The only document know to have been signed by all four Beatles and Brian Epstein brought proved to be a very good investment for the collector that paid a bit more than $364,000 for it 7 years ago. The Sotheby's auction of the contract the group and its manager signed in 1962 was purchased for $554,000. A page extracted form the detention records of John Lennon while he attended high school was bought for $3,873. The bargain of the sale was a batch of manuscripts, clothing and instruments belonging to Jack Bruce of Cream which brough a top bid of just over $1,000.
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The Who were forced to postpone dates last week after doctors advised Roger Daltrey that full recovery prospects from his bout with viral Meningitis would be much better if he got R&R instead of barnstorming around North America on tour
At least a couple of decades late in our opinion, but Gregg Allman is finally in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The 37th annual induction ceremony took place Saturday 
There have certainly been times in the long tortured history of the Chicago Cubs when the manager calling his infield '...totally messed up' could be assumed to be a reference to the team's caliber of play. But Joe Maddon was talking about the field itself. Wrigley hosted an AC/DC concert on September 15th that caused enough damage to to the infield to make relatively routine ground balls an adventure. Damage beyond the base paths was so extensive that all of the outfield turf was replaced following the concert. With the Cubs in contention for post season play, MLB's hippest manager hopes the Wrigley infield gets enough TLC to rule out the possibility that a bad bounce on a critical play in a crucial game could put his team on the Highway To Hell instead of keeping it on the road to a long longed pennant. 
This could be a lock for the oddest Rock collectible of the year. On Friday 
The U2 concert scheduled to take place Sunday
R40 Live, a DVD filmed during Toronto dates of the final Rush tour, will reportedly include a number of tracks the Canadian Power Trio has never played live before. The presentation also features a stage setup that transforms itself to synch with the era of the song the group is playing. While the group may no longer mount full-scale tours, members are not ruling out future recording sessions and could do occasional concerts. R40 Live gets released November 20.
A record contract signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and drummer Pete Best in 1961 sold at auction Saturday
The first 4 dates of the Who US tour scheduled to start this week were cancelled a few days ago due to an unspecified illness. Friday 
Keith Richards maintains that all members of the Rolling Stones are committed to recording another album next year. Speaking with The Quietus, the Stones guitarist said, "I was at a meeting with the lads three or four days ago where everybody said 'Yes, we must go into the studio!' ." Full recording sessions are not expected to start before the band wraps up a South American tour in February, but Richards left open the possibility that some preliminary studio get togethers could take place as soon as December.
KISS has established a new record for albums by a US band being declared gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Including solo releases that reached the million mark in sales, the group now has 30 to its credit, 14 of which went on to achieve platinum status by exceeding 3 million in sales and a trio of those, Love Gun, Destroyer and Rock And Roll All Over going multi-platinum.
RM Sotheby's gets the opportunity to auction one of Rock's most iconic vehicles in December when the 1965 Porsche that Janis Joplin had a custom psychedelic paint job done on goes up for bids. The New York sale could produce a top bid in excess of $400,000 for the once simple white sports car that Joplin purchased in 1968. Unlike some exotic cars that musicians drove only on special occasions, the eye catching convertible was driven extensively by the front woman for Big Brother & The Holding Company. Joplin's sister says, 'Janis drove the car everywhere' in the San Francisco Bay Area and that the car also accompanied her to Southern California when she was recording in LA. The one-of-a-kind Porsche has been on display at the Rock Hall Of Fame in Cleveland for 20 years. It is one of 30 uniquely adorned cars being featured in the Driven by Disruption auction being conducted on December 10.
Jose Cuervo has entered an agreement with the Rolling Stones to celebrate the brand's sponsoship of the group's legendary 1972 tour with the release of an ultra premium tequila along with a less expensive featured option. Rolling Stones Jose Cuervo Especial can be had for about $17 while the high-end Ultra Premium Rolling Stones Reserva de la Familia Collectors Edition bottles will be about $150 a pop.
Joe Lynn Turner was apparently banking on being the front man when Ritchie Blackmore tours in the spring of 2016, but Blackmore seems to have another lead singer in mind. The Deep Purple and Rainbow veteran is gushing about an unidentified singer he's discovered, telling Billboard his vocals make him '...a cross between Dio and Freddie Mercury' and says he's confident his new find is bound to become famous fast.
Beatles items come to auction with some regularity and always command a good deal of interest, but the auction being conducted by Julien's December 4 & 5 in Beverly Hills, California make this sale quite exceptional. The bulk of the items being offered are from the personal collection of Ringo Starr and include a 1963 Ludwig drum kit he played from May of 1963 through February 1964, a Rickenbacker guitar John Lennon gave to his drummer and more than 800 hundred other items. The drum set alone is expected to bring in a top bid of up close to a half million dollars and the guitar could fetch between $600,000 and $800,000. All told, the take for all of the items could exceed $10 million.
The guitarist for REO Speedwagon from 1970-1989 has died. Gary Richrath was honored by Kevin Cronin on the lead singer and band's Facebook page in a post that read, in part, 'The entire REO family mourns his death and shares in the grief of his family, friends and fans. These words do not come close to expressing the depth of emotions I am feeling at this time.' The drummer in Richrath's solo band, Tim Fiers, expressed his condolences, calling Richrath '... one of the greatest guitarists the state of Illinois has produced.' No cause of death was provided for Richrath, who Cronin called '...both a unique guitarist and songwriter, and the embodiment of the tough guy with a heart of gold. I learned most of what I know about being in a rock band from Gary Richrath.'
A war of words between Paul Stanley of KISS and Twisted Sister's Dee Snider is finding both eager to kick things up a notch. The exchange started after Snider dissed Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer of KISS while guesting on the Eddie Trunk Show. Stanley came to the defense of his band mates by calling Snider a 'wannabe' desperate for attention and Twisted Sister '...a whole bunch of buffoons.' Stanley's comments were made on the Talk Is Jericho, a blog hosted by Chris Jericho. That prompted Snider to rip into Stanley on his Facebook page Wednesday.jpg)
While not denying that retirement is something he and the other members of AC/DC contemplate, lead singer Brian Johnson tells Morning Sun Music the group intends to keep on doing what it's doing for as long as fans continue turning up in big numbers for concerts. Johnson explains, 'The thing about the boys in AC/DC, you've got to remember, is we're constantly surprised and amazed at how we keep the successs going', adding, '...we just play 100% every night and give it everything we've got', and, 'We never expect the crowds. We never take anything fro granted. How can you? Times change. You've just got to keep doing what you're doing, basically, and just hope they come back for more.' They have, as AC/DC continues to add impresssive numbers to one of Rock's biggest tours. The current run of North American dates ends with the band at Dodger Stadium on September 28.
It took four decades to happen and only lasted 7 songs, but the Faces finally got together. The reunion of Ron Wood, Rod Stewart and Kenny Jones had been close to happening several times in recent years, only to be sidetracked. Sadly, the band's performance at a Saturday 
The head of Epic Records tells Billboard that the new album Ozzy Osbourne is working on is, '...something Ozzy has never done before that he's always wanted to do', a statement that is sure to fire-up some interesting speculation. A-ca-pella, orchestral, foreign language, folk, polka... with Ozzy, ya never know. Sylvia Rhone assures that '...it's going to be amazing.' The remarks by Rhone followed Epic Fest, a publicity drawing rally staged by Epic on the Sony Pictures lot in Los Angeles that Osbourne made an appearance at.
Sponge Bob Squarepants will debut on Broadway next year with a score that includes songs written for it by Joe Perry and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and David Bowie. Director Tina Landau says that getting the songs from some of Rock's biggest artists wasn't that difficult because they're fans of the character. Others serving up songs for the SpongeBob production include Cyndi Lauper, Flaming Lips, They Might Be Giants, John Legend and Lady Antebellum. Preview performances of the musical are slated to open June 7 in Chicago's Oriental Theatre and run for about a month before audiences in New York get the chance to soak it up.
John Fogerty has plenty of reasons to feel bitter about the music industry - and he does. Fortunate Son; My Life, My Music, the book the former Creedence Clearwater Revival front man is releasing on October 6, chronicles the long, contentious relationship the singer has had with band mates, including his late brother, and a host of other industry figures through the decades. Fogerty equates life in the music business and being in a band to being in a foxhole during wartime. Fogerty was introduced to the deceit within the industry early when a label executive changed the name of the band without consulting with the group, which found out after the record had already been packaged. He attributes his falling out with CCR's Stu Cook and Doug Clifford, who now tour as Creedence Clearwater Revisited, to the pair's decision to sell the equal shares they received from John's writing to producer Saul Zaentz for $30,000 in 1988. Zaentz later sued Fogerty, claiming that John's solo track The Old Man Down The Road infringed on Run Through The Jungle, one of the Creedence songs the producer obtained a portion of the publishing rights to. Fogerty was so disgusted with Zaentz and his band mates that he refused to perform Creedence songs for a long period in his career. 
