Ringo Starr’s birth home `not worth saving`

The National Trust has said that former Beatles star Ringo Starr’s birthplace is not worth saving because he only lived there for three months. The dilapidated three-bedroomed Victorian terrace at 9 Madryn Street in Liverpool has been under threat of demolition for several years under city council plans to improve the run-down area. [read more]

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John Lennon’s art returns to Oak Brook, where it once was seized - Chicago Sun-Times

Five lithographs of the Beatle’s drawings — showing naked women lolling, masturbating and, in one case, involved in a three-way — were too much for DuPage Chief Circuit Judge Bert J. Rathje, who didn’t just have them removed from the exhibit, where they were to be viewed only by adults age 21 and older. According to an article in the Chicago Daily News, Rathje ordered the drawings, which he considered pornographic, to be confiscated and burned. Read More - Chicago Sun-Times

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Beatles Impact on Badfinger ::antiMusic.com

Joey Molland, who along with Ham powered the band's distinctive dual-guitar sound, continues to keep the Badfinger flame alive. Gibson.com spoke with Molland about Badfinger's legacy, the band's twin-guitar approach and what it was like to work so closely with The Beatles. Read More - ::antiMusic.com

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By George, he's done it

Last year, Martin Scorsese released his documentary film George Harrison: Living In The Material World, which traces the life of the late George Harrison, from his early days growingup in Liverpool; to his life with the biggest pop band the world has ever seen, The Beatles; through to his post-Beatle solo career and eventual death in 2001. Read More - TODAYonline

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Badfinger’s Joey Molland Talks Gibson Guitars, The Beatles and the Making of Straight Up

At the turn of the ’70s, no band was better poised to carry on the mantle of The Beatles than Badfinger. Releasing a flurry of power pop gems – “Come and Get It,” “No Matter What,” “Baby Blue” and “Day After Day” – Badfinger seemed a sure bet for a lengthy, glorious future. As rock fans know all too well, however, the band’s career was cut short in horrific fashion. Victimized by allegedly corrupt management, the group split in 1975. Tragically, two founding members – Pete Ham and Tom Evans – ultimately took their own lives. [read more]

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Yoko Ono discusses presenting John Lennon's artwork in Oak Brook - chicagotribune.com

Yoko Ono was an established artist before she met John Lennon, but 31 years after her husband's murder, her career runs on two tracks: managing Lennon's work with and apart from the Beatles and pursuing her own idiosyncratic muse.Read More - chicagotribune.com

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Olivia Harrison: George Harrison Hologram for Beatles Reunion Never Happening - Spinner

Don't you wish the Beatles could reunite? So do we, but that would be impossible. However, since Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre performed alongside a projection of Tupac at the Coachella Music Festival last month, bands have been flirting with the idea of bringing their dead brethren back on stage. Read More - Spinner

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What's On - Yoko Ono

“It’s no accident that the Smile project, a major element of the exhibition, is part of the London 2012 Festival because it is very much about the transmission of positive energy through something as simple as a smile.” The project, currently titled smilesfilm, is an interactive library of people’s happy expressions that Ono has been working on since the 1960s. Read More

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Walsh marvels at life on ‘Analog’ - Toronto Sun

As the veteran singer-guitarist nears his 65th birthday, he has more than ever to celebrate: Love and family, hard-earned sobriety, and the arrival of Analog Man, his first album in two decades. “It’s like a whole new life,” marvels Walsh from his Los Angeles home in an exclusive Canadian interview. “I’m healthy. I’m positive. I’m happily married. I’m playing well. I’m really in a creative phase. And I’m really grateful for all of it. Basically, I’m back and I’m OK. That’s the message.” Read More - Toronto Sun

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'Revolver: How The Beatles Reimagined Rock 'N' Roll' - TheCelebrityCafe.com

When it comes to the Beatles, it's hard to call any single one of their 13 regular studio albums underrated or under appreciated. All of them sold millions of copies when they were first released and they remain among the most beloved albums of all time. Many consider 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the apex of their career. Read More - TheCelebrityCafe.com

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The Teddy Boys are back; BritBeat takes Beatles fans to The Cavern via Abbey Road on the River [Music] - Louisville.com

Originally thought to be lost, the original recording of Love Me Do took place June 6, 1962 at 3 Abbey Road, the time period when the Fab Four roamed The Cavern Club in Liverpool and donned the rebel, Teddy Boy look. By 4 September, Ringo joined The Beatles and a second version was recorded at EMI. Abbey Road on the River organizer, Gary Jacob, asked the lads in BritBeat for a small favor, if you will; recreate The Cavern on stage. Read More - Louisville.com

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'Baby's in Black': heart-tugging graphic novel about the Beatles - The Seattle Times

The story that follows is well-known. The hip German art students expose the lads to existentialist cool and they swap their Elvis haircuts and leathers for turtlenecks and Parisian-style moptops (but not before Kirchherr snaps some historic photos in all their greaser glory). They get tossed out of the country on visa violations; Sutcliffe quits the band to study art; the boys return, with Paul McCartney switching from guitar to bass; Sutcliffe and Kirchherr get engaged; then Sutcliffe, who has been experiencing severe headaches, suddenly dies of an aneurysm. Read More - The Seattle Times

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Bob Gruen captures the immortals of rock - CBS News

"I've been with a lot of photographers where you just want to run out of the room. You just don't want to be in front of their camera," said singer Debbie Harry of Blondie, who met Gruen in the early '70s. "And with Bob it's just, you know, Bob's here! Read More - CBS News

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Fifth Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe’s old Huyton school Park View saved - Liverpool Echo

It states that “parents expressly stated that they would explore other places available rather than take up the places offered at Roby Park”. It notes that the parents’ stance could pose a threat to Roby Park “over time if preferences were exercised for community reception places in Liverpool”. Read More - Liverpool Echo

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Paul McCartney

1971 was a god awful time for music. Acoustic guitars weren’t so much machines to kill nazis as instruments utilised by entrepreneurs hiding behind beards. The pervasive sound of sunshine folk was a prefab sunshine used to power a malignant, corporate agenda, duplicitously simulating a naive hippy dream the protagonists knew had died a death at the end of the 60s. Read More - The Quietus

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Lavish photo book brings back memories of The Beatles - MiamiHerald.com

If every photographer is forever linked to one picture, Harry Benson — who has photographed presidents, movie stars and Robert Kennedy’s assassination, among other things — knows precisely what will define him. Read More - MiamiHerald.com

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Limited Edition Print Folio for The Beatles 1968 Cinematic Masterpiece,Yellow Submarine - Dark Hall Mansion Blog

Dark Hall Mansion is thrilled to finally unveil a project that has been in development for over one full year: the first officially licensed, limited edition print Folio for The Beatles 1968 cinematic masterpiece, Yellow Submarine. [read more]

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Harrison's haunting melodies

Guitarist Harrison, who died of cancer at 58 in 2001, was often referred to as the quiet Beatle. But on this 10-track collection of demos from throughout his solo career - which was put out in conjunction with the DVD release of last year's Martin Scorsese documentary George Harrison: Living In The Material World - his spirit rings loud and clear. [read more]

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Abbey Road on the River adds Jefferson Starship to Beatles-focused festival - courier-journal.com

Paul Kanter was at ground zero. The San Francisco native had co-founded Jefferson Airplane in 1965, and that band and the Grateful Dead were the leading lights on the city’s vital music scene. Like most, Kanter followed the Beatles’ growth with interest. Read More - courier-journal.com

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Beatles' 'Abbey Road on the River ' Music Fest - Louisville this weekend - Examiner.com

The world's largest Beatle inspired festival will return to Louisville, KY this weekend, May 24th - 28. In it's 11th year, thousands will once again flock to Belvedere Festival Park and The Galt House to release their inner Beatle. As a special treat, rock-n-roll Hall of Fame band Jefferson Starship will perform a tribute to the Beatles on Saturday, May 26. Read More - Examiner.com

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The Rarest, Most Desirable Book By John Lennon Comes To Auction

"We're all in a bag, you know?...I was in a pop bag, going round and round, in my little clique. And she was in her little avant-garde clique, going round and round. So we just came up with a word. If you'd ask us what Bagism is, we'd say, 'We're all in a bag, baby'" - John Lennon, Avant-Garde, March 1970.Read More - BOOKTRYST

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Lost Beatles and Rolling Stones images on display for Hollywood fundraiser - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

That photographer was Bob Bonis, the band's U.S. tour manager from 1964 to 1966, and on this sunny afternoon in May 1965, Richards and Jagger would lay down a riff that eventually spawned "Satisfaction." Richards, Jagger, Brian Jones and Ian Stewart had been busy grooming their band's persona as unruly, unkempt youth – the brazen, sex-driven antithesis to those other crossover British rockers, the Beatles – and gave full access to Bonis and his camera. Read More - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

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Paul and Linda McCartney: Ram - The A.V. Club

The degree to which rock critics hated 1971’s Ram—the first and only official collaboration between Paul McCartney and his wife Linda—is hard to overstate. In today’s terms, it would be like the guy from Train making a record with Kreayshawn, only the guy from Train would have to be a genius responsible for the greatest music of the previous decade—or any decade, really, in modern music history. And the record they made together would have to be misunderstood as terrible, not have terribleness hard-wired into its genetic code. Read More - The A.V. Club

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Slideshow: Ringo Starr attends flower show, remembers Bee Gee Robin Gibb - National Beatles Examiner.com

Ringo Starr, attending the celebrity preview for the annual Chelsea Flower Show, paid tribute to the late Robin Gibb and the Bee Gees in talking to reporters on Monday. "God bless him and God bless his family," Starr was quoted by CBS News. "The Bee Gees from our era were quite important, especially the harmonies. Read More - Examiner.com

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How Abbey Road on the River comes together [Music] - Louisville.com

There will be a total of 10 stages this year. Five outdoors stages will be on the Belvedere and three inside the Galt House. AROTR also will use two stages on Fourth Street Live! in Hard Rock Café and one in the street on Friday, May 25 for a free lunchtime concert (this year is the second the festival has hosted concerts at Fourth Street Live!, last year was the first). Read More - Louisville.com

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John Lennon book plates auctioned

Featuring a photo of Lennon taken by Robert Freeman, the book included an introduction by Paul McCartney detailing how the band first got together in Liverpool and contained Lennon's short stories, poems and line drawings, often surreal, whimsical and nonsensical with the Beatle using free association and improvisation. Read More - UK News

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Bono Denies That He Is the Richest Rock Star in the World - Vanity Fair

Following a flurry of reports stating otherwise, U2 front man Bono has denied that he will become the world’s richest rock star thanks to his company’s 2.3 percent stake in Facebook, whose debut on NASDAQ today was the third largest initial public offering in United States history. Read More - Vanity Fair

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Feds threaten to disrupt summer concerts - Washington Examiner

Lawmakers are scrambling to save the summer concert season from federal agents poised to seize the instruments of rock and country stars because the wood used to make them may have been illegally harvested--and without their knowledge. Read More - Washington Examiner

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U2′s Bono to Overtake Paul McCartney as World’s Wealthiest Rock Star - ABC News

Paul McCartney may be about to be surpassed as the wealthiest rock musician in the world by U2 frontman Bono. NME.com reports that the Irish rocker, who owns a 2.3 percent stake in Facebook, is expected to see his net worth increase significantly when the social-networking company goes public on Friday. Read More - ABC News

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Exclusive QA: Ringo Starr on his Upcoming Tour and the Elusive 'Let It Be' DVD - Rolling Stone

I think that's also a possibility. One day that will come out. But we're not talking about it right now. As you know, there's very little that hasn't come out. I'd forgotten that one though. You just mentioned the one thing that hasn't come out. I'm too busy living now…Don't forget we all wish Joe Walsh the best of luck on his big fancy tour. Read More - Rolling Stone

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Paul & Linda McCartney, 'RAM': Listen To The Full Remastered Album For Free (AUDIO)

Paul and Linda McCartney released RAM in 1971. It's among Paul's early post-Beatles records, and it was written and recorded with his late wife. The album remains the only one credited to the couple, giving it a special place in McCartney's storied canon. ...MORE...

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MTV announces nominees for ‘Must Follow Artists on Twitter’ for Online Music Awards

MTV recently announced a massive OMAs that will involve a live streamed 24-hour bus tour. As the June event approaches, the OMAs are beginning to announce nominees across their different categories. They provided Lost Remote exclusively with this year’s nominees for “Must Follow Artists on Twitter.” We spoke with Shannon Connolly, VP of Digital Music Strategy for the Viacom Music & Logo Group about the category. Read More

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Donovan Q&A, on Dylan Rivalry, Helping Paul McCartney Write 'Yellow Submarine' - Spinner

And then he said, "I've got this" and he started singing "Yellow Submarine."" At one point he stopped and said, "But I don't have any words for this bit." I said, "Give me a moment." I went into the bedroom and came back with "Sky of blue, sea of green/In our yellow submarine." He said, "That'll do." It was nothing earth-shattering, it wasn't a new piece of poetry that was going to change the world. All I put in was "sky of blue." But I felt very proud after that and then he asked me what I was writing and I gave him stuff that I was doing. That's how it was then. It was a time to share, there was enough time to share. Read More - Spinner

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Mulling it over: How a remote Scottish island became a sanctuary for Paul and Linda McCartney - Scotsman.com

It was the perfect escape from the baying critics and public when the world’s biggest band, The Beatles, dissolved in 1970. High Park Farm on Mull of Kintyre served as a place of sanctuary and creative inspiration for Paul McCartney and his then wife Linda, who would both, from 1971 onwards, spend family summers there and use the wild landscape of the Kintyre peninsula for both emotional and professional sustenance. Read More - Scotsman.com

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Lennon sings for Aerosmith

Lennon, who has been promoting his own album Everything Changes of late, has been in California working on the project after being approached by his pal, Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler, 64. Read More - Express.co.uk

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Paul McCartney gives Beatles song a Mexican twist - Celebrity Buzz

Paul McCartney gave the Beatles classic OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA a Mexican twist when he performed in Mexico City last week – by bringing out a mariachi band to join him on the track. Read More - a Chron.com blog

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Ringo Starr Biography in the Works

Michael Starr, who covera television for The New York Post, will be working on a biography of Ringo Starr. I have been hoping someone would tackle this important task soon, especially after ringo said he'd never do an autobiography because people would only be interested in his Beatle years. I completely disagree and look forward to the release of this new work. The author can be contacted at michaelsstarr@gmail.com, (email him your Ringo story).



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Mark Ronson: Paul McCartney Saved Me From Drowning - Spinner

Apparently Ronson, who was too young to remember and heard the story from his mother, wasn't entirely convinced the tale was true. "That sounded like one of my mum's crazy stories," Ronson told Britains Live Magazine. Read More - Spinner

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Ringo Starr: I Lost My Beatles Photographs - Rolling Stone

During the early days of the Beatles, Ringo Starr often traveled with a camera and took photos of of the group behind the scenes, from rehearsing for their history-making appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show to goofing around on the set of their 1965 movie, Help! In countless Beatles photographs, Starr is seen taking his own pictures, the vast majority of which have never been released. Sadly, Starr tells Rolling Stone that's unlikely to change anytime soon. Read More - Rolling Stone

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Lennon printing plates to be sold

Featuring a photo of John Lennon taken by Robert Freeman, the book included an introduction by Paul McCartney detailing how the band first got together in Liverpool and contained Lennon's short stories, poems and line drawings, often surreal, whimsical and nonsensical with the Beatle using free association and improvisation. Read More - AP

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George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door -The Arts Desk

“I deliberately didn’t do all the things that you can do these days,” says Martin. “I got moaned at on Love for doing digital manipulation; audio is like silly putty these days – you can stretch and bend anything you want, but you can also lose personality through production. On this record you can hear George’s personality: his frailty, his cockiness, all that. The more things that are added the less it’s him.” Read More - The Arts Desk

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The divisive, but surprisingly healing legacy of Yoko Ono

A highly lauded experimental artist who enjoyed acclaim in New York’s avant-garde scene of the ’60s, her reputation took a major hit when she met a Liverpool pop star named John Lennon at one of her installations, became his muse/mistress and presided — in ways heatedly debated to this day — over the break up of the world’s most famous band, The Beatles. Read More: GuelphMercury - Popsmacked

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Paul McCartney commands crowd of 90,000 as he performs epic three-hour concert in Mexico city - Mail Online

He demonstrated admirable local nouse when he referred to City residents as 'Chilangos,' a colloquial term for capital-born Mexicans. Carlos Cordero, a music student in Mexico City, told the Wall Street Journal, 'Do you know why Mexico is among the best audiences in the world? People here go to concerts to escape from an everyday hell people live in.' Read More - Mail Online

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Arne Bellstorf: The Beatles As You've Never Seen Them

Stuart had always been more of a painter than a musician, and he was only part of the group because his art student fellow John Lennon had talked him into buying a bass guitar and come with him to play in Germany. But only half a year later, with the perspective of living a romantic, bohemian life with his new love, and encouraged by his new art school friends to follow his path in art, he finally left the band - and merged with Astrid's environment. [read more]

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Unfinished George Harrison Song May Be Finished by Paul McCartney - ::antiMusic.com

The Fab Four guitarist's widow Olivia Harrison says a number of works-in-progress remain following his death in 2001. She oversaw the creation of Early Takes, an album of demos and unreleased material, launched to coincide with the DVD publication of Martin Scorcese's Harrison documentary, Living in the Material World. Read More - ::antiMusic.com

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Sir Paul McCartney held impromptu private show for Princess Diana

The secret gig took place in January 1993. McCartney, then 50, was filming the video for his single' Biker Like An Icon' at Pinewood Studios. Midway through the shoot the security team were told that an unexpected VIP was outside the set asking to come in. [Read More]

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Beatle George Harrison's son Dhani announces release date for his band thenewno2's second album (video) - TheCelebrityCafe.com

The new album's trailer features candid behind-the-scenes shots of thenewno2 dispersed with clips of the band having a jam session. Harrison looks like a younger version of his father with his long brown hair and guitar in hand, but Dhani looks to be rocking out harder than George ever did in the Beatles. Three new songs from thefearofmissingout can be heard in the trailer's background, previewing the album's new sound. Read More - TheCelebrityCafe.com

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The Making of The Beatles' “Tomorrow Never Knows” - Boing Boing

On Sunday night, The Beatles made history again when Don Draper slipped a copy of Revolver onto his turntable and started listening to “Tomorrow Never Knows.” According to Matthew Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, this marked the first time a Beatles song appeared on a television show (excluding the band’s live TV performances during the 1960s). And the privilege of playing a Beatles tune came at a cost — a reported $250,000. Read More/Video - Boing Boing

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The Rolling Stones on Saturday Night Live? And no doubt No Doubt is back - Pasadena Star-News

The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood are rehearsing in a small New Jersey recording studio with their usual touring keyboardist Chuck Leavell, formerly of The Allman Brothers, and producer Don Was sitting in on bass, possibly for a soon-to rejoin Bill Wyman. Read More - Pasadena Star-News

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Search is on for new Beatles - Ipswich Queensland Times

Let it Be, which will take the form of a gig spanning 20 songs from different stages of The Beatles' career, is the first West End show to be granted the rights to the band's back catalogue. The Beatles' rise to stardom will be shown with real footage from the time, but Mr Hendry promises that there will be no storyline "pushed on to the music" in the style of other stage tributes to bands, nor will the songs be altered in any way. Read More - Ipswich Queensland Times

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How 'Mad Men' Landed The Beatles: All You Need Is Love (and $250,000) - NYTimes.com

In most cases, “Mad Men” is bound by the history of the era in which it takes place. But on Sunday night, a new episode of that 1960s period drama that concluded with the Beatles song “Tomorrow Never Knows” appears to have made some history of its own, marking a rare instance in which a song written and recorded by that band has been licensed for use on a television series. Read More - NYTimes.com

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Lennon printing plates to be sold - BigPond News

The book included an introduction by Paul McCartney detailing how the band first got together in Liverpool and contained Lennon's short stories, poems and line drawings, often surreal, whimsical and nonsensical with the Beatle using free association and improvisation. Read More - BigPond News

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Stella McCartney visits Buckingham Palace to win the royal seal of approval for Olympic designs - Telegraph

Stella McCartney was apprehensive about the reaction that her designs for the Team GB kit would receive when they were unveiled amid great fanfare earlier this year. Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter was, however, even more nervous when she was summoned to Buckingham Palace this week. Read More - Telegraph

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John Lennon's art comes through Salt Lake, some for sale - ksl.com

Just about everyone in the world is familiar with the musical career of John Lennon and especially the Beatles. But his talents were more than just for words and music - he was also an accomplished artist. More than 100 of his works are on display in Salt Lake City. Read More - ksl.com

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A million visitors to Museum of Liverpool in 9 months - ITV News

It was the largest national museum to be built for a century, but visitor predictions were modest. Opened in July 2011, directors hoped to welcome around 75,000 visitors to the new Museum of Liverpool in its first year. But it exceeded that total in its first week. Fast forward 9 months, and a million people have already piled through its doors in a success story as striking as the building itself. The Queen and Prince Philip, Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Ken Dodd, Yoko Ono (twice): the question is, who hasn’t visited the museum? Read More - ITV News

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We all live in a yellow submarine - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

First things first, the song, credited to Lennon-McCartney, was written by Paul McCartney, who hoped to create a simple tune for drummer Ringo Starr to sing. The song was published in 1966, and became part of the Beatles' classic "Revolver" album. As a single, it was released on the flip side of The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby." And wow, who would have predicted that so many radio stations would play the longer, extended version of "Yellow Submarine?" Read More - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

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Who is Harry Nilsson? - Stuff.co.nz

Nilsson started to figure pretty big in my life. He was already dead. He died in 1994. I seemed to really hook into Nilsson, started unwrapping the riddle, the following year. That's purely coincidental - I bought the $1 copy of Nilsson Schmilsson when I first went record-shopping in Wellington. I was new to the city, fairly new to record-buying. I'd remembered Without You and Coconut - they were on the same album, it was a bargain. From there a mini-obsession started. Read More - Stuff.co.nz

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George Harrison's Widow Hopes Book Will Fill in Blanks Left by Scorsese Doc - Billboard.com

Scorsese's three-and-a-half hour film on Harrison shows his spiritual side, from his early days with the Beatles to his exploration of Eastern music and religion, and also includes his death in 2001. In a telephone interview from London, Olivia Harrison, who served as one of the film's producers, said she loved the message of the film, but felt it didn't cover her husband's other "sides." Read More - Billboard.com

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Ed Rudy Featured

Aventura resident Ed Rudy, former NYC radio broadcaster and the only American reporter to travel with The Beatles on their first full U.S. tour, is featured in a new documentary, The Beatles: The Lost Concert, charting the rise of Beatlemania in America and featuring rare concert footage. Rudy met the Fab Four at Kennedy Airport on Feb. 7, 1964, covered them at the Plaza Hotel, traveled with them to Washington, D.C., for their first U.S. concert, reported on their shows at Carnegie Hall and headed with them to Miami later that week, even sharing a suite with George Harrison at the Deauville Hotel on Collins Avenue. Rudy, dubbed in national broadcasts as “The Fifth Beatle,” recalled memories of being on the road with the group. “I was provided with a very large SUV-type vehicle by my news service, and I remember driving along with The Beatles as local radio stations played their records — and [they] sang along. It was truly a magical time in Miami!” LESLEY ABRAVANEL



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Review: Harrison's "Early Takes" is beautifully bare - chicagotribune.com

In a way, the new George Harrison release "Early Takes, Volume 1" does the same thing for the former Beatle's Spector-produced 1970 solo debut, "All Things Must Pass," as, among other selections, it offers up six songs from that landmark effort in completely unvarnished form. All things must pass - even Spector's Wall of Sound, right? Read More - chicagotribune.com

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Re-Meet the Beatles

Also full of promise is the new documentary “The Beatles: The Lost Concert,” coming to movie theaters May 17 and 22. Pundits including Philadelphia news legend Larry Kane (who trailed and befriended the Beatles on their early U.S. visits), rock original Chuck Berry and concert producer Sid Bernstein get to talk about the Beatles invasion of February 1964, so welcome and distracting just three months after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. ...Read More...

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Norah Jones, George Harrison, Anders Osborne, Carrie Underwood Top New CD Releases

Let us begin, as all things should, with Norah Jones. Norah's new record Little Broken Hearts is a sonic departure from her earlier work but not so much that longtime fans should be alienated by the different approach. You can stream the first single "Happy Pills" and see its video (two words: shower scene) and Jones has already announced summer tour plans. ...Read More...

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