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I Watched The New Billy Joel Documentary As A Lifelong Fan, And I Had No Idea This One Person Was Such A Big Part Of His Success

Someone needs to give Elizabeth Weber her flowers.

Cinemablend · Aug 6, 2025

Swifties Are Obsessed With The Video Of Taylor Swift And Jack Antonoff Writing 'Getaway Car,' And He Shared Why That 'Actual Magic Moment' Went So Viral

A visual representation of great minds thinking alike!

Cinemablend · Aug 6, 2025

Spice Girls wish Geri Halliwell-Horner a happy birthday as singer turns 53

Sharing birthday messages on their Instagram stories, Victoria Beckham posted a photograph of the two together along with Baby Spice.

Evening Standard · Aug 6, 2025

“It survived crashing onto the highway and turned up in a pawnshop”: How Zakk Wylde’s ‘The Grail’ Ozzy Osbourne Les Paul found its way back to him – 3 years after it fell out of a moving vehicle

The guitar became his main axe during his career with Ozzy, but after it fell off a truck in 2000, he feared he’d never see it again

Guitar World · Aug 6, 2025

Metallica announce one of their most intimate shows ever, playing to just 250 people later this month – and you can win a ticket

The biggest band in metal will play their smallest gig in decades on August 28

Metal Hammer · Aug 6, 2025

“We didn’t even have time to run over the performance thoroughly”: Earth Wind & Fire reveal that they had just 24 hours to prepare for their Lollapalooza guest slot with Sabrina Carpenter

Disco legends played Let’s Groove and September

MusicRadar · Aug 6, 2025

“He took us to 5150, and it still had all the tapes up there. There was Jump, the old analog tapes, everything marked”: Lzzy Hale on why Wolfgang Van Halen is well positioned to “save rock ‘n’ roll”

Hale and the rest of Halestorm were invited to Eddie Van Halen's iconic home studio

Guitar World · Aug 6, 2025

“Somebody had stolen some equipment from the opening act and we got blamed for it. The crowd went crazy”: Ricky Byrd on the disastrous Joan Jett gig where they were wrongly accused of stealing gear – and the audience turned on them

Byrd and Jett were on the road with Scorpions at the time – and it’s not a gig that brings back fond memories

Guitar World · Aug 6, 2025

“You could argue that the pickups are the most important thing. But in the end, there’s nothing more important on the guitar than this”: Paul Reed Smith on a guitar's most crucial feature – and how it dictates your tone

Forget pickups and the weight of a guitar – this is where tone really starts, according to Smith

Guitar World · Aug 6, 2025

“It kind of spoils it a bit for me": Here's why Paul Weller won’t be going to any of the Oasis reunion shows

"I just don’t like big gigs," says Weller

MusicRadar · Aug 6, 2025