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Weird Al Serious, but 'Not Mad,' About Royalties Dispute
April 24, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Comedy Icon Talks Sony Lawsuit, Plus YouTube Interview Show, Children's Book & His Super Bowl Dreams Weird Al Yankovic is understandably tight-lipped about his royalties lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment. But, he tells Billboard.com, ...
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Adele Makes a Clean Sweep on Somber Night at Grammys 2012
February 12, 2012 11:47 PM EST Adele won all six Grammy Awards she was nominated for including Album, Song and Record of the Year. (Getty Images) Adele is rolling with Grammy hardware to spare. The singer made her post-surgery comeback by winning all six of her nominations at t ...
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Glen Campbell, Diana Ross, George Jones, Allman Brothers, More Honored at Grammy Special Merit Awards
February 12, 2012 5:30 PM EST Lifetime Achievement Award winners (from left) George Jones, Gregg Allman, Diana Ross and Glen Campbell at The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Special Merit Awards Ceremony at L.A.'s Wilshire Ebell Theatre. (Photo: WireImage) LOS ANGELES -- Glen ...
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Weird Al Yankovic Goes Gaga In 'Perform This Way' Video
June 20, 2011 11:39 AM EDT After a struggle with Lady Gaga's management to even release "Perform This Way," Weird Al Yankovic has taken his antics to the screen -- as in, the YouTube screen. Yankovic released the visual accompaniment to his Gaga parody today (J ...
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Weird Al Gets Gaga's Approval for 'Born This Way' Parody
April 21, 2011 2:04 PM EDT "W eird" Al Yankovic has announced that his parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" has been approved by the pop star and will appear on his next album, after he was initially told that Gaga had rejected his riff on her hit si ...
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Weird Al Leaks Lady Gaga 'Born This Way' Parody, Accuses Star of Rejecting Song
April 20, 2011 6:33 PM EDT "W eird" Al Yankovic leaked "Perform This Way," a parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," on YouTube Wednesday (Apr. 20), along with a lengthy blog post in which he accused the pop star of rejecting the song after m ...
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Weird Al May Parody Lady Gaga On Next Album
June 22, 2010 3:01 PM EDT W eird Al Yankovic is nine songs into his next album. "I've got three more to do," he reports -- and that's the hard part. "I need to write three parodies," Yankovic, who's in the midst of a summer tour, tells Bill ...
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Dozens Of 'Simpsons' Songs Bundled For 'Testify'
July 12, 2007 12:00 AM EDT More than three-dozen original songs from the past nine seasons of "The Simpsons" have been bundled for the album "The Simpsons: Testify," due Sept. 18 via Shout! Factory. More than three-dozen original songs from the past nine s ...
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A Closer Look At Music-Related Television This Week
June 30, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Fine Tuning - Weekly column highlighting music on TV during the week of June 30-July 6, 2003. There's more music in the air than usual this week, thanks to Friday's Fourth of July celebrations across the country. A&E will broadcast &qu ...
