently, Bruford became famous for leaving music altogether. He stopped playing drums even for fun...

Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance at Sunday’s Super Bowl was the most-watched in history, with more than 133 million people tuning in — and it also may have been the most uncompromising. In a slot that every previous artist has reserved mostly for greatest hits, Lamar only played bits of two older songs, focusing instead on his excellent new album, Gnx, and his Drake-eviscerating smash, “Not Like Us.”

On the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to break down the...

Quick Links"I'm Your Huckleberry" Has Become an Iconic Line of DialogueMany Tombstone Fans Have Misinterpreted Val Kilmer's Most Famous LineWhat Does "I Am Your Huckleberry" Really Mean?

Since its release, Tombstone has become one of the most beloved films in the Western genre. With its impressively stacked cast of A-listers, and famous scenes featuring iconic lines of dialogue, it's no wonder why it's considered to be such an influential classic. One of the most quoted lines in the entire film is spoken by Val Kilmer in his standout performance as Doc Holliday and is something that has become just as meaningful to the actor on a personal level as it is in the context of the story. As simplistic as the three words "I'm your Huckleberry" may sound, those who have seen the film know just how powerful and poignant this one particular line is. Over the years,...

In the 1993 Western Tombstone, legendary Old West lawman Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) moves his family to Tombstone, Arizona, only to learn the town is being harassed by a band of outlaws who call themselves the "Cowboys." Earp initially gives the Cowboys a wide berth, but after the local sheriff is brutally murdered his brother Virgil (Sam Elliot) steps up to fill the position.

Virgil's attempts to enforce the laws lead directly to the death of the third Earp brother, Morgan (Bill Paxton), putting Wyatt at odds with the villainous Cowboys. He swears to eradicate the entire gang and gathers an impressive posse of fighters to help him accomplish the task. The Cowboys are a formidable threat in their own right, with many skilled and ruthless gunmen among their number.

Ike Clanton Is Underhand He Strikes When His Enemies Least Expect

One of the most vocal Cowboys is Ike Clanton (Stephen Lang...

Now that the box-office success of A Complete Unknown has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of turning at least a few Gen-z viewers into Bob Dylan stans, Hollywood’s biopic wave is about to turn into a tsunami. Next up is the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White, and four separate Beatles movies from director Sam Mendes. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below).

In the new...

Marcus J. Moore, author of 2020’s The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, initially assumed it was too late to follow it with a book about one of his favorite hip-hop groups of all time, De La Soul. “My first thought was, ‘Oh, well, clearly I can’t do that, because there’s already been a book written,'” he says on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “And then much to my surprise, there wasn’t one.” (To hear the whole episode,...

Much of Dr. Martens’ popularity can be attributed to the grunge era of the ’90s when plaid and alternative music reigned supreme. It was a time when creativity was unrestrained, and a shared sense of nonconformity characterized the alternative nation of the decade.

Bella Hadid elevates her street style in New York City on February 9, 2018, pairing oversized Vivienne Westwood tailoring with edgy Dr. Martens Holly Lolita platform oxfords, Christianahjones orange sunglasses, and a playful Prada comic-print bag (Credit: INSTARimages)

Even individuals from fashion-forward families found their voice through Dr. Martens. Julia Restoin Roitfeld, daughter of the iconic Carine Roitfeld, once reflected, “I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with clothing when I was 14. I would wear purple Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my hair, dirty jeans, and baggy tops. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn’t girly or feminine. My mother hated it.

Radiohead have had a spy in their midst for years. As his excellent new book, How to Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead, reveals, bassist Colin Greenwood has been snapping candid, lovely photographs of his bandmates since the early 2000s — in the studio, in dressing rooms, and even, somehow, onstage during the middle of their concerts.

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Greenwood — who just finished a tour playing bass with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — talks about his book, looks back at highlights of his years in the band,...

Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo, two of the biggest and most interesting pop artists of the past half decade, have a not-so-secret weapon in common: producer and co-writer Daniel Nigro, formerly the frontman of the ’00s band As Tall As Lions. Nigro, who just scored a Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year, helped Roan and Rodrigo step off the pop assembly line and sidestep trends, building uncommonly sturdy catalogs of precisely crafted, oft rock-inflected hits.

In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Nigro shares studio...

Right now, sitting in a nondescript warehouse in Carson, California, thousands of ornate Gibson guitars are piled up in dozens of stacks of cardboard boxes nearly seven feet high. Some of them look like the signature models for rock gods like Dave Grohl, Ace Frehley, or Zakk Wylde. Some even appear to be autographed by Slash. But all of them are fake.

On Tuesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed one of the largest counterfeit instrument busts in history, announcing a seizure of more than 3,000 fake Gibson electric guitars that were shipped into the U.

A Grand Hamilton Piano once owned by Stevie Nicks, which was used to compose the Fleetwood Mac classics “Sara” and “Songbird” and was later played by Elton John and Freddie Mercury, is headed to the auction block via Gotta Have Rock and Roll. The minimum bid is $50,000, and the auction house estimates it will go for between $100,000 and $200,000. The auction ends on December 6.

The piano first caught the eye of English singer/songwriter Robbie Patton when he visited Nicks at her house in 1975. “[She had] his black Grand Hamilton Piano where she...

Pete Townshend has opened up about his battle with “chemical depression” in a new interview. The legendary guitarist and songwriter of The Who even went as as far to reveal that he’s “actually suicidal” upon waking up each morning.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer told The Sunday Times that he used to see a therapist in the 1980s, but he now copes with his depression by writing in journals, among other tactics.

“After the third year [of therapy], I realized that the woman counseling me had only said about three words,” said Townshend. “I was just listening to myself. So now I just write journals. Every morning I rebuild myself in a sense with tea and coffee, and a few vitamin pills.”

He continued, “When I first wake up I’m suicidal, actually suicidal,” adding that he prefers to get up between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., explaining, “I’m...

Some lessons need to be learned over and over again. When Bob Dylan and the Beatles broke through in the Sixties, they paved the way for generations of artists to write their own songs. But by the early 2000s, the charts had been largely reclaimed by pro songwriters and svengali producers — until a young, putatively country artist named Taylor Swift came along.

As Swift rapidly moved toward pop stardom, guitar always in hand, she started an industry-wide movement toward artists — especially young women — writing about their own lives again. “When...

Shel Talmy, the influential rock producer who cut such classics as The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” and “Waterloo Sunset” and The Who’s “My Generation” and “I Can’t Explain,” died during the weekend at his Los Angeles home after a stroke. He was 87.

His death was confirmed in a post on his Facebook page that begins: “We are gutted to tell you that the great Shel Talmy has left the building.” It also includes a farewell note from Talmy that reads in part, “Please note, that if you’re reading this now, this is my final vignette, as I am no longer residing on this plane of existence, and have ‘moved on’, to wherever that may be.” See his message in full below.

Talmy produced The Kinks’ first seven albums from 1964-67, which spawned such landmark singles as “You Really Got Me,” “All Day and All of the Night,...

Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are already good friends when Tombstone catches up with them, so it never shows how they met and became so close. Theres a lot to love in Tombstone, but the friendship between Earp and Holliday is arguably the most endearing part of the movie. Val Kilmers iconic portrayal of Holliday steals the movie and his ride-or-die bond with Earp is the heart of the film.

When hes introduced in Tombstone, the sweat-drenched Holliday is dying of tuberculosis and he and Earp are already long-time friends who can rely on each other. The film never goes back to show how Earp and Holliday met in a prologue or a flashback; its just established that theyre close friends who care about each other. Its surprising that the story of how Earp and Holliday met and became friends wasnt included in the movie, because its a fascinating tale...

The Who’s Pete Townshend has taken a jab at Rick Rubin, saying “someone needs to occasionally slap” the producer over his creative methods.

Townshend’s comment came during an appearance with his wife Rachel Fuller on the Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt podcast.

While discussing the idea of creativity, Townshend remarked (as transcribed by Ultimate Guitar), “You see a lot of stuff on YouTube and Instagram, people nagging you about the way that you have to be creative. Somebody needs to occasionally slap Rick Rubin, because, one minute he’s telling us that we need to do whatever we like, and then, on the other hand, he’s telling us that we mustn’t do this, and we mustn’t do that.”

Bringing up Rubin seemed a little random, as the guitarist is not known to have worked with the producer, who has helmed such iconic albums...

Decades never start quite on time, pop-culturally speaking, and it’s tempting to say that the Sixties didn’t really kick off until the Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, just as “Smells Like Teen Spirt” started the Nineties in 1991. But as David Browne’s new book, Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital, suggests, the Sixties’ spirit really began in Greenwich Village, not Liverpool — and the music that really got it going was written by Bob Dylan. In June of 1963, Peter,...

While The Who haven’t been active as a group over the past year, the band’s co-founder, Pete Townshend, says good news is on the horizon for fans.

In an interview with UK publication The London Standard, Townshend teased the potential of band activities in 2025. “I met with Roger for lunch a couple of weeks ago,” he revealed. “We’re in good form. We love each other. We’re both getting a bit creaky, but we will definitely do something next year.”

While such plans could sound like new music or a set of live shows, Townshend explained that they’re currently leaning towards the latter, a reversal of a previous comment from Roger Daltrey about the financial stress of live performance.

“The album side of it…Roger’s not keen,” Townshend shared. “But I would love to do another album and I may try to bully him on that.

Despite numerous Grammy nominations in the country field, and a Best Country Duo/Group Performance win with Kacey Musgraves for “I Remember Everything,” Zach Bryan says he doesn’t want to be defined as a country music artist.

In an exclusive Rolling Stone interview between Bryan and Bruce Springsteen, the Great American Bar Scene songwriter and the New Jersey working-class hero talked at length about how country music has affected their work. Springsteen cited Hank Williams and Johnny Cash as influences, while Bryan praised Jason Isbell and went on to...

Thunderclap Newman have largely gone down in rock history as a one hit wonder band thanks to their psychedelic masterpiece “Something In The Air,” which went to number one on the UK charts in 1969 and has been covered by everyone from Tom Petty to Labelle, Eurythmics, and Elbow. But early Seventies rock aficionados know about the profound brilliance of their album Hollywood Dream, and the role that Pete Townshend took in assembling the group alongside Who manager Kit Lambert.

Core Thunderclap Newman members John “Speedy” Keen,” Andy Newman, and Jimmy McCulloch have all died,...

“This world is bullshit,” Chappell Roan recently said, during an extended TikTok rant. “You shouldn’t model your life on what we think is cool and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying and everything. Go with yourself.” All right, fine, that was actually what Fiona Apple said on the VMAs in 1997 — and at the time, Apple’s dissatisfaction with fame briefly threatened to become the essence of her brand, overshadowing the brilliance of her music. But Apple continued creating, and her songs have long since outlasted any passing controversies.

The haunting intro on the Rolling Stones’ “Monkey Man,” the galloping keyboard solo on the Beatles’ “Revolution,” the piano that anchors the Who’s “The Song Is Over,” and countless other indelible classic-rock moments were all the work of one man: session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins. A classically trained player from Middlesex, England, who somehow also played like he had been raised in churches in the American South, Hopkins performed on nearly every Stones album from 1967 to 1981, was a founding member of the Jeff Beck Group, and played on solo albums by all four Beatles,...

At 80 years old, Peter Townshend is talking more openly about his past, which included “a couple of homosexual affairs.”

“I tried them out, and I very much enjoyed them,” The Who co-founder told The Daily Mail. “I’ve made a couple of really close friends that I’m still friendly with today. But it wasn’t what worked for me, sexually speaking – and didn’t fit into my life, somehow.”

Townshend hasn’t always been so open about his sexuality. He denied rumors of being gay after his song “Rough Boys” sparked questions from fans 30 years ago. He claimed that, when talking about his “gay life,” he was talking about “the friends I’ve had who are gay.”

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Now, he admits to harboring feelings for certain men, including Mick Jagger.

“I was very sexually attracted to him,...

David Gilmour just released a new album, Luck and Strange, and he’s about to kick off his first tour since 2016 — as for any other future career plans, he’s taking it day by day. Might this be his final tour? “Well, it could be, obviously,” he tells Andy Greene in an interview featured in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Gilmour dwells on mortality on the new album, which he co-wrote with his wife, Polly Samson, and he’s all too aware that we’ve...

“I do want to put a lot of music out there,” D’Angelo told Rolling Stone in 2015, shortly after the release of his acclaimed, long-delayed third album, Black Messiah. “I feel like, in a lot of respects, that I’m just getting started.” He still has yet to release a follow-up, however, and has largely gone quiet since touring behind it. But now, D’Angelo is deep into recording his next album, according to his friend and longtime collaborator Raphael Saadiq.

“D’s in a good space,” Saadiq says on the...

When the original lineup of the legendary R&b band Tony! Toni! Toné! reunited for a tour last year, co-founder and key creative force Raphael Saadiq had high hopes of recording what would have been the band’s first new album since 1996. But now that the tour is over, Saadiq says the new album has been canceled. “We just got overzealous a little bit,” Saadiq says in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “The tour was amazing. We had a beautiful time … We’re just at...

This can be written with great confidence: You know a Paul Anka song. Right now, you’re either thinking, “Well, yes, of course I do,” or you’re thinking, “I do not.” If you are in the latter group, you are wrong. There are, of course, his big hits like “Put Your Head on My Shoulder.” But then there are the songs he’s written for others, most notably “My Way,” which he wrote for Frank Sinatra and has been covered by Elvis, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Sid Vicious, and countless others. It’s in the conversation for one of the most famous songs ever written.

That’s kind of the remarkable think about Paul Anka — who is at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, returning to his Canadian roots for the premiere of John Maggio’s documentary “Paul Anka: His Way” — that he’s written so many famous songs for others.

Last year, back when the prospect of Oasis reuniting seemed about as likely as Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race, Noel Gallagher revealed on our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that he’d written 40 songs during Covid lockdown. Some of those tracks were included on Council Skies, his most recent album with the High Flying Birds, but that left two full albums worth. “There is an acoustic album as well, which is very, very stripped back,” he said, “and which I started recording recently before I came away...

“Too twiddly didn’t really exist to us, in our minds,” guitar legend Steve Howe of Yes says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, explaining the musical mission of his band — and of prog-rock itself. “There wasn’t really such a thing. If you could play it, then it obviously isn’t too twiddly — because, hang on, you’re playing it! We wanted to sparkle, we wanted a surprise… We were taking untold risks and gambles and playing about with things.”

A new ultra-deluxe box set Yes’ 1971 classic,...

The internet is filled with facts, both true and otherwise. In Film Trivia Fact Check, we’ll browse the depths of the web’s most user-generated trivia boards and wikis and put them under the microscope. How true are the IMDb Trivia pages? You want the truth? Can you handle the truth?...

Greg Kihn, the singer, songwriter, guitarist and West Coast pop star best known for his bouncy hit “Jeopardy,” which made it to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 before being parodied by “Weird Al” Yankovic, has died. He was 75.

Kihn died Tuesday after a battle with Alzheimer’s, publicist Michael Brandvold announced. His family did not want to disclose the location of his death.

Kihn blended folk, classic rock, blues and melodic pop in a style that helped define the Bay Area music scene in the 1980s. His first hit was “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em),” which got to No. 15 on the Hot 100 in May 1981.

The Greg Kihn Band released the danceable “Jeopardy” in January 1983, and only Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” kept from nabbing the No. 1 spot. A huge MTV favorite, it was quickly spoofed by Yankovic as “I Lost on Jeopardy,” which even featured the host of the game show,...

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter is much more than a country album — it’s actually a tour through the Black roots of American music that manages to be both thematically rich and stuffed with indelible pop songs, in multiple genres. Kendrick Lamar’s virtuosic “Not Like Us,” meanwhile, completely transcends its status as a killing blow in the Lamar-Drake battle, packing in an astonishing amount of lyrical and musical density — and it’s somehow also the year’s most entertaining, endlessly replayable track.

In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast,...

On the evening of Feb. 28, 1984, Prince was at home, watching Michael Jackson become the first artist to win eight Grammys in a single night, including Album of the Year for Thriller. When the broadcast was over, Prince turned to Bobby Z, his longtime friend and drummer for the Revolution, and told him, “Next year, that’s gonna be us.”

As both an album and a movie, Purple Rain was still unfinished at that point, but Prince had a good idea of what he had. The very idea of making a movie was inspired,...

Lily Brooks O’Briant is serving in the role of Celebrity Ambassador for Teen Cancer America, a charity established by Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who. In an Instagram statement, O’Briant shared, “I am excited & so honored to announce that I am serving as a Celebrity […]

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There have been many one-of-a-kind historic events over the last two weeks or so, but arguably — arguably! — the most significant is the release of Katy Perry’s “Woman’s World,” her hilariously catastrophic attempt at a comeback single. Thanks to its brain-dead lyrics (“sexy, confident/ so intelligent”), AI-like chorus, and Perry’s startlingly tone-deaf choice to record a “feminist” song with the likes of Dr. Luke, the song prompted near-universal mockery, and instantly flopped.

“Woman’s World” raises many difficult-to-answer questions. Perry has said its video is meant to be satirical — but...

Some summers are just hotter and poppier than others — and summer 2024 is turning out to be a wild one, with way more than its share of pop breakthroughs. Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are conquering the world, Shaboozey hit Number One with “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” and two longer-running artists, Tinashe and Charli Xcx, are having the biggest moments of their careers.

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we take a deep look at a summer of pop magic, with Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion.

Which Nineties band once dropped $32,000 to buy a dealer’s entire supply of Ecstasy at once? The answer would’ve been hard to guess at the height of their fame, but the culprits were the seemingly clean-cut dudes in Hootie and the Blowfish — who, as frontman Darius Rucker reveals in his excellent new book, Life’s Too Short: A Memoir, could out-party any band you can name. “When I’m dead, I’ll let them study my brain and tell you if I have any serotonin,” Rucker says.

Rucker looks...

Elton John’s long time songwriting partner Bernie Taupin is to be the subject of a new feature length documentary, here are the details.

From their first hit Your Song to a string of classic albums and singles like Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, I’m Still Standing and many, many more, Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s partnership had led to them being one of the most prolific, successful and celebrated songwriting duos in the history of popular music.

They have been showered with every songwriting and music award under the sun, and in 2019 their friendship was wonderfully brought to the big screen in Rocketman, courtesy of director Dexter Fletcher, writer Lee Hall and the wonderful performances of Taron Egerton as John and Jamie Bell as Taupin. Last year, Taupin released his memoir Scattershot, which quickly became a bestseller.

Now, Taupin is to be the subject...

After just four months, the revival of The Who’s Tommy musical is closing on Broadway.

Despite its successful pre-Broadway run in Chicago, Tommy’s strong opening in New York has seemingly tapered off quite quickly. The show’s stint on Broadway kicked off in March, and its final performance is now set for July 21st, as reported by The New York Times. (Get tickets to the last shows here.)

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Once officially closed, the revival of Tommy will have played 20 previews and 132 proper Broadway performances. The revenue brought in during this time won’t be enough to offset its $15.7 million budget.

The struggles of Tommy are indicative of Broadway’s troubles as a whole, as ticket sales still have yet to return to pre-pandemic numbers. Despite this, Broadway is packed with shows, including other rock and pop music-based productions, like Sufjan Steven’s adaptation...

See me, feel me — while you can.

It’s nearly game over for The Who’s Tommy: The Tony-nominated musical revival will end its Broadway run next month, press agency Boneau/Bryan-Brown said today. The musical will have played more than 130 regular performances at the Nederlander Theatre when the final curtain falls on July 21.

The well-reviewed production from Tony-winning creators Pete Townshend (music, lyrics, book) and Des McAnuff (direction, book) was nominated for Best Revival of a Musical at the Tony Awards this month but lost to Merrily We Roll Along starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez.

Townshend joined the company to play “Pinball Wizard” during the Tonys telecast on June 16.

Related: 2024 Tony Awards Winners Photo Gallery: Daniel Radcliffe, Jeremy Strong

Based on The Who’s seminal 1969 rock opera Tommy, the show stars Ali Louis Bourzgui as the titular boy who witnesses his dad shoot a romantic rival...

Bernie Taupin has spent his life telling stories through his lyrics. Now, his life story is being turned into a feature-length documentary. The currently untitled project will pull back the curtain on the man behind the music with commentary from Elton John, Ringo Starr, Annie Lennox, and more.

“Reticent as I am to scrutiny, this project has been enlightening both on an emotional and analytical level,” Taupin said in a statement. “The originality of all parties involved has made participating in it much easier as I loosen my grip on...

Network Entertainment has entered production on a new documentary celebrating the life and career of Bernie Taupin, the legendary lyricist best known for his longtime songwriting partnership with Egot winner Elton John.

Directed by Matthew Miele (Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion) and featuring newly commissioned interviews and archival content, the doc promises to offer a pulsating celebration of Bernie’s life, a deep dive into the roots of his creativity — including Bernie living his dream as a cowboy on the California coast, and a trip with Bernie back to Lincolnshire to capture his origin story, which is rooted within many of his songs that have become classics — and an insider’s look at his insatiable pursuit of sonic and visual art forms.

In addition to John, interviewees in the documentary will include Brandi Carlile, Alice Cooper, James Hetfield, Annie Lennox, Lulu, Gary Oldman, Ringo Starr, and Pete Townshend. Pic is produced...

Billie Eilish held nothing back in her most recent Rolling Stone cover story — and amidst her many personal revelations, she also went deep on the making of her new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. As Finneas, her brother, producer, and co-writer told Rolling Stone‘s Angie Martoccio — in a quote that was immediately picked up everywhere — the pair intended to make an “album-ass album,” their most cohesive statement ever. The songs twist and turn as they go, sometimes moving from balladry to tranced-out dance beats along the way, and...

No awards show makes it to the end without a few surprises, and tonight’s Tony Awards on CBS had a whopper: It went off without a hitch.

The Pluto TV pre-show, not so much. But more on that in a bit.

With Ariana DeBose returning to host for the third time, the 77th Annual Tonys was like a how-to for awards shows, with nearly all of the performances by the Best Musical nominees (and the year’s Best Play winner Stereophonic) showcasing each production at its best. (Which one fell a bit short? Read on.)

DeBose kicked things off with a made-for-the-show musical number, sounding terrific even if a performance from one of the actual Broadway shows might have been a wiser option. DeBose has said this will be her final Tony hosting gig, at least for a while, and she’ll be missed: She knows how to hold the spotlight,...