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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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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»).