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Another death has been reported from the stampede at the Love Parade, a German techno music festival in the western city of Duisburg, the New York Times reports. This brings the number of victims to 19. Since Saturday evening, hundreds more injuries have been reported, bringing the number of injured to more than 340.
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A stampede at the entrance to a popular music festival in Duisburg, Germany killed 18 people and injured approximately 80 on Saturday, the New York Times has reported. The Love Parade, an annual techno music festival in western Germany, drew approximately one million attendees.
The stampede is believed to have broken out inside a tunnel shortly ...
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A cartoon drawn by John Lennon during a 1969 "bed-in" protest with his wife Yoko Ono has sold at the British auction house Christie's for £37,250, equivalent to about $56,125, BBC News reports.
The cartoon, created while Lennon and Ono were staging a peaceful protest from a room in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, is a ...
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An original copy of John Lennon's lyrics to 'A Day in the Life,' the final track on the seminal album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' has sold at an auction house in New York City for $1.2 million. The late Beatle's handwritten lyrics, composed in pen and marker on a single sheet of paper, were purchased by an American collector for nearly ...
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The Pixies will not be performing a scheduled date in Tel Aviv this summer, AP reported Sunday. The band released an announcement through a publicist this weekend informing fans that "with great regret" it has decided not to make the trip to Israel. The concert was part of the band's sizable summer tour, which will soon take them to Italy, New ...
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Actor Dennis Hopper, who died Saturday at the age of 74 of complications from prostate cancer, was beloved by several generations of movie fans. Many, including a number of musicians and other music industry insiders, took to the Web this Memorial Day weekend to pay their respects to a star of such memorable films as 'Blue Velvet,' 'Apocalypse ...
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Adam Ant has checked into a mental health facility in London following an outburst during a comeback concert at a church two weeks ago. The former Adam and the Ants singer, whose real name is Stuart Goddard, was sectioned under the UK Mental Health Act of 1983. The singer suffers from bipolar disorder and was previously sectioned in 2003.
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