Rock legend Meat Loaf has vowed never to play at another "stupid" English music festival, because the crowds are too rowdy.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - If the Summer of Love established San Francisco as the hub of hippiedom, the summer of 2007 may be remembered as a time the country commemorated 1960s counterculture by taking the ''counter'' out of it.

Rocker Grace Slick is suing former bandmate Paul Kanter, alleging he's touring under the name Jefferson Starship without her permission. Slick and the group's former manager Bill Thompson insist Kantner is violating trademark rights and a 1985 legal settlement he signed by performing as Jefferson Starship.

U2 have been named and shamed as the creators of the most disastrous stage shows of all time. The Irish rockers came top of a survey by magazine Blender for the set on their 1997 Popmart world tour.

A quarter century after the premiere of MTV at 12:01 a.m., on August 1, 1981, the cataclysmic changes brought about by the first decade of the video revolution are continuing to be seen and heard in the music of today's twenty-somethings' artists. Celebrating Bangles, Loverboy, Eddie Money, and Scandal (all on Columbia/ Legacy), Bow Wow Wow and Rick Springfield (on RCA/Legacy), and A Flock Of Seagulls (on Jive/Legacy), the first seven We Are The '80s collections arrived in stores on July 18.

Journey continues its reign at the very top of the short list of second generation San Francisco rock bands whose music has truly stood the test of time. With over 43 million records sold in the U.S. alone, Journey’s rich archive of CDs and DVDs is one of the cornerstones of the Columbia Records and Columbia/Legacy catalog. For the first time in ten years, a major block of the Journey album catalog has been newly repackaged.