Are the Stones rolling away from their longtime label?
Despite a 16-year relationship with Virgin/EMI, the Rolling Stones signed a one-album deal with Universal to release...
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British singer Robbie Williams has
threatened to pull out of his record deal with EMI, his manager
told the Times newspaper, the latest blow to the struggling
label recently...
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British pop star Robbie Williams on
Wednesday apologized to former Take That manager Nigel
Martin-Smith and paid unspecified legal damages over song
lyrics that suggested he...
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As unlikely as it sounds, gangsta rapper 50 Cent has said that he would love to duet with Robbie Williams.
On the day of the release of his Curtis LP, the "In Da Club" star...
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Tiesto, the world's
pre-eminent DJ, performed for a worldwide audience of billions
during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens.
He played in...
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Going under the knife is not compulsory
but being sculpted as the perfect lookalike sure helps in
Britain's burgeoning tribute band business.
Get an Elvis nose job,...
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A British indie band is giving away its
new album for free online in a bid to create a fanbase that
could make it easier to make money in the future.
The Crimea is...
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British rockers the Arctic Monkeys are
on the shortlist for a prestigious Ivor Novello award for "When
the Sun Goes Down," while Amy Winehouse and Madonna are in the
running...
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Robbie Williams has offered to "smack up" the Arctic Monkeys, after they dismissed the work of Mark Ronson.
The U.K. pop star has apparently reacted angrily to front-Monkey...
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A full reunion of Take That could be a possibility following hints Robbie Williams would consider rejoining the band.
The star's mother, Jan Williams, has told her local...
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EMI is to make its music
available online without a key anti-piracy measure, becoming
the first major music group to take the risk in a bid to grow
digital sales.
Digital...
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Robbie Williams has left a U.S.
rehabilitation center, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday, but
declined to comment on reports he had left early.
Williams has been in rehab...
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British pop star Robbie Williams has been admitted to a rehabilitation center in the
United States where he will undergo treatment for prescription
drug addiction, his agent...
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British pop star Robbie Williams has entered rehab in the United States for dependency on prescription drugs, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
"Robbie Williams has today been...
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The new album from jazz singer Norah Jones, "Not Too Late," was the most pre-ordered album of all
time on the online retailer Amazon.com and is riding high in
digital...
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EMI Group Plc, which ousted its two top
music executives last week after issuing a profit warning,
announced on Thursday two key appointments to its EMI Music
management...
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Paul McCartney and Robbie Williams
joined thousands of other performers on Thursday in an appeal
for an extension to British copyright on their recordings.
They called for...
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The people's princess is being honored with a royal affair.
Princes William and Harry are organizing a star-studded concert to be held in London next summer to mark the...
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Robbie Williams' bottom and a band
that dresses like furry bunnies graced MTV's 2006 Latin America
Music Awards, where reggaeton sensation Daddy Yankee won top
prize for...
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Flamboyant New York band the Scissor
Sisters dominated music sales in Britain for a second week as
they stayed at the top of both the singles and album charts.
Their...
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Karl Wallinger's World
Party was more like an exclusive club Monday at the Roxy.
Thirteen years ago, when Wallinger and company shared a bill
with Lenny Kravitz on a massive...
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Bertelsmann AG, the German media group, said Thursday it sent 15 investors financial information and details about its BMG Music Publishing unit, which it is planning to...
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The Irish band U2 has given Britain its favorite song lyric, according to a survey released Monday.
The line "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers" from the 1992...
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A new mobile phone that includes a link
into Robbie Williams' Web site and plays his songs is another
step in a "digital revolution" that the recording industry must
take...
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Armed with just a webcam and a guitar,
Scottish singer Sandi Thom sets off around the world every
night from a basement room in south London.
In a packed field of wannabe...
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A British music studio said Wednesday it had bought Air Studios, the recording facility founded by Beatles producer George Martin.
Richard Boote, owner of Strongroom...
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Robbie Williams writhed, Shakira shouted and Madonna didn't show up, although all three won honors at one of France's biggest music awards shows.
Williams, voted best male...
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Kaiser Chiefs and James Blunt led the
field with five nominations apiece when the shortlist was
announced on Tuesday for the Brit Awards, the British music
industry's big...
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More than a decade after the end
of the apartheid era, when many acts shunned South Africa, the
country is becoming a key destination for many...
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Already holding strong in 2004 amid
declining sales in most European countries, the British music
market experienced another reasonably healthy year in 2005.
That was...
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British pop singer Robbie Williams accepted undisclosed libel damages Tuesday from publishers of a newspaper and magazines which had claimed he was a homosexual.
The...
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Take That, minus Robbie Williams, is reuniting for a tour in Britain and Ireland.
Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen have scheduled 11 dates beginning...
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Take That, minus Robbie Williams, is reuniting for a tour in Britain and Ireland, the boy band announced Friday.
Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen...
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When Madonna takes the stage in Lisbon
on Thursday to perform her new single "Hung Up," it will be the
culmination of weeks of promotion harnessing new technology
that is...
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Madonna will give the first global live
television performance from her new album on Thursday when she
appears at the MTV Europe Music Awards, a key showcase for the
music...
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British pop star Robbie Williams said Friday that supermodel Kate Moss is being attacked unfairly for allegedly using cocaine.
"It wouldn't have surprised me if she had...
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British pop star Robbie Williams said Friday that top model Kate Moss was being attacked unfairly for allegedly using cocaine.
"It wouldn't have surprised me if she had...
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Following is a list of
nominees for the 12th annual MTV Europe Music Awards, which
will take place November 3 at the Atlantic Pavilion in Lisbon.
MALE
50...
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Boy band Take That are back together
again -- but it's only a compilation.
The group, billed as the first band since The Beatles to
score four consecutive number one...
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EMI is cracking open the vaults for Korn.
The
British-based record company has signed the rock-rap act to a
precedent-setting deal. In what may well be a template for...
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Unbelievably, four days ago while still in our hometown of Los Angeles, we were toying with the idea of making a weekend trip to Philadelphia, City Of Brotherly Love, to...
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The full lineup for Live 8 in London:
Coldplay, Dido, Annie Lennox, Elton John, Keane, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Ms. Dynamite, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Razorlight, R.E.M,...
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Nearly everyone in the world can tune in Saturday to Live 8, the all-star concerts urging a political solution to African poverty. "We want to stand shoulder to shoulder, to...
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Wrinkly rockers never die, they just do
charity gigs.
Teenage pop fans hoping to hail their heroes at Saturday's
Live 8 concerts are in for a rude awakening when headline...
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Music fans broke a world record when
they sent more than 2 million text messages to try to get
tickets for next month's Live 8 concert in London, the Guinness
Book of...
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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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A texting lottery for tickets to
London's star-studded Live 8 charity concert opened on Monday
with hundreds of thousands expected to spend up to 20 million
pounds competing...
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Twenty years after the Live Aid concerts, musical superstars are joining in a five-city spectacular to push a political solution for African poverty.
"We don't want...
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Bob Geldof is at it again.
Two decades after he
masterminded Live Aid, the largest charity concert ever mounted, to
fight famine in Africa, the 58-year-old...
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Charity rocker Bob Geldof on Tuesday
announced plans for five star-studded concerts aimed at
pressuring world leaders into eradicating African poverty.
Twenty years after...
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Britpop group Oasis' 1995 hit "Wonderwall" topped a radio station's poll of the best British songs of all time on Monday.
Listeners to Britain's Virgin Radio voted the...
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Growing sales of DVD music
videos and a sharp increase in digital downloads kept the
global music market afloat in 2004 in what the International
Federation of the...
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Global sales of recorded music were essentially flat in 2004, with a reduction in audio sales offset by increases in DVD and digital music sales, the International...
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In the 25-year history of the Brit
awards, Prince ranks as the only winner that dared not speak
his name.
For the small but perfectly formed American rock star never
won...
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The help for tsunami victims keeps on coming from the music community.
No Doubt, Linkin Park with Jay-Z, Blink-182, Jurassic 5, Story of the Year, Crystal Method and Ozzy...
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R&B star Alicia Keys led an array of singers and other international celebrities who entertained an enthusiastic audience of thousands Thursday night to raise money for...
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Elton John , Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Collins and Rod Stewart are piping
up for tsunami relief.
The quartet is among several music
stars who have begun recording a new...
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It was No. 1 in 1984, and it's No. 1 again in 2004. The star-studded re-recording of the hit charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" hit the top of the British music...
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The new Band Aid charity single will be sold on Apple's popular iTunes online music service, with the company subsidizing the retail cost of the track.
Apple had initially...
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"I acted purely on impulse. On hindsight it could have been a lot worse, I could have been like George Harrison. I could have been badly injured, or anything, or shot or...
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EMI Group PLC, one of the world's biggest music companies, reported a small loss for the first half of its fiscal year Friday but said it expected an improvement in the...
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EMI Group PLC, one of the world's 'big three' music companies, reported a fall in sales and a net loss for the first half of its fiscal year Friday but said it expected an...
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Robbie Williams , Michael Jackson , Queen, the Rolling Stones and Cliff Richard have been inducted into Britain's first Music Hall of Fame, chosen by the public as the best...
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Paul McCartney , U2 frontman Bono,
Robbie Williams and Dido are among the performers lined up for
the new recording of the all-star Band Aid charity single "Do
They Know...
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U.S. rapper Ja Rule hit gold on Sunday
as his new release "Wonderful," featuring R&B stars R Kelly and
Ashanti, soared to the top of the UK singles chart, figures
from the...
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Jessica Simpson will unveil two new
releases on Nov. 23: an expanded edition of a seasonal album
previously available only at 7-Eleven stores in North America
and a concert...
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By one measure of their success,
chart-topping rockers The Darkness have sold enough song
downloads, T-shirts and thongs on their official Web...
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Anastacia and Usher were voted the top male and female artists at the first Nordic Music Awards.
Audience members at Saturday's ceremony in Oslo and fans in Norway,...
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Here's an idea: How about rerecording Band Aid's 1984 mega-smash
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" with a new batch of music stars?
It was a great idea--in 1989, that is,...
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The founders of Band Aid, the 1984 charity effort that raised millions for Ethiopian famine relief, plan a new version of the single "Do They Know It's Christmas," a British...
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It may have taken 21 years to get a
new album from Duran Duran's original lineup, but it took the
five members only 24 hours to decide to get back together.
Duran Duran's...
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Lava Records has signed Vanessa
Williams to a two-album deal.
Both releases will be theme records. A Christmas album,
"Silver & Gold," is due Oct. 12, and it will be...
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Microsoft once again
is looking to eat the lunch of longtime rival Apple Computer,
this time in the digital music arena.
Some observers predict that Microsoft's new MSN...
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The Sony-BMG merger leaves four music "majors" with about 80 percent of the $32 billion global music market. They are:
_Universal Music Group: Artists include Sting,...
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For about a week there it appeared
that the Bonnaroo music festival, with a gross of approximately
$14.5 million, was a lock as the top Billboard Boxscore of the
year....
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A company that collects and distributes royalties to pop stars such as Robbie Williams is being investigated for the misappropriation of at least $1.3 million,...
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Bob Geldof is denying British media reports that he's putting on another "Live Aid" concert.
The British tabloid The Sun reported that the Boomtown Rats' singer had...
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Irish rock star Bono is planning a
repeat of the 1985 Live Aid concerts to raise money to help
ease third world debt, The Sun newspaper said on Monday.
Bob Geldof , the...
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For Kevin Kline , composer Cole
Porter offered an irresistible combination -- immortal music by
a flawed genius with a dark side to all the effervescent
frivolity.
So...
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Hip-hop singer Frankee has knocked Eamon
off top spot in the U.K. pop charts with a song that is
believed to be a response to his expletive-filled lament about
his...
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"Pop Idol" winner Will Young will take
on mass-selling singer Dido and Scottish indie outfit Belle and
Sebastian for the best song award at the prestigious Ivor Novello ...
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Busted want you to know: They're pop, not plastic.
The London-based trio, currently on a sold-out stadium tour of Britain, may be freshly scrubbed moppets whose melodic...
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Anastacia made an emotional comeback
with a new album on Saturday, one year after breast cancer
surgery saved her life, in a show-stopping performance at the
German music...
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Time Warner Inc.'s $2.6 billion sale of Warner Music Group to an investor group led by former Universal media conglomerate chief Edgar Bronfman Jr. was completed, and...
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Flamboyant British metal band the
Darkness moved closer to realizing the holy grail of British
rock -- "cracking America" -- when their debut album went gold
in the United...
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Retro rockers The Darkness won three honors at the Brit Music Awards, the equivalent of the Grammys , and Justin Timberlake and Dido each took two.
The Darkness, a...
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British music sales showed a small
recovery last year, helped by albums from artists such as Dido,
Busted and Will Young , according to figures released late
Monday by the...
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Michelle McManus, a former waitress from
Scotland who has attracted as much attention for her weight as
for her voice, won the final of Britain's "Pop Idol" TV talent
show...
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Michelle McManus, a former waitress from
Scotland who has attracted as much attention for her weight as
her voice, won the final of Britain's "Pop Idol" TV talent show
on...
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British music giant
EMI Group has once again found itself left at the merger altar
as Time Warner on Monday unveiled a transaction to sell its
Warner Music Group to a...
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The Irish boy-band Westlife has rocketed
straight to the top slot in Britain's pop charts with its have
their new single "Mandy," The Official UK Charts Company said
on...
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Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees knows his fan base is mostly teenage girls, and he's OK with that. Those fans pushed the boy band's album sales to multiplatinum.
But the...
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Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees knows his fan base is mostly teenage girls, but he's OK with that. Those fans pushed sales of the boy band's "98 Degrees and Rising" and...
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U.S. artists dominated Thursday at the MTV Europe Music Awards, with Justin Timberlake , Beyonce Knowles and host Christina Aguilera taking home the big...
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Shakira
is ready to channel her inner Angelina.
The Latin Grammy-winning, Pepsi-pushing pop star is the
latest celebrity tapped as a United Nations goodwill ambassador....
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Mexican rap-rock
band Molotov topped the second annual MTV Video Music Awards
Latin America Thursday with four wins, including video of the
year and best group. The awards...
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Robbie Williams, Public Enemy, and 2003 Grammy nominees Vanessa Carlton and the Flaming Lips will perform live at the 10th annual Rock The Vote Awards in memory of Patrick...
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Best new artist Grammy winner Shelby Lynne and British pop sensation Robbie Williams are among the artists contributing new tracks to the Bridget Jones's Diary soundtrack,...
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Rumors abound that new Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Queen will perform dates with U.K. pop singer Robbie Williams on vocals. Queen guitarist Brian May revealed to...
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Robbie Williams and his songwriting partner Guy Chambers "substantially copied" a song originally written by Woody Guthrie , or so said a British High Court ruling handed...
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Oasis performed Tuesday night (May 30) in Milan, Italy for the first time in years without guitarist Noel Gallagher. The gig at Milan's Filaforum kicked off with Noel's...
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Robbie Williams has taped an animated short film for the holidays titled Robbie The Reindeer: Hooves Of Fire. The singer, the BBC, and the Comic Relief organization,...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
Late Night With Conan O'Brien - Paula Cole is the musical guest. (To read a Paula Cole feature, click here.)
CBS:
This...
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