Please please me.. with no more mail, Ringo says (Reuters)

Reuters - Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has told fans to stop sending letters and requests for autographs, saying mail will be thrown away after October 20 because he has too much to do.

Vienna director sick, but good music saves opera (AP)

AP - Damnation was the dominant theme Saturday in a new Vienna State Opera production of Charles Gounod's Faust. But redemption triumphed in the form of wonderful singing and a powerful orchestral performance.

T.I. has dual No. 1s but claims underdog status (AP)

AP - Although T.I. owns both the No. 1 album and single in the country, the platinum-selling rapper says he still feels like the underdog.

Music photographer William Claxton dies at 80 (AP)

AP - William Claxton, a celebrated photographer who worked with such entertainers as Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra and who helped establish the organization that runs the Grammy Awards, has died. He was 80.