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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 Your Thursday music brief from Pretoria Fields Radio: a Queen classic hits the half-century mark, Rush stretches its Las Vegas stay, Randy Travis opens the vault, and Blackberry Smoke gets ready to come home.<\/strong><\/p>\n Good morning, south Georgia. Pour yourself something warm and pull up a chair, because November 12 has a way of turning up in the rock and roll history books. Fifty years ago today, in 1976, Queen released "Somebody to Love," the first single from A Day at the Races. Freddie Mercury wrote it, and Brian May has said the song was influenced by the music of Aretha Franklin. Half a century on, it still sounds like a choir in full flight.<\/p>\n It's also a birthday. Neil Young was born on this date in 1945, which makes him 81 today. So is Booker T. Jones, born November 12, 1944. And one more for the calendar: on this date in 1970, The Doors played their final concert with Jim Morrison, in New Orleans.<\/p>\n On to this week's headlines. Jimmy Page tells Classic Rock he doesn't want to tour again. The Led Zeppelin guitarist hasn't been on the road in a quarter of a century and says that isn't likely to change soon, though he's still playing guitar. Rush, meanwhile, is headed the other way: the band has added five more dates to its Las Vegas Sphere residency, citing incredible demand. And Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have announced a rare reunion for a VetsAid charity show in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n Tomorrow is new music Friday, and there's a good one for the country and Americana crowd. Randy Travis is due to release Same Old Way, an archive album of songs he recorded between 1986 and 2013 that never came out. His longtime producer Kyle Lehning pulled them from the vault, remixed and remastered them, and the result is 12 more original songs for the catalog. Also on tomorrow's release list: Pat Green's Live from the Center of the Known Universe: Luckenbach Texas, and Jake Bugg's Alamo.<\/p>\n In radio news, Garth Brooks is getting into the station business. Radio Online reports that his company, The Sevens Network, has agreed to buy WRLT-FM 100.1 in the Nashville market from Tuned-In Broadcasting for $3 million, pending FCC approval. The plan is a country station called FM-100. The station's current adult alternative format, known as Lightning 100, is set to move to an FM translator at 106.3 once the sale closes. Also this week, SiriusXM named Anjali Sud its next CEO, effective January 1, and new Edison Research findings say AM\/FM radio still performs best in the car. We could have told them that.<\/p>\n And one close to home: Georgia's own Blackberry Smoke bring their annual Brothers and Sisters Holiday Homecoming benefit to the Tabernacle in Atlanta on November 27, with Jason & the Scorchers along for the night. The show raises money for pediatric cancer research and family support programs. That's a fine reason for a drive up I-75.<\/p>\n That's the brief. Keep it right here on Pretoria Fields Radio, and we'll keep the good stuff coming.<\/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