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posted videos to his Instagram on Friday of him in a neon Hi-Viz safety vest shoveling asphalt out of the back of a truck into large, wet potholes.Several pals are seen working alongside Stewart in Harlow, Essex, about an hour outside the center of London.“This is the state of the roads near where I live in in Harlow and it’s been like this for ages … people are bashing their cars up,” Stewart said.He complained that the government has been putting “millions of pounds” into the nearby M11 highway while neglecting this road.A post shared by Sir Rod Stewart (@sirrodstewart)“And the other day there was an ambulance for the first time, my Derrari can’t go through here at all, so me and the boys thought we’d come out here and do it ourselves,” he said.Stewart, who released his latest album “The Tears of Hercules” last year, has scheduled a tour of the US and Canada set to kick off in June.

The American Cinema Editors used their ACE Eddie Awards on Saturday to fire back at the Oscars. Facing declining ratings and long running times, the Academy, the Oscars ceremony producers and ABC decided to award Oscars for editing and seven other categories outside the live telecast. ACE board member Kevin Tent introduced the awards saying, “There might be some setbacks and slights at times which can sting.”

The American Cinema Editors used their ACE Eddie Awards on Saturday to fire back at the Oscars. Facing declining ratings and long running times, Oscars ceremony producers decided to award Oscars for editing and seven other categories outside the live telecast. ACE board member Kevin Tent introduced the awards saying, “There might be some setbacks and sleights at times which can sting.”

In person award ceremonies are back and the American Cinema Editors guild did something different this time around. Instead of a dinner, this year’s ACE Guild Awards took place at the historic Ace Hotel Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“King Richard” editor Pamela Martin topped the dramatic feature editing category at the American Cinema Editors 72nd ACE Eddie Awards, while “Tick, Tick … Boom!’s” Myron Kerstein won the category for best edited comedic feature during Saturday’s in-person ceremony.Michelle Statter accepted the prestigious ACE Golden Eddie Award — recognizing an artist or company for distinguished achievement in film — on behalf of The Sundance Institute. Film editors Lillian E.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Technically, Eddie Vedder's new album and tour are a solo project.But the longtime Pearl Jam frontman was anything but alone on the almost-accidental venture.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Technically, Eddie Vedder's new album and tour are a solo project.But the longtime Pearl Jam frontman was anything but alone on the almost-accidental venture.

Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder opened up to the crowd about his experience contracting COVID-19.“I got the COVID right before we were supposed to start practicing, probably five, six weeks ago, and literally saw my life flash in front of my eyes,” Vedder said while addressing the audience at Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater on February 25, after his daughter Olivia performed her Flag Day track ‘My Father’s Daughter’.“I’ve done some very good things for my body and I’ve also had a lot of fun and I’ve done some things that would be termed some kind of abuse,” he joked. “I won’t get into the details.

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Billy Joel has paid tribute to Procol Harum‘s Gary Brooker with a cover of the band’s classic, ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ – watch it below.During his performance at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on Saturday night (February 26), Joel delivered a moving rendition of the 1967 single to celebrate the life of Brooker, who died on February 19 at the age of 76.Featured on the US version of Procol Harum’s self-titled debut album, ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ is one of the most commercially successful singles in history, having sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.It’s a song that Joel has praised frequently, and covered on numerous occasions throughout his career, including a snippet during a Cincinnati concert in 2021 and a solo take during a Town Hall Q&A and concert with Howard Stern in 2014.His performance of the song in Vegas in honour of Brooker followed a performance of his own ‘Only The Good Die Young. You can watch Joel’s tribute below:Billy Joel pays tribute to Gary Brooker of Procol Harum with "A Whiter Shade of Pale." Just one song of a loaded 2.5 hour set at @AllegiantStadm #Vegas #BillyJoel #ProcolHarum @billyjoel pic.twitter.com/2pyX3cveRM— Rob Kachelriess (@rkachelriess) February 27, 2022Upon hearing the news of Brooker’s death earlier in the month, Joel took to social media to play his respects.“Sorry to hear about the passing of Gar Brooker,” he tweeted alongside a picture of the Procol Harum frontman sat at a piano.

Eddie Vedder paid a moving tribute to Mark Lanegan at a concert in Seattle last night (February 22) following the grunge icon’s death.The former Screaming Trees frontman passed away yesterday morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland.There was an outpouring of grief from artists across the music world from the likes of Manic Street Preachers, The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess, Anton Newcombe and many others.Vedder, who was performing at the Benaroya Hall, paused his show to honour the late 57-year-old.“I got here about four o’clock and all of a sudden my body started shaking a little bit,” he told the audience. “I started to feel really terrible and I think it was because I was having an allergic reaction to sadness.“Because we lost… there’s a guy called Mark Lanegan.

Chris Willman Music WriterEddie Vedder had a reaction to fellow musician Mark Lanegan’s passing this week that was not just tantamount to each-Seattle-rocker’s-death-diminishes me — he felt it deeply viscerally, as he described it during a concert at the city’s Benaroya Hall Tuesday night.“We felt good last night and excited… and then I got here at 4:00 and all of a sudden, my body started shaking a little bit,” Vedder told the crowd. “And I started to feel really terrible, and I think it was because I was having an allergic reaction to sadness.

Eddie Vedder resumed his ‘Earthling’ US tour this week, and his first show back saw him perform a cover of Pretenders‘ ‘Precious’ alongside Duff McKagan.A couple of the Pearl Jam frontman’s tour dates in California were postponed due to a COVID-19 outbreak, but on Monday (February 21) he got back on the road with his first show back taking place at Benaroya Hall in Seattle.The setlist for the show was littered with covers, including Tom Petty’s ‘Room At The Top’, Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save The Queen’, The Who‘s ‘I’m One’, George Harrison’s ‘Isn’t It A Pity’, and Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’.There was also a cover of Pretenders’ 1980 record ‘Precious’, which Vedder performed with help from Guns N’ Roses bassist McKagan. You can see footage below.Elsewhere in the show, Vedder performed several Pearl Jam classics – ‘Porch’, ‘Wishlist’, ‘Corduroy’, and ‘Dirty Frank’ – as well as some tracks from his new solo LP, ‘Earthling’.His backing band, the Earthlings, is a musical supergroup consisting of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Jane’s Addiction bassist Chris Chaney, and former Chili Peppers and current Pearl Jam touring guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.

Jared Leto, Jodie Comer and more have joined an all-star cover of Olivia Rodrigo‘s huge hit ‘Drivers License’.The actors and musicians joined forces for the rendition of the record-breaking 2021 track as part of W Magazine’s ‘Lyrical Improv’ series, which sees celebrities taking it in turns to read lyrics from famous songs.Also involved in the cover are Leslie Odom, Jr., Tessa Thompson, Simon Rex, Jennifer Hudson, Emilia Jones, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ruth Negga.Watch the cover below.Last month, Olivia Rodrigo shared a throwback to celebrate one year since the release of ‘Drivers License’.The song was first released on January 8, 2021 as Rodrigo’s debut single. It went viral on TikTok soon afterwards, and went on to become one of the year’s most popular songs, topping charts in the US, UK, Australia and more.In a caption posted with the clip on Instagram yesterday (January 8), Rodrigo wrote: “Happy first birthday to the little song that changed my whole life.