It has been recently announced that Hard Rock International will continue their partnership with global non-profit WhyHunger and activist-artist Yoko Ono Lennon to launch the “Imagine There’s No Hunger” campaign, a unified effort to raise awareness and funds to combat global hunger and poverty. As a part of the campaign and inspired by John Lennon’s […]
The Royal Mint has recently announced a special charity auction in conjunction with Elton John to raise money for the Elton John UK Charitable Foundation. 2021 sees the fiftieth anniversary of Elton John’s iconic album ‘Madman Across The Water’ featuring hits ‘Tiny Dancer’ and ‘Levon’. Fifty years later, The Royal Mint is honouring the iconic […]
On Friday, April 16th, as an extension of their COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative, “It’s Up To You,” the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative has just announced the release of a brand-new recording of “I’ll Be Seeing You” performed by Grammy Award-winning musician, Willie Nelson. About “I’ll Be Seeing You” and the vaccine PSA, Willie said […]
International advocacy organization Global Citizen has recently announced VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World, a global broadcast and streaming special that aims to inspire vaccine confidence worldwide and help get the COVID-19 vaccines to everyone, everywhere. During the special, Global Citizen, will call on philanthropists and corporations to donate enough “dollars-for-doses” to vaccinate […]
Eddie Cochran is an American rock n’ roll legend from late 1950s and early 1960s, a contemporary of Elvis Presley with a particularly strong following in the UK. His life was tragically cut short when, after performing at the Bristol Hippodrome, England, he died in a car accident near Chippenham, Wiltshire on the 17th April […]
NOW That’s What I Call Music! showcases today’s biggest hits across chart-topping numbered volumes and themed releases. NOW’s latest numbered volume, NOW That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 78, will be released April 30 on CD and digitally. On the same date, NOW That’s What I Call A Decade! 1990s will also be available on […]
“Waiting on a War” was first released on January 14, 2021, as the third single from their tenth studio album, Medicine at Midnight, after “Shame Shame” and “No Son of Mine”. The date was chosen to celebrate frontman Dave Grohl’s 52nd birthday. The band debuted the song live on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on the same […]
“Layla” is a song written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, originally released by their blues rock band Derek and the Dominos, as the thirteenth track from their only studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Clapton definitely ain’t a one-hit wonder man, so why would it be part of a one-hit wonder list? […]
May 28th sees the reissue on vinyl of the 2006 collection of PJ Harvey sessions with the late BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, spanning recordings from the start of her career in 1991 up to 2004. Originally released two years after Peel’s death in 2004, the record came with a tribute message from Harvey […]
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Paul and Linda McCartney’s 1971 masterpiece RAM, the album will be reissued May 14, 2021, as a limited-edition half-speed mastered vinyl pressing via UMe. Paul’s most recent release, the #1 album McCartney III, recorded in “Rockdown” last year, saw a return to the homespun, lo-fi style of the earliest […]