Reuters - Katy Perry's bi-curious ditty "I
Kissed a Girl" led the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a
third week on Thursday, while Rihanna's "Take a Bow" jumped two
places to No. 2. -- read full article
Reuters - Lyle Lovett says he has "never made a
dime" from album sales during his two-decade career, and hopes
to rectify that situation when his contract expires.
AP - "Unless I'm home, I cannot be a great husband and father especially the father of a child with special needs." Benjamin Bratt, explaining that his 5-year-old daughter Sophia suffered brain injury at birth, resulting in physical disabilities.
AP - Every so often, Ron Sexsmith runs into the music executive who curated Bob Marley's "Legend" disc the prototype for a phenomenally successful career retrospective and the man asks if it's time to give the Canadian singer-songwriter the same treatment.
AP - Her parents are in the middle of a tawdry divorce, her brother is in jail and she's cut off contact with her mom because of her mother's teenage boyfriend. It would seem that with all the drama engulfing Brooke Hogan these days, the last place she'd want to be is in front of the cameras.
Reuters - The hand-painted drum skin that appeared
on the sleeve of the Beatles' ground-breaking 1967 album "Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" sold for $1.1 million at
auction on Thursday, four times its estimate.