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NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, April 8

9:41 AM GMT 08/04/2008

NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, April 8

Bob Dylan is to receive an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture"and "lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power". This is the first time in the US award's 91-year history that the panel has recognised a rock musician. Dylan is currently reported to be working on a second volume of memoirs.

Radiohead have announced another slew of US tour dates. The band have also confirmed they will headline the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago on August 1.

The dates in full:

Chicago, IL Lollapalooza (August 1)
Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center (3)
Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center (4)
Montreal, QC Parc Jean Drapeau (6)
Jersey City, NJ Liberty State Park All Points West Music & Arts Festival (8, 9)
Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center (12)
Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center For the Performing Arts (13)
Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheatre (15)
Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium (19)
Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre (20)
San Francisco, CA Golden Gate Park Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival (22)
Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl (24, 25)
Chula Vista, CA Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre (27)
Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl (28)

Mick Jagger has told Rolling Stone that he is "keen" to release the infamous The Rolling Stones movie, Cocksucker Blues. The film documents the band's notoriously debauched 1972 US tour. Due to squabbles over content between Jagger and director Robert Frank, the film has never had an official release. "I wouldn't mind releasing it. That's a good movie. It's a classic", says Jagger. "I wanted to make one kind of movie, but the director f**ks you over because he doesn't want to do the movie he's agreed to make. What you have for breakfast is fascinating, and what drugs you're taking and what birds you're shagging, that's all very lovely. But the going out onstage is the important part, and you have to include that. And he wouldn't include that, so I got really mad at him, and we fired him." Meanwhile,why I watch it so much - so I can remember what happened."

The Zutons third album, You Can Do Anything, will be released on June 2. The first single from it will be Always right behind you - out May 26. The band recorded the LP during January and February this year at L.A.'s Sunset sound Studios.

They play:

Cardiff Great Hall (May 4)
Glasgow ABC (5)
Dublin Academy (6)

And finally...Happy Birthday Steve Howe! Here he is with Yes. Yes!

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 9:41 AM GMT 08/04/2008


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