In 2019, a European tour was announced, due to take place through the summer of 2020 following the completion of their Las Vegas dates. However, the shows were canceled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as was a 50th Anniversary show at Boston’s Fenway Park, originally planned for September…
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In an August 2020 interview with former The Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman, on his radio show Steve Gorman Rocks , Brad Whitford was asked what the future of Aerosmith looked like. His response was “I don’t really know what they want to do. And, I don’t really care because,…
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In August 2020, the band announced on their website that their fifteenth studio album The Symbol Remains would be released on October 9, 2020. The span of nineteen years between Curse of the Hidden Mirror and The Symbol Remains marks the longest gap between studio albums in Blue Öyster Cult’s…
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In June 2020, Schon announced via his social-media page that a new album with Jackson and Walden was “starting to take shape”. The following month, he confirmed the album’s progress, and confirmed that they would be releasing new music in early 2021. In January 2021, he announced that the first…
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Former lead singer Brian Howe died 6 May 2020, aged 66. In November 2023 Kirke stated in an interview on the Bob Lefsetz Podcast that Bad Company were “pretty much over”, citing Rodgers’ recent health problems as a factor. In 2025, Bad Company was inducted into the Rock and Roll…
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The band would later dedicate “Do You Love Me” to Kobe Bryant and the 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash victims during the Los Angeles show at the Staples Center on March 4, 2020.
The box set The Early Years 79-81 was released in March 2020, featuring remastered versions of the band’s first two albums plus a variety of live recordings, B-sides, and studio outtakes from the 1979 to 1981 period.
Kiss appeared again as special guests on America’s Got Talent on February 17, 2020, with a televised performance of “Rock and Roll All Nite”.
On March 3, 2020, Schon and Cain announced that they had fired Smith and Valory and were suing them for an alleged “attempted corporate coup d’état, ” seeking damages in excess of $10 million. The lawsuit alleged Smith and Valory tried to “assume control of Nightmare Productions because they incorrectly…
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On August 20, 2020, Banali died from pancreatic cancer, which he had been diagnosed with sixteen months earlier, leaving him as the second member of the Metal Health -era lineup to die, following DuBrow in 2007.