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Idol is the latest rock star to sign on as a part of the Hellcat Saints – a one-night only band playing a Rhonda’s Kiss benefit concert in LA on 11/3.

The upcoming book “Petty: The Biography” (out on 11/10) reveals that the rocker was a heroin user in the 1990s, and much else about his life and career.

Gregg Allman plans to cut a new album in 2016. The locale: The famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studios. The producer: Don Was. Odds are good it’ll be a winner.