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Carl who is the owner of Croydon music shop Rock Bottom and is in Statin' Quo, gives the band the thumbs up The Purley based tribute band formed in 2006 in honour of one of Purley's most celebrated inhabitants - Francis Rossi.

"This was the first verse that he wrote," he said by way of introduction to Lead Belly's Goodnight Irene .

Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

Baz Luhrmann's film The Great Gatsby has the turbulent emotions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book.

The massive production, which requires 31 trucks' worth of equipment, includes lasers, huge pyrotechnics, and state of the art video displays, according to the website of the former Beatles star.

Star-studded collaborations are on tap for Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, airing live on ABC from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Some of music's biggest names will be spotlighted Saturday night on a special edition of ABC's 20/20. Called Rock 'n Royalty: Billboard's All-Stars , the show will be anchored by Barbara Walters , and feature the best and most memorable moments from ABC interviews conducted throughout the years with a variety of pop and country superstars.

In this Sept. 9, 2012 file photo, British singer George Michael performs at a concert to raise money for AIDS charity Sidaction, during the Symphonica tour at Palais Garnier Opera house in Paris, France.

The Danish entry Only Teardrops by Emmelie de Forest is now 4/6 odds on to win the show - way ahead of other entrants.

The NBC singing contest said Friday that Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will return for "The Voice" Season 5, joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.

The White House says Obama will present the award to King during a concert Wednesday.

When the producers of the Academy of Country Music's annual television special approached Tim McGraw about the 2013 edition, the country music star immediately flashed on the program's format.

Renowned recording engineer/producer Bruce Botnick recorded the orchestral score of Tom Cruise's "Jack Reacher" with five Sanken CO-100K microphones.

The booming 23-year-old R&B vocalist from St. Helena Island, S.C., looked stunned when "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest announced she bested the soulful 22-year-old country singer Harrison from Woodville, Texas.

While chatting with MTV News , the "X Factor" judge was asked about fellow Disney darling Selena Gomez, to whom Lovato was once quite close.

A dancer-choreographer befriended by Michael Jackson when he was a child now calls the late pop icon "a pedophile and a child sexual abuser." Wade Robson, who is seeking money from Jackson's estate for alleged child sex abuse, talked about his claims Thursday on NBC's "Today" show.

The CW network is bringing a popular radio music series to television and is going heavy on escapist fare in its new programming for next season.

From the very beginning of "Star Trek," some 700-plus TV episodes and 12 films ago, the voyages of the Enterprise have been all about the ensemble.

Pop singer Shakira will leave NBC's television singing competition program The Voice after only one season as a judge in order to spend more time with her family.

Phoenix frontman and singer Thomas Mars says their new album "Bankrupt!" was born out of the negative influences going on in the band after the unprecedented success of their Grammy-winning 2009 album, "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix." "At that time, we started talking about success and not music," Mars said.