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Music News for July 4, 2008
Headstone Swiped from Joy Division Singer's Grave (E! Online)
E! Online - Ian Curtis wasn't around long but he left quite an impression.
Lindsay's B-day Goal: Happy, Healthy, Rihanna-y Year (E! Online)
E! Online - Lindsay Lohan's private life has gone through some rather public growing pains over the past few years. And now, newly 22 years of age, the only growing she wants to do in public is of the professional variety.
Ex-Whitesnake Guitarist, RIP (E! Online)
E! Online - Mel Galley, the former guitarist and backing vocalist for White Snake in its early-'80s incarnation, has died at the age of 60, the band confirmed on its website.
NY researcher: `Yankee Doodle' turns 250 - maybe (AP)
AP - Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.
Singing dentist wins $2 million music contract (Reuters)
Reuters - An opera-loving dentist is ready to swap
his drill for a microphone after winning a four-album recording
contract worth about $2 million.
Kylie Minogue receives OBE (Reuters)
Reuters - Kylie Minogue, the former soap actress
who become one of the world's most famous female recording
artists, was honored for her services to music on Thursday.
ABBA foursome make rare appearance (Reuters)
Reuters - All four members of supergroup ABBA
appeared together on Friday at the Swedish premiere of the film
"Mamma Mia!," delighting fans with their first public showing
for years.
Alejandro Escovedo has another breakthrough album (AP)
AP - Ask his fellow musicians about Alejandro Escovedo, and you'll hear nothing but praise. Yet he's never been a household name, and even among rock fans, his work, though influential, is not widely known: He's been more of an aficionado's musician.
Man claims assault by Eminem in 2006 in Detroit (AP)
AP - A man has sued Eminem, claiming the rapper punched him two years ago while they were in the bathroom of a Detroit strip club.
Indie Acts Gear Up For Festival Season (Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - Rock festival season is underway, with Coachella and Bonnaroo already over, the Warped and Ozzfest tours traveling from coast to coast, and Chicago's Lollapalooza and New Jersey's All Points West events around the corner in early August.
