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In the autumn of 1967, Bob Dylan took a mysterious trip to Nashville. "As I recall, it was just on a kind of whim that Bob went down," Robbie Robertson, who had spent much of that summer wood shedding with Dylan and the rest of the Band in upstate New York, would later say. To this day, no one knows for sure when Dylan wrote many of the 12 songs he recorded on his secretive visit. He hadn't played a single one of them during his mythic sessions in the basement of "Big Pink" near Woodstock that year, and he reputedly composed several of the best new tunes ("The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest," "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" and "Drifter's Escape") during his two-day train ride from New York to Nashville. Once there, he knocked out his eighth album in just three sessions in a local studio. "We did the whole thing in nine, nine and a half hours," says Charlie McCoy, who returned from the Blonde on Blonde sessions to play bass on the new material. "He was focused. And he never used a lyric sheet. To memorize those lyrics, with all those double meanings, was impressive."

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Taylor Swift has released the new video for Reputation song, "End Game." The clip follows Swift hopping around the globe in international locales where she hits the beach; takes in fireworks; cruises around in a bus, car and motorcycle; dances with Future on a yacht and continues the party with Ed Sheeran.



Directed by Joseph Kahn, the video finds the singer and her entourage in Tokyo, Miami and London. The song and video feature Future and Sheeran, who both join her in fun and flirty situations, from extravagant parties to karaoke bars. She toasts to having a "big reputation," dances and struts around town with confidence while professing her want to be the only one, the "end game," for her love interest.

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Quincy Jones will appear at a special concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of Michael Jackson's hit song, "Man in the Mirror," set to stream live on YouTube January 19th at 7 p.m. PST.



The show will feature reinterpretations of "Man in the Mirror" from several artists, including the song's co-writer Siedah Garrett (who also provided background vocals on the original) and the Myron McKinley jazz trio. McKinley's Earth, Wind and Fire bandmates, Verdine White and Ralph Johnson, are also set to appear at the event. YouTube is hosting the concert with Korean music label SM, and the show will available on SM's YouTube channel.

Jackson released "Man in the Mirror" in January 1988. The track became the fourth consecutive single from the pop star's hit 1987 album Bad to top the Billboard Hot 100, holding the Number One spot for two weeks. "Man in the Mirror" also received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year, but lost to Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

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Half a century after Ozzy Osbourne launched his career with Black Sabbath and four decades since he went out on his own, the Prince of Bloody Darkness will embark on his final world tour.



"Will it really have been 40 years that I've been solo?" Osbourne ponders aloud. "Yeah, I guess that's right. It's gone so quickly."

Dubbed "No More Tours 2" – a cheeky throwback to his ill-fated retirement bid called "No More Tours" in the early Nineties – Osbourne will kick off the two-year victory lap this spring with dates in Mexico, South America and Europe. The jaunt's first United States leg, which will feature Stone Sour as the opening group, starts in Allentown, Pennsylvania in August and wraps in Las Vegas in October. Tickets for the North American dates are on sale February 17th, with pre-sales beginning Valentine's Day.

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John Fogerty and ZZ Top will unite this spring for a joint "Blues and Bayous" tour in the United States. The 24-date trek kicks off May 25th in Atlantic City, New Jersey and concludes June 29th in Welch, Minnesota.



Tickets go on sale Friday, March 2nd at 10 a.m. local time. Pre-sale tickets will be available on Tuesday, February 27th at 10 a.m. local time. Willie Nelson will join the artists for their June 26th show in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
Both acts praised each other's music in a statement announcing the jaunt. "ZZ Top is one of my favorite bands, and Billy F Gibbons is one of my all-time favorite guitarists," Fogerty said. "Riffs, blues and bayous ... bucket list!" ZZ Top's Gibbons added, "John Fogerty along with ZZ Top have been followers of blues and rock since the beginning, and we're looking forward to rippin' it up together this spring."

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Herbie Hancock's next album will feature an array of guests including Kendrick Lamar, Thundercat, Flying Lotus and Snoop Dogg, The San Diego Union-Tribune.



“I'm learning a lot from the young people I'm working with," Hancock said. He added, "I never want to stop learning. And I'm not even thinking in terms of: 'I'll do this record, get it out there, promote it, do some concerts, and then at some point I'll work on the next record.' These days, you can put out two tracks, then something a little later that’s connected to the other two. So where you draw the line is up to the artist. It's a new day."

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Nat "King" Cole (1919-1965), WHEN I FALL IN LOVE

The Beatles' Yellow Submarinewill return to movie theaters across North America this summer to mark its 50th anniversary.

The film is set to start screening July 8th, though a complete list of participating theaters has yet to be announced. Tickets and screening information will be available soon on the Yellow Submarine website.

For the 50th anniversary screening, Yellow Submarine was restored in 4K digital resolution, though no automated software was used in order to preserve the original, hand-drawn artwork. Instead, the film's photochemical elements were restored by hand, frame-by-frame. The famous Yellow Submarine soundtrack and score were also remixed in 5.1 stereo surround sound at Abbey Road Studios by mix engineer Peter Cobbin.

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Eric Clapton will complement the upcoming home release of the revealing documentary Life in 12 Bars with a massive soundtrack featuring five unreleased songs.

The Life in 12 Bars soundtrack – which features songs from all of the Clapton-affiliated bands and solo work as well as tracks by the Beatles, Muddy Waters and Aretha Franklin – arrives June 8th on CD and digitally, while a 4-LP version will hit shelves on July 20th.

The previously unreleased tracks include a mammoth 17-minute version of "Spoonful" that Cream performed live in 1968 during the band's farewell tour, plus Clapton's full-length version of his Bob Marley cover "I Shot the Sheriff." A live rendition of Derek & The Dominos' version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing," Clapton's live take on Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" from 1974 and the unearthed Derek & The Dominos track "High" (later rerecorded for Clapton's solo LP There's One in Every Crowd) round out the unreleased songs.

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