The Queen of the Blues is dead.
Koko Taylor performs in Spain in 2005. Her last performance was in May of this year.
Koko Taylor, a West Tennessee sharecropper’s daughter who went(…)

Roll up for Britney Spears’s Circus
By Mark Savage
Entertainment reporter, BBC News
Since Britney Spears’s last UK concert in 2004, she has been married, had two children, got divorced, shaved off her hair, been(…)

‘Queen of Blues’ Koko Taylor dies
Award-winning singer Koko Taylor, known in the music world as the “Queen of the Blues”, has died in hospital at the age of 80, her record label has(…)

Robinson takes home Orange Prize
Marilynne Robinson has won this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for her third novel, Home.The US author beat five other writers to take the 30,000 prize during a ceremony(…)

Reclusive author J.D. Salinger has emerged, at least in the pages of court documents, to try to stop a novel that presents Holden Caulfield, the disaffected teen hero of his classic “The(…)

NEW YORKPaul McCartney, whose Beatles gave Shea Stadium its first concert in 1965, will inaugurate the New York Mets’ new home, Citi Field, with two shows next month, promoters said.
Paul McCartney(…)

LOS ANGELES, California Music fans who buy concert tickets during Live Nation’s “No Service Fee Wednesday” may be surprised when they check their receipt and see some service fees were charged.
Concertgoers(…)

(NEW YORK)Lionel Richie turns 60 this month and he can’t believe it either.
Singer Lionel Richie says his latest album is some of his best work.
In fact, the singerwho in the(…)

Boyle not focus of TV complaints
Almost 350 people complained to Ofcom about Britian’s Got Talent last week, but fewer than 20 were concerned about the treatment of runner-up Susan Boyle.Only 16 complaints were(…)

Total Recall movie ‘to be remade’
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1990 sci-fi thriller Total Recall is being remade, according to reports.Trade newspaper The Hollywood Reporter said Kurt Wimmer, who penned the 1999 version of The Thomas(…)

Ballet’s Ed Watson is no bad boy
By Caroline Briggs
Arts and culture reporter, BBC News
Royal Ballet star Ed Watson is set to appear on the big screen when a performance of Ondine is relayed(…)

Furtado to release Spanish album
Singer songwriter Nelly Furtado is set to release her first album recorded entirely in Spanish, according to US music magazine Billboard.The star has already been heard singing in Spanish(…)

MTV Eminem stunt ‘was rehearsed’

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s stunt at the MTV Movie Awards, which saw him land on Eminem while baring his naked backside, was pre-arranged, a writer has said.The(…)

Talent ‘has not exploited Boyle’
Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has denied the show exploited Susan Boyle, saying she was “stressed out” by “falsehoods” written about her.Holden told the Larry King Live show(…)

The mad world of Marilyn Manson
By Ian Youngs
Music reporter, BBC News
“Do you want a fight? Do you want a fight with me?”I met Marilyn Manson less than two minutes ago.I am supposed to(…)

Gavin and Stacey ’say goodbye’
By Greg Cochrane
Newsbeat entertainment reporter
Gavin and Stacey writer and star James Corden says he’s “very sad” as the cast prepare for the third and final series of the hit(…)

Ovation for Whoopi’s Sister Act
Hollywood star Whoopi Goldberg received a standing ovation at the opening night of her West End musical Sister Act at the London Palladium.The actress, who also starred in the(…)

Talking Shop: Liz Bonnin
A new science show, which will draw inevitable comparisons to Tomorrow’s World, is due to start next month on BBC One.Bang Goes The Theory will explore the science that affects(…)

Actor Bale takes on The Terminator
Actor Christian Bale is taking the lead role in the latest outing of The Terminator franchise of all-action movies.
The Welsh-born star, well known for playing superhero Batman, plays(…)

Norton chat show moves to BBC One
Presenter Graham Norton’s chat show is being moved to BBC One to show off his “unique talent”, it has been announced.BBC One controller Jay Hunt said the(…)

Scotland’s Susan Boyle gives new meaning to the term “overnight sensation.” The “Britain’s Got Talent” contestant was expected to be something of a joke when she first sauntered on stage, but she(…)