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George Michael Home From Hospital

Singer George Michael is back home in London after being released from a Vienna hospital on Thursday

Singer George Michael is back home in London after being released from a Vienna hospital on Thursday.

Speaking outside his home in north London, Michael thanked his doctors and fans for helping him through a “touch and go” bout with pneumonia.

Looking weak ...

Steve Jobs to get Grammy for revolutionizing music

(Reuters) - First it was a bronze statue in Hungary. Now it's a Grammy.

The accolades for Steve Jobs, who died Oct 5, are still pouring in. The Recording Academy said on Wednesday it is giving the co-founder of Apple a special "Trustees Award" Grammy. The Grammys, of course, are the top honors in the U.S. music industry.

"As ...

"We Found Love" tops chart in milestone for Rihanna

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rihanna's single "We Found Love" on Thursday held the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the eighth straight week, making it the singer's longest-running No. 1 single of her career.

The Barbadian chanteuse's single overtook Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," which stayed at No. 1 for seven weeks earlier ...

Filmmaker John Waters isn't too keen on Lady Gaga or Michele Bachmann as mall Santas

Filmmaker John Waters isn't too keen on Lady Gaga or Michele Bachmann as mall Santas.

Waters opined on the unlikely Santas during an interview with The Huffington Post.

“Michele Bachmann would have too many dumb opinions about children's gifts,” Waters said of ...

The Grammys will pay special tribute to late Apple founder Steve Jobs, Brazil's Tom Jobim -- of "Girl from Ipanema" fame -- and US singer Diana Ross at the upcoming awards show, the organization announced Wednesday.

The Apple co-founder and mind behind the wildly popular iPod, iPad and iPhone died in October after battling pancreatic cancer.

Jobs, a Trustees Award honoree ...

Michael Buble wraps up 4th week atop album chart

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Canadian jazz singer Michael Buble's "Christmas" held the top spot for the fourth straight week on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, as no new entries could compete against old favorites during the holiday season.

"I've dreamt of making a Christmas album for as long as I can remember. I had very specific ideas ...

'27 Club' of dead rockers is a myth, says study

Fame boosts the risk of early death for rock stars but the claim that the peril is greatest at the age of 27 is false, according to a study published on Tuesday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

The theory of the "27 Club" spread earlier this year when Amy Winehouse joined Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Brian Jones and ...

A mascara ad featuring Taylor Swift has been pulled from US magazines following a complaint that it had been digitally altered to enhance the looks of the chart-topping country music star.

The National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus Claims said Proctor and Gamble, maker of CoverGirl cosmetics, "discontinued the advertisement in question" after it challenged ...

British pop star George Michael is doing well in hospital in Vienna but whether he will be able to spend Christmas back in Britain was still uncertain, one of his Austrian doctors said Tuesday.

"We know that he is doing well. And we are generally optimistic," Christoph Zielinski of Vienna's General Hospital (AKH) told ORF radio.

On whether Michael ...

Paul McCartney to cover songs that inspired Beatles

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paul McCartney will kick off 2012 with an album of cover tunes and two original songs, he said on Monday, offering fans a glimpse of the music that inspired one of the biggest rock bands ever, the Beatles.

The yet-to-be-titled album, due for release on February 7, will showcase the former Beatle on a "deeply personal journey ...

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