Guitarist Eddie Van Halen is cancer-free, according to the official Van Halen website. (Sorry Eddie, I'm glad you no longer have the big C, but I hope Sammy & Dave kick ass this Summer on their tour) Did I mention that Van Halen was dropped from Warner Brothers Records in February after spending more than 23 years on the label. (What goes around)
Steve Miller has not toured in nearly two years, but he's scheduled to make a special appearance at the San Francisco Blues Festival on Sept. 29. The singer-guitarist and a group of blues veterans, including Charlie Musselwhite and Elvin Bishop, will perform under the moniker Steve Miller's Chicago Blues Reunion during the second day of the two-day gathering.
Songwriter Otis Blackwell died on May 6 after suffering a heart attack. He was 70. A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the pianist and singer from Brooklyn, New York launched his writing career by selling six songs for $150. He recorded one with a drummer playing on a cardboard box. Blackwell composed more than 1,000 songs, including Great Balls of Fire and Breathless, which were recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis; Handy Man, a 1977 Top 5 single for James Taylor; Fever, a hit for Peggy Lee; and Return To Sender and All Shook Up, both recorded by Elvis Presley.
Irish rock group The Cranberries will mark the 10th anniversary of its debut album with the release of a boxed set. Treasure Box: The Complete Sessions 1991-1999 includes digitally remastered versions of the group's first four albums, plus 21 bonus tracks. May 10, the Cranberries kicked off a North American concert tour in support of their latest album, Wake Up And Smell The Coffee.
The Rolling Stones will celebrate their 40th anniversary with a world tour that's scheduled to begin on September 5 in Boston, Massachusetts. North American shows will run through February. The tour will continue in Australia, the Far East and possibly China before ending in Europe in late 2003. At a May 7 press conference in New York, band members also announced that they're about to go into the studio to record some new songs. They'll be included on the Stones' double CD anthology, which is due out later this year.
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