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Christine McVie reunited with Fleetwood Mac at London’s O2 on Wednesday night for the first of two appearances with her former bandmates. She left the band in 1998 and has largely kept out of the limelight since.

McVie took to the stage to perform the classic hit “Don’t Stop” from the band’s 1977 album “Rumours”. The performance was captured by a fan and uploaded to YouTube.

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John Fogerty performed a series of Creedence Clearwater Revival classics during a surprise collaboration with Mumford & Sons at their Gentlemen of the Road Stopover in St. Augustine, Florida on Saturday night. The band Fun. had been scheduled to play, but singer Nate Ruess was unwell so Mumford & Sons contacted Fogerty to ask him to step in. He was on a plane from LA within hours and began rehearsing with the band on Saturday morning.

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The South American leg of Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball tour has featured some surprise covers of songs by South American artists who have inspired him.

“Manifiesto” – Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen opened the South American leg of his Wrecking Ball tour on September 12 with a gig in Santiago, Chile, during which he performed Victor Jara’s “Manifiesto”. Springsteen also paid tribute to Jara in Spanish, noting that the musician remains a great inspiration. Jara was a poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist who was murdered in 1973 after the socialist Chilean Government was overthrown by a military coup.

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An expanded and remastered version of Eric Clapton’s multi-Grammy winning “Unplugged” album will be released next month. The 2-CD/DVD collection features the original album with six unreleased outtakes, a newly restored version of the concert on DVD, as well as more than an hour of previously unseen footage from the rehearsal.

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“The Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun – Hyde Park Live” will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in November. The film features the band’s triumphant return to London’s Hyde Park earlier this year, including a two-hour live concert, as well as backstage footage.

The Rolling Stones attracted over 100,000 fans to Hyde Park for two concerts in July, and they proved that they are still an excellent live band with great renditions of classic hits such as “Start Me Up,” “Brown Sugar,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Miss You,” “It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll,” and many more.

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