Paul McCartney spoke for the first time about performing at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding during his appearance Friday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” During the celebration at Madison Square Garden, he performed ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’, for the first time since 1963. McCartney told Kimmel: “She asked me to do it”, and he suggested: “You should sing along, and you should sing it to your man.”

November 13 will see the release of “The World According to The Clash”, an 11-song compilation originally only made available to US radio in 1982, designed to give American DJs a snapshot of standout tracks from the group prior to the release of “Combat Rock”. The collection has been newly remastered and packaged with artwork created by the band.

Rolling Stones have released a video for their “Foreign Tongues” song ‘Mr. Charm’, and it features Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård, who starred as tech mogul ‘Lukas Matsson’ in HBO’s “Succession”. Earlier, Ron Wood said the song, which includes the lines, “Who would you really trust? Is it Boeing, is it NASA, is it mad mogul Mr. Musk?” is the Stones’ commentary on the perilous state of the world.

 

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A campaign to raise $1 million toward a permanent Neil Peart memorial in Lakeside Park in St. Catharines ON has reached its target after Rush donated $785,000 to the cause. The park, on the shores of Port Dalhousie, where Peart spent his youth, inspired the song ‘Lakeside Park’, from Rush’s 1975 album “Caress of Steel”.

Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the Los Angeles’ Silverlake Conservatory of Music’s 25th anniversary celebration. The Oct. 17 all-star benefit concert at the Hollywood Palladium will also feature Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, Vince Staples and comedian Marc Maron. Chili Peppers bassist Flea is one of the co-founders of the school.

Peter Byrne, the singer of the 1980s English synth-pop duo, has died at age 74. A press release says that Byrne “died peacefully in Los Angeles on…Sept. 14, after a brief illness.” The group reached #8 on the Hot 100 in 1982 with ‘Always Something There to Remind Me.’

Bob Dylan will release the box set “The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings” on Nov. 6. Spanning nearly 40 discs, it documents the second leg of Dylan’s historic 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue tour. “Almost all” of that segment’s 27 show dates “are represented in the 371 never-before-heard tracks”, according to a press release.