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AP - Pop legend Elton John will celebrate his 60th birthday with a record-extending 60th performance at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

Reuters - Snoop Dogg, who has been denied a visa to enter Britain on a European tour, is seeking to have the decision overturned, a spokeswoman said on Saturday.

AP - British authorities denied rapper Snoop Dogg a visa for a series of planned concerts, publicists for his tour said in a statement Saturday.

Reuters - Pink's previous album was, by her standards, a flop in the United States.

Reuters - The Christian/gospel community hopes the Gospel Music Channel will do for faith-based music what networks like MTV and CMT did for pop and country.

Reuters - The sophomore slump. Second-year blues. The "difficult" second album. None of these phrases are in Alex Turner's vocabulary.

Reuters - What do Rick James' funk classic "Super Freak," Appalachian folk singer Roscoe Holcomb's "Across the Rocky Mountain" and Bruce Hornsby's "Mandolin Rain" have in common? The answer isn't a punch line. Truth is, they all appear on a new collaboration between Ricky Skaggs and Hornsby.

Reuters - For the past two decades, Puerto Rican singer Chayanne's career has been a steady stream of album followed by tour, album followed by tour, each cycle slightly more successful than the next.

Reuters - Lumidee has overcome much more serious obstacles than being labeled a one-hit wonder. More Info...  

Reuters - NEW YORK (Billboard)- They may not have big marketing budgets or splashy publicity campaigns behind them, but several excellent new albums issued quietly this spring by various independent labels deserve their turn in the spotlight. More Info...  

Music News

Reuters - Neil Young has been a consistent presence on the charts since the late 1960s, but only once has he ever debuted higher than the No. 6 position enjoyed this week by the vintage concert CD "Live at Massey Hall 1971."

Reuters - Neil Young has been a consistent presence on the charts since the late 1960s, but only once has he ever debuted higher than the No. 6 position enjoyed this week by the vintage concert CD "Live at Massey Hall 1971."

AP - The band Boston spoke to people's souls during the 1970s with smash hits like "More Than a Feeling" and "Peace of Mind." But two weeks after lead singer Brad Delp's suicide at his New Hampshire home, bad feelings abound. Current members of the band, including the chief songwriter and founder, Tom Scholz, were not informed about or invited to Delp's funeral, which was attended by early band members who opposed Scholz in a 1980s legal battle.

Reuters - Polish your platform boots, squeeze into those flared pants. Donny Osmond and his five brothers may be planning a comeback -- at least for one night.

Reuters - Musiq Soulchild scored his second career No. 1 on The Billboard 200 during a week when six new albums entered the top 10. More Info...  

AP - Tim McGraw once sang about all the things he planned to do later in life. In "My Next 30 Years," he vowed to cry a little less, laugh a little more, raise a little family and hang out with his wife.

E! Online - The friendly skies might be a little friendlier from now on.

AP - It must have snowed a lot in 16th-century Scotland. More Info...  

AP - Is this a flashback? One faction of the 1960s psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane is again suing founding member Paul Kantner, alleging that he's using the band's name without permission.

AP - Former ABBA stars Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson won a court battle Friday over who wrote the script for one of their musicals. More Info...