GEORGE MICHAEL's comeback single has been knocked from the number one slot after just a week by the debut single of a band chosen to provide the backing for the latest Levi jeans advert.
Spaceman by Babylon Zoo is the new number one in the British singles chart.
Rock stars Roger Daltrey and Tony Hadley have given a new boost to Radio 2's street credibility by snapping up star roles in the new BBC production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.
Daltrey will play Judas and the former Spandau Ballet singer will play Jesus. Camp comic Julian Clary plays Merod.
The first club the Beatles ever played in is to reopen this week giving the world its first glimpse of newly restored original murals by John Lennon. The Jacaranda Club in Slater Street, Liverpool, opens on Thursday night with a performance by Pete Best, the Beatles drummer who just missed out on the big time with the Fab Four.
President Jean Bertrand Aristide (42) of Haiti has married a Haitian American lawyer, Mildred Trouillot (30), in a quiet religious ceremony in his private residence east of Port au Prince.
Don Simpson (52), a leading Hollywood producer who was credited with such box office hits as Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop and Flashdance, has died at his Bel Air mansion.
Baritone sax player Gerry Mulligan (68), a jazz pioneer who played with Miles Davis in the late 1940s, has died at his home in Darien, Connecticut.
O.J. Simpson will appear on the Black Entertainment Television cable network on Wednesday for his first formal TV interview since his acquittal. Questions will be limited to his life after the verdict.