Rock icon DAVID BOWIE has paid tribute to his former bandmate TREVOR BOLDER after the bassist lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on Tuesday (21May13).
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Rock icon DAVID BOWIE has paid tribute to his former bandmate TREVOR BOLDER after the bassist lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on Tuesday (21May13).
The 62-year-old Uriah Heep star got his big break in the 1970s as a member of Bowie's backing band Spiders From Mars, and appeared on the star's classic albums Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane.
Now Bowie has offered his condolences in a touching statement posted on his Facebook.com page, which reads, "Trevor was a wonderful musician and a major inspiration for whichever band he was working with. But he was foremostly (sic) a tremendous guy, a great man."
Bolder bowed out of Uriah Heep a few months ago when his health deteriorated, and the band's lead guitarist Mick Box has hailed him as a great friend.
Box says, "Trevor was a world-class bass player, singer and songwriter, and more importantly a world-class friend. He will be sadly missed by family, friends and rock fans all over the world. We are all numb to the core."
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BLAKE SHELTON ORGANISING TV BENEFIT FOR OKLAHOMA VICTIMS
Country star and Oklahoma native BLAKE SHELTON is organising a benefit concert for victims of the tornado that ravaged his home state on Monday (20May13).
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Country star and Oklahoma native BLAKE SHELTON is organising a benefit concert for victims of the tornado that ravaged his home state on Monday (20May13).
The Voice mentor, who was born in Ada, Oklahoma, is working swiftly to plan a TV special to pull in much-needed funds for the thousands left homeless by the devastating storm.
He tells Billboard.com, "We'll know more about it in the next 24 hours. I'm hoping it will raise a lot of money. Obviously it will be televised and will happen really quickly."
The singer, who still has a home in Oklahoma, hinted that his The Voice co-stars Usher, Shakira and Adam Levine will make appearances, adding, "I can call in some really big favours."
Shelton and his wife Miranda Lambert paid tribute to Oklahoma victims on the U.S. talent show on Tuesday night (21May13) by performing their emotional ballad Over You.
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KELLIE PICKLER WINS DANCING WITH THE STARS
Country star KELLIE PICKLER waltzed her way to victory and was crowned winner of U.S. TV competition DANCING WITH THE STARS on Tuesday (21May13).
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Country star KELLIE PICKLER waltzed her way to victory and was crowned winner of U.S. TV competition DANCING WITH THE STARS on Tuesday (21May13).
The singer saw off competition from Disney actress Zendaya, American football player Jacoby Jones and former Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman to take home the mirrorball trophy with her professional partner Derek Hough.
During the two-hour show, Pickler won over the judges and audiences by performing a barefoot freestyle dance, as well as an upbeat jive routine to Rockin' Robin.
After she was declared the winner, Pickler exclaimed, "This is amazing! Oh my God!"
She later took to her Twitter.com page to thank fans for their support, writing, "I'll never ever forget this night! Love y'all so much! Thanks so much for voting!"
The finale of the 16th season also featured musical performances by former Dancing With The Stars contestant Wynonna Judd and South Korean sensation Psy.
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JAY-Z REWARDS SPORTS CHARGE'S COLLEGE SUCCESS WITH NEW CAR
Rap mogul JAY-Z thrilled one of his first sports star charges on her graduation day by presenting her with a brand new luxury car.
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Rap mogul JAY-Z thrilled one of his first sports star charges on her graduation day by presenting her with a brand new luxury car.
The 99 Problems hitmaker has expanded his Roc Nation empire to include sports management, and female basketball star Skylar Diggins is one of his company's first clients.
Diggins graduated from the University of Notre Dame in business on Sunday (19May13) and was rewarded for her hard work with a white Mercedes decorated with a red bow.
A tweet from Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sports reads, "Congrats to new Notre Dame grad Skylar Diggins! Thanks to Dancy Auto Group for helping with her surprise gift."
Diggin took to Twitter.com to share her happy news, writing, "Got surprised with a new Mercedes! Thanks so much to Jay and Roc Nation, and Dancy Auto Group! I got 99 problems, but a BENZ ain't one."
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GERI HALLIWELL THANKS VIVA FOREVER! CAST AND CREW FOR HARD WORK
GERI HALLIWELL has written a touching tribute to the cast and crew of the axed SPICE GIRLS stage show in London as she prepares to bid farewell to the U.K.
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GERI HALLIWELL has written a touching tribute to the cast and crew of the axed SPICE GIRLS stage show in London as she prepares to bid farewell to the U.K.
The British singer was in the West End on Tuesday night (21May13) to watch Viva Forever! for the last time before she relocates to Australia, where she has been hired as a TV talent show judge.
She took to her blog to thank everyone involved for their hard work ahead of the musical's early closure next month (Jun13), and posted a poignant photo of herself standing onstage in the empty Piccadilly Theatre.
She writes, "It's 11pm and I've just come back from the West End theatre show Viva Forever! - to say goodbye... I felt confidant (sic) - almost cocky it was going to be a huge success. Opening night - in my Cinderella prom dress with my fellow Spice Girls, so proud of us having a West End show! It didn't work - 6 months later, it's closing."
But the pop star is adamant she has no regrets about Viva Forever!, adding, "It had a bumpy start but the cast and director worked really hard, made great changes, and I can hand on heart tell it's not s**t! - it's good entertainment! I went back again and again. But honestly for many reasons, I don't regret it.
"So this is to say thank you to all the people who tried for the Spice Girls, who had the guts to put their heart and soul into Viva. Thanks to all the cast of Viva, the musicians, Judy (Craymer, producer), Jennifer (Saunders, writer), the Spices and to all the fans and theatre-goers who came. It's hard to say goodbye, but sometimes we just have to... So as I leave for Australia for new adventure to be a judge on Australia's Got Talent - I hope it will go well; I'm going to really try my best to find a star and have a blast."
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MILES DAVIS REMEMBERED AT NEW YORK ADDRESS
Late jazz legend MILES DAVIS has been honoured with a plaque at his former home in New York, despite the saxophonist regularly riling neighbours in the building with his late-night jam sessions.
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Late jazz legend MILES DAVIS has been honoured with a plaque at his former home in New York, despite the saxophonist regularly riling neighbours in the building with his late-night jam sessions.
Officials at America's Historic Landmarks Preservation Center last week (ends19May13) placed a commemorative medal at the Upper West Side residence at 312 W. 77th Street, where Davis lived between 1958 and 1983.
Resident Shirley Zafirau, who lived on the block when Davis did, recalls, "All of these really important musicians would come here and rehearse - and some of the stuff that got shouted by the neighbors was really ugly."
Davis passed away in 1991.
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ONE DIRECTION SET TO RELEASE FIRST OFFICIAL BOOK
British-Irish boyband ONE DIRECTION have landed a book deal.
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British-Irish boyband ONE DIRECTION have landed a book deal.
The group's first official title, Where We Are: Our Band, Our Story, will focus on their meteoric rise to fame across the globe over the last 18 months.
A statement reads, "This is the only official book from 1D charting their journey over the last year and a half - from the places they've visited and fans they've met, to their thoughts and feelings, hopes and dreams, highs and lows. It has been a phenomenal year - and this is a phenomenal story."
The book is set to hit shelves later this year (13).
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PAUL MCCARTNEY'S ARTS GROUP TO OPEN SCHOOL
A school for creative arts aimed at children as young as four is to be set up in the U.K. by staff at SIR PAUL McCARTNEY's education academy.
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A school for creative arts aimed at children as young as four is to be set up in the U.K. by staff at SIR PAUL McCARTNEY's education academy.
The former Beatles star helped to establish the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in his hometown in 1996, and bosses at the organisation are now planning to open an arts-centred primary school.
Children aged between four and nine will get to take classes in the arts alongside more traditional subjects such as maths and English.
The school will open as part of a U.K. government scheme to set up more than 100 'free' schools run independently of state education.
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JESSIE J QUITS SWEARING FOR YOUNG FANS
British pop star JESSIE J has banned bad language from her second album so young fans can listen to her new music.
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British pop star JESSIE J has banned bad language from her second album so young fans can listen to her new music.
The singer's 2011 record Who You Are featured risque themes and profanities, including the words "motherf**ker", "d**k" and "b**ch" on her debut single Do It Like a Dude.
But the 25-year-old singer is determined to ditch her bad girl image so she can set a good example for her younger devotees.
In a Google chat with fans, she explains, "On my second album I've cut out the swearing. I had one swear word and I took it off. I want everyone to be able to hear it, families to not have to skip that song in the car."
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BRITISH POP STARS MEET SICK CHILDREN AT CHARITY TEA PARTY
GIRLS ALOUD star KIMBERLEY WALSH and members of JLS and THE SATURDAYS joined British Chancellor of the Exchequer GEORGE OSBORNE at a tea party for sick children at his official London residence on Tuesday (21May13).
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GIRLS ALOUD star KIMBERLEY WALSH and members of JLS and THE SATURDAYS joined British Chancellor of the Exchequer GEORGE OSBORNE at a tea party for sick children at his official London residence on Tuesday (21May13).
Osborne hosted the bash for seriously ill youngsters at his home at 11 Downing Street to mark the 10th anniversary of U.K. kids' charity Rays Of Sunshine.
Celebrity guests included JLS singers Aston Merrygold and J.B. Gill as well as The Saturdays' Mollie King, Vanessa White and Una Healy.
Merrygold, a longtime supporter of the organisation, tells U.K. TV show Daybreak, "It was an amazing day, really, really good. Big thanks goes out to the Chancellor for hosting the party.
"What makes Rays Of Sunshine so special is the fact that we've met so many kids over the years. You're always meeting new kids and it's amazing when they're recovering and getting better. You do hear some terrifying stories but we see them over and over again (at events and) you actually get to see their journey and see them recuperate."
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"I had to sing like her... It was actually hard because her mannerisms onstage are so different and you have to act the whole time you're singing. When I sing, I use my hands and I'm ethereal and she's just very grounded and she stomps and she claps, so it was actually kinda really difficult to forget my muscle memory and do what she did." JEWEL struggled to perform as country music legend June Carter Cash in new TV biopic Ring of Fire.
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"I tweeted one thing that referenced her but it was more a dig at myself. I said, 'If I learned that those Amanda Bynes piercings tacked your jowls up, I might consider getting some'. That was a jab at my jowls, not her... My face is melting." Singer NATALIE MAINES is puzzled after actress Amanda Bynes blocked her from her Twitter account after comments the Dixie Chicks star made about her cheek piercings.
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"It was a place where you get a hint there was a place called civilisation. I still owe fines from about 50 years ago." THE ROLLING STONES hellraiser KEITH RICHARDS reveals his favourite place to go as a teen was the local library.
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KE$HA SLAMMED OVER URINE-DRINKING STUNT
KE$HA is facing a backlash from officials at America's Parent Television Council (PTC) after footage of her drinking her own urine was shown on TV.
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KE$HA is facing a backlash from officials at America's Parent Television Council (PTC) after footage of her drinking her own urine was shown on TV.
The TiK ToK hitmaker was caught on camera guzzling her pee on Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life, which aired on MTV in the U.S. on Tuesday (21May13).
Campaigners at the PTC are fuming over the "disgusting, vile" scene, and are now demanding cable TV providers allow customers to have control over the content which enters their homes.
A statement from PTC President Tim Winter reads, "If given the opportunity, I can't imagine that parents would want to pay for a cable network that airs an episode of a pop star drinking her own urine...
"Why should we have to pay for this kind of garbage just so we can get access to (other networks bundled with MTV) Discovery, Disney, or the Golf Channel? It's outrageous - and it shouldn't be that way. Consumers deserve choice. We should all have the ability to choose and pay for only the channels we want to watch."
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ANNIE LENNOX PERFORMS AT DESMOND TUTU PRIZEGIVING
ANNIE LENNOX provided the music for a special prizegiving honouring human rights icon ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU in London on Tuesday (21May13).
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ANNIE LENNOX provided the music for a special prizegiving honouring human rights icon ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU in London on Tuesday (21May13).
The Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) singer was invited to perform at a ceremony in London's Guildhall venue, where the beloved clergyman was handed the 2013 Templeton Prize in honour of his lifelong humanitarian work.
Lennox performed Don't Let It Bring You Down and Many Rivers To Cross on the piano, before belting out Lean On Me with a 24-strong choir.
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JAMIE CULLUM BRINGS LONDON RAILWAY STATION TO A STANDSTILL
Jazz star JAMIE CULLUM treated commuters to a show-stopping performance at one of London's busiest railway stations on Tuesday (21May13).
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Jazz star JAMIE CULLUM treated commuters to a show-stopping performance at one of London's busiest railway stations on Tuesday (21May13).
The Brit took advantage of the free piano at St Pancras International to play a short set with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in front of hordes of travellers.
Cullum played new track Momentum from his latest album, and admitted he had always wanted to have a go on the station's piano.
He says, "I'm in and out of St Pancras a lot. There is a piano in the station and I've seen a lot of busking here. I've always walked past it and thought, 'I fancy playing on that'.
"I thrive on the live performance, the spontaneous vibe. This kind of thing suits me well. We hadn't rehearsed with the orchestra at all - but they are a crack team of musicians. We hope we sent travellers on with a song in their hearts."
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MICK JAGGER PLANNING TO CAMP OUT WITH FAMILY AT GLASTONBURY
MICK JAGGER is planning to make the most of the Glastonbury Festival next month (Jun13) by camping out following the ROLLING STONES' debut there.
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MICK JAGGER is planning to make the most of the Glastonbury Festival next month (Jun13) by camping out following the ROLLING STONES' debut there.
The rocker has revealed he'll be soaking up the atmosphere at the tent city long after he leaves the stage - he's hoping to stage a family picnic and have a "good time".
He tells Q magazine, "I've got nothing else to do on Glasto weekend, and I want to spend some time with my family and have a good time as well."
His daughter Jade is planning to set up "yurts" at the festival and Jagger is hoping to do a little exploring: "I don't need them to show me the cool places to go. I'm sure I can find some places of my own that are much cooler."
The rocker insists he's not a stranger to camping and he has often set up a tent "on the beach with my kids in the Caribbean," adding, "It's just the same as Brighton - there's just less chance of bad weather."
He adds, "We went camping all the time when I was a kid. Camping in France was our family holiday and we brought baked beans with us, as we didn't trust that fancy foreign food. We were so totally English."
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JADEN SMITH REGRETS 2012 RAP VIDEO
WILL SMITH's enterprising son Jaden regrets his 2012 skateboarding video venture - because he gave critics the ammunition they needed to attack him for his fashion and rap choices.
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WILL SMITH's enterprising son Jaden regrets his 2012 skateboarding video venture - because he gave critics the ammunition they needed to attack him for his fashion and rap choices.
The Karate Kid star showed off his skateboarding prowess in the promo for Pumped Up Kicks (Like Me) and he tells Nylon magazine he's still trying to play the video down.
He explains, "It was probably one of the greatest things I did for my rap career, and one of the worst. I wasn't dressing like I wanted to be dressing at the time, even though I was dressing myself. The raps weren't how I wanted the raps to be. All the skater kids were like, 'Oh snap, Jaden's rapping, lemme check it out', and that video gave them a reason to go, 'Yep, Jaden's wack, I knew it!'"
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RAY J WAS REJECTED BY HALLE BERRY
R&B star RAY J was once rejected by HALLE BERRY after he asked the Oscar winner out on a date.
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R&B star RAY J was once rejected by HALLE BERRY after he asked the Oscar winner out on a date.
The One Wish hitmaker, who dated Whitney Houston on and off before her tragic death, reveals he tried his luck with the Hollywood beauty shortly after her 2010 split from model Gabriel Aubry, while he was doing a little presenting at a red carpet event - but his advances were practically laughed off.
He tells U.S. talk show host Wendy Williams, "I tried to get with Halle Berry one time.
"She probably doesn't even remember because I was like hosting, asking her questions on the red carpet... This was maybe like three years ago, four years ago... I walked up to her and just was like, 'Yo, I know I just interviewed you, but you're so pretty, I would love to take you out on a date' and all she did was go, 'Aww'."
Berry went on to romance French hunk Olivier Martinez and the couple is now expecting its first child together.
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IAN GILLAN TURNED TO MEDITATION TO QUELL VIOLENT TEENAGE RAGE
Heavy rocker IAN GILLAN started meditating as a teenager when he realised he was too violent to make it in music.
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Heavy rocker IAN GILLAN started meditating as a teenager when he realised he was too violent to make it in music.
The Deep Purple frontman admits life as the only council estate kid in a posh private school turned him into a "street rat" who had to fight to survive all the tormenting from bullies.
He tells WENN, "I had to change my lifestyle because I was a street rat. I grew up on a council estate and I went to a private school and I used to get beaten up on the way to school, because I wore a stupid uniform, and, because I was the only kid in school who lived on a council estate, I had it all day long there too, until I turned around and whacked a couple of prefects and fought back against my tormentors every day.
"I actually grew to love it and I started looking for violence and it became a big issue. I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams I had to change, so I started meditating and I changed my life entirely."
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CROSSFIRE HURRICANE FILMMAKER WANTS TO MAKE ANIMATED MOTLEY CRUE MOVIE
The man behind the ROLLING STONES' stunning new documentary CROSSFIRE HURRICANE has his sights set on making an all-anime version of rockers' MOTLEY CRUE's story.
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The man behind the ROLLING STONES' stunning new documentary CROSSFIRE HURRICANE has his sights set on making an all-anime version of rockers' MOTLEY CRUE's story.
Brett Morgen sat down with the Stones to create a powerful new look at their career highs and lows and he has already moved on to start work on a film study of tragic Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain - but there's still one dream documentary he'd like to tackle.
He tells WENN, "A dream project of mine is to do a Japanese anime documentary on Motley Crue. That will give me my 1970s, 1980s and 1990s trilogy with the Stones, Motley Crue and Kurt."
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"Blake and I will be performing an acoustic version of 'Over You' tonite on @NBCTheVoice dedicated to Oklahoma." MIRANDA LAMBERT is planning to honour the victims of the Oklahoma storms with an emotional duet with her husband Blake Shelton, a state native, on U.S. TV show The Voice on Tuesday night (21May13). The couple has a home in Oklahoma.
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Pop star SIA performed her megahit David Guetta collaboration TITANIUM acoustically for the first time ever at the Evening With Women gala in Los Angeles on Saturday (18May13).
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"I had prosthetic dentures for the role and I tweeted a picture of myself and it started this riot online of like, 'You sell out, how could you fix your teeth?' I had people send me hatemail about my teeth and then once people thought I'd fixed them they were sending me hatemail about fixing them, so you just can't win." Singer JEWEL on the storm she stirred up when first images of her as country music legend June Carter Cash hit the Internet. The star plays Johnny Cash's late wife in a new TV biopic.
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