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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 20-26

By The Associated PressDecember 14, 2020 GMT

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 20-26:

Dec. 20: Actor Tommy Cole (“The Mickey Mouse Club”) is 79...

Mellencamp unhappy with Wisconsin Gov. Walker

By SCOTT BAUERApril 16, 2014 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Liberal rocker John Mellencamp wants conservative Republican Gov. Scott Walker to know he supports union rights and says Walker should think about that before using his songs on the campaign trail.

UK legislator pans no-guitar prison policy

March 18, 2014 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A guitar-loving British legislator has challenged a policy that he says makes it impossible for prisoners to play steel-stringed or electric guitars.

The Labour Party's Kevin Brennan Tuesday cited singers Johnny Cash and Billy Bragg as people who helped bring music into prisons for rehabilitative purposes.