entertainment - "music"

Cheerleaders Turned Musical MavensPaula Abdul was a dance squad queen before she became the drunk we all know and love today. Rock on with your Sharpie sniffing margarita filled rump.Madonna was the top of the pyramid before utilizing lesbionic tactics to score press.Cheerleaders Walking the Red CarpetsCameron Diaz wore the oversized sweater and pleated skirt [...]

CBS' flagship affiliate in New York has 'nixed a musical number from Broadway tuner 'Passing Strange' from its pre-Tony special after the net's standards and practices department declared the song We Just Had Sex inappropriate for broadcast.'...

Country music star Eddy Arnold died Thursday near Nashville just shy of his 90th birthday. Measured in terms of hit recordings, he was the most successful country artist of all time, selling 85 million records in a career that spanned from the Great Depression to 2005, when he released his last album. Craig Havighurst of member station WPLN in Nashville reports.

In 20th century country music, Eddy Arnold was the flip side to Hank Williams - and one of the very few artists who approached Williams' level of impact. Things ended differently, too. Where Hank Williams died at age 29, Eddy Arnold made it almost to 90.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Eddy Arnold, country music's 'Tennessee Plowboy,' whose rendition of 'Make the World Go Away' was an international hit in the 1960s, died on Thursday at age 89 in Nashville after a lengthy illness.

SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 8 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Local author Jim Musgrave is featured on Sniplits' beta test site. Anyone with a digital music player, smart phone or laptop understands the hunger for new content. Now, with the launch of Sniplits.com, there's a new source for entertainment on the Internet. Sniplits(SM) is publishing audio short stories, packaged as DRM-free MP3 files and playable on virtually any device capable of playing digital music.

AP - Bertelsmann AG, the owner of book publisher Random House, said Thursday that its first-quarter loss narrowed significantly from last year as the higher euro and a drop in sales at its book and music clubs crimped earnings.

American Idol 7 voters finally listened to Jason Castro, who's all but given up these past few weeks, and stopped voting for him, so he was eliminated from the competition. That leaves David Cook, David Archuleta, and Syesha Mercado as the final three, and right now, they're all basically tied.That there's no clear favorite among the final three was the most surprising part of last night's results show. At the beginning, Ryan Seacrest said the vote, despite being a season record of 51 million votes, 'was close: The top three all had within 1 million votes of each other, so that's pretty tight considering the number of votes coming in.' In other words, it's anyone's game at this point.To kill time, the Idols went to see the Cirque du Soleil show Love at the Mirage, which uses the Beatles' music. Appallingly, the editors had the gall to cut between photos of screaming fans and the Beatles' fans, and Ryan Seacrest said 'they were greeted with a frenzy. it was total Idol mania.' Yeah,

Ah, to be young and in love-because we all know how those romances turn out. Production on High School Musical 3 is in full swing, and costars Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens so far...

As a member of the glam rock band Queen, May wrote 'We Will Rock You' and played that guitar solo on 'We Are the Champions.' But the curly-haired musician also dreamed of a career in astrophysics. Three decades later, he's gotten his doctorate and written a book about the history of the universe.