French rocker Hallyday targets surgeon (AP)

AP - Ailing French rocker Johnny Hallyday's public relations agency says he has launched legal proceedings against the Paris surgeon who operated on his back last month.

Pop star finds right note for anticancer song (AP)

AP - When Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame was called on to create a song for an anti-cancer campaign, he was surprised at how easily it came to him and with just the right tone.

Carly Simon rebounds by revisiting old songs (AP)

AP - Carly Simon felt like quitting the music business last year after a once-promising relationship with a record label ended in a messy breakup. But she now feels reinvigorated after her son, Ben Taylor, pushed her to make an indie album, "Never Been Gone," on which she revisits her most famous songs.

Show about Afrobeat's Fela tests Broadway's tastes (Reuters)

Reuters - "Fela!," a new dance musical that introduces U.S. audiences to Nigerian rabble-rouser and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has been wowing critics, winning fans and testing modern-day ideas of what works on Broadway -- even in tough economic times.