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Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan, a former heroin addict who cheated death during the 1990s, was honored for his sobriety Friday by a charity that helps musicians who have fallen on hard times.
 
 

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Timber Timbre's Taylor Kirk talks about new album Creep On Creepin' On, and how the disc's organic sound came out of a newly developed group dynamic.
 
 

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Bob Marley

Remembering Bob Marley with a trip to Nine Mile

It's been 30 years since Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital. Postmedia News takes a pilgrimage to Jamaica's Nine Mile, the birthplace and final resting spot of the reggae legend.


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Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Paul McCartney among richest Brits in music

The X Factor and former American Idol judge Simon Cowell jumped to No. 6 in the British music rich list in 2011 after his fortune hit 200 million pounds ($330 million US), Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said on Thursday.


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Lady Gaga

Songs For Japan charity album raises $5 million

A charity album featuring hits from the likes of Lady Gaga, Bob Dylan and Madonna has raised $5 million US for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the record labels involved said on Wednesday.


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Beastie Boys still shaking rumps

Fire up your computer and view the band’s 10 vital moments on YouTube


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Jordan Knight

Jordan Knight pushes solo careeer with new album

A week before he flew across the country to begin tour rehearsals in Los Angeles, Jordan Knight was at home in Boston, watching CNN and thinking about taking his 11-year-old son to hockey tryouts later that night. “He’s got a little Canadian streak in him,” Knight joked.


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