Melvin Benn

Organizers of this weekend’s Reading Festival are trying to remain upbeat, despite having to close some parking lots and campsites due to flooding from the nearby river Thames.

EMI Group PLC will delist its shares on Sept. 18 after its 2.4 billion pound takeover by private equity group Terra Firma Capital Partners.

Stefani

Gwen Stefani was a good girl, just like she promised.

Beyonce

Some of the world's top pop stars are facing growing pressure to keep skimpy outfits and steamy dance moves off the stage during their concerts in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

Swedish file sharing group Pirate Bay has once more sallied forth onto the digital main with the re-launch of bittorrent site Suprnova.org.

Julieta Venegas (AP Photo)

Mexican singer Julieta Venegas has been forced to cancel a scheduled concert planned for Puerto Rico.

Doherty

Pete Doherty was released Tuesday without being charged with breaching his bail conditions after authorities failed to get him to court on time.

Brian May

Guitarist and songwriter Brian May has completed his doctorate in astrophysics -- three decades after he put academia on hold to form the rock group Queen.

Murray

Bill Murray could face a drunken driving charge after cruising through downtown Stockholm in a golf cart and refusing to take a breath test, citing U.S. law.

The Stones

The Rolling Stones are keeping the flame of rock rebellion burning.

MySpaceMp3.org, a hack we wrote about late last week that enabled users to easily download mp3's from the hundreds of thousands of songs streamed on MySpace, has been closed.

Runrig

Wet weather plagued Runrig's Highland 2007 festival, leading to several fans being treated for hypothermia and a temporary bridge to the site to be closed reported the Inverness Courier.

A Moscow court threw out a case against the former head of music downloading site allofmp3.com.

Peter Gabriel (AP Photo)

Peter Gabriel will be honored as a BMI Icon at the U.S. performing right organization’s annual London Awards.

Pieter Kramer (AP)

It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line in Germany.

Michael Jackson has found himself inyet another legal jackpot, this time with Bahraini prince Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa.