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Neil Young is hitting pause on his “Love Earth” tour.On Wednesday, the 78-year-old musician and his band Crazy Horse announced that they will be taking an “unplanned break” due to illness among various band members.“The Love Earth Tour has been a great experience for us so far,” Young wrote in a message posted to his website. “GREAT AUDIENCES AND MUSIC. WE HAVE HAD A BLAST!”“When a couple of us got sick after Detroit’s Pine Knob, we had to stop,” he continued.

who died Monday at 49 after battling addiction for much of his life — alluded to his personal struggles in what wound up being his final Instagram posts before his death. One post from April 28 featured the message, “The black sheep, the odd ducks, the rejects, the eccentrics, the loners, the lost and forgotten.

Eras Tour in London the day before his bandmate, Dave Grohl, shaded the pop star at their own concert in the UK capital.Smear, 64, went to Swift’s show at Wembley Stadium on Friday (June 21) and appeared in a photo on actress Salma Hayek’s Instagram.Hayek, 57, snapped a selfie of herself, Smear, and fashion designer Stella McCartney at the concert.Smear doesn’t have an Instagram so Hayek tagged the Foo Fighters in the post. Nicola Coughlan, Leslie Mann, Jonathan Van Ness, and Swift’s mom Andrea Swift were in Hayek’s Instagram post as well.Fans also spotted Smear in the venue’s VIP tent near Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce at Friday’s show.The next day, the Foo Fighters performed at London Stadium where Grohl, 55, took a jab and Swift and insinuated that she doesn’t perform live.“I tell you, man, you don’t want to suffer the wrath of Taylor Swift,” the band’s frontman said in a clip that made its rounds on social media.“So we like to call our tour the ‘Errors Tour.’ We’ve had more than a few eras, and more than a few f – – king errors as well.

Nation Beat, their globe-trotting groove has crossed not only countries, but continents.And the band’s Brazil-to-New Orleans flight of beats and brass will stop at NYC’s Joe’s Pub on Saturday for an album release show celebrating their fifth LP, “Archaic Humans.”“We’ve been around for a minute, and in the early years, they were the first kind of established performance space that we did in New York City,” bandleader and drummer/percussionist Scott Kettner told The Post. “And they’ve always supported us through all these years.“So it’s great to be doing the album release party there.

come back to the music rock group after Bon Jovi, 62, got his voice back after recovering from vocal surgery. But Bon Jovi himself told Entertainment Weekly Friday that there’s been no decision made regarding Sambora’s return.“You never say never,” the rocker said. “I mean, he quit the band 11-plus years ago, and he’s had to deal with a lot of things in his life.

“Gossip Girl” alum Taylor Momsen got bit by a bat while performing with her band The Pretty Reckless in Seville, Spain on May 29. Momsen, 30, shared an Instagram video Friday that showed the moment the bat landed on her leg as she was on stage.

missing guitar featured in The Beatles’ 1965 film “Help!” sold at an auction at New York’s Hard Rock Cafe Wednesday for over $2.8 million.Julien’s Auctions confirmed in a statement that the Framus Hootenanny 12-string acoustic guitar became the fifth most-expensive guitar ever sold.The guitar was found in an attic after going missing 50 years ago.According to Julien’s Auctions, Lennon gave the guitar to fellow musician Gordon Waller in 1965. Lennon and Paul McCartney had been writing songs for Waller at the time.Waller later gave the guitar to his manager, who brought it home and put it in his attic.

Before they ever went one on one as Hall & Oates, John Oates played his first show with his longtime partner Daryl Hall in New York City.After meeting as students at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1967, the blue-eyed soul brothers behind such classics as “Rich Girl,” “Kiss on My List,” “Maneater” and “Out of Touch” made their debut in the middle of Greenwich Village’s fertile folk scene in the late ’60s.“[Daryl] had a doo wop group called the Temptones,” Oates, 76, told The Post outside the site of the former Gaslight Cafe where the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame duo first played together in public — five-plus decades before their shocking breakup last fall.“They were a vocal group, and they needed a backing band. They had a backing band, and they lost their guitar player,” he recalled.

John Oates revisited Electric Lady Studios — the legendary recording mecca in Greenwich Village, Manhattan where Hall & Oates made many of their ‘80s classics — he got back in touch with one particular hit.That would be “Maneater,” the longest-running of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame duo’s six No. 1 singles.Released in October 1982 as the first single from Hall & Oates’ double-platinum “H2O” album, the song was inspired by a woman who Oates encountered back in those wild Village days — decades before his and Daryl Hall’s shocking band split last fall.“A couple streets over, there was a restaurant called Marylou’s, and it was a late-night hang,” Oates, 76, exclusively told The Post outside of Electric Lady Studios, where the twosome recorded 1981’s “Private Eyes” and 1984’s “Big Bam Boom” in addition to 1982’s “H2O.”“And I was in there one night with a group of friends sitting at a table, and this gal came in, and she was absolutely drop-dead gorgeous,” he recalled.

died at the age of 58.“When I met Charlie Colin, front left, I fell in love with him,” began the statement, shared on the band’s X and Instagram accounts. “He was THE sweetest guy and what a handsome chap. Let’s make a band that’s the only reasonable thing to do,” the group continued.

Lydia’s Castle, on May 19.“On 5/18/2024 at 8:02pm, @jonwysocki4 passed away surrounded by family and friends that loved him dearly. An official statement will be developed shortly,” read the statement via Instagram.On Sunday, Staind also released a statement about Wysocki’s death on social media.“We first met Jon through mutual friends in 1994. We came together with Mike, Aaron and Johnny April in 1995 and founded Staind.

shout — a lot.Ringo Starr, 83, admitted that The Beatles had their issues with one another in a new interview with Dan Rather, 92, for AXS.“No no, we didn’t get along,” the drummer said of the iconic English rock band on May 10. “We were four guys. We had rows.”But Starr said that the drama with the other Beatles — Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon — “never got in the way of the music no matter how bad the row was.”“Once the count in, we all gave our best,” Starr explained.

“Music Uncovered: The Genius of Coldplay” podcast series. Bono got into the conversation about Coldplay first by praising their 2002 song “Clocks” from the band’s second studio album, “A Rush of Blood to the Head.”“It just sort of sticks to you, tighter than time itself,” the Irish musician said about the track.

“Dark Matter” tour earlier this month, but their May 4 gig wasn’t without drama.Around two-thirds of the way through their 25-song set list, McCready appeared to be feeling the music too much as he plummeted from the stage during his solo.In footage shared by a fan in the audience, the musician can be seen taking a tumble from the stage — leaving his Gibson Les Paul guitar up in the air.Of course, McCready didn’t let the fall ruin his solo as he continued to play it even from the ground.Moments later, a security guard rushed over to help the rocker return to the stage.Luckily, McCready appeared unscathed by the incident as he flashed a smile and carried on like nothing happened.Fans took to social media to give props to the rocker for not skipping a beat.“A true professional,” one fan wrote on X, while another added, “Didn’t miss a chord.”The band is taking their new record “Dark Matter” on the road for their summer tour that is sure to send the grunge rockers to arenas all over North America.That includes a pair of back-to-back concerts at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, Sept. 3 and Wednesday, Sept.

unexpectedly quit the rock band. “The fans will just love it,” Sambora, 64, said on “The Allison Hagendorf Show” on Wednesday. “It’s not finance, it has nothing to do with [that].

admits he’s no saint when it comes to his 35-year marriage, said life was “pretty good” for him when Bon Jovi skyrocketed to global stardom.“I got away with murder,” the “Livin’ on a Prayer” hitmaker told Michael Strahan in the “Halfway There” ABC interview special. “I’m a rock and roll star, I’m not a saint.

“Wanted Dead or Alive” was once on the run from his own band.But in the new docuseries “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story,” which premiered on Hulu Friday, Richie Sambora apologizes for the way he abruptly left the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group — failing to show up for his plane to Calgary, Alberta, for a concert in April 2013.“I don’t regret leaving the situation, but I regret how I did it,” Sambora, 64, says in the final of four episodes.“I’d like to apologize fully right now to the fans, especially, and also to the guys. My feet and my spirit were just not letting me walk out the door.”And Sambora likens his vanishing act to fleeing the mob: “I guess if you’re in the mafia, the only thing you possibly do is disappear.

Everclear got ambitious.Following the success of their hit 1997 record “So Much For The Afterglow,” the band decided to release the sonically adventurous double album “Songs From An American Movie.”Sales stalled because of how the record was rolled out — Vol. 1 hit shelves in July; Vol.

A post shared by Jellyroll • BVTLive (@jellyroll_bvtlive)The lawsuit also claims Jelly Roll’s prison stint for felony robbery charges has harmed the band’s reputation by association. “Because of Defendant’s troubled past, which includes a felony conviction and imprisonment, such association as averred above has caused additional harm to Plaintiff among the public and trade,” the suit says.

Heart attack.Ann and Nancy Wilson’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group just added a second leg to their 2024 ‘Royal Flush Tour’ from September through December with special guests Cheap Trick, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin on select dates.Midway through the fall and winter run, the “Crazy On You” rockers will stop into New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Monday, Oct. 21.On the first leg of the ‘Royal Flush Tour,’ Heart is scheduled to deal the hits at Atlantic City’s Hard Rock Live on Friday, May 24, Albany’s MVP Arena on Saturday, Aug.

Barenaked Ladies are touring all over North America on their ‘In Flight Tour’ in support of their 2023 album with fellow ’90s icon Toad The Wet Sprocket.Along the way, the “One Week” rockers are slated to deliver the hits at Atlantic City’s Tropicana Casino on Saturday, June 22, Brookville, NY’s Tilles Center Concert Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 1 and Rochester’s Kodak Center on Wednesday, Oct.