Eric Clapton rethinks playing 'Cocaine'
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Eric Clapton is playing "Cocaine" in concert again. The recovering drug addict and alcoholic, who founded the Crossroads Centre addiction recovery center on the Caribbean island of Antigua, stopped performing the song written by J.J. Cale when he first got sober.
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The 25-year-old tested positive for a banned substance in October, which he later denied was cocaine. He could face a two year ban from playing.
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Cocaine users&#39; brains have a different structure which could affect their ability to judge the consequences of their actions, a study suggests.
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Sting once called the prospect of reviving the Police insane. Yet here they are, gearing up for another tour.
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Veteran audio engineer Tony Bongiovi, who once worked with Jimi Hendrix, has been disappointed for decades that the equipment most people used to listen to music couldn't replicate the high-quality sound heard in the studio.
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For more than two decades, Irish rockers U2 have made a ritual of mapping out different musical trails for themselves with each new album, sometimes with mixed success, but always sounding fresh and reinvigorated by the journey.
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By Jeff Leeds  For all the disquiet the Internet has fostered in the music business, almost every rock star and record-label executive is intrigued with the prospect of marketing to music fans directly instead of wrangling over exposure with radio programmers and retailers.
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Tycho:   One of the questions during a a panel at PAX had to do with the italicised line at the end of each day's post.  They're almost always song lyrics, and back before we were paying for bandwidth (and before RIAA rape gangs were prowling the web) these lines used to link directly to the MP3.  I maintained the practice afterward because it's sort of like a song of the day, and I like the idea that someone might be struck by a strange turn of phrase and seek out a piece of music.  It also serves as a gauge of my mental state at the moment.  Today's song, for example, is Stan Rodgers' incredible live version of the sea shanty "Rolling Down To Old Maui," which Pandora kicked out after about a week of tuning the station.  I've listened to it about thirty times today.    The person who asked the question at the con complimented my musical tastes, and I accepted the compliment, but I'm almost always late to the scene.  I just bought Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights," for chrissakes.  I'm mostly lucky to know people who do have unique library.  I told him I would mention a few of my favorite bands on the site, but then I forgot.  Essentially, it's music that cool people were listening to a decade ago (where applicable).  I am a musical carrion bird.    He wanted me to list off a few bands, and I said I would last week, but then I forgot.  These are the first ten albums I could think of.    "Starless" by Shiner
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Eric Clapton's concert scheduled for Saturday night at The Palace of Auburn Hills was postponed because the three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has a sore throat.
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A jury in federal court is hearing details of Camden, N.J., in the 1990s, when a young drug lord with cocaine for the cityâs addicts and bullets for his rivals was rising to power.
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Viewpoint: Record labels don't trust us with their music. But they need to retune that thinking, says Lev Grossman
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Adrian Mutu admits he took drugs but claims it was not cocaine but a drug to improve his sex life.
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Authorities suspect a new threat is lurking in the mountains and jungles of Colombia: Not a new rebel cadre, but altered coca plants that are bigger, faster-growing and produce more of the compound that gives cocaine its kick.
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BERLIN  - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has offered troubled singer Amy Winehouse some free advice on kicking the drug habit.
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Cocaine users' brains have a different structure that could affect their judgement, a study suggests.
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Rock stars are combining forces around  the world to record Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" and raise  money for the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster.
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Rock guitarist Eric Clapton has set aside his &quot;rebellious streak&quot; to become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE.