NEWS DIGEST: Friday, May 22

4:01 PM GMT 22/05/2009

NEWS DIGEST FRIDAY MAY 22

Following the untimely death of Ron Asheton five months ago, Iggy Pop has announced he plans to reunite with Raw Power guitarist James Williamson.

"There is always Iggy & The Stooges, the second growth of the band," Iggy told The Australian newspaper. "I had a meeting in LA last week with James. It was the first time we had seen each other in 30 years. So we talked about doing something together. Raw Power would be the repertoire."

Read the full interview here

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Edwyn Collins was awarded the Inspiration Award at the Ivor Novello Awards yesterday (May 21).

Motown legend Smokey Robinson picked up the Special International Award, while Best Contemporary Song went to Elbow for Grounds For Divorce

The award caps off a remarkable four years for the Orange Juice singer, who overcame a debilitating stroke in 2004 to return to touring and make the much heralded Home Again in 2007.

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Paul McCartney has demanded Google remove his home in St John's Wood from their Street View service.

"He was unsettled when he heard Google users could get a 360-degree view of the property," an unidentified source told The Sun newspaper today. McCartney wrote Penny Lane, Getting Better and Hey Jude at the North London town house, which he bought in 1965 for £40,000. He also built a meditation chapel in the garden in 1967 featuring a circular bed given to him by Groucho Marx.

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To celebrate the release of Summertime Clothes, the second single from Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective are giving away an MP3 of the song remixed by Dam-Funk.

Click here and sign up to the mailing list to receive the free track.
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And finally - as if we'd forget - today is Morrissey's 50th birthday. Raise a glass to Steven Patrick and watch these clips we've selected of Mozz's extra curricular activities over the years.

Appearing as himself in short lived Brookside spin off South in 1988.

Here Mozza is interviewed by Letter To Brezhnev/Coronation Street actress Margi Clarke, chances his arm - again - at acting and gets his palm read to discover he has a 'huge, throbbing' heart line - ooo errr!

On this clip from 1984's Eight Days A Week, a visibly uncomfortable Morrissey reviews the week's releases alongside Tony Blackburn and George Michael.

Moz claims the only reason he recently appeared on BBC's The One Show was because his mum likes watching it. We don't believe him. Here he is clearly enjoying discussing unemployment benefit, architectural history and the build-up of lactic acid.

And our personal favourite: The Smiths on children's TV show Charlie's Bus. Johnny gets quizzed by children! They all go to Kew Gardens! Sandie Shaw turns up! "Where are we going?" asks one little girl. "We're all going mad," responds Morrissey. Quite

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 4:01 PM GMT 22/05/2009

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