Glenn Hughes smiling onstage in tinted glasses and a leather jacket

Glenn Hughes. Photo: Anne-Marie Forker/Redferns, via American Songwriter

American Songwriter / Chris Piner / Oct. 15, 2026

Glenn Hughes is home after a 10-hour open-heart surgery

Glenn Hughes kept performing through the summer, but he had to announce his retirement from touring and live shows when doctors told him he needed another open-heart surgery. "The results from numerous MRIs, CT scans, and an echocardiogram have alerted my medical team, that I need another open-heart surgery," he said at the time.

"I really have no option and no choice as health is my number one priority," he told fans, thanking them for walking beside him.

Now there's good news. The operation took a staggering ten hours, and Hughes is back home.

Now home after an eight day stay, and a 10 hour open heart surgery, operation, at UCLA, Ronald Reagan, Medical Center. Gratitude beyond.Glenn Hughes

He may be off the road, but there could still be a song or two to come. Over five decades he has released more than a dozen studio albums, on top of his time with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.

Surgery
10 hours, at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center
Hospital stay
Eight days
Career
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer; Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and more than a dozen studio albums
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Narnia: The Magician's Nephew official trailer

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, official trailer, featuring "Stairway to Heaven." Video: KinoCheck, via MusicRadar

Jimmy Page playing a red double-neck guitar onstage with Led Zeppelin

Jimmy Page. Photo: Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images, via MusicRadar

MusicRadar / Beth Simpson / Oct. 14, 2026

Led Zeppelin finally let "Stairway to Heaven" into a film

Led Zeppelin have always refused to license "Stairway to Heaven" to the movies. Cameron Crowe had to cut a scene built around it from 2000's Almost Famous, and the policy got so famous that Wayne's World joked about it with a "NO Stairway To Heaven" sign in a guitar shop.

Some 55 years after its release, they've loosened their grip. Page and Plant let Greta Gerwig use a section in the trailer for her C.S. Lewis adaptation Narnia: The Magician's Nephew. The three-minute trailer features Jimmy Page's famous guitar intro, the bridge and Robert Plant's outro line.

Why this film? Plant is a devotee of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, and has referenced both in his lyrics. Gerwig told Rolling Stone that Page and Plant "saw the heart and the story and the drama in it."

It's an epic song. It's about the two paths of good and evil … It is a spiritual quest and a spiritual journey.Greta Gerwig, to Rolling Stone
The film
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, directed by Greta Gerwig
In theaters
Feb. 12, 2027
Zep on film
The Song Remains the Same (1976); "Immigrant Song" in School of Rock and Thor: Ragnarok; "That's the Way" in Almost Famous
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Inside a breaking wave, from Crystal Voyager

Pink Floyd, "Echoes" (from Crystal Voyager), newly restored. Video: Pink Floyd, via Louder

Pink Floyd's four members sitting on a bench, in black and white

Pink Floyd. Photo: ©Hipgnosis/Pink Floyd Music Ltd., via Louder

Louder / Jerry Ewing / Oct. 15, 2026

Pink Floyd's "Echoes" rides the wave again in restored Hi-Res footage

Pink Floyd have shared newly restored, high-resolution footage of George Greenough's short film for "Echoes," from the 1973 Australian surf documentary Crystal Voyager, directed by David Elfick.

The film let audiences see inside a wave for the first time. Hunting for a soundtrack, Greenough, who wrote and narrated it, stumbled on a record his mother had bought him. The closing track, "Echoes," matched his footage's 23-minute running time.

Greenough couldn't afford to pay for the song, so they struck a deal: he and Elfick could use "Echoes" if Floyd could use the footage as visuals at their live shows.

We watched it for the first time when we were on tour in Australia and we were all blown away by it. It was absolutely sensational.Nick Mason

Mason also called Meddle "one of the freest albums of all in terms of how we played it," made without a producer as such.

The film
Crystal Voyager (1973), directed by David Elfick
The album
Meddle (1971)
New vinyl
San Tropez Orange Marble edition for National Album Day, Oct. 17, via Sony Music
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