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Plant first joined the musician and his band for a cover of "Hey Joe" before delivering the iconic Led Zeppelin tune live for the first time since his former band's 2007 reunion at London's O2 Arena.

The rocker - who first teamed up with Kennedy while working on his 1993 album, "Fate Of Nations" - was among the featured guests at the gala billed as Nigel Kennedy And Friends, part of a 12-day festival of classical music-themed events called Love Classical.

The band and some fans have derided the mid-tempo song since its release on their 1984 sophomore album due to its mellower nature, with some speculating they recorded it in hopes of getting radio airplay.

The band didn't play the track live until 2012 and they only performed it then because it was a special show featuring a performance of the entire "Ride The Lightning" album.

Hetfield looked back at the birth of the track during an interview with Sopitas and he says that it "was the first time we wrote a song in the studio. I remember we had all the songs and Lars said, 'They want us to record one more, they need one more for the album.'"

"I don't think we'll do another record," Nicks says. 'If the music business were different, I might feel different. I don't think there's any reason to spend a year and an amazing amount of money on a record that, even if it has great things, isn't going to sell."

Nicks , who turns 70 in a couple years, will not let a number dictate her appearance. "I don't like that number. I see lots of people my age, and lots of people who are younger than me, and I think, 'Wow, those people look really old,'" she reveals.

The band were filmed playing the title track to their forthcoming fifth album (it would be released two months later) in concert at the Festival de St Tropez in the south of France on August 8, 1970.

The footage appears on the DVD/Blu-ray "1970 Devi/ation", one of six volumes to be issued separately this month after appearing on last November's release of "The Early Years 1965-1972" box set.

The massive 27-disc package features 130 tracks from the band's formative years, including TV recordings, BBC Sessions, outtakes, demos and more than 20 unreleased songs alongside 7 hours of previously unreleased live audio and more than 5 hours of rare concert footage.

Punky revealed these details, "Just finished playing Backstage Bar and Billiards in Vegas and Frank Dimino came to the show jumped up on stage and we played the 'Tower'.

Paramore fan account The Paramore Band shared news that 12 news song had been registered with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' (ASCAP).

Most were written by Hayley Williams and Taylor York, but a few have Farro's name on them as well. The appropriately titled "Grudges" was written by Williams, York and Farro, and the three also teamed up to pen "Pool" and "Rose Colored Boy."

The band, featuring Ed Kowalczyk , Chad Taylor, Patrick Dahlheimer and Chad Gracey, announced they will be taking part in the Arroyo Seco, BottleRock, Rock On The Range, MMBBQ Festival and PinkPop (The Netherlands) festivals.

Petty will lead the lineup for the first day of the event on June 24th that will be staged outside of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Mumford & Sons will close out the second day of the festival.

The concert is part of her Ann Wilson Of Heart Tour. She recently had this to say about the trek, "People can expect the unexpected in 2017. A beautiful, classy set with an elegant, artistic production...

The band recruited Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti to produce the album at Studio 64 in Highland Park, CA. They had originally met him during a 2006 North American tour together.

The film will be directed by award-winning horror filmmaker Todd Nunes (All Through The House) and is currently in pre-production. Doyle had the following to say about the project:

They join the lineup that will also feature Yes, Marillion, Gong, Anathema, Haken & more, on what will be the band's first US visit. Kavus Torabi had this to say "Ahoy there. This will be the first real opportunity for our US fans to see Knifeworld live.

"We will be performing two full electric sets and an acoustic one. Over the three performances we will be plunging into the deep, reedy waters of our four albums and making seaworthy a few rarely heard gems. I'll also be performing with Gong, so if the cut of my jib doesn't resonate with you in the correct fashion you will have plenty of sunbathing time. After one of the performances at least two members of Knifeworld will be walking the plank in real life. We hope you can join us for this, at least."

The album will be released on May 19, 2017 and frontman Bjorn Strid had this to say, "Amber Galactic" is a relationship drama set in space, the first classic rock space opera on double vinyl. As seasoned musicians, we're taking this project seriously, although we might come across as slightly retrofuturistic at times, there's no irony involved. It's just us trying to shape our future into a place where our race is led by female space commanders with pearl necklaces and a quasar sense of gravity. "Amber Galactic" is about setting free from genre boundaries and expectations that are put on people like us. We just want to create music that we would like to hear ourselves, but that isn't only for us.

I remember sitting on this one for months! It was the third song that we ever wrote as a band. Our drummer at the time had come up with one of the main riffs, and we had essentially finished the music. Everybody was just waiting on me for the lyrics & melody. I was so frustrated because everything that I was hearing was so lackluster and boring.

So I kept working and kept working. After I had essentially given up on the song and told the guys we should move on, literally the next day the chorus melody just popped into my head, and I knew that was it. It went on to become our top-selling single to date.