Happy Pride Month! In honor of the occasion, Billboard has put together a list of the 100 Greatest LGBTQ Anthems of All Time, which features songs from Elton John, Cher, Diana Ross, Cyndi Lauper and more.
While Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” tops the list, the top 10 includes Ross' 1980 hit "I'm Coming Out," which was specifically written by Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for Ross' gay fans. Madonna's "Vogue" and Lauper's "True Colors" are in the top 10, as well.
Other songs making the list include: Elton’s “I’m Still Standing,” Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” Donna Summers’ “I Feel Love,” Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90,” Melissa Etheridge’s “Come to My Window,” Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time,” ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family,” David Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging," Queen's "I Want To Break Free" and The Kinks' "Lola."
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Jimi Hendrix is finally getting a street named after him in New York.
West 8th Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, where Hendrix’s legendary Electric Lady Studios is located, was due to be co-named Jimi Hendrix Way back in February, but an extensive snow storm forced the postponement of the event. The naming has now been rescheduled.
The street will get its new name on June 10 at 11 a.m. ET, with the ceremony taking place a block from the studio.
Among those attending the street naming will be E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt. The event will coincide with the launch of a new education partnership with the rocker’s education initiative TeachRock, which uses music and pop culture to expand learning in schools. The partnership will result in the addition of a Hendrix curriculum for middle and high school students.
Experience Hendrix LLC President and CEO Janie Hendrix will also be on hand for the ceremony, along with Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, singer Valerie Simpson, Hendrix producer Eddie Kramer, NYC District 2 council member Harvey Epstein, and a group of local TeachRock teachers and students.
Paul McCartney performs onstage during the 36th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 30, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame )
At 83, Paul McCartney doesn’t seem ready to slow down.
The former member of The Beatles, who actually turns 84 on June 18, is still making music, having just released the new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane, and continues to tour, with his last trek wrapping in November. And in a new interview with NME, McCartney reveals whether he’ll ever considering hanging it all up.
“I don’t know. I never know, y’know?” he says,. “I remember when I was 50 years old, my manager at the time said, ‘Well, are you thinking of retiring?’ I went, ‘Uh, I don’t think so.’”
“But he obviously thought, 50 … which, I get it, because we thought 30 was really old [when] we were 20,” he continues. “So 30 was like that’d be unseemly, but it came, and it went, and people were still playing, and audiences like the music.”
McCartney notes that he still gets “creative satisfaction” from songwriting. “There’s something magical about it.”
“It’s still a great achievement to sit down with, let’s say, my guitar and there’s nothing there, and I’m just noodling around, and suddenly, maybe after three or four hours, I’ve got a song. I know how it goes, and I’ve written the lyrics down, and it’s a real achievement," he says. "That still is a magic feeling for me. I think that’s the creative buzz still, and hopefully always will be.”
Elvis Costello Radio Soul!: The Songs of Elvis Costello From The Early Days to the Late Hours tour admat (Courtesy of Elvis Costello)
Elvis Costello is returning to North America for a handful of shows this fall.
The rocker has booked six new dates of his Radio Soul!: The Songs of Elvis Costello From The Early Days to the Late Hours tour, starting Sept. 10 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and wrapping Sept. 18 in Muskegon, Michigan.
Costello will be backed by his band The Imposters, made up of Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher, with the addition of guitarist Charlie Sexton.
Registration is now open for an artist presale that begins Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Costello launched the tour, originally called Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello, in the summer of 2025. He performed songs from 1977’s My Aim is True to 1986’s Blood & Chocolate, as well as some “other surprises.” The addition of “to the Late Hours” in the title suggests he may be expanding the set list.
Costello is set to kick off a European/U.K. leg of Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello in Lund, Sweden, on Friday. A complete list of dates can be found at ElvisCostello.com.
Drummer Charlie Watts was born in London, England.
After getting his start playing blues and jazz, Watts joined The Rolling Stones in 1963, and remained with the group for 58 years until his death.
Watts, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are the only three members of the band who appear on every Stones album. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 1989.
Watts played his final show with the Stones on August 30, 2019. It was announced in August 2021 that he was going to sit out of the Stones’ No Filter tour due to heart surgery. He passed away on August 24, 2021, at the age of 80.
Watts posthumously appeared on The Rolling Stones’ 2023 album Hackney Diamonds. His drumming was featured on two songs, "Mess It Up" and "Live by the Sword," which were recorded in 2019. He is also expected to posthumously appear on the band’s upcoming album, Foreign Tongues, which will be released July 10.
John Mellencamp performs onstage during the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Gala at The Beverly Hilton on May 16, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
John Mellencamp has begun rehearsals for his Dancing Words Tour — The Greatest Hits, and he's giving fans insight into the process.
Mellencamp shared videos on Instagram that were shot on the first day of rehearsals at Belmont Mall Studio in Indiana. The first post takes fans through the garage in which they’ve been rehearsing "since the 1980s," according to the voiceover.
In a second video, Mellencamp lets fans know that during the tour, "we’ll be playing 27 songs and every one of them was a hit that you’ll be able to sing along with."
"This will be the last time I play some of these songs, and the first time I’ve played some of 'em in decades," he adds, noting, "Hope to see you all out there."
Since announcing the tour, Mellencamp has been posting videos of him getting in shape for the trek, which usually find him exercising while smoking — something he says isn’t about to change.
At the end of the video, he tells his followers, “And oh, by the way I’m still working out and I’m still smoking," before lighting up a cigarette.
When Mellencamp initially announced the tour, he said his sets will include hits like "Jack & Diane," "Hurts So Good," "Small Town" and "Pink Houses," along with songs like "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. (A Salute To 60's Rock)," "I Need a Lover," "Wild Night" and "Ain't Even Done With the Night,” which he hasn’t played in years.
The Dancing Words Tour — The Greatest Hits begins July 10 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and wraps Aug. 12 in Mountain View, California. A complete list of dates can be found at Mellencamp.com.
Barry Manilow, 'What A Time.' (STILETTO Entertainment)
In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Chris Connelly, Barry Manilow has opened up about how being diagnosed with lung cancer and undergoing a left lung lobectomy havs altered his voice.
"My voice — I don't know whether it's coming back," Manilow said in an interview that aired Monday on Good Morning America. "I did my first sound check about a month ago and I didn't sound like me at all. I just couldn't believe that it's over."
He added, "That is really upsetting. Because I don't want it to stop."
The singer, who's known for his hits like "Copacabana," "Mandy" and more throughout a career that has spanned more than 50 years, said he feels like he's "taken my voice for granted."
"I don't take it seriously," he said. "Now I do, because it doesn't seem to be there the way it always was."
Manilow's cancer diagnosis was announced on Dec. 22, 2025, on his official website. The singer, who said he previously experienced six weeks of bronchitis, had just completed a Las Vegas residency and a five-night series of charity Christmas concerts in Palm Desert, California. He said his doctors ordered an MRI following his illness with bronchitis.
"They checked my lungs, and they found the dot, the spot, that thing that you don't want to, you don't want to ever have," Manilow said. "They said I had lung cancer and we have to get it out."
"It was just too heavy for me," he added.
Manilow said the "spot" was diagnosed as Stage 1 cancerous tumor in his left lung, which he underwent successful surgery to remove. His doctors said he didn't need chemotherapy or radiation, according to Manilow, but he contracted pneumonia, which landed him in the ICU.
Manilow said the experience was "terrifying."
"There was a couple of moments there that I thought this may be goodbye," he said. "But these people at this hospital, they were just angels, saints. I could cry so hard every time I think about these nurses and doctors."
Today, ahead of his 83rd birthday on June 17, Manilow said he's "doing good," but that "it took longer than I thought it was going to take to get past this lung cancer."
Earlier this year, Manilow's song "Once Before I Go," which he released in September 2025, reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The song will appear on his new album, What a Time, which will be released Friday.
"I can't wait to get back," he continued. "I'm in great shape, I'm ready to go. I just hope my voice is there. If I sound good, that would be just great!"
"I really don't want to cry onstage, but I don't know whether I'll be able to hold that back this time," he added.
Paul McCartney's 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane' (MPL/Capitol Records)
Looks like Paul McCartney may have another hit on his hands in the U.K.
The Beatles legend’s latest solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, is on track to top the U.K. Official Albums chart this week.
If it does hit #1, it will be McCartney’s eighth solo #1 in the U.K., although the chart includes albums released with Wings among his other solo hits. McCartney’s first non-Beatles #1 came in 1971 with Ram, although technically the album is credited to both Paul and his wife Linda McCartney. His last solo #1 was 2020’s McCartney III.
A new #1 would also move McCartney to #14 on the list of artists with the most #1 albums.
McCartney’s The Boys of Dungeon Lane, produced by Andrew Watt, features songs about McCartney’s childhood in Liverpool, early adventures with future Beatles bandmates George Harrison and John Lennon, and more.
Vivian Campbell, Joe Elliott, Rick Allen, Rick Savage and Phil Collen attend Def Leppard Honored With Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame on October 09, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Def Leppard has extended their 2026 world tour.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have announced an Oct. 15 show in Hollywood, Florida. That will be followed by a tour of Mexico and South America, featuring special guests Extreme.
The Mexico dates kick off Oct. 17 in Querétaro, followed by stops in Mexico City and Guadalajara. The band then heads to San Salvador, El Salvador, on Oct. 24, followed by shows in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina. The tour wraps Nov. 8 in Santiago, Chile.
A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at DefLeppard.com.
Next up, Def Leppard will launch a European and U.K. tour starting June 13 in Rättvik, Sweden, and wrapping July 8 in Paris. They're also booked to play Wacken Open Air 2026 in Wacken, Germany, which runs from July 29-Aug. 1
Michael Stipe attends Apple TV's "Shrinking" special FYC event at Quality Italian on May 02, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by John Nacion/Getty Images)
Michael Stipe is headed to late-night TV.
The R.E.M. frontman is set to be the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night, where he’ll be joined by producer Andrew Watt.
Stipe and Watt recently teamed up to record the song “I Played the Fool,” which served as the theme to Steve Carell’s HBO series The Rooster. The song featured blink-182's Travis Barker on drums and former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer on guitar and piano.
Back in April, Stipe made an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he debuted an unreleased song, “The Rest of Ever,” from his upcoming debut solo album. During the appearance he revealed that the long-in-the-works album, which Stipe’s been teasing since at least 2022, will finally be released at the end of 2026.
L-R) Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards attend The Rolling Stones Album Launch Event at The Weylin on May 05, 2026 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
While Keith Richards recently said The Rolling Stones had no plans to tour this year, it sounds like Mick Jagger is itching to get on the road.
During an appearance on BBC Radio 2’s Tracks of My Years, which also featured bandmate Ronnie Wood, Jagger made it known that he wants to tour again.
“I’d love to go on tour, I can’t wait,” he said, although he did concede, “I don’t think it’s going to be this year. But hopefully it’s going to be as soon as possible.”
The last time The Stones hit the road was in 2024, headlining a North American tour in support of their 2023 release, Hackney Diamonds.
The appearance on Tracks of My Years comes ahead of the release of The Rolling Stones’ 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, which is due out July 10.
Paul McCartney makes an appearance on the new album, as he did on Hackney Diamonds, and Jagger said working with him "was great."
“We're in Los Angeles and he did two days and he played on one song, was a punk song, and then this one's more like a, more like a funk bass,” said Jagger. “So that was very exciting and ... he was very quick, very quick learner."
Cover of Peter Gabriel single "A Hard Lesson Artwork by Francis Alÿs(Real World Music Ltd / Sony Music Publishing/Peter Gabriel Ltd.)
Peter Gabriel dropped another song from his upcoming album, o/i.
The latest, released on Sunday to coincide with May’s second full moon, is “A Hard Lesson,” which Gabriel describes as “the oldest track of the project.”
“It probably started in the late 80s or early 90s when I was in Senegal,” Gabriel explains. “I was falling in love with the music I heard there. I loved the tension created by the use of polyrhythms, particularly the threes and fours, so that was the start of this song.”
He adds, “It's a quirky, strange and long track but it's a journey. It's about trying to find a place, your place, how you fit in.”
As he did with his last album, 2023’s i/o, Gabriel is releasing a new song from o/i with each full moon of the year. The entire album will be released by the end of 2026, along with Dark-Side and Bright-Side mixes handled by Tchad Blake and Mark "Spike" Stent, respectively.
“A Hard Lesson (Bright-Side Mix)” is now available via digital outlets.
Eagles – Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon – released their self-titled debut album, which went on to be a huge hit for the band.
The record, produced by Glyn Johns, peaked at #22 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. It included three top 40 hits: “Witchy Woman,” which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100; “Take it Easy,” which went to #12; and “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” which peaked at #22.
The album would go on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA.
Eagles are set to return to the Sphere in Las Vegas on September 18 and also have shows booked at the venue in November. A complete list of dates can be found at Eagles.com.
CELINE DION PARIS 2026 2027 poster (Robin Galiegue)
Céline Dion hasn't sung one note of her Paris residency yet, but she's already making plans to continue it into 2027.
She's expanding her planned residency by 10 dates, which will take place in May of 2027 at Paris La Défense Arena. The residency, which will mark her first full concerts since 2020, gets underway Sept. 12 and will run through Oct. 17 of this year. The new dates are May 8, 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, 22, 26, 28 and 29.
A select number of fans who registered for the original artist and venue presales but failed to get tickets the first time around will now get a dedicated sales window during which they'll have another chance to purchase tickets. They'll receive emails with instructions.
The artist presale for the new dates starts June 3 at 10 a.m. Central European Summer Time; the venue presale starts June 4 at the same time. Tickets and hotel packages will be available starting June 3 at the 10 a.m. CEST via eventtravel.com.
Céline's choice of Paris as the city for her return to the stage is fitting: Her first public performance after revealing her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis took place at the Eiffel Tower during the 2024 Olympics.
Stewart Copeland of The Police (Photo credit: Jessica Lehrman)
The Police drummer Stewart Copeland is getting ready to launch Have I Said Too Much - The Police, Hollywood, and Other Adventures, a spoken word tour described as an evening of conversation with Copeland that will include photos and videos, along with a Q&A.
After debuting the show in the U.K. in 2025, this will be Copeland's first time bringing it to theaters across North America, and it’s something he’s looking forward to.
“The vibe of walking into those theaters and just telling stories and jokes, and getting the room laughing and everything is really a blast,” he tells ABC Audio, noting it’s much easier than a music tour that involves a sound check, road crew and more.
“I just breeze in at five o'clock, tell some fun stories and get a lot of laughs,” he says.
Copeland says he originally had a few concerns about the tour, explaining he “worried that it would be tough telling the same stories every night.”
“I know that it's not tough playing the same song every night,” he says. “And it turns out to also be true of telling fun stories.”
Of course, some of those stories are going to be about his days in The Police, and Stewart insists it will all be in good fun.
“It's all pretty light,” he says, adding of his former bandmates Sting and Andy Summers, “I posit the notion that we are so tight, the three blond heads, we are like brothers. We are so close that we can take the piss out each other with love and admiration.”
The tour kicks off Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with dates confirmed through Nov. 22 in Charlotte, North Carolina. A complete schedule can be found at StewartCopeland.net.
Paul McCartney leaves 'The Late Show' following the taping of the final episode on May 21, 2026 in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
Paul McCartney has submitted himself to the experience of Chicken Shop Date, and the results are now available to watch on YouTube.
In the YouTube series, host Amelia Dimoldenberg eats fried chicken and fries while Sir Paul munches on vegan chicken nuggets and answers a variety of quirky questions.
McCartney was asked to recall the time he set a condom on fire in Hamburg, Germany, whether he'd ever get a tattoo, and how often he thinks Amelia should go to the dentist. She then hit him with perhaps the most outlandish question of all.
"Who's your favorite Beatle?" Amelia asked.
After noting that there's "only one left" besides himself, McCartney replied, "Now, currently it's Ringo. During the Beatles, I think we all used to look up to John, 'cause he was like the leader, even though there wasn't an officially a leader of the group."
"He was very witty and he was great to have in the group," he continued. "I think all of us might've said John was our favorite Beatle."
McCartney also told a heartwarming story about his late wife, Linda McCartney. He said he once heard that Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis gave his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis a bracelet inscribed with "JILY," which stood for "Jackie I Love You." That inspired him to get Linda a bracelet that read "LILY," for "Linda I Love You."
"Oh, that's gorgeous. Wow, that's very thoughtful of you," Amelia responded. "She's a lovely girl," McCartney responded.
Among the other topics the two discussed were whether Sir Paul has ever autographed someone's butt, the last time he did a headstand, how many guitars he owns, gardening tips and whether Amelia should start taking drugs.
Kansas performs at the Ryman Auditorium on August 19, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Kansas, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett and Asia are among the artists performing on the 2027 Cruise to the Edge.
The prog-themed concert cruise sets sail from Miami on April 2 and will make stops in Cozumel and Costa Maya, Mexico, as well as Harvest Caye, Belize, before returning April 8.
"This isn't just a cruise," the Cruise to the Edge website reads. "It's a Progressive Rock odyssey across sunlit seas, where legendary artists, intimate venues, and stunning concert cruise destinations collide in a festival unlike any other."
Grateful Dead, 'Steal Your Face' (50th Anniversary) (Rhino Records)
Fifty years ago, America celebrated its 200th birthday — and a lot of great albums were released.
That's why Rhino Records has launched a Spirit of '76 vinyl reissue campaign, with independent record stores carrying new editions of 23 albums that first arrived in 1976. It gets underway July 17 with the release of Bad Company's Run with the Pack, Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy, the Faces' Snakes and Ladders/The Best of Faces and the Ramones' self-titled debut.
On July 24, releases include X, the Grammy-winning album by Chicago; the Grateful Dead's live album Steal Your Face; Linda Ronstadt's Hasten Down the Wind; The J. Geils Band's live album Blow Your Face Out; Todd Rundgren's Faithful; and Rod Stewart's A Night on the Town.
The campaign ends July 31 with Jethro Tull's M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull, the Ramones' Live at the Roxy, 1976, War's Greatest Hits and ZZ Top's World Wide Texas Tour.
Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes appears at the Tenth Annual LOVE ROCKS NYC Benefit Concert for God’s Love We Deliver at The Beacon Theatre on March 05, 2026 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for LOVE ROCKS NYC/God's Love We Deliver)
Gov't Mule has announced a U.S. tour with Ziggy Marley.
The joint outing runs from Sept. 23 in New York City to Oct. 17 in Irving, Texas. It's dubbed the Dreaming the Same Dream tour after the song "Dreaming the Same Dream," which Mule frontman Warren Haynes wrote with Marley.
"I'm really looking forward to the tour with Ziggy Marley," Haynes says in a statement. "We've known each other a long time and have shared the stage a few times but never done a tour together. There's definitely an overlap between the two audiences, but I think a lot of Mule fans will be hearing Ziggy for the first time and a lot of Ziggy fans will be hearing Mule for the first time, which is great."
"It's gonna be a great jam session being on tour with Warren and the crew," Marley adds. "I'm looking forward to the vibes."
Presales begin June 3 at noon ET, and tickets go on sale to the general public on June 5 at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Mule.net.
You can also catch Gov't Mule on tour throughout the summer, including dates with Joe Bonamassa.
Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who perform onstage on May 3, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Rick Kern/Getty Images for The Who)
Remember when The Who did a farewell tour last year? Well, according to Roger Daltrey, that wasn't exactly the end.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Daltrey says that The Who still have to do "farewell tours" of England, Australia and the rest of the world, but it won't be until 2027. "It won’t fall into this year because Pete’s going to have another knee op, which puts him out of action for a long while," Daltrey says of his bandmate Pete Townshend. "And I’ve had a few things to deal with health-wise in the time off, but we’re hoping to finish it all off next year."
And, Daltrey says, The Who will still continue to play, if they "get invited to do a charity gig or something." He clarifies, "What I’m trying to say is we are not retired. [It's just that] we don’t want to do another tour of America."
However, Daltrey has a solo U.S. tour booked for later this year and plans to keep his own live shows going as long as he can. "Voices are voices: They don’t last forever, that’s a fact," he tells Rolling Stone. "Mine is incredibly powerful and still is. I’m very lucky to have it there, but equally it might go tomorrow, and if it does go tomorrow, I won’t be seeing you in August, it’s as simple as that."
"I’m 82 years old and still got good energy, still can deliver it well. But I can’t do any more than that. I can only do my best and whatever happens, happens. If it’s still like this when I’m 90, I’ll still be doing it."
When asked about The Who's legacy, Daltrey notes, "We were just different than everybody else." Mentioning The Who's notoriety for playing loud, he contends, "We were the first heavy metal band."
