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Gregg Allman Cancels All 2017 Live Appearances

The band has announced eight new headline dates in addition to their previously revealed appearances at the Governors Ball and Boston Calling music festivals this spring.

The album shot up to the No. 2 spot of the chart for the sales week ending on March 9th from their previous week's No. 14 position after the record was bundled with ticket purchases for their upcoming summer tour.

Chris Farlowe and The Thunderbirds: The Beginning marked the first album Page ever produced, and now the 12-song demo will be available to purchase for the first time. "Now after 56 years, it is to see the light of day," Farlowe said in a statement.

The first three of the eight new tour dates will feature support from Volbeat, and A Day To Remember taking over the opening spot for the remaining five shows.

The special release will feature the demos for "I Don't Want To Confess," "Shallow Grave" and "Mistress And Maid" which the Beatles legend recorded with Costello during the "Flowers In The Dirt" album sessions.

McCartney had these comments, "The demos are red hot off the skillet and that's why we wanted to include them on this boxed set. What's great about these songs is that they've just been written. So there's nothing more hot off the skillet as I say. So that was the kind of great instant thing about them.

The special series of Las Vegas shows will be kicking off on July 29th and additional shows have been announced for August 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 9th, and 11th, according to the venue's social media.

The new dates begin on May 3rd in Jackson, MS and include shows in Birmingham, Nashville, Huntsville, Montgomery, San Antonio, Catoosa, Shawnee, Paducah (KY), Louisville, Springfield (IL), Cedar Rapids, Madison, Prior Lake, Topeka, Grand Island, Denver and Phoenix.

These dates are in addition to the run of 21 summer shows that the band announced last week that will feature Joan Jett and the Blackhearts as their special guest.

McBrain will be performing with the band during the broadcasts this week (from Mon, March 13 - Thurs, March 16). The program airs at 12:35AM ET on the NBC television network.

The band shared the news via social media with a photo of the drummer that proclaimed "Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden comes to Late Night With Seth Meyers Mar 13-16." It was captioned with "Be sure to tune in and catch Nicko on -latenightseth this week! #LNSM #IronMaiden".

The production is based on Pink Floyd's acclaimed 1979 double album "The Wall" and the first U.S. showing is scheduled to take place in July 2018 at the Cincinnati Music Hall.

Adams has now added second shows in those markets: The additional New York City show will be taking place at the Beacon Theatre on May 2nd and the second Philadelphia show will happen on May 6th at the Tower Theater.

The tour is being launched in support of Ryan's latest album "Prisoner", which was released last month and debut at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Ryan concludes for the round of dates supporting the release tonight (March 14th) at the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans, he will be kicking off the spring and summer tour with the new Beacon Theater show and has announced dates that run until August 4th with an appearance at the Hinterland Festival in Saint Charles, IA.

The summer outing is scheduled to get underway on July 6th in Airway Heights, WA at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino and will finish on September 30th in Salt Lake City, UT at the USANA Amphitheatre.

The newly announced dates are in addition to Simon's previously announced appearance at the Eaux Claires Music and Arts Festival in Wisconsin, which will be taking place on June 16th and 17th.

The new run of live dates will be kicking off on May 9th in Brooklyn, NY at the Warsaw and will conclude with an appearance at this year's Rock On The Range festival on May 21st.

The Unity Tour will be launched on June 22nd in Cleveland, OH at the Hard Rock Live and is set to run until September 1st with an appearance at the American Music Festival in Virginia Beach, VA.

The tune surfaced last month ahead of the March 10 release of the band's seventh record, which was written, recorded and produced by frontman Gavin Rossdale.

"I wanted to write a record about what it's like coming out of a cannon before you take off through these watershed times," Rossdale tells Billboard. "I think it really is important to have the element of hope and repair and sunshine because it's such a divided world now. It's so divided and crazy and unstable and vulnerable.

The group, which also includes Alex Landenburg (Rhapsody and Annihilator) and Peter Iwers (In Flames and Stoney Mountain), plan to hit the studio this spring to record the effort which will be released under their just inked deal with Spinefarm Records.

Quinn Allman, our producer Dan Whittaker, and I were in the studio shuffling through Quinn's hard drive full of song ideas. We came across this song that had these really eerie guitar bends that rung in the back of your skull (Quinn has the sickest bends).

When Dan and I expressed our immediate interest in the song, Quinn sent me a list of lyrics he had quickly written down as throwaways. We started joking about the very emo quality of the lyrics and started making up our own to the melody that he had in mind.