Cover Song of the Week - Glen Hansard Covers Justin Timberlake

You know Glen from the movie Once. His cover of Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" tinges with sadness in the light of his break-up from his Once co-star Marketa Irglova. At least it does until the funny bit at the end.

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INXS Singer Lied?

Last week I posted an article that stated INXS lead singer J.D. Fortune had been fired by the band and was homeless.

According to the band's former manager Chris Murphy, Fortune fabricated the whole thing, including the airport where the alleged incident took place.

Time will tell.

Here's the interview that started it all.

INXS singer says broke, homeless after fired from band

SYDNEY — The lead singer of Australian rock band INXS, J.D. Fortune, who was picked to replace the late Michael Hutchence in a contest on a reality TV show, said he has been fired without warning from the band.

Fortune, 35, a Canadian rock singer, was living out of his car when he won the CBS network's 2005 reality TV series "Rock Star:INXS."

He became the frontman for the six-man band, taking the place of 37-year-old Hutchence who was found dead in a Sydney hotel room in November 1997 with a coroner ruling he had committed suicide.

With Fortune, INXS released the album "Switch" and went on a world tour in 2006 and 2007 to promote the album that featured the singles "Pretty Vegas" and "Afterglow."

But Fortune told Entertainment Tonight Canada that INXS fired him literally with a handshake at an airport in Hong Kong, leaving the band without a frontman and with a new album on hold...

Read the rest of the article here.