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Former US President Bill Clinton has put together a record, 'The Bill Clinton Collection: Selections from the Clinton Music Room', which contains a selection of his favorite hits. The tracks featured on the album, include 'My Funny Valentine' by legendary jazz trumpet player Miles Davis, Nina Simone's 'I Wish I knew How It Would Feel To Be Free' and 'Chelsea Morning' by Judy Collins, the song he named his daughter after. The CD is being produced by The William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, and will go on sale at the Clinton Museum Store, in Arkansas, next month. Proceeds from the sales of the record will help fund various charities Clinton is involved with, including HIV-Aids and economic empowerment organizations.

Police are reopening the investigation into the death of Rolling Stones legend Brian Jones after fresh evidence suggests he was murdered. The guitarist's former girlfriend, Pat Andrews, has handed over new information of events surrounding Jones' mysterious death 36 years ago, when he allegedly drowned in his swimming pool at his British countryside home. The 150-page report - compiled by a team of private investigators - suggests the musician was murdered over a $14,000 debt. Andrews is now urging for Jones' body to be exhumed. She revealed to Britain's Daily Express newspaper: "Disturbing new evidence has emerged which merits a full new police investigation.". The new evidence coincides with a new movie 'The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones' which claims the star was killed by a builder, Frank Thorogood, who drowned him over the debt. Andrews along with The Brian Jones Fan Club decided to run its own investigations after they were approached by a new witness who claimed to be working at Jones' home, Cotchford Farm in Sussex, on the night of his death. The hired investigators - including a former Thames Valley Police superintendent - claim to have found eight pieces of evidence which disproves the coroner's original verdict of death by misadventure. Club spokesperson Mr Hobley said: "We carried out an initial forensic examination at the end of last year. From that we have approached the Home Office and police and hope to get the case reopened and Brian's body exhumed in the near future." Sussex police are investigating the forensic team's findings before deciding whether to pursue the case further.

"No Direction Home", the first feature-length film biography of Bob Dylan, will premiere this September, directed by Martin Scorsese. The two-part film, which focuses on the singer-songwriter's life and music from 1961-66, includes never-seen performance footage and interviews. The film features previously unreleased footage from Bob Dylan's groundbreaking live concerts, studio recording sessions and interviews. The film's soundtrack, the 7th installment in the acclaimed Bob Dylan bootleg series, contains 28 Bob Dylan tracks -- 26 of them previously unreleased -- comprised of rare private recordings, live concert, television and festival recordings, and 12 alternate takes of songs from his Columbia LP recording sessions in New York and Nashville during this period. The two-disc set is packaged in a double jewel case alongside a 60-page color book in one hardback slipcase.


Christina Aguilera has joined the team of start already signed up stars for the 'Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil' campaign, which raises awareness of the spread of HIV and Aids among young people. Christina, 24, is joined by actors Penelope Cruz and Elijah Wood, rapper LL Cool J, and model Cindy Crawford in starring in a series of high-profile TV and magazine ads. Celebrities will be shown with duct tape across their mouth or eyes to enforce the message 'Hear No Evil Speak No Evil' and will wear 'empowerment tags', a pair of dog tags, one engraved with an AIDS ribbon and one engraved with the words "Hear", "See" or "Speak".



GUNS N’ ROSES REVISITED, consisting of original GN’R drummer Steven Adler and guitarist Tracii Guns, along with Sheldon Tarsha (vocals), Keri Kelli (guitar) and Robbie Crane (bass) had been booked to perform seven shows in Asia, spanning late August into early September. Those dates are all cancelled Canadian Journalist Aaron Small spoke with Tracii earlier today: “Sanctuary Management, who handles Axl (Rose), threatened bloody murder. I thought it was great. When I saw the logo they were using and the ad over there, it was killer! How are we getting away with this? I don’t really have anything to do with the band. Originally, the promoter asked Steven if he could get Gilby (Clarke) and myself to come with him, so it was more like a real Guns N’ Roses. But Gilby turned it down. He called me and said he didn’t want to be involved with it. They offered me a lot of money and I said, hell yeah. The easiest thing for me to do is play Guns N’ Roses songs. Pay me and I’ll go play. I don’t have very many scruples in the music business. Look, it’s there for the taking. I don’t really care.”

Madonna fell from a new horse, she was not used to riding and suffered major injuries.

Patricia Heaton: The Emmy-winning star of Everybody Loves Raymond is finding someone else to love for TNT. Heaton will star in the cable network's original movie The Engagement Ring as a woman who learns the true value of love and friendship when she takes delivery of lost mail that was intended for her mother. The missing missive comes with a marriage proposal and the ring. Lainie Kazan and Vincent Spano also star in the tale. Heaton last worked for TNT in 2004 when she starred with Jeff Daniels in the remake of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl. She earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for that work. The Engagement Ring is already in production and should be ready for broadcast later this year.

Oliver Stone has pleaded no contest in a Beverly Hills Court this week after he was caught in possession of cannabis when his car was pulled over by police at a drink-driving checkpoint on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. Initially no charges were brought against him; however Stone exhibited suspicious symptoms and was arrested. This is not the first time the director has been caught with drugs - in 1999, police discovered various substances, including cannabis, diet drug fenfluramine and anxiety drug Meprobamate, when they pulled over his car in Los Angeles.

Rumor has it that Oscar winner Julia Roberts will quit making movies in order to pursue a Broadway career and handle family matters. Her latest TV appearance will be in the new Dave Matthews Band video titled Dreamgirl, which premieres on VH1 Wednesday, August 17. Roberts is shown in action with different members of the Band when they invade her dreams.

 

 

Bon Jovi hits time square, then the road: The NJ boys will give a performance at the Nokia Theatre Times Square one day before their new Album “Have a nice day” hits the stores. Get a date and join them on Sept. 19th, 9 pm ET, no matter where you live, this thing will be simulcast live in movie theatres across US, on the AOL Music website and XM Satellite Radio. And watch our for tourdates coming in fall !!!

SHARON STONE has been bombarded with so many bad pick up lines over the years, that she is considering to write a book filled with all of the quips. The thrice-divorced BASIC INSTINCT star admits some of the lines she's found the most ridiculous have ended up luring her in at some point. "I actually thought about writing a book (containing) every line I've ever heard in my life. You wont believe the stuff people say to you … some of them just walk right up say they wanna sleep with you; Or they dumb stuff like 'You've seem like a sister to me.' And then you think, 'Really? You sleep with your sister a lot? Ewww!'".

Actor-comedian Eddie Murphy's wife has filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Murphy and his wife, Nicole, married in 1993 and have been separated since July. They have four daughters and one son, ages 3 to 15, according to divorce papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. "The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interest is our first priority," the 44-year-old actor said in a statement issued through his publicist, Paul Bloch. Nicole is apparently asking for both child and spousal support and half the couple's assets.

Colin Farrell has won a preliminary injunction ruling that the steamy sex video he filmed with Playboy model Nicole Narain, cannot be sold, distributed or posted on the internet. The Irish singer is suing Narain for breach of “oral” contract ($%#@) and invasion of privacy. Farrell said in a statement: "We offered to drop the case and not seek damages if she would join us in our action, but she refused" The 14-minute tape shows a naked Narain performing positions from the Kama Sutra while Farrell enjoys the view... doesn’t seem all that bad to me; and for the record … why tape it if you don’t want it to be seen?