Paul Simon fans will now get to enjoy his A Quiet Celebration tour from the comfort of their own home.

Paul Simon: The Quiet Celebration Concert, an almost two-hour concert film, will air on Hulu and Disney+ starting June 26.

The film was recorded live at McCaw Hall in Seattle back in August. It features performances of songs from his most recent album, Seven Psalms, as well as new renditions of classic hits. The tour, which he launched in April 2025, was Simon’s first after dealing with the loss of hearing in his left ear.

“This tour has enabled me to play with musicians again. I really missed it,” says Simon. “Everybody has enjoyed the experience so much. There’s been a feeling of camaraderie and elation that we were playing this piece of music that we were really interested in, and that had a significant effect on me.”

“It made for one of the most extraordinary tours I’ve done — maybe the most joyous,” he adds.

In addition to the concert film, a companion album will be released Oct. 9 digitally and as a three-LP or two-CD set.

Simon kicked off a new leg of the tour on Wednesday in Stanford, California, and will play there again on Thursday. A complete list of dates can be found at PaulSimon.com.

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Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has shared his thoughts about the Red Hot Chili Peppers rarely playing songs from the albums he appeared on.

Klinghoffer joined the Peppers in 2011, replacing John Frusciante, who took over on guitar in 1988 following the death of founding guitarist Hillel Slovak. Frusciante appeared on many of their hit albums, including 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik and 1999's Californication.

Klinghoffer was with the group until 2019, when Frusciante returned, and appeared on 2011’s I’m With You and 2016’s The Getaway. In an interview with Guitar World, he was asked whether it bothered him that those albums are “ignored by the band."

“Not really," he replied. "It’s a funny thing. I guess it’s particular to the way John views the band when he’s not in it, and it makes sense to me. They have enough music that they don’t need to look to some of the other records."

"I guess it’s just something unique to that band, you know? Having such a revolving door there, and such a strong presence in John," he added. “He’s kind of the preeminent guitar player, you know? He’s the one who made the work with them where they experienced their global fame."

Frusciante acknowledged that there seems to be “a little bit of a slight disrespect to the records that aren’t the John records. Once John’s back in the picture, it’s like the other records don’t exist.”

“That’s the only weird thing to me, because those records were important at the time, you know?” he said. “They were important enough to go and play them around the world.”

Klinghoffer's solo project, Pluralone, will release the new album A Drop in the Ocean on June 12. 

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The Beatles’ message of “All You Need is Love” will once again be celebrated June 25 on Global Beatles Day, and this year it's gotten the official support of The Beatles.

The fan initiative was launched in 2009 by lifelong fan Faith Cohen. It celebrates the anniversary of the legendary band’s 1967 live performance of “All You Need is Love” on the BBC’s Our World special, which marked the first international satellite television broadcast of the song. 

Apple Corps Ltd, the company founded by The Beatles, has now officially recognized the fan celebration. To mark the occasion, on June 25 it will release a colorized version of the Our World performance to YouTube for the first time.

“More than ever, the message of The Beatles, and of ‘All You Need Is Love’ speaks to something vital for community, connection, and the power of bringing people together,” Apple Corps CEO Tom Greene wrote in a recent letter to Cohen. “That is what makes Global Beatles Day so special. It asks nothing more than for people, wherever they are, to stop, listen, and share a little joy.”

Fans can sign up to take part in Global Beatles Day. More info can be found at GlobalBeatlesDay.com.

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On This Day, June 4, 1984…

Bruce Springsteen released what would become one of his most successful albums, Born in the U.S.A.

The album, recorded with The E Street Band, spent seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and produced seven top-10 singles: the title track, "Dancing in the Dark," "Cover Me," "Glory Days," "I’m on Fire," "I’m Goin’ Down" and "My Hometown."

The Boss released his first music videos to promote the album, kicking things off with “Dancing in the Dark," directed by Brian De Palma and featuring a then-unknown Courteney Cox, well before her Friends fame.

With Born in the U.S.A., Springsteen became a global superstar, selling over 30 million copies of the album worldwide. The album was certified 17-times Platinum by the RIAA and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.

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Billy Joel spent 10 years performing at New York's Madison Square Garden, and now he's lent the title of one of his signature songs to a collection of merch that celebrates the Garden's other residents -- The Knicks -- making it to the NBA Finals.

Called the New York State of Mind collection, the collab with the Sportiqe brand is now available online, and inside New York City's NBA Store. It includes a hoodie and a tee, each one sporting the Knicks logo and the words "New York State of Mind."

The collection is the start of future Sportiqe Billy Joel merch collabs, which will tie in with other New York teams and venues through 2026. The brand did something similar in 2025 with Frank Sinatra and the New York Yankees.

Sportiqe co-founder Jason Franklin says in a statement, "I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 years old because I loved Billy Joel – the first song I ever learned to play was one of his songs. Thirty-six years later, it’s incredibly meaningful to launch this collaboration during the Knicks’ long-awaited return to the Finals."

The Knicks will play the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden during games 2, 4 and, if necessary, 6.

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Frampton, a documentary about Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Peter Frampton, will premiere Thursday night at New York City's Tribeca Festival, and Frampton himself will make an appearance at the screening.

The documentary covers Frampton's entire life and career, and features commentary from Bill Wyman, Roger Daltrey, Tom Morello, Cameron Crowe, Sheryl Crow, Nancy Wilson of Heart, Alice Cooper and Ringo Starr. While there are plenty of high points -- like Frampton Comes Alive! becoming, at one point, the best-selling album of all time -- the doc covers many low points as well, like the car crash that nearly killed him, the period when he was flat broke, and his life today, living with a degenerative muscle disease.

Frampton jokes that he was "exhausted" after seeing his whole life onscreen.

"When you see it all in one hour and 50 minutes ... it's a lot of stuff," he tells ABC Audio. "Y'know, it's 60 years' worth, basically, of career and life, and so yeah, it was quite amazing to see it all in one go."

At one point in the film, Cameron Crowe describes one of Peter's Frampton Comes Alive! concerts as "the peak of rock." Frampton says that wasn't necessarily good thing.

"I knew it was the peak of rock for me," he laughs. "You can't get much higher." But, he admits, "It just got too big for me. The #1 in the charts, the stadium shows -- so exciting. But when you become the biggest record in history -- I'll take #2, not #1, in anything, because there's so much pressure on the #1. And so for me, it was very hard at that point."

Seeing the results of that pressure is one of the things Frampton wants fans to take away from the documentary.

"I've always wanted people to know exactly what was happening at various times when they were just [putting] that album on and [playing] it over and over and again," he says.

"And also how it affected me, as opposed to them. I think it gives everybody a really good sense of how the business was back then." 

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Europe has released a second single from their upcoming album, Come This Madness, their first new album in nine years.

The Swedish rockers, best known for their 1986 hit “The Final Countdown,” have dropped the song “The Cult of Ignorance,” along with a star-studded video featuring appearances by The Hives’ Howling Pellet, Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson, actress Malin Akerman, tennis champ Stefan Edberg and others.

“I love this track! It’s a straightforward rock anthem with lyrics reflecting the times we live in, written slightly tongue in cheek,” says Europe’s founding member and frontman Joey Tempest. “The title was inspired by a phrase coined by author and biochemist Isaac Asimov. It reflects some of the negative tendencies emerging in our world today, though it is written in a slightly light-hearted tone.”

Come This Madness, Europe’s first album since 2017’s Walk the Earth, will be released Sept. 25.

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Ace Frehley’s most-played guitar brought in big bucks at auction.

The late KISS guitarist’s 1975 Les Paul sold for $512,000 at Julien's Auctions' Music Icons auction, which took place May 29-30 at the Hard Rock Café Times Square.

The guitar was described in a press release as Frehley's "constant companion" from the beginning of his career and was used "more than any other guitar in his arsenal."

Other Frehley items that sold at auction include: a 1997 Gibson signature Les Paul, which he played at Super Bowl 33, for $57,600; a custom Gibson Les Paul Jr, which he played during the 1996 KISS reunion tour, for $57,600; a life-size stage-worn Destroyer mannequin, which sold for $51,200; and a stage-worn purple jumpsuit, which sold for $11,520.

Other big sellers at the auction include: Eddie Van Halen’s autographed Charvel art series guitar from his last performance with Sammy Hagar, which sold for $115,200 and a belt worn by The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger at their 1969 Hyde Park concert, which sold for $51,200.

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You can say a lot of things about the late Eddie Van Halen, but you can't deny that he was an incredible guitar player, right? Or maybe you can, if you're The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Speaking to Stereogum, Jim Reid of the Scottish alt-rock duo talked about how, when it comes to playing guitar, sometimes simpler is better. "I can play guitar, but only just. It’s kinda deliberate. I play guitar to the level that I need to play guitar," he said. "And sometimes knowing too much about making music gets in the way, and it ends up back to Eddie Van Halen again, do you know what I mean?”

Jim's older brother and bandmate William Reid then chimed in.

"I think guitar players should never learn scales. I think the worst guitar players in the world, like Eddie Van Halen -- I can’t stand Eddie Van Halen’s guitar playing," said William. "I think he ruined rock guitar all through the ’80s and ’90s ’cause so many people copied him."

“And I just couldn’t get any of that playing as fast as you f****** can and cramming as many notes in one second as you could," William went on. 

So whose playing does he admire?

"I listen to Peter Hook's bass riffs, and I think that’s a thousand times better than anything Eddie Van Halen could ever conjure up," said William. He was referring to the New Order and Joy Division bass player, who'll be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year.

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Chrissie Hynde has shared her thoughts on concertgoers who record and take pictures on their phones during concerts, and let’s just say she’s not a fan.

"Question: What is it with people and their phones?" the Pretenders frontwoman writes on social media. "But my real question is: why do people have to film or take pictures at concerts or museums? Why???"

She then mentions discussing the topic with singer Emmylou Harris before Harris’ recent concert in London.

"This is a subject that comes up every time I meet any artist. It’s become like an unpleasant fug hanging over the head of all artists," Hynde writes. "You can plaster a venue with signs requesting ‘NO CAMERAS’ but people don’t respect it. It’s as if people feel entitled, even though the artist clearly has asked them not to do it."

She notes that Bob Dylan goes so far as to have fans lock up their phones before his shows, writing, "You would think an artist of his stature could make a simple request and the audience would respect it… no chance."

Hynde says recording and filming at concerts is "like a weird compulsion that people can’t control," noting, "no one seems to be able to understand why artists don’t like it." She then compares it to "a mosquito buzzing around your head when you’re trying to go to sleep."

Hynde shares that at Harris’ London show she encountered a man who was recording the whole concert and when someone told him it was rude and distracting, he told them to "mind their own business."

"My conclusion is: if Jesus Christ were to walk into a room, the first thing everyone would do would be to pull out their phone," she writes. "Can someone please explain?"

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KISS is continuing the 50th anniversary celebration of their fourth album, Destroyer.

To mark the milestone, the band is set to release the new book, KISS Destroyer: The Definitive Visual History, on Oct. 27, described as “an official, authorized retrospective chronicling the band’s first platinum studio album and the legendary tour that followed.”

The book will feature interviews with more than 50 people, including new interviews with KISS members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, and producer Bob Ezrin. The book also contains previously unpublished photos, as well as deep dives into the album's songs, tour info and more.

KISS is also releasing the Official KISS Tarot Deck and Guidebook on Sept. 29, featuring a one-of-a-kind deck of tarot cards with custom artwork. It comes with a 128-page guidebook offering the meanings and interpretations of each card.

Released March 15, 1976, Destroyer featured future KISS classics "Detroit Rock City,” “Shout It Out Loud,” “God of Thunder” and the ballad “Beth,” which became their first top-10 single. The album peaked at #11 on the Billboard Albums chart, making it the third consecutive KISS record to make the top 40.

Within a year, Destroyer was certified Platinum by the RIAA, making it the band’s first Platinum record; it was eventually certified double Platinum.

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Taylor Swift has met Paul McCartney several times, and she attended his concert in LA in March. Now, she's promoting his new album on her Instagram Story.

Sharing one of Paul's posts about his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Taylor wrote, "Never not inspired by this eternally exceptional artist."

During an interview last month with BBC Radio 2, McCartney was asked how he perceives Taylor's global fame and if he'd give her any advice on dealing with it.

"You do see the parallel, y'know, like the fame and the amount of fame and the worldwide fame that Taylor Swift has and that [The Beatles] had," he replied. "But I don't think she needs any advice, [to] tell you the truth!"

But in a way, Paul may have inspired Taylor's Eras Tour. When the two sat down for Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians series in 2020, she told him that she'd gone to see him around 2010 or 2011.

"The thing I took away from the show most was that it was the most selfless set list I had ever seen. It was completely geared toward what it would thrill us to hear," she told him. "It had new stuff, but it had every hit we wanted to hear ... [a]nd I just remembered thinking, 'I’ve got to remember that,' that you do that set list for your fans."

She continued, "I think that learning that lesson from you taught me at a really important stage in my career that if people want to hear 'Love Story' and 'Shake It Off,' and I’ve played them 300 million times, play them the 300-millionth-and-first time."

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R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and producer Andrew Watt were the musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night, where they performed “I Played the Fool,” the theme song to Steve Carell’s HBO series The Rooster.

The pair was joined by some A-list friends for the performance, with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith behind the drum kit, and former Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer on piano. Klinghoffer appeared on the original recording of the song, while blink-182's Travis Barker played drums on it.

Stipe and Watt released “I Played the Fool” in March to coincide with The Rooster premiere.

Stipe revealed during an April appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that his long-in-the-works debut solo album is expected out later this year. There’s no word on whether “I Played the Fool” will be on it.

In other R.E.M. news, Peter Buck’s band Drink the Sea, which also features Screaming Trees/Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin, has announced a new set of U.S. dates that begin Aug. 30 in Vashon Island, Washington, and wrap Sept. 24 in Kirkland, Washington. The tour will be in support of their new album, which is due out Oct. 2.

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The New York Times released a list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters back in April, based on feedback from more than 250 music insiders and six Times critics. The list drew criticism from music fans, so the paper has now decided to give them their say.

The Times has now released a readers' choice list of the 100 greatest American songwriters, noting, "As soon as we decided to make a list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters, we could guess how readers would respond to the results: with a combination of enthusiasm and outrage, quickly letting us know which of their favorites we had unconscionably forgotten."

"We didn’t want all that passion to go undocumented. So we invited readers to assemble their own list — with a formal poll," they added.

The new list is the result of over 25,000 ballots cast, resulting in “nearly 12,000 distinct choices,” which were  narrowed down to 100 artists.

While the original list didn’t rank the songwriters, the reader’s choice list does. Bob Dylan lands at #1, followed by Paul Simon at #2, Bruce Springsteen at #3 and Carole King at #4. Billy Joel, who did not make the original list, ranks at #5.

Rounding out the top 10 are Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, James Taylor, who also didn’t make the original list, and Willie Nelson.

Other artists who didn’t make the original cut but landed on the readers' choice list include: Jackson Browne, David Byrne, Stevie Nicks, Donald Fagen, Don Henley, John Fogerty, R.E.M., Bonnie Raitt, Jack White, Pearl Jam, Stephen Stills, Patti Smith, Beck, Lana Del Rey, Noah Kahan, John Mellencamp, Chrissie Hynde, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, The National and Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl.

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On This Day, June 3, 2002 ...

Queen, Paul McCartney and Phil Collins were among the artists who performed at Party at the Palace, a concert held at London’s Buckingham Palace Garden to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

Billed as the greatest concert in Britain since Live Aid, the event drew around 2 million applications for its ticket lottery, with 12,000 people attending.

Other performers included Eurythmics' Annie Lennox, Bryan Adams, The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Joe Cocker, The Kinks' Ray Davies, Rod Stewart, and Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi. Elton John prerecorded his performance from inside the music room at Buckingham Palace.

The concert kicked off with Queen's Brian May performing "God Save The Queen" from the roof of Buckingham Palace. McCartney closed the show with several Beatles classics, including all-star performances of “All You Need is Love” and “Hey Jude.”

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The 25th anniversary edition of New York's Tribeca Festival gets underway on Wednesday with the debut of a documentary on Earth, Wind & Fire, followed by a performance by the legendary band. The festival closes with an Alicia Keys documentary, and in between, there are films focusing on everyone from Madonna, Sara Bareilles and Katy Perry to Peter Frampton, Travis Barker and Mumford & Sons, all of whom will make appearances.

"Musically related projects in movies or just doing concerts, it's all great. Music is great, and the more we get, the better," Tribeca Festival co-founder Robert De Niro told ABC Audio.

"And there are amazing stories about artists and their longevity and what they've gone through to be able ... to sing their songs," festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal adds. "And you just learn about different musicians and who they are as people and how they all work together."

During one of the festival's closing events, U2's Bono will present the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award to Bruce Springsteen for using his platform to "advance equality, dignity, and human rights." Patti Smith will perform.

"What he's doing is great," De Niro says of Springsteen. "And he has a voice that's very big ... and he's enraged the way ... many of us [are]. So God bless him."

The festival's head of music programming, Vincent Cassous, says tapping stars like Madonna to do Q&As after their screenings, and acts like Earth, Wind & Fire to perform after theirs, is part of the festival's plan to "make it something that you can't miss."

Cassou says the Frampton documentary will be a highlight, since the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will make an appearance despite living with a degenerative muscle disease.

"I think it's going to be one of the most emotional moments at the festival, for sure." 

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The Who has shared another performance from their recently released album, Live at Eden Project. 

The latest is a video of the band performing their iconic track "Won’t Get Fooled Again" from their fifth studio album, Who’s Next.

Live at Eden Rock is a recording of the band's July 2023 concert at Cornwall’s Eden Project, the home of a sustainable network of biomes in the English countryside. The concert was part of The Who Hits Back! tour, which saw Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend backed by the Heart of England Philharmonic Orchestra.

While The Who has no current plans to tour, Daltrey is set to kick off a summer solo tour Aug. 23 in Mesa, Arizona. He recently added a new date to the tour, Oct. 2 in Brookville, New York. A complete list of dates can be found at TheWho.com.

In other Who news … Townshend will sit down for a conversation at London's Opera Holland Park theater on July 2. The event will benefit the U.K. HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust.

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Music fans are getting their first look at the new Peter Frampton documentary, Frampton.

The first trailer for the film has just been released. It features a whole lot of archival photos and video, as well as interview clips from Sheryl Crow, Ringo Starr, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, director Cameron Crowe, Alice Cooper, Styx's Tommy Shaw, Heart's Nancy Wilson, The Who's Roger Daltrey and more.

There are also clips of Frampton being interviewed, where he comments about the aftermath of the huge success of his 1976 album, Frampton Comes Alive!

“You don’t realize what the onslaught is like until you’re #1 in the world and that’s when the s*** hit the fan,” says Frampton, noting he began drinking too much and doing too many drugs. He was also in a car accident, with Frampton saying, “(I) broke just about every bone in my body.”

Frampton, directed by Rob Arthur, is described as “an intimate portrait of a rock icon who soared, stumbled, and rose again.” It will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Thursday in New York City. Tickets are on sale now.

(Video includes uncensored profanity.)

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Happy Pride Month! In honor of the occasion, Billboard has put together a list of the 100 Greatest LGBTQ Anthems of All Time, which features songs from Elton John, David Bowie and The Kinks.

The list is a mix of songs by queer artists, songs by gay icons, songs that are popular with the gay community and songs by allies that, as Billboard puts it, "mirror our struggles with self-acceptance and social rejection."

Elton John's 1983 classic "I'm Still Standing" is in at #14, and other songs that made the list include Melissa Etheridge’s “Come to My Window,” David Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging," Queen's "I Want To Break Free" and The Kinks' groundbreaking "Lola," about a man who falls in love with an individual who may be a trans woman or cross-dresser.

Interestingly, Queen's "I Want to Break Free," whose video featured the whole band in drag, was not written by the band's gay lead singer Freddie Mercury, but by bass player John Deacon.

Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" came in at #1 on the list.

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Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of the MTV reality series The Osbournes, which followed the lives of Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne, his wife and two of their children. And evidently fans may soon get to experience the show in a whole new way.

“We are in talks with a company now about doing a cartoon of The Osbournes, and it would open up a whole younger audience,” Ozzy's wife, Sharon Osbourne, told Global Licensing Group at the recent Licensing Expo in Las Vegas.

“Nostalgia is the key word these days, so I think it just, you know, leans a lot in there. It’s 25 year ago,” his son, Jack Osbourne, added. “Since we started distributing the show again there’s a whole new audience out there for it.”

Sharon and Jack also discussed their desire to keep Ozzy's memory alive.

“I think that it’s, you know, the Ozzy brand and legacy is open for business,” Jack said. Sharon noted, “Ozzy’s not going anywhere. He’s with us and he’s not going anywhere and that’s what it’s all about, to keep his legacy alive.”

Ozzy Osbourne died July 22, 2025, at age 76.

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