Feist gives it her all at a sold out show in central London. The Canadian chanteuse was interviewed for the Canadian special on this week's Guardian Unlimited music podcast. Click here to listen. Photograph: Joel Ryan/PAAnother still from Feist's London show. Photograph: Joel Ryan/PAKeith Richards sent the publishing world into a tizz when the rights to his autobiography went up for auction. Bids reached $7.3 million (£3.6 million) and his agent promised it would be "the greatest rock and roll book of all time."Photograph: Lynn Goldsmith /Corbis
Alex Hannaford celebrates the life and work Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician idolised by his fellow countryman as a rebel and a martyr. He was also a considerable ladies man. Click here to read the article in full. Photograph: Sophie Elbaz/CorbisStarbucks announced 60s icon Joni Mitchell has signed to their Hear Music label. Her album Shine is expected to be released in September. Starbucks entertainment president Ken Lombard said: "This is true Joni - it is almost the return of her as a storyteller. Click here to read about it.Photograph: Henry Diltz/CorbisMichael Buble was one of the many musicians to feature in our Canadian podcast special. Regular listeners of the show will know that Paul, Rosie and Ben are a bit obsessed with the Buble, one of Canada's biggest popstars, though they couldn't tell you why. Here he is holding some tacos. What a guy. Photograph: Nancy Kaszerman/CorbisNotorious music manager Don Arden died after a long illness, he was 81. Arden was infamously ruthless, earning himself the nickname "the Al Capone of pop". He's pictured here, second from left, at the wedding of his daughter Sharon to Ozzy Osbourne in 1982. Father and daughter fell out when Sharon became the manager of her husband's band Black Sabbath but made up when Sharon discovered she had cancer in 2003.Photograph: Neal Preston/CorbisBuju Banton became the fourth reggae star to sign the Reggae Compassionate Act, which denounces the use of homophobia in lyrics. Stop Murder Music will continue to campaign against four more reggae artists who have so far not signed up: Elephant Man, TOK, Bounty Killa and Vybz Kartel. Click here to read what Dorian Lynskey has to say on the matter. Photograph: Mike Kobal/Corbis20-year-old Kate Nash is odds on to be celebrating her first number one this week as her single Foundations currently sits at the top of the midweek charts. Photograph: 607/PR50 Cent and Kanye West indulged in some friendly rivalry as both are due to release albums on September 11th. Fiddy said: 'I hope they see and understand what's getting ready to happen. I'm coming September 11. If Kanye comes that day, he comes that day."Photograph: Jerome Favre/AP
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