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Eagles: 'Hotel California' Gets 40th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue

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The GRAMMY Hall Of Fame-inducted album is slated for a deluxe-reissue treatment to honor its 40th anniversary
Brian Haack
GRAMMYs
Oct 20, 2017 - 12:59 pm

Six-time GRAMMY-winning classic-rock band the Eagles may have countless hits to their name, but they are arguably most universally known for the title track to their hugely successful 1976 album, Hotel California.

The album (GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, 2008) is set to receive a 40th-anniversary reissue next month, and will come packaged along with a suite of 10 additional tracks recorded live at a 1976 show at The Forum in Los Angeles. A deluxe edition package will also be available, containing additional high-resolution stereo and 5.1 remasters of the LP, along with a book of previously unpublished photos.

The album's second track, "New Kid In Town," sung by the late Glenn Frey, earned Best Arrangement For Voices honors at the 20th GRAMMY Awards. The now-iconic title track (GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, 2003) won the band the GRAMMY for Record Of The Year and the album snagged nominations for Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance. However, the band famously no-showed because they didn't think they had a chance of winning, as The Hollywood Reporter revealed in 2016.

Following a touching tribute to the late Frey at the 58th GRAMMY Awards, show producer Ken Ehrlich and Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow stopped the band from leaving the stage in order to present them their Record Of The Year GRAMMY statuettes, which had gone unclaimed since 1977.

The Hotel California 40th-anniversary package will be available on Nov. 24.

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'Fleetwood Mac': 1975 Classic LP To Be Reissued With Bonus Tracks

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Reissue to feature a variety of extras, including the original album remastered, alternate outtakes and live tracks
Tim McPhate
GRAMMYs
Nov 17, 2017 - 7:57 am

It's technically not a debut album, but as far as Fleetwood Mac are concerned, it's the LP that gave birth to a historic lineup.

Released in 1975, Fleetwood Mac will be given a special reissue treatment this coming January. The album — the first to feature the quintet Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Stevie Nicks — featured the hits and live staples "Landslide" (Nicks), "Rhiannon" (Nicks), "Monday Morning" (Buckingham), and "Over My Head" (Christine McVie). 

Dropping Jan. 29, the reissue will be available in several formats, including a deluxe edition featuring three CDs, a DVD and a vinyl LP. An expanded two-CD version will also be released, as will a single disc featuring a remastered version of the original album. The remastered version will also be available digitally and on streaming services. 

The expanded versions will contain a complete alternate version of the album made up entirely of previously unreleased outtakes and 1976 live recordings. 

Fleetwood Mac — which was followed by 1977's blockbuster, Rumours — was the group's first LP to top the Billboard 200. The album was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2016.

The reissue precedes Fleetwood Mac receiving the MusiCares Person of the Year honor on Jan. 26 in New York City. The GRAMMY Week gala will feature a tribute concert with performances by Haim, OneRepublic, Harry Styles, John Legend, Lorde, and Keith Urban. 

For more information on purchasing VIP ticket packages to the event, contact Dana Tomarken at MusiCares at 310.581.8727. Individual tickets for mezzanine seats are on-sale to the general public via Ticketmaster.  

Eagles: 'Hotel California' Gets 40th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue

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Eagles Announce Special 'Hotel California' Shows In Las Vegas

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The SoCal classic rock group took home two wins for the album at the 20th GRAMMY Awards, including Record Of The Year for the title track
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Apr 2, 2019 - 4:21 pm

Today the GRAMMY-winning rock group the Eagles announced they will be performing their classic album Hotel California during two nights in Las Vegas on Sept. 27–28. The special shows will be the first time the band has played the album in full live and will be their only dates in North America for 2019.

The announcement on the group's site says some of the songs have not been performed live since their original Hotel California tour in the '70s. They will also be pulling tracks from their extensive catalog of jams for "an additional set of the band's greatest hits" during the two shows at the MGM Grand's Garden Arena.

Eagles members Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit will perform with Vince Gill and Deacon Frey, the son of late founding member Glenn Frey. The latter two joined the touring lineup in 2017, following Glenn's passing in 2016, and will also be joining the band for their 2019 European tour dates.

The Los Angeles rock group released their fifth studio album, Hotel California, in December 1976. The album's singles "Hotel California" and "New Kid In Town" earned the group two No. 1 hits and two GRAMMY wins; at the 20th GRAMMY Awards the former won Record Of The Year and the latter won Best Arrangement For Voices. The album, which was nominated for Album Of The Year, remains third best-selling album in the U.S. ever.

Tickets for the two Vegas shows go on sale Fri. April 12 at 10 a.m. PST, with a pre-sale beginning Mon. April 8; find more ticket info here.

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Justin Vernon, of Bon Iver, in 2011

Justin Vernon, of Bon Iver

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Bon Iver Announce 'For Emma, Forever Ago' Deluxe Reissue, Anniversary Show

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The reissue will be available exclusively at the band's upcoming anniversary show and via their official website
Brian Haack
GRAMMYs
Oct 30, 2017 - 4:30 pm

With the official 10-year anniversary of the release of Bon Iver's hugely acclaimed self-distributed debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, still close in the rearview mirror, the group's frontman, songwriter and overall mastermind Justin Vernon has announced the album will receive a vinyl reissue treatment in conjunction with a special one-night-only anniversary performance set for February 2018.

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Billed as "For Emma, Ten Year," with the subtly mysterious tagline "A One-Of-A-Kind Smoke-Free Show," the anniversary show is slated for Feb. 17, 2018, at Milwaukee's Bradley Center.

The reissue will be available on CD and vinyl, packaged with new artwork and an essay by Vernon's frequent collaborator Trever Hagen. The reissue will be exclusively available from Bon Iver's live show merch table and via the band's official website.

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The Strokes: New York Rockers' Early Years Revealed In New Photo Book

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Music photographer Cody Smyth's new book will provide an intimate look into the first days of New York rockers the Strokes
Brian Haack
GRAMMYs
Aug 30, 2017 - 12:10 pm

New York City during the first decade of the 2000s was a wellspring of young bands eager to spit in the faces of music critics who'd been quick to call radio's transition from the largely Seattle-based sounds of grunge and post-punk alternative into the bubblegum pop sounds of the new millennium the dying gasps of guitar-driven rock.

Leading the charge during that period, the Strokes were one of the biggest of the "local" bands playing the club circuit, and also one of the first to really break out onto the global scene and sign a huge deal with a major label. This era of raucous rebellion has been recently documented in Lizzy Goodman's fantastic compilation Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth And Rock And Roll In New York City: 2001-2011, which chronicled the various bands – the Strokes chief among them – who were central to that rising movement.

A new catalogue of moments from that singular time will also arrive this October: music photographer Cody Smyth has compiled his best stories and photos from his years embedded with the Strokes into a forthcoming volume titles The Strokes: The First Ten Years. The book will be the "first authorized visual record" of the band's early years, and is being heralded as, "a peerless window into the group through the lens of a close friend who was there before it even began."

The Strokes: The First Ten Years is due out on Oct. 10.

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