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IN THE NEWS
 
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The Pretenders inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 3/14/2005. [pictured here March 1980]

U2 – Inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and new Vertigo/2005 Tour. [pictured here 11/13/1981]

Billy Idol – New Album: On March 22, Sanctuary releases "Devil's Playground” 3/22/2005

“Rod Stewart (news) has proposed to his longtime girlfriend at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris” 3/13/2005.

Bob Dylan announces summer tour of minor league baseball stadium tour with Willie Nelson, 2075 BD
Summer 2004

Wilco releases "A Ghost is Born" 6/22/2004

Hank Williams III greating fans, Saratoga Winners, Cohoes, NY, 6/4/2004 2809 HW

Warren Zevon passes on, 9/7/03

THE BECK Tour Summer 2003

WILCO TO RELEASE E.P.

Sheryl Crow Tours, Fall 2002

WILCO sells albums and blows fans away

during current tour - All with new songs
that their former record company rejected

Summer 2002

PARTY

 
Andrew W K tours with his songs Party Hard, Party til you Puke, and It's Tme to Party Spring 2002

GREEN DAY

 
"Big Day Out" tour,

Summer, 2002

BLINK 182

 
"Big Day Out" tour,

Summer, 2002

STEVE J,

Valentine's, Albany, NY,

3/29/2002

ALIEN ANT FARM,

 
Northern Lights, Clifton Park, NY
2/20/2002

WEEZER,

Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY,
 
2/17/2002

SAVES THE DAY,

Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY,
 
2/17/2002

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

The Egg, Albany, NY,

2/9/2002

WETWERKS,

Valentine's, Albany, NY, 1/4/2002

SYSTEM OF A DOWN,

Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY, 10/20/2001

DESTINY'S CHILD

opens TRL Tour
at Pepsi Arena,

Albany, NY, 7/18/2001

BRIAN WILSON

Saratoga Springs, NY
7/15/2001

BUCKCHERRY,

Pepsi Arena, Albany, NY, 5/9/2001

SINISSTAR,

picked by Fred Durst
as next big thing,
Rolling Stone Magazine,
[shot at Pepsi Arena,

Albany, NY, 12/2000]

Bob Dylan’s Chronicles Volume One nominated for National Book Award, 2005 [pictured here April 26, 1980]

“Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland says he is off drugs for good, according to the April issue of Esquire magazine.” 3/13/2005

Jayhawk’s are disbanded. Former Jayhawk’s Mark Olsen and Gary Louris re-unite and go on tour. Spring 2005.

Ray Charles (b. 1930) passes on, 6/11/2004. 2011 RC

Elvin Jones (b. 1927) passes on, 5/18/2004, 2806 EJ

Ronald Reagan passes on, 6/5/2004, (This vintage 1941 print is available for publication], 1000 HV

Johnny Cash passed on.

Richard Thompson releases critically acclaimed "The Old Kit Bag" May 2003

R.E.M. BACK ON THE ROAD

BOB DYLAN RELEASES "1975 ROLLING THUNDER LIVE"

BRITNEY STALKED AGAIN

WHITNEY'S NEWS

PETER GABRIEL DELAYS TOUR START

BONO NAMED MOST POWERFUL IN MUSIC

 
WALLFLOWERS APPEAR ON CSI [10/3/2002]
and Plan Fall Tour 2002
 
RAMONES TRIBUTE
RESCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 24
 

MEGADETH DOES BUDDY HOLLY

PHISH TO PLAY MSG NEW YEAR'S EVE

 
ELVIS RAKES IT IN

 
CHRIS ROBINSON
PENS FOR GOLDIE HAWN MOVIE

BRITNEY SPEARS

Abruptly Walks Off Mexico Stage, Ending Tour

7/29/2002

BON JOVI's

new "Bounce" album

due October 8, 2002

STEVE EARLE's
 
new ballad "John Walker's Blues"
about the so-called "American Taliban" brings
raves and controversy.

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS

New Tour and New Songs,

Summer 2002

CHER

 
hits the road in her Summer 2002
"Living Proof Farewell Tour"

DEE DEE RAMONE,

Co-founder of The Ramones,

dead at 49 of unknown causes.

THE COAL PALACE KINGS

release their new CD "UPSTATE",

5/11/2002

GEORGE THOROGOOD

has joined forces with UPS delivery service
for a series of commercials to promote

overnight delivery.

B-52's

celebrate 25 years with
"Nude On The Moon",
a double CD set

Jazz Great

NICK BRIGNOLA
passes away, 2/8/2002

TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider

is MSNBC's official voiceover guy.
 
Snider can be heard on MSNBC about every
15 minutes during station breaks.

BILLY JOEL's songs are the basis

for a new musical, "Movin' Out,"

that will hit the New York stage in October.

MOBY, recently badly bitten by an alley cat in NY's Chinatown said,

"Although I'm a vegan, I will definitely eat this cat if I see it again."

ERIC CLAPTON, 56, proposed marriage to Melia McEnry, 25, last Fathers' Day. Hmmm.

They were married 1/1/2002.

LED ZEPPELIN
sells the song "Rock and Roll" to Cadillac.
Commercial airs during the Super Bowl

ADAM ANT committed

to to the psychiatric ward of
London's Royal Free Hospital

1/15/2002

System Of A Down To Swing Through U.S. Between

Overseas Tours

Bob Dylan garners 3 Grammy nominations - including Best Album.

U2 nominated for 8 Grammys

Beyonce Knowles announces "Destiny's Child is going to take a break" until 2003.

Steve Earle's 1986 debut record, Guitar Town, will be reissued on January 29th with an additional track, Earle's cover of Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper" and liner notes written by Earle.