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Posted: 18 Oct 2012 10:44 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Mick Jagger said the Rolling Stones had rehearsed around 70 songs for a series of 50th anniversary concerts later this year, and guitarist Keith Richards assured fans the veteran British rockers would "deliver".

The four Stones appeared on the red carpet on Thursday for the world premiere of Crossfire Hurricane, a documentary charting the meteoric rise to fame and fortune following their debut in London in 1962.

Jagger, who is 69, Richards, fellow guitarist Ronnie Wood and drummer Charlie Watts posed for photographers before speaking to the media on their way into the movie theatre in London's Leicester Square.

"Rehearsals are going very well, (we've) done about 70 different songs," Jagger told reporters. "I said, 'look, we only need to do 30, we don't need to do 70, but now we are doing 70. I don't know if we will do them all."

Richards added of the upcoming gigs in London and New York: "You know, we are looking forward to a great time. See, it's a two-way thing. It's to do with all these people and it's to do with us, we will deliver alright - one love."

The band, one of the most successful in rock history and behind songs like (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Honky Tonk Women and Angie, is marking its 50th birthday with a greatest hits album, photo book, exhibitions, documentary and gigs.

The Stones will play the O2 Arena in London on November 25 and 29 before crossing the Atlantic to perform at the Prudential Center, Newark, on December 13 and 15. Jagger has hinted that the band could play more dates in the future.

NO SATISFACTION ON TICKET PRICES

Tickets to the London dates go on general sale on Friday, although priority customers, including Amex card users and subscribers to the Stones archive mailing list, have been able to by some of them earlier.

Fans have voiced anger at the ticketing system and reports of prices ranging from 95 pounds to as much as 950 pounds for a "VIP hospitality" seat.

At the film premiere, hundreds of fans gathered to catch a glimpse of the band members who signed autographs on their way in.

While clearly enamoured with their musical heroes, some in the crowd were unhappy about the concert ticket prices.

"Too much, against rock and roll ethics if you ask me," said Valantina Bertezzi, a 29-year-old who had taken the day off work to see the Stones. "(They) should be cheaper and more for the people than 'American Express People'."

Crossfire Hurricane, screened as part of the London film festival, is drawn entirely from archive footage and attempts to recreate what it was like to be on stage and backstage amid riotous noise and screams of adulation. Jagger said it looked "like a pretty mad ride".

Critics praised its portrayal of the Stones in the 1960s and 70s, when many music critics argue they were at the peak of their powers untainted by commercialism.

"Millions of fans will doubtless indulge these elderly gentleman rebels as they engage in yet another round of lucrative myth-making," wrote The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Dalton in a review.

"In other words, Crossfire Hurricane is business as usual from the Stones, and good fun on its own terms. However, anyone expecting buried treasure or fresh insights into ancient rock folklore will get no satisfaction here."

TVXQ! Sells Out Seoul Concert in 3 Minutes

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 09:40 PM PDT

K-pop duo TVXQ! is gearing up to whip the sold-out crowd at the first concert for their world tour opening next month.

It took the kings of K-pop less than five minutes to sell out all 20,000 tickets to TVXQ! LIVE WORLD TOUR Catch Me in SEOUL, as soon as tickets went on sale last night at 8 pm KST, according to SM Entertainment's press release Friday.

The Seoul leg opening at Seoul's Olympic Stadium on November 17 and 18 is just the beginning of the large-scale project that will go around all regions. This is also the group's first exclusive concert being hosted here in four years.

The officials explained that the popular duo will bring their special performance style to the world and member Max Changmin is likely to present his self-written song I Swear.

The boys will heat up the stage on KBS' music ranking show Music Bank and MBC's live music show Music Core this coming weekend.

Taylor Swift paints love 'Red' in new album

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 09:37 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES: Country-pop star Taylor Swift has won over a legion of devoted fans in the past six years with her raw, honest lyrics of romance and heartbreak.

Now, at the grand age of 22, the five-time Grammy winner is says her new record "Red," to be released on Monday, "the most adventurous album I've ever made."

"'Red' is really kind of diary entries of the last two years of my life," Swift told Reuters in a telephone interview.

"There were beginnings and ends and there were ups and downs, and lessons that I learned and then had to learn all over again the exact same way ... the ups and downs of the whole experience of falling in love and being let down and letting go and starting over," she said.

"Red," Swift's follow-up to her 2010 best-seller "Speak Now," sees the singer-songwriter collaborate with the likes of British singer Ed Sheeran and pop music producer Max Martin.

The catchy pop-infused lead single "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was an instant hit when it was released in September, becoming Billboard's most-downloaded first week digital single.

And like many of Swift's other songs, it had fans guessing over which of her many brief but high-profile romances she was referring to. John Mayer? Joe Jonas? Taylor Lautner? Jake Gyllenhaal? Swift isn't telling.

"It helps me to know that 90 percent of what those little blog posts and articles say isn't true at all," said Swift, who is currently dating Conor Kennedy, 18, the son of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "The one bit of privacy that I have is knowing that I know who inspired those songs and I don't tell anyone.

"For me, keeping my private life private and only sharing it with people through my music allows me to have that connection with my fans and not shut them out of anything. But it allows me to also have something that's just mine."

The singer has dealt with her fair share of critics expounding on everything from her music to her personal life. Although she used her Grammy-winning song "Mean" to send them a message, Swift claims she doesn't pay much attention to what people say.

"I don't really read anything so I don't know what's being said, which kind of allows me to make music from a pure place of just making the music that I love, Swift said.

"People have been saying I was too pop since my first album so I'm used to that."

Along with music, Swift has become a branding powerhouse, with a line of lucrative sponsorship deals. She was named the highest-earning celebrity under 30 this year by Forbes magazine, which estimated her 2011 earnings to be $57 million.

Despite her superstar status, the singer is keen to keep herself grounded, crediting her friends for providing her with "some semblance of a normal life."

"I got to understanding how much I need my friends and how much I need to call them when I'm not around them ... because it turns out I am the kind of person that needs to run everything by my friends no matter what," Swift said with a laugh. -Reuters

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