Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is engaged to his longtime partner Melanie Hamrick.

Although Jagger actually proposed two or three years ago, Hamrick, a former ballerina, confirmed the engagement in a recent interview with the French publication Paris Match.

She also added that they have no concrete plans for a wedding.

“We’ve been engaged two or three years,” Hamrick said. “Maybe one day we’ll marry, maybe not. We are so happy in our current life that I would be too afraid to change anything.”

Jagger, 81, and Hamrick, 37, have been together since 2014 and share a son, Deveraux, who was born in 2016. Hamrick first met Jagger while he was on tour with The Rolling Stones.

Jagger was previously married once, to Bianca Jagger from 1971 to 1978, with whom he shares one child. He also has children with Marsha Hunt, Jerry Hall, and Luciana Gimenez Morad.

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Rod Stewart has announced he will release his Ultimate Hits LP via Warner on June 27, a few days ahead of his performance on the Pyramid Stage in Glastonbury in front of 80,000 people.

The upcoming LP marks the first-ever solo-career-spanning hits collection from the legendary songwriter.

The collection will comprise some of the biggest and most iconic releases from across Stewart’s extensive discography. “Handbags and Gladrags” and “Maggie May,” “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?,” “Hot Legs” and “Baby Jane” will feature on the record.

The tracklist also includes “Sailing,” “Rhythm of My Heart” and “For the First Time.” Stewart’s recent releases such as “Ain’t Misbehavin” and “Almost Like Being in Love,” from 2024’s Swing Fever album with Jools Holland, also make the cut.

The LP will be out as 1CD and 2CD deluxe editions, collector-edition vinyl pressings in various colors, store-exclusive alternative-cover variants, and limited-edition cassette and Blu-ray audio versions.

Ultimate Hits Tracklist:

“Handbags and Gladrags”
“Maggie May”
“In a Broken Dream’ (by Python Lee Jackson)”
“You Wear It Well”
“Sailing”
“I Don’t Want to Talk About It”
“Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)”
“The First Cut is the Deepest”
“The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)”
“You’re in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)”
“Hot Legs”
“Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”
“Young Turks”
“Baby Jane”
“Some Guys Have All the Luck”
“Forever Young”
“Downtown Train’
‘Have I Told You Lately”
“Rhythm of My Heart”
“For the First Time”

2CD deluxe-edition bonus tracks:

“Oh! No Not My Baby”
“I Was Only Joking”
“Every Beat of My Heart”
‘The Motown Song’ (with The Temptations)
“Sometimes When We Touch”
“Have You Ever Seen the Rain”
“One More Time”
“Hold On”
“Ain’t Misbehavin”
“Almost Like Being in Love”

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17-time Grammy Award-winning artist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sting is set to release a new live album, Sting 3.0 Live, worldwide on April 25.

Sting 3.0 Live will be available digitally, on CD and on 180g vinyl, with an exclusive Record Store Day Deluxe Edition due out on April 12 in the United States.

Recorded on the acclaimed Sting 3.0 World Tour with longtime guitarist Dominic Miller and dynamic drummer Chris Maas, Sting 3.0 Live is a 9-song collection of Sting’s greatest hits, including “Be Still My Beating Heart,” which has never-before been released as a live version.

The exclusive, limited-edition Record Store Day Deluxe Edition 2-LP set features 17 tracks showcasing live versions of fan favorites and chart-topping singles including never-before-released live tracks such as “Be Still My Beating Heart,” “I Wrote Your Name (Upon My Heart),” “Never Coming Home,” and “Can’t Stand Losing You.”

Produced by Martin Kierszenbaum and recorded by Howard Page with additional engineering by Tony Lake, this new live collection spans Sting’s illustrious career, offering fans the opportunity to experience these timeless classics in a fresh, dynamic way. Sting 3.0 Live was mixed by Robert “Hitmixer” Orton and mastered by Gene Grimaldi at Oasis Mastering.

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Elton John has expressed his sadness over missing the chance to watch his sons play sports, as an infection he suffered last summer has left him with vision problems.

“I can’t see TV, I can’t read. I can’t see my boys playing rugby and soccer,” the iconic singer told The Times. “It has been a very stressful time because I’m used to soaking it all up. It’s distressing.”

Last September, the singer wrote on Instagram that a “severe” infection had left him with “only limited vision” in one eye, adding that his recovery would “take time.”

Elton and his filmmaker husband David Furnish have two sons, Zachary and Elijah.

“You get emotional, but you have to get used to it, because I’m lucky to have the life I have,” he continued. “I still have my wonderful family, and I can still see something out of here.”

The singer, who just released a new album with Brandi Carlile, Who Believes in Angels?, added, “You say to yourself, just get on with it.”

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Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder recently shared “Hollywood Victim,” the second track from his forthcoming solo album, The Vault – Fifty Years of Music, due out May 23.

According to a press release, “Hollywood Victim” serves “as a modern companion” to the classic Eagles song “Hotel California,” which Felder co-wrote with Don Henley and Glenn Frey.

The song was originally written in the early 1990s for the Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over tour.

The Vault – Fifty Years of Music, Felder’s fourth studio album, features a collection of newly recorded versions of songs he’s demoed over the past five decades.

The album features guest appearances by artists such as Toto’s Steve Lukather, David Paich and Greg Phillinganes; Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith; and drummer Gregg Bissonette and his brother, bassist Matt Bissonette.

Source: RTT Music News