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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Don't you love British people? The British Invasion of 1964 made me an Anglophile forever, but they continue to keep a smile on my face, seemingly oblivious to the imminent music business armageddon, distracting us with their wit and wisdom.

First up is Pete Townshend, one of my all-time favorite people in the world who while on classic rock WAXQ (Q104.3) New York said, "The Police 'classic rock'? I don't think so. This is just music. It's not classic anything." And then added he was looking forward to the band's reunion tour.

The assault on rock's most historic sites continues as London prepares to demolish the Clissold Arms Pub where the Kinks played their first show in 1963 and has served as their mini-museum ever since. "Why on earth can't they have their posh gastro grub and still keep a part of it for tourists, Kinks fans and the curious?" Kinks lead guitarist Dave Davies asked.

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America's Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization, will present Stadium of Fire at 8 p.m. on July 4 at LaVell Edwards Stadium. The show will include Brooks and Dunn, and will feature Corbin Bleu, an actor in "High School Musical."

Tickets for Stadium of Fire go on sale Saturday at 8 a.m. and may be purchased at the Marriott Center ticket office, at www.stadiumoffire.com or by calling 422-BYU1 or toll-free 1-800-322-BYU1. Ticket prices are $25, $45 and $65. For limited field seating, tickets are $120.

Stadium of Fire tickets also come in group packages that allow members to sit together. An account is available for groups of 50 or more and allows buyers to reserve a set number of tickets. The individual members of the group can then purchase tickets individually.

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Barbra Streisand welcomed Nancy Pelosi to her bluff-top Malibu estate for a fundraising dinner that took in $1.3 million for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

"She's a very good friend of Nancy Pelosi and she wanted to celebrate the first female speaker of the House," said Streisand publicist Dick Guttman.

The 120 invited guests paid up to $50,000 a couple to attend Thursday night's dinner party inside a large white tent erected on the Point Dume property. The fundraiser was an effort to increase the Democrats' majority in the House of Representatives in the 2008 elections, Guttman said.

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Powerhouse law firm Greenberg Taurig will absorb Zinober & McCrae, a Tampa firm specializing in labor and employment law, on May 1. Greenberg, headquartered in Miami, opened a Tampa office with four attorneys in August 2006 that has grown to 11. With the addition of most of Zinober & McCrae's lawyers, the firm will employ about 20 attorneys. Tampa will become the core of Greenberg's labor and employment practice in Florida. Peter W. Zinober and Richard C. McCrea Jr. will become s...

Raytheon: fences, but no consensus

Is it a coincidence that Raytheon erected a fence at one of its St. Petersburg plants as it nears a union contract deadline? A spokesman for Raytheon on Friday declined to say why the fence, which is topped with barbed wire, was built around the Tyrone-area plant's north parking lot. Calls to representatives of United Auto Workers Local 298, whose contract with the company expires Sunday, were not returned. The union, which represents about 400 Raytheon workers in Pinellas County, has been i...

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