http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/events/launch07_news_xml.html Music News en-au Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:43:15 GMT http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090704/5/d6r1.html LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than half a million fans from around the world applied for 17,500 free tickets to Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, organizers said on Friday as a massive security operation got underway. /090704/5/d6r1.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:32:09 GMT http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090704/5/d6qc.html NEW YORK (Billboard) - A vanishing act has become practically de rigueur for R&B musicians of a certain caliber. /090704/5/d6qc.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:55:10 GMT http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090704/5/d6q2.html HAVANA (Reuters) - Since he swept into power 50 years ago, Cuba's Fidel Castro has been honored in poems, movies and paintings and now in reggaeton, a form of music widely popular among Cuban youth but not island leaders. /090704/5/d6q2.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:34:50 GMT http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090704/8/d6qf.html LONDON (AFP) - Madonna will perform a special tribute to Michael Jackson during her London show on Saturday, at the venue where he was due to stage his farewell shows, she said in a newspaper interview. /090704/8/d6qf.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:07:51 GMT <p>Madonna will perform a special tribute to Michael Jackson during her London show on Saturday, at the venue where he was due to stage his farewell shows, she said in a newspaper interview. Madonna told the Sun newspaper she was &quot;terribly sad&quot; about Jackson's death and revealed she &quot;used to love picking his brains about musical stuff&quot;.</p> AFP http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090704/5/d6pa.html LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For a reunited band bent on having a future, Stone Temple Pilots spent most of its House of Blues show Wednesday visiting the past -- the distant past. /090704/5/d6pa.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:38:27 GMT http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090704/5/d6p0.html LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - In early 1984, when Epic Records executives presented their slate of upcoming releases at the convention in Hawaii of parent company CBS Records, they couldn't resist playing up the success they were experiencing. /090704/5/d6p0.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:05:18 GMT http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090703/5/d6md.html NEW YORK (Billboard) - Michael Jackson went from being Gary, Ind.'s most talented kid to one of the most recognizable human beings on the planet. /090703/5/d6md.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:43:11 GMT http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090703/5/d6nv.html LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles city officials are planning a massive security operation for Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, and on Friday urged fans who do not win a ticket in a random drawing to stay away from the basketball arena where the singer will be memorialized. /090703/5/d6nv.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:09:59 GMT http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090703/5/d6oa.html LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - A seldom-seen 1989 music video for Michael Jackson's song "Liberian Girl" is a good indication of the pop star's clout. /090703/5/d6oa.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:06:49 GMT http://au.rd.yahoo.com/rss/default/*http://nz.launch.yahoo.com/090703/5/d6o7.html NEW YORK (Billboard) - Essentially two kinds of people existed in the '80s. /090703/5/d6o7.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:57:44 GMT