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An Oil Heir Crashes Into Pink’s BMW

By Marc Middleton • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: music news
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Pop punk Pink was left fuming after a night out in Hollywood on Sunday - when she discovered Mischa Barton’s ex, Brandon Davis, had crashed into her parked car.
Members of the paparazzi caught oil heir Davis on camera as he left a liquor store on Sunset Boulevard in the early hours of Monday and jumped [...]



Britney Spears Regrets Staying In Hollywood

By Marc Middleton • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: music news
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Britney Spears regrets not fleeing Hollywood and “going home” to Louisiana after the break-up of her marriage to Kevin Federline - because such a move might have saved her sanity.
The pop superstar suffered a breakdown at the beginning of 2008 and was twice admitted to hospital for mental evaluations as she battled for custody of [...]



Travis Barker And DJ AM To Reunite For Performance

By Marc Middleton • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: music news
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Punk musician Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM will perform together for the first time since the duo survived a fiery plane crash in South Carolina.
The former Blink-182 drummer and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, will headline New Year’s Nation’s Los Angeles New Year’s Eve Party [...]



Soulja Boy Urges Wannabes To Go Online

By Marc Middleton • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: music news
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Rap sensation Soulja Boy is urging wannabe hip-hop stars to bombard the internet with their music because the world wide web gave him his big break. The “Superman” star insists the net is an amazing platform for unsigned talents to get their music heard.
He tells Hip Hop Weekly, “I was 11 or 12 when I [...]



Britney Spears Dreams Of A Third Wedding

By Marc Middleton • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: music news
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Pop star Britney Spears has confessed she is desperate to get married again.
The Toxic hit-maker divorced the father of her sons Kevin Federline in November 2006, and had a short-lived marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander in 2004. But Spears, mother to Sean Preston, three, and Jayden James, two, insists her previous bad experiences have [...]



Queen & Stevie Wonder Inducted Into Hall Of Fame

By Marc Middleton • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: music news
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Classic songs from Queen and Stevie Wonder are among 28 recordings that have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Queen’s 1977 double A-side single We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You and Wonder’s 1968 hit For Once in My Life were chosen by a special member committee of experts and historians drawn from all [...]



Visit To Rehab Made Beyonce Cry

By Marc Middleton • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: music news
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Beyonce Knowles was so moved by the plight of the recovering drug addicts she met while researching her new film Cadillac Records, she broke down in tears.
In the upcoming movie, the clean-cut Bootylicious beauty portrays soul legend Etta James, who battled numerous drug issues throughout her life. And to get into character, Knowles visited a [...]



Britney Spears Has A ‘Gay’ Old Time At Birthday Party

By Marc Middleton • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: music news
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Britney Spears celebrated her 27th birthday early on Saturday night at Britain’s premier gay club.
The pop star, in London for an appearance on TV talent show X Factor, stopped by the G.A.Y. event, where she was presented with a cake, decorated to look like the cover of her new album Circus, which is released on [...]



Lil Wayne Enlists Friends for Winter Tour

By Steve Carrier • Nov 30th, 2008 • Category: music news
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Riding the wave of his latest effort, The Carter III, Lil Wayne has announced dates for his winter “I Am Music” tour.
The tour kicks off December 14 in Miami and will feature a packed lineup of the Gym Class Heroes, Keri Hilson, Keyshia Cole, and everybody’s go-to guy for a hook, T-Pain.
“I Am Music” tour [...]



Britney Spears Says She’s “Old & Boring”

By Marc Middleton • Nov 30th, 2008 • Category: music news
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Britney Spears, who celebrates her 27th birthday this week as well as sees the release of her new album and a documentary, told Rolling Stone magazine this week that she actually feels “old and boring.”
“I feel like an old person now,” she said in the rather tame article (her interviewer was forbidden to grill her [...]