NEWS

Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi releases We Talk Too Much, an album made with vocalist Hannah Rickard, a collaborator of Quo’s from their Aquostic sessions, on March 15. There’s also a new autobiography with the same title, and a lengthy spokenword tour.

King Crimson whose debut album In The Court Of The Crimson King has its 50th anniversary in 2019, have announced three gigs at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on June 18, 19 and 20.

Bruce Dickinson says that should Iron Maiden ever be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, he would refuse the invitation. “Rock‘n’roll does not belong in a mausoleum in Cleveland. It’s a living, breathing thing, and if you put it in a museum then it’s dead. It’s worse than horrible, it’s vulgar.”

Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler (pictured) had to have part of his nose reattached, requiring more than 100 stitches, after being bitten by a friend’s dog in a pub.

Enduring US geekrockers Weezer release The Black Album, their twelfth studio record, on March 1 via Atlantic.

The family of Angry Anderson have requested privacy after Liam Anderson, a 26-year-old son of the Rose Tattooo frontman, died following a fight with his best friend, who was reportedly “under the influence of drugs and in a state of psychosis” during the incident.