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Phil Collins Tops UK Album Charts
Phil Collins topped the UK album charts as his new Going Back beat out Manic Street Preachers' Postcards From a Young Man. It's Collins' first UK number one since his Hits took the top spot in 1998. [BBC]

Lady Gaga Adds More Monster Ball Dates
Lady Gaga has tacked on another seven U.S. shows to her already-stacked 2011 leg of the Monster Ball Tour. She'll now be visiting Oakland, Cleveland, Montreal and Long Island. [Gaga Daily]

Lil Wayne Calls MTV From Prison
Lil Wayne, who turned 28 yesterday, called in to MTV's new afternoon show The Seven from Rikers Island prison to talk about life behind bars and his new album I Am Not a Human Being. Weezy later called the show again to talk with Drake, who was a guest. [MTV]

Soundgarden Play Secret Show
The reunited Soundgarden played an eight-song set of hits at a secret show at Los Angeles' Paramount Studios last night to celebrate the release of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. Soundgarden's new greatest hits collection Telephantasm will be bundled with the latest version of Guitar Hero. [Blabbermouth]

Nas, Santana Team for 'Back in Black' on 'Lopez Tonight'
Nas and guitarist Santana joined forces to give AC/DC's "Back in Black" the "Walk This Way" treatment on last night's episode of Lopez Tonight. The track is off Santana's new album, Guitar Heaven . [Nah Right]

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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