Today's Day in Rock Stories

Metallica Frontman James Hetfield Takes Fall From Stage

Thal spoke about the difficult decision to WRIF (via Classic Rock): "I need to be super-creative. I'm not the kind of utility that you hire and he plays and gets paid, and that's it.

"It has to grow. After eight years in Guns I looked at it and said, 'Am I doing what I want to do?' I felt like anyone could have doing what I was doing at that point, and it didn't have to be me.

"And if I wasn't happy, and they knew I wasn't happy, then I should get out and do what I'm supposed to do, and let them do what they were supposed to do. And I knew the reunion was coming, so it was like, 'Let me get out of the way.'"

The 90-minute documentary film was directed by Slipknot's M. Shawn Crahan (aka Clown) and covers the band's very first excursion to Mexico and the Q&A session will be conducted by SiriusXM's Jose Mangin.

The tune was the second single from the UK band's third album, "Master Of Reality", which peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard 200 on its way to sales of more than 2 million copies in the States.

Directed by Dick Carruthers, "The End Of The End" presents the farewell concert by Black Sabbath in their hometown of Birmingham, England this past February.

"To bring it all back home after all these years was pretty special," says the band. "It was so hard to say goodbye to the fans, who've been incredibly loyal to us through the years. We never dreamed in the early days that we'd be here 49 years later doing our last show on our home turf."

Malik, who is best known for his role as Elliot Alderson on Mr. Robot, will play the late Queen frontman in the forthcoming biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which is set to hit theaters in December of 2018.

"When you're able to open your eyes and see a different person staring back at you in the mirror, it's a very affirming moment," Malek told EW regarding seeing himself in hair and makeup.

The tour will see the group - guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, keyboardist Geoff Downes, singer Jon Davison and bassist Billy Sherwood - feature not only many of the band's classic hits, but performances of Sides 1 and 4 and an excerpt from Side 3 of their 1973 album, "Tales From Topographic Oceans", which was the outfit's first album to top the UK Album Charts.

"We want to mark this anniversary with a tour that encompasses some of our best loved work," explains Howe, "we want to play things we enjoy, maybe songs we haven't done in a while."

"Reflecting on the past 46 years that I've devoted my life to playing Yes music, it's been an interesting journey and a true labor of love," adds White. "I've always believed in the power of music and the band's recent induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and our Grammy (awarded in 1985) are testament to the longevity of influence our music has had through the years.

Like with their earlier The Joshua Tree tour shows, the show set off with some non-Joshua Tree songs before U2 launched into the album. The band performed The Joshua Tree front to back and closed out the set with a handful of songs from other albums.

One surprise at the Detroit show was a guest appearance from Patti Smith on the song "Mothers of the Disappeared." "There is no one to compare. We don't have anyone to compare with Patti Smith," Bono said. He went on to tell the crowd that U2 wouldn't have written The Joshua Tree without Smith.

"RIP Walter Becker. Listening to Steely Dan all day in your honor," tweeted Nathan Followill of Kings of Leon.

"RIP Walter Becker. Half of one of the greatest and most original bands in rock history," Carl Newman said on Twitter.

"Walter Becker, you changed my life with music. You are so loved Straight to the stars.... My friend," Ryan Adams tweeted.

The band's take on the classic 1995 single is true to the original during the live take, with singer John Gourley even slipping into Liam Gallagher's signature British accent on occasion.

Standing at the microphone with an acoustic guitar in hand, Martin delivered vocals for the classic track that bear a striking similarity to that of Simon's 1986 original.

As an added incentive, Green Day broadcast a set from backstage at MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Fla. "We kept seeing these terrible images of devastation coming from Texas, and we knew we had to do something to help," Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a press statement. "We're encouraging fans to join us in support of Americares, a trusted organization that's on the ground providing aid."

The video was directed/edited by guitarist Matt Thomas and he had this to say, "This song is the embodiment of what our band has been through these last two years as we stepped back from our former band and brand to break the walls down that we built and create something new.