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Boston, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Patti Smith Group, the Talking Heads, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers head the 2002 class of newly eligible artists for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, sources close to the process revealed to allstar on Thursday (May 24). An artist has to have first recorded 25 years ago (1977) in order to be newly eligible. Others eligible for the first time are Will Ackerman, Blondie, Bootsy’s Rubber Band, Peabo Bryson, Burning Spear, John Cougar, Dwight Twilley Band, Firefall, Graham Parker and the Rumour, Amy Grant, Greg Kihn Band, Sammy Hagar, Richard… Read more »

Frank never got over Ava. And Joe always carried a torch for Marilyn. Now Puffy says he’d still run into a burning building to save J.Lo. In a Vanity Fair interview that hits newsstands Wednesday, Rap impresario Sean “Puffy” Combs said he and his ex-girlfriend, singer-actress Jennifer Lopez, had a romance that ranked right up there with the storied relationships of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe. “We’d always say to each other that I was Frank and she was Ava…. Everything always being up and down,” he told the magazine in an article focusing on… Read more »

While Janet Jackson’s new album, All for You, is expected to top next week’s Billboard 200, the title track is still holding strong as the #1 song in the country. Like most of Janet’s album, the song is produced by the singer/songwriter with the Flyte Tyme team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and it includes an inventive sample – from Change’s 1980 disco cut “The Glow of Love,” which featured Luther Vandross on lead vocals. “It was Jimmy’s idea,” Janet told MTV Europe of the sample. “I hadn’t heard the song before. He thought that he was going to… Read more »