Katy Perry and Russell Brand Set to Divorce

Katy Perry and Russell Brand arrive at the the 28th Annual MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.

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After days of speculation, it appears that celebrity couple Katy Perry and Russell Brand will divorce. The comedian reportedly has filed papers in Los Angeles to divorce his wife of 14 months, citing irreconcilable differences.

According to Us Weekly, the divorce comes on the heels of a blowout over holiday plans. An insider tells the magazine that Perry made last-minute plans to go to Hawaii with friends over Christmas, after arranging to fly her family to Brand's hometown in England. 

Photos: Katy Perry and Russell Brand

"She was like, 'Fuck you. I'm going to do my own thing,'" said the source. "Russell replied, 'Fine. Fuck you, too.'" Brand has been spotted on the town on London in recent days without his wedding ring.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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