Saturday, November 19, 2005 - Posts
British pop star Robbie Williams says he's not planning to release his latest record, "Intensive Care," in the United States because he's more popular in Europe.
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The last time conductor David Robertson led the St. Louis Symphony in a performance of Claude Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," he had only 30 minutes of rehearsal to devote to it.
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Former ABBA member Benny Andersson has composed a ring tone for mobile phones that will be sent to people who donate money to the Swedish Red Cross' annual Christmas collection drive, the organization said Friday.
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Christina Aguilera has found out what a girl wants, and now she's marrying him.
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The song was only six years old, but might just as well have been 60.
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Emotionally, opera is "a direct whammy," "Law & Order" star Sam Waterston says as he prepares to co-host the first Opera News magazine awards.
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Stars appearing at Tuesday's American Music Awards will depart with a piece of the moon.
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Singer Courtney Love, who has been at a live-in drug treatment facility since September, can enroll in an outpatient program, a judge ruled.
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In a move that took the country
music industry by surprise, ABC Radio Networks will replace
longtime "American Country Countdown" host Bob Kingsley with
Kix Brooks of musical duo Brooks & Dunn at the beginning of
next year.
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Roll over, young lions -- the
early-'90s jazzers set on recycling bebop and championed by
Wynton Marsalis -- because the new generation is knocking on
the door.
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The bossa nova will be competing
with flowers and chocolate this Valentine's Day, when veteran
bandleader Sergio Mendes releases his first album in the United
States in 10 years.
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"Grateful Dead lyrics can contain
the world," editor/expositor David Dodd writes in his
introduction to the newly published "The Complete Annotated
Grateful Dead Lyrics." For the most part, this world was
created by longtime Dead
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Quincy Jones was getting on a plane
to Cambodia in five hours. In conjunction with UNICEF, he was
leading a coalition to bring attention to Southeast Asia's
desperate need for heath care.
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When Jefferson Airplane's
"Volunteers" peaked at No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969,
it was a call to arms. Penned by bandmates Marty Balin and Paul
Kantner, "Volunteers" captured the mood of America's anti-war
youth.
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When Shirlee Ellis Amos died in
2003, singer/songwriter Shawn Amos discovered a whole new side
to the woman he called mom. Working under the stage moniker
Shirl-ee May, Amos' mother was a club singer and Mercury
Records artist in New York during the
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Kenny Chesney and 50 Cent earn
bragging rights with this week's charts, yet their opening
totals make each man a poster child for what is shaping up to
be a fourth quarter of discontent.
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Courtney Love may no longer be America's Sweetheart, but one
California judge seems smitten by the rocker.
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It looks like Bruce Springsteen will have to content himself with
fame, wealth and the enduring admiration of the masses, because that
suitable-for-framing piece of paper from the U.S. Senate just isn't
happening.
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Rocker Courtney Love, who was
confined to a lock-down substance abuse center earlier this
year after violating her probation, can leave the facility for
an outpatient program, a Los Angeles judge ruled on Friday.
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Before he was Bob Dylan, before he was even a serious songwriter, a Minnesota college student named Robert Zimmerman was an aspiring poet musing about cigarettes, motorcycles and lost love.
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Radio City Music Hall was alive with the sound of live music on Friday, not the canned soundtrack that replaced striking musicians for two weeks.
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