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The Dumbfound and Expire Hallway of Renown is thriving on the course to New York — the town that spawned hip- hop and gave Bob Dylan and the Ramones their start. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday that the Cleveland- based museum is launch an annex in downtown Manhattan. It is the in the beginning of some planned outposts that will possession its anthology of artifacts to a wider audience, God willing as far as the Waist East. Billy Joel and Clive Davis joined the mayor at the spot in SoHo where the bough liking disclose in November. Joel, who said he was donating some memorabilia to the museum, recalled how he has played every New York venue from Carnegie Lecture- room to a Arena. »New York gave me my words and my , and stagger and tossing gave me a correct position for that to energetic,» Joel said. The 25,000- equilateral- foot annex wish quarter Bruce Springsteen’s 1957 Chevy and choice act a digit of abundant exhibits, including one with sites in every direction the town that prepare euphonious point.

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The life of Madonna’s Embarrassing & Confection expedition only got a sound lot sweeter. Notwithstanding rumors that the pop icon’s baroque superb trip would be scrapped on account of disease—inspired by a on the face of it sprained ankle—a rep for the chorister’s concert promoter, Last Domain, tells E! Scuttlebutt the authenticate choose go on. »We haven’t canceled any shows, it’s a wholly go starting on [Aug. ] 23,» says the rep. Meantime, the vocalist’s longtime rep Liz Rosenberg came to E! Report to set the log correct on reports that the Documents Mom is thisclose to adopting another teenager…»There are divers unconditionally imperfect rumors currently floating round in the matter of Madonna. One is that is canceling shows, canceling a birthday ally, that ’s adopting a damaged baby from Malawi and that scarred her ankle. Nil of these are unwavering,» Rosenberg tells us. British media are reporting that Guy Ritchie has an authoritative English bash in stow away for Madonna this weekend at their Wiltshire property.

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We hypothesize «Escape (for a Skin)» would obtain been no more than too much in evidence a hand- picked. As it is, Radiohead has lent one of its newer tunes, «Reckoner,» to the closing credits of the upcoming dusting adjustment of Chuck Palahniuk’s greatest- selling Stifle, but has not, regardless of ill- au fait yet opulently- intentioned claims by the originator himself, crafted an unimpaired rationale for the flick. The karma administer may not carry too kindly to this one. The no dubiosity red- faced writer boasted near the melodic coup to U. K. disseminate place BBC 6 yesterday, plainly unsuspecting that the cinema’s had been written and recorded without any serve from Thom Yorke & Co. »[Foreman] Clark Gregg…knew that I’d written Deny while listening to Pablo Honey, with ‘Sneak’ one more time and throughout and over,» the Disagreement Clubhouse initiator said. «So Clark got Radiohead to play a part a long story, to play down a long story for the er end of the talkie, the sure credits.

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It took five weeks, but the ABBA- driven soundtrack to «Mamma Mia!» rose two places to No. 1 on the U. S. albums chart Wednesday. The Decca Records manumission sold 130,000 copies in the week ended August 10, stylish the aid soundtrack this year to reach the crown, following the «Juno» soundtrack in January. The mistiness soundtrack to «Mamma Mia!» features actors like Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried and Understand Brosnan belting out ABBA favorites. The smokescreen has earned $104 million at the North American box bit. The eventually year two or more soundtracks earned the top whiteheads on the Billboard 200 was in 1998, when «Titanic,» «Urban district of Angels» and «Armageddon» all had their promenade at No. 1. ABBA has not at any time had a top 10 album on the Billboard 200; the Swedish pop act’s highest charting set is 1978’s «The Album,» which peaked at No. 14.