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Prince to Have Highway Named After Him in Home City of Minneapolis

Prince to Have Highway Named After Him in Home City of Minneapolis

May 2023

Prince to have highway named after him in home city of Minneapolis

The late pop star Prince will have a highway named after him in his home state, following a vote by Minnesota lawmakers on Thursday.

Minnesota highway to honor Prince’s legacy

By Steve Karnowski – Associated Press – Thursday, May 4, 2023

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The late pop superstar Prince will have a highway named after him in his home state, following a vote by Minnesota lawmakers Thursday. Prince holding a guitar

The Senate vote was 55-5 to rename the highway that runs past Prince’s Paisley Park museum and studios. Among those watching was his oldest sister, Sharon Nelson. The bill passed the House unanimously last month on the seventh anniversary of Prince’s death, and now goes to Gov. Tim Walz, who is expected to sign.

Purple signs will soon go up along a seven-mile stretch of State Highway 5 in the Minneapolis suburbs of Chanhassen and Eden Prairie – designating it the Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway. Prince’s friends and fans are footing the bill, said the lead sponsor, Republican Sen. Julia Coleman, of Waconia.

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Bono Issues Another Apology for U2’s iTunes Album Debacle in New Memoir: ‘I Take Full Responsibility’

Bono Issues Another Apology for U2’s iTunes Album Debacle in New Memoir: ‘I Take Full Responsibility’

Bono Addressed That U2 iTunes Album Controversy In His New Memoir, And Here’s What He Said

In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, humanitarian and U2 lead singer Bono finally apologized for the time everyone was forced to listen to their album on iTunes.

Bono has expressed his regret over that U2 iTunes album controversy in an exclusive excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, shared with the Guardian.

On that fateful day of Oct. 13, 2014, everybody and their mama had an iTunes account. It was the good ol’ days of spending our money on our favorite tracks individually before we officially decided if we wanted to purchase the entire album.

But Bono was dead set on changing the world of downloadable music forever. He recalled thinking, We should give it away to everybody. It’s their choice whether they want to listen to it.

U2’s album Songs of Innocence was forcibly made available to every one of the 500 million–plus users of iTunes for free.

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David Bowie and Freddie Mercury are Brought Back to Life in New Exhibition of Unseen Images Released by Photographer Denis O’Regan

David Bowie and Freddie Mercury are Brought Back to Life in New Exhibition of Unseen Images Released by Photographer Denis O’Regan

David Bowie and Freddie Mercury are brought back to life in new exhibition of unseen images released by photographer Denis O’Regan to celebrate his 69th birthday

October 23, 2022
by Jason Chester

Unseen photos of David Bowie and Freddie Mercury are among those in a new online exhibition by music photographer Denis O’Regan to celebrate his 69th birthday.

The 69 Days exhibition with West Contemporary gallery will feature a selection of O’Regan’s classic pictures alongside six previously unseen snaps of some of the biggest musical stars in the world.

freddieMercuryConcert Running from October 24 to January 1 2023, the exhibition will also sell limited-edition prints of the images, with 10% of each sale donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital’s charity GOSH.

Among the unseen photos, there are two of the influential and revered Bowie, who was a long-term collaborator with O’Regan.

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Van Halen’s David Lee Roth Teases Coming out of Retirement

Van Halen’s David Lee Roth Teases Coming out of Retirement

June 3, 2022

Van Halen’s David Lee Roth drops hint that he’ll be coming out of retirement

When questioned as to whether he will be partaking in the rumoured Van Halen tribute band, Roth answered: “I’m only in the middle of my first retirement”

David Lee Roth has hinted that he may come out of retirement to partake in the rumoured Van Halen tribute project alongside drummer Alex Van Halen and guitarist Joe Satriani.

David Lee Roth Suggests He’s Not Really Retiring, Hints That Van Halen Tribute Tour Might Happen

June 2, 2022

After announcing his retirement late last year, David Lee Roth now suggests that he’s not ready to jump away from his legendary music career. The singer also hints that a rumored Van Halen tribute tour might actually happen.

Roth originally announced in the Fall that he was retiring and that his scheduled Las Vegas residency around the new year would mark his last five shows ever. He then expanded the residency to run throughout January, only to cancel the entire run right as it was set to begin. COVID safety issues were cited for the cancellation of the first few shows, but no official reason was given for the remainder of the residency.

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Madonna is Releasing a New Remix Album With 50 Tracks To Celebrate her 50th Number One Hit on Billboard Dance Chart

Madonna is Releasing a New Remix Album With 50 Tracks To Celebrate her 50th Number One Hit on Billboard Dance Chart

May 2022

Madonna to Release ‘Finally Enough Love,’ Two Career-Spanning Remix Collections

May 4, 2022

… madonnaFinallyEnoughLove The collections mark the first album releases to be part of the newly announced partnership between Madonna and Warner Music Group, which will feature an extensive series of catalog releases across her career.

“50 Number Ones” clocks in at 220 minutes and includes dozens of remixes by top producers, including Shep Pettibone, William Orbit, Honey Dijon, and Avicii, along with rarities, with more than 20 being officially released for the first time or making their commercial/digital debut.

Each remix was newly remastered for the collection by Mike Dean, who produced Madonna’s two most-recent studio albums, “Rebel Heart” and “Madame X.”

The collection will be available digitally on August 19, along with a 3-CD version and a limited edition, 6-LP version on red and black vinyl.

The 16-track version, “Finally Enough Love,” will be available for streaming on June 24, with 1-CD and 180-gram 2-LP versions coming on August 19.

The “You Can Dance Remix Edit” of “Into the Groove” is available today digitally for the first time.

Madonna Announces Finally Enough Love Collection to Celebrate Record-Breaking 50 No. 1 Dance Chart Hits

On Wednesday, Madonna announced a new remixes collection titled Finally Enough Love, set for a summer release, to highlight her 50 singles that have topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart

By Jack Irvin
May 04, 2022

Get into the groove: Madonna is celebrating a record-breaking career achievement.

On Wednesday, the 63-year-old iconic musician known as the “Queen of Pop” announced a new remixes collection titled Finally Enough Love to highlight her 50 singles that have topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart — she’s the only artist with 50 No. 1 hits on any Billboard chart — set to be released this summer in multiple formats.

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‘Freedom Uncut’: See New Trailer for George Michael Documentary, Narrated and Co-Directed by Late Musician

‘Freedom Uncut’: See New Trailer for George Michael Documentary, Narrated and Co-Directed by Late Musician

The documentary has an official website at this point, which you can visit here

Media coverage about the documentary:

New George Michael documentary narrated and co-directed by the late singer will tell ‘the complete story’

George Michael Freedom Uncut is the pop icon’s final work.
By Andrea Towers
April 20, 2022

WHAM! George Michael’s life is getting an encore — courtesy of the late singer himself. George Michael Freedom Uncut Documentary

The new documentary George Michael Freedom Uncut will premiere in theaters worldwide this summer, allowing fans a rare glimpse into the singer-songwriter’s personal life. Narrated and co-directed by Michael before his death in 2016, the film is set for release on June 22, three days before his birthday.

Michael was “heavily involved and dedicated” in the production of George Michael Freedom Uncut, making it “an incredibly special posthumous release and a poignant and moving tribute to his legacy,” reads the movie’s press release.

“The film is George’s final work,” Michael’s friend David Austin, who co-directed the film, said in a statement. “Narrated by George himself, it is the complete story.”

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Top Gun Maverick Movie – Sequel to the 1980s Top Gun Movie (2022)

Top Gun Maverick Movie – Sequel to the 1980s Top Gun Movie (2022)

“Top Gun: Maverick” is a sequel to the 1980s Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun” and was released recently (as in, May 2022).

That first Top Gun movie was definitely an iconic ’80s film.

My family went on to buy a copy of it on VHS tape, so I watched it on the VCR as a teen in the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Here are links and commentary about the new movie:

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Blows CinemaCon Away: First Reactions Hail a ‘Perfect Blockbuster’

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April 28, 2022

“Top Gun: Maverick” blasted off at CinemaCon, where Paramount Pictures held the tentpole’s first public screening and generated rave first reactions.

Journalists in attendance are hailing the long-awaited “Top Gun” sequel as “the perfect blockbuster” and “terrific in every conceivable way.” The film will screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May before Paramount releases it in theaters over Memorial Day weekend. Top Gun Maverick movie poster - 2022

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Isn’t Just Nostalgia For The 80s, It’s Nostalgia For American Greatness

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by Elle Reynolds
June 1, 2022

‘Maverick’ celebrates greatness in a way that our modern, victimizing, equity-obsessed culture has largely forgotten how to do.

… “Maverick” doesn’t just inspire reminiscence of a world of Ray-Ban aviators, Kenny Loggins songs, F-14s, and bomber jackets, although it does that, both for those who lived it and those of us who learned to revere that world via the stories and movies of our parents. It inspires nostalgia for an America that’s all-too-rarely celebrated today.

… Not only is the film free of Chinese Communist Party propaganda, it’s free of token left-wing social and political propaganda. The only agenda being pushed is that America is the best country in the world and the men and women who risk their lives to defend her are heroes worthy of our respect, and that’s an agenda I’m more than fine with (and a fitting one for Memorial Day weekend).

TOP GUN: MAVERICK FIRST REVIEWS: THE MOST THRILLING BLOCKBUSTER WE’VE GOTTEN IN YEARS

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May 2022

Tom Cruise returns to the cockpit in Top Gun: Maverick, the long-awaited follow-up to the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun.

And if you’re not already feeling the need for speed — again — then you might want to reconsider, because the first reviews for this legacy sequel are clear of the danger zone.

In fact, many are even calling it a better movie than the original, and maybe even one of the best Tom Cruise movies of all time

Tom Cruise helicopters in for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ premiere

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May 5, 2022

The “Top Gun: Maverick” world premiere was a star-studded affair, with Tom Cruise arriving by helicopter at San Diego’s Naval Air Station North Island Lowry Theater.

The movie comes more than three decades after the original 1986 “Top Gun,” with Cruise excited to show the audience the new flick.

“Does anyone want to see a movie in a movie theater? Let’s do it!” he told the crowd. “Let’s light the fires and kick the tires.”

Cruise once again plays pilot Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the movie, set to open in theaters May 27.

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick Praised as ‘Barrier-Breaking’ in Glowing First Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick opens in theaters May 27
By Jen Juneau
May 12, 2022

The first reviews for Top Gun: Maverick are in — and they’re overwhelmingly positive.

Tom Cruise makes a triumphant return as Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the long-awaited follow-up to 1986’s Top Gun, and critics are praising his performance in the “barrier-breaking sequel,” as Variety’s Peter Debruge writes in his review.

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Billy Joel Not Involved in ‘Piano Man’ Biopic, Won’t Feature His Music (2022)

Billy Joel Not Involved in ‘Piano Man’ Biopic, Won’t Feature His Music (2022)

New Billy Joel Biopic Is Missing One Thing: Support From Billy Joel

The film is based on the life rights of Irwin Marzur, who discovered Joel
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Billy Joel Not Involved in ‘Piano Man’ Biopic, Won’t Feature His Music

March 11, 2022
By Samantha Ibrahim

Billy Joel’s life and prolific career may be getting the biopic treatment, but the musician won’t be involved in any capacity.

billyJoel2022 The upcoming “Piano Man” is in development at Michael Jai White’s Jaigantic Studios with Adam Ripp attached to write and direct the feature film, Variety reported.

The movie will dive into the “Uptown Girl” singer’s early life, his discovery by The Hassles’ band manager Irwin Mazur and his working relationship with Clive Davis.

“Billy Joel is not involved with this film project. No rights in music, name/likeness or life story will be granted,” a rep for the 72-year-old confirmed to The Post.

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Singer Billy Idol Recovering from MRSA Infection (2022)

Singer Billy Idol Recovering from MRSA Infection (2022)

BILLY IDOL Cancels Shows In Georgia And Florida Due To His ‘Continued Sinusitis Infection’

March 30, 2022

Billy Idol has canceled his previously announced appearances at the Shaky Knees festival in Atlanta and at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida.

Earlier today, the 66-year-old rocker released the following statement via social media: “Due to my continued sinusitis infection, I’m disappointed to announce that I must cancel my appearance at both Shaky Knees in Atlanta on April 29 and at Hard Rock Live in Florida on May 1.

Billy Idol, 66, fighting MRSA super bug: 80s rock icon asks fans to ‘think positive’

March 14, 2022
by Caitlyn Becker

80s rock legend Billy Idol is battling a scary medical condition, the MRSA super bug, which is known to be resistant to antibiotics.

Billy Idol The 66-year-old updated fans on his health in a series of tweets Sunday and Monday, revealing that he hopes his severe sinus infection will be cleared up in the next two weeks.

Last month, the White Wedding singer was forced to bow out of his upcoming tour with Journey due to the chronic infection.

The rocker, whose real name is William Michael Albert Broad, tweeted out a health update on Sunday, asking fans for their positive thoughts.

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