Category Archives: Classic Hits & Oldies News – ABC Audio
The Hollies' to launch 60th anniversary US tour in April 2022
Courtesy of The HolliesBritish Invasion greats The Hollies will return to the U.S. next year for the first time in two decades for a series of shows celebrating the band's 60th anniversary. The five-d...
Nov 23, 2021
Dion raves about new album 'Stomping Ground,' featuring "the greatest guitar players on the planet"
KTBA RecordsDion DiMucci has just released his new studio album, Stomping Ground, the doo-wop and rock 'n' roll great's second star-studded collaborative project in just over a year. A follow-up to 20...
Nov 23, 2021
Deep Purple releases animated music video for new cover of "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"
Courtesy of earMUSICDeep Purple has released a cover of Huey "Piano" Smith's classic 1957 tune "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" as the third single from their upcoming studio album, Turni...
Nov 22, 2021
Ex-Youngbloods frontman Jesse Colin Young celebrates his 80th birthday today
Credit: Brent ClineHere's wishing a very happy 80th birthday to singer/songwriter Jesse Colin Young, who came to fame as the frontman of the popular folk-rock band The Youngbloods. The Youngbloods are...
Nov 22, 2021
Rob Thomas to sing on 'Christmas in Rockefeller Center' special next week
Courtesy of NBCRob Thomas is among the artists who'll help ring in the holidays this year on NBC's annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center special. One of the Matchbox Twenty frontman's Rockefeller Cen...
Nov 22, 2021
Ritchie Blackmore's band Blackmore's Night releases expanded version of 2006 'Winter Carols' album
earMUSICJust in time for the holidays, Blackmore's Night, the renaissance folk-rock band led by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his wife, singer Candice Night, has released an expan...
Nov 22, 2021
U2's The Edge shares new music update: "We are firmly locked in the tower of song"
Credit: Kurt IswarienkoEarlier this month, U2 returned with a new tune called "Your Song Saved My Life." As guitarist The Edge tells Rolling Stone, there's more where that came from. "We are firmly lo...
Nov 22, 2021
Whitesnake bassist Michael Devin leaves band; replacement to be announced soon
Rick Kern/WireImageWhitesnake has parted ways with bassist Michael Devin, who's been a member of the band since 2010. The David Coverdale-fronted rock group announced the news Sunday in a post on the ...
Nov 22, 2021
Guitars owned by Eric Clapton, The Edge, David Gilmour fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at NYC auction
Courtesy of Julien's AuctionsAn acoustic guitar once owned and played on stage by Eric Clapton was the priciest collectible sold at a memorabilia sale hosted by Julien's Auctions that took place Novem...
Nov 22, 2021
Dino, Desi and Billy member and longtime Beach Boys collaborator Billy Hinsche dead at 70
Bobby Bank/WireImageBilly Hinsche, one-third of the 1960s boy band Dino, Desi and Billy and a longtime member of The Beach Boys' touring band, died Saturday at the age of 70. Hinsche's passing was ann...
Nov 21, 2021