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50 Cent will never retire from music
Rapper 50 Cent insists he has no intention of quitting the music industry but admits he will have to change if he wants to continue to be one of the world's biggest...


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Pete Doherty praises British penal system
Troubled English singer Pete Doherty has branded the British prison system a success, insisting jailing criminals stops them...
Mentor sues Lady Gaga for $35 million
Producer Rob Fusari has filed a $35 million lawsuit against singer Lady Gaga alleging that she dumped him as soon as she became a...
Peter Andre to get rid of Katie Price tattoo
Singer Peter Andre is in the process of completely switching off ex-wife Katie Price with the removal of her name tattooed on his wedding-ring...
President nominates Mani Shankar Aiyar, four others to Rajya Sabha
President Pratibha Patil on Friday nominated former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, well-known lyricist Javed Akhtar, Shimla based Indian Institute of Advance Studies director Bhalchandra Mungekar, Kannada theatre personality B Jayashree and scholar and music exponent Ram Dayal Munda to the Rajya...
Ex-producer and beau sues Lady Gaga for $30M
An ex-boyfriend and mentor of singer Lady Gaga has in a 30-million-dollar lawsuit claimed that he was cut off from a deal that made him 20 percent owner of her...
Lady Gaga's racy Oz show has parents asking for concert classification
Lady Gaga's Australian tour has left many parents chaperoning their kids to ask why the concert did not carry a classification to warn them of the racy routines the singer put...
Lara Bingle fails to impress TV bosses at screen test
Lara Bingle has screen tested for a job as an entertainment reporter with Bigpond...
Lady Gaga Sued By Music Producer
Lady Gaga has been accused by a songwriter and music producer of squeezing him out of her lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her songs, came up with her stage name and helped her get a record...
Lady Gaga Fires Back In Ny Court At Music Producer
(AP) — NEW YORK - Lady Gaga is firing back at a music producer who claims he launched her career and is suing her for $30.5 million. Her lawyer said in a court filing made public Friday the ...
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Taio Cruz may not be a household name yet in the United States, but that should change soon. The British pop/R&B singer recently broke a Billboard record when his single "Break Your Heart" (featuring...
Rosie O'donnell Plots Daytime Return
Rosie O'Donnell is plotting a return to daytime. O'Donnell, who hosted the syndicated "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and did a stint on ABC's "The View," has teamed with syndication veterans Dick...
Obama Drums Up Health Care Votes, Says History Near
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama girded for a crucial weekend vote on his sweeping health care overhaul plan, with Democrats poised to make history after a century of struggling for...
Artists Get Their Geek On To Celebrate Yuri's Night
On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin embarked on the first manned voyage into outer space. The geek equivalent of St. Patrick’s Day takes place next month in more than 70 locations...
Music Biz Insiders Say Sony-jackson Deal Makes Sense
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The magnitude of Sony Music Entertainment's landmark recording contract with the estate of Michael Jackson raises an inevitable question: Is it a smart deal for the label? ...
Taio Cruz Talks Collaborating With Ludacris, Ke$ha
Taio Cruz may not be a household name yet in the United States, but that should change soon. The British pop/R&B singer recently broke a Billboard record when his single "Break Your Heart" (featuring...
Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Les Arts Florissants At Bam Opera Festival
opera productions, especially those of small-scale chamber works, have tried to break down barriers between performers and audiences. At the production of Charpentier’s French Baroque pastorale...
Music Review | New York City Opera: At The David H. Koch Theater, Opera With A Madcap Plot
“L’Étoile,” the comic opera featuring Julie Boulianne, center, is a production of New York City Opera at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln...
Music Review | Joanna Newsom: At Town Hall, Singing In Tongues, Some Of Them Strung
Joanna Newsom . The reasons are online: one of every five people with positive thoughts about her, it seems, has recorded them digitally. That she’s original, expressive, fearless, beautiful,...
Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, But Without Fanfare
Jazz vibraphonists are often firecrackers, crisp and kinetic even when in an introspective mood. Chris Dingman had some moments like that at the Jazz Gallery in the South Village on Thursday night....
Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism And Egyptian Mythology
New York Philharmonic performed at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday evening, you might think that the only link among the three works was between Berg’s Violin Concerto and Schoenberg’s...
'man Made $6.5m Posing As Music Producer'
The 44-year-old Turramurra man allegedly defrauded several people out of the money by falsifying documents to convince them he was a music producer.Following investigations, police raided the man's...
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AUSTIN, Texas — It is 3:30 p.m. CT, and Patrick Stump is sitting cross-legged on the balcony of his hotel, looking out on the Austin skyline with a smile on his face. He is wearing a gray...
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The long journey toward casting the title role in "The First Avenger: Captain America" might finally be at an end, as sources indicate...
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Twilighters, are you excited yet? Mere hours remain until you can get your hands on your very own "New Moon" DVD. While we already warned you...
Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning Discuss Runaways' Influence At Sxsw
accomplishes anything, hopefully it will raise awareness of the hugely influential all-girl group, who burned brightly, then faded away in the late '70s. "They existed only for a short period of...
Childhood Memories Inspire New Songs For Frampton
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Since he started his career in the '60s, Peter Frampton has maintained his reputation as an electrifying guitarist and solo artist, most famously on 1976's multiplatinum live...
Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning Discuss The Runaways' Influence At Sxsw
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning's "The Runaways" accomplishes anything, hopefully it will raise awareness of the hugely influential all-girl...
'new Moon' Release Party Details: Where Will 'twilight' Stars Be?
Twilighters, are you excited yet? Mere hours remain until you can get your hands on your very own "New Moon" DVD. While we already warned you...
Chris Evans Reportedly Offered 'captain America' Lead
The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel Studios has put out an offer to Evans for the role of Steve Rogers, the scrawny soldier who ingests a secret serum to become the star-spangled superhero. If Evans...
Patrick Stump Talks First Solo Performance At South By Southwest
AUSTIN, Texas — It is 3:30 p.m. CT, and Patrick Stump is sitting cross-legged on the balcony of his hotel, looking out on the Austin skyline with a smile on his face. He is wearing a gray...
'hear My Music Speak'
The 32-year-old, dubbed "Mr Romance", was on his fourth visit to Malaysia since 2005. This time, he was promoting his self-titled third album, Patrizio. The album, which followed hot on the heels of...
My Secret Life: Jason Donovan, Actor & Singer, 41
My parents were ... divorced. Divorce is always going to leave its problems and its scars, but I had love. I was brought up by my dad; it was a happy childhood. The house I grew up in ......
Tik Tok: Ke$ha's Time In The Spotlight May Already Be Running Out
Ke$ha swigs on beer'n'Jack Daniels, parties till the police come and generally channels the spirit of P Diddy. It's the sound of an endless party in an autotuned package. The Valley...
One Last Thing … Sophie Dahl
when we interviewed Jamie last year he definitely said we could come to your wedding (2). What happened to our invite? Um, it must have got lost in the...
Great Dynasties Of The World: The Mozarts
n 1756, Leopold Mozart, a violin teacher from Salzburg, and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl, had a son, their seventh child, whom they named Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus. The Mozarts lived...