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GEOFF TATE To Perform QUEENSRŸCHE's Entire 'Promised Land' Album At Belfast Concert

Geoff Tate will perform QUEENSRŸCHE's 1994 album "Promised Land" in its entirety at his August 28 concert at Limelight Belfast 2 in Belfast, Ireland. Tate's setlist will also include "a selection of his greatest hits from his legendary career," according to an advertisement for the show. In a recent...

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Watch GEOFF TATE Sing QUEENSRŸCHE's 'Queen Of The Reich' On MONSTERS OF ROCK Cruise

Fan-filmed video footage of Geoff Tate's performance aboard this year's Monsters Of Rock cruise can be seen below. The show saw Tate playing many of QUEENSRŸCHE's biggest songs, including early classic "Queen Of The Reich", which originally appeared on the band's debut EP. Tate had previously expres...

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QUEENSRŸCHE Guitarist MIKE STONE On His Return To Band: 'It's Been Going Great'

Mike Stone says that his latest stint as QUEENSRŸCHE's guitar player has "been going great." Since last May, Stone has been handling second-guitar duties in QUEENSRŸCHE, which announced in July that longtime guitarist Parker Lundgren was exiting the group to focus on "other business ventures." Stone...

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QUEENSRŸCHE Shares Previously Unreleased Photo Of TODD LA TORRE And GEOFF TATE During 2017 Encounter At Festival

A nearly five-year-old photo of current QUEENSRŸCHE vocalist Todd La Torre with the man he replaced, original QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate, was shared this past Thursday (February 10) on the band's official Facebook page. The picture was taken when La Torre and Tate crossed paths in June 2017 when...

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YES Releases Music Video For 'A Living Island'

Legendary progressive rockers YES — consisting of Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison and Billy Sherwood — have released a video for the song "A Living Island". The clip was created by Wayne Joyner, who has made all of the promotional videos for YES's latest album, "The Quest". Geoff D...

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GEOFF TATE On Staying In 'Fighting Shape' While On The Road: 'It's A Full-Time Job'

Former QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate spoke to the 100 FM The Pike radio station about how he keeps his voice strong and stays in shape for his rigorous touring pace of the last few years. "It's tough," he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "It really is — trying to achieve some sort of bal...

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Watch GEOFF TATE Perform QUEENSRŸCHE's 'Empire' And 'Rage For Order' Albums In State College, Pennsylvania

Fan-filmed video footage of Geoff Tate's January 26 performance at Stage West in State College, Pennsylvania can be seen below (courtesy of YouTube user "Jim Powers"). Tate's current tour is celebrating the 30th anniversary of QUEENSRŸCHE's "Empire" and "Rage For Order" albums. 1986's "Rage For Orde...

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ASIA Feat. Original Members CARL PALMER And GEOFF DOWNES Announces 40th-Anniversary Celebration

ASIA, one of the greatest and best-loved supergroups to emerge during the 1980s, is currently preparing for an extensive 40th-anniversary celebration, due to kick off in summer 2022. Featuring founding members Carl Palmer (ELP, CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN) and Geoff Downes (YES, THE BUGGLES),the gr...

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GEOFF TATE Says QUEENSRŸCHE's Classic Lineup Has Been Offered 'Obscene' Amount Of Money To Reunite For Tour

Geoff Tate says that he doesn't expect a reunion of QUEENSRŸCHE's classic lineup to ever materialize. In April 2014, Tate and QUEENSRŸCHE announced that a settlement had been reached after a nearly two-year legal battle where the singer sued over the rights to the QUEENSRŸCHE name after being fired...

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Ex-QUEENSRŸCHE Singer GEOFF TATE: How I Keep My Voice In Shape After All These Years

In a new interview with "That Fuzzing Rock Show", former QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate was asked how he keeps his voice in shape more than 40 years into his singing career. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Practice, honestly. [Laughs] Just keeping up with it. It's something that you...

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TONY MARTIN Says A Box Set Of His Recordings With BLACK SABBATH Will Arrive This Year: 'It Won't Be Individual Albums'

During an appearance on "The Ron Keel Podcast", former BLACK SABBATH singer Tony Martin confirmed that a new record deal has been secured to reissue the albums he recorded with the band. "I only found out yesterday," he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "I had no idea. You don't get informa...

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TONY MARTIN Says Record Deal Has Been Secured For Reissues Of Albums He Recorded With BLACK SABBATH

Former BLACK SABBATH singer Tony Martin says that a new record deal has been secured to reissue the albums he recorded with the band. On Wednesday (January 19),Martin took to his Facebook to write: "So i got a call from [BLACK SABBATH guitarist] Tony Iommi's manager ... it seems there is now a reco...

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TONY IOMMI And TONY MARTIN Can't Legally Record New Music Under BLACK SABBATH Name

Former BLACK SABBATH singer Tony Martin says that he has no idea what is going on with the proposed reissues of the albums he recorded with the band. BLACK SABBATH released six albums with Martin on vocals: "The Eternal Idol" (1987),"Headless Cross" (1989),"Tyr" (1990),"Cross Purposes" (1994),"C...

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YES: 'A Visual Biography II: 1982 – 2022' Due In May

Following on from "Yes - A Visual Biography I", Wymer Publishing will release a follow-up book, "Yes - A Visual Biography II: 1982 – 2022", on May 6. "Yes - A Visual Biography II: 1982 – 2022" documents the progressive rock pioneers' career from the Eighties to the present day. Author Martin Popoff...

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BRET MICHAELS Gets Invited to A Party on ABC-TV's 'The Goldbergs'

POISON frontman Bret Michaels gets a shoutout on this Wednesday's (January 12) episode of the ABC-TV hit comedy "The Goldbergs". When "The Goldbergs" character Geoff Schwartz and his fiancée Erica Goldberg decide to throw a party, they ask "Who should we invite?" Barry Goldberg responds emphatically...