Daily entertainment news covering Brian Wilson en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/11/15/the_essential_weird_al_yankovic_2_cds_38 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:33:09 EST Entertainment News 144075@http://www.starpulse.com/news Welcome to the wild world of "Weird Al" Yankovic - a world populated by a Pennsylvania Dutch gangsta-rapper ("Amish Paradise") and a serial-killing Saint Nick ("The Night Santa Went Crazy")

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/11/21/hall_aamp_oates_live_at_the_troubadour_o Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:00:00 EST Entertainment News 104313@http://www.starpulse.com/news In May 2008, Daryl Hall and John Oates took the stage at the legendary Troubadour for the first time since playing their earliest Los Angeles shows there 35 years before.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/11/05/carnie_wilson_pregnant_with_second_child Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:52:20 EST Entertainment News 102813@http://www.starpulse.com/news Singer Carnie Wilson is expecting her second child with her musician husband Rob Bonfiglio.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/09/22/paul_mccartney_loves_duffy_cover Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:00:00 EST Entertainment News 98778@http://www.starpulse.com/news Singer Duffy has recorded a version of Paul McCartney's classic song "Live And Let Die" for charity - and the Beatles legend is astonished with the result. The Welsh songstress tackled the hit Bond theme

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/29/rap_lyrics_depress_brian_wilson Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:34:55 EST Entertainment News 96864@http://www.starpulse.com/news Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson hates listening to rap songs - because the lyrics depress him.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/19/beach_boys_brian_wilson_sunny_about_new_ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:50 EST Entertainment News 96024@http://www.starpulse.com/news BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Brian Wilson sits on a plush couch in his living room, smiling nervously. On the Beach Boys visionary's back porch, his family's 15 pooches

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/24/tonight_s_live_from_abbey_road_features_ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:31:45 EST Entertainment News 93726@http://www.starpulse.com/news Live From Abbey Road, the Sundance original music series, reaches its halfway point in episode 6 of the twelve part series.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/23/brian_wilson_offers_concert_refund_after Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:28:10 EST Entertainment News 93576@http://www.starpulse.com/news Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson is offering a refund to fans who paid to watch him perform in New York this month, after a flood of complaints about the concert.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/06/30/stars_addictions_detailed_in_tell_all_bo Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:49:56 EST Entertainment News 91429@http://www.starpulse.com/news Elton John, Courtney Love and Whitney Houston are among a long list of musicians whose drug-addled pasts are set to be revealed in a new celebrity tell-all book.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/05/22/nickelback_wins_three_awards_at_bmi Thu, 22 May 2008 10:40:53 EST Entertainment News 88111@http://www.starpulse.com/news Canadian rockers Nickelback were the big winners at the BMI Pop Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday night - taking home three prizes.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/05/05/sting_and_wife_defend_rainforest_charity Mon, 05 May 2008 18:30:00 EST Entertainment News 86364@http://www.starpulse.com/news Sting's wife Trudie Styler has defended the rocker's rainforest charity, after it was accused of hoarding money raised at a 2006 concert.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/18/young_fans_find_nostalgia_in_bruce_sprin Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:27:59 EST Entertainment News 84875@http://www.starpulse.com/news Bruce Springsteen and the beach are intrinsically linked. Imagine the Bruce of the 1970s chasing girls on a Jersey boardwalk, getting sand stuck in the scruff of his lazy beard and evading the pushers. It's nothing less than the embodiment of Mid-Atlantic state romance.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/03/28/carnie_wilson_slams_tabloid_over_weight_ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:15:00 EST Entertainment News 82508@http://www.starpulse.com/news Brian Wilson's singer daughter Carnie has blasted a tabloid for claiming she plans to undergo another gastric bypass operation after gaining 79 pounds. The 39-year-old, who underwent a gastric bypass in 2000 after she was told she was morbidly obese, has hit out at the National Enquirer for publishing what she claims is an erroneous report about her ongoing weight issues.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/03/26/gustavo_santaolalla_to_become_bmi_icon Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:15:00 EST Entertainment News 82293@http://www.starpulse.com/news Oscar-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla will be honored as a BMI Icon at the Broadcast Music Inc. organization's upcoming 15th annual Latin Awards ceremony. Santaolalla, who has won Academy Awards for his soundtracks to Brokeback Mountain and Babel, will receive his award at the event on June 12 in Los Angeles.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/03/20/carnie_wilson_battling_weight_demons_aga Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:40:00 EST Entertainment News 81648@http://www.starpulse.com/news Brian Wilson's singer daughter Carnie is battling with her weight again, eight years after she underwent a gastric bypass operation. The 39-year-old was told she'd die if she didn't have the 2000 surgery - to help her shed weight - but she has started piling on the pounds again, blaming a slow metabolism and the birth of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Lola for her latest weight woes.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/02/14/was_not_was_return_for_valentine_s_day_g Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:30:00 EST Entertainment News 77976@http://www.starpulse.com/news Brothers Don and David Was are to revive their hit group Was (Not Was) for a Valentine's Day showcase in Los Angeles. In what will be the group's first official show since touring with Dire Straits in 1992, the "Walk The Dinosaur" hit-makers will perform at the Orpheum Theatre with Kris Kristofferson and Brian Wilson.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/02/11/cmt_s_gone_country_is_surprisingly_enter Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:35:26 EST Entertainment News 77571@http://www.starpulse.com/news "Gone Country," a show in which mostly washed-up singers are resurrected as country stars, is the first show, to my knowledge, on CMT that I've watched in its entirety. I wouldn't call myself a country fan by any means, and at first glance this didn't seem like an appealing show at all. That was until I saw the lineup of goof balls that they had enlisted:

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/12/29/the_2007_showbiz_news_quiz_part_iii Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:00:00 EST Entertainment News 72577@http://www.starpulse.com/news Test your showbiz knowledge with this brain-teasing celebrity quiz based on all the happenings of a busy 2007.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/12/12/brian_wilson_signs_up_as_music_camp_coun Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:42:19 EST Entertainment News 70953@http://www.starpulse.com/news The Beach Boys star Brian Wilson has been recruited as Los Angeles' Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp's first 'counselor.' The "Good Vibrations" hitmaker will offer wannabe rockers career advice during the 10th annual camp next year.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/10/08/brian_wilson_to_star_in_a_ballet_ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:03:32 EST Entertainment News 62844@http://www.starpulse.com/news Former Beach Boys star Brian Wilson is to make his ballet debut - he's performing with the English National Ballet in London next month. The veteran singer/songwriter, 65, will perform the Beach Boys classic God Only Knows at the royal gala, while dancers will take to the stage with a specially choreographed set to accompany the track.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/12/kennedy_center_to_honor_leon_fleisher_st Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:39:06 EST Entertainment News 59497@http://www.starpulse.com/news WASHINGTON (AP) - Pianist Leon Fleisher, actor Steve Martin, singers Diana Ross and Brian Wilson and film director Martin Scorsese will share the 30th annual honors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in December.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/29/luciana_souza_releases_seventh_album_the Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:45:12 EST Entertainment News 57944@http://www.starpulse.com/news "I wanted to make a record that would be accessible yet truthful," Luciana Souza says of The New Bossa Nova, her seventh album and her Verve debut. "The world is so loud and noisy and overwhelming now that it can be a challenge to get people to sit and listen to something that's quiet. But I have faith that they will."

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/29/the_beatles_almost_made_brian_wilson_cry Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:01:45 EST Entertainment News 57892@http://www.starpulse.com/news The Beatles were so successful it almost drove Beach Boys rocker Brian Wilson to tears. The music legend admits he was jealous of the Beatles success and often wished his band would experience similar worldwide fame.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/14/a_cavalcade_of_stars_to_judge_songwritin Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:39:39 EST Entertainment News 55736@http://www.starpulse.com/news A galaxy of legendary musicians including Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Ray Davies, Nelly Furtado, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn and Frank Black are the judges of this year's International Songwriting Competition.

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