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Thanks for reading today everyone.

Scroll down for reports of Bob Dylan using SparkNotes to get out of doing his Nobel homework, the return of Fleetwood Mac, Ariana the Manc and much much much more.

We'll leave you with a bit of the Stones today in honour of Anita Pallenbeg (above) who has died aged 73.

The model/actress was credited with backing vocals on the original album version of Sympathy For The Devil., external

So this one goes out to you Anita.

Finally today - as you'll know by now - it's BBC Music Day 2017 tomorrow.

We'll bring you all sorts of musical fun and updates as 47 plaques are unveiled up and down the country to celebrate the power of music.

To get you all warmed up and in the mood try the BBC Music Day quiz.

Marks out of 20 please.

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Lauren Laverne welcomed the North East indie-rockers and all round lovely lads to the 6 Music Live Room.

They played two tracks from new album Risk to Exist and spoke about the personal and political message behind the record and discussed how using a white board helped write it!

We caught up with Paul Smith from the band ahead of the release of the album and you can read our interview again here.

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Earlier we brought you the sad news that model, actress and long-time associate of The Rolling Stones Anita Pallenberg has died aged 73.

Scroll down this page for tributes to Anita.

She was one of the most photographed women of the swinging sixties thanks to her iconic look and rock 'n' roll friends, so let's take a look at some of those pictures now...

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Andrew W.K. Remember him? The bloke with the bloody nose and long hair from 2001?

Let us jog your memory with the video above for Party Hard, which was one of the party anthems of the noughties.

He has just announced his first set of shows featuring a full band in five years.

His last studio album 55 Cadillac came out in 2009.

Andy's tour includes seven dates in the UK, starting on 9 November in Portsmouth, taking in London, Cardiff, Norwich, Manchester, Glasgow before ending in Birmingham on 15 November.

Party hard but party safe.

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott have shared their new music video for I Gotta Praise, set in a women's prison.

They debuted the new song - from their forthcoming album Crooked Calypso, at a sold out show in Heaton's hometown Hull last Saturday 3 June.

The video was filmed in an old Victorian gaol (that's an olde worde for jail btw) in Scarborough.

The former Beautiful South members release their third album as a double act on 21 July.

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Pop stars in London have been offering their support for those in need after a fire which has killed at least six people in a block of flats in the West of the city.

Firefighters are still battling the blaze.

Londoner and pop star/activist Lily Allen is offering "a bed or a lift, or tea" to anyone stranded outside Grenfell Tower in North Kensington.

Catatonia singer and 6 Music DJ Cerys Matthews is also offering her help and has tweeted praise for her fellow local residents in helping to deal with the tragedy.

Keep up on date on the story.

We told you earlier how alternative Manchester indie band Everything Everything had returned to the radio airwaves last night as Annie Mac's Hottest Record (scroll down to listen again for yourselves).

Now here that new song, Can't Do, again, but this time for people who like looking at things too.

Check out the video and its amazing dancers above.

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Listen up if you have tickets to see either Radiohead or Celine Dion at the Manchester Arena as this effects YOU.

Radiohead were due to play two dates at the venue on 4 and 5 July - but will now play a single combined night at Old Trafford cricket ground on 4 July instead.

So you can go to that one if you want or get a refund. Check your emails now ticket-holders but additional tickets will go on sale on Saturday at 10:00 BST.

The venue is currently closed following the suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.

Celine Dion's shows on 25 June and 1 August have also been postponed for now.

The next events in the diary are Linkin Park on 7 July and Blink-182 on 14 July and while the arena has not commented on the status of those shows they too must be in doubt.

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Liam Gallagher might have to lend Ariana Grande one of his many cagoules as she is about to receive honorary citizenship of his hometown Manchester.

The local council is proposing a new system to recognise outstanding contributions to the city and the US singer is in line to be the first recipient for organising the One Love Manchester concert in aid of victims of the bomb attack at her Manchester Arena gig, which killed 22 people and injured many others.

An event to mark "selfless acts" after the blast is to be held, too.

Read more.

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More from the Fleetwood Mac team now.

They always were competitive now following news that Christine McVie from the band says we can expect a full tour next year (scroll down), here is the latest solo effort from her bandmate Stevie Nicks.

Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go is from the new new movie The Book of Henry, starring Naomi Watts and Sarah Silverman.

There's a lyric video below.

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They will all be officially unveiled tomorrow but we now know to whom 47 new blue plaques will be dedicated as part of BBC Music Day.

David Bowie, John Peel and Sandy Denny will all be honoured, thanks to nominations made by BBC local radio listeners.

The late Motorhead star Lemmy will be celebrated at Port Vale FC, which has adopted the band's best-known song Ace Of Spades, external as its unofficial anthem.

Superstar tenor Alfie Boe (above) will also receive an award in his hometown of Fleetwood, where he gave his first public performance at the age of 14.

"You walk past so many blue plaques on buildings and you never suspect you're going to be one of them. I'm just blown away by it, I really am," he told music reporter Mark Savage.

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David Bowie's plaque will be unveiled at the former site of Trident Studios in Soho (pictured above where the blue doors are), where he recorded Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.

We'll be following the unveiling of those plaques and all things Music Day in a special live page tomorrow.

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Montreal indie pop rockers Arcade Fire performed their first EVER gig in Northern Ireland last night and it was great craic by the looks of it.

The outdoor gig at Ormeau Park in Belfast had a real festival feel to it judging by some of your pictures and tweets.

The band have also just teased a new song called Creature Comfort, external with a mock cereal advert on their Facebook account, adding to the mystery of the pound stretcher poster outside the gates of their gig last night.

They're always up to something sneaky these guys. We don't know what yet... but we like it.

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The account called onionringsworldwide, which has since been taken down, was apparently dedicated to rating onion rings from around the world.

Stay with us on this one...

According to fans online, a trail of evidence suggests the 20-year-old Kiwi singer's fingerprints are all over this crispy caper.

They point to the account's 24 followers including Lorde and her friends/team, her famous "super short fingernails" and the fact that the onion rings were eaten on a plane from Tennessee to New York just 12 hours after she performed at Bonnaroo Festival in the Southern state.

Case closed we say.

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So you've all had chance to listen to Katy Perry's new album Witness by now, right?

Possibly named after the mis-pronunciation of a small northern English chemical town, external.

It's currently sitting at number five in the midweek chart, which will be something of a disappointment to the A-list pop star and now indie favourite Sufjan Stevens (below) has made his rather frank feelings about the new record quite clear.

Quoting lyrics from KP's Deja Vu, external from the album in a post on Tumblr, external, Stevens says: "'Your words are like Chinese water torture'... literal lyrics from the new Katy Perry album."

"LORD JESUS HAVE MERCY. And y’all thought it was weird when I wrote, ‘Tuesday night at the Bible study'."

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He added: "Lord Jesus. Katy Perry was probably AT THAT SAME BIBLE STUDY.

"We probably did popcorn prayer together. I love this world."

Go on Sufjan, give it another listen. It might grow on you.

Totally co-incidentally Stevens own inter-galactic-themed new album Planetarium is out now and you can check out Saturn below.

Keyboard player and singer Christine McVie has appeared to confirm Fleetwood Mac will be playing a global tour from next year.

Christine - who is currently plugging her duet album with fellow Mac member Lindsey Buckingham - told The One Show that rehearsals for the tour would started next March.

Listen above and check out Christine and Lindsey tackling a Mac classic with the help of chat show host Jimmy Fallon and his house band The Roots and a group of kids from SeriousFun - a US camp for children with illnesses.

If this doesn't warm your heart...

Christine was in Radio 2 yesterday as well treating Ken Bruce to a piano version of Fleetwood Mac's classic ballad Songbird.

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Check it below.

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His Nobel prize lecture was described as "extraordinary" but did Bob Dylan have a little help in writing his 25-minute acceptance speech?

If you've arrived late to an English literature class having not actually read the book you were supposed to discuss, then you may have sneakily enlisted the help of the literary review website Sparknotes, external.

It's been reported the legendary beat poet/rock star may have done exactly the same in his belated lengthy speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In it, Bob described the influence on him of three literary works from his childhood: The Odyssey, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Moby-Dick but the American online magazine Slate has pointed out the singer seems to have imagined a quote from the latter, probably "cobbled together out of phrases on the website SparkNotes".

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It added Dylan seemed to "crib directly from the site", noting the SparkNotes summary for Moby-Dick says: “One of the ships ... carries Gabriel, a crazed prophet who predicts doom.”

Dylan’s version reads, “There’s a crazy prophet, Gabriel, on one of the vessels, and he predicts Ahab’s doom.”

Here's Andrea Pitzer from Slate with more damning evidence:

"And most of the key shared phrases in these passages (such as “Ahab’s lust for vengeance” in the above lines) do not appear in the novel Moby-Dick at all."

Hmm, the jury is out and Bob is yet to respond to the reports.

Listen again below and make your own mind up, with the help of Slate's handy revision notes., external

Our music reporter Mark Savage has launched his own investigation.

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Manchester indie band Everything Everything have returned with a storming new tune Can't Do, which was named Annie Mac's Hottest Record on only her second day back in the Radio One hot seat.

It's taken from their forthcoming album A Fever Dream.

"We wanted to make a record that sounds like a nightmarish, surreal, dreamy exciting experience, everything that life has mashed up," explained Jonatahn from the band.

"We thought a fever dream was the best way to describe it."

Well we knew we didn't just dream it, they actually were on the show and you can listen below.

London Grammar are heading for their first number one this weekend with their second album Truth is a Beautiful Thing.

According to the Official Charts Company, by Tuesday, the LP had combined chart sales of 31,000, nearly 20,000 ahead of its nearest rival, Glen Campbell's Adios.

Yesterday, the band popped into Radio 1's Live Lounge to play one of their new songs Oh Woman Oh Man and a brave cover of Beyonce's All Night.

It's breathtaking stuff, check it out above.

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Glastonbury Festival is just a week away folks... though if you have a ticket, we doubt you need us to remind you.

Seven more sleeps.

Festival co-organiser Emily Eavis spoke to 6 Music's Matt Everitt this morning about the increased security around the site in the wake of the Manchester and London attacks.

She also explained why the festival pays artists about a tenth of what they could earn at enother summer event in order to maintain their average annual charity donation of £2million a year.

With next year being a fallow year for Glasto, Emily also divulged a few more details about the Variety Bazaar festival.

Have listen above while shopping for your wellies/tent online.