By Ros Krasny

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago took a Dogg walk on the wild side on Sunday when rock legend Lou Reed and rapper Snoop Dogg took the stage at opposite ends of the Lollapalooza music festival.

The three-day event had a hefty dose of nostalgia this year with Reed, 67, joining 1980s electronic band Depeche Mode and Jane’s Addiction with original lineup among the headliners.

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NEW YORK (Billboard) – In nine short years, Paul McCartney will hit the jackpot again.

The 67-year-old former Beatle — already worth about 440 million pounds ($737 million), according to a report by Britain’s Sunday Times in April — will be able to start reclaiming the copyrights to the lucrative Beatles catalog. Read the rest of this entry »

Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler has a broken shoulder and stitches in his head after falling from the stage during a South Dakota concert, and the band plans to discuss what that means for the future of its current tour, guitarist Joe Perry said Friday.

Perry told The Associated Press after a stop at a Chicago radio station that Tyler has been flown to Boston and was meeting with his own doctor. Perry did not have further details on Tyler’s condition and calls to representatives went unanswered Friday. Read the rest of this entry »