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Katy Perry 'Unplugged' songs to premiere on MTV.com
MTV.com announced November 9 that it will premiere Katy Perry's Unplugged performance online on November 16, one day before the singer's MTV Unplugged album hits shelves worldwide.
Lou Reed: Photographer
As frontman with the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed epitomised the rock'n'roll lifestyle. But a book of his photographs reveals a quieter, more reflective figure. He tells Hannah Duguid what inspired him
The Cinematic Orchestra, The Roundhouse, London (Rated 4/ 5 )
The Cinematic Orchestra defy classification. Is it jazz? Electronica? Hip-hop or trip-hop? Or movie soundtrack music? What is obvious, though, is that the shape-shifting outfit formed by John Swinscoe in the late 1990s does not lack musical conviction. Which other band could perform an hour-long instrumental accompaniment to an 80-year-old silent Soviet movie and be confident of a capacity crowd?
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1 Plagiarism is no laughing matter for comedians
2 Jedward: X Factor twins John and Edward can't win, says Louis Walsh new
3 Lost Chaplin film discovered in $5 can bought on eBay
5 Last Night's Television - Collision, ITV1; The Execution of Gary Glitter, Channel 4
6 BANNED: The most controversial films
8 The ten biggest Broadway turkeys
9 Angela Gheorghiu/Marius Manea/Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
10 Lifestyle gurus: Odes to recovery
11 Melvyn Bragg returns to BBC2
12 'Deluded' Jedward getting worse, says Cowell
13 The Men Who Stare at Goats, Venice Film Festival
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1 Uncle Vanya, Old Vic, Bristol
2 The secret blood-sucking world of Mr Darcy
5 Lifestyle gurus: Odes to recovery
6 Plagiarism is no laughing matter for comedians
7 Angela Gheorghiu/Marius Manea/Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
8 Album: Andy Mackay & The Metaphors, London! Paris! New York! Rome! (Andy Mackay Music)
9 First Night: Staff Benda Bilili, Barbican, London
11 Jedward: X Factor twins John and Edward can't win, says Louis Walsh new
12 BANNED: The most controversial films
13 Robert Harris: A writer close to the power elite
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3Youth trapped on ice floe forced to shoot polar bear
4Armistice Day: The Great War and the words we mustn't forget
5Tensions grow as Chavez masses troops on border
6How a single bullet halted Taliban attack
7US 'wants to guard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal'
8Demands grow for 'weapon dogs' to be brought to heel
9Dominic Lawson: The only options are to double up in Afghanistan or leave
10Mark Steel: You almost have to feel sorry for Gordon Brown
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