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DANNII Minogue is so upset with Simon Cowell over Lucie Jones getting the boot that she's resorted to taking swipes at him on her Twitter page.

Danyl Johnson defied Simon Cowell - by cropping his hair short an hour before last night's show.

"Only want to see you underneath the purple rain." "Purple rain. Purple rain." Twenty-five years ago, the Purple One unleashed his raw sexuality on the big screen and started a revolution.

Due to popular demand Candy Dulfer and her band will return to Russia to perform a show at the International House of Music in Moscow on Friday November 27th.

IMDb > Purple Rain Overview User Rating: 5.7/10 5,650 votes MOVIEmeter: Up 4% in popularity this week.

A good 24 hours before Phish hit the stage for their Halloween show -- the second of Festival 8's three-night stand at Indio, California's Empire Polo Field -- the rumors were flying fast and furious as fans tried to guess which full album the band might cover.

On Friday, Cedars Lounge will be in for a mystical showcase with Youngstown's R&B outfit The Sweet Delights.

I promised to post videos of all-time best rain songs suggested by Blotch readers, and here they are: Bryan F said, a oe 'Thunderstorms and Neon Signs' by Wayne Hancock, perfect for trips through West Texas." Unfortunately I couldn't find this on YouTube.

Any time Prince plays a show in Minneapolis, there's always a crazy string of rumors about the particulars of the performance.

SET LIST: Prince played it fast and furious, segueing from song to song with rarely a pause between selections.

Prince, I guess we hardly knew you. Thirty years into his career, the Minnesota icon showed his faithful something new Saturday night at Paisley Park in Chanhassen: It was his smoothest show there ever.

Michael Jackson considered Prince his rival back in the 1980s when "Thriller" and "Purple Rain" were ruling the charts and both superstars were selling out concerts night after night.

But it is never far enough. Last night, the intrepid Top 8 were given the license to thrill, thanks to the presence of Bob Mackie, legendary feather and sequin man, as guest inspiration and judge.

Norwegian pop group A-ha announced today that it will split up for good next year after 27 years, following a world tour.

Singer Prince arrives to attend the Chanel Pret a Porter show as part of the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 at Grand Palais on October 6, 2009 in Paris, France.

PURPLE RAIN: Umbrellas emerged as the latest hot accessory at Paris Fashion Week.

I n his enthralling new memoir "Corn Flakes With John Lennon and Other Tales From a Rock 'n' Roll Life" , longtime Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn focuses mostly on his relationships with and revelations about music's biggest and most transformative stars: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Kurt Cobain ...

Between matches we were treated to a bit of burlesque, all of it wonderful, but I am proud to say that at the end of the day the girls from New York outshone their Los Angeles counterparts with audacity and grit.

SLIPKNOT / STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor 's new solo project, COREY TAYLOR AND THE JUNK BEER KIDNAP BAND , made its Los Angeles live debut last night at the Key Club in Hollywood, California as the support act for STEEL PANTHER .

Behrouz Ghaemi taking to the stage at boot camp. After first scraping past the judges with a bizarre rendition of of the Scissor Sisters' Take Your Mama, Behrouz smartens up his boot camp performance with a less strange version of Prince's Purple Rain.