Meanwhile, across the continent, other celebs were gathered to support actor Michael J. Fox and his 2011 A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson's – Show held last night at the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom in New York City.

The event was hosted by The Daily Show’s John Oliver and featured Ricky Gervais as well as performances by Kid Cudi, comedian Mike Birbiglia, and the man of the hour Michael J. Fox with Joan Jett.  Gervais tweeted this about watching Fox perform: “watching Michael J Fox perform Johnny B Goode was a spine chilling magic f*cking moment.” I can only imagine that is was, for so many reasons. Fox and Jett performed Springsteen's “Light of Day” from their 1987 movie of the same name. Anyone else see it? I thought Joan was pretty good.

Fox and his gorgeous wife of 23 years(!), Tracy Pollan, brought their four children, including son Sam. Also in attendance was twenty four year old athlete Sam Fox (no relation to Michael – "Sam Fox meet Sam Fox") whose mother Lucy has Parkinson’s and in whose honor he just completed the 2396.5 mile Pacific Crest Trail in a fundraising effort called “Run While You Can” with all proceeds going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research.

On October 24 in New York, a select group of people had the opportunity to be the first to hear the collaboration between Metallica and Lou Reed for their LuLu album. Well we now have the video from that event! 

Bowers & Wilkins has released the video of the Metallica & Lou Reed listening event for their collaboration album, LULU. Watch as Metallica and Lou Reed talk about making the album and the ideas behind it. LULU is available on iTunes now.

Backstreet Boy, Howie D is releasing his solo album on Tuesday (November 15) called 'Back To Me' and he takes us behind-the-scenes for his second single 'Lie to Me'. In the video he's accompanied by Canadian pop-rock quartet Neverest.

He also recently sat down with Popdust.com where he answered questions asked by his many fans. Check out that video after the behind-the-scenes video. 

Don't forget to show Howie some love and pick up Back To Me and deluxe bundles on Howie's official site and for more info check out his Facebook and Twitter.

Duran Duran still rocks. Call me crazy but I love ‘em. Always have, always will. (I even have a couple of songs from their latest album on my iPod. “Leave a Light On” reminds me of “Save A Prayer”.)  I may be “dating” myself badly here, but I remember the advent of MTV. When the vid for “Rio” was first released, it was a huge deal and it was in very heavy rotation for a very long time. Those gorgeous guys were tailor made for music videos.  Their popularity was based so heavily on their image at the time, that naysayers theorized the band would dry up when their looks did. Well one, their looks never did and two, the band has outlasted the music video.

For their latest single, “Girl Panic”, they’ve gone old school and back to their roots. There was a time when all a band had to do was fill three minutes of film with models and they had a hit. In fact this band’s first video was for a song called “Girls on Film”. (There was even a version that was too hot for MTV.) The most famous pairing of models and music was probably George Michael’s “Freedom ’90”.  With “Girl Panic”, Duran Duran has taken “Girls on Film”, “Freedom ’90” and mashed them with Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” and come up with a totally cool, highly stylized hybrid of a long-form vid.

Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Helen Christensen (all three of whom are in their 40’s and look AAH-MAY-ZING!) along with Eva Herzigova all appear as the members of Duran Duran: John Taylor, Simon LeBon, Roger Taylor and Nick Rhodes respectively. (The actual members appear in supporting roles). An unnamed model represents the rotation of replacements for guitarist Andy Taylor who has left the band. You have to watch this. “No models were harmed in this production.”

Despite the lawsuit filed last week against Adam Lambert, he was the pro that he is when he took the stage closing out yesterday's 2011 EMA's performing with Global Icon Award winning Queen. How appropriate that he sang 'Show Must Go On' (at least I think that's the name of the song I'm not familiar with it). 

They also did We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions and did it up just fine! Freddie Mercury would be proud.

How on earth did Adam Lambert NOT win American Idol? I do not understand things like that. Kind of like Dancing With The Stars but don't get me started biatches.

Watch the video and let us know what you think!

Photos: Lia Toby/WENN

A month ago we brought you the audio for the Willow Smith song 'Fireball' featuring the one and only Nicki Minaj and now we have photos from the video they are filming for that fabulous song.

Nicki is all decked out in an outfit made out of the heads of stuffed animals and rainbow-colored boots. That's not creepy. Much. Willow Smith is looking very cool and confident in her leather (looking..I can't tell if it's real) outfit.

The two seemed to be having a great time on the video shoot. No word on when it will hit the internet but you can be rest-assured we will let you all know. In the meantime enjoy the photos.

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Famed composer Hans Zimmer is inviting anyone and everyone to add their voices to the chorus of The Dark Knight Rises!

The official invitation: “I’m shining the bat-signal up into the sky to call you all! We need to hear your voices! Now and Loud! We are creating the sound of a worldwide chant. Everyone come and be part of it. It’s easy: There is no such thing as out-of-tune, no timing we can’t fix later. If you mumble, growl, scream or whisper, it’s all good. Make it yours. If you only get halfway through, no problem! Do it alone, bring your friends, but do it with energy and commitment. Let your voice be heard and be a part of our adventure!”

All you have to do is go to the official site, UJAM and record your voice!

Zimmer composed the music (along with James Newton Howard) for the first two of Nolan’s Batman films, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. He flies solo on this one and many are hoping this signals a darker tone for the film as well as the music. I’ve long been a fan of the German-born Zimmer. He’s also currently at work on the score for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and I loved his work for the first one, but his credits make up too long a list to print here. I would wager that not only have you heard many of them but some are among your favorites. I can’t wait to hear his latest offerings!

The Dark Knight Rises starring Christian Bale as Batman and Tom Hardy as arch-villain Bane, opens July 20, 2012 everywhere.

Rihanna and her team videotaped the choosing of her album cover for Talk That Talk and after viewing it you can't help but wish you were part of that team. Rihanna is all the way cool and down to earth and I LOVE her hair!

They were making the decision between two covers: one in color with her tongue out and her looking a little bit savage-like and the other was a black and white one showing a bit of a softer side (than the other one).

Which one did they choose? Watch the video to find out. Do you agree with their choice?

Talk That Talk hits stores on November 21.

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