Jeremy Clarkson, the controversial presenter of hit BBC program "Top Gear", said he was waiting for his suspension to "blow over" as an online petition for him to be reinstated gathered more than 260,000 signatures.

"I'm having a nice cold pint and waiting for this to blow over," the 54-year-old, who has been repeatedly criticized for his xenophobic comments, was quoted as saying in The Sun daily's Wednesday edition.

The restored vinyl of Elvis Presley's first single will go on sale next month for Record Store Day, the growing annual sale to bolster independent retailers.

More than 400 new records, including first-time releases and reissues of classics, will be part of the latest Record Store Day on April 18 at stores across the world, organizers announced Tuesday.

A U.S. jury on Tuesday ordered pop stars Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay more than $7 million in damages to Marvin Gaye's family, ruling the pair copied his music in writing their 2013 mega-hit "Blurred Lines."

The eight-member California panel, which had been deliberating since last week, found that the pop stars lifted parts of Gaye's 1977 hit "Got to Give It Up."

The Swedish startup that revolutionized digital music has a blanket response to claims that it pays artists a mere pittance: "two billion dollars".

Since U.S. pop empress Taylor Swift pulled her catalogue from the service, Spotify has regularly trumpeted its self-reported payout (1.8 billion euros) to the music industry over the past seven years.

Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp was jetting back to the United States Wednesday for surgery after injuring his hand in Australia where he is filming the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" installment, reports said.

Depp, who stars as "Captain Jack Sparrow" in the Disney franchise and has been shooting on the Gold Coast tourist strip in Australia's east, was hurt over the weekend but not while filming or on set, the Gold Coast Bulletin said, citing undisclosed sources.

Harrison Ford's airplane suffered engine failure shortly after take-off, forcing him to perform a swift U-turn before hitting a tree and crashing onto a golf course, investigators said Tuesday.

In a preliminary report into last week's crash, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" star was "seriously injured" in the accident.

U.S. country legend Emmylou Harris and Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie have won Sweden's Polar Music Prize, organizers said Wednesday.

The musicians were seen as fringe picks for an award founded by Swedish super pop group ABBA's late manager Stig Anderson and previously won by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney.

In a tuxedo, a boisterous Salma Hayek ramped up the feminism at the Saint Laurent Paris show and encouraged actress Jessica Chastain to expose her chest.

Hayek said she was inspired by the female empowerment of the clothes at the storied house whose legacy is of being the first to dress women in men's suits.

A December 9 concert in Paris by U.S. pop star Madonna sold out within "five minutes" of going on sale Monday, the organizers of the event said.

All 15,000 tickets for the concert, priced from 51 to 205 euros ($55 to $223), were snapped up, the company Live Nation said.

Their musical styles couldn't be further apart, but that didn't stop rapper Kanye West and former-Beatle and fashion dad Paul McCartney arriving at the Stella McCartney show buddy-buddy to join actor Woody Harrelson on the front row.

But the strong celebrity presence wasn't needed to attract attention to the 43-year-old's designs.