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11.24.2008

Aries Spears' Rap Impressions

11.22.2008

Vatican 'Forgives' Lennon for 'More Popular Than Jesus' Remark

Saturday's edition of the Vatican's official newspaper absolves John Lennon of his notorious remark, saying that "after so many years it sounds merely like the boasting of an English working-class lad struggling to cope with unexpected success".

In a lengthy editorial marking the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' famous White Album, L'Osservatore Romano heaps lavish praise on the British band.

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11.21.2008

Chinese Democracy was Released in 2008, Free Dr. Pepper!

Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper's Web site. They'll be honored until Feb. 28.

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11.17.2008

Carnival of Light - 'Mythical' Beatles Song Confirmed

Sir Paul McCartney has confirmed a 14-minute long Beatles track many thought was a myth does exist - and says he wants the public to hear it.

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11.13.2008

Outkast to Deliver Two Solo Albums and Group Effort Album in 09'

Big Boi: "Me and 'Dre were on the conference call [recently]," Big explained. "He's working on his album; my album is done. We're gonna wait until the top of the year — January or February — to put it out. Then 'Dre is gonna come hit y'all, and [then] we're gonna do the Outkast album. So y'all gonna get three records from the 'Kast next year."

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11.12.2008

Music Practice Boosts IQ and Visual Skills

While it is no surprise that the young musicians scored significantly higher than those in the control group on two skills closely related to their music training (auditory discrimination and finger dexterity), the more surprising result was that they also scored higher in two skills that appear unrelated to music—verbal ability (as measured by a vocabulary IQ test) and visual pattern completion (as measured by the Raven's Progressive Matrices).

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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Released New Solo Album

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Rolling Stones Compiles the Top 100 Singers of All Time

Minus Thom York at 66 and Frank Sinatra nowhere in sight...
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Drummer, Mitch Mitchell, Dies at 61

Mitchell had a hand-- two very able hands, in fact-- in rock and roll history as part of the Experience in the late 1960s. He played in the Pretty Things and Georgie Fame's Blue Flames before joining Hendrix, and even served as part of the Dirty Mac supergroup that John Lennon assembled for the Rolling Stones' 1968 "Rock and Roll Circus" event, playing alongside Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Lennon himself. Two years after Hendrix's death in 1970, he formed the trio Ramatam, and went on to do session work for a number of musicians and partake in several Hendrix tributes.

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