MUSIC
TAYLOR SWIFT-APPLE MUSIC UNDATED (AP) Apple is listening to Taylor
Swift. Apple now says it will pay artists during a free, three-month
trial for new Apple Music subscribers. Swift said she pulled her "1989"
album from the streaming service because Apple wasn't being fair to new
artists. Apple exec Eddy Cue tells the AP the company has heard the
concerns of musicians and it is changing the payment policy. SOUND: <>
00:32 Sandy Kozel Taylor Swift has Apple changing its tune. AP
correspondent Sandy Kozel reports. DEF LEPPARD'S VIVIAN CAMPBELL SEES
RETURN OF CANCER UNDATED (AP) Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell
says his cancer has returned. He writes on Facebook the thing that
makes him "beyond consolation" is that the cancer will prevent him from
doing his job for a while. Campbell has been fighting Hodgkins
lymphoma. He says he's working on a new schedule of treatment with his
doctors. JOURNEY ENLIST DRUMMER AS TEMPORARY REPLACEMENT FOR DEEN
CASTRONOVO UNDATED (AP) Journey have picked up a replacement drummer
following last week's arrest of Deen Castronovo for domestic violence.
Journey write on their website that Omar Hakim will sit behind the drum
kit for their concerts through August 3 because of what they call
Castronovo's "pending issues. JAMES TAYLOR...TAYLOR SWIFT...NO
COINCIDENCE NEW YORK (AP) Did you know Taylor Swift was named after
James Taylor? He didn't until Swift's parents told him that recently.
Taylor says he was flattered and "you could have knocked me over with a
feather. Taylor says he has great admiration for Swift and also for her
parents, and hearing that bit of news was a surprise of a lifetime.
SOUND: <> 00:17 "was really surprised James Taylor James Taylor was
asked what his reaction was when Taylor Swift's parents told him they
named her after him. ((note length of cut)) <> 00:10 "live in nature
James Taylor James Taylor says his album title, "Before This World," is
inspired partly by the human condition. <> 00:16 "person and musically
James Taylor James Taylor says the title of his new album is inspired
partly by how he views himself. <> 00:14 "because of that James Taylor
James Taylor says calls himself a "paleo thinker," and that's why he
named his album "Before This World. JOHN RICH PREPARES REDNECK RIVIERA
RESTAURANT NASHVILLE (AP) John Rich is planning to open a chain of
restaurants he describes as "the more rural, rowdy version of
Margaritaville. The Nashville Tennessean reports Rich will open a
Redneck Riviera bar and restaurant in downtown Nashville next spring.
He intends to open others in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and in
Pensacola, Florida. Rich already has a clothing line based on the
Redneck Riviera concept, and he plans to create a liquor as well.
FIREFLY MUSIC FESTIVAL RAINED OUT SATURDAY DOVER, Del. (AP) Kid Cudi
was cut short and Kings of Leon cut entirely from the Firefly Music
Festival in Dover, Delaware, over the weekend. Billboard reports a
thunderstorm forced an evacuation of about 90,000 people Saturday
night. Steve Aoki was supposed to perform Saturday night but was moved
to yesterday afternoon. Paul McCartney stopped his set on Friday to ask
for a prayer for peace in the wake of the church shootings in
Charleston last week. The festival also featured Morrissey, Echosmith,
Modest Mouse, Foster The People and The Chainsmokers. BEATLES MUSICAL
WILL BE STAGED IN LONDON LONDON (AP) A British theater production will
attempt to recreate what it was like being in the Abbey Road studio
when The Beatles were recording. "The Sessions At Abbey Road" will be
staged at London's Royal Albert Hall next April. The production will
try to do the instrumentation, arrangements and vocals exactly the same
as they were done when The Beatles recorded. The show's producers say
they are not using lookalike actors, but "sound alike" musicians,
culled from the best Beatles vocalists around the world. They are even
building a reproduction of Abbey Road's Studio 2 for the set. RINGO
STARR CALLS FOR PEACE AND LOVE ON JULY 7 LOS ANGELES (AP) Ringo Starr
would like you to celebrate his birthday by thinking or saying "peace
and love. If you happen to be in Los Angeles that day, you can say it
with him. Starr will give a peace-and-love salute on July 7 at noon
Pacific time in front of the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles.
Starr was asked in 2005 what he wanted for his birthday, and he
replied, "Peace and love. Ever since, he has invited the public to join
him wherever he happens to be on July 7 to give a peace-and-love
salute, or do it on their own if they aren't with him. IRON MAIDEN PLAN
"BOOK OF SOULS LONDON (AP) Iron Maiden will put out their first album
following singer Bruce Dickinson's diagnosis for tongue cancer. "The
Book of Souls" will come out on September 4. Dickinson was given a
clean bill of health last month, but the band delayed the release of
the album so he'd have the strength to promote it. Iron Maiden plan to
tour behind the album beginning next year. WENDELL HOLMES OF THE HOLMES
BROTHERS PASSES AWAY BALTIMORE (AP) Wendell Holmes of the blues band
The Holmes Brothers has died. The band's manager says Holmes died at
his home in Rosedale, Maryland, of complications from pulmonary
hypertension. He was 71. Holmes sang and played guitar and piano for
the group, which also included his brother Sherman on bass and Willie
"Popsy" Dixon on drums. Their "Feed My Soul" album was number one on
the Billboard blues album chart in 2010. SPECIAL OLYMPICS ANNOUNCE
OPENING CEREMONY LINEUP LOS ANGELES (AP) Stevie Wonder, Avril Lavigne,
O.A.R. and Cody Simpson will be part of the opening ceremony for the
Special Olympics World Games. Eva Longoria and Jimmy Kimmel will also
participate. The games will feature 7,000 athletes with intellectual
disabilities competing in sporting events. The games open in Los
Angeles on July 25. by Margie Szaroleta
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