Music: News, Rumors & Lies (Chapter Two)

...Nine Inch Nails have dropped out of the 2005 MTV Movie Awards following a dispute over their plan to incorporate an image of George W. Bush into their performance of the song "The Hand That Feeds." Stepping in to fill the void are the Foo Fighters.
The announcement was made Thursday via a statement posted by Nails frontman Trent Reznor on NIN.com.
"Nine Inch Nails will not be performing at the MTV Movie Awards as previously announced. We were set to perform 'The Hand That Feeds' with an unmolested, straightforward image of George W. Bush as the backdrop," Reznor wrote. "Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me. See you on tour this fall when we return to play in America

...Henry Rollins is going on yet another USO tour to bolster the morale of the troops, this time to the Pacific. He's heading to stations in Japan, Korea and Guam between June 13 and June 23, where he will meet with service members, tour a variety of job posts and sign autographs. The beefy singer has visited troops in Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Honduras and several other locations in the past

...Sir Bob Geldof has confirmed he's planning a music spectacular 20 years after Live Aid.
He's signing up the biggest names in pop to perform on July 2 for the Make Poverty History campaign, says the Mirror.
He said: "Once more into the breach. What started 20 years ago is coming to a political point.
"What we do in the next five weeks is seriously, historically, politically important. We'll have all the biggest names we can find."
Coldplay, U2, Sir Paul McCartney and the Spice Girls are among those who will play at gigs in Washington and London.
Around 100,000 fans are due at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park with a further 100,000 expected to watch the US one.
The televised event coincides with the G8 Summit of rich nations in Scotland on July 6-8.
Live Aid in 1985, watched by 1.5billion people, raised ?60million for Ethiopia's starving.

...Elton John will get married on December 21. The singer will wed his partner David Furnish.
Elton said: "The first date we can get married is the 21st.
"We are definitely going to do it and we're not going to do it in secret."
The couple have been together for 11 years reports The Sun.
Civil partnerships for homosexuals become legal on December 5

...Could ex-Janes Addiction frontman Perry Farrell be the next Doors singer? According to the Perry Farrell fan page aintnoright.com, the surviving members of The Doors have approached Farrell to record an album with them. This August Farrel will be performing with The Doors at the VH1 taping of "Decades".

...Today In Music History:
-1964 Tonight on The Ed Sullivan Show, you can see the Dave Clark Five make their debut. They would appear 11 more times on the variety program.
-1969 During their Montreal bed-in, John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance."
-1973 To celebrate John Bonham's 25th birthday, Robert Plant leads an audience at the Felt Forum in Los Angeles in a rendition of "Happy Birthday." Later that night Bonham celebrates with George Harrison, who ends up throwing his birthday cake at the drummer. Bonham tosses Harrison into the hotel pool.
-1976 At the time, the Guinness Book of World Records called it the loudest concert in history. The Who assault an audience at England's Charlton Athletic Grounds with 76,000 watts at 120 decibels.

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Todays Birthdays:

John 'Bonzo' Bonham 1947-1980, Corey Hart 44, Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels (Run DMC) 41, Augie Meyer (Sir Douglas Quintet) 64, Johnny Paycheck 64, **** Ralphs (Bad Company) 57, Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) 67

There are 3 June 1st birthdays worth a mention, IMO!
They are as follows:

Pat Boone 1934
Marilyn Monroe 1926
Sgt. Pepper //oo\\ 1967
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Back to you Mr. Ella!

...If you're a fan of Green Day ? and have a spare $50,000 laying around ? then maybe you can own a four-wheeled piece of punk-rock history. Currently up for bid on eBay is the 1985 Ford Econoline 150 formerly owned by none other than Green Day drummer Tre Cool, which the band piloted on two U.S. tours back when it was an unpolished and unsigned bunch of kids. The inside of the van is wood-paneled and covered in Green Day graffiti ? including Cool's signature ? and stickers. The starting bid is a cool $50k, and the auction runs until June 7

...Blink-182/ Transplants drummer Travis Barker and his wife, Shanna Moakler, the stars of MTV's reality show "Meet the Barkers," are expecting their second child in December. The couple already have a 1-year-old son, Landon, and Moakler also has a 6-year-old daughter, Atiana, whose father is boxer Oscar de la Hoya.

...A jury awarded Nine Inch Nails alternative rocker Trent Reznor $2.95 million after finding his former manager breached his contract and acted fraudulently, a lawyer said Tuesday.
The jury in Manhattan federal court delivered the verdict Friday against John Malm, Reznor's longtime manager, said attorney Zia F. Modabber. The award likely would top $4 million when interest is added.

... Lindsay Lohan wasn't injured after her car was hit by a photographer who allegedly was following the "Mean Girls" actress.
Galo Ramirez, 24, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after running into Lohan's car Tuesday, police said.
Ramirez was released on $35,000 bail.

...McFarlane Toys has officially unveiled the Slash action figure, which is scheduled to hit store shelves ? the toy aisle, not the music aisle ? in late September.
There will be two versions released, The deluxe will featuring the same Slash figure with guitar. This version, however, has two amps, two speaker cabinets and a larger stage-style base.
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Today In Rock History:
-1964 The Rolling Stones visit the U.S. for the first time. Their arrival at Kennedy Airport is commemorated in the song "Flight 505."
-1967 The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The album is certified gold for sales on its first day in stores.
-1971 Harry Nilsson begins recording his album Nilsson Schmilsson in London.
-1973 Paul McCartney & Wings release the single "Live and Let Die" from the James Bond movie of the same name.
-1975 The Rolling Stones kick off their Tour of the Americas in Baton Rouge, La. It's their first with birthday boy Ron Wood as second guitarist.
-1991 David Ruffin of the Temptations dies in Philadelphia following an accidental drug overdose.
-2003 Paul McCartney wraps up his lucrative world tour with a show in Liverpool, birthplace of the Beatles.

...Birthdays:
Lisa Hartman Black 49, Ronnie Dunn (Brooks & Dunn) 52, Ronnie Lane 1946-1997, Alanis Morissette 31, Wendy O. Williams 1949-1998, Ron Wood 58

...The Doors of the 21st Century ? featuring founding members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, with the Cult's Ian Astbury on vocals ? will be performing at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on August 5, and have invited an all-star lineup to join them onstage. Perry Farrell, who regularly covered the Doors' "L.A. Woman" live during the earliest days of his band Jane's Addiction, will step into the late Jim Morrison's shoes for "Touch Me" and "The Crystal Ship." Macy Gray, Antigone Rising and the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines will also be performing with the rock legends during a concert that's set to include Pat Travers and the original lineup of Vanilla Fudge

...The children's home that inspired The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" is closing its doors.
The final child living in Liverpool's Strawberry Field, an orphanage run by the Salvation Army, last week. The orphanage was open for 70 years. For now, it will remain open for administrative tasks until August, then it will be shuttered for good.
The children's home served as the inspiration for the classic Beatles track, as singer/guitarist John Lennon built the song around memories of playing with orphans at the home as a child.

...This is one of those things that probably should have happened a lot earlier: The Foo Fighters are playing in a hangar in the fabled Roswell, N.M.
The band will play a private show in Roswell?s Walker Air Force base, the location, if you listen to X-files enthusiasts and UFO nuts, where an extraterrestrial craft was stored after its 1947 crash in the desert. The band is set to play in the same hangar that?s said to house the wreckage of the craft.
Dave Grohl?s an admitted UFO fanatic. His band takes its name from air force slang for a covert unit that investigated UFO sightings.

...Former Beatle Paul McCartney will soon be able to add "children's author" to his already long list of accomplishments.
Sir Paul will pen a children?s picture book, High in the Clouds: An Urban Furry Tale, which is set for an Oct. 4 release in the United States from the Penguin Young Readers Group.
McCartney based the song on the animated film Tropic Island Hum, which he previously developed with animator Geoff Dunbar

...One of The Beach Boys has laid down his guitar for a word processor, and will release a children's book.

Al Jardine, who sang on the band?s 1966 hit, ?Sloop John B? from the Pet Sounds album, is turning his most famous ditty ? which is really just a reworked folk number ? into a children?s book. Jardine, who parted ways with the band in the late ?90s, and started his own, litigation-baiting Beach Boys shortly after, wrote and illustrated Sloop John B: A Pirate?s Tale.
In the book, Jardine further reworks the story to become a tale about a boy and his father who must face brigands while on the high seas. The book comes packaged with a CD of Jardine singing a kid-friendly version of the Beach Boys staple.

...The soundtrack to the upcoming movie "Fantastic Four", which features tracks from Velvet Revolver, Breaking Point, Sum 41, Simple Plan, and the solo debut of former Evanescence guitarist Ben Moody, will see a release date of July 5th. Fantastic Four The Movie will hit theatres on July 8th

...Todays Birthdays:
B-Real (Cypress Hill) 35, Merril Bainbridge 37, Lydia Lunch 46, Rusty Milner (Marshall Tucker Band) 47, Michael Steele 51, Charlie Watts 64, Jerry Mathers (Beaver Cleaver)57, Kyle Petty (NASCAR driver) 45.

...Today In Music History:
-1964 The Rolling Stones play their first American show at a Lynn, Mass., high school football stadium. They also make their American TV debut on The Les Crane Show. An Associated Press reporter notes, "They are dirtier and streakier and more disheveled than the Beatles and in some places, they are more popular than the Beatles."
-1967 The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released in the U.S. The Fab Four themselves are in the studio recording "It's All Too Much."
-1967 David Bowie releases his self-titled first album on Deram.
-1973 Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham settles an argument with promoter Bill Graham at a San Francisco gig by emptying a bucket of water over him
-1989 Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, 48, marries the 19-year-old Mandy Smith.
-2003 Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland pleads innocent to drugs possession charges in Los Angeles. Court officials say Weiland will enter a rehab facility to combat cocaine and heroin addiction.
- 2003 Following a dispute over songwriting credits with John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney agrees to let "Lennon-McCartney" be. McCartney outraged many Beatles fans by demanding "Yesterday" and other McCartney songs be credited to "McCartney-Lennon."
-2003 Five men accused of conspiring to kidnap ex-Spice Girl Victoria Beckham go free after prosecutors rule a key witness' testimony, based on a story sold to a British tabloid, was unreliable.
-2004 Sir Paul McCartney tells Uncut magazine that he tried heroin without realising. "I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was," he says. "It didn't do anything for me

...Less than one week after the band surprised fans by announcing plans for a North American tour while in the wilds of Brazil, comes an announcement that Stripes frontman Jack White has married model Karen Elson in the Brazilian city of Manaus.
The band's publicist confirmed a posting on WhiteStripes.com, which read, in part: "Karen Elson and Jack White were married yesterday (June 1) on the confluence of three rivers ? the Rio Negro, the Solimones and the Amazon ... by a traditional shaman priest on a canoe at the exact point where the three rivers met. ... The ceremony was immediately followed by a blessing by a priest at a Catholic cathedral called Igreja Matric."
White Stripes manager Ian Montone served as White's best man, while Stripes drummer Meg White was Elson's maid of honor. If Elson looks a bit familiar to Stripes fans, well, perhaps they've caught a glimpse of the band's new video, "Blue Orchid," which features Elson as a ghostly apparition in ultra-high heels

...Gwen Stefani, Ashlee Simpson and Alicia Keys are among the multiple nominees for the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, which will air August 16 on FOX. Ashlee will compete against sister Jessica for Choice TV Personality award, although Jessica is the only Simpson in the Choice Hottie category. Fans can vote now at www.teenpeople.com

...A live CD and DVD from the European shows that QUEEN & PAUL RODGERS finished last month is on tap for later this year. The band recorded every concert they played, but they only shot one in its entirety, on May 9 in Sheffield, England. Work has begun on listening back to the tapes, which should lead to a live album with the best performances from the tour, and a version of QUEEN's "Fat Bottomed Girls" might come out as a single. No release date has been announced, but the package is expected for later this year.

...DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott has posted the following ?Diary? entry at the band?s website (www.defleppard.com): "Just a quick one this time. I need to warn you all, that there's a lot of stuff on eBay at the moment that is completely fake! Take here item for example. NOT ONE OF THOSE AUTOGRAPHS IS REAL. Completely fake -- and the company, Reels Autographs are asking almost $50.00 for it.
Please don't fall for this. This whole eBay thing is getting out of hand, to the point where we are having to tell a lot of autograph hunters to F**K OFF! They stand outside airports and hotels with guitars, scratch plates, magazines, and surprisingly not many CDs. It's pretty obvious they're selling the stuff, as they more often than not ask for us not to dedicate them -- and when they do (in the case of the guitars or scratch plates for instance), they use nail polish remover to wipe it off.

... A founder of the band RUSH, his son and daughter-in-law filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Ritz-Carlton, its security director and three sheriff?s deputies stemming from a New Year?s Eve 2003 altercation at the Naples hotel.
Alex, Justin and Michelle Zivojinovich allege the defendants violated their civil rights, batt-ered and falsely imprisoned them before their arrests on criminal charges that were either later dropped or reduced in court.

...Madonna will duet with Sting during Live 8.
Reports suggest the pair could sing John Lennon's classic Imagine.
A source said: "They have had a discussion about performing a cover version. They thought about a Beatles song or maybe Imagine. Madonna sang it on her Re-Invention tour."

TODAY"S BIRTHDAYS;
Michael Clarke (Byrds) 1949-1993, Mickey Finn (T-Rex) 58, Ian Hunter 59, John Paul Jones 59, Kerry King (Slayer) 41, Curtis Mayfield 63, Billy Powell (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 53, Suzi Quatro 55.

TODAY IN MUSIC HISTORY;
-1964 The Rolling Stones, touring America for the first time, appear on ABC's Hollywood Palace. The show is hosted by Dean Martin.
- 1964 Ringo Starr collapses from exhaustion and a bad case of tonsillitis. His temporary replacement, trivia buffs? The nth Beatle, Jimmy Nicol.
- 1967 Jefferson Airplane appear on American Bandstand, playing "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love."
-1987 The BBC bans George Michael's solo single "I Want Your Sex."
-1991 As part of "Operation: Pay My $16 Million in Back Taxes," Willie Nelson releases Who'll Buy My Memories: The IRS Tapes. The government seized all the recordings on the album as assets.
-1993 U2 re-sign with Island, guaranteeing six albums over the next 10 years. The deal nets them $60 million and a royalty rate of 25 percent on their recordings. Very nice.

...FAT JOE and his rap pals LIL' KIM and TWISTA are set to take on a new guise - as MARVEL comic book superheroes.
Fans who purchase a copy of Fat Joe's upcoming album ALL OR NOTHING when it hits stores on 14 June (05) will receive a copy of THE HEIST, a promotional comic book which features the LEAN BACK rapper, Twista, TI, FABOLOUS, TRICK DADDY and Lil' Kim.
The hip-hop stars team up to recover a stolen diamond, with each rapper using his or her superhero skills to defeat an evil army of clones, reports MTV NEWS.

...Rocker COURTNEY LOVE is facing yet another set of legal woes - this time over her New York City apartment.
The board of managers for the former HOLE frontwoman's Manhattan residence has filed a $122,594 lien against the rocker for money allegedly owed in common charges and fees.
According to the NEW YORK POST, the debts began piling up in July (04) and as of 10 May (05) had yet to be paid.
Love, who now reportedly spends most of her time in Los Angeles with daughter FRANCES BEAN, bought the loft in 2001 for $2.4 million (GBP1.2 million) and placed it on the market in March (05).

...Third Story Music, a Los Angeles-based music publishing firm and the successor to the production company that managed singer-songwriter Tom Waits early in his career, has filed a federal suit against Warner Music Group, alleging that Waits has been shortchanged on the sale of digital downloads.
The action, filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles on Tuesday, stems from 1972 and 1977 contracts signed by Third Story principal Herb Cohen and Warner-owned Asylum Records regarding Waits' services.
The Waits recordings at issue include such early albums as "Closing Time," "The Heart of Saturday Night," "Small Change" and "Heartattack and Vine."
According to the suit, under the terms of the two contracts, Waits was entitled to royalties of either 25% or 50% from revenues derived from third-party licenses. Third Story maintains that digital music downloads constitute a form of third-party license, and that Waits is entitled to payment at that level.

...Today In Music History;
-1962 The Beatles sign a recording contract with EMI Parlophone to produce a series of demos for the label.
-1963 The BBC airs the first installment in a new radio series, Pop Goes the Beatles. The Searchers release their debut single, "Sweets for My Sweet."
-1964 The Beatles begin their first world tour in Denmark. On the drummer's stool is Jimmy Nicol. Ringo Starr is suffering from exhaustion and tonsillitis, and Nicol plays the tour's first five dates in his stead.
-1967 The Monkees win an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series.
-1968 Having been arrested the month before on charges of marijuana possession, Rolling Stone Brian Jones elects for trial by jury. The rest of the Rolling Stones are in the studio working on tracks for Beggars Banquet and being filmed by Jean-Luc Godard for the movie One Plus One. However, the studio catches fire while the film crew shoots the band on the roof.
-1972 Pink Floyd begin sessions for their next album at London's Abbey Road. Tentatively titled Eclipse, the record is eventually released as Dark Side of the Moon.
-1975 Canny band the Rolling Stones become the first Western rock group to actually collect royalties on albums sold in Russia.
-1977 Police cancel a planned Led Zeppelin performance in Tampa Bay, Fla., after fans rioted the night before, when the band's set was interrupted by a vicious thunderstorm.
-1986 The producers of Broadway's Beatlemania are ordered to pay $10 million to the Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd. because the show is deemed too much like the Beatles.
-1990 Extremely negative punk rocker Stiv Bators dies in Paris at age 40 after an automobile accident
-1997 Ronnie Lane, bassist and songwriter for the Faces, dies at age 51 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis.

...Todays Birtdays;
Freddie Fender 68, Jimmy McCulloch (Wings) 1952-1979, Michelle Phillips 60, Nancy Sinatra 65,

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- 2003 Following a dispute over songwriting credits with John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney agrees to let "Lennon-McCartney" be. McCartney outraged many Beatles fans by demanding "Yesterday" and other McCartney songs be credited to "McCartney-Lennon."

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Just playin catch up on the news here!
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I think Paul is still putting McCartney-Lennon on "his" Beatle songs that end up on his LIVE albums!

It all reminds me of when the other three actually left the stage on the Ed Sullivan Show, back in 65, while Macca performed Yesterday solo.
When John came back out he said to the audience, "isn't that just like him."

Sir Paul is a bit much some times! //oo\\
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...A homemade video was released Friday of the deadly nightclub shooting that left Dimebag Darrell and four others dead, including the shooter.
The camera was positioned at the back right portion of the stage looking into the audience as Nathan Gale began shooting during the Damageplan concert at Alrosa Villa on December 8, 2004.
The band had set up the camera before the show. The camera captured most of the five-minute shooting rampage. Gale shot and killed four people and injured three others before a Columbus police officer entered the building and killed him with one shotgun blast to the head.
Damageplan began playing just after 10 p.m. About a minute later, a security guard runs off stage and within seconds, Gale can be seen on stage with a gun. He is pursued by the security guard, and the first shot is fired. More shots soon follow, and two men are hit.
NBC 4 TV in Columbus, Ohio provides the video HERE

...A paid informant who alleged to police and the FBI that the murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G. was a conspiracy hatched by Death Row boss Marion "Suge" Knight and a rogue Los Angeles Police Department officer has changed his tune.
The man, who now identifies himself as a lifelong paranoid schizophrenic, has admitted under oath that his elaborate story was "all hearsay," according to the Los Angeles Times.
The bombshell admission came out during questioning in a wrongful-death civil lawsuit filed against the city of Los Angeles by Biggie's mother, Voletta Wallace, and his estate

...Kelly Osbourne has checked herself back into rehab.
The 20-year-old daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, checked into Pasadena, California's Las Encinas hospital, according to American magazine Us Weekly.
A source told the magazine: "She's going to be in for a couple of weeks. She's slipped into some of her old problems and is not doing so well. Everyone is supporting her."
Another source added: "Friends are concerned, but know that she's strong and that she's pulled through before and will this time as well."
In April of 2004 Kelly spent time at Promises, a treatment centre in Malibu, California, for her well documented addiction to prescription painkillers.

Today in Music History;
-1962 In London, the Beatles audition for EMI's George Martin at the Abbey Road studios, playing their compositions "Love Me Do" and "Ask Me Why."
-1971 Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention are joined onstage at New York's Fillmore East by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
-1987 After the religious sect expresses much disapproval over his behavior, Michael Jackson officially severs his ties with the Jehovah's Witnesses
-2003 A fan is electrocuted while walking walking barefoot on a wet concrete stairway and dies at a Red Hot Chili Peppers/Snoop Dogg concert at Charlottesville, Va.
-2003 Officials at Six Flags in Darien Lakes, N.Y., ban Marilyn Manson's Ozzfest appearance in August. The amusement park invoked a contract clause that allows them to restrict artists from performing.
-2003 Dave Rowberry, keyboardist with '60s hitmakers the Animals ("House of the Rising Sun"), is found dead in his East London flat. He was 62.
-2004 Metallica play a rare gig without drummer Lars Ulrich, who is sidelined with an undisclosed illness. Slipknot's Joey Jordison and Slayer's Dave Lombardo fill in for Ulrich, along with a Metallica drum tech, at the Download Festival in England's Donington Park.

Sundays Birthdays;
Tom Evans (Badfinger) 58, Kenny G 49, Waylon Jennings 1937-2002,

Todays Birthdays:
Peter Albin (Big Brother and The Holding Company) 61, Merle Haggard 68, Bill Haley 1925-1981, Dave Navarro 38, Dwight Twilley 54, Steve Vai 45,

...SIR **** JAGGER's interest in Kabbalah was cut short when religious leaders demanded 10 per cent of the rocker's earnings in return for accepting him into their close knit community.
The ROLLING STONE's ex-wife JERRY HALL was keen on finding out more about Kabbalah with her then husband - but as soon as the issue of large monetary donations was raised, the couple turned their back on the mystical offshoot of Judaism which is championed by MADONNA and DEMI MOORE.
The former supermodel says, "We couldn't go through the door of miracles unless we gave them 10 per cent of our money, so we stopped going."

...White Stripes singer Jack White has slammed reports his recent wedding is a publicity stunt to promote the group's new album.
Jack married model Karen Elson last week in a canoe in Brazil following a five-week romance reports IOL.com.
Jack said: "It's definitely for real. We knew we were in love probably from the moment we met each other. Whether it was going to happen a year from now or three days later, it was just going to happen."
Get Behind Me Satan was released yesterday.

...Just 200 of the 220,000 tickets sold for the Australian leg of Kylie Minogue's Showgirl tour have been returned to the promoters.
The Frontier Touring company says it is surprised more fans have not been asking for their money back ever since the tour was cancelled last month when it was announced Kylie had breast cancer.
"Anyone needing urgent refunds can get them, but we're finding hardly anyone is doing that," a Frontier Touring spokeswoman told the Sydney Daily Telegraph

...COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS MARTIN is being stalked by a psychiatric patient who claims she is his mother.
The mystery woman easily tracked the singer down at his North London home, with a simply addressed letter making a series of claims about his 'real identity'.
He says, "It was addressed to Chris Martin, Belsize Park, London - that's impressive work by the postman.
"Apparently she gave birth to me in Southampton and my dad is dead. I'm thinking of telling her she owes me 28 years of pocket money."

Todays Birthdays:
Bobby Bare 70, Tom Jones 65, Eric Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots) 39, Bill Kreutzmann 59, Dean Martin 1917-1995, Prince 47, Townes Van Zandt 61

Today In Music:
-1963 In England, the Rolling Stones release their first single - a cover of Chuck Berry's "Come On" backed with Willie Dixon's "I Wanna Be Loved." The band has to change Berry's line "some stupid **** " to "some stupid guy" in order to get the song played on the radio.
-1969 Bob Dylan plays with Johnny Cash on the debut of ABC's Johnny Cash Show.
- 1970 The Who play Tommy at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
-1974 On ABC tonight you can watch highlights from the massive California Jam concert, including performances by Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Black Oak Arkansas.
-1994 Grace Slick is ordered to serve 200 hours of community service and attend four Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after being found guilty of pointing a gun at police in March.
-1999 Rod Stewart was supposed to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning. But he arrives late and decides to toss some soccer balls onto the trading floor instead.