Elvis Costello News
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On London’s Downing Street, home of British prime ministers and at Buckingham Palace, the flags flew at half staff today honoring the death of “a great leader,” in the words of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative successor, Prime Minister David Cameron.
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The voice is as soulful as Al Green ’s, as smooth as Marvin Gaye ’s. Cee Lo Green’s CD out today, “The Lady Killer,” stakes an aggressive claim to take the title of the King of Soul away from the late Otis Redding .
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As red-cloaked monks swung a censer to the accompaniment of bells and Hebrew prayers against the backdrop of a crucifix, Madonna shouted “Tel Aviv, are you ready?” and launched into “Girl Gone Wild.”
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Back in the 1980s, when Ruben Blades and his Seis de Solar band were setting the salsa world on fire, the television program “Saturday Night Live” offered them a guest spot, every musician’s dream.
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Alice Walker refused to have “The Color Purple” published for a second time in Hebrew. The Irish band Dervish withdrew from a three-gig visit after a social- media campaign against its concert.
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A cabbage sold for several hundred thousand dollars last night. The grocery shopping took place at a preview of the Art Show, an annual fair organized by the Art Dealers Association of America .
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Bon Jovi will be ripping the roof off the O2 again on Friday night.
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Frank Sinatra , Peggy Lee and Elvis Costello recorded the gorgeous title song from Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s 1949 Broadway musical, “Lost in the Stars.”
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The Strokes took five years to record just 35 minutes of music.
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Meryl Streep played Dorothy last night, crooning with scarecrow James Taylor in the opening number of the Rainforest Fund concert at Carnegie Hall.
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