Your mild-mannered reporter has some interesting snippets from the wacky world of the rockarazzi.

Boston is going back on tour for the first time since the death of lead singer Brad Delp a year ago this week. Vocals will be handled by Michael Sweet (Stryper) and Tommy DeCarlo, a Boston fan who was recruited after posting some of his covers of Boston songs on MySpace.

Yes will be celebrating their 40th anniversary with a North American tour this summer. The lineup will include original members Jon Anderson and Chris Squire, longtime Yes men Alan White and Steve Howe, and Oliver Wakeman, son of former Yes keyboadist Rick Wakeman. They will play 26 dates during July and August.

John Lennon's last TV interview was on The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder in 1975. A new two-DVD set also includes interviews with Paul and Linda McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Tomorrow's Lennon tribute show in 1980. The set (watch the trailer) will be released on April 1^st. No fooling.

Queen + Paul Rodgers will be touring Europe + Russia (and probably South America, too) this fall in support of Queen's first new studio album since 1995. The album, already recorded but as yet untitled, is to be released in September, just prior to the start of the tour.

Neil Young is the headliner for a new summer festival that advertises itself to be a "back to basics" event. A Day at the Hop Farm (how veddy British) in Tonbridge, Kent in the UK promises no registration requirements, no VIP area and no brand name sponsorship of the event.

And those, rocksters and rockettes, are this week's rocktoids of note.