MUSIC NEWS YOU CAN USE FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24

All you ladies out there, I have some bad news this morning about DURAN DURAN.
Brace yourselves...a certain Mr. Taylor has left the band.
Of course, it's n ot the good looking Taylor. Duran Duran guitarist ANDY TAYLOR has left Duran Duran. Again. Citing the infamous "creative differences," Taylor says he was unhappy with the decision to pursue a collaboration with hip-hop producer TIMBALAND and scrap an albums worth of recorded material that was a return to their New Romantic roots...

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THOM YORKE has picked his favourite-ever RADIOHEAD song.
Speaking to the UK's 'Culture Show' last night, Yorke was asked what single moment he would most like to be remembered for.
His response was 'How To Disappear Completely' from the band's 'Kid A' album. Explaining why, he simply said, "because it's the most beautiful thing we ever did, I think".
On the other hand, users over at music site NME.com voted the song, "Just," from The Bends as the best-ever Radiohead tracker earlier this year.

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Finally on this Tuesday, all those Orwellian fears about "Big Brother," we keep hearing about? Complete bull...turns out it's LITTLE BROTHER we should be worrying about.
In an effort to combat illegal downloading, the New York Times reports that American Boy Scouts are now being encouraged to earn a "Dangers of Copyright Violation" activity patch. Yep, enough of this learning to build fires and tie knots, in exchange for learning about the risks with downloading pirated movies and music, scouts will receive a patch showing a film reel...a CD...and a copyright symbol.
So, there you go...as if Boy Scouts didn't already have a hard enough time NOT getting beat up at school, now they're stoolies for the Recording Industry of America.