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“Female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil war/ The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door/ The live-action Lion King, the Pepsi Halftime Show/ Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go/ Carpool Karaoke, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul/ A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall/ There it is again/ That funny feeling,” Burnham sings on the folky song in the special. In May, Abbott signed into law one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion measures, which bans the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. It also employs a controversial method of enforcement that allows any private citizen to sue doctors, abortion clinics, as well as anyone who unknowingly helps women obtain an abortion — including ride-sharing drivers — for $10,0...

But with the dates booked — after they were canceled last year during the pandemic — Jagger said the rest of the band thought it would be best to carry on. With a few shows under their belts so far, the singer said things feel pretty good so far and he’s glad the band decided to press on. “I’m glad we’re doing it. I know Charlie wanted us to do it. I think the audience wants to do it,” he said. One thing that lifted the 79-year-old’s spirits is the memory of the recent time he spent in the studio with Watts recording new songs and revisiting some of the Tattoo You classics. “Charlie came into the studio. We did some we did some work on Tattoo You. Charlie did some work on just, just a few fills and stuff like that,” he said of the...

All of that is in evident on Outsider. The 12-song set is a direct result of the pandemic, born when Taylor and his wife were “locked away” by the seaside in Cornwall, a planned three-day visit turning into four months of quarantine. The situation spawned a song called, appropriately, “Isolation,” and before long Taylor was off and running, compiling material that he took back to his home studio in Surrey. He added a few older tracks such as “Absolutely Anything,” which he created for the 2015 romantic comedy of the same name, a new mix of his “Foreign Sand,” collaboration with Yoshiki (a top 30 U.K. hit during 1994), and a cover of Shirley Ellis’ “The Clapping Song,” which was also recorded by the Belle Stars in 1982. ...

After a violin break, The Boss, 72, leans into the second verse with an urgent series of questions about what it’s all about. “How much sorrow is there left to climb?/ How many promises are worth the time?/ And who on Earth is worth our time?/ Is there a heart here that I can call mine?” he sings. Though the two American singer-songwriter icons have shared stages before, this is the first time they’ve hit the studio together. At Clive Davis’ Grammy Museum benefit event earlier this year, Mellencamp – whose Americana sound was frequently compared to The Boss’ early in his career — told Billboard that “Bruce is singing on the new record and is playing guitar.” Springsteen confirmed the news in an interview on Sirius XMR...