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  • Click to listen to Susan Boyle's cover of Depeche Mode's 'Enjoy the Silence'

    They're two of the most enduring lines in modern rock: "Words are very unnecessary/ They can only do harm." Susan Boyle, the singing sensation who came out of nowhere to earn international acclaim on Britain's Got Talent, takes a leap of faith with an ethereal cover of Depeche Mode's 'Enjoy the Silence,' from her forthcoming third album Someone to Watch Over Me.

    "The melody of the song is just beautiful," Boyle tells Rolling Stone, "but really that lyric sounds like it will touch so many people in the way it touched me." Doubtless: the way her voice leaps on the word harm is impressive in its vulnerability. 'Someone to Watch Over Me' will be out November 1st, but you can hear our exclusive premiere of 'Enjoy the Silence' above.

     

    Photo courtesy of Columbia

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  • Roger Waters is making plans to bring his highly successful Wall tour
    back to America in 2012. The show will hit venues he missed the first
    time around - as well as baseball stadiums in  a few big cities. "There
    are quite a few markets we didn't cover last time, like Austin," he says
    in an interview for the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands and available through Rolling Stone
    All Access on September 30th. "But we want to base the tour around
    Saturday nights in baseball stadiums. As we speak, I'm at my office
    working on an outdoor version of the show."

    Pink Floyd played live versions of The Wall in 1980 and
    1981, and Waters spent the last year reviving it - but it's always been
    an indoor show. "We're going to be projecting over 140 yards," he says.
    "So now it's going to be 1,500 pixels wide. We've done light tests and
    Fenway Park and Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium just to see what the
    ambient light is like. And it's fine. It works. We've taken part of the
    Wall and the

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  • In the next few months, Sting
    will celebrate his 25th anniversary as a solo artist (and his 60th
    birthday) with a new box set and theater tour. The biggest party,
    though, will be the October 1st benefit
    he's throwing for the Robin Hood Foundation in New York, where he'll be
    joined by Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Billy Joel and many more. For
    Sting, the show is both a celebration and chance to give back. Rolling Stone spoke
    with him backstage at the iHeartRadio festival last weekend about fame,
    looking back, current music and the relationships in his life as he
    turns 60.

    You just released the box set, which meant a fair amount of revisiting your past.
    I
    was kind of forced to look back, and I was kind of pleasantly surprised
    by what I heard. I thought the younger me made some reasonable musical
    decisions, there's a reasonable level of musical sophistication and
    harmonic knowledge displayed.

    Were there any tracks in particular that stood out to you?
    What
    we did was we remixed a lot

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  • Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight Jr. will be the subject of a new documentary to be produced by and broadcast on Showtime. The movie, tentatively titled simply Suge Knight, will be directed by Training Day filmmaker
    Antoine Fuqua and feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chuck
    Phillips as a co-producer. The documentary will tell Knight's story from
    his youth in Compton, California to his role in the East Coast/West
    Coast rap wars of the Nineties and beyond.

    Photos: Random Notes
    According
    to Showtime, this documentary about Knight will be the first in a
    series of films made for the premium network by prestigious talent about
    "iconic and controversial figures." Knight has given his approval to
    the project and his new music company, Black Kapital, will provide the
    movie's soundtrack.

     

    Photo by Isaac Brekken/WireImage

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  • In Capitol Records' giant Studio A in Los Angeles this summer, the surviving Beach Boys - Brian Wilson,
    Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston - gathered around a microphone
    and, for the first time in two dec­ades, harmonized on a track. The
    song was, appropriately enough, a rerecording of their stomping 1968 hit
    "Do It Again." "Even the veteran sound engineers were moved," says
    Jardine. "Not all of us are left, but there are still enough of us for
    that vibration to come through."

    "The song title has pretty firm implications, doesn't it?" says Love.
    "Brian asked me, 'How does a 70-year-old sound that good?' "

    After resolving decades of bitter legal battles, the band is
    reuniting to celebrate its 50th anniversary in a major way, with
    archival releases on the way, including the upcoming Smile Sessions
    (out November 1st). And the "Do It Again" session was filmed as a
    promotional video for a likely world tour next year. "We'll do maybe 50
    amphitheaters here and 50 or 60 overseas,"

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  • The Cure have announced plans to perform their first three albums - 1979's Three Imaginary Boys, 1980's Seventeen Seconds and 1981's Faith
    - in their entirety at a series of concerts in London, Los Angeles and
    New York City. The band previously played these albums in full at their
    "Reflections" show at the Vivid Festival in Sydney earlier this year.
    According to the band's website, these seven concerts will be the last times the records will be performed live.

    Photos: Random Notes
    The
    dates for the Cure's shows, which are perfectly timed to celebrate the
    band's nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, are as follows:

    11/15 London, England - Royal Albert Hall
    11/21 Los Angeles - Pantages Theatre
    11/22 Los Angeles - Pantages Theatre
    11/23 Los Angeles - Pantages Theatre
    11/25 New York City - Beacon Theatre
    11/26 New York City - Beacon Theatre
    11/27 New York City - Beacon Theatre

     

    Photo by John Shearer/WireImage

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