REBEAT News Roundup (October 5 – October 11)
Here’s the news you need to know this week!
Breaking news
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced their nominees for the 2016 induction on October 8. The potential inductees include the Cars, Chicago, Deep Purple, Steve Miller, and Yes, among others. You can vote online for the top five nominees you would like to see in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; these fan votes will make up a portion of the votes that help choose the inductees in December.
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Yoko Ono celebrated John Lennon’s 75th birthday and commemorated his life by making a human peace sign in Central Park. On October 6, three days before what would have been Lennon’s birthday, over 2,000 people joined Ono in standing in the formation of a peace sign, which could then be seen from the air.
Albums, singles, and tours
- The Marshall Tucker Band has announced the release of an LP which will contain live performances from the end of their first European Tour. Live in the U.K. 1976 will be released on October 30.
- The latest single off of David Gilmour’s Rattle That Lock, entitled “The Girl in the Yellow Dress,” received an accompanying animated video on October 7. Check it out here.
- Neil Young is releasing a new album of live performances called Bluenote Cafe. The album will focus on dates from his R&B-focused 1988 tour.
- A previously unreleased track taken from the sessions for Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited will be featured on his next album in the Bootleg Series collection. A preview of the song can be found on Vevo.
Happy birthday!
- October 5 – Carlo Mastrangelo of Dion & the Belmonts (born in 1938), Richard Street of the Temptations (1942), Steve Miller of the Steve Miller Band (1943), Brian Johnson of AC/DC (1947)
- October 6 – Thomas McClary of the Commodores (born in 1949)
- October 8 – Tony Wilson of Hot Chocolate (born in 1947), Hamish Stuart of the Average White Band (1949), Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool & the Gang (1950)
- October 9 – John Lennon of the Beatles (born in 1940), John Entwistle of the Who (1944), Jackson Browne, musician (1948)
- October 11 – Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates (born in 1946), Andrew Woolfolk of Earth, Wind & Fire (1950)
Rest in peace
- Billy Joe Royal, popular singer-songwriter in the mid-to-late 1960s, passed away at his home in North Carolina on October 6. He was 73.
Danielle Zabielski (aka “that girl who loves the Bee Gees more than anything else in the whole wide world”) is an artist, freelancer, and radio producer based in Philadelphia. Art and music are the two loves of her life, particularly the art and music of the 1960s through ‘70s.