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Monday, 23 June 2008

Video: Billy Ray Talks About Vanity Fair Scandal

Even though Billy Ray Cyrus had already opened up to OK! about the scandal surrounding the Vanity Fair cover featuring his 15-year-old daughter, pop superstar Miley Cyrus, in nothing but a sheet, the country singer went on TV for the first time on Tuesday morning to give his side of the story.

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�I didn�t know they were gonna strip her down and wrap her in a blanket,� Cyrus said on the Today show Tuesday morning, claiming that he had been at the shoot earlier in the day, but had to leave after posing for a few shots for celeb photog Annie Leibovitz.

�I had just finished a movie down in Florida. I flew in because Annie had specifically asked that I come in and do a shot with Miley," he continued. "I had worked with her before. She�s a great lady. She�s a good person, a great photographer. I was scheduled to be in Washington state the next day to play for the troops returning from Iraq and then the next day in Anchorage, Alaska.�

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Sunday, 22 June 2008

Moguai

Artist: Moguai

   Genre(s):
House

Discography:

Moguai

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Live @ Mayday

Year: 2002
Tracks: 1

Andy Pickford and Paul Nagle and Spank The Dark Mo

Artist: Andy Pickford and Paul Nagle and Spank The Dark Mo

   Genre(s):
Electronic

Discography:

Ambient Space Monkeys

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Pelican

Artist: Pelican

   Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
   Rock: Electronic
   Metal: Doom
   Rock
   Metal

Discography:

The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw

Year: 2005
Tracks: 7

Split

Year: 2005
Tracks: 1

March Into The Sea

Year: 2005
Tracks: 2

Pelican EP

Year: 2003
Tracks: 4

Live @ Beachland Ballroom

Year: 2003
Tracks: 4

Live @ Akron, OH, 7-27-2003

Year: 2003
Tracks: 4

Australasia

Year: 2003
Tracks: 6

Untitled EP

Year: 2002
Tracks: 4

The closelipped instrumental art metal getup Pelican was formed in Chicago by guitarists Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Lebec, with bassist Larry Herweg and his sibling drummer, Bryan. Owing a expectant debt to pioneering forefathers Neurosis and often compared to Boston's nearly as influential Isis (minus the vocals, course), Pelican coincidentally likewise set up a family at Isis mastermind Aaron Turner's Hydra Head Records. After making their debut with an eponymic four-song EP in 2003, Pelican expanded their larger-than-life, otherworldly trance-metal to continent-sized movements with 2003's critically acclaimed Australasia album and followed it with 2004's The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw. After nonstop touring, playing in clubs, small halls, and mammoth festivals, the quartette took a much-deserved break. They returned to the studio in 2006 and released Urban center of Echoes in June 2007, followed by the live CD/DVD After the Ceiling Cracked later that December.

Victoria Wood - Tv Stars Honoured In Queens Birthday List

Television celebrities Des O'Connor, Victoria Wood and Paul O'Grady have all been recognised in the Queen's birthday honours list.

O'Connor, 76, has been awarded a CBE for his services to the entertainment industry after a career that spans six decades.

He is well-known for presenting a raft of different entertainment shows, most recently his talk show Today with Des and Mel which he co-hosted with Melanie Sykes.

O'Connor also recently took over from Des Lynam as host of Channel 4's long-running word and number game Countdown.

Wood, who recently collected two Bafta awards for writing and starring in second world war drama Housewife, 49, has also been given a CBE to add to her existing honour as an OBE.

O'Grady is best known for his outspoken alter-ego Lily Savage, although recently he has made a name for himself as a talk show host on his own late afternoon programme on Channel 4. He has been given an MBE.

There are also honours for EastEnders actress June Brown, who plays Dot Cotton in the popular soap, and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies. They have been awarded an MBE and an OBE, respectively.

TV scriptwriter Lynda La Plante has picked up a CBE, while there are also a number of awards for sports stars.

Recently retired England and Wasps rugby player Lawrence Dallaglio is given an OBE to add to the MBE he collected after winning the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

And undefeated boxer Joe Calzaghe, who was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2007, adds a CBE to his OBE.

Rugby legend Bill Beaumont is also honoured, like Dallaglio for his work within rugby and for charity with a CBE.

Northern Ireland and Fulham striker David Healey becomes an MBE, as does the England women's captain Kelly Smith, while British formula one and motorbike legend John Surtees becomes an OBE.

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Hear The Rascals album in full now

You can hear The Rascals' debut album before its release on NME.COM right now.

The record, 'Rascalize', is not out until June 23, but we are streaming the album in full now.

Simply head to The Rascals' artist page and launch the Media Player.