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Nearly 30 years after the death of John Lennon, the toilet of the musician has been auctioned. It arrived on Saturday at a meeting of Beatles fans in Liverpool under the hammer.

A bidder has forked out £ 9500 (around 11,500 euros) for the porcelain bowl, said organizers Stephen Bailey. It was thus nearly ten times more than the estimated price. “This is unbelievable. We had bids from all over, but it went to a bidder in the country.”

Lennon had used the auctioned toilet, as he and Yoko Ono on the property, “Boobs Hurst Park” (1969-1971) lived near Ascot.

In the British version of the talent show ‘X Factor’ was evidently strong shit! With the aid of a so-called Auto-Tune software could smooth the voices of the singing candidates in their live performances accordingly or be worsened. The scandal came rolling after viewers suspected cheating, told the ‘Mirror’. The makers of the show defended the existence of software that allows the voices of the occurring rivals were manipulated.

Supposedly they wanted to allow viewers a quality best possible performance by either the voices of the singers sound better or worse made. Consequently, the better candidate simply sound better and the worse just completely wrong.

For Simon Cowell, the unimpeachable integrity of the show, however, have priority and he had repeatedly denied the producers not to use this software.

A former member of the British ‘X-Factor’ production team said: “It was an open secret that it was sound for years to candidates Auto-Tune better or worse. In some cases it has been used extremely. ”

Apparently they used this method for a long time for casting, but also in the live broadcasts. But now we wanted the future without this ‘Auto Tuning’ program, the private channels.

Teen Singing Star Justin Bieber feels 16 years old enough to leave his memoirs. As the U.S. publisher Harper Collins announced that the book should be out in October.

Under the title “Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story” it would Bieber’s “fantastic transformation describe a superstar”. The book is a must for all fans who suffer from “Bieber fever”, says the editor.

He owes it to his fans that he could realize his dreams every day, the pop star shares with youth with the mushroom haircut. Therefore, he wanted to share his world with them. “So I can still thank in a different way to my fans”, says Bieber.

The Canadian, who recently released his second album entitled “My World 2.0″, is in a very short time risen to international teen idol. In the Facebook network – Bieber have more than four million followers. The first record contract he signed in 2007, when he was just 13 years old.

A proper musical training, he has never received. His single mother Pattie Mallette had the can not even afford, they say. Instead, Justin brought to even the match at the piano, guitar and trumpet. He is a prototype of a musical stars from the network, who became famous with homemade YouTube videos.

Good news for those suffering from withdrawal symptoms: Take That want to live again next year and open air occur and produce apparently appearing to the end of the year, new album, again a great show.

To the stadium of Manchester City in June of next year, at least three shows are planned on a weekend, reports the ‘Sun’. Take That were last on the road with their extremely expensive ‘Circus’ tour outside Great Britain. The concerts were sold out three times as much.

In October, the single “Shame” from Take-That mastermind Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams comes on the market and also on the new album by Take That Williams had worked on some songs. Quite possible that the former Take That’s is, therefore, be even with the new show guest.

Whether Take That finally go on a European tour, is not known.

The ‘Black Eyed Peas’ yesterday gave a concert in South Africa to open the FIFA World Cup 2010. The hip-hop band (”I Gotta Feeling ‘), consisting of Will.i.am (35), apl.de.ap (35) Fergie (35) and Taboo (34), played a medley of they greatest hits on the huge stage of the ‘Orlando’-Stadium in Johannesburg Soweto City quarter. The arena with 40,000 seats was full, and the former South African President Nelson Mandela (91) and the activist and Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu (78) mixed to the people.

Frontwoman Fergie was beside himself with joy to meet the first black president of South Africa. Before they were introduced to each other, the singer was pretty nervous, but it had rapidly expanded, as the aging freedom fighter with her “Flirting” began as Fergie. She said she had “flirt back” and will be their banter for the rest of their lives to remember.

“It was one of the best moments of my life,” said the beauty of the American newspaper ‘USA Today’.
Also, the former Archbishop Tutu was obviously ecstatic to attend the event, and mounted the podium to the football fans in the world are called to welcome in South Africa.

U.S. pop star R. Kelly ( “I Believe I Can Fly”) has canceled his first European tour in nine years. Reason are health problems, said a spokeswoman for the record company Sony Music dpa.

The tour, which should start next Tuesday in Cologne, is now to be remedied in the fall. In addition to Cologne in March were also performances in Frankfurt, Germany (28), Berlin (29) and ten other cities planned.

The R & B and hip-hop musician had released in December, his tenth studio album, “Untitled,” which saw little success. Kelly had sold in the course of his career more than 40 million records. His winning streak suddenly stopped eight years ago, when he was charged with child pornography and sex videos involving minors. The judges said it may choose.

Whitney Houston is set to ‘Nothing But Love’ – Tour and bears the title of the tour just absurd. Since she is finally back – the diva power and insipid on the stage, but full of expletives at the airport!

On their arrival yesterday in Brisbane, Australia, had dared the driver of their Mercedes limousine, let the singer two minutes waiting at the terminal. The singer, who in their presence also makes the audience happy times to wait up to an hour, is really exploding. “What a shit”, she has launched, according to a ear-witnesses.

Finally, she was still approached by a nice bus driver, who advised her that she should sell it in the fine weather on her hat and her sunglasses to enjoy the beautiful morning. Thereupon the 46 – barked back , he should nevertheless ask to take care of his own “shit matters”.
Whitney, welcome to Brisbane!

The ‘Black Eyed Peas’ bring their music to the big screen. Like last year, Robbie Williams, wants the tape of their live shows also transferred to the cinemas. Unfortunately, only in the U.S.. Thus, all are U.S. fans who do not get tickets for the current tour ‘The END’, have a chance to the band at 30 March to experience live.

On top, there is next to the live performance, even 30 minutes behind-the-scenes footage including interviews. And all for $ 15. The show from the Staples Center in Los Angeles is to be transferred in 500 U.S. cinemas, reports hitfix.com
The Black Eyed Peas frontwoman Fergie currently to be around 30 U.S. shows.

‘Robin Hood’-Star Russell Crowe (45) and Grammy winner Beyonce Knowles (28) are in talks for the lead roles in the remake of the classic film “A Star Is Born’ emerged. Thus, Robert Downey Jr. would be for the male lead of the race.

Oscar-winner Russell Crowe is now the new favorite for the role of an aging, drunken musician who works as a mentor for a younger singer and falls in love with her. The material was filmed in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March first, followed remakes in 1957 with Judy Garland and James Mason and in 1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. The film will allegedly also play ‘Mad Men’-Star Jon Hamm, Alicia Keys and Rihanna.

For the 52nd times, the Grammy Award 2010 awarded by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in Los Angeles. Probably the most important music award in the world was in 109 categories in the fields of rock, pop, folk, jazz and classical music stars like Taylor Swift, Lady GaGa and Kings Of Leon. Enforcer of the night was Beyonce, who won six Grammys.

The winners of the main categories:

RECORD OF THE YEAR: Use Somebody – Kings Of Leon
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Fearless – Taylor Swift
SONG OF THE YEAR: Single Ladies – Beyonce
BEST NEW ARTIST: Zac Brown Band

POP CATEGORY
BEST SINGER (female): Halo – Beyoncé
BEST SINGER (male): Make It Mine – Jason Mraz
BEST GROUP: I Gotta Feeling – The Black Eyed Peas
BEST COLLABORATION: Lucky – Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
BEST ALBUM: The E.N.D. – The Black Eyed Peas
BEST DANCE RECORDING: Poker Face – Lady GaGa
BEST DANCE ALBUM: The Fame – Lady GaGa
BEST TRADITIONAL POP ALBUM: Meets Madison Square Garden Michael Buble – Michael Buble

ROCK CATEGORY
BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE: Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
BEST GROUP: Use Somebody – Kings Of Leon
BEST HARD-ROCK-PERFORMANCE: War Machine – AC / DC
BEST METAL PERFORMANCE: Dissident Aggressor – Judas Priest
BEST SONG: Use Somebody – Kings Of Leon
BEST ALBUM: 21st Century Breakdown – Green Day
BEST ALTERNATIVE ALBUM: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – Phoenix

R & B CATEGORY
BEST SINGER: Single Ladies – Beyonce
BEST SINGER: Pretty Wings – Maxwell
BEST COLLABORATION: Blame It – Jamie Foxx & T-Pain
BEST TRADITIONAL PERFORMANCE: At Last – Beyoncé
BEST SONG: Single Ladies – Beyonce
BEST ALBUM Black Summers’ Night – Maxwell
BEST CONTEMPORARY ALBUM: I Am … Sasha Fierce – Beyoncé

RAP CATEGORY
BEST RAPPER : DOA – Jay-Z
BEST COLLABORATION: Crack A Bottle – Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent
BEST RAP / SINGING-COLLABORATION: Run This Town “- Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West BEST SONG: Run This Town” – Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West
BEST ALBUM: Relapse – Eminem

COUNTRY CATEGORY
BEST SINGER: White Horse – Taylor Swift
BEST SINGERS: Sweet Thing – Keith Urban
BEST GROUP: I Run To You – Lady Antebellum
BEST COLLABORATION: I Told You So – Carrie Underwood & Randy Travis
BEST SONG: White Horse – Taylor Swift
BEST ALBUM: Fearless – Taylor Swift

REGGAE CATEGORY
BEST ALBUM: Mind Control – Acoustic – Stephen Marley

FILM CATEGORY
BEST SOUNDTRACK: Slumdog Millionaire
BEST FILM MUSIC: Down

VIDEO CATEGORY
BEST MUSIC CLIP: Boom Boom Pow – The Black Eyed Peas