Glasto Update - Glastonbury Festival organisers are planning to mark its 40th anniversary next year by booking 40 bands from the past 40 years to play the 2010 event. "We want to have a band from every year on the Pyramid Stage," said Emily Eavis. "We'll have a lot of the biggest performances on some of the tiniest stages," she told BBC 6 Music. Confirmed acts for this year's festival include Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Blur.
In The Money - Michael Jackson could earn more than $400m (£283m) from a comeback deal involving new music and movies as well as concerts, his promoter has suggested. The 50-year-old singer has announced 10 gigs at the O2 arena in London this summer. Randy Phillips, head of AEG Live, which is staging the gigs, said they had a wider deal that could cover a world tour and a 3D film based on Thriller. Jackson last toured 12 years ago. In 2006, he performed at the World Music Awards in London, but disappointed fans by singing just a few lines of We Are The World.
Eurovision Latest - Russia has swallowed its national pride and chosen a Ukrainian singer as its entry for the Eurovision song contest. Anastasia Prikhodko's song Mama was only put on the shortlist two days before the heats, but won most votes from both TV viewers and judges. The 21-year-old singer had previously sought to represent Ukraine, but was disqualified after a voting dispute. Russian-Ukrainian relations are chilly, after a gas dispute which led to winter power cuts in many European countries. Prikhodko's entry mixes the two languages, with the verses sung in Russian and a Ukrainian chorus.
(Jim Evans)
