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Music

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  Elton John, David Furnish welcome 2nd son

  Elton John and David Furnish say they have become parents for a second time. The couple say they are "overwhelmed with happiness" at the birth of ... 

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  HMV suspends share trading, seeks rescue

  British music and entertainment retailer HMV admitted defeat on Tuesday after more than 90 years in business, suspending trading in its shares and ... 

• Music retailer HMV says it's looking at bankruptcy

  British music and entertainment retailer HMV says it is preparing to enter a form of bankruptcy after failing to secure a reprieve from its lenders. 

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  Experts identify new Mozart portrait

  A round-faced young man with a thick head of hair depicted in a tiny 18th century portrait that had the experts puzzled for centuries now has a name ... 

• Hackers sentenced for Michael Jackson music theft

  A British court sentenced two hackers to 100 hours of community service on Friday for stealing a treasure trove of unreleased music — including ... 

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  Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs dies

  Claude Nobs, the founder and general manager of the Montreux Jazz Festival, whose passion for music and artistry introduced generations of legendary ... 

• Royal Opera announces series of commissions

  The Royal Opera has commissioned Thomas Ades to compose an opera based on the Luis Bunuel film "The Exterminating Angel." It will have a libretto by ... 

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  Simon Rattle to quit Berlin Philharmonic in 2018

  Simon Rattle will leave his post as chief conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic when his contract ends in 2018, he said Thursday. 

• YouTube, German music industry fail to reach deal

  The German music industry has broken off talks with Google Inc.'s YouTube service after failing to agree on licensing fees for its members' work. 

• Amy Winehouse up for posthumous BRIT Award

  The late Amy Winehouse has been nominated for a Brit Award, joining acts such as Emeli Sande and Paloma Faith in the running for best British female ... 

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  Tattooed artist runs for Czech president

  He's tattooed from head to toe, a warrior-like mix of blue, green and red. He's also running in a surprising third place ahead of this week's Czech ... 

• Virgin Stores in France filing for bankruptcy

  The Virgin Stores chain in France, which includes the flagship Megastore on Paris' famed Champs-Elysees, plans to file for bankruptcy. Virgin Stores, ... 

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  2nd Winehouse inquest confirms alcohol death

  Amy Winehouse died from accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after a period of abstinence, a second coroner's inquest confirmed ... 

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  David Bowie readies 1st album in 10 years

  David Bowie is celebrating his birthday by releasing new music. The English singer announced Tuesday, his 66th birthday, that he has released his ... 

• Montreux Jazz founder in coma from ski fall

  The Montreux Jazz Festival says its founder and general manager Claude Nobs has been hospitalized in a coma due to a cross-country skiing injury over ... 

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  Rare color photos of The Beatles to go up for sale

  Unpublished early color photographs of The Beatles' first U.S. tour will be sold at a U.K. auction. The photos were taken during the rock band's 1964 ... 

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  US, Europe hope the new year brings better times

  From teeming Times Square to a once-isolated Asian country celebrating its first public New Year's Eve countdown in decades, the world looked to the ... 

• McCartney, 'God particle' scientist get honors

  Stella McCartney, who designed the uniforms worn by Britain's record-smashing Olympic team, and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to ... 

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  Whale of a tale: Pakistani fishmonger now pop star

  Muhammad Shahid Nazir is a testament to the age-old adage that if you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day, but if you teach a man to sing about ... 

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  Composer/pianist Richard Rodney Bennett dies

  British composer, pianist and arranger Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, who was nominated three times for Academy Awards, has died in New York City at age ... 

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  Communist palace draws pop stars and presidents

  Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament, a gargantuan Stalinist symbol and the most concrete legacy of ex-dictator ... 

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  Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show

  At the end of the evening, the witch was toast Sunday — or more precisely a gingerbread cookie — and the audience at Vienna's Volksoper loved it. 

• Hillsborough charity single tops British chart

  A charity single devoted to the victims of Britain's worst-ever sporting disaster has topped the U.K. singles chart to become a Christmas No. 1. 

• Reports: Rolling Stones guitarist Wood ties knot

  Two British newspapers say Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has married his fiancee Sally Humphreys at a ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel. 

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  Study: Solo stars at higher death risk than bands

  Rock 'n' roll will never die — but it's a hazardous occupation. An academic study published Thursday confirms that rock and pop musicians are more ...