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Paul Simon is facing a new lawsuit filed by his former accountant Kenneth Ira Starr, who is currently in prison for stealing from Simon and many other celebrities in a Ponzi scheme. TMZ is reporting that the trustee who was assigned to oversee Starr's finances has uncovered an unpaid bill for services rendered to Simon. The trustee is seeking the amount of the bill, $17,174.49.



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Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift are some of the most well-mannered people around, according to the National League of Junior Cotillions (NLJC). Both singers have both landed on the list of the NLJC's Twenty-Five Best-Mannered People of the Past Twenty-Five Years in honor of their politeness and social graces. Underwood came in at number 13.



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Future has released the music video for "Mad Luv," a cut from his recent mixtape, Monster. The video, directed by Rick Nyce, was shot in Atlanta and features cameos from Jeezy, Rae Sremmurd and Mike WiLL Made-It. "I wanted to go back to my roots before I start this journey of creating album music," Future told The FADER.



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Blake Shelton will pull double duty as host and musical guest on the January 24 episode of Saturday Night Live. It's Blake's first time as host, although he's no stranger to TV after several seasons on NBC's The Voice. He has also hosted the ACM Awards with Luke Bryan several years.



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If you were to ask Queen's Brian May about Adam Lambert, he would tell you that he is a "gift from God." May says that Lambert was the only performer they had found who was capable of filling the shoes of iconic frontman Freddie Mercury. "Adam is the first person we've encountered who can do all the Queen catalogue without blinking," May tells Classic Rock.



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Marilyn Manson says that he coined the term "grunge" in a music review he did in his youth. Manson told Noisey that the term came to him while writing about the Nirvana album Bleach. "I hated rock n' roll when I started. It was on the cusp of grunge and a lot of bands that I used to call 'commonist rock' because everyone wanted to be like the common man with the flannel."



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Marilyn Manson is streaming his latest album, Pale Emperor, in full ahead of its January 19 release. It's the ninth studio LP from the shock rocker, who says that it's his best since 2000's Holy Wood. "The album feels tied in to the fable of Mephistopheles, where life is fated. I haven't felt this way since Holy Wood, where fate has brought things together."



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AC/DC has officially signed on to perform at the Grammys. The Aussie rock legends had previously been amongst a group of performers rumored to play the event. Other hinted at performances have included U2, Madonna, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran and Eric Church.



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Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason says he's annoyed that Apple got off "scot free" following the troubled release of U2's latest album Songs of Innocence. The LP was automatically downloaded onto all Apple subscribers' iTunes accounts upon release. Speaking with GQ, Mason says that the Irish rockers seemed to have taken all the heat.



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Florida Georgia Line have added a string of dates to their Anything Goes tour. The new dates pick up where the previously announced 2015 dates ended on May 9 in Columbia, Maryland. FGL will be joined by Thomas Rhett and Frankie Ballard on the trek. "With this tour, it's our first worldwide tour," Brian Kelley told Radio.com.



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