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Tokio Hotel have revealed the album cover of their highly anticipated US debut!
Scream will hit stores this April.

Chart-topper Duffy has revealed she went solo because all the peoples she worked with kept trying to pull her.

The sexy songstress will complete the double tomorrow when debut album Rockferry joins single Mercy at the top of the chart.

And I can reveal the soulful star has always been a popular young lady. She has told how she was forced to go it alone as she was fed up of fleeing attention from male bandmates and producers.

Duffy said: “I was collaborating with a lot of people. But every band I got into it was like I had a boyfriend. Every producer wanted to marry me or wanted to be in a duet. I was always running away from something. So I thought, just sing and stay away from the politics. And then I was discovered.”

That was certainly a wise move. Her brilliant debut album is set to shift around 180,000 copies in a week. That can be enough to get you a No1 in the States and it is heading towards the top five fastest-selling UK debuts. On Thursday she celebrated with a mesmerising performance at Bush Hall, West London.

The biggest cheer of the night was for the enchanting Stepping Stone, a future smash hit.

And Duffy revealed a secret heartache behind the track — it is directly aimed at a mystery man from her past. The Welsh singer said the song has some “revenge in it”, adding: “I wrote it about when I fell in love for the first and only time. But I didn’t have the balls to tell him. He still doesn’t know this is about him.”

Pete Doherty and his former band mate Carl Barat are getting back together. But sorry Libertines fans, it’s not in the way that you think. The two are actually reuniting to work on a musical. London’s Donmar Warehouse theatre commissioned the musical which is expected to premiere in early 2009. The old music partners are supposed to start work on it come next week at Pete’s home. Barat is said to expect that they’ll be able to write 20 new songs for the musical which will be about the drama surrounding an up and coming band. I wonder if the band in the musical will be torn apart due to severe drug abuse of one of its members.

I wrote about American Idol contestant – as of last Thursday, American Idol wannabe – Robbie Carrico having a full head of fake hair. Even AI judge Simon Cowell perhaps took shots at the piece when he told Robbie that his performance “just never ever felt real”. But the guy is singing a different tune. Robbie told People last Friday that he’s been growing his head of hair for a very long time and that it’s ridiculous that the media came up with something like that. So what were the spies inside Idol talking about with the Idol officials freaking out over his hair? I guess he just can’t accept the fate that gravity has given to his hairline.

Speaking exclusively, Kasabian’s Serge Pizzorno has revealed the concept behind their new album, which he hopes to be ready for September release.

The follow-up to 2006’s “call to arms” album ‘Empire’ will be a concept album as well, with guitarist Serge revealing: “In a way it’s a concept album, like a soundtrack to some mad film. It’s like a really good road movie, yeah a road movie…that’s what I’d say.”

As for the style? It seems getting their own recording studio has made a big difference.

“We built our own studio which has freed us up massively,” he explained. “We’ve really been experimenting on this album. The first three tracks we’ve done are twenty minutes long! Music’s stuck in a reality at the moment and we’re going the other way, back into experimentation without structure which is hypnotic and sends you into a trance. It’s very psychedelic, real head music that bends you around.”

He also described two stand out tracks, telling us: “My two favourite tunes so far are ‘Take Aim’ and ‘Where’s All The Love Go’. ‘Take Aim’ is like a mad Latin folk tune but there’s a bit of Dr Dre in there too. So it’s got a hip hop flavour with a folk edge – it’s pretty wild!”

There are several well-placed spies inside American Idol and they are saying that things between the contestants have been ugly from the get go and are getting uglier by the minute. It is being said that at least one female contestant has taken cheap shots at Syesha Mercado calling her hair ‘nappy’ behind her back. And the guys have been ganging up against 17-year old David Archuleta, making snarky remarks behind his back. You can’t blame them though. David is this year’s golden boy and sources say that execs at 19 Entertainment have already been in touch with record publishers in Hollywood for songwriters to get cracking for the kid.

After a long week of deliberation, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s newborn twins finally have names.

But thankfully the star pair haven’t gone for anything bizarre or fruity so often chosen by celebs nowadays, plumping instead for the more traditional names Max and Emme.

The singer’s manager, Simon Fields, confirmed the news this weekend.

The twins were born at a Long Island hospital on February 22, with 5lbs 7oz Emme arriving about 15 minutes before her 6lbs brother. Simon said Jennifer, a first-time mother at 39, was “thrilled” at the babies’ arrival.

The babies arrived a day after both their parents were named as winners of Latin music’s “Premio Lo Nuestro” awards.

Who wouldn’t want Rihanna’s smokin’ hot bod? The girl is everywhere now and looking good all the time.

The singer was recently interviewed by the U.K.’s Fabulous magazine. She talked about how she kept her awesome figure and why size isn’t really an issue. She says carbs are the enemy!

So, watch out Dr. Atkins, your phones are soon to be ringing again.