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  Bowie, Patti Smith, Vedder Give It Up for Moms on New Charity Compilation

  March 8, 2012 – Every Mother Counts, an advocacy and awareness campaign headed by model-turned-activist Christy Turlington Burns to increase education and support for maternal and child health, is slated to release its second charity compilation album May 1, and as Antiquiet points out, its track list is not to be messed with. Thirteen of the 19 songs are unreleased tunes from artists like Patti Smith, Coldplay, Eddie Vedder, Cedella Marley, and Beck. …
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  WATCH: Preview U2's 'Spider-Man' Musical

  November 24, 2010 – After more than eight years of production, with delays, staffing issues, financial crises, and other problems pushing the bill to $60 million, the most expensive musical in Broadway history, U2's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will finally open on Sunday for its first public previews (it officially premieres in January). "What we didn't realize was how difficult it is to stage this stuff, both technically and financially," Bono, who wr …
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  U2's 'Spider-Man' Musical Finally Rehearsing

  July 23, 2010 – After a year full of financial woes and struggles, initial rehearsals for the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, featuring music by Bono and the Edge, are finally underway and producers are hoping for a November opening date, the New York Times reports. The Julie Taymor-directed (The Lion King, Across The Universe) Spider-Man is one of the most expensive musicals ever staged, costing a whopping $50 million, the Times r …
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• 'It Might Get Loud' (Sony Pictures Classics)

  August 11, 2009 – David Guggenheim's delightfully unsnobby symposium of a documentary convenes three masters who share one love: electric guitar. Page is a walking monument to Led Zeppelin's heavy virtuosity. While the classic rocker is a rock classicist devoted to technique, White bangs on as a dirty minimalist who imagines roots rock as a primal struggle. …
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