Exactly 30 Years After STP’s Core, Robert DeLeo’s Debut Solo Single And Scott Weiland’s Unheard John Lennon Cover Are Released

On Thursday, Stone Temple Pilots’ seminal debut album Core turned 30. On Thursday night, Scott Weiland’s previously unreleased cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” also dropped — it’ll appear on the Deluxe edition of Weiland’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, out November 4. As a press release notes, the 2011 10-song collection will be expanded with four unreleased recordings for its vinyl debut — it’ll be the first posthumous music to be released from the Weiland vault. (The Stone Temple Pilots singer died in 2015 at 48.)