Singer says she is owed £10 million
Mon 08 Jun, 2009
i HATE this song. it is still the uninspired choice for every generic tv shows 20 years on, and mindless people still lap it up. its sad that someone can still work a crowd with such a mundane selection, but someone trying to be inventive has to struggle for acceptance. i hope she wins this case, because i can quite imagine the people behind this have spent more than half their money. i'd love to see them suffer hardship for the rest of their lives for the beast they unleashed on the world
Wed 10 Jun, 2009
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Cult band also talk about their controversial record on Starbucks label
Fri 05 Jun, 2009
why should radiohead care about their 'musician brothers and sisters' (who include things like flo rida and lil wayne) over their own fans? musicians get paid a lot as it is, why should it be thom yorke's worry? and i'm sorry, in what world is offering your music for free to your fans worse than hooking up with abominable (and completely non-music) chain starbucks? they should be ashamed of themselves and in my eyes they've absolutely given up the right to criticize other bands doing something innovative and novel
Wed 10 Jun, 2009
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Couple wed in a private ceremony in Miami
Fri 05 Jun, 2009
oooh how exciting! i'm so pleased for TI, he has had a hard time of it lately, what with going to jail, looking like a twat and sounding like a prick. shame she'll have to leave it to the soap droppers to consumate his love for her
Wed 10 Jun, 2009
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Rapper's next effort set for September release
Fri 05 Jun, 2009
didn't he promise to retire many times over the years?
Wed 10 Jun, 2009
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Rap star claims he was cheated by engineering firm
Sat 06 Jun, 2009
i've been waiting all week for this news. yay fiddy.
Wed 10 Jun, 2009
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Charlie Simpson's band will hit the road in October
Sun 07 Jun, 2009
OMGz its in half term lolflol
Mon 08 Jun, 2009
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Gerard Way and wife welcome daughter Bandit Lee
Fri 29 May, 2009
what a truly ridiculous name
Sun 31 May, 2009
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Another music simulation game in the pipeline
Wed 17 Sep, 2008
the most ridiculous concept ever. why not just invest in software like ableton for less than £100 and DJ for real? it pains me to see another sacred art sold out to little playstation kids all round the world. i can't imagine there would be much scope for freedom as a DJ in this. but it will shift millions of units and keep some corporate bigwigs happy...so it will be done!
Sun 31 May, 2009
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It comes after the company refuses to insure musicians
Wed 29 Apr, 2009
this ad was a bloody joke in the first place, a man of iggy's stature should NEVER sell out to the most irrelevant of things (from his point of view), car insurance. wrinkled punkers selling butter, i'd rather lick ronan keating's fat nipple
Wed 29 Apr, 2009
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Licensing deal has earned less than $3million
Thu 19 Mar, 2009
some things are sacred and should just be left well alone. i'm sure kurt wouldn't have licensed his tunes out to the highest bidder or hewlett packard or whoever else knocked on the door with a cheque
Fri 20 Mar, 2009
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Simon Cowell lets his winning artist go
Thu 19 Mar, 2009
talentless twats, the lot of them. i hope some of em spontaneously drop dead. then maybe people will think twice about going on, or even watching this mindless shite
Fri 20 Mar, 2009
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Thom Yorke alludes to teen star's temper tantrum
Fri 13 Mar, 2009
who does she think she is?? the only people who would listen to her advice are little 8 year old girls who still buy lindsey lohan's singles. she should understand that radiohead probably only honour artists they respect and she is far far from that level of artistic integrity.
Mon 16 Mar, 2009
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Singer underlines the importance of royalties
Wed 11 Mar, 2009
obviously royalties are important to a struggling artist living hand to mouth, but someone in beth orton's position who must have banked some serious figures by now should stop worrying about squeezing every penny out of every medium and sometimes stand back and appreciate the fact that their work is reaching fans in a much better way than 10 years ago when we were all stuck with bloody capital fm and about 2 other options. if i was an artist i'd be happy for people to have access to my music in this sort of way, its about the art first and money a far distant 4th or 5th
Wed 11 Mar, 2009
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Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson - your music gossip stop
Mon 09 Mar, 2009
her kids already have a hell of a lot of money. she sold tons of fitness vids after liposuction, must have raked in millions from OK magazines new look hello and all the other dumb celeb-rags. its a sad state she's in but she hasn't in all this time mentioned anything about the care team - doctors nurses support staff - around her, or fellow sufferers. purely a selfish focus, all the way to the end
Tue 10 Mar, 2009
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Videos will be removed from the site from today (March 10)
Tue 10 Mar, 2009
this is just in the UK yeah?
Tue 10 Mar, 2009
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Essex ravers' latest shifts 100,000 copies in a week
Sun 01 Mar, 2009
thank god, i didn't realise there were still people out there who appreciated the beauty of experience. there's nothing worse than seeing a band you once idolised become top of the pops/woolworths wank fodder; except when you also see them get bigger and bigger with each shitty release, and new 'fans' have no clue about the origins of the band and their early material. when they came out they were raw, underground, with a great sound and the right mentality for the rave scene and the music they were making. when i was a kid it was the first album i heard that wasn't cheesy kylie minogue-esque run of the mill pop, saying and doing something different, inventive and sounding great. if this album had come out then i would have absolutely positively stuck the stock aitken waterman back on
Mon 02 Mar, 2009
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Get the results from last night's ceremony here
Thu 19 Feb, 2009
everyone apart from elbow there were losers. shame about the boring as hell speech i saw him give backstage, but hey its all about the music isnt itany event that invites bono to BOOST its coolness is severly fucked beyond repair.and scouting for girls nominated for best live band?? what the fuck gigs do the nomination committee go to? do they have an iota of exposure to live music?? cos the UK produces a hell of a lot of good live music that trounces anything you'd ever hear from those pop sellout shitmunchers
Thu 19 Feb, 2009
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U2, Coldplay, Duffy – what went on behind the scenes
Thu 19 Feb, 2009
what the fuck is the brits about?kylie minogue and gavin & stacey to present awards to girls aloud?take that performing a 'spectacular' show?sarah harding letting her poodle loose?katy perry puking because 'its punk'this ceremony is not a celebration of music, its nothing but a glorified wankfest for retarded entertainersjust out of curiosity, did anyone take up the offer of a free backstage tattoo???
Thu 19 Feb, 2009
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Mathematicians unhappy with new interpretation of Einstein equation
Sun 28 Dec, 2008
she is stupid for thinking she can redefine an equation. no-one remembers any rappers from newton's day but they remember his laws. einsteins formula will eventually prevail, but a lot of kids will fail their physics GCSEs in 11 years time
Mon 29 Dec, 2008
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Inmates would get prescription meds faster
Mon 22 Dec, 2008
another example of something that would never have happened here, purely cos the CSA here haven't got a clue!!but a bit harsh - to lock a man up for that!! i'd like to see batman and robin climb the white house in protest!!
Wed 24 Dec, 2008
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Oasis star brands their feud 'pathetic'
Sun 07 Dec, 2008
fair play for him to acknowledge it, for oasis may have had the edge in the 90s but damon's recent projects have all been superior - monkey opera was so far out the box and a great great show at the same time!
Mon 08 Dec, 2008
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Collapse of delivery firm forces retailers to use alternatives
Mon 01 Dec, 2008
woolies should be banned from touching all forms of music, they only sell really bland shit like westlife ballads, i remember when wu tang's 2nd album came out and went to number 1, they refused to stock because they considered it not suitable. so not only do they sell really bad music, they refuse to sell supposedly good stuff (turns out wu's 2nd album was shit in the end so it didn't matter that time)
Wed 03 Dec, 2008
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The drummer is seeking damages from two companies
Sat 22 Nov, 2008
the only thing i cant believe is that he's only suing for $25000!!!!in america they file million dollar lawsuits for fun, over trivial things. this was a very serious incident in which he was lucky to escape alive. i dont know why he is bothering for such a trivial sum, surely he must have tons more in the bank.
Sun 23 Nov, 2008
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Rapper is planning his next studio album
Mon 06 Oct, 2008
hands up anyone on this website who has ever even heard of tha carter 1-3??
Mon 06 Oct, 2008
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'Hi Ho Ricky Hatton' will be released this winter
Thu 02 Oct, 2008
dont do it noel, he's a united fanand the lyrics are bloody awful
Thu 02 Oct, 2008
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He teams up with Rhymefest to make new comedy series
Tue 23 Sep, 2008
muppet meets the muppets
Fri 26 Sep, 2008
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Singer pleads for people to stop asking him about the case
Wed 17 Sep, 2008
in 1991 r kelly released she's got that vibe when he was 24 and aaliyah was 11 or 12. in it he says little cute aaliyahs got it (the vibe) and about 3 years laters there were strong rumours of them hooking up which were never confirmed or denied. all a little bit too dodgy if u ask me!!
Thu 18 Sep, 2008
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London singer suffers chart fall after the move
Mon 01 Sep, 2008
how did the industry allow a computer company to dominate the next stage of music sales??itunes have way too much power. this time it was warner who pulled the plug but itunes know that they can fuck up any artist, any track they like by removing it from their system. gives them way too much leverage.the majors can go fuck themselves but this won't be good news for independent labels. its time for smaller digital distributors to challenge itunes position, for everyones sake
Mon 01 Sep, 2008
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It's an 'emotional' track for F1 ace
Thu 28 Aug, 2008
i cant wait to hear this song. its going to be legendary. its going to define this decade in terms of music. nicole is a great singer and such a talented songwriter. there are many dimensions to her music which i think we're just about to discover. CANT WAIT!!
Thu 28 Aug, 2008
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Play along to Christian rock bands with axe-wielding computer game
Thu 28 Aug, 2008
i dont think god approves of guitar hero.rocking out to 5 notes? i used to do that on my sisters casio keyboard when i was 6
Thu 28 Aug, 2008
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Noel Gallagher-referencing song set to be leaked soon too
Tue 12 Aug, 2008
standard jay z trick, get a popular producer to cover up his mediocre rapping. the amount of times he's put out a crap song with a sick beat and it's become popular is ridiculous, he used to hedge his bets with multiple producers in the past and now he's gonna try ride the kanye wave for a full length
Tue 12 Aug, 2008
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Rapper says hip-hop 'should be respected like any other art form'
Fri 20 Jun, 2008
its ridiculous to cuss glasto fans for not being open to new types of music - the artists and fans alike are as diverse as you can get. every genre is represented - in fact if you look closely enough there's a rapper playing in the park who was such an important part of the scene in the 80s and 90s, to some real hiphop fans he's a lot more influential (kool keith from the ultramagnetic MCs). the difference here is that jay z is universally considered to be shite, both musically and content-wise. the issue isn't even with hiphop - if an artist was decent, he'd get recognised regardless of genre, with glasto at the fore-front of picking up new emerging talent. look at dizzee rascal, emerged from the east london grime garage scene but embraced by indie kids just as much. jay z makes awful music and is the epitome of the fake gangsta westwood shizzle that everyone with sense hates. who is willing to sleep in a tent, walk around in wellies and crap in a steel chamber for the best part of a week only to be told by some noncey twat that he has ice and bling and spaced out rims. maybe in the fancy mayfair clubs, but that shit dont swing with festival fans. how can he consider himself to be on the same pedestal as radiohead etc? all he does is recycle lyrics over another man's looped, sampled beat.how can he refer to hiphop as new in his argument? its been going for 30 years and has been well established in the charts and mainstream for about 20-odd years.house/dance music is newer and has been embraced by glasto for some time. and anyone who has ever encountered a rap fan knows how closed-minded they are when it comes to music, rap heads are infamous for being unreceptive to every other type of music, for all the rap fans i know, only about 7% ever bother to listen to anything outside the 'urban' umbrellain his own head, he is the greatest artist ever to walk this earth, sadly no amount of booing and shouting on saturday will change his egotistic view.....but we'll have fun bottling his with warm piss!
Mon 23 Jun, 2008
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Rappers camp calls the PR stunt 'sleazy'
Fri 20 Jun, 2008
i would have thought fiddy or 'eigddyniney' would have jumped on something sleazy and ill-conceived, after all that career direction has turned him from a talentless tw@t to a highly 'successful' 'rapper'
Fri 20 Jun, 2008
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Gene Simmonds says band won't release new songs until downloading stops
Tue 17 Jun, 2008
the fans ARE the music industry. apart from us its just a bunch of corporations with no market.and it shows where their priorities are.....real bands will be happy just recording the music and putting it out there, they will always shift some legit copies and earn a bomb from the tour. a good album will still sell, but we all know you're not capable of recording a blinder
Tue 17 Jun, 2008
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The Ting Tings, The Spice Girls, Reverend And The Makers – your music gossip stop
Wed 04 Jun, 2008
twins from last year's big bother?its not newsits not music relatedare you heat magazine in disguise?
Wed 04 Jun, 2008
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The multi-millionaire lines up the 'X Factor' star for next album
Fri 30 May, 2008
puffy couldn't beat celine dion in an egg and spoon racejust because lewis hamilton could do your job better than you diddy, doesn't mean you could out-race himthe arrogance of puffy knows no bounds. NME, you should stop reporting on puffy, not many of your readers carry guns or give a sh!t
Fri 30 May, 2008
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'We have to respect each other' says the Glastonbury headliner
Tue 13 May, 2008
rap music has already evolved from the raw underground sound and voice of the troubled to an absolute blinged up joke that aint even about the music anymorehow is souljah boi anywhere near the musical merits of rakim, tribe called quest, PE etc?jay Z is the anti-thesis of a classic glasto artist. no-one who craps in a plastic chamber and sleeps in a wet field for 4 nites cares about his iced out rimsthere IS room for hiphop at glasto - ie kool keith at the park. but he's a good artist who, on a level playing field, is as good as indie bands. but jay z, you are not. enjoy the warm bottles of 'tramps cider' dripping down you - you should have stuck to your chavved up gigs at milton keynes and hyde park
Wed 28 May, 2008
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US veterans are only playing Reading And Leeds
Wed 28 May, 2008
that would have been a legendary hookup!!!! the reading leeds organisers need to have a closer look at rage's tour itinery cos they do have more UK festivals lined up!
Wed 28 May, 2008
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Rapper penning script in an attempt to bag Sienna Miller
Wed 28 May, 2008
sienna miller and diddy dog poo deserve each other!although if it's scripted anything like his burger king youtube hookup i cant see angelina gettin involved
Wed 28 May, 2008
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Chris Martin and co. line up gigs for December
Tue 27 May, 2008
oh no, another coldplay album and tour, more of arrogant chris martin everywhere, and terry wogan listeners trading in their katie melua CDs and pretending they know how to rock out
Tue 27 May, 2008
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Lou Pearlman strikes plea deal in fraud case
Tue 04 Mar, 2008
minimum 70 years incarceration for his involvement in backstreet boys' career
Wed 05 Mar, 2008
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'X Factor' judge says he was 'insulted' to be approached by the sex drug firm
Mon 03 Mar, 2008
i wonder what god has in store for this man on the day of judgement, there couldnt be a wronger person in the music industry more deserving of some horrible never-ending punishment
Wed 05 Mar, 2008
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The star won't tolerate fans using props to dance to her biggest hit
Wed 05 Mar, 2008
rihanna should be banned from gigging full stop. umbrella or no umbrella, who wants to pay good money on wasting an evening watching a glorified stripper mime some songs her manager got someone else to write for her?
Wed 05 Mar, 2008
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Gary Barlow and co. take home the first gong of the evening
Wed 20 Feb, 2008
dear at last, we all know take that are shite without ever seeing them live, because we have an ounce of sense.
a washed up boy-band playing crappy gigs to pregnant chavs is NOT the best that britain has to offer in terms of live music. in fact artists in this country have put out better dead music than take that's latest LP but what more do you expect from the brits, with sun readers, sorry, sun 'people who buy the paper to look at tits and read about jordan's latest holiday' people voting for best single
Tue 26 Feb, 2008
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Two members of the boy band claim they were forced out
Tue 26 Feb, 2008
they should pay busted's management £10m for saving them the heartache of becoming national twats
Tue 26 Feb, 2008
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Jocelyn Brown suing Snap! over 'The Power'
Singer says she is owed £10 million
Mon 08 Jun, 2009
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Sonic Youth: 'Radiohead made other musicians look bad'
Cult band also talk about their controversial record on Starbucks label
Fri 05 Jun, 2009
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T.I. marries longtime girlfriend 'Tiny'
Couple wed in a private ceremony in Miami
Fri 05 Jun, 2009
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Jay-Z reveals 'The Blueprint 3' release date
Rapper's next effort set for September release
Fri 05 Jun, 2009
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50 Cent settles mansion lawsuit
Rap star claims he was cheated by engineering firm
Sat 06 Jun, 2009
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Fightstar announce UK tour
Charlie Simpson's band will hit the road in October
Sun 07 Jun, 2009
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My Chemical Romance man becomes dad
Gerard Way and wife welcome daughter Bandit Lee
Fri 29 May, 2009
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'Guitar Hero' makers working on 'DJ Hero'
Another music simulation game in the pipeline
Wed 17 Sep, 2008
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Iggy Pop car insurance advert banned
It comes after the company refuses to insure musicians
Wed 29 Apr, 2009
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Little commercial demand for Nirvana's music?
Licensing deal has earned less than $3million
Thu 19 Mar, 2009
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'X Factor' winner dropped by label
Simon Cowell lets his winning artist go
Thu 19 Mar, 2009
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Radiohead respond to Miley Cyrus' rant, sort of
Thom Yorke alludes to teen star's temper tantrum
Fri 13 Mar, 2009
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Beth Orton speaks out about YouTube music video cull
Singer underlines the importance of royalties
Wed 11 Mar, 2009
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Noel Gallagher slams Jade Goody media coverage - Daily Gossip
Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson - your music gossip stop
Mon 09 Mar, 2009
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YouTube to remove all premium music videos
Videos will be removed from the site from today (March 10)
Tue 10 Mar, 2009
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The Prodigy's 'Invaders Must Die' tops album chart
Essex ravers' latest shifts 100,000 copies in a week
Sun 01 Mar, 2009
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BRIT Awards 2009 - all the winners and losers
Get the results from last night's ceremony here
Thu 19 Feb, 2009
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BRIT Awards 2009 - backstage gossip special
U2, Coldplay, Duffy – what went on behind the scenes
Thu 19 Feb, 2009
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Mariah Carey told off by Scientists for E=MC2 claims
Mathematicians unhappy with new interpretation of Einstein equation
Sun 28 Dec, 2008
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New drugs policy proposed in Ohio after singer's death
Inmates would get prescription meds faster
Mon 22 Dec, 2008
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Noel Gallagher: 'Damon Albarn is a great artist'
Oasis star brands their feud 'pathetic'
Sun 07 Dec, 2008
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Emergency deliveries for new Take That and Britney Spears albums
Collapse of delivery firm forces retailers to use alternatives
Mon 01 Dec, 2008
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Blink-182's Travis Barker sues after plane crash
The drummer is seeking damages from two companies
Sat 22 Nov, 2008
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Lil' Wayne working on 'Tha Carter IV' album
Rapper is planning his next studio album
Mon 06 Oct, 2008
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Ricky Hatton to recruit Noel Gallagher for Christmas single
'Hi Ho Ricky Hatton' will be released this winter
Thu 02 Oct, 2008
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Kanye West to make 'hip-hop meets The Muppets' show
He teams up with Rhymefest to make new comedy series
Tue 23 Sep, 2008
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R Kelly breaks silence on child porn charges
Singer pleads for people to stop asking him about the case
Wed 17 Sep, 2008
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Estelle removed from iTunes
London singer suffers chart fall after the move
Mon 01 Sep, 2008
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Pussycat Doll pens song for Lewis Hamilton - Tabloid Hell
It's an 'emotional' track for F1 ace
Thu 28 Aug, 2008
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God-fearing version of 'Guitar Hero' launched
Play along to Christian rock bands with axe-wielding computer game
Thu 28 Aug, 2008
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Kanye West beats Timbaland to produce new Jay-Z album
Noel Gallagher-referencing song set to be leaked soon too
Tue 12 Aug, 2008
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Jay-Z: 'Glastonbury controversy is ridiculous'
Rapper says hip-hop 'should be respected like any other art form'
Fri 20 Jun, 2008
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50 Cent angered by fast food chain challenge
Rappers camp calls the PR stunt 'sleazy'
Fri 20 Jun, 2008
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Download headliners Kiss: 'Fans have killed the record industry'
Gene Simmonds says band won't release new songs until downloading stops
Tue 17 Jun, 2008
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Lily Allen 'slits Bambi's throat' – Daily Gossip
The Ting Tings, The Spice Girls, Reverend And The Makers – your music gossip stop
Wed 04 Jun, 2008
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P Diddy wants to work with Leona Lewis
The multi-millionaire lines up the 'X Factor' star for next album
Fri 30 May, 2008
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Jay-Z hits back at Noel Gallagher in Glasto row
'We have to respect each other' says the Glastonbury headliner
Tue 13 May, 2008
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No Rage for 'The Mighty Boosh'
US veterans are only playing Reading And Leeds
Wed 28 May, 2008
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P Diddy writes rom-com for Angelina Jolie - Tabloid Hell
Rapper penning script in an attempt to bag Sienna Miller
Wed 28 May, 2008
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Coldplay announce UK arena tour
Chris Martin and co. line up gigs for December
Tue 27 May, 2008
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Former Backstreet Boys- *NSYNC manager pleads guilty
Lou Pearlman strikes plea deal in fraud case
Tue 04 Mar, 2008
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Simon Cowell offered £1million to be face of Viagra – Tabloid Hell
'X Factor' judge says he was 'insulted' to be approached by the sex drug firm
Mon 03 Mar, 2008
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Rihanna bans umbrellas from gigs – Tabloid Hell
The star won't tolerate fans using props to dance to her biggest hit
Wed 05 Mar, 2008
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Take That win Best British Live Act award at Brit Awards
Gary Barlow and co. take home the first gong of the evening
Wed 20 Feb, 2008
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Former Busted members sue for £10m in unpaid royalties
Two members of the boy band claim they were forced out
Tue 26 Feb, 2008
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