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In the late Nineties, Helm – whose singing anchored Band classics like “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “Up on Cripple Creek,” “Rag Mama Rag,” and “The Weight” – was diagnosed with throat cancer and underwent 28 radiation treatments, eventually recovering his voice. In recent weeks, however, Helm had canceled a number of shows, including one at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on April 27th and another in Montclair, New Jersey. A note posted to his website on Tuesday from his daughter Amy and wife Sandy said that Helm was in the “final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey. Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration…he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage.”

No better way to wish everyone a blessed Christmas and an awesome New Year but with this, Shane MacGowan, Kristy McColl and The Pogues singing:

Fairy Tale of New York…

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The Pouges Shane MacGowan and Kristy McColl “Fairytale New York”

Let me help. It starts:

“It was Christmas eve babe. In the drunk tank….”

Watch this video!  The best is when they scale the 3 story building…. and of course the music Professor Longhair!

ALBANY, N.Y. — Weezer has canceled the rest of its December tour after the lead singer was injured in a bus crash in New York.

Rivers Cuomo and band assistant Sarah Kim suffered minor injuries when the group’s tour bus skidded on ice, struck a guide rail and slid into a ditch Sunday morning.

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Heres a tune from Weezer:

Beverly Hills

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Captain Lou Albano, the crazed and charismatic wrestling icon who played Cyndi Lauper‘s dad in her “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” video, has died. He was 76.

Albano – known for his wild goatee, usually tamed by a rubber band, and his half-open Hawaiian shirts – was a wrestling world fixture for more than a half-century.

He was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1996, paying tribute to Albano’s management of 15 WWE tag team champions and WWE title holder Ivan Koloff.

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No one ever said the Ultimate Fighting Championship didn’t know how to market itself, its sport and its fighters.

There may be no greater proof than the job it’s done with Kimbo Slice, the famed YouTube street fighter who crashed and burned under the weight of ridiculous hype that his last promotion and CBS television put on him. One year ago this week, it took 14 seconds to prove he wasn’t really the comparable figure to Tiger Woods that the network laughably claimed.

Kimbo lost again Wednesday on Spike TV’s “The Ultimate Fighter” reality show. In a match taped in June, he was smothered by Roy Nelson, a round mound of fighting experience who twice exploited Slice’s inexperience, laid him out in a crucifix position and dropped dozens of light but unanswered punches.

Referee Herb Dean, who allowed Kimbo to be saved by the bell at the end of the first round, called it early in the second.

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