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• Rod Stewart has confirmed that he and Ronnie Wood are planning a Faces reunion. “Yes, absolutely. We have our first rehearsal on Monday,” Stewart said of the Faces, who broke up in 1975.
• Following the deadly overdose of a fan outside of her home, Paula Abdul said in a statement, “I am deeply saddened and shocked about what transpired yesterday. My heart and prayers go out to her family.”
• Lars Ulrich’s famed Basquiat painting “The Boxer,” as featured in the Metallica doc Some Kind of Monster, hit the auction block yesterday at Christie’s. The painting netted $12 million.
• Former Blur members under the same O2 arena roof as frontman Damon Albarn last night as Albarn and his Gorillaz collaborator Jamie Hewlett debuted their new opera Monkey: Journey To the West debuted in London.