Elton John has been forced to pull his summer tour due to appendicitis.
The singer was due to headline London's Hyde Park on Friday (July 12) on a bill that also included Ray Davies and Elvis Costello.
He was also due to play the Collisioni festival in Italy on tonight (July 9) and a show in Germany on Thursday (July 11). Other July dates including festivals in Spain, France and Monaco have also been cancelled.
When The Rolling Stones appeared here in 1969, they played on a stage so ultimately flimsy it afterwards could have been towed away on the back of a truck or broken down on the spot and sold for scrap. Unlike the Stones, it was not built to last.
Nick Ferraro started out as an Elvis tribute act around his native Philadelphia in 1986. On October 19, 2009, wearing his full Vegas Elvis costume, he went to see Bruce Springsteen at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Spotting Ferraro in the crowd, Springsteen launched into “All Shook Up” before pulling him on stage to join in. As the song finished, Ferraro – perhaps enjoying his moment of glory a little too much – started singing “Blue Suede Shoes” before Springsteen politely took the mic off him, ushering him off stage with the legend, “Elvis has left the building.”
Pearl Jam have announced a two-leg, 24 date North American tour.
Leg one kicks-off in Pittsburgh on October 11 and wraps in New Orleans with the band's previously announced headlining performance at Voodoo Music + Arts Experience during the weekend of November 1. The second leg of the tour commences in Dallas on November 15 and closes in the band’s hometown of Seattle on December 6.
The band are allegedly due to release their tenth studio album later in the year, the follow-up to 2009's Backspacer.
Pearl Jam will play:
Prints of artwork by Jerry Garcia are to be made commercially available by the late singer's estate, reports Rolling Stone.
According to Garcia's website, limited edition prints of an etching called "The Guys" - featuring the Grateful Dead in their Nineties' incarnation - will be on sale from July 22.
A new Amy Winehouse exhibition will open at Proud gallery in Camden, London later this year to mark what would have been the singer's 30th birthday.
Amy Winehouse: For You I Was a Flame is curated by the Amy Winehouse Foundation with the support of her family. It will be one of a series of events celebrating the singer and will feature Dean Chalkley's now infamous 2011 NME cover along with other shots by Andy Willsher.
Manic Street Preachers have announced details of their new album.
Rewind The Film is released on September 16 through Columbia Records and is preceded with a single "Show Me The Wonder" the week before.
The band have also released the title track, featuring Richard Hawley, as an instant download when the album is pre-ordered on iTunes. Scroll down to hear the track.
The tracklisting for Rewind The Film is:
This Sullen Welsh Heart
Show Me The Wonder
Rewind The Film
Builder of Routines
4 Lonely Roads
(I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline
Nick Cave has appeared on an American podcast, WTF, hosted by comedian Marc Maron, The Line of Best Fit reports.
Over the course of the hour long programme, the pair discuss Cave's childhood, views on religion and what it was like meeting Johnny Cash. They also speak about the effect Cave has on a "certain type of woman".
"I have a deep understanding of troubled women," explained Cave. "I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it."
