Echo & The Bunnymen: New Album + UK Tour!

11:06 AM GMT 30/07/2009

Echo & The Bunnymen have announced details of their new album and upcoming UK tour.

The Fountain has been produced by John McLaughlin and will appear on October 12. The first single from the album, I Think I Need It Too, will be released on September 28.

The band are set to play:

Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall (October 12)
Manchester The Ritz (13)
Glasgow Barrowlands (14)
London Roundhouse (15)
Oxford O2 Academy (December 12)

For more, head over to their official site HERE.

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John Fogerty's new album, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again, is due for release on September 1.

An unofficial follow-up to his 1973 debut, the record is made up of Fogerty classics reworked by artists such as Bruce Springsteen and the Eagles. The former-CCR man is also set to include covers of songs by Buck Owens, John Denver and John Prine.

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Phil Spector was sentenced to 19 years behind bars in May for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. The legendary producer's publicist has now told BBC 6 Music that Spector is "not doing great".

"He's doing fair, at best, if not worse than fair. He's not doing great," said Hal Lifson as he described Spector's first months at Corcoran State Prison's medical facility in California.

"He's in a horrible situation with virtually nothing to do all day," he added. "Phil Spector was always a highly productive, creative person and now he's in a five by nine foot cell with no windows and maybe a half hour outside to walk around. It's essentially solitary confinement. He doesn't have computer access, he only recently got a little TV. It's a terrible existence for a millionaire record producer who lived in mansions and most recently in a castle, a 35-room home. It's a huge, huge change of life for Phil Spector and a devastating turn in his life."

Meanwhile, a fellow inmate, one Charles Milles Manson has "shaken" Spector by requesting the pair begin work on a musical collaboration.

Manson, who has called the prodcuer "the greatest who ever lived", is said to have attempted to contact Spector via a note given to a prison guard.

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And finally...Happy Birthday Kate Bush! The poetess pop legend is 51 today. Here she is with the timeless Hounds Of Love:

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 11:06 AM GMT 30/07/2009

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