Report: Britney Spears Leaves Psychiatric Ward Halfway Through Two-Week Stay

Britney Spears' mandatory fourteen-day stay in the UCLA Medical Center's psychiatric ward is apparently over after only a week according to the LA Times, who say the singer left the hospital this afternoon because "she was no longer required to stay there after 11:30 AM." Spears was reportedly ushered out of the facility by security to little fanfare, as opposed to the full-out media blitz that followed her being shipped to the medical center. It's expected that Spears will return to one of her homes before seeking additional treatment in her fight against "bipolar disorder." How Spears' surprise release effects her family's fight against her "friend" Sam Lufti and Spears' ongoing custody battle for her two children remains to be seen. For more on Spears, be sure to check out the current issue of Rolling Stone.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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