• Because we respect people who are weird, musically gifted, and a little crazy (and not named Pete Doherty), we say R.I.P Syd Barret. [Billboard]

• Peddicab drivers get the best of Diddy. [P6]

• It’s hard for us to write this, but there’s a fella whose background disturbs Michael Jackson. [AP]

• We wonder, with all the surgeries and transplants that Keith Richards has gotten, how old is he really? [Mercury News]