Big Rig Rock Report Friday 11.15.24

U2: Bono's Sunday Bloody Sunday

This Saturday -- November 16th in 2014 -- marks the 10th anniversary of Bono taking a header in New York's Central Park. "I bust[ed] myself real bad on a bicycle, which really offends my Irish macho view of myself in the world. But, I've got a titanium elbow. I've got a new arm basically. I can't play guitar. That's the only bummer. I don't know if I will be able to play it again. The band don't seem to mind." He was rushed to New York–Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center, where after five hours of surgery, orthopedic trauma surgeon

Dean Lorich said, "The elbow was washed out and debrided, a nerve trapped in the break was moved and the bone was repaired with three metal plates and 18 screws." In addition to his arm, he fractured his shoulder blade, humerus, orbit -- which houses your eyes -- and pinky finger.

But Bono told us his recovery did prove to be beneficial. "One of the gifts of my injuries was the gift of time because I was laid up. I couldn't do anything. So, for me it's been a very creative time for me as a writer and a songwriter." The accident forced U2 to cancel a week of appearances on The Tonight Show in support of their 13th album, Songs of Innocence, and to push back their world tour to 2015. And, if Bono has played the guitar since, it appears he hasn't done so in public.

Chris Cornell's Daughter Toni Announces Debut Single

Chris Cornell's daughter Toni is keeping music in the family. The 20-year-old has announced on Instagram that she will be releasing her debut single on November 21. Called "Sunset of Your Love," the song was was written with Mozella and produced by Dave Hamelin. Toni had previously performed versions of "Nothing Compares 2 U" and Temple of the Dog's "Hunger Strike." In 2019, she shared a track called "Far Off Places."

'A Complete Unknown' Director On Meeting With Dylan

The director of the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown got to spend a lot of time with Dylan himself while working on the movie. James Mangold told MOJO that pandemic-related production delays allowed him to meet with Dylan one-on-one: “Bob had a tour that he’d just cancelled, and he asked to read the script, and that was the start of our connection."

Mangold says he and Dylan met "four or five times for at least a half day, just the two of us drinking coffee", allowing him to "fill in the cracks in the story." A Complete Unknown follows a young Dylan arriving in New York City for the first time. It stars Timothee Chalamet and will be in theaters Dec. 25th.

New Year's Rockin' Eve To Include Live Vegas Countdown

West Coast fans of the longtime "New Year's Rockin' Eve" will reportedly get to enjoy the show's first-ever live Pacific Time Zone countdown. Billboard is siting sources that say this year's "New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest" will feature a live countdown from Las Vegas. In addition to the show in New York City's Times Square, there will also be shows at MGM Resorts venues in Las Vegas.Billboard reports that Lenny Kravitz is the only artist confirmed for Vegas so far. In addition to music acts, the Vegas shows will reportedly include magicians and circus acts.

In Other Headlines

Shel Talmy, who produced The Kinks (“You Really Got Me,” “Tired of Waiting for You,” “Sunny Afternoon” and “Waterloo Sunset”), and The Who (“I Can’t Explain” and “My Generation”), as well as working with a young David Bowie, Manfred Mann and The Small Faces, died in his sleep Wednesday at his Los Angeles home due to complications from a stroke. He was 87.

A new video for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ “Never Be You” will be released this Friday. The song was first released by Maria McKee on the Streets of Fire soundtrack and was later a number-one country hit by Rosanne Cash, with Petty’s version being part of the recently released deluxe edition of 1982’s Long After Dark.

Stevie Nicks’s duet with former NFL player Jason Kelce, “Maybe This Christmas,” has topped the iTunes holiday chart. Jason’s brother Travis, who is dating Taylor Swift, joked that Jason is now the “Queen of Christmas” as the song surpassed Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You." The song is part of Jason’s third charity album, A Philly Special Christmas Party, which will be out on November 22nd. Proceeds benefit numerous charities, including Children’s Crisis Treatment Center’s Holiday Toy Drive and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Snowflake Station.

The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music on the campus of Monmouth University in Long Branch, New Jersey has broken ground for a new 30,000-square-foot building that will house the Archives & Center. It will include four exhibit spaces, a 250-seat theater, outdoor music space, archive research area and listening booths. They hope to open it in the spring of 2026. Also, a video for Bruce Springsteen's cover of "She Don't Love Me Now" from the Jesse Malin tribute album, Silver Patron Saints, is now on YouTube.

Sony Pictures Classics has removed from YouTube the bootlegged version of the theater trailer for Becoming Led Zeppelin. Someone filmed it off a theater screen and posted it. The documentary will be out in the spring.

Yes members Steve Howe and Jon Davison have been served with a copyright infringement complaint by fellow prog musician Riz Story, who claims they used portions of his song "Reunion" in their 2021 song “Dare to Know.” Riz, whose real name is Rudolph Zahler, used to play with Davison and the late Taylor Hawkins in the band Anyone.

Motley Crue have shared a live version of "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" from the Dr. Feelgood 35th anniversary reissue, which comes out November 22nd. Check it out on YouTube.