U2: Bono opens up about the new album
After all the stops and starts with the new U2 album, Songs of Experience, it's fairly similar lyrically to its predecessor, 2014's Songs of Innocence. On that album, Bono sang about his and the band's early days in Dublin, and this time out he's singing to his family.
He tells Rolling Stone, "I know U2 go into every album like it's their last one, but even more this time I wanted the people around me that I loved to know exactly how I felt. So a lot of the songs are kind of letters, letters to [my wife] Ali, letters to our sons and daughters."
Perhaps these letters were inspired by some world events since 2014 -- President Trump, Brexit, etc. -- but we'll have to wait to find out as they've yet to announce a release date, although December 1st has been floated.
BOB DYLAN: Details on the next Bootleg Series release
The next installment in the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series focuses on his Born Again phase.
Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series Volume 13 / 1979-1981, out November 3rd, looks at the period where he wrote, recorded and performed "spirit-filled songs of praise, worship and devotion" that were released on the albums Slow Train Coming (1979), Saved (1980) and Shot of Love (1981).
This collection will be available in multiple configurations, most notably a nine-disc set with 100 previously unreleased live and studio recordings, including 14 that have never seen the light of day at all.
The deluxe box set also comes with a hardcover book and a DVD that includes Trouble No More: A Musical Film, a new feature-length documentary combining unreleased footage from Dylan’s 1980 tours with new material written by Luc Sante and performed by Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon. This is the film that will premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 2nd.
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER: 40th anniversary reissue
A 40th anniversary reissue of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack is coming this fall.
It'll be available in a variety of formats, including a Super Deluxe box set. That includes both the remastered CDs with four bonus remixes by Serban Ghenea, the album on vinyl, Blu-ray discs with the film’s 4K-restored 40th Anniversary Director’s Cut and theatrical version, and a 23-page book with photos and several essays -- including one written by Barry Gibb.
Gibb, whose Bee Gees songs became the album's best-known tracks, says, "40 years ago, Saturday Night Fever was released, and the impact that came from it, even today, is inexplicable. It was inexplicable even then."
The original double-disc set spun off four number-one singles en route to winning the Grammy for Album of the Year. The new packages will be out on November 17th.