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Gary Corbett, a keyboardist best known for his touring work with Kiss and Cinderella who also wrote the Cyndi Lauper hit “She Bop,” has died after a battle with lung cancer. No age was given, but he died just short of his birthday today.

Corbett’s death was confirmed by his sister in a Facebook post. “Those who knew Gary know that we and the world of music have all lost a very talented, funny, kind and gentle soul,” she wrote. “The pain cuts so deeply that our hearts are bleeding.”

A native of Brooklyn, Corbett was a child prodigy on the keyboards. By age 10, he was playing private parties on weekends, He even joined a ’40s style big band with members of The Tonight Show band.

In 1976, he began touring with punk singer Cherry Vanilla and with Ian Hunter, filling in for the latter’s regular keyboardist. The Hunter...

Holly Johnson last week released his new studio album Europa, his first new studio album in 14 years.

As well as our regular Q&A , we also found time to ask Holly about his love of Blade Runner and how he came to collaborate with Vangelis on the title track of the new LP.

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"That film came at a particular moment in my life when I was dreaming dreams about the future," Johnson said of Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi masterpiece, for which Vangelis wrote the score.

"It was just the most exciting thing, visually and sonically, I'd ever seen. I went to the cinema to see it when it came out and it was very, very affecting in lots of ways."

He added: "I got the call from Vangelis's assistant to say,...

Not everyone can do a good Reddit Ama. Some people don't get the format or how to interact with fans or are just generally boring. Not Denzel Washington. He absolutely owned his Reddit Ama this afternoon, in anticipation of his upcoming film "The Equalizer," not just answering questions but expounding on them in detail. Here are our favorite tidbits from his Reddit. You can read the whole thing here.

On kicking all the butts in "The Book of Eli":

There were a lot of takes. We worked on those fight scenes for a month. They were well-choreographed, and in fact, there's one scene where i think I fight 15 different guys at once - we actually worked it so I could fight 15 guys at one time! I did ninety percent, I don't know what percent, my own stunts, the stuntmen didn't have to do as much, but that was mostly me.

Director Tim Burton fraudulently stripped his former girlfriend Lisa Marie of her right to palimony, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the model. Marie claims Burton, her lawyer and her friends conspired to cheat her out of her rights to assets the filmmaker promised during their nearly 10 year relationship. The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges the ex-couple started their relationship in 1991 and that, in 1992, Burton promised to provide Marie with "financial support and needs for the rest of her life". Marie also claims they agreed to combine their worldly assets. Burton ended their relationship in August 2001, after which Marie became "extremely depressed and emotionally unstable for months". According to Marie's lawsuit, it was at this point that Burton conspired with her financial advisors, her lawyer and her friend Cherry Vanilla to persuade Marie she wouldn't be able to legally make Burton support her for life. The suit states: "They unconscionably played upon Plaintiff's emotional weakness by continually telling her that she was facing poverty unless she entered into a settlement with Burton on terms acceptable to Burton." Marie hopes to rescind the settlement claiming fraud. She is also seeking damages of more than $25,000 (£12,800), according to Tmz.com.