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Italian police: Rocker stabbed, band members held

Friday, December 12th, 2008

ROME (AP) – The singer in a teen gothic metal band and her brother allegedly stabbed the band’s guitarist dozens of times because he did not play well enough, Italian police and a lawyer said Friday.

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Italian police: Rocker stabbed, band members held

Judge jails man who offered Winehouse drugs

Friday, December 12th, 2008

LONDON (AP) – A judge on Friday jailed a man who sold a newspaper footage that appeared to show Amy Winehouse taking drugs.

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Judge jails man who offered Winehouse drugs

English town names streets after Stones songs

Friday, December 12th, 2008

LONDON (AP) – Looking to live on Satisfaction Street? Or Ruby Tuesday Drive?

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English town names streets after Stones songs

Lucerne Festival extends Claudio Abbado’s contract

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

LONDON (AP) – Claudio Abbado’s term at the helm of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra has been extended for another four years, the Italian conductor said Thursday.

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Lucerne Festival extends Claudio Abbado’s contract

Chilean cardinal: Madonna rouses ‘impure thoughts’

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – Madonna is causing “crazy enthusiasm” and “impure thoughts” on her first concert visit to Chile, a prominent retired cardinal complained on Wednesday, as he paused in a tribute to a late dictator to denounce the pop star.

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Chilean cardinal: Madonna rouses ‘impure thoughts’

Wife of Barker’s assistant sues over crash

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The wife of Travis Barker’s assistant sued several aviation companies and the estates of two pilots Tuesday over the South Carolina plane crash that killed her husband earlier this year.

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U.K. rockers Coldplay deny plagiarism accusation

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – British rock band Coldplay Tuesday denied virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani’s accusation that it ripped off one of his instrumentals, saying any similarities were “entirely coincidental.

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Former Classics IV singer Dennis Yost dies

Monday, December 8th, 2008

CINCINNATI (AP) – Lead singer Dennis Yost of the 1960s soft rock group The Classics IV has died in an Ohio hospital.

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Former Classics IV singer Dennis Yost dies

X-Factor’s Leona Lewis tops UK singles chart

Monday, December 8th, 2008

LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Former “X-factor” winner Leona Lewis stormed straight to the top of the British pop singles charts, taking the number one slot with her latest single “Run,” the Official UK Charts Company said.

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Streisand, President Bush share awkward smooch

Monday, December 8th, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) – Barbra Streisand got an awkward kiss on the cheek from the president, and yes, she gave him a smooch back.

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Streisand, President Bush share awkward smooch