Take 5: Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and more

By Edna Gundersen, Brian Mansfield, Elysa Gardner and Steve Jones, USA TODAY

USA TODAY's music staff offers a weekend tip sheet of sound recommendations spanning the media landscape:

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  By Mark Maglio

  Musicians Daryl Hall and Dave Stewart perform together in a webcast, Live From Daryl's House, on Friday night.

By Mark Maglio

Musicians Daryl Hall and Dave Stewart perform together in a webcast, Live From Daryl's House, on Friday night.

BOOK

The Lost Beatles Photographs

Unpublished for 45 years, hundreds of evocative, intimate pictures of the Fab Four on stage and backstage finally come to light in this coffee-table book (It Books, $30) compiled by Larry Marion, in stores now. Taken from the collection of Bob Bonis, the band's U.S. tour manager from 1964-66, the photos find The Beatles in concert, at press events, tuning up and caught in unguarded moments. ? Edna Gundersen

webcast

Live From Daryl's House: Dave Stewart

Twenty-five years ago, Daryl Hall and Dave Stewart collaborated on Hall's Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine album, which included his biggest solo hit, Dreamtime. Hall and the Eurythmics co-founder reprise that top five hit in the 41st installment of Live From Daryl's House, which debuts Friday at 8 p.m. ET (www.lfdh.com/). Also on the set list: a version of the Eurythmics' Here Comes the Rain Again with Hall playing piano and Stewart on acoustic guitar, as well as The Gypsy Girl and Me, a track from Stewart's June album, The Blackbird Diaries. ? Brian Mansfield

ALBUM

Def Leppard previews Mirrorball

Def Leppard has set a release date of June 7 for its first live album, Mirrorball. But fans don't have to wait till then to see the cover art or hear an anthemic new single, Undefeated. Both are accessible on the veteran rock band's official site, DefLeppard.com (due to relaunch in May, in a "new community-based" format). The album, to be sold at Walmart and Sam's Club? and online, where the group is making its music available digitally for the first time, officially ? includes live versions of hits such as Photograph, Hysteria and Pour Some Sugar On Me. It also features three new tracks, among them Undefeated, and a 50-minute DVD with performances and backstage footage. Def Leppard kicks off a 48-city tour on June 15 in West Palm Beach. ? Elysa Gardner

DVD

Jimi Hendrix? Band of Gypsys: Live at the Fillmore East

This DVD (Experience Hendrix/Legacy, $14) won a 1999 Grammy for best long-form music video when it was first released, and it has been spruced up with new material. An 83-minute documentary traces the impact of Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys on rock, R&B and funk through interviews with the guitarist and, for the first time, all four of his bandmates: drummers Mitch Mitchell and Buddy Miles and bassists Noel Redding and Billy Cox. The new edition premieres exclusive black-and-white video footage, as well as stereo and 5.1 surround-sound mixes of the group's historic Fillmore East performance on New Year's Day 1970. The footage includes Foxy Lady and rare live performances of Power of Soul, Stepping Stone and Who Knows.? Steve Jones

BOOK

This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx

"I always say, if it hurts, it means you're growing," the Motley Crue bassist writes on the back of a book (William Morrow, $29.99, www.nikkisixx.net/this_is_gonna_hurt/) that's part photography collection, part sequel to 2007's The Heroin Diaries. Sixx finds plenty of growing pains through his "cracked viewfinder": Some shots are candids; others come from staged sessions inspired by sideshows, bordellos or 19th-century medical equipment. His images of the "old, decrepit, deranged, and uniquely beautiful" are often disturbing, but they're always shot with empathy. As with The Heroin Diaries, Sixx's side band, Sixx A.M., will release an accompanying CD "soundtrack," which comes out May 10. Lies of the Beautiful People, the first single from that album, already is a top 10 hit on USA TODAY's active rock airplay chart. ? Brian Mansfield

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