Musicians

Two members of ABBA have insisted in an interview yesterday that the Swedish pop icons won't perform at next year's Eurovision Song Contest in their homeland.

Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, one half of ABBA, downplayed the prospect despite Sweden hosting Eurovision on the 50th anniversary of the band's win - the country's first - with their breakthrough hit "Waterloo."

Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," has died at 83.

A theater production for English speakers, "Women of Passion, Women of Greece," returns to the Treno sto Rouf Theater (www.totrenostorouf.gr) in Athens for a run of 10 Saturday shows starting on May 27 and ending on July 29.

British electronic music band The Prodigy will be once again perform in Istanbul after many years as part of 'The Prodigy Back on Tour.' The band will take the stage at Küçükçiftlik Park on July 23 and tickets are now on sale.

"There Is Such a People" will not support the GERB cabinet. The leader of "There Is Such a People" Slavi Trifonov announced this on his Facebook profile.

A guitar smashed on stage by Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain sold for nearly $600,000, several times its original estimate, an auction house said on May 20.

The busted black Fender Stratocaster has been put back together, but is no longer playable, Kody Frederick of Julien's Auctions told AFP earlier this month.

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a photographer was denied fair payment over the publication of an Andy Warhol print of the singer Prince, in a case with major implications for copyright law and the art world.

A man from the Black Sea province of Rize has developed a time-cycled mechanism that makes unpleasant sounds to scare away bears that haunt his beehives.

Muharrem Çelik, who is engaged in beekeeping in the Derecik village of Rize, took action against wild bears that woke up from hibernation, descended to the region and smashed their hives.

Elvis Presley's widow Priscilla Presley has reached a settlement over their late daughter's fortune, she said on May 16, following a dispute over an amendment removing her from the will.

Lisa Marie Presley died suddenly in Los Angeles in January from cardiac arrest at the age of 54.

The Weeknd is now officially known online by his real name, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, after following through on plans to update his social media accounts.