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Apparently impressed by his anti-democratic and sexist ways, Rolling Stone has made Silvio Berlusconi rock star of the year . Not that it approves : There was no political agenda behind the choice. "We are far from favouring Left or Right," said [Italian edition editor Carlo] Antonelli. "Silvio ...
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Rolling Stone
Remember Victoria Hart? She was the subject of an unlikely PR blitz a couple of years back - the waitress who played for George Clooney and somehow landed a multimillion deal, all at the same time. The reappearance of her in Bizarre this morning still bills her as the Waitress who sang for ...
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Away from the excitement of Adam Lambert and his very, very dry face-humping , the big story of the American Music Awards was Michael Jackson winning big . Four awards, in fact. Quite an achievement considering the man hadn't actually done very much - besides dying, of course - in the qualifying ...
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Michael Jackson
There's a balanced and considered editorial on the Digital Economy Bill in today's Guardian. It is, however, set alongside a piece by Richard Scudamore , chief executive of the Premier League and a member of the "Creative Coalition" which trots out the sort of muddle-headed screeches we've been ...
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The poor editors at ABC have a bit of a problem. They're showing this year's normally dull American Music Awards, and when it went out on the East Coast, Adam Lambert reminded everyone he was gay : When Lambert finished his song — complete with simulated oral sex with a male backup dancer and a ...
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Miranda Lambert
Adam Yauch
Pssst... Gordon... You're talking about this like it's a good thing : MICHAEL EAVIS promised something special for Glastonbury's 40th birthday next year - and boy has he delivered. U2 will headline on Friday night - the first time the Irish rockers have ever played the festival. Well, at least ...
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U2
Increasingly, Rupert Murdoch's purchase of MySpace looks like a kneejerk move that confused the panic with the strategic. Clearly, he's managed to bring this management style to MySpace, whose purchase of MySpace looks exactly the same. As takeovers go, it has all the thought and care of that ...
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"You would think they would have something better to do" observes Dave Bronze, bassist with the band that used to be called Wells Fargo until the bank of the same name got in touch . Yes, apparently, Wells Fargo thought there might be people getting confused by a swing band playing in East ...
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Record labels will feel vindicated by Business Insider's chart showing whose videos are the biggest earners on YouTube. Universal, Sony, Hollywood Records, EMI... Yes, surely, this is proof that without music, YouTube would be making nothing. On the other hand: even aggregated, the top ten ...
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Sony
Hollywood Records
Big Boi
Cash Money
Universal music are currently doing a spot of market research, aimed primarily at seeing what Spotify is doing to the music market. It's being run by an outfit called Angus Reid Strategies through a service called Springboard UK, and the idea behind it makes sense. Disruptive technologies being ...
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Dean Piper, writing in today's Sunday Mirror , seems to grasp that Amy Winehouse's newfound embrace of the scalpel is an extension of her previous love of the pipe: Once an addict, always an addict. And now it seems Amy Winehouse is battling a new addiction – plastic surgery. So, does Piper ...
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Amy Winehouse
There's a snarky piece in the News of the World this week. The paper has caught up with Marilyn, seemingly just to point and laugh: HE urged us to Feed The World - but 25 years after Band Aid, Eighties star Marilyn seems only to have fed his FACE. For the slim, 10st gender bender who recorded Do ...
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The Calling
Where you from? The ten most popular nations visiting No Rock this year: 1. United Kingdom 2. United States 3. Canada 4. Germany 5. Australia 6. Ireland 7. France 8. South Korea 9. Brazil 10. Netherlands And a special hello to Timor-Leste, Republic of Congo, San Marino, Palau, Guinea, Somalia, ...
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Islands
Daniel Sullivan, the guy who pushed Noel Gallagher over on stage in Toronto, has pleaded guilty to assault. His defence told the court he couldn't remember anything about the incident, except clambering over the fence. Sullivan was drunk at the time, which might explain why he never quite made ...
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Noel Gallagher
Liam Gallagher
Oasis
Taking advantage of the lack of any real competition, HMV is experimenting with ten temporary stores around the UK this Christmas. Who can explain what's going on in HMV's minds better than temproary store czar Gennaro Castaldo ? Pin him down, Sky News. HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo has ...
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HMV
The Guardian calls the takeover of the Big Chill by Reading-Leeds promoter Festival Republic "quiet" - which is true; it happened in September after the owners went bust. Still, I don't see what everyone's worried about - it's not like Glastonbury got noticeably more corporate and lost touch ...
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The Big Chill
Hyper
We all know where Lily Allen stands on filesharing, don't we? Slightly to the right of Lord Mandelson. So if she believes that throwing households off the internet on suspicion of sharing music for free is appropriate, what terrible fate would she have in store for someone who took her music, ...
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Lily Allen
Larrikin Love
Gordon's big splash this morning announces the host of next year's Brits : Peter Kay. Talk about catching 'em while they're hot. Presumably Ronnie Corbett already has a booking for that night?
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Peter Gabriel
Spotify are hoping to use the music you listen to in order to target adverts . It could sort-of work: If you like Robin Beck, you might want to buy Diet Coke. But it's not really this simple, is it? The Spotify founder and CEO, Daniel Ek, explained the thinking behind personalised advertising. ...
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Beck
Hypebot reports the launch of a new music store , selling downloads in America for 19 cents a pop. The store, TunesPro, says it can do this price because it's absorbing a loss of 39 cents a download. It says it's happy to do that because it's cheaper than advertising. It also tells Hypebot that ...
