Seriously? OMG! WTF?

ANGELS + AIRWAVES rocker TOM DeLONGE admires veterans THE ROLLING STONES for their staying power – but thinks their concerts are "terrible". The former BLINK 182 star, 30, saw a recent Stones gig and was horrified with his rock heroes’ performances. DeLonge says, "We are here to rule the planet. I’d like us to be still touring when we are old. "People talk s**t about the Stones being on the road and I don’t want anyone telling me I can’t play music any more, no matter what age I am. "I did go see them in the US but I didn’t really like it. "The show sucked – not necessarily because they are old. "The production was terrible, they had really lame lights and stuff. There was just no impact."

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Seriously, let’s see how good his production is in 30 years for Blink 182’s 5th reunion show?

Come on, rich people! Just because the dinner is for children’s charities doesn’t mean you get to act like a kid.

The other night at Tavern on the Green, folks who paid $1,500 a seat — and $30,000 a table — had a bad case of attention-deficit disorder when married country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill did their darnedest to entertain at the Samsung Four Seasons of Hope gala.

While McGraw belted out his hit "Something Like That," some people milled around, chatting loudly at the bar, and many more — including radio personality Curtis Sliwa — simply got up and left.

"Gosh, you’re quiet!" the gorgeous Hill said mildly after clapping her hands, dancing and whooping it up during her hubby’s song in a valiant attempt to rouse the dead. "I really embarrassed myself. I thought you all’d stand up."

When emcee Bob Costas auctioned off tickets to their sold-out Madison Square Garden concerts, one set of four all-access passes went for the $1,500 minimum, and the other — thanks to Joe Torre’s wife, Ali — went for an uncontested $2,000.

Meanwhile, America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, got his Hall of Famers confused when he praised Michael Jordan for his work with the charities. That was Magic Johnson, your honor!

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Quirky rockers THE FLAMING LIPS have smashed 2006 records at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl by selling out their 23 July (06) show faster than any other. All 17,500 tickets for the Oklahoma group’s show have been snapped up – beating PINK FLOYD star ROGER WATERS’ DARK SIDE OF THE MOON concerts as the season’s biggest pull. Meanwhile, the trio has followed up the Hollywood Bowl news with the announcement of a full US tour with acts like SONIC YOUTH, WEEN, WOLFMOTHER and THE MAGIC NUMBERS alternating support slots.

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The British Broadcasting Corp. announced Tuesday that it is canceling "Top of the Pops," its flagship music chart show, after more than four decades on the air.

BBC director of television Jana Bennett said the show, which first appeared in 1964, would air for the last time on July 30.

"We’re very proud of a show which has survived 42 years in the U.K. and gone on to become a worldwide brand, but the time has come to bring the show to its natural conclusion," she said.

"Top of the Pops" has featured everyone from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to Nirvana and the Spice Girls. At its peak, the weekly rundown of Britain’s best-selling acts attracted more than 15 million viewers.

The show has suffered flagging ratings in recent years as it faced competition from cable and satellite music channels and the Internet. Last year it was moved from the main BBC1 channel to BBC2, which attracts a smaller audience.

In a statement, the BBC said that "in a rapidly changing musical landscape ‘Top of the Pops’ no longer occupies the central role it once did."

AP 

Campaigning RADIOHEAD frontman THOM YORKE has confessed he is a hypocrite, because it’s impossible for him to be a world-travelling rock star without damaging the environment. Yorke is a vocal ambassador for the charity Friends Of The Earth, but admits he isn’t "flawless", since big concerts, tours and festivals rely on fossil fuel and create tons of unrecyclable waste. He says, "I don’t drive a big car, but I don’t come out of it dirt-free. "The whole apparatus of big festivals is not cool. If we could go to them and say, you can only use paper cups, you can’t use generators, you have to use solar panels. "You technically can’t make it happen. That stresses me out, because I am a hypocrite. As we all are."

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Seriosuly he needs to get over it. 

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