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Monk star Tony Shalhoub (1953)

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/07/21/jackson_browne_settles_case_with_the_rep Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:45:28 EST Entertainment News 131011@http://www.starpulse.com/news LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sen. John McCain and the Republican Party are apologizing to Jackson Browne for using one of his songs during last year's presidential campaign.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/11/20/john_mccain_bites_back_at_jackson_browne Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:01:41 EST Entertainment News 104110@http://www.starpulse.com/news Rocker Jackson Browne only sued John McCain over the use of his song in a political video, so he could land free publicity, according to lawyers representing the former presidential candidate.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/09/23/barack_obama_inspires_compilation_album Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:39:31 EST Entertainment News 98811@http://www.starpulse.com/news U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama has inspired a new compilation of uplifting songs by artists such as Sheryl Crow, Jackson Browne and Stevie Wonder.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/07/the_gabe_dixon_band_to_release_self_titl_26 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:00:00 EST Entertainment News 95094@http://www.starpulse.com/news Who turns down a personal offer to play keyboard on Paul McCartney's world tour? Gabe Dixon did, and it was probably the best decision of his life.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/05/16/solo_artist_most_underrated_and_overrate Fri, 16 May 2008 10:52:53 EST Entertainment News 87652@http://www.starpulse.com/news In one week, "American Idol" will add one more solo artist to the music history. Whoever it is, they have their work cut out for them. America has a penchant for producing legendary solo artists. People like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Marvin Gaye all came from America.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/04/return_of_the_70_s_singer_songwriter Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:01:51 EST Entertainment News 83324@http://www.starpulse.com/news Successful singer-songwriters have spanned across the decades, but no era saw them flourish like the 1970s. James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Carly Simon, Jackson Browne and Neil Young (to name a few) were tearing up the airwaves.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/02/28/top_ten_80s_movie_soundtracks Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:27:00 EST Entertainment News 79312@http://www.starpulse.com/news Starpulse recently ran a 'Top Ten 80s Albums' list, in which the inclusion of the Top Gun soundtrack inspired me to come up with a list of the "Top Ten 80s Movie Soundtracks." After doing a little 'freshening up,' both through my own personal collection, growing-up-80's memories and, oh, some website that has info about movies & music and the like, I've narrowed my list down to the top ten.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/11/04/hard_rock_international_releases_all_sta Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:00:00 EST Entertainment News 66530@http://www.starpulse.com/news Hard Rock International differentiates itself with Rock, but philanthropy is the company's soul. Hard Rock has remained true to its "Love All, Serve All" creed since the company's founding in 1971 a motto that can be heard or seen at every Hard Rock location around the world.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/10/11/runnin_down_a_dream_chronicles_the_early Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:04:31 EST Entertainment News 63413@http://www.starpulse.com/news The remarkable early years of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and all that would follow are at the center of a new documentary by legendary director Peter Boganovich (The Last Picture Show) entitled Runnin' Down A Dream.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/10/09/celebrity_birthdays_october_39 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 61589@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to musician Sean Lennon (1975), LPGA golfer Annika Sorenstam (1970), British singer P.J. Harvey (1969), Star Trek captain Scott Bakula (1954), Monk star Tony Shalhoub (1953), Prince of Darkness manager/wife Sharon Osbourne (1952), American singer/songwriter Jackson Browne (1948), reggae musician Peter Tosh (1944; d. 1987),

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/30/the_simpsons_testify_features_songs_from_18 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:17:45 EST Entertainment News 58115@http://www.starpulse.com/news Los Angeles, CA - A soundtrack so highly anticipated that even Homer would get off the couch to celebrate its arrival, The Simpsons: Testify is finally here!

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/19/fascinating_facts_83 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:00:00 EST Entertainment News 52377@http://www.starpulse.com/news Pregnant Latina Thalia made a rare public appearance at an auction in New York on Wednesday - to bid for a photograph. The pop singer, who is seven months pregnant with husband Tommy Mottola's baby arrived unannounced at Christie's auction house, where she bought a photograph of actress Maria Felix for $66,000.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/13/funnymen_get_singing_on_simpsons_compila Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:45:00 EST Entertainment News 51395@http://www.starpulse.com/news Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer, British funnyman Ricky Gervais and satirist 'Weird' Al Yankovic are all to appear on a new compilation album featuring the hits of The Simpsons. Show producers have remastered almost 40 original songs from the past nine seasons of the cult cartoon series for new release The Simpsons: Testify.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/08/dolly_parton_hailed_for_her_songwriting Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:08:53 EST Entertainment News 46097@http://www.starpulse.com/news Country music icon Dolly Parton has been honored for her contribution to music at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony last night. The Jolene singer, already a member of the Hall of Fame, was given the Johnny Mercer Award for her songwriting at the New York event.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/06/06/dolly_parton_jackson_browne_don_black_am Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:22:06 EST Entertainment News 45684@http://www.starpulse.com/news NEW YORK (AP) - Writing a song that touches the hearts of millions is hard enough. Writing a warm and fuzzy ballad about one of nature's most despised animals - the rat - seemed to be an impossible task, even for Oscar-winning composer Don Black.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/17/artists_donate_tracks_to_instant_karma_t_12 Thu, 17 May 2007 20:10:00 EST Entertainment News 43005@http://www.starpulse.com/news In an historic effort to mobilize activism around the human rights atrocities occurring in Darfur, Sudan, more than 50 international recording artists and over 30 record labels have united behind "Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur."

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/17/stars_pay_tribute_to_dj_howard_larman_at Thu, 17 May 2007 18:00:06 EST Entertainment News 43071@http://www.starpulse.com/news Jackson Browne and Richard Thompson were among the musicians who paid tribute to radio host Howard Larman at a memorial service in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. Rockers Loudon Wainwright III and Dave Alvin also performed at the three hour event at Immanuel Presbyterian Church.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/03/14/rhino_reissues_warren_zevon_s_excitable__27 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:00:00 EST Entertainment News 33814@http://www.starpulse.com/news Like no other singer-songwriter of his generation, Warren Zevon addressed murder, desperate passion, espionage, crippling loneliness, and f----you excess with a lethal wit and confessional grace that remain unrivaled. When the singer-songwriter-pianist succumbed to lung cancer in 2003, the music world lost a truly original voice.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/02/21/stars_raise_money_for_barack_obama Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:27:56 EST Entertainment News 30919@http://www.starpulse.com/news A galaxy of stars including George Clooney, Steven Spielberg and Eddie Murphy helped raise $1.3 million at a fundraiser for Democrat Presidential hopeful Barack Obama last night. The event at a hotel in Beverly Hills, California was organized by Spielberg and his Dreamworks studio co-founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/02/06/native_american_activist_s_life_story_re Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:15:00 EST Entertainment News 28439@http://www.starpulse.com/news The documentary Angelina Jolie's late mother Marcheline Bertrand executive produced before her death last month is to be rush released on DVD as a tribute to the actress. Trudell follows the lifestory of Native American poet and activist John Trudell, who famously burned an American Flag on the steps of the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, while protesting the US government's policy on American Indians in 1979.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/01/08/singer_songwriter_ted_russell_kamp_featu Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:11:38 EST Entertainment News 25421@http://www.starpulse.com/news When singer, songwriter and bona fide multi-instrumentalist Ted Russell Kamp isn't in the studio crafting his own brand of classic, country-rock tunes, he works his bass alongside the man who put the "O" back in country as part of Southern-rock rebel Shooter Jennings' much-heralded musical crew The .357's.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/10/09/celebrity_birthdays_october_9 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 17580@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to musician Sean Lennon (1975), LPGA golfer Annika Sorenstam (1970), British singer P.J. Harvey (1969), Star Trek captain Scott Bakula (1954), Monk star Tony Shalhoub (1953), Prince of Darkness manager/wife Sharon Osbourne (1952), American singer/songwriter Jackson Browne (1948), reggae musician Peter Tosh (1944; d. 1987), The Who bassist John Entwistle (1944; d. 2002), Beatle John Lennon (1940; d. 1980), Star Wars Episode I voice actor Brian Blessed (1936), and Scottish Scrooge actor Alastair Sim (1900; d. 1976).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/09/28/james_taylor_a_musicares_person_of_the_y_3 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:52:12 EST Entertainment News 17134@http://www.starpulse.com/news During the 2006 Grammy week in Los Angeles, MusiCares brought together a group of legendary artists to pay tribute to James Taylor and his famous works at their annual Person of the Year gala. The event honored Taylor for his outstanding contributions to the world of music and for his exemplary philanthropic efforts.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/01/23/james_taylor_to_be_honored_as_person_of_ Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:53:39 EST Entertainment News 2100@http://www.starpulse.com/news An exceptional group of legendary music talents will honor multi-Grammy-winning singer/songwriter James Taylor as the 2006 MusiCares Person of the Year in a gala tribute on Monday, Feb. 6, 2006, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The evening will laud Taylor for his extraordinary musical achievements and his philanthropic commitment to arts, environmental and humanitarian causes, and will feature a special concert by music luminaries including:

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