Tom Jones joined Hugh Laurie on stage Friday night at Los Angeles' Mint nightclub to perform Baby, Please Make a Change, the song they recorded together for Laurie's album. Jones then stuck around to do a double take on Jerry Lee Lewis with End of the Road and Great Balls of Fire.
Chrissie Hynde has been forced to close her vegetarian restaurant in hometown Akron, OH, blaming the stalled economy. She had opened the establishment four years ago.
The 3rd Annual Soul Train Awards will be held on Wednesday, November 17 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA and will air the following Sunday night on Centric and BET. The show "highlights R&B music's finest and bridges the gap between the soulful sounds of yesterday, today and tomorrow."
Special honorees this year will be Gladys Knight and Earth, Wind and Fire.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr attended the premier of Martin Scorsese's film George Harrison: Living in the Material World on Sunday night in London.
Chickenfoot have opened well with their second album (Chickenfoot III), selling around 21,000 copies and looking for a start in the top ten. Gloria Estefan moved around 9,000 copies of her Target exclusive album, Little Miss Havana, and should debut in the top twenty.
People who bought the Jesus and Mary Chain's reissue of Darklands will be able to get a replacement disc for the first CD in the set that has a couple of mastering mistakes. To order a replacement, write to info@demonmusicgroup.co.uk with "Replacement Darklands Disc" in the header.
Finally, cassette tapes are so far past their prime that the Oxford English Dictionary is removing the term. "It was so past its prime that it was not worth keeping it in," editor-at-large Jesse Sheidlower told USA Today.
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