Rocker Gary Glitter arrested in connection with Savile case, British media report

Police investigating the sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said Sunday
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Car accident claims R&B singer Natina Reed

Natina Reed, a member of the R&B singing trio Blaque, was struck and killed by a car as she walked in a major roadway in Georgia, police said on Saturday. Reed, who also appeared in the cheerleader movie "Bring It On" in 2000, would have turned 33 on Sunday
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Rolling Stones rock Paris with surprise gig in tiny venue

The Rolling Stones, celebrating 50 years in rock music, gave their first concert in five years at a small Paris venue Thursday, wowing an audience who paid just 15 euros each ($20) to see the surprise gig
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New Beethoven work identified

A University Of Manchester professor has said that notes in a sketchbook that belonged to Ludwig van Beethoven represent a previously unknown piece of work by the composer. It's previously been thought that the notes related to a known Beethoven piece, but Professor Barry Cooper says that the score actually represents an adaptation by the composer of an existing hymn, the Gregorian chant 'Pange Lingua'. Cooper recognised the basic tune that Beethoven had reworked
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Jamie Cullum, Sonny Rollins tipped for new Jazz Award

Jazz FM has announced the nominations for its inaugural Jazz FM Awards, which include Jamie Cullum, Roller Trio, Sonny Rollins and Gregory Porter. The 34 nominations recognise those who have made exceptional contributions to jazz this year. Cullum is up for UK Jazz Artist of the Year while Rollins has been nominated in the International Artist category. Porter will go head to head with Robert Glasper for the Album of the Year gong. The nominations were chosen by a 13-strong panel of experts, including jazz journalists Clive Davis, Mike Hobart, Rob Adams, Stuart Nicholson and Seb Scotney; the live jazz promoters Steve Rubie (the 606 Club), Paul Pace (Ronnie Scott's) and Ross Dines (Pizza Express). The winners will be named at the awards ceremony on 31 January at Number One Marylebone, and will be selected by an expert panel of judges including: John Cumming, Director of Serious Productions, Tony Dudley-Evans, Artistic Director of Birmingham Jazz and of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and Alex Webb, Songwriter, Musician and Journalist

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Q Awards 2012: the winners

Q Awards 2012: the winners:

Q Best New Act presented by Merc
Django Django

Q Best Track presented by Q Radio
Plan B for Ill manors

Q Best Album presented by Red Stag for Jim Beam
Bobby Womack, The Bravest Man In The Universe

Q Best Live Act presented by Zeo
Blur

Q Best Video presented by Café de Paris
Keane, Disconnected

Q Best Solo Artist presented by Citroën
Emeli Sandé

Q Best Act In The World Today
Muse

Q Classic Song
Dionne Warwick for Walk On By

Q Idol
The Killers' Brandon Flowers

Q Spirit Of Independence
The Cribs

Q Innovation In Sound presented by Beats By Dr Dre
Underworld

Q Inspiration Award
Pulp

Q Icon Award
Dexys

Q Classic Album
Manic Street Preachers for Generation Terrorists

Q Hero
Johnny Marr
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BPI wants more torrent sites added to ISP’s Pirate Bay block list

The British Phonographic Industry, which represents the interests of the major labels and the majority of the indie record sellers in the UK, has apparently asked several ISPs to add the likes of Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents to the list of sites that allow the illegal sharing of music and therefore need banning
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International income from British music doubles in the last decade

PRS for Music has announced that British music abroad is so popular that revenue earned from its use has doubled since 2002. During 2011, UK songwriters and composers earned £187.7m globally, up 10.6% on 2010 (£169.6m). The organisation represents 90,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, collecting royalties from 150 territories around the world. Growth of £100m in international royalties since 2002 is attributed to both the widespread consumption of British music and improved licensing of its use and efficiency of distribution around the world. Due to the success of its music creators, the UK is one of only three countries in the world that is a net exporter of music

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The Beatles: A band reviewed

Fifty years ago The Beatles released their first single, Love Me Do. It eventually reached No 17 in the UK charts, but this modest debut was the trigger for a musical revolution
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B.B. Cunningham Jr., a member of Jerry Lee Lewis' band, killed in shootout along with teen

Musician B.B. Cunningham Jr., a member of Jerry Lee Lewis' band, was killed in a Memphis shootout early Sunday, police said
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Lady Gaga has tea with Assange

The Born This Way singer - who launched her new perfume Fame at Harrods at the weekend - called into the Ecuadorian embassy where the WikiLeaks founder is holed up as he fights extradition to Sweden and a picture of the pair together has emerged on the internet
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Download Left Boy’s new EP for free

Multi-genre artist Ferdinand Sarnitz, aka Left Boy, has announced a one off show at London XOYO this month
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Blur reveal Europe festival dates

Blur announce three European dates next year, having hinted their Hyde Park gig would be their last
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Glastonbury tickets sell out in record time

Thousands of revellers hoping to go to Glastonbury were left frustrated today as the festival's website crashed before tickets went on sale. Tickets for the music festival went on sale at 9am, but by 10:40 all 140,000 tickets had sold out. The organisers' website crashed around half an hour before tickets went on sale, as hundreds of thousands of eager fans tried to secure tickets for the landmark music festival
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50 years of James Bond in music

Few characters in the history of cinema, if any, are more iconic than Ian Fleming's debonair super-spy, James Bond; few, too, can boast of any comparison to the equally iconic music which accompanies the intrepid agent 007's exploits. Since the series' beginning, the Bond films have been marked by exceptional music, including contributions from Paul McCartney, Shirley Bassey, Louis Armstrong and Madonna, and, of course, John Barry's instantly recognizable recording of Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme." (Adele will sing the theme for the 23rd film, Skyfall, which releases in the United Kingdom on 26 October and in the United States on 9 November.)
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The Beatles begin, Friday, 5 October 1962

The Beatles' dream of releasing a record came to fruition fifty years ago when Parlophone issued the band's first disc, "Love Me Do." That night, EMI played the song on its own London-produced weekly radio program Friday Spectacular, broadcast on Radio Luxembourg. In the Beatles' Anthology, George Harrison recalled that, "First hearing 'Love Me Do' on the radio sent me shivery all over. It was the best buzz of all time." But records only become hits through marketing, and manager Brian Epstein soon learnt that for significant promotion he could not rely on others. He would need to develop a different strategy
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Beatles unseen Mystery Tour footage goes online

Previously unseen footage of The Beatles sharing fish and chips while filming their 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour has been posted online. Arts website The Space is hosting the footage, discovered during the making of a new documentary about the film from BBC Two's Arena. It shows The Beatles taking a break from the Magical Mystery Tour coach at a fish bar in Taunton, Somerset. The film was first broadcast by the BBC on Boxing Day 1967 Technorati Tag: Music
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October issue of Black Grooves

The October 2012 issue of Black Grooves has now been posted. This month we're celebrating the publication of our 1000th review! Those who follow the Archives of African American Music and Culture on Facebook will be notified of weekly contests throughout October and will have a chance to win free CDs
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Rapper Psy becomes first South Korean to score UK number one hit

Rapper Psy has become the first South Korean musician to make it to number one in the UK with his single Gangnam Style Technorati Tag: Music
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