Famous

Two months after Calvin Harris unveiled his "Feels" video with Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams and Big Sean, the producer has unleashed a second video for the all-star collaboration.







The video also comes three days after the singer finally dropped her similarly guest-filled "Swish Swish" video with Nicki Minaj.

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I first heard Steely Dan back in Kansas City, Missouri, where I ended up living with my dad after running away from home a second summer in a row. It was 1970 and I was just 15 years old. "Do It Again" was playing on the radio that summer night. I had just dropped some acid and I was on my way to see Led Zeppelin for their KC concert on their first USA tour. My date was a fat guy I had just met - him driving by and said, "Hey you wanna go to a concert?" He had high hopes I guess, and I just wanted to get out of the house. What I remember more than Led Zeppelin though is "Do It Again" drumming through the twilight heat, and the joy of all that Victor Feldman percussion.





Sexy. Contained. Because what "the Dan" accomplished was this: They introduced a new idea into the musical conversation of the time. It was the idea that intelligent music was cool. In a year where drum solos lasted minutes, quarter hours even, and singers screamed - a lot, Steely Dan made it cool to be educated. It is safe to say that they are the beginning of college rock.

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A sight nothing can prepare you for: Paul McCartney onstage, just the man and his guitar, doing "Blackbird" or "I've Got a Feeling" or "Here Today." Merely the greatest of rock & roll performers, in the middle of his usual marathon show. Last night he was in Newark, New Jersey, to kick off the first night of his eight-show New York City-area stand, and – as always – he held nothing back. He played nearly three hours, from the opening guitar crash of "A Hard Day's Night" to the piano ripples of "The End." There's something downright savage about how he works so much harder than he needs to, giving away so much more of himself than it would take to send everyone home happy. But that's why seeing McCartney is an exaltation unlike anything else in live music.




At 75, he refuses to coast – his enthusiasm and vigor and humor are slightly terrifying to behold. He's not just a master at the top of his game – he's on top of a game he invented half a century ago. Unlike peers like Springsteen or Dylan, McCartney doesn't tinker with the setlist from show to show, but what he shares is that mad determination to re-earn the legend every night from scratch. Last night he crashed through nearly 40 songs – Beatle hits, Wings deep cuts, oldies that remind him of absent friends, new tunes that remind him of here and now. The audience wasn't holding back either, representing Maccamaniacs from all different cultures and generations. The ladies a couple rows ahead of me held up a sign that said "Friends Since Shea" – I felt as awed in their presence as I did in McCartney's.

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Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda discussed the nerves coursing through the band as they prepare to honor late singer, Chester Bennington, at a tribute concert in Los Angeles October 27th. "I know that for some of the guys in the band, getting on stage is more scary than other guys in the band," Shinoda said during an interview on KROQ Monday. "But I will say that for all of us, it's definitely the thing that we want to do. It feels like the right way to celebrate Chester."





The "one-night only" tribute concert will feature the five surviving members of Linkin Park performing together for the first time since Bennington's death on July 20th. Shinoda noted that the band was also compiling a group of friends to perform as well, though a list has yet to be announced. The concert will raise money for Music for Relief's One More Light Fund in memory of Bennington.

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Ahead of Green Day's set at the Global Citizen Festival Saturday in New York, Billie Joe Armstrong visited the Tonight Show Friday to perform a solo rendition of "Ordinary World."





As he's done in previous late-night stagings of the track, Armstrong was accompanied only by his acoustic guitar for the intimate performance of the ballad.

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Stevie Wonder opened his Global Citizen fest performance Saturday by "taking both knees" in solidarity with athletes' protests in the aftermath of Donald Trump's most recent remarks.





"Tonight, I'm taking a knee for America," Wonder said as he took the stage. "But not just one knee, I'm taking both knees. Both knees in prayer for our planet, our future, our leaders of the world and our globe."

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A recent draft of Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics for his iconic 1965 song "Like a Rolling Stone" is headed to auction via Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles. The new draft was handwritten in 2017 and has been authenticated by Bob Dylan's manager, according to a statement from the auction house.





Auction owner Nate D. Sanders believes this is only the second time handwritten lyrics to the classic song have been available for auction. In 2014, lyrics believed to be from an early draft were auctioned by Sotheby's and were sold to an unidentified bidder for $2.05 million. That draft was described as "the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem" and included abandoned lines and Dylan's stray thoughts and doodles.

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Little Richard will celebrate the 60th anniversary of his debut LP Here's Little Richard with a deluxe reissue that pairs the original 1957 album with a disc full of alternate takes and demos.




Eight of the 22 tracks found on Here's Little Richard (60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)'s are unreleased, including never-before-heard takes on "Ready Teddy," "Rip It Up" and "Slippin' and Slidin'" from the original recording sessions.

Here's Little Richard (60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Track List

Disc 1

1. Tutti Frutti
2. True, Fine Mama
3. Can't Believe You Wanna Leave
4. Ready Teddy
5. Baby
6. Slippin' and Slidin'
7. Long Tall Sally
8. Miss Ann
9. Oh Why?
10. Rip It Up
11. Jenny Jenny
12. She's Got It

Disc 2

1. Tutti Frutti (take 2)
2. True Fine Mama (incomplete take)
3. Can't Believe You Wanna Leave (take 6)
4. Can't Believe You Wanna Leave (take 8)
5. Ready Teddy (take 1)
6. Ready Teddy (takes 2 & 3)
7. Baby (demo)
8. Baby (take 1)
9. Slippin' and Slidin' (demo)
10. Slippin' and Slidin' (piano & drums demo)
11. Long Tall Sally (take 1)
12. Long Tall Sally (take 6)
13. Miss Ann (demo)
14. Miss Ann (take 1)
15. Miss Ann (take 6)
16. Oh Why? (takes 3 & 4)
17. Oh Why? (take 9)
18. Rip It Up (take 1)
19. Rip It Up (take 3)
20. Rip It Up (take 4)
21. Rip It Up (take 6)
22. She's Got It (alternate version)

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A little over four minutes into Bruce's Springsteen's Broadway show, he stops playing the opening song, "Growin' Up," and speaks to the crowd, his voice entirely unamplified. "I have never held an honest job in my entire life," he says in a near-shout. "I've never worked nine to five. I've never done any hard labor, and yet is all that I've written about."



With last year's myth-shattering, deeply evocative memoir Born to Run, Springsteen introduced readers to the real, vulnerable, complex human being behind his larger-than-life persona. Springsteen on Broadway, at the 975-seat Walter Kerr theater, is in many ways a live version of the book, even if reports that he'd be "reading" from it aren't quite right: Most of the extensive spoken-word segments are brand new or heavily altered from the book versions.

It's clear from the beginning that this is nothing like a typical latter-day Springsteen concert, where set lists can vary wildly from night to night and Bruce often has little to say between songs. There's no room for his usual athleticism here – Springsteen just shuffles a few feet between a piano on stage left and a microphone at center stage. The intensity is, instead, emotional, as Springsteen digs hard into the bedrock of his life story, and ours: childhood, religion, work, death. The performance is hard to categorize. It's not a concert; not a typical one-man-show; certainly not a Broadway musical. But it is one of the most compelling and profound shows by a rock musician in recent memory.

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In coordination with the Showtime documentary George Michael: Freedom, the singer's Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 will be reissued as a multi-disc set featuring Michael's MTV Unplugged concert as well as B-sides and other rarities.





Originally scheduled to arrive in November 2016, the then-25th anniversary reissue was postponed several times in the aftermath of Michael's death. However, the reissue – available both as a 2CD and deluxe 3CD/DVD set – officially arrives on October 20th, a day before George Michael: Freedom premieres on Showtime.

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