Pop group Simply Red to split up
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Simply Red are to split up in 2009, a quarter of a century after they formed, singer Mick Hucknall announces.
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Radiohead, the British rock band, is close to signing a deal to release its next album independently and leave the major record companies behind.
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The decision will at least suspend further consolidation of the global music industry even as album sales plummet.
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The new owners of music label EMI Group Â home of the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and the Spice Girls Â said Tuesday that they plan to cut up to 2,000 jobs, or just over a third of its work force, in a restructuring aimed at offsetting the impact of falling revenue from CD sales and the departure of several of its major artists.
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Top-selling bands The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife go head-to-head in the album charts.
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British pop star Robbie Williams split from song-writing partner Guy Chambers.
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Barely a week after longtime  keyboardist Eddie Hawrysch was fired from the Black Crowes, the  rock group's revolving-door lineup is in transition again.
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After 12 years on Essential  Records, Jars of Clay is exiting to launch a new imprint, Gray  Matters, under the Nettwerk Music Group umbrella.
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The lead singer of British band UB40 has quit the band after nearly 30 years, citing management problems for his split from a group which rose to fame in the anti-Thatcher culture of the 1980s.
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Members of the glam rock music band The Darkness announce they are to reform but without their lead singer.
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Troubled music group's new private equity owners to cut between 1,500 and 2,000 jobs worldwide
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The united front independent record  labels have shown for a proposed tie-up between Warner Music  and EMI cracked on Friday when the Ministry of Sound, the  largest independent record company in Europe, quit a leading UK  trade body backing the deal.
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EMI Group, the struggling British music company, has said it has received a fresh takeover approach from US rival Warner Music.
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Stars from the worlds of rock and pop  have united on an album to be released Friday to raise funds  for the people of the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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Two of pop/punk's biggest acts, Good Charlotte and Sum 41, will join forces for a fall North American tour.
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Rock band The White Stripes call off their UK tour, just days after they shelved a string of US dates.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - It may have taken 21 years to get a  new album from Duran Duran's original lineup, but it took the  five members only 24 hours to decide to get back together.