Weekly News Round-Up: Paul McCartney, Ian Brown and more

Wondering if you’ve missed out on any of the week’s top news stories? Well wonder no longer – here Live4ever looks back on ten of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days in British music.

Paul McCartney (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

After concluding his Out There tour last October, Paul McCartney has wasted little time in announcing the details of his next round of dates.

The first part of Sir Paul’s One On One tour will open in Fresno, CA on April 13th, and ends at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, SD on May 2nd. The Beatles icon is promising a redesigned set with ‘no shortage of surprises’.

Electric Fields 2016 has revealed its second headliner.

The Charlatans will be joining Primal Scream at the summit of a bill which now has some other top new additions including Wild Beasts, Steve Mason, The Sugarhill Gang and C Duncan.

Surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have paid tribute to their former producer George Martin, who died on March 8th at the grand old age of 90.

Writing on Facebook, McCartney has said Martin was the one who truly earned the much bandied around tag of ‘fifth Beatle’, and spoke of the ‘many wonderful memories’ he will always have of their time together.

The Last Shadow Puppets‘ video for the title-track of their second studio album has been uploaded.

Alex Turner and Miles Kane are returning more than half-a-decade on from their Mercury nominated ‘The Age Of The Understatement‘ album with ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect‘ on April 1st.

Elbow have revealed drummer Richard Jupp has left the band after 25 years as they work on new material with the aim of releasing an album in 2017.

In a short announcement on their official website, it’s explained Jupp is leaving to concentrate on other projects, including the expansion of his drum school.

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Ian Brown‘s 2004 album ‘Solarized‘ will be released on vinyl for the first time as part of this year’s Record Store Day.

Brown’s fourth solo album is perhaps best remembered for its lead single ‘Keep What Ya Got‘, co-written by Noel Gallagher and performed live together on British television at the time.

Manic Street Preachers will reissue their 1996 album ‘Everything Must Go‘ in expanded form later this year as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations.

The band have various live shows lined up to mark the 20th year of one of their most commercially successful albums, and will now offer up the LP in different versions from May 20th.

Band Of Skulls have confirmed the details of their new studio album.

One of Live4ever’s favourite exponents of modern rock will release ‘By Default‘ on May 27th, their first on BMG Recordings.

The 1975‘s startling rise since their early 2013 singles is now going truly global.

The band have gone number one in Australia with their second album ‘I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It’, matching the rare trans-Atlantic success which was secured when the LP shifted 98,000 copies Stateside in its first week after being released on February 26th.

Pete Doherty will play solo shows in Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester and London a little later this year.

The details are unveiled as Doherty puts the finishing touches to his second solo album, the successor to 2009’s ‘Grace/Wastelands‘.

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