The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority voted 6-0 to begin renaming Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton, 17 days after her death. The final name is not settled, the FAA still has to approve it, and the estimated bill runs to $10 million.
Seventeen shows are gone, starting with Friday night in Davenport and ending with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco. Here is what the band actually said, what it did not say, and where the reporting disagrees.
On a new episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rick Springfield describes the night his Australian pop band’s Vietnam troop tour turned into a firefight outside Da Nang – and what the soldiers told him the next morning.
In her first interview since Dolly Parton’s death, Stella Parton told CBS Mornings that the last thing her sister asked her for was prayer – and that Dolly kept her cancer from much of the family so nobody would worry.
Mike McCready played the national anthem on a battered Stratocaster, then went back out at halftime to stand in with Soundgarden while Taylor Momsen sang Chris Cornell’s parts. Viewers at home saw almost none of the second half of that night.
Billy Joel says surgeons implanted a shunt in his brain to treat normal pressure hydrocephalus, and that his doctors warned every loud concert was giving him “something like a concussion.” The 77-year-old told fans not to worry: “I’m not going anywhere.”
Rosanne Cash’s management has postponed her Wyoming and Montana dates, saying doctors have restricted her travel and performing. The nature of the emergency has not been disclosed.
Jon Small drummed alongside Billy Joel in the Hassles and Attila, then watched Joel marry his wife. He drove Joel to the hospital anyway, and spent the next fifty years filming him.
An archive of 63 Oasis concert recordings, soundchecks and unfiltered conversations between Noel and Liam Gallagher goes under the hammer on October 3, despite objections from the band. The catch: whoever wins it cannot legally release a second of it.
Macklemore used his opening slot on Ed Sheeran’s LOOP Tour to call for a free Palestine on two consecutive nights at MetLife Stadium. The Israeli-American Council is now petitioning Sheeran to drop him from the remaining dates.