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Monday, February 24, 2020

Peter Frampton Memoir Set To Be Released In October

Peter Frampton's memoir, titled "Do You Feel Like I Do?", is set to release on October 20.

"This is my journey," Frampton said in a statement to Rolling Stone. "All I ever wanted to do was play guitar and it's taken me many different places - physically and mentally. I've been to the moon and back without a rocket, but also to the depths of despair.

"You never stop paying your dues," he added. "Failure has been my greatest inspiration. I brush myself off and then I want to 'do it again.' D o You Feel Like I Do?"

The memoir, which Frampton co-wrote with Rolling Stone editor Alan Light, will give details about his work with childhood friend David Bowie, his struggles with drug abuse, and the "blessing and curse" of his breakthrough album Frampton Comes Alive!

The book will also touch upon his inflammatory muscle disease that recently forced him to announce a farewell tour.

"If I'm going to do a farewell tour, I want to play good," he told Rolling Stone. "I want to rock it. I know that this tour, I will be able to do everything I did last year and the year before. That's the most important thing to me. I want to go out screaming as opposed to, 'He can't play anymore.'"

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The Beatles' Apple Corps Awarded $77 Million In Fake Merchandise Lawsuit

The Beatles' Apple Corps has won a 2018 lawsuit filed against 77 individuals and small businesses that infringed copyright and trademark law by dealing in various Beatles merchandise, including t-shirts, sweaters and other items of clothing.

The case was originally filed at the Florida Southern District Court, and Judge Beth Bloom fined a total of $1 million to each of the businesses involved.

However, Digital Music reports that it is unlikely that Apple Corps will ever come to see any of that money, as none of the defendants appeared in court, and furthermore, were only identified by their online usernames.

Founded by the music legends in 1968, Apple Corps replaced its predecessor, Beatles Ltd., and is not to be confused with Apple Inc., the tech-giant, with whom the company settled a longstanding trademark dispute in 2007.

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Unearthed David Bowie Live Recordings To Be Released On Record Store Day

Parlophone Records announced that previously unreleased live recordings of David Bowie from 1974 will be released on Record Store Day.

The live album, I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74), will come in 2LP and 2CD formats.

The release is in addition to the already announced Record Store Day album ChangesNowBowie.

"Taken from recently discovered sources in The David Bowie Archive, 'I'M ONLY DANCING (THE SOUL TOUR 74)' was recorded mostly during David's performance at the Michigan Palace, Detroit on 20th October, 1974, with the encores taken from the Municipal Auditorium, Nashville on 30th November, 1974," Parlophone said in a statement.

"The only song missing from the full set on the 20th October performance is 'Diamond Dogs' which was unfortunately only recorded in part," the label added. "To make up for that it was decided to include the encores from the 30th November performance which featured 'Diamond Dogs' but also enables a fuller representation of the set from The Soul Tour including such numbers as 'Knock On Wood' and the 'Foot Stomping / I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate' medley."

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