HEAVEN AND HELL, the band featuring RONNIE JAMES DIO (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar - BLACK SABBATH), Geezer Butler (bass - Black Sabbath) and Vinnie Appice (drums), will perform at Toronto's Air Canada Center on March 22nd. More details to follow.

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BW&BK reports that Eagle Rock Entertainment, through its wholly-owned Eagle Vision subsidiary, has been boldly challenging long-held assumptions in how people will watch their music on their televisions. Not content to continue to lead the field in the release of exciting new music DVDs such as the widely-hailed “Classic Albums” segments, the company will continue to pioneer new technology in its effort to take the listener on visual journeys never tread.

To kick off the new year with a bang, Eagle Vision will release two major music concerts in the HD DVD format. Previously released on both regular DVD format and Blu-Ray, ALICE COOPER: Live At Montreux 2005 and TOTO: 25th Anniversary Live in Amsterdam will now be available in the HD-DVD format.

In 2005, Alice Cooper brought his larger-than-life rock show to the acclaimed Montreux stage. The release features both newer material from his Dirty Diamonds release and classics such as 'School’s Out' and 'I’m 18'. What better way to enjoy the signature theatrics Cooper brings to the stage than to view it in the mind-blowing HD-DVD format?

Formed in Los Angeles in the late ‘70s, Toto went on the have many hits throughout its illustrious career. Singles such as 'Africa' and 'Hold The Line' topped the charts, while 'Rosanna' won Best Pop Vocal Performance, Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal, and Record Of The Year at the 1982 Grammy Awards. Twenty-five years later, the band celebrated its anniversary in Amsterdam, now brought to HD-DVD audiences in the highest visual quality.

Seeing the classic concerts in a new format will give a whole new generation of fans more reasons to love these artists.

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Rumors are circulating that Police will reunite in some form this year to mark their 30th anniversary, but drummer Stewart Copeland is skeptical about Sting's willingness to go along. In an interview published at the Uncut magazine website at uncut.co.uk, Copeland said, "I'm a film composer and I have to (be) very careful about what I do within that... (but) being the drummer in a rock band is just for fun and I can do that any which way. A Police reformation wouldn't compromise me at all, but for Sting, it would be a step backwards. He has another brand name -- which he's had for some time now, of course -- which is 'Sting,'and he's concerned with taking that forward. For Sting, a reformation would be a career move in the wrong direction, but for me it wouldn't be any career move at all. I guess (guitarist) Andy Summers is somewhere between those two points."

While he'd be happy to do a reunion, Copeland did reveal that he's past wondering about the band and the history. He said, "Editing the Super-8 footage for my DVD (Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out) really didn't make me feel nostalgic, although there were a few surprises there. What really struck me was how cheerful it all was... Sifting through the footage really punctuated the whole Police experience for me, and now I feel that the circle is complete. Before, I always felt like there was some kind of unfinished business but, having made the film, I'm completely cured of the Police."

Copeland added, "We were lucky to get our eight years and five albums out of Sting, because the Police was a great fit -- musically, all three of us excited each other -- but being a member of any band was not part of Sting's personal makeup... At first, that wasn't a problem, but it became more and more so as time went on and he stuck it out for eight long years. Sting made all those compromises that you have to make when you're a member of a band, rather than the band."

Stewart Copeland's brother Miles Copeland, who was also the manager for the Police and for Sting, told us that he can't imagine Sting saying yes: "Sting doesn't want to do it. He's done his thing, and for him it would be admitting his solo career wasn't as big as the Police and he had to go back to that. And he'd hate, he just hates to admit something like that."

There's been no official word that the group will reform, though there are strong rumors about live shows in the U.S. and U.K this year.

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