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Reuters - Don't you love British people? The British Invasion of 1964 made me an Anglophile forever, but they continue to keep a smile on my face, seemingly oblivious to the imminent music business armageddon, distracting us with their wit and wisdom. More Info...  

Reuters - Festivals are ripe venues for live recordings. Cases in point: Norman Granz's full slate of albums recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1977 and 1979 for his Pablo label, and Verve's series of Charlie Haden concerts at the 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival. More Info...  

Reuters - Though this summer's Ozzfest tour will cost fans nothing to attend, those who purchase Ozzy Osbourne's first new studio album in six years, "Black Rain," will now have a better shot at getting in the door. More Info...  

Reuters - Timberlake's previous single, "What Goes Around . More Info...  

AP - Rocker Patti Smith said Friday that her concern for the hundreds of men imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay compelled her to record a song about a former detainee. More Info...  

Music News Reuters - It has been quite a year for singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge. More Info...  

AP - Julian Lennon sold a share of his financial stake in Beatles songs co-written by his late father to a New York music publishing firm in a deal announced Friday. More Info...  

AP - In 1943, when the Pulitzer Prize committee established an award for America's best music, many genres were flourishing. More Info...  

AP - Barbra Streisand welcomed Nancy Pelosi to her bluff-top Malibu estate for a fundraising dinner that took in $1.3 million for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

AP - Fighting in vain to keep his job, radio host Don Imus claimed that rappers routinely "defame and demean black women" and call them "worse names than I ever did."

AP - James Blunt will not be charged over a claim that he drove over someone's foot while leaving a party in February, the city attorney's office said Friday.

AP - Ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is writing a series of children's books for release next year, and has returned to the studio to record the series' theme song.

AP - Island Def Jam Music Group said it has revived the defunct Mercury Records label and tapped a former Sony Music veteran to run it. More Info...  

E! Online - Dancing with the Stars alumna Sara Evans' divorce is getting more complicated than a Paso Doble.

AP - Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has listed Eddie Murphy's name on the birth certificate of her infant daughter, her publicist said Friday.

AP - Ivan Fischer has been named principal conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, effective in the fall 2008. More Info...  

E! Online - This legal case just exited stage left.

A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit brought by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson over a ruckus at a New Year's party in 2003 that left him in jail with a broken nose.

E! Online - Hey, Jude, take your dad's songs and make you richer.

E! Online - When it comes to the birth certificate for Melanie Brown's newborn daughter, there's a big blank spot where the child's moniker should be.

Yahoo! Music - Macy Gray admits she only collaborated with Justin Timberlake on her new album because she was "forced to." More Info...