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  Stars pay tribute to US director Peter Bogdanovich after his death at 82

  Laura Dern, Cher and Barbara Streisand have led tributes to their ‘friend and teacher’ who died aged 82.

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  The Independent

  Late musician Tom Petty receives posthumous Ph.D. for music

  Nearly two decades after earning a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and more than four years after his death, rock icon Tom Petty has been awarded a honorary Ph.D. from the University of Florida

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  The Guardian

  Somewhere You Feel Free: behind the making of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers

  Somewhere You Feel Free: behind the making of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers. The process of creating the defining album that the singer deemed his finest is explored in a dense new documentary

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  The Independent

  Where the Wildflowers grow: The inside story of Tom Petty’s greatest album

  A new documentary, ‘Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free’, delves into a record the late artist considered his finest work. Kevin E G Perry talks to The Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench and Steve Ferrone, as well as director Mary Wharton, about the making of a masterpiece

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  The Independent

  The 10 best Super Bowl halftime performances OLD

  'Blinding Lights' singer The Weeknd is headlining the halftime show at this year's sporting event

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  The Independent

  The 10 best Super Bowl halftime performances

  'Blinding Lights' singer The Weeknd is headlining the halftime show at this year's sporting event

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  PA Media: Entertainment

  Guitars used by George Harrison, Bono and Tom Petty going under the hammer

  Instruments from the archives of famed manufacturer Gretsch are up for auction.

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  The Telegraph

  ‘An absolute ad-lib from the start’: the birth of Tom Petty’s masterpiece Wildflowers

  In the spring of 1992, Tom Petty sat at home in Encino with a six-string acoustic guitar and a tape machine. Three minutes and 11 seconds later, the 44-year old had pulled down a song, lyrics and all, fully formed from the cloudless Californian sky. Comprised of only four verses and bereft of a chorus, it was a composition of towering grace and beauty. He called it Wildflowers. “I swear to God it was an absolute ad-lib from the word go,” he told the author Paul Zollo. “[I] then sat back and went

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  Electric Light Orchestra star Jeff Lynne made an OBE after eclectic career

  The multi-talented musician fused classical arrangements with futuristic rock.

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  Sport

  The Guardian

  'A lull between waves': Where is Australia’s next Cadel Evans?

  'A lull between waves': Where is Australia’s next Cadel Evans?. Just two Australian riders entered this year’s Tour de France amid questions whether the 2011 winner’s feat will ever be emulated

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