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Oasis are re-releasing their second album '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' complete with previously unheard demo tracks and live songs. The band - who split in August 2009 after brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher had a huge backstage bust-up - are re...

Dolly Parton wants to start her own festival.
The 'Jolene' singer enjoyed her first experience at Glastonbury at the weekend and thinks there was a lot she could learn from it in order to stage her own music event at her Dollywood Theme Park in Tennessee.
She said: "I have a lotta land up near east Tennessee, and we do a lot of festivals through my Dollywood company. I've often thought I might start my own festival in Tennessee, or maybe I'll get some good pointers from this one."
And the 68-year-old star planned to ask Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis for some advice on setting up a musical extravaganza.
Speaking during a press conference at Worthy Farm, she said: "I think I'm going to do that - Michael can give me some tips. Why wouldn't I want something like this?"
Dolly was delighted to be asked to perform at the festival and said it made her feel like a rock star.
She said: "I'm so excited to be part of this whole thing. I'm just a country girl, and now I feel like a rock star."
And the '9 to 5' hitmaker deliberately chose her all-white outfit so she would complement the muddy conditions.
She explained before her performance: "I'm going to wear white on stage, because I figured from all the way out there I want to be seen, and I think it goes well with mud. But I will be wearing my stage shoes - you know I have to shine, mud or no mud."

5 Seconds of Summer want to outlast The Rolling Stones and The Who.
The Australian pop punk band - whose self-titled debut album is set to hit the top spot this week and is already number one on iTunes in 69 countries - plan to keep performing live for years to come.
Drummer Ashton Irwin, 20, told the Daily Star newspaper: "We'd love to be here for another 50 years.
"For me as a fan, one of the coolest things is growing up with bands and seeing them evolve.
"I started listening to Green Day when I was 11, and I still listen to them now. They deliver the sound-track to your lives."
The band, known as 5SOS, drew huge crowds in Milan this week and their new record includes songs such as 'Kiss Me Kiss Me' and 'End Up Here'.
Talking about their loyal fans, bassist Callum Hood, 18, said: "It's the best feeling being able to give them our music. We've been writing our album for two years and from day one the fans have been begging us to hear it."
Ashton admits people thought their album would be "watered down" because they'd signed to Capitol Records.
He said: "But we found a really supportive group of people and put out an album that we're really proud of."
The group - also made up of singer Luke Hennings and guitarist Michael Clifford - are based in the UK at the moment but haven't forgotten their friends Down Under.
Ashton added: "We feel like we're representing out country because Australia hasn't had anything big for a while."

Union J are scared of Ella Henderson's new "sexy" image.
The four-piece boyband - who made it to the live finals of 'The X Factor' along with Ella in 2012 - were taken aback to see their "little sister" acting provocatively in her music video for her number one single 'Ghost'.
Jaymi, 24, told Digital Spy: "It does scare me. We remember Ella being 16 and our little sister, and she's in the music video looking sexy.
"I was like, 'Get it off, now! Put some clothes on!'"
Although the boyband - made up of Jaymi, Josh Cuthbert, JJ Hamblett and George Shelley - find Ella's seductive new look hard to accept they admitted they are thrilled for the 18-year-old after her debut track shot to the top of the charts.
Jaymi explained: "For someone who came sixth on The X Factor to be one of this year's biggest-selling artists is incredible. She's amazing. We're so proud.
"People always put two fingers up to X Factor and say it's s**t, but you can't argue with One Direction, Ella and people like that."
Jaymi also revealed he's asked Ella to perform at his upcoming wedding to his fiance Olly Marmon - although following on from the success of 'Ghost' he isn't sure she will have the time.
He said: "I did ask her. She was, but now she's going to be a global superstar I'm not sure if she'll fit it in. That would be a dream."

Cher is struggling to say goodbye to performing live as she starts to wrap up her last ever tour.
The 68-year-old pop star is currently performing her 'Dressed To Kill' farewell gigs across the globe and admits the idea of giving up performing is difficult to deal with after so many years.
She took to Twitter last night (01.07.14) to write: "Had great fun tonite! (sic)", after performing in San Jose, California.
She added: "Great audience... Its hard to Say goodbye 4 Ever? (sic)"
The Dressed To Kill tour is the first time Cher has been on the road in nearly a decade, after her 'Living Proof: The Farewell Tour', which ran from 2002 to 2005.
She then took up a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, performing from 2008 to 2011.
Cher previously insisted she's still got what it takes to put on an incredible live show, and she can even still squeeze into her fishnet bodystocking.
She said: "A friend said to me that a woman is sexy while she can still put on her stockings, I thought, 'I can do better than that, I can still put on my body stocking'. They'll probably even dress me in it when I'm dead."
The 'If I Could Turn Back Time' hitmaker is promoting her latest album 'Closer to the Truth' and is scheduled to play shows across the US and Canada, wrapping up the concert series in Wichita, Kansas in November.

Nick Grimshaw and Alexa Chung recreated Dolly Parton's Glastonbury set backstage at the festival.
The Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ and model friend were partying in the Beats by Dre VIP area at the event at Worthy Farm in South East England at the weekend.
The pair acted out Dolly's gig for singer Sam Smith who missed it because he was performing at the same time on The Other Stage on Sunday (29.06.14) and also joined Disclosure in the evening for a rendition of their track 'Latch'.
A source told BANG Showbiz: "Nick and Alexa were having a great time backstage and performed Dolly's hits '9 to 5' and 'Jolene', along with an accompanied dance routine for Sam, who was disappointed he'd missed Dolly perform."
The celebrity friends played the songs on Beats Pill XL speakers and the likes of Eliza Doolittle, Laura Whitmore and Foxes were also spotted backstage.
Sam said: "It's been absolutely amazing but I've not seen that many people play, I was performing while Dolly was playing. It would have been great to go and watch her sing."
Nick, who got a private jet to the site in Pilton, also held an impromtu party in the VIP tent when the rain started to pour on Saturday (28.06.14) and friend Rita Ora almost missed her helicopter out of the festival.

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey feels "sorry" for music fans who record concerts on their phones rather than enjoying the moment.
The 'Substitute' singer finds it "weird" that people prefer to film shows on their handsets rather than lose themselves in the music but accepts it's a modern phenomenon.
When asked what he thought of gig-goers recording shows, Roger said: "I feel sorry for them. Looking at life through a screen and not being in the moment totally - if you're doing that, you're 50 percent there, right? I find it weird. But people seem to like it, they're all mad, but maybe I'm mad."
However, Roger's bandmate Pete Townsend disagrees with him and insists people's penchant to make their own concert films does have benefits but only if their motivation is right.
Speaking at a press conference at Ronnie Scott's in London on Monday (30.06.14) to announce The Who Hits 50 tour, the guitarist said: "I'm a real technofile, I really love new technology. I jumped on the iPhone when it first came out, I jumped on the internet and was one of the first individuals in the music business to have my own website so I love it. I'm for it really because all of those people you could say are doing a job, what they're doing presumably is taking that footage and sharing it so as long as we look alright and are playing OK then they're sharing something that we used to have to pay people to produce. It's low quality and can be a bit naff but if it's shared widely it's good.
"There's an amazing video of me breaking a guitar in Yokohama and I play this amazing bit of guitar just before I smash the guitar. It was never filmed by anyone except one guy with a camera phone and he put it up. I'm proud of it, it's a great bit of guitar playing before I sadly smash the guitar. On the other hand I do agree with Roger, if you've been to Glastonbury this weekend I hope you enjoyed the music rather than feeling you have to build a Facebook story about it."
Tickets for The Who's nine-date UK tour - which begins in Glasgow on November 30 and ends at The O2 in London on December 17 - go on sale at 9am on July 4 from Aeglive.co.uk.

Ex-Lostprophets members have formed a new band called No Devotion.
The band will continue under the new name, without singer Ian Watkins, after he was jailed for 35 years in December last year for a string of child sex offences.
Geoff Rickly, formerly of metal band Thursday, will take on the role of frontman and the members admit they weren't sure if they could carry on after Ian's court case.
Bassist Stuart Richardson said: "We didn't know if we would ever make music again or if people would look us in the face. Everything felt like it was over."
No Devotion release their debut single 'Stay', backed by 'Eyeshadow', on Collect Records today (01.07.14) and they will head out on tour later this month.
Speaking about their decision to move on, Stuart said: "We didn't know what else to do - we just wrote music. I didn't know if anyone would ever want to hear it. I just needed to occupy my brain. We just needed this."
The band also features guitarists Mike Lewis and Luke Gaze, drummer Luke Johnson and keyboardist Jamie Oliver and Geoff admits he "hadn't really listened" to Lostprophets but that he liked the musicians.
He said: "You don't really grow out of punk, you grow with it. To my mind, post-punk was about taking a more sophisticated approach to that sound, and I think we all have a shared respect for that era of modern music."
Speaking of the Ian being jailed and the affect his sentencing had on the band, Geoff added: "I didn't think it was fair, what was happening to them. And, well, the music was too good to pass up."

The band will play the following gigs from this month..

July 22 - Cardiff CF10
July 23 - Manchester Sound Control
July 25 - London O2 Islington Academy
July 26 - Glasgow O2 ABC2

Kasabian will feature on the first episode of MTV's new talk show 'Soundchain'.
The Glastonbury headliners will join DJ Zane Lowe to discuss their inspirations, success and perform tracks from their new album '48:13'.
Zane said: "I'm excited! This is the type of TV show I've wanted to do for a really long time. We're attempting to re-create some of the amazing journeys that these artists have been on, as they tell us about the people, the records and the experiences that have brought them to where they are today."
Kasabian - featuring Tom Meighan, Serge Pizzorno, Ian Matthews and Chris Edwards - performed with fellow headliners Arcade Fire and Metallica at the event at Worthy Farm last week.
Billy Clyro, Ed Sheeran, Chase & Status, Nas and Jake Bugg have all been confirmed as guests, with Ed set to perform three brand new tracks from his forthcoming album 'x'.
Zane said: "What's really cool is that all these artists, a lot of them are really new. It's quite rare to speak to someone like Ed Sheeran and go, 'Let's go back', because he's too busy looking forward.
"We wanted to contextualise the journey and hear the emotional stuff and funny stuff and put it all together."
'Relentless Ultra Presents Soundchain' launches on MTV Music on July 6 at 9.30pm.