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Bruce Springsteen plays The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle in full at final Australia show

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played their 1973 album, The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle in full at their final show in Australia today [February 26]. The band opened with a cover of the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive", and were joined by Eddie Vedder for a cover of AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" during the encores. Vedder had previously joined the band to play the same song in Melbourne on Saturday, February 15.

Robin Gibb could be honoured with public memorial service at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral

Robin Gibb, the Bee Gees singer and songwriter who died last week aged 62 (May 20), could be remembered with a public memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral in London. The pop legend is to be buried next month at a private funeral in Oxfordshire. However, his son Robin-John has suggested that a larger memorial service could take place in September at the historic central London cathedral. Gibb's son also told the Sunday Express that his father, who had suffered with cancer in recent years, died of kidney failure, and recalled his passing.

Ten Years Ago This Week

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO May 14 to 20, 1997 Crosby, Stills & Nash are inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame. Neil Young also gets the call, as part of Buffalo Springfield, while other inductees are Joni Mitchell, The Bee Gees, The Jackson Five, Parliament/Funkadelic, and The Young Rascals.

TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK. . .

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO February 19 to 25, 1997 Ben Elton hosts the Brit Awards at London's Earls Court, where there are two gongs apiece for Manic Street Preachers (Best Group, Best Album - Everything Must Go) and the Spice Girls (Best Single - "Wannabe", Best Video - "Say You'll Be There"). Geri Halliwell's Union Jack mini-dress gets the lion's share of coverage in the following morning's tabloids, which also report on the group's first album entering the US charts at Number Six. The Bee Gees receive the Outstanding Contribution nod, as a total of 15 awards are given out during the evening, chicken feed compared to...
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