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YouTube is launching its own music awards and Lady Gaga will perform at the first-time event. The Google Inc.-owned company announced Tuesday that Eminem and Arcade Fire will also perform at the YouTube Music Awards on Nov. 3. The awards will be presented at Pier 36 in New York City and will stream live online. The announcement said the awards show will honor "artists and songs that YouTube fans have turned into global hits over the past year." Nominees will be announced Oct. 17. Actor Jason Schwartzman will host the YouTube Music Awards. A press release said the awards show will also feature events from Seoul, South Korea; Moscow; London; and Brazil.
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A posthumous memoir by Bob Dylan's tour manager during the 1960s is due out next September. St. Martin's Press announced Tuesday that it had acquired "Another Side of Bob Dylan," by Victor Maymudes, who died in 2001. The book is being written by Maymudes' son, Jacob, and will be based on recollections the elder Maymudes tape recorded shortly before his death. Victor Maymudes first met Dylan in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and for a few years served as his tour manager, a role he also filled in the 1980s and '90s. According to St. Martin's, the memoir will include Maymudes' account of life on the road with Dylan, Dylan's first meeting with the Beatles and his romances with Joan Baez and others.
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