Briefly: The Who, Rolling Stones, Chris Martin, Notorious B.I.G.

The Who 's planned summer tour of Europe will be accompanied by the June release of "The Glass Household," billed as an 11-minute mini-opera based on Pete Townshend's online novella "The Boy Who Heard Music."

In a posting at his official website, Townshend writes that a full new Who album should be in stores in September.

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The Rolling Stones played their first-ever concert in China on Saturday (4/8). In compliance with a request from the Chinese Ministry of Culture, their setlist reportedly was trimmed of five of their more risque tunes: "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women," "Start Me Up," "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Beast of Burden."

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Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and his wife, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, have confirmed that their second child, a boy they named Moses, was born over the weekend.

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Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine has proposed offering a $50,000 reward--double the original reward--for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the 1997 murder of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. .

The city recently awarded the rapper's family $1.1 million due to its police department's failure to turn over evidence related to a civil lawsuit

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