WEST, Texas, April 20 (UPI) -- Country star Willie Nelson announced he will play a concert to benefit the West, Texas, Volunteer Fire Department after this week's fertilizer plant explosion.
OSLO, Norway, April 19 (UPI) -- U.S. pop star Selena Gomez was waiting backstage at the end of ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber's concert in Norway this week, UsMagazine.com reported.
LONDON, April 19 (UPI) -- British graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, who created the look of Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" album cover, has died, his management said.
MANCHESTER, England, April 19 (UPI) -- A Manchester Arena spokesman says Meat Loaf canceled a third U.K. show this week due to medical reasons affecting several members of the band.
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- British music icon and peace activist Paul McCartney has recorded a message urging Americans to call their elected officials and demand tougher gun laws.
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- Barbadian singer Rihanna, who has canceled several concerts recently due to illness, is not pregnant, multiple sources told E! News.
LOS ANGELES, April 17 (UPI) -- U.S. singer and actor Billy Ray Cyrus says he isn't sure his 20-year-old daughter, Miley, will marry actor Liam Hemsworth as planned.
CULVER CITY, Calif., April 17 (UPI) -- U.S. pop star Britney Spears has recorded a new song called "Ooh La La" for the family movie "Smurfs 2," Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation announced.
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, April 17 (UPI) -- Canadian singer Rita MacNeil has died from complications following surgery in Sydney, Nova Scotia, her website said Wednesday. She was 68.
LOS ANGELES, April 17 (UPI) -- Hollywood's Universal Pictures says it is working on a sequel to its 2012 musical comedy movie, "Pitch Perfect," which starred Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson.
NEW YORK, April 17 (UPI) -- Madonna's 16-year-old daughter Lourdes, a New York high school student, is complaining to her mom that her dad, Carlos Leon, is too strict, RadarOnline said.
TORONTO, April 17 (UPI) -- Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks says she once thought Reese Witherspoon would be perfect to play her, but, at 37, the U.S. actress has aged out of the role.
BOSTON, April 16 (UPI) -- New Kids on the Block singer Joey McIntyre says he escaped unharmed from explosions that went off minutes after he finished the Boston Marathon.
LONDON, April 15 (UPI) -- Colin Davis, longtime conductor and president of the London Symphony Orchestra, has died after a short illness, the organization announced. He was 85.
NEW YORK, April 15 (UPI) -- The late pop star Michael Jackson's 15-year-old daughter, Paris, says she would like to be a heart surgeon when she grows up, the New York Post reported.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, April 15 (UPI) -- Amsterdam's Anne Frank House said on Facebook Canadian pop star Justin Bieber wrote in the museum's guestbook he hopes Frank "would have been a belieber."
INDIO, Calif., April 14 (UPI) -- Detroit rapper Danny Brown joked at California's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this weekend he is "the black Brad Pitt."
SACRAMENTO, April 14 (UPI) -- Chi Cheng, the bassist for the Sacramento rock band Deftones, died after being in a coma-like state since 2008, his mother said. He was 42.
SAN DIEGO, April 14 (UPI) -- A company that uses Canadian singer Justin Bieber to promote prepaid debit cards says the cards help teach kids to handle money but financial experts disagree.
FLORENCE, Ariz., April 14 (UPI) -- A 20-year-old man was under arrest and a 36-year-old man was hospitalized in critical after a stabbing at a country music festival in Arizona, police said.
Sarah Jessica Parker arrives on the red carpet at the Costume Institute Benefit for the "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 6, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo
