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- Brain surgery forces halt to Mumford and Sons tour
- Audio reveals details of Paris Jackson suicide attempt
- Ringo Starr puts life on display at Grammy Museum
| Brain surgery forces halt to Mumford and Sons tour Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:19 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Chart-topping English indie folk rock band Mumford and Sons postponed three sell-out shows on their US tour Tuesday while bassist Ted Dwane (on the left in the picture) undergoes surgery for a blood clot. Writing on its website, the group -- winners of this year's Grammy for best album -- said scans had revealed a blood clot on the surface of Dwane's brain that requires immediate treatment. "Ted is receiving excellent care and we are being assured that he will recover quickly from surgery," it said without disclosing where the operation will take place. Dwane, who plays upright bass, turns 29 on August 15. In the interim, Mumford and Sons is postponing headlining concerts this week in Dallas and Woodlands, Texas and in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tickets will be honored at rescheduled dates. "We have no plans to cancel or postpone any other appearances along this current tour," said the band, which is lined up to play the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago on August 3. Mumford and Sons have been at the forefront of a folk and bluegrass revival that also includes The Lumineers from Colorado. Its latest album Babel entered the British and US charts at number one upon its release in September. |
| Audio reveals details of Paris Jackson suicide attempt Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:48 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paris Jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of late pop star Michael Jackson, swallowed 20 pain pills and cut her arm last week in an apparent suicide attempt, according to emergency dispatch audio released on Tuesday. The audio released by the Los Angeles County Fire Department casts new light on the June 5 incident at the Jackson's family residence in Calabasas, California, which prompted a judge who oversees her guardianship case to order an investigation into her "health, education and welfare." The call between emergency dispatchers indicated that Paris took 20 Motrin tablets, an over-the-counter pain medication, and cut her arm with a kitchen knife. The minute-long audio clip also described the teenager as awake and breathing before being rushed to a local hospital. Paris and her two brothers Prince Michael and Prince Michael II, also known as Blanket, live under the court-ordered custody of their 83-year-old grandmother, Katherine Jackson, and cousin, T.J. Jackson, the son of Jackson's older brother Tito. Michael Jackson died in 2009 at age 50 from a lethal dose of the surgical anesthetic propofol. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ordered an investigator to "address the status of the minor child, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, and recent media reports concerning her welfare," according to court documents filed after the she entered a hospital last week. Katherine Jackson's attorney, Perry Sanders, said last week that Paris was "physically fine." Sanders' office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Jackson has recently rekindled her relationship with her biological mother, Debbie Rowe, who was married to Michael Jackson from 1996 to 1999 and turned over custody of her two children with him as part of their divorce. |
| Ringo Starr puts life on display at Grammy Museum Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:44 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr put snapshots of his musical and creative life on display in a new exhibit, Ringo: Peace & Love, which opened on Tuesday at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. Starr, 72, was on hand at the exhibit, which offers an in-depth look at his career as he rose to fame with The Beatles. Highlights include Starr's Ludwig drum kit, used during The Beatles' appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, and the outfit he wore during the era of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, between 1966 and 1967. Starr took Reuters on a tour of the exhibit, which will be open until March 2014, pointing out memorabilia from the height of Beatlemania, beginning with the band's August 1965 performance at New York's Shea Stadium, which was attended by 55,600 people. "After Shea, and Shea was the biggest audience, that was the first time anyone played a stadium and that we were like, 'wow,' Starr said. "People were talking about people screaming, but that is how it was. We got up, people screamed, we ended and they went home." The Beatles, was formed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Starr in Liverpool in the 1960s. McCartney and Starr are the only surviving members, after Lennon was shot dead in New York in 1980 and Harrison died from lung cancer in 2001. Nearly 50 years after The Beatles first arrived in the United States, Starr said he keeps busy and is working on adapting the Beatles' song Octopus's Garden into a children's picture book. He is also releasing an e-book titled Photograph exclusively on Apple's iBookstore on Wednesday, which will lift the lid on a collection of previously unseen photographs of the Fab Four from his personal collection. |
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