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Green Day will be back on the road in March and frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has made a public statement for the first time since going into rehab.

Van Dyke Parks will perform a career retrospective with Kimbra and Daniel Johns at the Adelaide Festival in March.

Jim Davidson, once dubbed “Britain’s funniest man”, has been arrested over the sexual abuse claims involving BBC presenter Jimmy Savile.

Justin Bieber has made a statement following the death of a photographer yesterday who stalked his car thinking Bieber was inside.

Emeli Sande ‘Our Version Of Events’ was the biggest selling album of the year in the UK.

A paparazzo was killed in Los Angeles this evening chasing Justin Bieber’s Ferrari across town.

Freddie Mercury’s 1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow is up for auction.

Kate Miller-Heidke debuted a new song called ‘Christmas Landfill’ at the Woodford Festival last week.

Taylor Swift is the latest target for Walk Off The Earth.

Gotye featuring Kimbra ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ was the biggest selling song in the UK for 2012.

The 1981 Ultravox classic ‘Vienna’ has been voted the favourite number two single of all-time in the UK.

84 people were arrested for drugs at the Summadayze music festival in Melbourne yesterday. (January 1, 2013).

Moving Sidewalks will play together again for the first time in 44 years. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons is getting his first band back together again for one show only.

Ian Watkins of Lostprophets will stay in police custody until March over alleged child sex offences.

Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ is the 52nd biggest selling song of all-time in the UK and that puts it ahead of Kylie’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ but behind The Seekers ‘The Carnival Is Over’.

Green Day will resume its tour in March following Billie Joe Armstrong’s stint in rehab.

It has only taken 25 years for The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s ‘Fairytale of New York’ to sell 1,000,000 in the UK.

Live Nation Entertainment Chairman Irving Azoff has resigned from the company, effective immediately.

Kanye West has announced that he and girlfriend Kim Kardashian have a baby on the way.

Adele ‘21’ has become the forth biggest selling album of all-time, moving ahead of Oasis ‘What’s The Story Morning Glory.

Tex Perkins will introduce his newest band Tex Perkins & The Ape in January.

YouTube has removed false video views with Sony and Universal Music losing more than 2 billion views as a result.

The final ARIA chart of 2012 saw another 66,119 Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ albums go to good homes across Australia.

Jon Anderson has been working on a sequel to his first solo album ‘Olias of Sunhillow’ for the past 6 years.

Stan Ridgway’s May, 2013 Australian tour will see Ridgway back in Australia for the first time in 15 years.

In February 2013, From The Jam featuring Bruce Foxton from The Jam will tour Australia.

On October 1, Emmylou Harris was driving a rental car on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles when she allegedly bumped another car on the road and kept driving without stopping to exchange information or report the accident.

Just in case you missed it before Christmas (because I sure did) here is the Rod Stewart and Kylie Minogue duet of ‘Let It Snow’.

Jamaican reggae star Lloyd Charmers has passed away in London after suffering a massive heart attack while driving.

Kate Bush is now a Commander of the British Empire and Stella McCartney and Ewan McGregor have become Officers of the British Empire after being named in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.