Hollywood Bowl

Charlie Chaplin's iconic bowler hat and cane are to go under the hammer in Los Angeles this weekend, as part of an auction which also includes a John Lennon nude drawing of himself and Yoko Ono.

Colombian megastar Juanes, whose hit "La Camisa Negra" topped charts around the world, tried his hand at classical music for the first time this week at the legendary Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ever wonder what goes on in the back seats of those Hollywood limousines stuffed with A-list stars as they pull up to Oscar's glitzy red carpet?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Got 48 hours in Los Angeles? Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors make the most of the city:

Lady Gaga serenaded Bill Clinton with a personalized version of her hit "Bad Romance" on Saturday at a star-studded tribute to the former US president and his decade-old foundation.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lady Gaga, Bono and Usher will pay tribute to the work of the Bill Clinton Foundation in a one-night concert at the Hollywood Bowl in October, the organization and Yahoo said on Tuesday.

Activist rock stars including Lady Gaga and U2's The Edge and Bono will give a concert next month celebrating global aid work by former US president Bill Clinton since he left the White House, organizers announced Tuesday.

He may be 87, but don't suggest to French crooner and veritable national monument Charles Aznavour that his forthcoming tour is a goodbye. "I have never, ever used the word farewell," he quickly points out.

American stars Sean Lennon and Beck are among the headliners at a Hollywood Bowl concert Sunday paying tribute to late French musician Serge Gainsbourg, praised as a lyricist but little known in the United States.

US soprano Christine Brewer, who will make her debut as Puccini's "Turandot" at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, says she is ready -- at the age of 55 -- to take on the "daunting" role.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Among the changes for the upcoming tenth season of "American Idol" is a new music director to fill the seat Rickey Minor vacated when he left to lead "The Tonight Show" band at the end of Season 9.

Jazz saxophonist James Moody, who improvised `Moody's Mood for Love,' dies in San Diego. Jazz saxophonist James Moody is best known for his 1949 "Moody's Mood for Love," but when he recorded the hit that eventually was elected into the Grammy Awards' Hall of Fame, he said, he was just "trying to find the right notes."

The Beatles are on iTunes, adding to the debate about how to best enjoy them. Let us consider the song, "I Saw Her Standing There."

NEW YORK (Billboard) - One striking aspect of the newly available Beatles albums on iTunes is that they weren't accompanied by the release of more digital bells and whistles.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hollywood Renaissance man Neil Patrick Harris is taking on yet another role.

A month ago, some ne'er-do-well with no respect for the blues made off with B.B. King's Lucille.It was his 15th Lucille, actually. The 15th in the line of his 16 Gibson electric guitars. The instrument is legendarily named for a woman over whom two men were fighting during one of King's early shows, in 1949, in a blues club in Twist, Ark. According to B.B. King lore, the two men tumbled onto the floor of the club, knocking over a barrel half-filled with kerosene used to keep the club heated and setting the venue ablaze.

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - When a James Taylor/Carole King co-headlining Troubadour Reunion tour was announced last winter, the concert industry reacted with the sort of laid-back reserve befitting the two mellow-rock icons. Few predicted that arenas full of smiling, dancing, sometimes weeping baby boomers -- and their kids and grandkids -- would blow up the box office in a summer that has seen its share of bad news for the touring business.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bramwell Tovey, the conductor leading the popular Summertime Classics series at the New York Philharmonic this month, finds it amusing that a British musician is heading a concert to celebrate U.S. Independence Day.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bramwell Tovey, the conductor leading the popular Summertime Classics series at the New York Philharmonic this month, finds it amusing that a British musician is heading a concert to celebrate U.S. Independence Day.

HAVANA (Reuters) - The first of three U.S. concerts scheduled by Cuban band Buena Vista Social Club has been canceled because of a delay in getting U.S. visas, their U.S. lawyer said on Thursday.