Robbie Williams News
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Emeli Sande and Mumford & Sons led winners at the Brit music awards in London last night.
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British singer Robbie Williams’ forthcoming solo album will be released by Universal Music Group next autumn, according to a statement on Williams’ website.
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The O2 is set for four nights of continuous hits from Robbie Williams and the Rolling Stones.
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The smartie who turned collapsing Enron Corp. into a piece of musical theater is back.
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The group Alt-J won the U.K.’s 2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize last night, beating acts such as Plan B and Jessie Ware.
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EMI, the music company that housed The Beatles until it was split up and sold last year, goes on the auction block again this week as new owner Universal Music Group divests some assets to meet antitrust requirements.
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Google Inc. asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit by authors over the digitizing of books, saying that the company’s book-scanning program is a fair use of copyrighted material and a benefit to the public and authors.
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A Sony Corp.-led group won European Union approval for its $2.2 billion purchase of EMI Group’s music publishing unit after it agreed to sell rights to chart hits by Robbie Williams and Ozzy Osbourne.
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Plan B, Jessie Ware and Alt-J lead this year’s shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, which again has snubbed commercially successful acts such as Kate Bush, Coldplay, Emeli Sande and Florence & the Machine.
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Facebook Inc., the biggest social- networking service, made an offer for AOL Inc.’s patent portfolio before losing out to Microsoft Corp.’s $1.06 billion bid, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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