Britney Spears Working on New Album, Says Manager

Britney Spears is spending her summer vacation in a recording studio working on the follow-up to last year's Blackout, her reps say. According to her manager Larry Rudolph, with whom Spears reunited with after Blackout sales lagged, Britney is "working with a team of top-notch producers and songwriters. We're very excited about what she's accomplished so far." Sean Garrett, one of the producers on Spears' new disc, tells EW.com, "We're trying to take her stuff to the next level. I'm going to come up with something crazy for her." Other producers expected to be working with Spears are JR Rotem, Guy Sigsworth, Bloodshy & Avant and Danjahandz (who also significantly contributed to Blackout).

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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