Here's a shocker -- The Beatles are the most influential artist of the last 50 years, according to a poll conducted by the lighter company Zippo. They took in 27 percent of the vote, followed by Queen with 19 percent, The Rolling Stones with 10 percent, David Bowie at 4.7 percent and Jimi Hendrix with 4.4 percnet.
Another Zippo poll asked which song is the most popular one to wave your lighter to, and the winner was Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" followed by Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and Meat Loaf's "I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)."
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The first posthumous Ronnie James Dio release will be a double-live album, according to England's Classic Rock magazine. Dio at Donington UK: Live in 1983 and 1987 will be out on November 9th. It features him and his band performing at the Monsters of Rock Festival.
Dio died in May from cancer earlier this year at age 67.
Although Supertramp reportedly agreed not to perform songs written by founding member Roger Hodgson without him in the band, they're doing so anyway. Their European reunion tour, minus Hodgson, features six songs the singer-guitarist wrote -- "Breakfast in America," "The Logical Song," "Give a Little Bit," "It's Raining Again," "Take the Long Way Home" and "Dreamer."
The public anticipation for Bruce Springsteen's upcoming multimedia box set built around his 1978 Darkness On The Edge Of Town era is nothing new. The album and the tour surrounding it, featured a record number of simulcast radio broadcasts at the time, and has become the era that most die-hard fans are drawn to.
As far back as 2000, when Springsteen's former girlfriend, photographer Lynn Goldsmith published her Springsteen: All Access photo book showcasing the '78 tour, fans have been chomping at the bit for...
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The Rolling Stones are in talks regarding their first concert tour since 2006. Drummer Charlie Watts spoke to France's Le Parisien revealing, "We're discussing it at the moment. We said that if we do something, it will be next year or the year after. We've reached an age where you can't look too far into the future."
Mick Jagger is 67, Keith Richards is 66, Ron Wood is 63, and Charlie Watts is 69.
The Stones haven't played live since the wrap of their A Bigger Bang Tour on October 6th, 2006 in Regina,...
Read more: CHARLIE WATTS SAYS THE ROLLING STONES IN TALKS ABOUT NEXT TOUR
Metallica will release a limited edition eight-song live EP called Six Feet Down Under on September 20th in conjunction with the band's upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand. While the disc will be available in stores only in those countries, fans around the world can also order a copy through the group's official website.
A message posted at Metallica.com said that the EP was supposed to include recordings from each of the band's visits to the region "until we realized that we did not start making...
You can't say the guy's not hardworking -- Eddie Money has once again stretched what was thought to be a only a summer tour straight through to December. Money plays tomorrow night (September 10th) in San Diego, and won't wrap up his 2010 dates until December 19th in Las Vegas.
Money says he didn't mind that he was never deemed a rock superstar like his original Columbia Records labelmates such as Aerosmith, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen, despite his string of 1970's and '80s hits: "But y'know what, at that...
Jimmy Page says that he's toyed with the idea of writing a "posthumous" autobiography. Coming on September 27th from Genesis Publications is the deluxe 500-page leather-bound photo book, titled Jimmy Page By Jimmy Page -- which sells for a little over $685. The book was created under Page's direction and features in-depth shots of his life as a musician.
Page explained that he shied away from going the normal rock star memoir route, telling The New York Times, "I thought that a career in pictures was really the...
Read more: JIMMY PAGE WOULD WANT MEMOIRS TO COME OUT POSTHUMOUSLY
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