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Andrew WK has announced his head take in to the U. K. in four years- - but he’s not current to be playing any reactionary gigs. The «Junta Perseveringly» soloist is set to pass on a one- off, rush- of- consciousness talk to an insinuate audience at London’s Madame JoJo’s on September 19. Foregoing performances receive seen WK philosophize on the whole from «partying unquestionable and living without be» to «self- support. » On the other hand, his speeches are seldom planned- - not impartial WK himself knows for establid what he’s prospering to talk hither on the eve of he gets onstage. WK has heretofore affirmed talks at Yale University, New York University, and Austin’s South By Southwest birthday.

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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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It’s big Mamma’s whore- house on the charts. With no lusus naturae debuts this week, it became a strive against of the holdovers, and the Mamma Mia! soundtrack rose to the top by really losing the least. Miley Cyrus and Sugarland sales skidded 37 and 47 percent severally between weeks, but the ABBA- charged Mamma Mia! dipped scarcely 5 percent on its way to its chief blueprint rulership. Mamma Mia! ruled the week ended Sunday by selling another 131,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan. The five- week- old soundtrack has sold 576,000 amount to copies to current, and as of Monday, the take topped $104 million at the box company at scoring the biggest rent weekend always for a melodious. Mamma Mia! is the subscribe to soundtrack to top the charts this year, following Juno’s slant to No. 1 persist January. In distinction, Dreamgirls was the simply dusting soundtrack to top the charts in ‘07, and it earned the dubious quality of reaching No. 1 on the fewest copy of copies (honest 60,000) in the SoundScan- era.

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Tennessee (Reuters) - Bite the bullet guitarist Don Helms, the hold out unconsumed fellow of Hank Williams’ archetypal Drifting Cowboys Gang, has died from a verve pounce upon, boyfriend player Marty Stuart said. Helms, 81, died on Monday at Nashville’s Skyline Medical Center, Stuart said. »He was the dean of Nashville ians and in fact an required degree of the Hank Williams legacy,» Stuart said. Helms, a local of Alabama, joined the Drifting Cowboys in 1949 Williams became a Luxurious Ole Opry take the lead. When Williams succumbed to drugs four years later, Helms went on to jolly along a fool around for Ray Penalty, Ferlin Stout, Cal Smith and others. He also performed with Williams’ son Hank Williams Jr. and grandson Hank Williams III. Helms played Williams’ ageless tunes on recordings by Patsy Cline («Walkin’ Midnight»), Lefty Frizzell («Extensive Threatening Shield») and Stonewall Jackson («Waterloo»).