Stones Plotting Farewell?
The Rolling Stones are reportedly planning to launch a final tour next year, before calling it quits. U.K. newspaper The Sun says that the band is in talks with tour promoter Live Nation for a series of farewell dates.
The trek would begin next year and last into 2012. This would mark the 50th anniversary for the Stones, who formed in 1962.
An unnamed source told the newspaper, "They're likely to perform in stadiums. It's almost certainly the last full-scale world tour. The band realise that age is creeping up on them. They want to bow out on top of their game, and not short-change fans."
The Stones have famously remained a working band over the course of five decades, but with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards both 66 years old and with recent reports of tension within the band, the rumors of a final bow seem somewhat credible.
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AC/DC Make Fortune On Tour
AC/DC have finally ended their massive Black Ice world tour, and it’s having achieved the second highest grossing tour in history.
The band played 168 shows to 4.9 million people, grossing $441.6 million. Only The Rolling Stones, on the A Bigger Bang Tour from 2005-7, have made more money on the road. That brought in $558.1 million.
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Elton John Working On Animal Farm Musical
Elton John is working on creating a stage adaptation for a musical based on the classic George Orwell novel Animal Farm. John has enlisted Lee Hall, the writer of the film Billy Elliot, to pen the lyrics for the musical. The pair have been working for two years on securing the rights for the 1945 allegory of Stalinism and communism. No production team has yet been selected for the musical, which Lee and John expect will debut in 2012 at the earliest.
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Jerry Garcia Biopic Heading To The Big Screen
A new film chronicling the life of late Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia is heading to the big screen. Amir Bar-Lev, who directed the documentary The Tillman Story, has been chosen to direct the film. According to reports, the script will center on Garcia's life before he joined the Grateful Dead. The film will be based on Robert Greenfield's Dark Star: An Oral Biography on Jerry Garcia.
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U2's Spider-Man Broadway Musical To Resume Rehearsals
The new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, featuring music by U2's Bono and The Edge, will begin rehearsals again next month after a forced hiatus.
Actor Reeve Carney, who plays Spider-Man's alter-ego Peter Parker, took to Twitter and confirmed the news.
"Wow, man, I can't wait for the world to see this thing. It's finally happening!! I honestly can't believe I'm getting paid to do things my mom would have killed me for when I was a kid! Ha!"
Rehearsals were halted earlier this year when producers failed to raise the $50 million needed to stage the show. The production team has yet to confirm the replacements for Evan Rachel Wood and Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming, who left the production during the long delays.
In a recent interview with Spinner.com, Bono said the musical is "not a straight take on the myth. We've taken it to a much more dizzy place than you'd expect. We've got big tunes. We're very proud of it."
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New Sting Album Places In Top Ten On Billboard 200
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Sting's new album Symphonicities has debuted in the top ten on both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Rock Album charts. Symphonicities hit the number six spot on the Billboard 200, with Justin Bieber's My World 2.0 narrowly knocking it out of the top five.
It also debuted at number two on the rock chart, just behind Korn's Korn III: Remember Who You Are. Rounding out the top five were HellYeah's Stampede at number three, the soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse at number four and Jack Johnson's To The Sea at number five.
Symphonicities is the tenth studio album released by Sting. It is also his ninth to place in the top ten on Billboard's 200 chart.
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