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LOS ANGELES—A lawyer for the parent company of AEG Live LLC called Michael Jackson a freak on the day the singer signed a multimillion contract for a series of ill-fated comeback concerts, emails displayed for a jury on Wednesday showed.
Full Story IOWA CITY, Iowa—A former Playboy bunny who claims Sammy Hagar fathered her now-deceased child is appealing a ruling that dismissed her lawsuit against the former Van Halen frontman.
Full Story WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is showing singer-songwriter Carole King that she has friends at the White House.
Full Story NEW YORK—Candice Glover spent more time on season 12 of "American Idol" than she will on creating her debut album.
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LONDON—Shakespeare, the Magna Carta—and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics. The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Beatles' classics "Strawberry Fields Forever", "She Said She Said" and "In My Life.
Full Story  | | FILE - This July 25, 2012 file photo shows Aretha Franklin performing at the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. Franklin is taking off the month of June. A spokesman for the 71-year-old singer says Franklin will reschedule two shows and resume h |
LOS ANGELES—Aretha Franklin is taking off the month of June. A spokesman for the 71-year-old singer says Franklin will reschedule two shows and resume her touring schedule in July.
Full Story NEW YORK—There was a time when most of the songs played on the radio came from Broadway. Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding it still feels like home.
Full Story BEIJING—Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers—and even sits on the toilet—in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power.
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BERLIN—Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favor with the Nazis.
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BEIJING—Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers—and even sits on the toilet—in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power.
Full Story LOS ANGELES—Aretha Franklin is taking off the month of June. A spokesman for the 71-year-old singer says Franklin will reschedule two shows and resume her touring schedule in July.
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WASHINGTON—Carole King isn't done with music—not yet anyway. The 71-year-old singer-songwriter known for such hits as "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "You've Got A Friend" was awarded the nation's highest prize for popular music in a concert Tuesday.
Full Story LOS ANGELES—AEG Live LLC did not conduct any background checks or supervise the doctor who was later convicted of killing Michael Jackson, a corporate attorney testified Tuesday in a lawsuit claiming the concert promoter was negligent in hiring the physician.
Full Story DUNWOODY, Ga.—Police in suburban Atlanta say rapper Chief Keef, whose name is Keith Cozart, has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
Full Story  | | This May 6, 2013 photo shows composer Burt Bacharach posing for a portrait in promotion of his memoir, "Anyone Who Had A Heart: My Life and Music," in New York. (Photo by Scott Gries/Invision/AP) |
NEW YORK—Burt Bacharach knew writing a memoir would be emotional—not because of his never-heard backstage tales or his tumultuous marriages.
Full Story  | | FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2012, file photo Toby Keith performs at the 60th Annual BMI Country Awards on in Nashville, Tenn. Keith, whose hometown was hit by a massive tornado on Monday, said Tuesday, May 21, 2013, the people of Moore, Okla., are resil |
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Tornadoes are a part of life in Moore, Okla., something country star Toby Keith was reminded of when a deadly, devastating one leveled parts of his hometown on Monday.
Full Story Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died.
Full Story MIAMI—Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records, has died after a long illness.
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Laura Mvula, "Sing to the Moon" (Columbia Records) Infused with a range of influences, including African folk and modern pop, English-born singer Laura Mvula is distinctively different on her debut album, "Sing to the Moon.
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French Montana, "Excuse My French" (Bad Boy/Maybach Music/Interscope Records) On his debut album, "Excuse My French," French Montana lives up to the hype mostly generated by his mentors Diddy and Rick Ross, who executive-produced his project.
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