Boy Band Blue Tops U2 in French Music Awards
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CANNES, France  - Brit boy band Blue edged Irish  rock group U2 to a top honor at France's biggest music awards  on Saturday night, with hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas and pop  band Maroon 5 scooping awards of their own.
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Europe's youth has been singing in Romanian this summer thanks to a Moldovan boys band that has swept to the top of the charts across the continent.
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French President Jacques Chirac bestowed the country&#39;s highest honour on director Steven Spielberg at a star-studded ceremony in Paris on Sunday.
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Bono, the Irish rock star and outspoken  campaigner against poverty and AIDS, praised Japan's policies  on those issues on Wednesday, in a departure from his usual  criticism of rich nations for not living up to expectations.
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Rock band U2 is honoured at France's NRJ Music Awards, but is beaten to a prize by boy band Blue.
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The hip-hip duo took top honors Wednesday as the recording industry handed out its first awards for music sold through Internet-music services like Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes.
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Just in case your powerâs been out for, oh, about eight months now, hereâs some exciting news for you: U2 have a new record coming out.
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They still look like the Bon Jovi of old &#151; with their leather jackets and jeans. And they still act like the boys from New Jersey, proud of their musical brotherhood that spawned numerous hit albums and No. 1 singles.
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Rock group Bon Jovi top the US album charts for the first time since 1988.
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U2 singer Bono appears at the UK premiere of Across the Universe, the musical film based on songs by the Beatles.
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&quot;Ben X,&quot; Belgian director  Nic Balthazar&#39;s portrait of a mildly autistic boy bullied at  school, took top honors at the 31st annual Montreal World Film  Festival, which wrapped Monday.
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Arctic Monkeys, Muse, Kasabian and The Killers lead the NME awards with four nominations each.
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The four member band won the Â£20,000 pop music prize, which brings with it prestige, ahead of 11 other acts including one-man rap band The Streets for A Grand Don&#39;t Come For Free and Liverpool group The Zutons and their debut album Who Killed .
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U2âs big publicity wheel keeps on turninâ. With their much-hyped new album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb finally out today, the months of press and attention-grabbing stunts are coming to a head.
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NEW YORK -- Though U2 is among the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Irish rock band is still going strong. &quot;How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb&quot; will be released on Nov. 23, Interscope Records announced Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Irish rockers U2 have hit the studio in Dublin to continue work on their next studio album with longtime collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.
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The Scottish rock band beat rapper Ty, Amy Winehouse and The Zutons to take the prestigious music award. &quot;This is coming in a year when we&#39;re surrounded by such fantastic bands,&quot; frontman Alex Kapranos said.