In a statement the 44-year-old artist called the surgery “minimally invasive” and said she will be undergoing radiation treatment as a precaution.  She said she benefited from early detection, and urged other women to have themselves checked.

“I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends,” Crow said.

We wish Sheryl the best and hope for a speedy and complete recovery.  She was, is and always will be one of the best and classiest singers around!

While accepting the award for best British album earlier this week, Chris Martin said; “You won’t see us at one of these for many, many years so this is our last chance so we should really thank our label for the first time in history.”We won’t see you for a long time. Bye. We mean it. Bye.”

Fans and investors alike took that to mean the band was splitting up.

But a spokesman for the band said Coldplay were “not quitting” and would be starting work on new material soon.

He said: “Coldplay are on the road until July, when their 16-month X&Y World Tour ends in Japan.

“They will then continue working on new material.”

My take is that the future of Coldplay is grim, Chris Martin sure sounded sincere when he spoke about the end.

In front of the luxurious Copacabana Palace Hotel,  in Rio De Janiro, 62 year old rocker Jagger will be performing tomorrow.

Rio’s municipality and telecommunications companies Claro and Motorola are financing Saturday’s free mega attendance show.

I wish I could see it, in the warm weather of Brazil instead of the expected -25c weather that is expected here tomorrow!

Sticking with the idea that all forms of music news, covering the entire spectrum are important.  We bring you news of Willie’s gay cowboy song.

This song was written long before this year’s Oscar-nominated “Brokeback Mountain” made gay cowboys a kitsch topic and was released yesterday.  The song debuted Tuesday on Howard Stern’s satellite radio show but was written by Texas-born singer-songwriter Ned Sublette in 1981.  Willie recorded it in the late 1980’s.  With lyrics like; “Inside every cowboy there’s a lady who’d love to slip out you would think it was written for the movie itself.

Rockers, Black Crowes have added three U.S. shows around their March 12th show at Florida’s Langerado Music festival.  Before heading to London and Amsterdam, they will stop at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on March 10th; Asheville, North Carolina, on the 11th; and Atlanta’s Fox Theater on the 14th.

Having seen them twice I can tell you all that you are in for a treat!

Over the superbowl weekend Kid Rock rolled into town for two awesome shows.  When friend and fellow home town rocker Bob Seger — joined him each night for encore performances of his 1977 hit “Rock and Roll Never Forgets”, the crowds when crazy! 

Rock’s new album, “Live Trucker”, is due out February 28 and hold no new songs but is still highly anticipated.

According to a new Associated Press poll (in conjunction with Rolling Stone);

• 74% of those surveyed say CD’s are too expensive.
• 26% have downloaded music legally or illegally from the web.
• 55% say they find new music via FM radio broadcasts.
• 58% say the music itself is getting worse.
• 71% think .99 for a digital song download is fair.
• 33% agree that piracy is the cause of music sales decline.
• 352.7 million tracks were sold digitally in 2005.
• 618.9 million CD albums were sold during 2005.
• 80% of people consider downloading music for free to be stealing.

Additional poll info:  Ipsos’ telephone poll of 1,000 adults, including 963 music listeners, from all states except Alaska and Hawaii was conducted Jan. 23-25 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Ageless Irish rock band U2 dominated at the 48th annual Grammy Awards in LA, winning five awards to add to the seventeen they’ve grabbed over previous years.

‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb,’ won both Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. “Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own” was named Song of the Year.

Their talent appears to be endless, I predict another 22 Grammy’s before they retire.

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