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Chris Cornell‘s former collaborators has claimed the late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman came close to recording a song that featured guitar parts by Eddie Van Halen.During an appearance on The Mitch Lafon and Jeremy White Show podcast, Thorn – who toured as a guitarist with Cornell, and recorded additional guitars on a handful of tracks from Cornell’s 2009 album ‘Scream’ – recounted just how close a collaboration between the two rockers was to becoming a reality.“They were buddies… Eddie always wanted to do something with Chris, musically,” Thorn said. “He loved his voice and he used to be like, ‘Man, I love him.

this epic power ballad, which hit No. 1 in 1983, the Welsh belter nailed the galactic pain of when the heart goes totally dark.If you don’t have some Ziggy Stardust up in your eclipse mix, then really, we can’t help you.This jazz- and falsetto-kissed bliss from “Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic” — the late, great Purple One’s underappreciated 1999 album — is a cosmic chill-out.Of course, Harrison has kept us basking in the eternal glow of “Here Comes the Sun,” off The Beatles’ 1969 classic “Abbey Road.” But 10 years later, he flipped the script with this ethereal dreaminess from his 1979 self-titled album.Going from Policeman to jazzman in his early solo years, Sting worked all of his tantric sexiness on this moonlit serenade from 1987’s “…Nothing Like the Sun.”The “Uptown Funk”-ster breaks out his best street-corner croon on this swoonworthy tune — from “Doo-Wops & Hooligans,” his 2010 debut album — that is all the starry-eyed feels.The sunshine-pop quartet radiate peace, love and celestial on this song, which as part of a chart-topping medley with “Aquarius” won them the Record of the Year Grammy in 1970.On his breakout 1971 hit, Brother Bill captures the pitch blackness — and bleakness — when both his house and heart turn cold “anytime she goes away.”Chris Cornell — one of rock’s all-time greatest voices — left a black hole in the music world when he died in 2017.

Eddie Vedder has said that he thinks Pearl Jam have “one or two” good records left in them, ahead of the release of their new album.The singer was speaking to MOJO Magazine a month ahead of the release of ‘Dark Matter’, their 12th studio record.“The older you get the better you are at living in the present,” he said. “The understanding you have less time is the biggest number in the quotient. The goal is to keep making music.”Vedder reflected on the fact that a number of his friends have passed away, including Chris Cornell, Mark Lanegan and Layne Stanley.

Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready has teased the band’s forthcoming album, revealing that it’s “heavier than you’d expect”.The band’s record-in-progress is the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Gigaton’ and McCready offered some details about the album in a recent interview with Classic Rock.“I’m hoping it’s gonna come out [in 2024],” McCready said. “We have a bunch of songs tracked. We worked with Andrew Watt, who’s a younger pop producer-type guy, but he’s really a rock guy at heart — I think we’re his favorite band.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Rage Against the Machine has called it quits for a third time, according to the band’s drummer Brad Wilk. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, the founding member addressed a slew of canceled dates as part of Rage’s Public Service Announcement reunion tour.

Soundgarden‘s Matt Cameron has revealed that the band’s dispute with Chris Cornell‘s estate is still ongoing.Earlier this year, the band and the late frontman’s widow Vicky shared that they had settled their long-standing legal dispute and would be release the band’s final recordings. They released a joint statement that said they had “reached an amicable out-of-court resolution”.It added: “The reconciliation marks a new partnership between the two parties, which will allow Soundgarden fans around the world to hear the final songs that the band and Chris were working on.”While appearing as a guest on The Vinyl Guide podcast, Cameron, Soundgarden’s drummer, revealed that the band are still dealing with Cornell’s estate and that the chances of the band releasing the final songs with him on them are slim.“We’re still in the middle of a dispute with the estate,” he said.

Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready has revealed that he is writing a rock opera about Chris Cornell and the Seattle grunge scene.Pearl Jam and Cornell’s band Soundgarden emerged from the Pacific Northwest city around the same time, and became lynchpins of the scene along with Nirvana.In a new interview with Guitar World, McCready revealed that he is working on a project with which to remember the scene and the late Cornell.“I look at him as one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time, aside from being a friend,” McCready said of Cornell.“I love Chris and I’m working on a little project about the Seattle scene and a musical kind of rock opera thing. It’s just from my experience in the Seattle music scene, and he’s part of it.”He added that he currently sees the project as incorporating “a record and maybe some sort of stage/play thing,” adding: “I’m working on a script and I’ve got about 18 songs that I’m working on, and I’m singing on it.

Paul Reubens' cause of death had officially been confirmed, after the much loved Pee-wee Herman star passed away aged 70 in July.The star’s tragic passing was officially announced on Instagram on 30 July, with his cause of death now confirmed to have been "acute myelogenous leukaemia” and "acute hypoxic respiratory failure”. The details were revealed on Paul’s death certificate, which had been obtained by US publication The Blast.

New Yorker article, “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain” and Barry Meier’s book, “Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic.” It retells the opioid crisis from several different perspectives, including billionaire Richard Sackler (Broderick) and his team at Purdue Pharma (Sackler has denied responsibility for the crisis); Edie Flowers (Uzo Aduba), a lawyer working for the US attorney’s office in Roanoke who’s investigating the drug OxyContin; Glen Kryger (Taylor Kitsch), a family man with a small business who gets hooked on OxyContin after he’s injured at work; and Shannon Shaeffer (West Duchovony), a new recruit to the Purdue sales team who begins having doubts. “Back in 2003, I was working at the New York Times and we got a tip that there was this new drug called OxyContin that was running wild on the streets of all these small towns,” Meier, a consulting producer on the show, told The Post.

Anne Heche was laid to rest at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Cathedral Mausoleum on Mother's Day. Heche died on Aug. 11, and was laid to rest later that month.The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's office ruled her death as an accident as a result of "inhalation and thermal injuries." She was 53.

Anne Heche was laid to rest on Mother’s Day nearly one year after her tragic death, Us Weekly can confirm.

told TMZ that the late actress, who was cremated, was given her final resting place at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery – Cathedral Mausoleum on Sunday.“She loved everyone so passionately and deeply and her children, her legacy, thank everyone for their support and love through this difficult time and are grateful to be able to honor their mother, [Sunday] on Mother’s Day,” the rep told the outlet.Heche’s crypt is in “a spot with a beautiful view of the lake located within the cemetery’s Garden of Legends,” located next to Mickey Rooney and across from Chris Cornell and Johnny Ramone, TMZ reported.Heche died at 53 years old in August 2022 following a fiery car crash that left her in a coma for a week.“We have lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul, a loving mother, and a loyal friend,” her rep said in a statement after her death.“Anne will be deeply missed but she lives on through her beautiful sons, her iconic body of work, and her passionate advocacy. Her bravery for always standing in her truth, spreading her message of love and acceptance, will continue to have a lasting impact.”It was revealed Heche would be laid to rest with some of the other biggest names in showbiz — including Judy Garland, Mel Blanc, Marion Davies and Cecil B.

Anne Heche has found her final resting place. The late actress was laid to rest on Mother's Day in the Cathedral Mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, her rep said in a statement. «Her crypt is across from Chris Cornell and Johnny Ramone, next to Mickey Rooney,» the rep stated on Sunday. «She loved everyone so passionately and deeply and her children, her legacy, thank everyone for their support and love through this difficult time and are grateful to be able to honor their mother, today on Mother's Day.» was first to report the news. Heche was declared brain dead on Aug.

Disturbed frontman David Draiman recently opened up about almost losing his life due to “addiction and depression.”During the band’s show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Draiman took some time before performing their song ‘A Reason To Fight’ to discuss how he missed his late friends who took their own lives – namely Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, Stone Temple Pilots’ Scott Weiland, and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell – while adding that a couple of months ago he “almost joined them.”“A reason to fight — we all need one. The demons that are known as addiction and depression are very, very real. They are diseases no different than cancer.

King Princess has shared a reimagined cover of Soundgarden‘s classic ‘Black Hole Sun’. Check it out below.Mikaela Straus, AKA King Princess, performed the 1994 grunge classic for the Australian radio show Triple J’s Like A Version series.“It’s a song I’ve listened to since I was a little kid,” shared Straus on their decision to cover the song. “My parents saw them play Lollapalooza in ’92, and I think I like to revisit songs that meant a lot to me when I was a kid and inspired me to do music. I thought I could leave my mark on it”.The cover transformed the classic grunge hit into a brighter and faster pop version.

Soundgarden have reached a settlement in their ongoing legal battle with the widow of the band’s late frontman Chris Cornell. It means that new songs Cornell was working on with the band prior to his death in 2017 will now be released.That new material was at the heart of the legal battle, with a dispute over who owns the recordings and how they might be released.

The widow of singer Chris Cornell and his former bandmates in Soundgarden said Monday that they have resolved her lawsuit against them, clearing the way for the release of the band’s final recordings more than five years after his death.

Soundgarden and late frontman Chris Cornell‘s widow Vicky have settled their long-standing legal dispute and will release the band’s final recordings.In 2019, Cornell filed a lawsuit against the remaining members of the band and their manager over the rights to several unreleased Soundgarden songs, claiming the tracks entitled her to “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in royalties.The case was finally settled earlier in 2021 as a judge ruled that there was no evidence to suggest that the band’s surviving members are withholding royalties from Cornell.Elsewhere, Cornell filed a separate case in court against the band after they attempted to buy out her stake in her late husband’s band for what she has called a “ludicrously low” price, while the band also took Cornell to court in 2021, claiming that she had locked them out of the official Soundgarden social media accounts.Now, a joint statement from the band and Cornell reveals that they have settled their dispute and “reached an amicable out of court resolution”.It added: “The reconciliation marks a new partnership between the two parties, which will allow Soundgarden fans around the world to hear the final songs that the band and Chris were working on.”“The two parties are united and coming together to propel, honour and build upon Soundgarden’s incredible legacy as well as Chris’s indelible mark on music history – as one of the greatest songwriters and vocalists of all time.”A post shared by Chris Cornell (@chriscornellofficial)Chris Cornell died by suicide on May 18, 2017. He was 52-years-old.

Chris Cornell, and the surviving members of Soundgarden — Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepard — have settled a contentious legal battle that will allow the release of new music the band had been working on up to the time of the singer’s death from suicide in 2017. “The reconciliation marks a new partnership between the two parties, which will allow Soundgarden fans around the world to hear the final songs that the band and Chris were working on,” reads a statement by the relevant parties. “The two parties are united and coming together to propel, honor and build upon Soundgarden’s incredible legacy as well as Chris’s indelible mark on music history — as one of the greatest songwriters and vocalists of all time.”

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor It is no understatement to say that Timbaland is one of the most influential and successful songwriter-producers of the last three decades: Justin Timberlake, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Madonna, Drake, Bjork and even Chris Cornell are just the best-known of the literally hundreds of artists the man born Timothy Zachery Mosely has worked with since the Virginia-born, Miami-based hitmaker first popped onto the scene with records by Aaliyah and Ginuwine in the mid-1990s. His monumentally prolific musical output slowed down to normal speed for a few years while he focused on a multitude of other projects — most prominently “Verzuz,” the pandemic-spawned rap/R&B battle series he launched with fellow hitmaker Swizz Beatz, which he says has a top-secret announcement coming that will “take us to a whole other level”; and Beatclub, a curated platform for producers and songwriters to sell beats, demos and other song elements to artists, brands and music supervisors.

The inaugural Hollywood & Mind Summit has listed some of the speakers that will appear at the May 11 event, including Charlamagne Tha God, radio and television personality, media mogul and founder of The Mental Wealth Alliance; Christina Wootton, head of partnerships at Roblox; Vicky Cornell, wife of the late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and advocate for mental health and addiction recovery; and Percy “Master P” Miller, rapper, music producer and NAMI ambassador.

A judge in Seattle overseeing a legal battle between Soundgarden and the widow of their late frontman Chris Cornell urged both parties to seek a settlement yesterday.

Soundgarden‘s legendary 1994 hit ‘Black Hole Sun’ – check it out below.The new video was created by  Midjourney, which describes itself as an “independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species”.Ahead of the Soundgarden video, the same bot was used last year for an equally stunning AI-generated video for Metallica hit ‘Enter Sandman’.For the new ‘Black Hole Sun’ video, they instructed the bot to turn each of the lyrics in Chris Cornell‘s powerful song into a representative image.See the results below.Last month, surviving members of Soundgarden and Nirvana joined forces to perform Soundgarden classics at the Los Angeles Taylor Hawkins tribute concert.After celebrating Hawkins’ memory and music with a special six-hour gig in London earlier last month (September 3), ‘The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert’ took over LA’s Kia Forum on September 27, with a bounty of special guests.During the show, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear formed a new band with Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron for two songs, all fronted by The Pretty Reckless‘ Taylor Momsen.Meanwhile, earlier this year tributes were paid to Chris Cornell by his Soundgarden bandmates, Rage Against The Machine and the late frontman’s wife Vicky Cornell to mark the fifth anniversary of his death. Cornell took his own life on May 18, 2017.

Manori Ravindran International Editor The tear-stricken faces peering up adoringly at James Bond producer Michael G. Wilson, seated in the royal box at Royal Albert Hall, during a lengthy standing ovation at “The Sound of 007” concert said it all: It’s not just movie music — the music, for this franchise at least, is the movie. Tuesday’s charity event at London’s grandest venue preceded the Oct. 5 release of feature documentary “The Sound of 007” on Amazon’s Prime Video (the streamer’s top executives for Europe were, unsurprisingly, in the box next to the Bond guardians), and didn’t hesitate to remind both Bond novices and grizzled veterans that the franchise is virtually synonymous with some of cinema’s most iconic tracks.

As Emma Slater and Trevor Donovan’s Dancing With the Stars journey continues, the duo are opening up to Us Weekly about their “trust-based” bond.

The perfect match. While reflecting on their performance during Dancing With the Stars‘ James Bond-themed night, Emma Slater gave a special shout-out to her partner, Trevor Donovan.

Heating up! Emma Slater and Trevor Donovan took the dance floor to perform a tango on this week’s Dancing With the Stars — and they impressed judge Carrie Ann Inaba with their connection.

“Dancing With the Stars” on Disney+ will be devoting an entire show to cinema’s most iconic super spy with next week’s “Bond Night.”

In a candid new interview with Vicky Cornell, the widow of late rocker Chris Cornell looked back on the heartbreaking night he passed away.

Anne Heche’s final resting place will be among fellow stars. Following the news that her sons have chosen to bury her at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, ET has learned that she will be interned in the mausoleum walls near a host of other celebrities. The 53-year-old, who was officially declared dead on Aug.

Anne Heche’s son has explained why the star is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, calling it “a living place”. According to the late actress' death certificate - obtained by Extra TV - Heche’s remains were buried at the famous cemetery after she was cremated on 18 August. Heche died earlier this month at the age of 53 after her Mini Cooper crashed into a Los Angeles home.

Anne Heche was cremated and her ashes were placed in a mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery nearly two weeks after she was declared brain-dead at a Los Angeles-area hospital from injuries suffered in a fiery car crash on Aug. 5. She was 53 years old.

Anne Heche has found her final resting place among Hollywood's brightest stars.According to the actress' death certificate, obtained by ET, Heche's body was cremated on Aug. 18 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, where she will also be buried. Details on a burial or a memorial service have not been shared. Heche was taken off life support on Aug. 14 after getting into a serious car accident a week prior in Los Angeles.

Audrey McGraw clearly inherited Faith Hill and Tim McGraw’s talents.

The apple certainly did not fall from the tree! Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's daughter, Audrey, showcased her powerful singing voice in a video shared to Instagram this week. Playing the piano and singing a rendition of Pat Benatar's «Fire and Ice,» the couple's 20-year-old daughter sounded like a true professional. In the caption of the video, Audrey humbly penned, «Put on a pretty dress and attempted to sing a Pat Benatar song on piano… ATTEMPTED!» The talented singer went on to reference the bridge, where she belted out the tune, «Excuse my yelling but l gotta have some rock on here.»A post shared by Audrey McGraw (@audreymcgraw)Audrey caught the attention of several of her parents' famous friends with her impressive cover. Rita Wilson took to the comment section to say, «More please!!!!!» While late rock star Chris Cornell's wife, Vicky Cornell, simply wrote, «Wowwwwww!!!!»Of course, with Audrey being born into the country music dynasty of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, it's no surprise she has musical prowess. ET spoke with the country legends during a Paramount+ sit-down interview in June, where they couldn't help but gush over their family.

A woman in Uganda with 10 children in tow has been left alone and abandoned by her husband — because he’s apparently mad that she can’t stop giving birth to twins!