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Leonard Cohen is to return to the UK in 2013 with a one-off show at London’s The O2 Arena on Friday June 21. The singer-songwriter, who released his 12th studio album Old Ideas in January, performed two shows at London's Wembley Arena in September, though they had originally been scheduled for Hop Farm in Kent, site of the annual Hop Farm Festival. Leonard Cohen released Old Ideas in January of this year. It followed 2004's Dear Heather, and is his 12th studio album since 1967. Old Ideas is Uncut's Album Of The Year.

The Rolling Stones played the first of their three American shows on Saturday (December 8). Fresh from two outstanding performances in London last month, the legendary group kicked off their gig at the Barclays Arena in Brooklyn with "Get Off Of My Cloud" before launching into the Lennon/McCartney-penned "I Wanna Be Your Man". After "Last Time", the band were joined onstage, just like they were on the first night of their O2 Arena gigs, by Mary J Blige who performed "Gimme Shelter" – you can watch fan-filmed footage of the performance below.

Jack White has said he found it difficult sharing the good moments in The White Stripes with Meg White as she was often "uninterested". The duo found commercial popularity in 2001 following the release of their third album White Blood Cells and became one of the biggest bands of the decade, but frontman Jack White claims drummer Meg White never shared his level of enthusiasm during their glory years. White, who released his debut solo album Blunderbuss earlier this year, told Esquire:

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page has revealed that he plans to go out on a solo tour next year. The guitarist, who is busy promoting the release of Led Zeppelin's live DVD Celebration Day, said he had planned to tour this year but with the release of the O2 Arena concert film he has had to postpone his solo trek till 2013.

My Bloody Valentine have announced a trio of UK dates for early next year. The band will kick off their brief UK tour at Glasgow's Barrowlands on March 9, before playing Manchester Apollo on March 10 and London's Hammersmith Apollo on March 12. The UK dates will follow a series of six gigs in Japan and four dates in Australia, all taking place in February. My Bloody Valentine are also confirmed to headline the 60,000 capacity Tokyo Rocks festival in May.

The Rolling Stones documentary Crossfire Hurricane is set for DVD release. The film, which premiered in cinemas across the UK on October 18 and was subsequently broadcast on BBC2 to coincide with the band's two date stint at London's O2 Arena last month (November 25 and 29), will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on January 7, 2013. The film, directed by Brett Morgen, documents the band's career from their early road trips and gigs in the 1960s, via the release of 1972's seminal 'Exile On Main Street' right up to present day.

A host of musicians are set to feature on a pirate themed compilation album, called Son Of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys. The album is being put together by Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski and producer Hal Willner and follows their similar 2006 effort, Rogue's Gallery.

Bruce Springsteen was joined onstage by Mike Ness of Social Distortion and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine at his show at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Orange County near Los Angeles (December 4).

Jazz musician Dave Brubeck has died at the age of 91.

Paul McCartney has called upon those involved in the current climate change conference to consider introducing a 'Meat Free Monday' initiative.