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The Police is going to release a concert disk and DVD following their 2007/2008 world tour dedicated to the band’s 30th anniversary. Drummer Stewart Copeland has recently told this news to the Billboard.

He said that the base of these two disks will include a performance in Buenos Aires that was recorded on 1–2 December last year. DVD should also incorporate a documentary under the name of “Better Than Therapy” created by Copeland’s son, Jordan. The release is planned on the end of this summer.

The world tour had started in Vancouver on March 28, 2007. The last show must take place in New York on August 7 this year. However, after the following concert The Police wants to quit their music career.

On Wednesday The Rolling Stones guitar player Ronnie Wood has agreed to go through a therapy in order to get rid of his alcohol dependency, said Times Online. This ‘addictive’ problem had troubled Wood in the past decades. As his secretary told the press, Wood is “seeking help” in solving this itchy question, and hopes to win no matter what shall face him.

Before, it was said that a 61–years old guitar player had locked himself up in his home in Ireland together with a 19–years old girl from Moscow Ekaterina Ivanova while drinking way over the limit.

Wood’s relatives and the other band members, including Mick Jagger kept on convincing Wood to walk out from his Irish mansion and go to the rehab. It is also noted that his 30–years old son Jesse was visiting Wood right before he took this decision.

The British band Oasis has announced the list of songs that will appear on their new album “Dig Out Your Soul”, which is going to be released on October 6. This news was first published on Tuesday by NME.

A new disk should be produced by the band’s subordinate record label Big Brother Recordings. The album shall incorporate new, and aldready known songs. A new single “The Shock Of The Lightning” will be available on September 29. The rest includes, “Bag It Up”, “The Turning”, “Waiting For the Rapture”, “I’m Outta Time”, “(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady”, “Falling Down”, “To Be Where There’s Life”, “Ain’t Got Nothin”, “The Nature Of Reality”, “Soldier On”.

The album was recorded in the Abbey Road studio in London (since January 2008), and later mixed in Los Angeles. It contains various compositions written by Noel and Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer and Andy Bell.  Their last album “Don’t Believe The Truth” was released in 2005 selling more than four million copies, and reaching number one on the British music charts.

The Rolling Stones guitar player Ronnie Wood has locked himself up in his home in Ireland together with the 19–year old girl from Moscow, and as was reported by his relatives drinks two bottles of vodka every day. This news was announced by The Telegraph on previous Friday.

Sixty-one-year old musician came to know Ekaterina Ivanova in London were she was working as a waitress. She is saing that by then Wood already had various problems with his fifty-three-year old wife, ex model Jo. When Jo has told Ekaterina that she is stealing her husband, a Russian girl simply explaimed, “I’m not taking him away, he is going by himself.” Jo Wood thinks that Ekaterina is “totally insane” and “a terrible alcoholic”. The ex-model has lived together with Ronnie for thirty-one years.

Currently, all other members of The Rolling Stones, including Mick Jagger are trying to convice Wood to go through a therapy. Wood’s relatives, (he is a father of four children) are afraid for his life.

Wife of the French President Nikolas Sarkozy, super-model and a singer Carla Bruni has told the press that she is “deeply offenced” by the criticism surrounding her new album. As it was expected most of the critics belong to the anti-Sakozy political groups, says AFP.

Her third album “Comme Si De Rien N’Etait”, which is available on her personal website is facing the cold shoulder from the French music critics. Of course including those who don’t like Bruni’s husband and his policies. “Definitely, it’s offending me, but at the same time it’s quite natural”, she said in one of her interviews, “That is very understandable when people are mixing my music career together with the first lady’s status”. Previously, Bruni has announced that she is going to cancel her concert tour because of the safety issues.

Her debut album “Quelqu’un M’a Dit” was released in 2002, and became very popular in France selling two million copies. The next one “No Promises” (2007) didn’t get that far, possibly because that time she has used English poetry  – it sold only 380 thousand copies.

Rolling Stones turned to be the most expensive corporate band, hence their performance at any private party will cost you seven million dollars, says the Internet web edition staff.co.nz. Journalists are linking these conclusions to the facts that were exposed in a book by Imogen Edwards-Jones “Pop Babylon”, where one shall find lots of interesting things about pop and rock stars’ income.

The second most expensive ‘corporate-private party award’ is absorbed by Elton John, Robby Williams, Rod Stewart and Amy Winehouse: their performances have climbed up to two million dollars. Jenis Jackson and Pussycat Dolls take one million for one concert. Sting looks very innocent in this picture - only five hundred thousand.

As Eward-Jones has noted in his book, “No wonder the market is expanding rapidly with indie acts and young pop stars offering themselves up to the highest bidder. Even old favourites such as Rick Astley and the Human League have dusted themselves off and are available for weddings and bar mitzvahs. So no matter how big or small your budget, there appears to be a band to suit you.”

Metallica has announced the price for which anyone will be able to purchase their new album – “Death Magnetic”.

Those who shall register on the band’s informatory/official web site, Mission: Metallica, and pay 24,99 dollars should get an access to download the album on the day of it’s release. As always the quality remains the same and quite good - mp3 format with the bit rate of 320 kbps. Besides that, these people will have a chance to reach a so-called “platinum” key, which means that they can download two concert videos, ringtones and 250 exclusive photos.

Those who are ready to pay 32,99 dollars will attain the same thing, plus traditional CD without any delivery fees. Real fans may get the limited edition of this album by paying 124,99 dollars. It includes mentioned above “platinum” access, mp3/CD part and five ‘rarity like’ vinyl copies of the album with some special lithograph(?).

The release of “Death Magnetic”, which is going to be Metallica’s ninth studio work is planned for September with the help of it’s current label Warner Brothers Records. The last album “St. Anger” was made in 2003.

A member of the band Crosby, Stills and Nash, Steven Stills has found a record in his personal archive that was made together with Jimmy Hendrix, says Digital Spy.

Approximately, it was  recorded way back in 1970, not long ago before Hendrix’s death. Another memeber of C.S.N. Graham Nash has acknowledged that Stills could’ve just simply forget about the existance of this joint work because during 1970’s Stills was literally recording with everyone. Nash has noted, “He has an enormous history of recording. In the 1970’s, he was a recording fool. He just found a bloody album he made with Jimi Hendrix.”

Currently, Nash is getting this record ready to be officially released, but the date is not known yet. Hendrix, who is considered to be one of the greatest guitar players in the history of rock-n-roll, has made just three studio and one concert album.

Blondie’s drummer Clem Burke has told the press that during the following year they’re planning to release the new album, noted The Mirror (as of July 7).

A new disk is going to be their 12th full studio album. The last one (“The Curse of Blondie”) was released in 2003. Blondie well apart way back in 1982 after the release of six albums, five singles and generally speaking, pretty powerful ‘hit-charts’ fame. By the end of 1990’s they’ve suddenly reunited and began to make new records, even though without going as high in popularity as before.

Currently, Blondie is on tour dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the release of their famous album “Parallel Lines”.

System’s guitarist Daron Malakian doesn’t want this band to be reunited again any soon. As he told Gigwise, he and the band’s drummer John Dolmaian are planning their return to the stage activities with the new act called Scars On Broadway repeating System’s Serge Tankian’s success in his solo project.

Following Malakian’s words, all the former members of the ‘System’ are so into their own solo careers right now that they absolutely don’t think about any kind of reunion.  He has said that, “If someday it feels right for us to do then we’ll do it but as of right now I’m really focused on this and I want to take this to different levels and so does John. We don’t talk about System, we don’t talk about doing System. If it does happen I see it being very very far down the line.”

The band “System of a Down” was founded by Tankian and Malakian in Los Angeles back in 1995. All of the five albums that they’ve released went platinum. In May 2006 the band had announced that they’re planning on a long vacation, but then it didn’t mean any kind of collapse. Their last performance took place on August 2006 in Florida after which Serge Tankian said that he would like to persue his solo career. In 2007 Tankian had released his first solo album “Elect The Dead”.