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BARENAKED LADIES ended their performance on The Sharon Osbourne Show by stripping down to thongs and flopping around on the on-set bed alongside OSBOURNE, MARILN MANSON'S girlfriend DITA VON TEESE and actress ALI LANDRY. The episode airs Monday, November 24th . . . Australian authorities dropped property damage charges against COLDPLAY singer CHRIS MARTIN on Friday. The charges stemmed from a July incident where Martin was alleged to have smashed the windshield of a photographer's car, after the singer's picture was taken while surfing near Byron Bay . . . Roc-A-Fella will release The Roc Files, Vol. 1 -- a compilation featuring JAY-Z, FOXY BROWN, MEMPHIS BLEEK and BEANIE SIGEL -- on December 16th . . .
GEORGE HARRISON'S first guitar sold for $469,200 at an auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in London on November 20th. The price is more than 700 times what Harrison's father originally spent for the Dutch-made Egmond guitar . . . AEROSMITH have teamed with World Hunger Year in asking concert-goers to bring two cans of food to the group's shows on their current tour with KISS . . . ISAAC HANSON of HANSON is currently hospitalized with a blood clot in his right arm and is expected to remain in hospital through the end of the week . . . KATE PIERSON of the B-52's has opened Kate's Lazy Meadow Motel in New York's Catskills Mountains . . .
DIDO, MOBY, PHARRELL WILLIAMS, BRAD PAISLEY and EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE will be among the artists reading the nominations for the 46th Annual Grammy Awards at the Beverly Hills Hilton on December 4th . . . Dean Budnick's new book Jambands features interviews with PHISH, the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, the ALLMAN BROTHERS, BLUES TRAVELER and THE DEAD. It will be released January 6th by Backbeat Books . . . TIM McGRAW will headline the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Concert on December 11th in Oslo, Norway. Other performers include the CARDIGANS and the CHIEFTAINS accompanied by ROSEANNE CASH . . .
NEW FOUND GLORY, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, and COHEED AND CAMBRIA will be part of the tenth anniversary edition of the Vans Warped Tour, to kick off June 25th in Houston. The Warped 2003 DVD, featuring live and behind-the-scenes footage, is due in April on Kung Fu Records . . . In promotion of her new album At Last, CYNDI LAUPER will sign autographs today at the Virgin Megastore in Los Angeles . . . AIMEE MANN will release a special edition of her Lost in Space album on December 9th. The two-CD set includes a disc of live and rare tracks . . .
JOHN LENNON'S handwritten lyrics to the BEATLES' "Nowhere Man" sold for $455,000 -- more than four times the anticipated price -- at a Christie's auction in New York . . . The paperback version of KURT COBAIN's Journals contains additional material, including handwritten lyrics to "Blew," "Mr. Moustache" and the unreleased "Travelin' White Trash Couple," as well as a recipe for oatmeal cookies . . . GUSTER will perform the VIOLENT FEMMES' debut album in its entirety on November 25th at New York's Arlene's Grocery . . . Cameras will follow the wedding preparations of JANE'S ADDICTION guitarist DAVE NAVARRO and actress CARMEN ELECTRA for the MTV documentary miniseries Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave, set to debut in January . . .
Riverhead Books will publish The Wu-Tang Manual, the hip-hop group's collective autobiography, in June of 2004 . . . Members of PEARL JAM, THIRD EYE BLIND, SPOON and the PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA collaborated with street musicians on tracks for Live From Nowhere Near You, Volume One. Proceeds from the album's sales benefit Outside In, a social services agency in Portland, Oregon . . . THE BLASTERS will release The Blasters Live, a DVD from their August 13th reunion show at the Galaxy Theater in Santa Ana, California . . . Rhino Records will re-release five EMMYLOU HARRIS albums, Pieces of the Sky, Elite Hotel, Luxury Liner, Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town and Blue Kentucky Girl, with bonus tracks on February 24th . . .
SARAH McLACHLAN performed "Fallen" on Wednesday's episode of Martha Stewart's Living. The singer also showed the host how to bake Mom's Currant Cake, a recipe from her Plenty cookbook . . . CREED's SCOTT STAPP and MARK TREMONTI are at work on solo albums to be released next year . . . The DIXIE CHICKS have moved the release of their new double CD/DVD Top of the World Tour Live from Tuesday, November 25th, to Friday, November 21st . . . Composer MICHAEL KAMEN, who collaborated with METALLICA, DAVID BOWIE and QUEEN, died Tuesday after suffering from multiple sclerosis. He was fifty-five . . . On Monday, the eve of the release of her new album In The Zone, BRITNEY SPEARS received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . . .
The CHRISTINA AGUILERA concert special Stripped...Live in the U.K. will air November 30th on the WB network. Taped earlier this month at Wembley Arena in London, the show will also be released as a DVD on January 13th . . . 50 CENT and G-UNIT, and R. KELLY have been added to the list of performers at the Vibe Awards in Santa Monica, California. The show airs November 21st . . . MEAT LOAF collapsed on stage at London's Wembley Arena on Monday night. A hospital spokesperson said the singer was suffering from "exhaustion due to a prolonged viral infection" . . . RANCID, director JIM JARMUSCH, and actors MATT DILLON and STEVE BUSCEMI will appear in the video for JOE STRUMMER'S cover of BOB MARLEY'S "Redemption Song" . . .
Taking a cue from SUGE KNIGHT's Tha Row, IRV GOTTI's Murder Inc. Records, home to JA RULE and ASHANTI, will shorten its name to The Inc. . . . TOBY KEITH will perform a medley of his songs during the halftime show of the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day game. The show, which will be telecast on CBS, kicks off the Salvation Army's annual Red Kettle fundraising drive . . . A throat condition has caused MICHELLE BRANCH to cancel nine dates on her current tour in support of Hotel Paper . . .
Augusta, Georgia will construct a statue and rename the Garden City Music Festival in honor of hometown boy JAMES BROWN . . . Australian singer-songwriter ANNE McCUE, a favorite of LUCINDA WILLIAMS, will release her U.S. debut Roll on February 24th . . . PETE TOWNSHEND and ROGER DALTREY will play a March 29th concert to mark the 150th anniversary of the London's Royal Albert Hall . . . STACIE ORRICO will perform her single "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life" on a float at the seventy-seventh annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 27th in New York.
(November 21, 2003)