Sting recently released a new song, “I Wrote Your Name (Upon My Heart),” via Cherrytree Music Company/Interscope Records. The 17-time Grammy Award winning artist also released an accompanying music video.

“I Wrote Your Name (Upon My Heart)” features a permutation of his lively “Bo Diddley Beat.”

With formidable musical contributions from Dominic Miller on guitar, Chris Maas on drums and Martin Kierszenbaum on organ, Sting sings, plays bass and applies his own electric guitar.

“I Wrote Your Name (Upon My Heart)” marks the English musician’s first new song since his 2021 album, The Bridge.

The 3-minute and 22-second track was produced by Martin “Cherry Cherry Boom Boom” Kierszenbaum, mixed by Robert Orton and mastered by Gene Grimaldi.

Sting’s North American tour kicks off with a two night-stand at the legendary Fillmore Theater in Detroit on September 17 and 18.

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In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour said that it is his dream to sell the band’s catalog.

Gilmour said that the interest to sell the catalog is not for the financial windfall that he would get, but because that would mean one less headache he’d have to deal with moving forward.

“To be rid of the decision-making and the arguments that are involved with keeping it going is my dream,” he explained in the interview. “I am not interested in that from a financial standpoint. I’m only interested in it from getting out of the mud bath that it has been for quite a while.”

The “mud bath” Gilmour speaks about is seemingly in reference to his contentious relationship with former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters, whom Gilmour described as a “misogynistic, antisemitic, Putin apologist” in 2023.

Pink Floyd first explored a catalog sale in 2022, but the discussions fell apart due to infighting among the band members and a round of inflammatory comments from Waters.

According to the Financial Times, the catalog sale would hover somewhere around $500 million if it were to proceed.

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Queen’s Brian May has revealed that he recently suffered a “minor stroke.” He made the revelation in a video posted to YouTube and Instagram.

The 77-year-old music legend said he suffered the stroke around a week ago, leaving his left arm paralyzed.

However, May said he has recovered in the meantime, regaining enough movement so that he is now able to play music.

“Good news is that I can play guitar after the events of the last few days and I say this because it was in some doubt because that little health hiccup that I mentioned happened about a week ago,” May said.
“It was a minor stroke and all of a sudden, out of the blue, I didn’t have any control over this arm. So was a little scary.”

“I have to say I had the most fantastic care and attention from Frimley Hospital where I went, blue lights flashing… the lot. Very exciting,” he added, in an apparent reference to him being taken to a hospital in Surrey, England, aboard an ambulance.

The Queen guitarist survived a heart attack in May 2020 after he tore his gluteus maximus muscles.

In the video, May also spoke about his new documentary, Brian May: The Badgers, The Farmers and Me.

“There are plenty of bombshells in the documentary and plenty of great new insights which, when the dust settles, will give farmers new ammunition in their personal fight against bovine TB,” he said.

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Items from Fleetwood Mac keyboardist and singer Christine McVie, including stage-played instruments, cherished wardrobe pieces, awards and mementos, will be auctioned at the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum in Nashville next month.

Juliens Auctions will host the two-day event, titled, Property From The Life and Career of Christine McVie, on October 16 and 17.

From her iconic Hammond XK-5 organ, which accompanied her on countless Fleetwood Mac tours, to her personal Yamaha digital piano, the auction items offer a glimpse into McVie’s creative world. Handwritten lyrics, set lists, and even a framed piano certificate from her early days as a classical student will be among items that are up for auction.

A tanzanite and diamond ring in cartier mounting, her Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction award, her 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year stage-worn blazer and Fleetwood Mac stage-played Hammond XK-5 Heritage Series Organ with Lower Manual are featured in the trove of meticulously-curated artifacts.

All the proceeds from the auction will benefit MusiCares and other charities, celebrating McVie’s lasting impact on music and her philanthropic spirit.

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Parlophone Records has revealed previously unseen footage from the Ziggy Stardust tour shot in the U.K. during 1972 and 1973 by late David Bowie collaborator and photographer Mick Rock, featuring the album version of “Starman” as its soundtrack.

David Bowie’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars is making its debut in Dolby Atmos spatial audio. The new mix of the album will be available on Blu-Ray Audio on September 6.

The Blu-Ray audio disc features four iterations of the album: 2024 Dolby Atmos mix, 2024 Stereo Mix (96 khz / 24-bit pcm), original 1972 Stereo Mix – 2012 remaster (192 khz / 24-bit pcm), and original 1972 Stereo Mix – 2012 remaster (48 khz / 24-bit pcm). The Atmos version of the album was mixed by Emre Ramazanoglu and Ken Scott at RAK Studios, London.

Speaking about the new Dolby Atmos mix, the album’s co-producer Ken Scott says “You’re in there with the act, with David. He was so theatrical I think being able to put him into an immersive place makes this a really good choice for an Atmos mix. My whole philosophy with this has been to make it more like a live experience. And I’ve even got him moving about the stage a little towards the end, the way he would have in real life. Hopefully it just feels as if you’re in the theatre with this amazing show going on.”

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars is the breakthrough album that catapulted Bowie into the international spotlight. Over the past 50 years, it has remained a touchstone record. Bowie laid to rest the Ziggy Stardust persona in July 1973 at his infamous last show with The Spiders From Mars at London’s Hammersmith Odeon.

David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars Tracklist:

Blu-Ray Audio

Five Years – 4:42

Soul Love – 3:34

Moonage Daydream – 4:40

Starman – 4:10

It Ain’t Easy – 2:58

Lady Stardust – 3:22

Star – 2:47

Hang On To Yourself – 2:40

Ziggy Stardust – 3:13

Suffragette City – 3:25

Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide – 2.58

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