As was written on the invitation, to all the stars who attended the A&M Recording Studios in Hollywood, California, on January 28, 1985 to record the fundraising hit song, We Are The World, ‘check your egos at the door’, is once again the message to all the celebrities both attending, and contributing to the memorial service for Michael Jackson at the Staples Center in Los Angeles today.

Michael, and Lionel Richie who co-wrote the 1985 hit, at that time managed to gather together a total of 45 such huge performers as Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner, read more ....

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The ‘Wall of Sound’ creator, Phil Spector, will not be making any more sounds for at least the next 15 years when he is sentenced in May 29^th to a cell of silence in prison following a guilty verdict which comes 6 years after the music producer shot his actress girlfriend Lana Clarkson, in the mouth in the foyer of his California mansion.

Spector had become known for his drunken attacks on women while brandishing a gun, for many years but it was the murder of the Barbarian Queen actress Clarkson that finally brought the curb crawling creep to read more ....

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Just the sort of remarks one would expect from a ‘brother’ of the ‘girlfriend beating’ Chris Brown. As rapper, P Diddy, appeared on the Ellen Degeneres show today, slumped in his chair, bedecked in bling with an attitude that could be smelt through the screen, he was asked why he let bully boy Brown use his house as a play ground for jet skiing and for meeting up with the battered and bruised Rihanna, while the nation watches to see what punishment is meted out to the R&B singer, Brown, for the attack which took place 3 weeks ago following read more ....

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Everyone marvels at how wonderful Madonna looked on her last tour, The Sticky and Sweet World Tour, but at just 50 years of age, with her money and ability to have the best of everything, so she should.

But Tina Turner? Now she is in a class all if her own. At the grand old age of 69, when most women are thinking about what to plant in their gardens for spring, joining the local book club, or rubbing some Deep Heat into their aching bones, Tina is well into her 50^th Anniversary Tour which began in October 2008 read more ....

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“Tasty Tidbit: Aretha Franklin Has Beef with Beyonce”

The Grammy Awards are famous for stirring up trouble, and this year was no different. Foxnews.com reports that Aretha Franklin has been sulking ever since Beyonce referred to Tina Turner as “the Queen” before their duet kicked off on Sunday night.

Even though the “Bootylicious” singer extended a courteous reference to Aretha along with the other top female performers, Ms. “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” isn’t having it.

In a statement disclosed by her publicist on Tuesday, Franklin announced “I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may read more ....

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R & B legend and former husband of Tina Turner died today, Wednesday December 12^th 2007, at the age of 76.

The wife he married in 1995, Jeanette Bazzell Turner only went as far as to comment that Ike had been suffering from emphysema.

Ike and Tina Turner were married in a ceremony in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1962 although in his book Turner stated that they were never actually married. They had a son, Ronald, who survives him, along with Jeanette and four other children: Mia, Twanna, Michael and Ike Jr.

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