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Female artistes steal the limelight
Pearl Jam leader Eddie Vedder shocked fans at a concert last week in Denver, Colorado, USA by illustrating his anti-war stance by wearing a mask of President Bush. Vedder's anti-war stance was highlighted as Pearl Jam performed the song 'Bushleaguer' taken from the new album 'Riot Act'.

Fans of the band - at least some of them - stormed out of venue in protest. Pearl Jam's management declined to comment on the matter.

The alternative rock band in Australia called Triple J, has aired certain songs from the new Radiohead 'Hail To The Thief". The radio station's director admitted playing leaked tracks from the award winning band's forthcoming album.

The radio station contacted Radiohead's record label EM to admit to the airing of the songs that had been posted on the Internet.

Triple J's director felt the Radiohead album was special and that they just wanted to air the songs. EMI agreed and no further legal action was necessary. The station said it would not air the Raidohead tracks from 'Hail To The Thief' again.

For a second week 'Make Luv' by Room 5 featuring Oliver Chetham is the No: 1 song in the UK. Several of the No: 1 singles have spent more than a week at the helm of the chart. But for the current No: 1 in particular it is a different scenario. The singles market is rather quiet.

The highest new entry of the week is 'Love Doesn't Have To Hurt' by Atomic Kitten. The song debuted in the chart at No: 4.

In 2001 Atomic Kitten covered the Bangles 'Eternal Flame'. The song topped the chart.
Now with 'Love Doesn't Have To Hurt' the group has the Bangles lead singer Susannah Hoffs as co-writer coupled with a catchy mid tempo beat - giving it enough measure to chart.

Ronan Keating had predicted that Atomic Kitten would be a write-off by December 2002. This is mid-April 2003, and apparently the girls have some talent or ammunition left with them.

Canadian teenage pop star Avril Lavigne has splashed her new single 'I'm with You' at the No: 7 position this week. There are some very interesting comments about Avril Lavigne's musical abilities.

On April 6, Avril Lavigne swept the Junos awards in Canada. The Junos awards are the Canadian equivalent to the US Grammy.

Canadian country singer Shania Twain won 3 awards including Artist of the Year. The group Sum 41 won the Junos for Group of the Year.

Mario is a new US star.

His debut single from the R & B scene entered the UK chart at No: 18. Mario is 15-years-old and was picked out by the famous Clive Davies, the head of RCA. It was Clive Davies who made Santana and Whitney Houston stars.

Sir Paul McCartney mounted a damage control exercise by explaining his position over the reverse credits of Beatles songs.

There appeared to be some rumblings about Sir Paul's decision to reverse the song credits to read McCartney-Lennon.

The 60-year-old former Beatle told the Daily Mirror - the UK morning tabloid that it was to let people know that the songs he (McCartney) sings today are his own.

Sir Paul said he wanted to set the record straight. He said he was a great fan of John Lennon.

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