LOS ANGELES – Tom Petty has grown up, but not too much.

The 59-year-old spent a year going through thousands of hours of live concert recordings covering Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' tours across three decades.

The result is "The Live Anthology" — not a greatest hits album, but a multiple-disc set. There are no overdubs, and the notorious perfectionist can now see why his hard-driven mates were "a good little

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Gone with the Wind is the grandest, most ambitious and spectacular piece of filmmaking in cinematic history. Set in the South against the backdrop of the Civil War, between handsome Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and his sassy, headstrong heroine Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), "Gone with the Wind" has thrilled audiences with its eternal love affair.

Winner of 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and still history's all time domestic box-office champion ($1.5 billion), "Gone With more...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Michael Jackson film built around rehearsal footage left behind after his death will be released in a limited two-week theatrical engagement worldwide.

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Distributor Sony announced Thursday that the release date for "Michael Jackson: This Is It" has been moved up to Oct. 28, two days earlier than previously

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The small Transcaucasian republic of Azerbaijan is best known for its classical mugham tradition – the local equivalent of neighbouring Iran's dastgah, or the Turkish makam. Sevda Alekperzaheh isn't the first to successfully fuse this with a jazz sensibility, but the bulk of this album does the same with the region's folk songs, also straying into blues, soul and even funk stylings, which don't always work so well. Even so, it's a bold, varied

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A maker of the potent anesthetic propofol found in Michael Jackson's home has been contacted by federal officials investigating the pop star's death and has recalled tens of thousands of vials of the drug after two tainted lots sickened dozens of patients.

There is no apparent connection between the bacterial contamination that prompted the recall and Jackson's death on June 25, Teva Pharmaceuticals

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NEW YORK (Billboard) – If it's up to Fat Possum president Matthew Johnson, the classic '70s recordings of R&B legend Al Green will soon be seducing a new generation of listeners.

Johnson recently licensed the entire Hi Records catalog, which includes such classics as "Al Green Gets Next to You" and "Call Me," as well as albums by Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson and longtime Green collaborator Willie Mitchell.

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A revered singer/songwriter for over four decades, James Taylor has certainly earned the right to try his hand at a whole album of other peoples' songs. The most surprising thing about Covers is how familiar most of the material is. And while not all of it is obviously – ahem – tailored to this artist, or really needs (re)covering, Taylor's singing and the accompaniment are top notch.

His Band Of Legends are slick without

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