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NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL IN THE WORKS

NEW YORK (AP) – Neil Diamond’s life will be the subject of a Broadway musical that will feature his music. The production does not yet have a title. Diamond says he’s always loved Broadway and many of his early songs were inspired by shows like “West Side Story,” “My Fair Lady” and “Fiddler on the Roof.” The musical’s book will be written by Anthony McCarten, who wrote the screenplay for “Bohemian Rhapsody.” One of the show’s producers is Bob Gaudio of The Four Seasons, who produced the Neil Diamond-Barbra Streisand duet, “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers.”

“PATTI LABELLE WAY” OPENS IN PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Patti LaBelle was so happy to have a street in Philadelphia named for her that she broke into song. She sang “Love, Need and Want You” as part of Broad Street was renamed “Patti LaBelle Way” yesterday. She says her parents used to walk along that road and she feels blessed.

DURAN DURAN WILL PLAY AT CAPE CANAVERAL

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Duran Duran will play a concert at the Kennedy Space Center to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. They will perform with a drone light show in the Rocket Garden on July 16. Keyboardist Nick Rhodes recalls his amazement as a kid watching the lunar landing on TV. He says he ran outside to look up at the night sky, trying to picture what it was like for the astronauts. He says the moon landing continues to be a source of inspiration to them, and he points out Duran Duran’s first single was “Planet Earth.”

CASEY HARRIS OF X AMBASSADORS WILL BE INDUCTED INTO SPACE CAMP HALL OF FAME

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) _ This year’s inductees into the Space Camp Hall of Fame are two astronauts, one air safety investigator and one rock star. X Ambassadors keyboardist Casey Harris will be inducted in a ceremony July 13 at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville, Alabama. He attended Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students in 2000 and in 2001. Harris is legally blind. He’s been an aviation buff since his godfather took him for an airplane ride as a teen. The other inductees are Mary “Wally” Funk, the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board; Christina H. Koch, a NASA Astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station; and Beth Moses, Chief Astronaut Instructor and Commercial Astronaut for Virgin Galactic.

KACEY MUSGRAVES CHECKS OUT COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME EXHIBIT ON HER

NASHVILLE (AP) – Kacey Musgraves says lots of people have awkward moments, but hers just happen to be behind glass. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville will open an exhibit on Musgraves on Tuesday. Musgraves says her mom was handing over stuff, not considering it might be the most awkward thing in the world for Musgraves. Musgraves says she owns her past but there is a line of terrible stuff she did not let through. However, she was willing to compromise. Musgraves did allow her detention slips that she got for talking too much in school and evidence of what she calls “a short hair phase.”

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KORN’S BRIAN “HEAD” WELCH AND HIS DAUGHTER APPEAR IN “LOUD KRAZY LOVE”

NASHVILLE (AP) – Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch has been open about his struggles with addiction. What few people knew about was how his addictions affected his daughter, Jennea (jeh-NAY’-ah). That’s the subject of a documentary called “Loud Krazy Love,” out now on streaming services. Welch says Jennea, who turns 21 on Saturday, chose to open up about her emotional struggles that included anger issues and cutting. He says she had two years from the time she filmed her interview to when the film came out to change her mind. Welch had quit Korn for a while to deal with his addiction through faith and to raise Jennea as a single dad. He details his mistakes in the film. Welch’s parents and the members of Korn also appear in the film, recalling their concerns at Welch’s abrupt change from drugs to God.

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OFFICIAL: WOODSTOCK 50 “COULD POSE A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE”

VERNON, N.Y. (AP) _ An official in the New York town where organizers hope to stage the Woodstock 50th anniversary concert says pulling it together in a month “could pose a significant challenge.” Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente says in a statement getting health and safety preparations in place for concertgoers and for residents could be tough. Woodstock 50 organizers applied for a mass gathering permit in Vernon, New York, after the site in Watkins Glen, New York, pulled out. The concert has also lost a financial partner and a production company. The Killers, Miley Cyrus, Dead and Company, Jay-Z and Chance The Rapper are among the performers. Tickets have not yet gone on sale.

ANDY WARHOL ESTATE WINS LAWSUIT OVER IMAGE OF PRINCE

NEW YORK (AP) – A photo of Prince that artist Andy Warhol turned into a series of artworks was at the centre of a lawsuit over whether changing its meaning constitutes fair use. U.S. District Judge John G. Koelti sided with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which was sued by renowned photographer Lynn Goldsmith. She took a photo of Prince in 1981 that she believed showed Prince vulnerable and uncomfortable. Vanity Fair magazine licensed the photo in 1984 and commissioned Warhol to use it for an illustration to accompany an article on Prince. Koelti said Warhol’s work with loud colours transformed the Prince image into “an iconic, larger-than-life figure” that’s instantly recognizable as a Warhol. Goldsmith had argued a 2016 publication of the art destroyed a high-profile licensing opportunity. Her lawyer plans to appeal.

by Margie Szaroleta