The Who tour resumes despite Daltrey’s recent illness

Mexico City – The show will go on for The Who, despite lead singer Roger Daltrey’s recent bout of bronchitis. The band will play Saturday in Mexico City.

“We just talked to the band’s manager, and he assured us the singer will have recovered and be in good form for the concert,” Rafael Cepeda, spokesman for the concert organizer, said Thursday.

Daltrey abandoned the stage in the middle of his opening song Tuesday in Tampa, Fla., disappointing thousands of fans.

“I just talked to Roger and he can barely speak,” guitarist Pete Townshend told the crowd. “I tried to get him to come out here, but he’s really, really sick.”

The Tampa concert was rescheduled for March 25.

Saturday’s event will be The Who’s first performance in Mexico.

The band began touring again, after a two-decade absence, with its recent album, “Endless Wire.”

Simon of ‘American Idol’ claims he outsells Springsteen

New York – Simon Cowell says he’s bigger than The Boss.

In an interview to air Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” the “American Idol” judge says he’s worth five times more to Sony BMG than Bruce Springsteen.

“I sell more records than Bruce Springsteen, sure,” Cowell says of the 57-year-old rocker, who signed a contract that was reported to be in the neighborhood of $100 million.

“I mean, in the last five years, I’ve probably sold over 100 million records. If (Springsteen) got one hundred (million dollars), I should have got five hundred (million dollars),” he says.

Cowell says he sells all those records because he’s signed “the biggest artist on the planet” – Fox network’s “American Idol.”

“Every single ‘Idol’ winner is now signed through Sony BMG,” Cowell says. “And this applies to : all the countries : we sell ‘Idol’ to, which is over 30 countries.”

Interviewer Anderson Cooper asks Cowell, 47, whether his deal with Sony BMG is in the same neighborhood as Springsteen’s.

“A hundred million : that’s a great deal,” Cowell says.

Was he referring to himself or Springsteen?

“For him,” Cowell says, grinning. “For him it’s a good deal.”

Police probe brawl involving paparazzi, DiCaprio’s guards

Jerusalem – Israeli police said Thursday they were deciding whether to charge two bodyguards in a scuffle with photographers during Leonardo DiCaprio’s visit to the Western Wall earlier this week.

Three photographers were injured Monday as DiCaprio, Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli and Refaeli’s family were touring a tunnel near the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray.

About 20 photographers, along with a crowd of fans and curiosity-seekers, waited for the 32-year-old actor to come out of the tunnel. The photographers gathered as DiCaprio got into a van, and security guards tried to shoo them away.

Photographers said two of DiCaprio’s bodyguards began swinging their fists wildly in an effort to scatter the crowd.