Coldplay are set to get their own radio station during their US tour!
The show, called '30 Days of Coldplay', will feature exclusive live performance from the guys on tour, rare songs, interviews and more.
It will be broadcast on XM Radio channel 51 in the US from July 15.
Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' tour kicks off in LA on July 14.
PARIS - Classic French filmmaker Jean Delannoy, who adapted novels by Victor Hugo and Andre Gide and won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize in 1946, has died at age 100, officials said Thursday.
Delannoy died Wednesday at his home in Guainville, southwest of Paris, the local city hall said, without providing the cause of death.
Many of Delannoy's films, starring actors including Jean Gabin, Jean Marais and Michele Morgan, were French box office successes in the 1940s and 1950s.
But Delannoy's classic style went out of fashion in the 1960s, when he was derided by the more avant-garde New Wave filmmakers, including Francois Truffaut. The New Wave dubbed his movies "le cinema de papa."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Delannoy for "devoting his life, with success, to his passion for art."
"More than just a great artist, he was a man of great intelligence, alert, pertinent and faithful in friendship," Sarkozy said in a statement.
Culture Minister Christine Albanel said Delannoy represented the "pure classic French style: a mix of refinement and depth inherited from his long companionship with literature."
Working with a script by Jean Cocteau, Delannoy revisited the Tristan and Isolde legend in 1943's "L'Eternel Retour" (Eternal Return).
His 1946 film "La Symphonie Pastorale," adapted from a Gide novel, won Cannes' top prize. The film told the story of a blind orphan who falls in love with a married pastor.
Another of his films was "Notre Dame de Paris" (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), an adaptation of Hugo's novel starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn.
Information about funeral arrangements was not immediately available.
Rap veteran MC LYTE is spearheading a new campaign to help her peers pick up more Grammy Awards.
The Cha Cha Cha hitmaker, who became the first female rapper to score a gold single, is using her position on the Grammy committee to reinstall a category for the ladies of hip-hop at the annual music Oscars.
She says, "We have not had a female rap category at the Grammys since 2003, and I'm trying to get this thing reinstated for 2009.
"I'm getting all of these sisters ready, whether they're signed or unsigned."
Comedy actor TYLER PERRY tried to commit suicide during his abusive childhood, after suffering at the hands of a violent father.
The 38-year-old failed, and later changed his name to disassociate himself from his miserable upbringing.
Perry - born Emmett Perry - says, "As a kid, I considered suicide and even attempted it a couple of times because I thought it would be easier to be dead. I remember when I was 17, I did something that ticked (my father) off - something minor. My father grabbed me, threw me to the floor and stomped me.
"There were times when I felt I wasn't going to make it. It was nothing but the grace of God that helped me make it through. It was more frustration than anything - not wanting to be in that situation anymore."
Perry later used his struggles to inspire career success - after watching a 1992 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, he took the talk-show queen's advice and began to compose letters about his abusive past. The compilation then became the basis to his first hit musical I Know I've Been Changed.