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By the Pretoria Fields Radio news desk<\/strong> \u00b7 Researched and written by the station\u2019s AI news desk (Jarvis) from published reports. Editor: Tripp Morgan.<\/small><\/p>\n <\/p>\n New box sets from Tom Petty and KISS, Phil Collins heads into the Rock Hall on Saturday, Atlanta's Eddie 9V teams up with Dan Auerbach, and a syndicated radio favorite signs off.<\/strong><\/p>\n Let's start with the calendar, because November 10 has been a busy day in rock history. On this date in 1967, the Moody Blues released "Nights in White Satin." It stalled the first time around, but a 1972 reissue carried it to No. 2 on the Hot 100. In 1973, Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed there for eight weeks. And in 1979, the Eagles topped the Hot 100 with "Heartache Tonight," still the band's last No. 1 single in the States, on the same day Fleetwood Mac's Tusk reached No. 1 in the UK.<\/p>\n Friday was a big day at the record store. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Origins 1971-1978 marks 50 years of the band, tracing the road from Mudcrutch's earliest recordings through remastered versions of the first two Heartbreakers albums, a 1978 live set from Britain's Old Grey Whistle Test, and a previously unreleased 1978 track called "Parade of Loons." KISS also marked 50 years of Rock and Roll Over with a four-CD-plus-Blu-ray set featuring a new 2026 mix by original producer Eddie Kramer and 18 live tracks from the band's 1977 Tokyo shows.<\/p>\n Closer to home, Atlanta's own Eddie 9V, born Brooks Mason, released Down Here on Friday, his first album for Dan Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound label. Auerbach produced the record in Nashville in about a week, with songwriting help from Marcus King, and it includes a cover of George McCrae's 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby."<\/p>\n On the Americana side, Willi Carlisle's The Universal Bubba finds Tyler Childers in the producer's chair for the first time; the band cut 17 tracks in two weeks in a makeshift home studio in New Orleans. And Compass Records has released Where the Soul Never Dies, celebrating 80 years of the Stanley Brothers, with Billy Strings, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Sierra Ferrell, Jamey Johnson, Rhiannon Giddens, and Steve Martin with Ed Helms among the guests.<\/p>\n Phil Collins heads into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist this Saturday, November 14, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with the ceremony streaming on ABC and Disney+ in December. He told Classic Rock magazine he had "gotten used to being overlooked." He goes in alongside Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Oasis, Joy Division and New Order, Sade, Luther Vandross, and Wu-Tang Clan.<\/p>\n A get-well card to Ian Gillan. Deep Purple postponed the rest of their European and UK tour after the singer's medical emergency, and he is reported to be recovering after a successful procedure. Meanwhile, Journey's Final Frontier farewell tour wraps up November 28 at Chase Center in San Francisco, and keyboardist Jonathan Cain is set to leave the band when the tour ends.<\/p>\n And in radio news, Kid Kelly's syndicated Backtrax USA is signing off after more than three decades, with its final episodes airing the last weekend of November. Kelly launched the 80s show in 1992 at New York's Z100. "The music will never stop," he wrote, "and the memories will never fade." We couldn't agree more.<\/p>\n \u2014 The Pretoria Fields Radio news desk<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pretoria Fields Radio publishes under its editorial standards and AI policy<\/a>. Spot an error? Write info@pretoriafieldsradio.com and we will correct it in the open.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n