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| Bob Dylan investigated for racist remarks Posted: Comments made by the music legend last year to a popular magazine have landed him in trouble. The American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is being investigated in France after a Croatian community organisation alleged that comments he made to Rolling Stone magazine last year amounted to incitement to racial hatred, Paris prosecutors said earlier this week. In the interview, published in the magazine's Sept 27, 2012 edition, the singer said racism was holding the United States back. "If you got a slave master or (Ku Klux) Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that," he was quoted as saying. "That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood." The formal investigation followed a legal complaint from the organisation, Representative Council of Croat Institutions of France (CRICCF), which is based in France, alleging that the comments as carried in the French version of the magazine violated French racial hatred laws. In France, racism complaints automatically trigger formal investigations, irrespective of the merits of the case. Dylan was awarded France's prestigious Legion d'Honneur award last month in Paris. Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti said that, for French people, he embodied a "subversive cultural force that can change people and the world". CRICCF did not return an e-mail seeking comment. Dylan's manager did not immediately respond to a phone call. Rolling Stone said it had no comment. — Reuters > Click here for the Rolling Stone article. |
| Justin Bieber reveals new video Posted: The singer has released a music clip for his single All That Matters. CANADIAN singer Justin Bieber has released a video for his single All That Matters from his ongoing Music Mondays project. Model Cailin Russo features alongside Bieber in the steamy clip, directed by Colin Tilley. The pop star's Twitter account announced the release of the video yesterday. The Diplo-produced song All That Matters was originally released Oct 14. The Music Monday project, meanwhile, continues with this week's Change Me and a 10th and final song is due out next Monday. — AFP Relaxnews |
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