Courtney Love Hospitalized

Courtney Love was taken to a Los Angeles hospital early Thursday morning. The singer was attending a private party hosted by fellow rocker Liz Phair at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Tropicana Bar when, according to Love's publicist, she "felt faint" and went outside to get some air. An ambulance was called and Love was then taken to a hospital.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, a police report was taken at the Roosevelt, but the contents have been marked confidential.

Love's criminal lawyer Michael Rosenstein is due in court today to give a progress report on the singer's adherence to her sentence on a misdemeanor drugs charge from October 2003. Love is currently fulfilling eighteen months of probation. The conditions required Love to enroll in a rehab program, take narcotics tests, stay away from known drug users and meet with a probation officer.

According to Love's publicist, she was released from the hospital "immediately."

Love, who completed a rehab program on the East Coast last summer, has appeared at public events in recent weeks, including the American Idol finale with daughter Frances Bean Cobain.

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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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