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Crooner Christie savours comeback
2005-03-18 - Crooner Tony Christie is heading for his first UK number one single with (Is
This the Way To) Amarillo after being championed by comedian Peter Kay - 34
years after the song was first in the charts.
After three decades of feeling largely unloved in his home country, Tony
Christie is finally remembering how it feels to be a star in Britain.
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New BAND from Denmark
2005-03-15 - HeyWire is new on Xmenstar - Take a look und listening to ther really good Music
- enjoy and if you like they Play for you - We believe HeyWire and they will
done the Support for T.Rex in Denmark
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Rod Stewart's ex wants more!
2005-03-15 - Rock star Rod Stewart´s engagement to catwalk beauty Penny Lancaster has
reportedly enraged his estranged wife Rachel Hunter, who is expected to demand a
large chunk of the singer's 100 million pound fortune after their divorce is
finalised.
According to The Daily Mail, the New Zealand-born model, who left Stewart after
nine years of marriage
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U2 go in at number one
2005-02-14 - Irish rockers U2 have gone straight to the top of the charts with their new
single, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own.
The track, from their How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb album, claimed the top
spot ahead of Elvis Presley's re-release Wooden Heart.
Last week's number one, Rapper Eminem's Like Toy Soldiers, slipped to number
three.
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Sinead O'Connor making a comeback - sort of
2005-02-12 - LONDON - Irish singer Sinead O'Connor says that after two years of retirement,
she is returning to music - but not the pop scene.
"I want to at least aim my records at a more spiritualized market,"
she told Irish music magazine Hotpress.
O'Connor, best known for her song "Nothing Compares 2 U" and for
shredding a picture of Pope John Paul II on
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Duo Hall and Oates announce UK tour dates
2005-02-12 - U.S "blue-eyed soul" duo Daryl Hall and John Oates are to tour Britain
in May.Famed for hits like "Maneater" and "I Can't Go For That
(No Can Do)", Hall and Oates will play Manchester, London and Newcastle and
Glasgow."We last toured Britain in 2002 and are really excited to be coming
back as we always have a fantastic time on our tours here,"
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Rock band INXS hunt for UK singer
2005-02-09 - Rock group INXS have auditioned singers to replace the late Michael Hutchence in
London.
The Australian band are holding auditions in six continents as part of a reality
TV series, INXS Rock Star, to be broadcast in the US in July.
The winner will record an album with the band as well as tour with them.
Tuesday's open audition at
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Doobie Brothers drummer dies at 56
2005-02-09 - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Keith Knudsen, the longtime Doobie Brothers drummer who
played with the band on a string of hits that included "Taking it to the
Streets" and "Black Water," died of pneumonia Tuesday. He was
56.
Knudsen had been hospitalized for more than a month, according to the band's
longtime manager Bruce Cohn.
Knudsen began drumming
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Fewer tune in to McCartney Bowl
2005-02-09 - Sunday's American football Super Bowl was watched by four million viewers fewer
than last year's game, despite a half-time show from Sir Paul McCartney.
An estimated average of 86.1 million tuned in, down from the 90 million who saw
the 2004 game and Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction".
Sunday's viewing figures were lower than
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Gene Simmons
2005-02-08 - Since we've always been strongly supportive of the notion that people should
write what they know, we're eagerly looking forward to Gene Simmons' upcoming
book, in which he'll go into great detail about the history of people
prostituting themselves. The Kiss-master, who's found more different ways to
sell himself than a brothel full of working
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