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Beatles' lyrics headed for British Library

Shakespeare, the Magna Carta - and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics.

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Aretha Franklin taking June off, postponing shows

Aretha Franklin is taking off the month of June.

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Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals

There was a time when most of the songs played on the radio came from Broadway. Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding it still feels like home.

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Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th

Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favor with the Nazis.

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Ai Weiwei uses music to mock state power in China

Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers - and even sits on the toilet - in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power.

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Library honors Carole King with US pop music prize

Carole King isn't done with music - not yet anyway.

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Burt Bacharach opens up on daughter's suicide

Burt Bacharach knew writing a memoir would be emotional - not because of his never-heard backstage tales or his tumultuous marriages. He knew that being honest would force him to come to terms with the death of his daughter.

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Lawyer: No background check done on Jackson doctor

AEG Live LLC did not conduct any background checks or supervise the doctor who was later convicted of killing Michael Jackson, a corporate attorney testified Tuesday in a lawsuit claiming the concert promoter was negligent in hiring the physician.