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Rock stars the world over turned to Twitter over the New Year's holiday to celebrate the turning of the calendar and ponder the arrival of 2012. From Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Iron Maiden to Slash and beyond, check out some of the tweets your favorite musicians shared as they marked the New Year....

Thursday night (Dec. 29), Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry treated fans and himself to a two-hour long Q&A session through his personal Twitter page. The evening was filled with an array of questions -- some personal, some music related, and some were even about the band's frontman, Steven Tyler's recent fall that left him with a chipped tooth and a black eye! He...

In what is quickly becoming a new holiday tradition, rockers the world over took to Twitter on Christmas (Dec. 25) to share with their fans seasonal merriment and festive cheer. From Axl Rose and Tom Petty to Peter Frampton, Mick Jagger and beyond, there was no shortage of jolly holiday best wishes to go around...

Tom Petty brought his typical mix of sarcasm and earnestness when he turned up for a live Twitter chat with fans tonight (Dec. 15), answering a seemingly endless stream of queries with quick-witted replies. Overall the session was short on breaking news, long on boundless entertainment.

Tom Petty has scheduled a live chat with fans for Thursday (Dec. 15) at 5:30PM ET. All questions are fair game for the rocker, who can be found at @tompetty. The twit-chat is scheduled to last one hour.

Guns N' Roses have just passed 13 million fans on their Facebook page. It's a huge milestone, one that puts them inside the Top 100 of all Facebook pages in terms of followers. Currently the band is ranked an No. 99, just ahead of Queen.

Turkey day is a holiday for rock stars too you, you know. Many are spending the big day just as their fans are -- hanging out with family and friends, watching the Detroit Lions, carving up turkeys for the big feast and -- of course -- writing all about it on Twitter for the whole world to enjoy...

To commemorate Veteran's Day today (Nov. 11), some of the biggest names in rock and roll have taken to their twitter accounts to thank the brave men and women who have served or given their lives in duty to our country as part of America's armed forces. Noted mi...

'Welcome to the Jungle,' indeed! Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash led the charge of animal activists from all over the world who took to Twitter to question the strategy chosen by Ohio police yesterday (Oct. 19) in handling the escape of a host of exotic animals from an animal preserve in Zanesville, Ohio.

As we reported yesterday, R.E.M. has surprisingly and suddenly broken up after an impressive and influential 31 year career. It seems many of today's most popular comedians were strongly affected or inspired by this announcement. Many of them have taken to twitter since then to crack jokes, talk seriously about the first time they saw the band, or in the case of the always prolific Patton Oswalt,