In Brief: Dixie Chicks, Shakira, Bob Dylan
ByApr 17, 2002 10:00 PM
Plus news on Billy Preston’s new hits set, a photo of John Lennon’s glasses at auction and the new Kazaa.
Plus news on Billy Preston’s new hits set, a photo of John Lennon’s glasses at auction and the new Kazaa.
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Dixie Chicks and Shakira will join previously announced performers Mary J. Blige, Cher and Celine Dion at “VH1 Divas Las Vegas: A Benefit Concert for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation.’’ The show airs live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 23.
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Bob Dylan and Luke Wilson will star in the film “Masked & Anonymous,” which is expected to go into production in July, according to the Hollywood Reporter. It will mark the big-screen directorial debut of television writer, director and producer Larry Charles.
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A&M/Universal issues “The Best of Billy Preston” on May 21. The release contains 11 digitally remastered tracks, including the 1972 No. 2 pop hit “Outa-Space"--which features George Harrison on slide guitar--and the No. 1 pop hits “Will It Go Round in Circles” and “Nothing from Nothing.”
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A photo of John Lennon‘s bloodstained glasses, taken by his wife, Yoko Ono, after he was fatally shot outside his New York apartment building in 1980, reportedly sold for $13,000 at a London auction on Wednesday (4/17). The photo, said to be one of six prints, was used on the cover of Ono’s 1981 album “Season of Glass.”
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Between April 6 and 13, more than 3.1 million copies of the new Kazaa Media Desktop file-swapping software was downloaded from the Kazaa website, according to a press release issued by Kazaa parent-company Sharman Networks.