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Mike Edwards, a co-founder of the British band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) is killed in a car accident. A huge bales of hay rolled last Friday on a highway in the county of Devon in the van of the cellists Mike Edwards, as police said. The 62-year-old was killed instantly.

The cellist had in the early 1970s helped develop the style of ELO, but left the band shortly after. The Electric Light Orchestra (“Do not Bring Me Down”) was in the 70s and 80s with the successful combination of rock and pop music with classical strings.

Why the 600 kg bales of hay rolling down the steep slope, was initially unclear. The police examined evidence that he might be killed by a tractor. Edward’s car was pushed by the force of impact in a second car. Whose driver was unhurt.

Cult director Jim Jarmusch (“Down by Law”) takes the time to rock legend Iggy Pop (63), on which he will make a documentary – and with leisure and patience.

“There is a rule at my house – when Iggy played within 150 miles, we’re there. It will probably take a couple of years, but we did not hurry”, Jarmusch said, according to music magazine “NME”. The film is a kind of “friendship”: “Iggy asked me”, says the director.

The indie – rock band The Libertines will occur earlier than planned back together. After a year from 2004 and the announcement of a comeback in March there is a “warm up” concert for die-hard fans, 25 August place in London, said a spokesman.

Tickets for the price of 30 pounds (about 36 €), should not go into the advance, but will be given to fans who may have to register on the website of the band. Then it is announced as going to gigs at music festivals in the Readings and Leeds.

The band had fallen apart in 2004 when front man Carl Barat and his band mate Doherty – Ex-boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss came – in dispute. The background was probably the most lasting drug escapades Doherty. Without him, gave the remaining three Libertines a few concerts, the last in December 2004 in Paris. The band then rested, but was never officially dissolved. In addition to Barat and Doherty will be there in London bassist John Hassall and drummer Gary Powell.

The lights go out in the hall, on stage three images flash across video screens. Scenes of a music festival can be seen, jet race over the screens.

For a fireworks display at the edge of the stage, the musicians of the legendary rock band Scorpions in the middle of the action will be hurled. At the same moment the guitars blare the theme song of her latest studio album, “Sting In The Tail,” have by the five rockers from Hanover on Friday evening in Leipzig started its definitely last world tour.

The approximately 8,000 enthusiastic fans offer the Scorpions a nearly two-hour show. Opportunity to breathe is hardly more than for a short “Hello” finds frontman Klaus Meine in the first half hour is not the concert. Still, the fans in the sold-out arena by not sweeping the opening of the Hanoverian be swept along regardless of whether they hear the old hits like “Rock You Like A Hurricane” or the songs from the latest and last studio album of the group.

The scene is one of the first concerts in Germany after many stopovers abroad. “It feels good again,” to be home, calling my singer, who later this month, his 62nd Birthday celebrating at the audience. At the farewell of his band after 40 years in rock and roll circus he go or the band members not directly. “It’s about at the peak of surrender, namely, as we know the fans,” as a strong live band, said on the eve of my concert of the news agency dpa.

This promise to keep the Scorpions then with a brilliant show, where they burn down not only a musical fireworks. Accompanied hard-rock hits of film sequences are repeatedly and longer recordings and sparkling fireworks and flames shooting into the air. From the rocker pension no trace: the whole evening and my colleagues on the big stage races up and down.

Even if the band farewell on that evening will not respond at the latest during a minute-long film box office, accompanied by a solo by drummer James Kottak, dawns the audience that it will witness a historic concert. On the video screen shows a roller coaster ride through a brain, gray cells are activated, and the covers of numerous albums are created in visual memory.

After a gentle interpretation of their hit “Send Me an Angel” fans already celebrating the middle of the concert with her band ovation. In return, the musicians bring their supporters with many gifts: My front man distributed dozens of drumsticks, almost as if the band room gradually the stock. Still, the group can use stocks of this kind will work fine. Before the Scorpions finally wants to put to rest the old boys’ band once again to tackle a mammoth program: about 200 concerts on five continents.

Some 40 years after the Beatles split, the Vatican with the famous Liverpool quartet is now evidently concluded peace.

In spite of their “unbridled bohemian life”, in the drugs belonged to everyday life, the pop group the music scene changed forever, according to a report by the Vatican newspaper “Osservatore Romano”. “40 years after the turbulent dissolution of the Beatles we remain their tunes have changed the music forever, like precious jewels.”

In addition to the permissive life was the famous Fab Four in particular John Lennon saying, “The Beatles are more famous than Jesus Christ” the Catholic Church 42 years ago difficult angry. The article published on Tuesday now sounds after a formal peace offer.

Already in 2008 the Holy See had made a first step in this direction. At that time, the Vatican took the 40th anniversary of the “White Album” as a reason to forgive John Lennon’s famous saying. The “White Album” – so called because all-white cover – was built in the late phase of the Beatles and is often ranked among the best albums in music history. On 10 April 1970 the group had posted their separation.