Even before AC/DC's U.S. tour begins, it's being extended.

Tickets for the first 18 dates sold out in minutes. so additional shows have been added to those already scheduled in Chicago, Los Angeles and Oakland.

The North American leg of the band's first world tour since 2000 is set to begin October 28 and run through December 18.

AC/DC Black Ice North American tour schedule:
October 28 - Wilkes-Barre, PA
October 30 - Chicago
November 1 - Chicago
November 3 - Indianapolis
November 5 - Detroit
November 7 - Toronto
November 9 - Boston
November 12 - New York City
November 13 - New York City
November 15 - Washington, D.C.
November 17 - Philadelphia
November 19 - East Rutherford, NJ
November 21 - Columbus, OH
November 23 - Minneapolis
November 25 - Denver
November 28 - Vancouver
November 29 - Seattle
November 30 - Tacoma, WA
December 2 - Oakland
December 4 - Oakland
December 6 - Los Angeles
December 8 - Los Angeles
December 10 - Phoenix
December 12 - San Antonio
December 14 - Houston
December 16 - Atlanta
December 18 - Charlotte

^{Photo courtesy Epic Records}

The rumors turned out to be true. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will fill the time between commercials during halftime at Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa on February 1. Organizers have apparently determined that football fans like to rock, too. Since 2005, halftime shows have been anchored by Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Prince, and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.

Boss & Billy Boost Barack
Springsteen and Billy Joel have never performed together, but on October 16, the two will take the stage together at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom. The occasion is a fundraiser for Obama, so it shouldn't be too much of a shock to learn that tickets will start at $500, with premium packages going for a cool $10,000.

^{Bruce Springsteen photo by Jim Dyson / Getty Images; Billy Joel photo by Rob Loud / Getty Images}

For a band that never really caught on the U.S., Uriah Heep is doing very well, thank you, after nearly 40 years of rock-making.

With 21 studio albums and 12 live albums in their discography, the band has maintained a huge fan base in Europe, where they still fill stadium and arena concert venues. Inexplicably, Heep haven't been able to get beyond cult band status in the States.

The band's fusion of hard rock, heavy metal and prog rock landed them on the list alongside bands like Yes, Genesis and Rush as pioneers of the progessive metal sub-genre.

Uriah Heep's latest album has found its way to the U.S. and Alun Williams has a review of Wake The Sleeper.

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Queen without Freddie Mercury? Oops! I think I hit a nerve there. In Lynette Sheffield's world, that's not her Queen.