Music

LONDON (AP) — Shakespeare, the Magna Carta — and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist says she heard an executive for the promoter of the singer's planned comeback concerts insist that he rehearse.

BEIJING (AP) — Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers — and even sits on the toilet — in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power.

LONDON (AP) — Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favor with the Nazis.

French Montana, "Excuse My French" (Bad Boy/Maybach Music/Interscope Records)

Willy Moon, "Here's Willy Moon" (Interscope Records)