George Michael signs big book deal
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In what his publisher calls a record-breaking deal, British pop superstar George Michael is working on a memoir to come out in the fall of 2009.
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An eagerly-anticipated book by Alastair Campbell, former British prime minister Tony Blair&#39;s press chief, was set to go on sale Monday.
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Elton John appears to have ended his public feud with George Michael, saying, "George and I are fine." Two years ago, John said the former Wham! star was miserable and needed to get out more. Michael responded with a furious open letter saying John was no friend of his.
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Singer George Michael had a cocktail of drugs in his system when he was arrested in his car last year, a court hears.
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Elton John has ended his two-year feud with George Michael the same   way he started it--very, very publicly.
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A music publishing group with the rights to songs by Robbie Williams and Coldplay agreed to be taken over in a pounds 1bn deal yesterday.
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George Michael: will play the first concert at the new Wembley Popstar George Michael will play the first concert at the new Wembley Stadium.Comment
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Suzy Welch, a former editor of the Harvard Business Review and the wife of John F. Welch Jr., the former chief executive of General Electric, has agreed to sell the rights to her book â10-10-10â to Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A person involved in the negotiations said that Scribner paid Ms. Welch a price in the seven figures for world and audio rights to the book. Based on an article Ms. Welch wrote for O, the Oprah Magazine, in 2006, the book offers strategies for making decisions in which people think about what the consequences of a decision will be in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years. Robert Barnett, a Washington lawyer, negotiated the deal on behalf of Ms. Welch. Nan Graham, editor in chief of Scribner, will edit the book with Samantha Martin. Ms. Welch, who wrote the best-selling âWinningâ with Mr. Welch, said she originally thought there wasnât a book beyond the article. But, she said, âI began to encounter this hunger for people who were using it to play out its nuances.â She said the book would include examples from her own life as well as others she has observed using the â10-10-10â process. Susan Moldow, publisher of Scribner, said that although Ms. Welchâs article might seem sufficient for those who wanted to know about the strategy, Ms. Moldow believed the book would sell well. âThe Scarsdale Diet fit on a Xerox-ed sheet that you could fit on the front of a refrigerator,â Ms. Moldow said. âAnd it sold millions and millions of copies. Itâs often true that when something strikes an immediate âAha!,â you really want to have time to meditate on it and try to get to know more about it.â.
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Vivendi's Universal Music, the world's   largest seller of recorded music, is vaulting to the top spot   in music publishing too after agreeing to buy BMG Music   Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion).
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A mature, modest and (nearly) scandal-free George Michael took the stage in his first solo concert in 15 years, singing his greatest hits to 18,000 fans packed into Barcelonas Palau Sant Jordi arena.
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Singer George Michael said farewell to  the world of pop music on Wednesday, using a candid documentary  about his life to put the record straight before he  "disappeared."
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There's a new king of the King of Rock 'n' Roll's estate.
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Singer George Michael will play the first concert at the rebuilt Wembley Stadium in northwest London, stadium bosses have announced.
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Singer George Michael is due to be sentenced after he admitted driving while unfit through drugs.
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Singer George Michael has written to a British celebrity magazine to rebuke Elton John for making unflattering comments about his personal life.
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Pop star George Michael hits back at comments made by Sir Elton John about him and his new album.
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Vivendi's Universal Music has agreed to  buy BMG Music Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion)  in a long-expected deal that makes the world's biggest seller  of recorded music also the largest in music publishing.