Weekly News Round-Up: The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and more

Missed any of the week’s top news stories? Live4ever has it covered with our Weekly News Round-Up, looking back at ten of the biggest headlines we featured during the last seven days in British music.

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The Rolling Stones will release their first album in over a decade on December 2nd.

Although the 2012 live return included two new singles which formed a part of the 50th anniversary GRRR! compilation, it took some time for Keith Richards‘ persuasive jabber to get his bandmates in the studio with a firm eye on finally following up 2005’s A Bigger Bang.

Coldplay will point the private jet back to North America after their European tour is completed next summer.

Once a show at Paris’ Stade de France is concluded on July 15th, they’ll be ready to head to New York in time for a concert at the MetLife Stadium on August 1st.

Guy Garvey has let us know what to expect from the new Elbow album.

Confirmed for February 3rd next year, it’s their first without drummer Richard Jupp and is going to be a ‘beat heavy’ affair according to the frontman while in conversation with Jo Whiley.

Another Mustique Demo has been released by Oasis from the expanded version of Be Here Now which is out on October 14th.

The tracks, recorded by Noel Gallagher and producer Owen Morris on the Caribbean island prior to the full band sessions which would ultimately engulf the finished album in a love-it-or-hate-it wall of indulgent noise, have long been a holy grail for fans.

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have shared a second stripped back video performance of a track from this year’s A Moon Shaped Pool album.

After Present Tense was debuted at the Mercury Prize ceremony in London last month, Paul Thomas Anderson has directed this cut of The Numbers too, heading off to Tarzana, California with the pair to soak up some suitably chilled out vibes.

Classic Rock magazine has named Jimmy Page‘s guitar solo on Stairway To Heaven as the greatest of all time.

The famous piece of work, which brings the slow building Led Zeppelin rock classic to a spine-tingling crescendo, was picked for the publication by a panel of critics, bands and readers.

Rod Temperton, the British songwriter behind Michael Jackson‘s huge hit single Thriller, has died.

Jon Platt, chairman of Warner/Chappell, confirmed Temperton died in London last week at the age of 66 after ‘a brief aggressive battle with cancer’. His funeral has already been held.

In the year he left us, David Bowie records are dominating the UK’s best selling albums of 2016 so far, reports the Official Charts Company.

The final studio LP Blackstar is the third biggest seller of the year to-date, while two best of collections – Best Of Bowie and Nothing Has Changed – are also in the Top 20.

A new live film from Mumford & Sons will be screened in selected cinemas across the world next month.

On November 8th, Live From South Africa: Dust And Thunder premieres the band’s gig in Pretoria, South Africa earlier this year which they’ve described as ‘one of the most exciting shows we played on the Wilder Mind tour’ – a tour launched after the album’s release in May 2015.

The Book Of Noodle is telling the fictional story of how Gorillaz came to arrive at their fifth studio album.

A series of posts on social media opens up by name-checking their 2010 record Plastic Beach, detailing how Noodle, ‘drifted away from Plastic Beach to safety, or so she thought’.

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