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Ozzy Osbourne’s 1982 ‘Speak of the Devil’ Concert Film Headed to DVD

A live concert film from one of the least documented and most difficult times in Ozzy Osbourne‘s career, 1982′s ‘Speak of the Devil,’ will be released on DVD July 17 from Eagle Rock Entertainment.

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Is Gene Simmons a Good Dancer? Duff McKagan Tells All!

Well, at least some fun has come out of the ill-fated and mostly cancelled Rock and Roll Allstars’ South American tour: we’ve learned that Gene Simmons, the demonic monster of Kiss, is one helluva hoofer.

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Sammy Hagar Plots Multi-Band Career Retrospective Tour

If Sammy Hagar‘s latest plan comes true — and most of them do — fans of the Red Rocker will be treated to a tour touching on nearly every phase of his four-decade recording career next summer.

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Amare Stoudemire’s Smashed Hand Recalls 1984 Tom Petty Incident

If there’s one rocker who can relate to how Amare Stoudemire feels right about now, it’s Tom Petty. The basketball star injured himself by smashing his hand against a glass door holding a fire extinguisher in frustration following a playoff loss Monday night (April 30), echoing a similar incident from Petty’s past.

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Heart’s Nancy Wilson Gets Married

Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson got married to music executive Geoff Bywater on Saturday (April 28) at a restaurant owned by none other than Sammy Hagar.

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Paul McCartney Guests on Live ’30 Rock’ Episode

Paul McCartney stunned the studio audience — and by the looks of it, possibly actor Alec Baldwin — by making a surprise walk-on appearance during a live episode of NBC’s ’30 Rock.’

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The Full Text of ZZ Top’s Freddie King Hall of Fame Induction Speech

Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of ZZ Top inducted blues great Freddie King into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past Saturday (April 14), and we’ve got the full transcription of their speech.

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Lollapalooza 2012 Lineup Features Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath will reportedly be one of the headliners of this summer’s Lollapalooza, with advance word of the three-day festival’s lineup leaking from a Brazilian website.

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ZZ Top’s ‘Rio Grande Mud’ Turns 40

ZZ Top‘s 1972 sophomore album ‘Rio Grande Mud’ turns 40 this month. The album is best known as home to the longtime concert favorite ‘Just Got Paid,’ which features a particularly thrilling slide guitar showcase from Billy Gibbons.

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Gene Simmons Says Industry Awards Don’t Matter to Kiss

Although they spent part of their weekend presenting an award at a country music award show, Kiss founder Gene Simmons says such industry sponsored events and trophies mean very little to Kiss.

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Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi: ‘I’ve Had the Last Dose of Chemotherapy’

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has issued a much-desired update on his battle against lymphoma, reporting that he is done with chemotherapy and soon to move onto three weeks of radiotherapy.

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Bret Michaels Lines up Michael Anthony, Joe Perry + Many More for Solo Album

Last we heard from Bret Michaels, he was chasing rock’s original gypsy, Stevie Nicks, for a guest spot on his upcoming solo record, ‘Get Your Rock On,’ tentatively due this summer. While he may not have scored Stevie for the album (yet?), he has already lined up a veritable who’s who of…well, of people who make music, spanning the gamut from fellow rock veterans Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Ace Frehley of KISS to country icon Loretta Lynn and chief parrothead Jimmy Buffett.

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