ContactMusic — Legendary crooner TONY BENNETT is unimpressed with ROD STEWART's efforts at covering pop standards - insisting the former FACES frontman sings like a girl.Stewart... more info

ContactMusic — Veteran crooner TONY BENNETT has slammed TV talent contest show bosses, branding them "cruel" for failing to teach wannabe stars how to last in the music... more info

ContactMusic — Veteran crooner TONY BENNETT is to accept a lifetime achievement honour at the 2010 Nordoff-Robbins Silver Clef Awards.The 83-year-old entertainer will be acknowledged... more info

ContactMusic — Tony Bennett is to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.The 83-year-old legendary singer will be given the title at this year's O2 Silver Clef Awards and... more info

BBC News - UK — Tony Bennett will receive a lifetime achievement accolade at this year's Silver Clef awards in recognition of his 60 years as a recording artist. more info

Guardian Music — The annual iTunes Festival has turned into something of a beast since its modest launch with a small but powerful line-up at the ICA in 2007. This year's festival at London's Roundhouse is giving away 60,000 tickets for gigs scattered throughout July... more info

Guardian Music — Joan Ireson writes: I first saw John Bunch (obituary, 4 May) in the early 70s when he was Tony Bennett's musical director and was most surprised to see him some 30 years later playing in my local jazz club in Brentwood, Essex. He appeared several tim... more info

Mercury News, California — Tony Bennett and k.d. lang have found common ground '” and friendship '” in music. more info

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Guardian Music — Velvet-voiced singer, actor and activist who broke new ground for black performersA handful of decades ago the roles for black performers in Hollywood movies were deliberately kept peripheral to the plots, so that their appearances could easily be ed... more info