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The 1971 George Harrison hit “My Sweet Lord” was reissued Monday in aid of charity. The single by the former Beatle, who died in November after a long battle with cancer, topped the charts for five weeks in 1971. It was the first solo post-Beatles number one for any member of the Fab Four. All proceeds from the single will go to the Material World Foundation, set up in 1973 by Harrison to support agencies worldwide that assist poverty-stricken children.

The San Francisco-area date of Limp Bizkit’s “Put Your Guitar Where Your Mouth Is” guitarist search set for Friday (January 11) was cancelled due to problems obtaining the proper permits, according to the band’s website. The event was to take place just outside the city at the Guitar Center in Concord, California, but things weren’t exactly in order, store manager Frank Gutwein revealed. “I don’t want to address the reasons why, but it was cancelled due to uncontrollable circumstances. Right now we’re looking at mid-February. We don’t have an exact place or time,” he said. Limp Bizkit is looking to… Read more »

Billy Joel and Elton John are back together in the new year for the continuation of the pair’s magical “Face To Face” performances kicking off on Sunday, January 13th in Washington, DC at the MCI Center. Billy and Elton first toured the successful “Face To Face” tour in the United States in 1995 and again in 1996. The tour was extended to Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Europe in 1998. The 31-date “Face To Face” 2001 tour grossed $59 million. Early sales for the Billy Joel/Elton John “Face To Face” 2002 tour of the American northeast immediately set box office… Read more »

Nearly three years after her divorce, Janet Jackson said finding a special someone is her biggest wish – but no wedding bells are ringing just yet. “I’d like to be in love,” she told reporters in Tokyo on Thursday, without naming any potential candidates. Jackson has described the great emotional pain that followed her February 1999 breakup with co-writer Rene Elizondo Jr., whom she had married secretly in 1991. After the marriage dissolved, Jackson started dating – something she said she never did while growing up. But the singer said that no new partnership would lead to nuptials any time… Read more »

While on the road last year filming his latest independent movie, director Ludi Boeken and his relatively unknown cast decided to stop at Hooters for lunch. It would have been no big deal except that one of his stars looks almost identical to Britney Spears. And, of course, he (yes, he) was dressed in character as the pop icon. “We were so used to seeing Robert as Britney, we didn’t think anything of it,” Boeken recalled. “All of a sudden we had like 800 people looking at us. He fled, and they chased him. From then on, we just brought… Read more »

Although two of the Backstreet Boys have gotten into some adult-oriented trouble of late, in August, fans can catch the group projected in a much more child-like light. The pop quintet will be rendered as animated manimals (part man, part animal) in an hour-long special broadcast of the PBS children’s cartoon “Arthur,” in which all the characters are drawn with some amalgam of human and animal characteristics. Brian Littrell and Howie Dorough are depicted as rabbits, while Kevin Richardson, Nick Carter and A.J. McLean resemble bear-like creatures. The episode, tentatively titled “It’s Only Rock and Roll,” will premiere in selected… Read more »

Hey, did you know Busta Rhymes has an album out? Or that Britney Spears has a new movie coming up? If you didn’t know, they and other stars at Wednesday’s American Music Awards made sure you did, relentlessly plugging their new albums and projects at every opportunity. While awards shows have always been an opportunity for self-promotion, ceremonies these days include, more than ever, mini-commercials. “‘Genesis’ is in stores right now, in case you didn’t know!” shouted Rhymes before announcing the award for best new country artist. Backstreet Boy members Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson began their presenting duties by… Read more »

Creed again has weathered the January sales drought, moving almost 166,000 copies of its Wind-up disc “Weathered” to stay atop the nation’s sales chart for the seventh week in a row. And the seven Grammy nominations India.Arie received Friday put her “Acoustic Soul” (Motown) disc back in the top 200 at No. 139 on sales of 11,000, according to SoundScan information issued Sunday. The top 10 for the week ended Sunday was jumbled a little, but the titles remained essentially the same as the previous week. Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” (Warner Bros.) remained No. 2 on sales of 124,000; Ludacris’… Read more »

Thieves broke into the DJ/producer’s Los Angeles studio over Christmas while he was recording in London and made off with more than $75,000 worth of equipment, including computers storing 11 tracks for his upcoming album and hundreds of other recordings, he said. “One of the FireWire hard drives that was stolen included my sound library since I was 15 years old,” a shaken BT said. “It’s a really heavy thing, a really hard thing to have happen when you are gone. The guys that work for me were crying over the phone – grown men crying. It was a really… Read more »

A long-running dispute over four famous guitars that once belonged to the late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia has been resolved, with the instruments to be divided between remaining band members and the man who crafted them, lawyers said Tuesday. Under the agreement, guitar maker Doug Irwin will get custody of guitars dubbed “Wolf” and “Tiger” for their decorative inlays, while the Grateful Dead will keep two other instruments “It’s all signed and inked. It hasn’t yet been approved by the court, but we don’t see any problems,” said Douglas Long, an attorney representing Irwin. Long said that Irwin planned… Read more »