Why wait for the actual award show to unveil the award-show montage?
In honor of the Grammy Awards' upcoming 50th anniversary, CBS is planning to air in November a...
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Bette Midler cut down more than 230 trees around one of her properties on the island of Kauai without a permit, and the state has recommended she be fined.
The staff of...
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Once A New Day has ended, a Bette-er one will begin.
Bette Midler has been tapped to replace Celine Dion as the resident headliner at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace...
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Veteran entertainer Bette Midler is
known for her larger-than-life persona as the "Divine Miss M,"
but she admits to being a bit intimidated by the huge space she
will...
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Some of the biggest names in rock
music, including Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and
the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, will attend a private
memorial in New...
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The billionaire owner of 84 Lumber could have only one 84th birthday party, so Joe Hardy's children were determined to make it one to remember.
Christina Aguilera sang...
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Concert tours by the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand and country duo Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were among the top-grossing tours in North America in 2006, helping drive...
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Ticket sales have been far from spectacular, but Ivan Neville says performing at the same Hurricane Katrina anniversary concert Tuesday night as Stevie Wonder is going to be...
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Before Hurricane Katrina hit, Tanio
Hingle lived in a house in the Treme section of New Orleans
with his wife and three kids, gigging around town with the New
Birth Brass...
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Workers from city agencies that joined in the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, along with New Orleans jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, will serve as the guests of honor at...
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Destiny's Child knows how to make a grand exit; 'N Sync, not so
much.
The now defunct Beyoncé Knowles-powered
"Bootylicious" bunch is going out on top--the trio's...
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The November 22 Blue Note release
"Higher Ground" will feature highlights from Jazz at Lincoln
Center's Hurricane Katrina benefit concert.
The 15-track disc includes...
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The evening might have
begun with a funeral dirge, but the atmosphere Tuesday night at
Madison Square Garden was hardly funereal.
Rather, this all-star benefit concert for...
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A constellation of music icons, celebrities and dignitaries gathered for simultaneous shows at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall to raise money for victims of...
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With the exception of the now-famous Kanye West outburst, celebrity-driven benefits for Hurricane Katrina victims have followed a familiar formula — musicians singing...
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Tom Waits, Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio, John Mayer Trio, Joss Stone and the Meters have
signed on for a September 20 benefit concert for Hurricane
Katrina victims at New...
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Tom Waits, Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio, John Mayer Trio, Joss Stone and the Meters have
signed on for a September 20 benefit concert for Hurricane
Katrina victims at New...
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Upcoming celebrity benefits to raise money for relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
• Kevin Smith is holding an online auction on his Web site,...
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Big names such as Elton John and Rod Stewart will team up with some of New Orleans' most notable
musicians, including recently rescued veterans Fats Domino and
Allen...
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Kevin Sharp came out of the gate
swinging. His debut album on 143/Asylum Records, released in
1996, went gold. The first three of his six charting singles
went top five,...
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Grammy-winning soul singer and
songwriter Luther Vandross, who suffered a serious stroke two
years ago as he was about to relaunch his career, died on
Friday in a New Jersey...
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Luther
Vandross wasn't just a singer. He was a wedding
day. A
radio-show song dedication. A makeout session.
Vandross, whose
smooth voice earned him eight Grammys
...
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Twenty years later, it is still considered one of the greatest rock 'n' roll concerts of all time. During Live Aid, top musicians played simultaneous shows in London and...
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She has "always been a words and
music person," but until her two-disc "Little Noises" project
came about, Marcia Pelletiere admits she "never thought they
would come...
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Comedy was absolutely king during
the 30 years that Johnny Carson ruled late-night TV from his
desk at "The Tonight Show," but from his very first program in
1962, the...
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"We Are the World," the pioneering
all-star charity anthem that generated millions of dollars for
African famine relief 20 years ago, is returning to the world
stage -- this...
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First Old Navy brings back leg warmers and now this.
Proving the '80s are gone but definitely not forgotten, several of that
decade's top musical acts were among the top...
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is...
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Madonna 's blockbuster Re-Invention
tour took all of the drama out of the top tour of the year
race, ringing up a year's best $125 million in total box office
gross by...
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For Melissa Manchester , less is clearly more these days.
On the stage at the posh Hollywood supper club Cinegrill, she sings one of the old songs: "Don't Cry Out Loud,"...
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When Rod Stewart and Clive Davis
decided to inaugurate the singer's J Records deal with a
collection of gems from the Great American Songbook, did you
ever imagine that...
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Barry Manilow has a busy fall.
On Sept. 28, Concord Records releases "Scores: Songs from
'Copacabana' and 'Harmony,"' Manilow's 43rd album. The CD is a
collection of...
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It's been some time since Queen
Latifah found herself behind the mic.
Once a groundbreaking female rapper, the artist has in
recent years concentrated on an acclaimed film...
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Bette Midler isn't ready to kiss off just yet.
The four-time Grammy winner announced a second leg of her Kiss My Brass! tour Tuesday. The additional dates will kick off...
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Are stadium tours extinct?
Once an integral and lucrative facet of the warm-weather
concert business, the stadium tour is completely absent from
this summer's...
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Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond
will sing together for the first time in 24 years on Thursday,
bringing not flowers but millions of dollars for Democrat John
Kerry 's...
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Bette Midler knows that she and Matthew Broderick weren't the first choices to play Bobbi Markowitz and Walter Kresby in 'The Stepford Wives.' Joan and John Cusack were...
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Artists are coming out
in full force in support of Democratic presidential contender
Sen. John Kerry .
Two major concerts will be held next week -- one Monday in
Los...
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A new group called the Music Row Democrats is trying to shake the perception that country music is full of Republicans.
But it won't be easy. Like the 1967 Sonny James hit...
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Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay dropped
out of music college with failing grades two years ago but now
the precocious 19-year-old has a double album climbing the
charts amid...
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Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay dropped
out of music college with failing grades two years ago but now
the precocious 19-year-old has a double album climbing the
charts amid...
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It's the day before her first major-label release, and Keri Noble says she's feeling no pressure.
Even though she's the leadoff artist on EMI's revived Manhattan label,...
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Barry
Manilow remains in a Palm Springs hospital Sunday, a day after being
rushed to the facility for chest pains.
Manilow's publicist
attributes the pains to stress,...
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The Bottom Line, the legendary New
York music club where for nearly 30 years stars like Bruce Springsteen and Miles Davis took the stage, has hit the finish
line over a...
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Bette Midler considered
withdrawing herself from this year's Grammy competition because
her tribute album "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney
Songbook" is nominated...
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Bette Midler is not so sure she wants to take home the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the February 8 event in Los Angeles. Midler's CD Bette Midler...
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While the rest of the music
business is hurting, the concert industry continues to break
records. Still, some unsettling trends are casting a cloud over
the touring...
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As a longtime fan and friend of the late Rosemary Clooney, Bette Midler approached her Grammy-nominated new album Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook with some...
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They may have passed on to that
great concert hall in the sky, but artists such as Warren Zevon , George Harrison , Johnny Cash and his wife still managed
to pick up...
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Going solo proved to be a wise career choice for several of this
year's biggest Grammy nominees.
The move paid off today
for Beyonc,
Justin
Timberlake and even...
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Complete list of nominees in 105 categories announced Thursday for the 46th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles:
1. Record of the Year: "Crazy in...
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The Savoy Label Group,
known for its stellar jazz catalog that includes such artists
as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis
and Lester Young, is...
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Publishing executive John Rollins, who witnessed the infancy of Vibe and Spin magazines, had a revelation one day when he dropped a Buena Vista Social Club album into his CD...
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Musicians worried that new media ownership rules will make it harder to get airtime are taking the fight from the Capitol to their own turf, embarking on a grass-roots music...
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"Bawitdaba," Kid Rock's breakout 1998 hit, will play a key part in the premiere next month of the CBS sitcom Bette, starring superstar Bette Midler. Midler, who plays the...
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Producer Brooks Arthur, known for his work with brassy pop divas like Liza Minnelli and Bette Midler, has put his talents behind a country project: unknown...
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