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  • You Don’t Have To Call Him Sir Bono

    Irish activist Bono, who leads a little known band named U2, has been presented with an honorary knighthood for his humanitarian efforts. Bono is shown here in a US State Department photo just before he asks Secretary Rice for money, influence or both.

    Bono has traveled the globe and often speaks of reallocating wealth, as well as the responsibility of richer nations to assist poorer nations. Because he is not a citizen of a country ruled by the Queen, Bono’s knighthood is honorary, and he will not be referred to as “Sir” as Paul McCartney and Elton John are.

    The members of U2 admitted in 2006 that Bono’s constant fundraising and humanitarian efforts had sometimes placed a strain on the band and its recording and concert activities.

    Spinning In The CD Player
    The smooth sound of Luther Vandross singing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. You too, Luther. We miss you.

  • Avril and The Dinosaur

    What an inspired choice from the producers of the movie Eragon to use an Avril Lavigne power pop ballad, Keep Holding On, as its theme.

    Speaking of the Sk8r Grrl, she announced on MySpace Saturday that her new album will be called The Best Damn Thing with a lead single, Girlfriend, out in February, hot on the heels of Keep Holding On, which has Academy Award nominee written all over it.

    Lavigne said she hoped to finish her work on the album today to wrap for the Christmas holidays.

    Spinning in the CD Today:
    Fergie. I still don’t get her. Didn’t like her in the Peas. Don’t like her now, and I’m one of the few apparently, so I’m trying to figure out why. I hear someone like Gwen Stefani or Madonna and think, “Ah, original.” I hear the Fergster and say, “Don’t see it, sorry.” But I’m still trying because I’m apparently missing something.

  • Blige and Underwood Make Unlikely Duo

    If the Billboard Music Awards are any indication, Mary J. Blige should sail through the Grammys in February. These are not the popularity awards, but the actual tallies — you know, sales and money and airplay and the things that really matter.

    Blige won NINE Billboard Awards yesterday in Vegas, but somehow Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts won Album of the Year. I’m simply trying to figure out how you win every award but the big one.

    As far as critics go, neither would typically be hailed for producing the best album of the year, but it was a strange, singles-oriented 2006 that let the ladies slip past the soft alt-rock bands and puppy Chris Brown, who is one day going to walk away from one of those shows with nine of his own awards.