CD collection to feature Clinton's favorite titles
Little Rock, Ark. - Former President Clinton is getting his own CD compilation.
Organizers said it will be called "The Bill Clinton Collection: Selections from the Clinton Music Room" and is planned as the first in a series of discs of the former president's favorites.
The Clinton Presidential Foundation has been working for months to acquire licensing rights to certain titles. Foundation president Skip Rutherford said the process is complete and mass production has begun for the 11-track disc.
The CD's songs including "My One and Only Love" by John Coltrane, "Harlem Nocturne" by David Sandborn, "My Funny Valentine" by Miles Davis, "Summertime" by Zoot Sims, "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" by Nina Simone and "Chelsea Morning" by Judy Collins.
The CD is the latest joint venture for the Clinton Library and the Clinton Museum Store.
Portugal honors U2's work for humanitarian causes
Lisbon, Portugal - Members of the Irish rock band U2 received Portugal's Order of Liberty, one of the country's highest honors, at a formal ceremony held before their concert Sunday in the Portuguese capital.
President Jorge Sampaio presented the medals to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes over the past 25 years, including heightening awareness on the debt issues facing developing countries.
U2 played at a Live Aid concert for Ethiopian famine relief two decades ago, and last month took part in the Live 8 concerts aimed at pressuring leaders of the world's richest nations to increase aid to Africa.
The award ceremony was held at the presidential palace in Lisbon.
CD to help fight hunger
Mesa, Ariz. - Robert Plant is donating proceeds from sales of a four-song CD to an Arizona-based charitable organization that aids people in remote regions of Ethiopia, Mali and Niger.
The former Led Zeppelin frontman has made donations to the group TurtleWill before, but nothing as high profile as his latest gesture.
"It's all about, I think, increasing awareness, breaking away from the usual sort of news reel approach to human disasters, if you like; illuminating and exposing these conditions from a different angle," Plant told the East Valley Tribune.
Mali, one of the world's poorest countries, usually has trouble ensuring all its people are fed. Hunger is worse than ever this year in Mali and across chronically dry West Africa because of a locust invasion last year, followed by drought. Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania also are affected.
The four-song CD by Plant's new band, Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation, features performances of "Shine It All Around," "Freedom Fries," "Tin Pan Valley" and "When the Levee Breaks."
Plant and his band recorded the songs June 9 and made the short CD available by disc or computer download on his Web site. The singer said he doesn't know how much money the CD has generated.
TurtleWill, based in the town of Carefree 30 miles northeast of Phoenix, provides medical treatment, school funding and employment training to nomadic people.
Basketball fan pays Rodman's bill, helping him avoid charges
Glenwood Springs, Colo. - Police have declined to file charges over Dennis Rodman's unpaid gas bill after an anonymous female basketball fan stepped in to help keep the former NBA star out of trouble.
Rodman allegedly failed to pay the bill last month at a gas station while he was driving his gold-and-black Lamborghini through Colorado in a charity rally race.
Police Chief Terry Wilson said authorities were preparing paperwork on the case, but contacted the store to see if Rodman had paid the bill and found that a woman, who did not identify herself, had covered it.
"Since they accepted payment, that was the end of any involvement by this department," Wilson said.
Neither Rodman nor his agent, Darren Prince, had heard that someone had paid the bill. Rodman had offered to pay the gas station, but Prince said he never heard from the store or police.
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