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Blur are set to release Parklive, a live album recorded at this summer's Hyde Park gig in London. The five disc CD and DVD set will come out on December 3. The entire audio from the Olympic Games' closing gig will feature on two CDs, while a DVD of the concert - which was shot on 12 cameras - will also be included.

Mick Jagger sheds light on The Rolling Stones’ new film, Crossfire Hurricane, in the new issue of Uncut (dated December 2012), and out on Tuesday (October 23).

Neil Young & Crazy Horse have released a video for "Twisted Road", taken from their forthcoming album, Psychedelic Pill. The promo clip contains images of Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and Roy Orbison, as well as footage of Young and Crazy Horse travelling along the highway by tour bus. This is the third video from Psychedelic Pill, following on from “Walk Like A Giant” and “Ramada Inn". Pic credit: Steve Snowdon/Getty Images

Wu Tang Clan producer RZA wants to put the band back together to mark the 20th anniversary of their highly-regarded debut album, 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)', reports New York Times – and this time he wants the band to be more professional. RZA, who is currently promoting his film The Man With The Iron Fists, says making the movie showed him the power of "what a focused mind can do".

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has revealed that rockabilly artist Carl Perkins was the artist who made him first want to pick up a guitar. Homme explained that he decided he wanted to be a musician after he saw Perkins play and found out that he had written the song "Blue Suede Shoes" for his idol Elvis Presley. Perkins - who died in 1998 - took part in the 'Million Dollar Quartet' recordings at Sun Studio in Memphis alongside Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lee Daniels is in talks to direct a Janis Joplin biopic starring Amy Adams. Adams became attached to the project, titled Get It While You Can, back in 2010. Before Adams, Renee Zellweger had been lined up to play Joplin.

The story of The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein is set to be told in a new comic book.

Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan has claimed that he "almost" killed himself several times. In an interview on Last Call With Carson Daly, the frontman admitted that he had considered committing suicide "about three, four, seven times" but faith in God had stopped him from feeling "like a victim". He said: "I almost killed myself about three, four, seven times. I literally started planning my death and what I would leave behind, and what I was gonna write. Three or four times in my life.

The Rolling Stones have hinted at the possible running order of their London dates in November with a hand-written setlist posted on Twitter. The image, appearing to show a full setlist of Rolling Stones tracks, was posted online shortly before the band announced their two dates at the 02 Arena in November. Most of the group's classic hits are featured, including 'Paint It, Black' and 'Honky Tonk Women', but new songs 'Doom And Gloom' and 'One More Shot' from forthcoming compilation 'GRRR!' are nowhere to be seen.