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Music News for July 6, 2008
NY researcher: `Yankee Doodle' turns 250 - maybe (AP)
AP - Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.
Huge trove of 78 rpm records donated to Syracuse U (AP)
AP - A vast collection of 78 rpm records — valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history — is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.
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.
Headstone Swiped from Joy Division Singer's Grave (E! Online)
E! Online - Ian Curtis wasn't around long but he left quite an impression.
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.
Mamma Mia! ABBA Reunites for Film Premiere (E! Online)
E! Online - Don't pull out the polyester and platforms just yet, folks. It was just for a movie premiere.
Bobby: New Edition Brown Out "Best Thing for Me" (E! Online)
E! Online - It remains to be seen whether New Edition and New Kids on the Block teaming up will be a super group or more of a stupor group. But whatever happens, it's all gravy to a suddenly philosophical Bobby Brown, who now sees getting kicked out of New Edition years ago as a good thing when viewed in the rearview mirror:
ZZ Top hitches ride with Rick Rubin for comeback (Reuters)
Reuters - Texas rock trio ZZ Top has signed to
producer Rick Rubin's American Recordings imprint, hoping for a
commercial and critical revitalization along the lines of prior
Rubin clients Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond.
Gospel singer Wright hurt in Pa. car accident (AP)
AP - Gospel singer Timothy Wright was critically injured in a crash in central Pennsylvania that killed his wife and a wrong-way driver who hit their vehicle, police said.
Just how close 'friends' are Madonna and A-Rod? (AP)
AP - NEW YORK (AP) — A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world — each a chatty bunch — buzzing with questions about the two "friends."
