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A primary school in Denmark where the members of Led Zeppelin rehearsed for their first ever gig, is to be honoured with a commemorative plaque. Fullflling some contractual Yardbirds dates, the band - who were then billed as The New Yardbirds - were booked to play a short tour of Scandinavia, beginning at the Gladsaxe Teen-Clubs in Copenhagen on September 7, 1968. This was the first time Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham had performed together publicly.

Prince has revealed a brand new song, "Groovy Potential". A one minute, 22 second clips of the song was posted to YouTube yesterday (August 13), with the full track available for purchase at Prince's official website.

Jon Brookes, the drummer with the Charlatans, has died aged 44. Brooks - in the centre of the above photograph - had undergone several operations after being diagnosed in 2010 with a brain tumour, and had still been working on new material with the band over the summer. He died in hospital on Tuesday morning with his family at his bedside. The band's singer, Tim Burgess, Tweeted: "Jon Brookes, my friend, our drummer and inspiration to so many, passed away this morning. We are torn apart. Love & thoughts to Jon's family".

The track listing has been revealed for the deluxe edition of Nirvana‘s In Utero reissue.

The David Bowie Is... exhibition is being broadcast live from the Victoria And Albert Museum tonight. The event is taking place at 200 cinemas throughout the UK and begins at 7pm. A limited number of tickets are still available - you can find more information about screenings and how to get tickets here.

REM are apparently keen to put out their rare, fan club-only single releases as a charity boxset. Peter Buck has told BBC News that he would like to put out the band's special releases. REM produced a limited edition two-track single every year from 1988 - 2011. Only 6,000 of each were pressed, and they were given away to members of the band's fan club.

Bruce Springsteen is to re-release his landmark four disc box set, Tracks, on September 30. The box set, which has been unavailable for five years, contains unreleased songs, outtakes, demos and alternative versions taken from throughout his career. Tracks was originally released in 1998, and will be re-issued as a DVD-sized bookset through Sony Music/Legacy Recording. The tracks have been digitally remixed and remastered, and this repackaged set comes with a 56 page colour booklet of photos, lyrics and complete session information.

My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields has spoken about how he wishes he'd made more music in his career.

The Rolling Stones apparently played the loudest gig ever to take place in London's Hyde Park, according to Jim King of concert promoters AEG. King added that despite this, only one complaint about the noise was recorded. Speaking to Music Week, King commented: "The Rolling Stones played the loudest anybody's ever played in Hyde Park before and we had one complaint. The music could have been off and we'd have still had that complaint anyway."

Johnny Marr has said that people who are obsessed with The Smiths reforming "need to go and find a hobby". The guitarist, who released his first solo album The Messenger in February of this year, has repeatedly been asked to comment on reports that the band he formed with Morrissey will ever get back together. At the NME Awards in 2012, he joked that the band would reform when the current Government steps down, but he has since insisted that fans of the group need to accept that there won't be some "big happy ending" for the group.