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 AP - NEW YORK (AP) A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world each a chatty bunch buzzing with questions about the two "friends."
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 AP - Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.
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 E! Online - It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that Bruce Springsteen fans are in mourning.
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 AP - Brad Paisley says he got to mark a biggie off his wish list when Andy Griffith agreed to be in the video for his new single, "Waitin' On a Woman."
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 AP - Jason Priestley says he got a crash course on the Nashville music industry while directing a reality series about the Canadian band the Road Hammers.
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 E! Online - Ian Curtis wasn't around long but he left quite an impression.
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 AP - Donna Summer says she approached her summer tour like a chocolate-chip cookie.
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 Reuters - An opera-loving dentist is ready to swap
his drill for a microphone after winning a four-album recording
contract worth about $2 million.
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 AP - Ask his fellow musicians about Alejandro Escovedo, and you'll hear nothing but praise. Yet he's never been a household name, and even among rock fans, his work, though influential, is not widely known: He's been more of an aficionado's musician.
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 Reuters - It's not easy living with having been
the muse and lover of any great artist, let alone someone with
demigod status like Bob Dylan.
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| Reuters - Fellow musicians have paid tribute to
Mel Galley, former guitarist in British hard rock band
Whitesnake who died of cancer this week aged 60. |
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 Reuters - New EU competition rules on the
collection of royalties have hit a wrong note with top
songwriters such as Bee Gee Robin Gibb, who have threatened to
pull their songs off the airwaves if they go ahead.
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| Yahoo! Music - Rock festival season is underway, with Coachella and Bonnaroo already over, the Warped and Ozzfest tours traveling from coast to coast, and Chicago's Lollapalooza and New Jersey's All Points West events around the corner in early August. |
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 Reuters - Kylie Minogue, the former soap actress
who become one of the world's most famous female recording
artists, was honored for her services to music on Thursday.
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 E! Online - Jennifer Aniston has resorted to taking the bus these days, and it has nothing to do with the summer's sky-high gas prices.
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 Reuters - Singer/songwriter Natasha Shneider,
who collaborated with former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell
and rock band Queens of the Stone Age, died Tuesday of cancer.
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 E! Online - If Boy George had to call off his American summer concerts due to visa restrictions, how did paps snap him strolling in Beverly Hills yesterday with a young boy-toy?
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 E! Online - Mel Galley, the former guitarist and backing vocalist for White Snake in its early-'80s incarnation, has died at the age of 60, the band confirmed on its website.
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 Reuters - Texas rock trio ZZ Top has signed to
producer Rick Rubin's American Recordings imprint, hoping for a
commercial and critical revitalization along the lines of prior
Rubin clients Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond.
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 E! Online - Lindsay Lohan's private life has gone through some rather public growing pains over the past few years. And now, newly 22 years of age, the only growing she wants to do in public is of the professional variety.
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