NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, January 6

9:50 AM GMT 06/01/2009

Morrissey’s first single from his forthcoming album, Years Of Refusal, is now available to hear via his MySpace page.

The new single, I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris, will be released on February 9 and is described by Moz as a “cosmopolitan hymn to architecture”.

Years Of Refusal is due for release on February 17 in the US and February 23 in the UK.

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Bruce Springsteen has given fans another taste of his forthcoming album, Working On A Dream, by premiering the video for Life Itself. The Boss’s new album is due to hit shelves on January 27. Life Itself is available for download from Amazon now. You can watch the video HERE.

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Grateful Dead have announced that they will tour again this year. This will be the band's first outing since 2004.

The surviving members of the San Francisco collective will hit the road using the simplified monika The Dead and will be joined by Warren Haynes on guitar and Jeff Chimenti on keyboard.

The trek is set to begin in mid-April and will cover twenty dates over the course of the following month.

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The Big Bopper’s coffin is to be sold on eBay by his son, forty-eight years after the '50s star was buried. The Bopper, aka Jiles Perry Richardson Jr, was killed in the same plane crash that claimed the lives of Richie Valens and Buddy Holly on February 3, 1959.

The casket was lifted from its original resting place in 2007 because the family wanted to move Richardson to a better location. His son Jay, born three months after his father’s death, plans to use to money raised to help fund a musical about The Big Bopper's life.

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And finally...Happy Birthday Sandy Denny! The British folk siren would have been 62 today. Here she is with Fotheringay in 1970.

Ewan Phillip Gibb

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 9:50 AM GMT 06/01/2009

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