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Getty Images Freddie Mercury of Queen and Michael Jackson teamed up to record several never-released duets in 1983. LONDON — Queen guitarist Brian May says he’s working to complete duets recorded 30 years ago by the band’s late frontman Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson. May wrote on his blog this month that he was working on the tapes with producer ...

Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images Lady Gaga attended The 20th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit at The Watermill Center on July 27. Lady Gaga continued promoting her new “ARTPOP” inspired image over the weekend, ahead of her new single release and subsequent MTV Video Music Awards debut performance in August. The fresh-faced singer embraced the upscale avant-garde scene by attending an event ...

Pearl Gabel/Pearl Gabel/ New York Daily News Musician Robert Plant played at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on July 27, 2013. (Pearl Gabel/New York Daily News) Robert Plant keeps ramblin’ on. Saturday night at the Prospect Park Bandshell, the singer fronted his fifth band in the last decade. In some ways, it ranked as his most fearless. ...

Tony Gutierrez/AP Guitarist J.J. Cale was the architect of what music scholars call ‘The Tulsa Sound.’ LA JOLLA, Calif. — Grammy-winning musician JJ Cale, whose best known songs became hits for Eric Clapton with “After Midnight” and Lynyrd Skynyrd with “Call Me the Breeze,” has died. He was 74. The performer and producer’s manager Mike Kappus has told The Associated ...

Photo by Antonino D’Ambrosio A lawsuit filed by longtime Gogol Bordello guitarist and songwriter Oren Kaplan alleges that band frontman Eugene Hutz (above) improperly diverted funds to himself. Internationally acclaimed New York City gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello has a few sour notes among its members. Longtime band guitarist and songwriter Oren Kaplan filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court ...

Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News Ashanti leaves Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday, the day after Devar Hurd, 35, of Chicago was jailed and charged with aggravated harrassment and stalking of the singer. A serial sexter obsessed with the singer Ashanti was indicted Friday on charges he has kept up his lurid bid to woo the Grammy Award winner. Devar ...

Nick Wright Sinéad O’Connor will perform the Gospel Sessions July 26-27 in Alice Tully Hall as part of the Lincoln Center Festival 2013. To the casual observer, it could sound like hypocrisy, if not downright blasphemy: Sinead O’Connor — the woman who will be forever known by some as that crazy bald chick who ripped a picture of the Pope ...

Some of the top car moment in music video history include rapper M.I.A. riding on a BMW as it drives on two wheels and the Jaguars used as a seductive dance platform in Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again.” There’s no doubt about it: cars and music go well together. The cross-genre appeal of cars helps them earn starring roles in ...

Hugh Jackman will be bringing his “Back to Broadway” to Hollywood for one night in October. Hugh Jackman is getting his act together and taking it on the road — to Los Angeles and for one night only. “The Wolverine” star and “The Boy From Oz” Tony winner will revisit his sold-out hit “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway” on Oct. ...

Morry Gash/ASSOCIATED PRESS Rocker Ted Nugent is used to courting controversy with comments about gun rights and race. Rowdy rocker Ted Nugent has hit another sour note. After proudly proclaiming he’s “so anti-racist,” the conservative musician went on a provocative rant Tuesday when he compared profiling blacks to profiling dogs. Nugent, 64, was talking with podcast host Nick Cannon in ...