NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, January 13

10:38 AM GMT 13/01/2009

Morrissey's new video for his forthcoming single, I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris, has premiered online.

It features the ex-Smiths man offering a tambourine to a small dog. Don't believe us? Hit the play button below to check it out for yourself.

I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris is released on February 9. Morrissey’s new studio album, Years of Refusal (reviewed in the next issue of MOJO), will hit shelves one week later. He's set to tour the UK in May.

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Isaac Hayes’ 1971 ghetto-funk classic Black Moses will be reissued next month alongside his disco offering Juicy Fruit (1976). This will be first time the latter has appeared on CD. Both reissues will be available from February 24.

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12 Radiohead singles will be reissued on limited-edition vinyl later this year.The set will feature the original CD artwork printed as a sticker on the record sleeves.

The tracks, all released on 21 April, are: Drill, Creep, My Iron Lung, Just, Fake Plastic Trees, High And Dry, Street Spirit (Fade Out), Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises, Pyramid Song, There There and 2+2=5.

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Roger Daltrey shared a bill with Pete Doherty last night for a one-off show in order to raise awareness of the Teenage Cancer Trust. The pair played a set that included covers of The Who’s Magic Bus and Substitute. The sold-out gig at Bristol’s O2 Academy also included a performance by the Doherty-led Babyshambles. You can watch some fairly ropey phone footage HERE.

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Bono and The Beastie Boys are among the latest acts to join Barack Obama's inauguration party. The U2 frontman will join Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Aretha Franklin and many others at Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial over the course of the weekend.

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Nowhere Boy, a new film charting the childhood of John Lennon, has gone into production and is set for release in 2010. Written by Control scripter Matt Greenhalgh and directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, the movie will track the Beatle through his early days in Liverpool. 18-year-old Aaron Johnson will play the young Lennon, Anne-Marie Duff has nabbed the part of his mother Julia, while Kristin Scott Thomas will appear as his beloved Aunt Mimi.

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And finally... we remember the great Donny Hathaway. The soul star committed suicide 30 years ago today. Here he is with the gospel-pop of Put Your Hand In The Hand:

Ewan Phillip Gibb

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:38 AM GMT 13/01/2009

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Morrissey really is a fucking horrible vile man,racist,greedy,lying ugly old fart.Just fucking retire like you keep saying and then fuck off back to LA where you can spend all day noshing,at least then you wont be able to sing.

Posted by Sweary Stan at 12:12 AM GMT 26/01/2009 Report Abuse

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