In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Chris Connelly, Barry Manilow has opened up about how being diagnosed with lung cancer and undergoing a left lung lobectomy havs altered his voice.

"My voice — I don't know whether it's coming back," Manilow said in an interview that aired Monday on Good Morning America. "I did my first sound check about a month ago and I didn't sound like me at all. I just couldn't believe that it's over."

He added, "That is really upsetting. Because I don't want it to stop."

The singer, who's known for his hits like "Copacabana," "Mandy" and more throughout a career that has spanned more than 50 years, said he feels like he's "taken my voice for granted."

"I don't take it seriously," he said. "Now I do, because it doesn't seem to be there the way it always was."

Manilow's cancer diagnosis was announced on Dec. 22, 2025, on his official website. The singer, who said he previously experienced six weeks of bronchitis, had just completed a Las Vegas residency and a five-night series of charity Christmas concerts in Palm Desert, California. He said his doctors ordered an MRI following his illness with bronchitis.

"They checked my lungs, and they found the dot, the spot, that thing that you don't want to, you don't want to ever have," Manilow said. "They said I had lung cancer and we have to get it out."

"It was just too heavy for me," he added.

Manilow said the "spot" was diagnosed as Stage 1 cancerous tumor in his left lung, which he underwent successful surgery to remove. His doctors said he didn't need chemotherapy or radiation, according to Manilow, but he contracted pneumonia, which landed him in the ICU.

Manilow said the experience was "terrifying."

"There was a couple of moments there that I thought this may be goodbye," he said. "But these people at this hospital, they were just angels, saints. I could cry so hard every time I think about these nurses and doctors."

Today, ahead of his 83rd birthday on June 17, Manilow said he's "doing good," but that "it took longer than I thought it was going to take to get past this lung cancer."

Earlier this year, Manilow's song "Once Before I Go," which he released in September 2025, reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The song will appear on his new album, What a Time, which will be released Friday.

"I can't wait to get back," he continued. "I'm in great shape, I'm ready to go. I just hope my voice is there. If I sound good, that would be just great!"

"I really don't want to cry onstage, but I don't know whether I'll be able to hold that back this time," he added.

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Looks like Paul McCartney may have another hit on his hands in the U.K.

The Beatles legend’s latest solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, is on track to top the U.K. Official Albums chart this week.

If it does hit #1, it will be McCartney’s eighth solo #1 in the U.K., although the chart includes albums released with Wings among his other solo hits. McCartney’s first non-Beatles #1 came in 1971 with Ram, although technically the album is credited to both Paul and his wife Linda McCartney. His last solo #1 was 2020’s McCartney III.

A new #1 would also move McCartney to #14 on the list of artists with the most #1 albums.

McCartney’s The Boys of Dungeon Lane, produced by Andrew Watt, features songs about McCartney’s childhood in Liverpool, early adventures with future Beatles bandmates George Harrison and John Lennon, and more.

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Def Leppard has extended their 2026 world tour.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have announced an Oct. 15 show in Hollywood, Florida. That will be followed by a tour of Mexico and South America, featuring special guests Extreme.

The Mexico dates kick off Oct. 17 in Querétaro, followed by stops in Mexico City and Guadalajara. The band then heads to San Salvador, El Salvador, on Oct. 24, followed by shows in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina. The tour wraps Nov. 8 in Santiago, Chile.

A complete list of dates and ticket information can be found at DefLeppard.com.

Next up, Def Leppard will launch a European and U.K. tour starting June 13 in Rättvik, Sweden, and wrapping July 8 in Paris. They're also booked to play Wacken Open Air 2026 in Wacken, Germany, which runs from July 29-Aug. 1

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Michael Stipe is headed to late-night TV.

The R.E.M. frontman is set to be the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night, where he’ll be joined by producer Andrew Watt.

Stipe and Watt recently teamed up to record the song “I Played the Fool,” which served as the theme to Steve Carell’s HBO series The Rooster. The song featured blink-182's Travis Barker on drums and former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer on guitar and piano.

Back in April, Stipe made an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he debuted an unreleased song, “The Rest of Ever,” from his upcoming debut solo album. During the appearance he revealed that the long-in-the-works album, which Stipe’s been teasing since at least 2022, will finally be released at the end of 2026.

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While Keith Richards recently said The Rolling Stones had no plans to tour this year, it sounds like Mick Jagger is itching to get on the road.

During an appearance on BBC Radio 2’s Tracks of My Years, which also featured bandmate Ronnie Wood, Jagger made it known that he wants to tour again.

“I’d love to go on tour, I can’t wait,” he said, although he did concede, “I don’t think it’s going to be this year. But hopefully it’s going to be as soon as possible.”

The last time The Stones hit the road was in 2024, headlining a North American tour in support of their 2023 release, Hackney Diamonds.

The appearance on Tracks of My Years comes ahead of the release of The Rolling Stones’ 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, which is due out July 10.

Paul McCartney makes an appearance on the new album, as he did on Hackney Diamonds, and Jagger said working with him "was great."

“We're in Los Angeles and he did two days and he played on one song, was a punk song, and then this one's more like a, more like a funk bass,” said Jagger. “So that was very exciting and ... he was very quick, very quick learner."

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Peter Gabriel dropped another song from his upcoming album, o/i.

The latest, released on Sunday to coincide with May’s second full moon, is “A Hard Lesson,” which Gabriel describes as “the oldest track of the project.”

“It probably started in the late 80s or early 90s when I was in Senegal,” Gabriel explains. “I was falling in love with the music I heard there. I loved the tension created by the use of polyrhythms, particularly the threes and fours, so that was the start of this song.”

He adds, “It's a quirky, strange and long track but it's a journey. It's about trying to find a place, your place, how you fit in.”

As he did with his last album, 2023’s i/o, Gabriel is releasing a new song from o/i with each full moon of the year. The entire album will be released by the end of 2026, along with Dark-Side and Bright-Side mixes handled by Tchad Blake and Mark "Spike" Stent, respectively.

“A Hard Lesson (Bright-Side Mix)” is now available via digital outlets.

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On This Day, June 1, 1972…

Eagles – Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon – released their self-titled debut album, which went on to be a huge hit for the band.

The record, produced by Glyn Johns, peaked at #22 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. It included three top 40 hits: “Witchy Woman,” which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100; “Take it Easy,” which went to #12; and “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” which peaked at #22. 

The album would go on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Eagles are set to return to the Sphere in Las Vegas on September 18 and also have shows booked at the venue in November. A complete list of dates can be found at Eagles.com.

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Céline Dion hasn't sung one note of her Paris residency yet, but she's already making plans to continue it into 2027.

She's expanding her planned residency by 10 dates, which will take place in May of 2027 at Paris La Défense Arena. The residency, which will mark her first full concerts since 2020, gets underway Sept. 12 and will run through Oct. 17 of this year. The new dates are May 8, 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, 22, 26, 28 and 29.

A select number of fans who registered for the original artist and venue presales but failed to get tickets the first time around will now get a dedicated sales window during which they'll have another chance to purchase tickets. They'll receive emails with instructions.

The artist presale for the new dates starts June 3 at 10 a.m. Central European Summer Time; the venue presale starts June 4 at the same time. Tickets and hotel packages will be available starting June 3 at the 10 a.m. CEST via eventtravel.com.

Céline's choice of Paris as the city for her return to the stage is fitting: Her first public performance after revealing her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis took place at the Eiffel Tower during the 2024 Olympics.

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The Police drummer Stewart Copeland is getting ready to launch Have I Said Too Much - The Police, Hollywood, and Other Adventures, a spoken word tour described as an evening of conversation with Copeland that will include photos and videos, along with a Q&A.

After debuting the show in the U.K. in 2025, this will be Copeland's first time bringing it to theaters across North America, and it’s something he’s looking forward to.

“The vibe of walking into those theaters and just telling stories and jokes, and getting the room laughing and everything is really a blast,” he tells ABC Audio, noting it’s much easier than a music tour that involves a sound check, road crew and more.

“I just breeze in at five o'clock, tell some fun stories and get a lot of laughs,” he says.

Copeland says he originally had a few concerns about the tour, explaining he “worried that it would be tough telling the same stories every night.”

“I know that it's not tough playing the same song every night,” he says. “And it turns out to also be true of telling fun stories.”

Of course, some of those stories are going to be about his days in The Police, and Stewart insists it will all be in good fun.

“It's all pretty light,” he says, adding of his former bandmates Sting and Andy Summers, “I posit the notion that we are so tight, the three blond heads, we are like brothers. We are so close that we can take the piss out each other with love and admiration.”

The tour kicks off Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with dates confirmed through Nov. 22 in Charlotte, North Carolina. A complete schedule can be found at StewartCopeland.net.

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Paul McCartney has submitted himself to the experience of Chicken Shop Date, and the results are now available to watch on YouTube.

In the YouTube series, host Amelia Dimoldenberg eats fried chicken and fries while Sir Paul munches on vegan chicken nuggets and answers a variety of quirky questions. 

McCartney was asked to recall the time he set a condom on fire in Hamburg, Germany, whether he'd ever get a tattoo, and how often he thinks Amelia should go to the dentist.  She then hit him with perhaps the most outlandish question of all.

"Who's your favorite Beatle?" Amelia asked.

After noting that there's "only one left" besides himself, McCartney replied, "Now, currently it's Ringo. During the Beatles, I think we all used to look up to John, 'cause he was like the leader, even though there wasn't an officially a leader of the group."

"He was very witty and he was great to have in the group," he continued. "I think all of us might've said John was our favorite Beatle."

McCartney also told a heartwarming story about his late wife, Linda McCartney. He said he once heard that Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis gave his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis a bracelet inscribed with "JILY," which stood for "Jackie I Love You." That inspired him to get Linda a bracelet that read "LILY," for "Linda I Love You."

"Oh, that's gorgeous. Wow, that's very thoughtful of you," Amelia responded.  "She's a lovely girl," McCartney responded.

Among the other topics the two discussed were whether Sir Paul has ever autographed someone's butt, the last time he did a headstand, how many guitars he owns, gardening tips and whether Amelia should start taking drugs.

"Depends," says McCartney. "We'll talk."

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Kansas, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett and Asia are among the artists performing on the 2027 Cruise to the Edge.

The prog-themed concert cruise sets sail from Miami on April 2 and will make stops in Cozumel and Costa Maya, Mexico, as well as Harvest Caye, Belize, before returning April 8.

"This isn't just a cruise," the Cruise to the Edge website reads. "It's a Progressive Rock odyssey across sunlit seas, where legendary artists, intimate venues, and stunning concert cruise destinations collide in a festival unlike any other."

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit CruisetotheEdge.com.

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Fifty years ago, America celebrated its 200th birthday — and a lot of great albums were released.

That's why Rhino Records has launched a Spirit of '76 vinyl reissue campaign, with independent record stores carrying new editions of 23 albums that first arrived in 1976. It gets underway July 17 with the release of Bad Company's Run with the Pack, Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy, the Faces' Snakes and Ladders/The Best of Faces and the Ramones' self-titled debut.

On July 24, releases include X, the Grammy-winning album by Chicago; the Grateful Dead's live album Steal Your Face; Linda Ronstadt's Hasten Down the Wind; The J. Geils Band's live album Blow Your Face Out; Todd Rundgren's Faithful; and Rod Stewart's A Night on the Town.

The campaign ends July 31 with Jethro Tull's M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull, the Ramones' Live at the Roxy, 1976, War's Greatest Hits and ZZ Top's World Wide Texas Tour.

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Gov't Mule has announced a U.S. tour with Ziggy Marley.

The joint outing runs from Sept. 23 in New York City to Oct. 17 in Irving, Texas. It's dubbed the Dreaming the Same Dream tour after the song "Dreaming the Same Dream," which Mule frontman Warren Haynes wrote with Marley.

"I'm really looking forward to the tour with Ziggy Marley," Haynes says in a statement. "We've known each other a long time and have shared the stage a few times but never done a tour together. There's definitely an overlap between the two audiences, but I think a lot of Mule fans will be hearing Ziggy for the first time and a lot of Ziggy fans will be hearing Mule for the first time, which is great."

"It's gonna be a great jam session being on tour with Warren and the crew," Marley adds. "I'm looking forward to the vibes."

Presales begin June 3 at noon ET, and tickets go on sale to the general public on June 5 at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Mule.net.

You can also catch Gov't Mule on tour throughout the summer, including dates with Joe Bonamassa.

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Remember when The Who did a farewell tour last year? Well, according to Roger Daltrey, that wasn't exactly the end.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Daltrey says that The Who still have to do "farewell tours" of England, Australia and the rest of the world, but it won't be until 2027. "It won’t fall into this year because Pete’s going to have another knee op, which puts him out of action for a long while," Daltrey says of his bandmate Pete Townshend. "And I’ve had a few things to deal with health-wise in the time off, but we’re hoping to finish it all off next year."

And, Daltrey says, The Who will still continue to play, if they "get invited to do a charity gig or something." He clarifies, "What I’m trying to say is we are not retired. [It's just that] we don’t want to do another tour of America."

However, Daltrey has a solo U.S. tour booked for later this year and plans to keep his own live shows going as long as he can. "Voices are voices: They don’t last forever, that’s a fact," he tells Rolling Stone. "Mine is incredibly powerful and still is. I’m very lucky to have it there, but equally it might go tomorrow, and if it does go tomorrow, I won’t be seeing you in August, it’s as simple as that."

"I’m 82 years old and still got good energy, still can deliver it well. But I can’t do any more than that. I can only do my best and whatever happens, happens. If it’s still like this when I’m 90, I’ll still be doing it."

When asked about The Who's legacy, Daltrey notes, "We were just different than everybody else." Mentioning The Who's notoriety for playing loud, he contends, "We were the first heavy metal band."

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Paul McCartney's new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane is out now. Many of the songs were inspired by his childhood and experiences with former Beatles bandmates John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, who joins him for a duet on the song "Home to Us." While Lennon and Harrison are gone, Paul said there's one thing that gives him some comfort about that loss.

Speaking to The Guardian, McCartney said of Lennon, "My collaborator was probably one of the best writers of the century, so, yeah, you’re going to miss him. ... But that’s life: you lose people.” He also recalled Beatles producer George Martin telling him about aging, "The terrible thing about it is all your mates start popping off.”

"Now I’m probably at that age, and I’m very conscious of that, having lost John and George – two big touchstones for anything we’re talking about [in this interview]," he continued. He adds "So, yeah, you do miss them. I start to get very sad, and I have to think, ‘Wow, wait a minute, everyone misses them.’ It’s not just me. So that makes me feel a bit better."

"I think, ‘Well, sod it, it’s life, and it’s what we’ve got.’”

Elsewhere in the interview, McCartney says that the sound of the Ringo duet — about their tough childhoods – was inspired by Oasis. After seeing the reunited band perform, he was impressed by how loud and massive they sounded.

"Forget about Spinal Tap’s 11, the amps are on 12," he told producer Andrew Watt, aiming to get a similar feel on the track.

Select record stores nationwide are holding The Boys of Dungeon Lane release parties all weekend, featuring exclusive merch giveaways, contests and limited-edition vinyl.

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On This Day, May 29, 1971 ...

The Rolling Stones hit #1 with "Brown Sugar," the opening track and lead single from their ninth studio album, Sticky Fingers.

The tune, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, spent two weeks at #1 in the U.S. and topped the chart in several other countries, including Canada and Switzerland. It failed to reach the top spot in the U.K., peaking at #2. 

Previously a staple at The Stones' live shows, in 2021 the band announced they’d be removing the song from their setlist, reportedly due to the tune’s controversial lyrics.

The Rolling Stones are set to drop their 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, on July 10. It is their first new album since 2023's Hackney Diamonds.

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Bret Michaels will no longer be playing the Freedom 250 Great American State Fair.

"When this opportunity was originally presented to my team, it was described as a celebration of our country through music and a chance to honor our veterans, active military, first responders, teachers and hardworking Americans from all walks of life," the Poison frontman writes in an Instagram post. "As the son of a veteran, and coming from a family that has proudly served, that is something I have always been honored to support."

Michaels says that he's "spent my entire career bringing people together through music, positivity and good vibes," and that his concerts have "never been about politics."

"Unfortunately, what was presented to us as a celebration of our country has evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of," Michaels writes. "Concerns have also been raised regarding the safety of my fans, band, crew, family and myself, including threats that are completely unfounded and unforgivable."

He continues, "Because of that, I have made the difficult decision to step away from this performance."

The Great American State Fair, which was announced Wednesday, is set to take place June 25 through July 10 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Several other announced artists have also dropped off the bill, including Morris Day and the Time, Martina McBride, The Commodores and Young MC.

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It’s been four years since Def Leppard released their last album of new material, Diamond Star Halos, but it sounds like fans won’t have to wait much longer for a new record. Frontman Joe Elliott tells ABC Audio the band has recorded several songs for a new album, with plans to have it out by the end of 2026/early 2027.

“We've got a game plan, but it is kind of loose and we like it that way,” he says. “It's not like we're being told by management and labels it has to be delivered on this day.”

The band's been touring constantly, but thanks to new technology, recording an album has been a lot easier than in the past. Elliott says the days of them all having to be in the studio together are over, which is something they learned during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

“That's the beauty of the technology is that you never get a period where, OK, here's the start of a recording of an album and it's going to run for three months,” he says. “It’s just an ongoing process.”

Def Leppard wrapped their Las Vegas residency in February and will launch a European tour on June 13 in Sweden, and it doesn’t sound like they’re ready to slow down. But Elliott says the end isn’t something completely out of their minds.

“Sometimes you do think that maybe this could be the last tour, but there's no reason for that,” he says. “I think because we like each other so much, and we like what we do, and like being on tour and playing the songs.”

He adds, “The little guy on your shoulder that keeps going, ‘You know what, it's going to come to an end at some point,’ it's not based in logic.” 

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Barry Manilow will be 83 in June, and he still looks pretty good, but he admits that he's had some help in that department — sort of.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times to promote his new album, What a Time, Barry says, "I look fantastic, but I'm a hundred years old, right? I don't know how that happened, by the way — I don't get Botox or anything."

When the interviewer asks him directly, "You've had no work done?" Barry responds, "No!" but then continues, "I must say: There was one time when we lived in LA that I did do a facelift. But after that it's just been a little here, a little there."

When the interviewer protests that that's not exactly having "no work done," Barry argues, "'Work' is like a facelift, and I only had one of those. The rest of it — I see something falling down, sure, I'll do that. I'm as vain as anybody else."

Elsewhere in the interview, Barry, who's had to postpone a number of concerts while he recovers from lung cancer surgery, says it's been "agony" being off the road.

"Make an album, go on the road, come back, make an album, go on the road — that's what my life's been for years," he says. "And I like it. Now I just have to get better and do what the doctors are telling me. It's the only way out."

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Heart's Ann Wilson is currently promoting her new documentary, In My Voice, by traveling to different cities with director Barbara Hall. On Wednesday night they hosted a screening at New York's City Winery, followed by a Q&A with fans.

In the documentary, Ann tells her story "in my own voice," hence the film's title. "It's about time people understood who I am," she says in the movie, which features contributions from some of her former Heart bandmates, KISS' Paul Stanley, Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell, pop star Chappell Roan, Paul Shaffer, Ann's husband, Dean Wetter, and her son, Dustin Wilson.

One person who's absent from the film, though, is Ann's sister and bandmate Nancy Wilson. "Nancy declined to participate in this film, and I'm OK with that," Ann says in the movie. "She's a full-fledged person, and so am I."

Using archival footage, home movies and new interviews, the movie follows Ann from her childhood to her stardom in Heart, her solo career, her experiences as a single mom, her role as a den mother to the Seattle grunge rockers of the '90s, her "miraculous" recovery from cancer and her life today, recording and touring with her band Tripsitter. As she notes in the movie, "Being successful means that I love what I do."

During the Q&A, Ann shared her favorite Heart song to perform — "Mistral Wind" — and her least, "All I Want to Do Is Make Love to You," which she says "kinda grosses me out." She confirmed that the script for a Heart biopic is being written and that she'd love for Florence Pugh to play her.

Asked to name the greatest sacrifice she's made for her art, Ann said, "Everything."

There's no word yet on when the movie will be widely available.

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