A new Bon Jovi Forever exhibit will open at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in June.

2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Bon Jovi will unveil a one-of-a-kind, full-floor exhibit spanning four decades of the band’s career along with never-before-seen artifacts from each of the band members.

Fans will be immersed in the band’s story and music from inception to the present, celebrating their 40-plus-year. The exhibit follows Bon Jovi’s journey from hard-working New Jersey roots to global superstardom.

The exhibit is set to open to the public on June 8. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is offering two early access preview events ahead of its opening – Bon Jovi Forever: Listening Experience & Exhibit Preview on June 7 and Bon Jovi Forever: Exhibit Preview on June 8. Buy tickets at https://tickets.rockhall.com/events/ca24c5c7-b8f6-716c-2b4c-94958b621382

The Bon Jovi Trivia and ‘Stories of Rock’ event is open to the public for free. Advance reservations are required for entry.

“When we were inducted into the Hall of Fame, we knew we wanted to have a continuing relationship, not only with the Hall, but with the fans who visit Cleveland every year,” Jon Bon Jovi says. “To celebrate our 40th anniversary, we have archived EVERYTHING we have from notebooks, to demos, to clothes and photographs. Cleveland felt like the perfect place to share this exhibit.”

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The Rolling Stones are set to issue a 30th anniversary edition of their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge in July.

The band’s first album without bass player Bill Wyman features Stones favorites “You Got Me Rocking, “Out Of Tears” and “Love Is Strong.” The album went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album.

The 30th anniversary reissue sees the album pressed on a 2LP set with one record pressed on red vinyl and the other in yellow vinyl. A limited edition adds a white vinyl 10-inch that includes four bonus tracks previously unissued on vinyl, including “I’m Gonna Drive,” “So Young,” “Jump On Top Of Me”, and “The Storm.”

There is no CD edition of this Voodoo Lounge 30th anniversary reissue, which is due to released on 12 July 2024 via Polydor/UMR.

The celebration also includes a new collection of Voodoo Lounge merchandise, including hoodies and T-shirts.

Voodoo Lounge was released on July 11, 1994. The album ended a five-year gap since the Stones’ last studio album, Steel Wheels, in 1989.

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Rhino has announced a Super Deluxe Edition of Yes’s 1971 album, Fragile, will be released this summer.

Fragile (Super Deluxe Edition) will be available on June 28, including four CDs, one LP, and a Blu-ray disc. Renowned audio engineer Bernie Grundman cut lacquers for the set’s LP. The music will also be available on digital and streaming platforms on the same day.

The extensive reissue of Fragile will feature a newly remastered version of the original album on both CD and vinyl, plus rare and unreleased recordings. A Blu-ray disc completes the collection with Steven Wilson’s new mixes, including the album in Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Mix DTS-HD MA.

Pre-order the deluxe edition at https://rhino.lnk.to/FragileSDE.

Ahead of the album’s release, Rhino released an alternate version Of “Long Distance Runaround/The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)”.

Yes is co-headlining the “=1 More Time Tour” this summer with Deep Purple, performing around the U.S. and Canada.

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Sir Paul McCartney has become Britain’s first billionaire musician, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

McCartney is ranked 165th on the London-based newspaper’s annual list of the 350 richest people in the United Kingdom.

The banking, media and entertainment conglomerate Hinduja Group’s head Gopi Hinduja and his family tops the list with a net worth of 37.2 billion pounds.

Apple Corps, the company set up to receive the Beatles’ earnings, pays out millions of pounds each year to the Fab Four’s members or heirs. McCartney received more than 4 million pounds from the company last year.

Music rights have soared in value over the past decade and McCartney has an extensive catalogue spread across the Beatles, Wings and as a solo artist. These rights form a significant chunk of his estimated wealth, along with his lucrative tours. Eighteen shows in Australia and South America late last year took in almost 70 million pounds at the box office.

The Sunday Times attributes 50 million pounds of the couple’s wealth to McCartney’s wife Nancy, 64.

Another British musician Sir Elton John is also among the names listed.

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The John Lennon Estate and Universal Music have announced a reissue of John Lennon’s 1973 album Mind Games in expanded Ultimate Collection editions on July 12.

The Lennon Estate and Universal Music note that the upcoming six-CD and two Blu-ray collection deluxe box set offers “an immersive, deep listening experience and in-depth exploration of this classic, yet underappreciated record.”

The deluxe edition, which is authorized by Yoko Ono Lennon and produced by Sean Ono Lennon, is from the same audio team that worked on the critically acclaimed Imagine and John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Ultimate Collections. This team includes triple Grammy-Award winning engineer Paul Hicks and mixers/engineers Sam Gannon and Rob Stevens.

Yoko Ono Lennon said, “John was trying to convey the message that we all play mind games. But if we can play mind games, why not make a positive future with it – to be a positive mind game? ‘Mind Games’ is such an incredibly strong song. At the time, people didn’t quite get the message because this was before its time. Now, people would understand it. I don’t think in those days people knew they were playing mind games anyway.”

In addition to the 12 tracks included on the original Mind Games album, the new set features different session takes and outtakes from the recording, which took place in New York City during the summer of 1973 with Lennon producing himself.

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