NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, March 18

10:27 AM GMT 18/03/2008

Sid Griffin, MOJO contributor and author of the superb Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, the Band, and the Basement Tapes, will host An Evening of Spoken Word and Music at Waterstones on London's Gower Street tomorrow evening (March 19) at 6:30pm. The evening is must for all Dylan/Band fans.

For more details please call 0207 636 1577.

The artwork for the new James album has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority because it features a picture of a baby holding a gun. The band's Larry Gott had this to say to Xfm: "We talked at length about hitting a problem with the Advertising Standards Authority, but it's such a strong image we decided it go with it anyway. The scale of the reaction has been a surprise, but we kind of expected there'd be some ripples. We were looking at lots of ideas with the designers and they came up with an image of a baby and a gun that related to a story in America of a ten month old child that had been issued a firearms certificate. Firearms are dangerous, they're not to be taken lightly, and we as a society are becoming over familiarised with the image of gun and gun culture".

The number of Glastonbury registrants is down on last year. Festival organiser Michael Eavis told the BBC that: "There's not as many [ticket registrations] as last year because we haven't got the super, big, big, big sort of headlining act anymore. We've gone for something middle range, although Jay-Z is huge in America. It's going to be absolutely brilliant. But it's not like a Radiohead or a Muse or a Coldplay or an Oasis is it?" No. It's not.

Tickets for the Somerset shindig go on sale on April 6.

A 240-minute version of Radiohead's In Rainbows track Videotape will soon be available on VHS Video Cassette. The creators insist they will only release one copy through an auction on eBay with profits going to UK Missing People Charity. "This has to be the most awkward way of releasing a track," they say. Quite possibly, yes.

A Guitar and a Pen is a new collection of stories by some of country music's best writers. Co-edited by Robert Hicks, the book will feature contributions from the likes of Charlie Daniels, Tom T. Hall, Tia Sellers, Kris Kristofferson, Hal Ketchum, Bobby Braddock and Janis Ian.

And finally...Happy Birthday Wilson Pickett! He would have been 67 today. Here's the soul master in 1971.

Wilson Pickett - Land Of 1000 Dances

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:27 AM GMT 18/03/2008

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SPLENDID & BEAUTIFUL ! I'M GREAT FAN OF YOU!

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jay z at glastonbury is like easter eggs at xmas, it just aint cricket

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