George Michael {Photo: Jon Furniss}Careless whispers were definitely not on the agenda when George Michael woke from a lengthy coma late last year. In fact, quite the contrary--the singer and former Wham! frontman scared his doctors by speaking his first words in an accent totally different from his usual dialect.

Michael, who normally talks like the London native that he is, found himself inexplicably using a distinctive burr from England's West Country for a couple days. Since he'd just spent three weeks in a coma due to a life-threatening case of pneumonia, medical staff feared this meant he'd suffered brain damage.

"My doctors were genuinely worried that I had this condition, it's a genuine thing where people wake from comas speaking French or some other language they learned at school," Michael explained to a London radio station.

"They were worried I could have spoken like that for the rest of my life...Not that there's anything wrong with the West Country accent--but it's a bit weird when you come from North London."

Hitmaking rapper Drake seems to be taking the "you only live once" motto quite seriously--he's just dropped nearly $8 million on a fantasy-come-true mansion in Los Angeles.

Drake's estate

Drake's amazing new pad, which measures up at 7,444 square feet and sits on three acres in the uber-exclusive area of Hidden Hills, cost him $7.7 mil to be exact. And, it has everything one would expect from such a price tag...including seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a home theater, tennis and volleyball courts, a stable and equestrian ring, and a Hefner-worthy pool complete with a huge waterfall, grotto and wet bars. Heck, it even has its own mechanical bull (the property was formerly owned by the founder of the Saddle Ranch Chop House restaurant chain, which features a bull at each location).

Drake's new wine cellar

As you can see from these beautiful MLS listing photos, It's a pretty impressive estate for a 25-year-old guy to call home. But hey--YOLO, right?

Drake's new pool

Drake actually seems to have landed a reasonable deal on the place: It

Usher {photo: Johnny Nunez}The tragic water accident that left pop star Usher's 11-year-old stepson Kyle Glover brain-dead on Monday has yet another sad element revealed this week: A family friend is reported to be the one who allegedly struck the youth with a jet ski.

According to a report from the New York Daily News, 38-year-old Jeffrey S. Hubbard has been identified by officials and is currently under investigation for the collision, which took place Friday on Georgia's Lake Lanier.

An unidentified 15-year-old girl in the water with Glover was also hit by the vehicle, and suffered a cut to her head as well as a broken arm.

"Basically, a pontoon was pulling two juveniles on an inner tube, and the watercraft ran over the top of them," Sgt. Mike Burgamy with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources explained to the Daily News, adding that it all happened in a matter of a minute and that Glover took the brunt of the hit.

Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Usher, Linkin Park, the reunited No Doubt, Brad Paisley, Green Day and more than a dozen other A-list performers will be headlining Clear Channel's 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival--the lineup of which was announced this morning.

The two-day festival, slated for Sept.21-22 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and billed as "the Biggest Live Music Event in Radio History," will be streamed live by Yahoo!, Clear Channel's web and mobile webcast partner for the event.

This year's iHeartRadio Music Festival follows last year's inaugural event--tickets for which sold out 10 minutes after being made available to the public—and likewise has focused on superstar talent.

The officially announced talent lineup-- unveiled this morning via special live announcement  by Ryan Seacrest--also includes Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Lil Wayne, Swedish House Mafia, Pitbull, Deadmau5, Miranda Lambert, Enrique Iglesias, Linkin Park, Jason Aldean, Pink, Mary J. Blige, Calvin Harris and Shakira.

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