On 8 December 2016 “Family Man”, “How Was Your Ride?” and “Sorrys”, the second, third and fifth songs from the album, were released.
On December 7 the group released a cover version of “Go Tell It on the Mountain”.
On 7 December 2016, founding King Crimson member Greg Lake died of cancer.
the live album, Live at the Royal Albert Hall , was released on 2 December 2016 through the crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic on CD, DVD, and vinyl, with all proceeds donated to Teenage Cancer Trust .
The band released Blue & Lonesome on 2 December 2016.
In December 2016, the original five-piece lineup lost a case in the British High Court after they attempted to reclaim the U.S. copyright on their first three albums from Gloucester Place Music, part of EMI Music Publishing . Rhodes commented, “We signed a publishing agreement as unsuspecting teenagers, over three…
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In December 2016, The Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Billy Rymer confirmed that he’d tracked drums for “a whole album’s worth of material” towards the band’s third album.
In December 2016, the group released super deluxe editions of Metal Box and Album .
In 2016, U2 worked on their next studio album, Songs of Experience , a companion piece to Songs of Innocence . The group had mostly completed the album and planned to release it that year, but after the shift of global politics in a conservative direction, highlighted by the UK’s…
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In December 2016, the single “Don’t be Afraid” was released.