Hulton Archive/Getty Images / Dave M. Benett, Getty Images Lily Allen has gone back on a promise to cut down on her Twitter usage by replying savagely to an attack by Julie Burchill, a former NME writer. Now the pair are involved in a war of words, which is probably the 84th such go-round for Allen (we've lost count). Burchill started the ...

PA Photos Adele's one-woman invasion of the US and Canada has hit a brief snag as she has come down with laryngitis. The British singer pulled out of a show in Salt Lake City on May 29 at short notice, before postponing gigs in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland. Her tour is set to resume in San Francisco on June 4. Adele's website ...

PA Photos Adele's success means she can change how the music industry treats female acts, her label's founder has claimed. Richard Russell, boss of XL Recordings, has blamed the industry's sexualised marketing of women artists for a dearth of inspiring music -- leading to a pop scene that is "boring, crass and unoriginal." Quoted in The ...

Ian Gavan, Getty Images Courtney Love has claimed she is free of narcotics and credits seeing Britney Spears' breakdown as helping her kick at least one habit. In a wide-ranging interview that focuses on her history of drug addiction, the rock icon sounds off about a culture of drug dependency in celebrity circles and her determination to ...

Keystone Features, Getty Images/Alexandro Auler, Getty Images Sir Paul McCartney has claimed the Rolling Stones envied his former band because while they relied on Mick Jagger for vocals, all of the Beatles could sing. In an interview published on Tuesday, May 24, Sir Paul said the Stones' singer called the Beatles the "four-headed ...

Sandy Caspers, Getty Images Buoyant fans sang 'Happy Birthday' to Josh Homme on Tuesday night, May 17, when Queens of the Stone Age played The Roundhouse, London, in what was a celebratory night all round. The Californian rockers were on a relatively short tour to promote the re-release of the band's 1998 debut album, the one where Homme ...

Susan Wood, Getty Images John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' have sold at auction for £145,700 ($237,132). One of the biggest selling lots at a sale of memorabilia in Los Angeles, the single sheet also contained the opening words for 'She's Leaving Home,' another track from the Beatles' 1967 album ...