Morrissey has received a £10,000 payout after winning a court case against Channel 4 after they failed to ask permission to use a Smiths song to promote a Gordon Ramsay Christmas special.
The TV station is understood to have paid the singer in recognition of its error after it used "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" ahead of Gordon Ramsay's Christmas Cookalong Live show in 2011.
Elton John has been forced to pull his summer tour due to appendicitis.
The singer was due to headline London's Hyde Park on Friday (July 12) on a bill that also included Ray Davies and Elvis Costello.
He was also due to play the Collisioni festival in Italy on tonight (July 9) and a show in Germany on Thursday (July 11). Other July dates including festivals in Spain, France and Monaco have also been cancelled.
When The Rolling Stones appeared here in 1969, they played on a stage so ultimately flimsy it afterwards could have been towed away on the back of a truck or broken down on the spot and sold for scrap. Unlike the Stones, it was not built to last.
Nick Ferraro started out as an Elvis tribute act around his native Philadelphia in 1986. On October 19, 2009, wearing his full Vegas Elvis costume, he went to see Bruce Springsteen at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Spotting Ferraro in the crowd, Springsteen launched into “All Shook Up” before pulling him on stage to join in. As the song finished, Ferraro – perhaps enjoying his moment of glory a little too much – started singing “Blue Suede Shoes” before Springsteen politely took the mic off him, ushering him off stage with the legend, “Elvis has left the building.”
Pearl Jam have announced a two-leg, 24 date North American tour.
Leg one kicks-off in Pittsburgh on October 11 and wraps in New Orleans with the band's previously announced headlining performance at Voodoo Music + Arts Experience during the weekend of November 1. The second leg of the tour commences in Dallas on November 15 and closes in the band’s hometown of Seattle on December 6.
The band are allegedly due to release their tenth studio album later in the year, the follow-up to 2009's Backspacer.
Pearl Jam will play:
Prints of artwork by Jerry Garcia are to be made commercially available by the late singer's estate, reports Rolling Stone.
According to Garcia's website, limited edition prints of an etching called "The Guys" - featuring the Grateful Dead in their Nineties' incarnation - will be on sale from July 22.
A new Amy Winehouse exhibition will open at Proud gallery in Camden, London later this year to mark what would have been the singer's 30th birthday.
Amy Winehouse: For You I Was a Flame is curated by the Amy Winehouse Foundation with the support of her family. It will be one of a series of events celebrating the singer and will feature Dean Chalkley's now infamous 2011 NME cover along with other shots by Andy Willsher.
