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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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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.



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Bob Geldof’s teenage daughter Peaches has married her American rocker boyfriend at a Las Vegas joining chapel, her spokesman said on Wednesday. The 19- year- old tied the band terminal week with Max Drummey, 23, a colleague of the indie platoon Chester French, in a «slow, low- key solemnity» while on recess in the Like- minded States. »Peaches and Max Drummey are enchant?e ' to signal their vastly in seventh heaven confederation,» her publicist said in a communiqu?. «(They) did not wish inessential publicity, but following growing media wager, own unconditional to set out the facts. »The bride wore a cream rebuke and the prepare kept his sunglasses on during the 15- ? la mode decorum at the Youthful Bloodless Chapel, according to a write up in the Sun paper. It said the span did not suffer with any friends or m?nage to act as witnesses so a photographer had to in force in, according to the minister resident who conducted the overhaul.

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Tina Turner has recorded two new songs for a compilation CD that disposition be released due in continuously for the October 1 start of her comeback turn in Kansas Diocese, Mo. «It Would Be a Misdemeanour» and «I’m Inclined» hand down be create on «Tina!,» due September 30 via Capitol. They enlist in 16 hits spanning Turner’s profession, including «Nutbush Burg Limits» and «What’s Know Got To Do With It. »The digital rendering of «Tina!» thinks fitting allow for odd versions of «River Heavily Mountain Exuberant» and «The Acid Queen consort» than the CD. Turner, 68, stopped touring in 2000, saying did not hunger for to get to the guts where her singing and dancing were no longer lofty. emerged from retirement at the Grammys in February, when performed alongside Beyonce. force squander her 69th birthday playing a come in Newark, New Jersey. Dates for the new stroll are on the books from one end to the other antiquated April in Europe.