All the news you need to know from this past week!

Breaking news

Rod Stewart will reunite with the Faces for a charity show in support of Prostate Cancer UK on September 5 at the Hurtwood Park Polo Club in Ewhurst, Surrey. The Faces’ Facebook page posted a status update on August 4, saying:

40 years in the making! Faces are REUNITING on September 5th with a special gig as part of the 3rd Rock ’N’ Horsepower charity event for Prostate Cancer UK.

Surviving original members Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones will join Stewart for the show. Tickets are available here.

Albums, singles, and tours

• Just after the conclusion of their “Fare Thee Well” tour, three members of the Grateful Dead have decided to continue on the road. They will now be touring with singer and guitarist John Mayer under the name Dead & Company, and will attempt to keep ticket prices lower than the extravagant prices garnered by the “Fare Thee Well” shows.
• Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, are releasing an album as the Hollywood Vampires. They will be accompanied by the likes of Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, Slash, the Doors’ Robby Krieger, and more. The album, which will primarily be made up of covers, features a spoken word vocal provided by the late actor Christopher Lee, recorded before his passing.

Happy birthday!

• August 3 – Beverly Lee of the Shirelles (born in 1941), B.B. Dickerson of War (1949), Johnny Graham of Earth, Wind & Fire (1951)
• August 4 – Elsbeary Hobbs of The Drifters (born in 1936)
• August 5 – Rick Huxley of the Dave Clark Five (born in 1940), Greg Leskiw of the Guess Who (1947), Maureen McCormick, actress on The Brady Bunch (1956)
• August 7 – Andy Fraser of Free (born in 1952)

Rest in peace

• Last week, our news update went to press too late to report the death of Cilla Black, English singer and actress, who passed away on August 1 at age 72. She passed while at her Spanish villa in Estepona.

Staff