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(Entertainment Weekly) — Thirty-four-year-old Gerhardt “Jerry” Fuchs, a beloved fixture of both the New York and Athens, Georgia, rock scenes who played with LCD Soundsystem, !!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk), Turing Machine, MSTRKRFT, and The Juan MacLean, died Saturday night in a fall after attempting to crawl out of a broken elevator shaft at a benefit party in Brooklyn.

Fuchs, who also freelanced at Entertainment Weekly, was a house drummer of sorts for progressive record label DFA, as well as a member of long-running Athens post-rock outfit Maserati (sadly, he had replaced original Maserati drummer Mikel Gius, also the original drummer for !!!, who died in a bike accident in 2005).

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This isn’t a dream for Susan Boyle — she really did have a wardrobe malfunction at an Oct. 22 soccer match.

It was nothing on the level of Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl malfunction, however. The Scottish singer’s pants appeared slightly undone as she waved a scarf over her head in support of her team, Celtic, at a match against Hamburg. The incident took place when Boyle was drawing the name of the game’s lottery winner.
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Boyle hasn’t commented on the incident, but it just might fall under the category of all press is good press. Her upcoming debut album, “I Dreamed a Dream,” due out Nov. 23, is already Amazon’s biggest pre-order album in the history of the site’s music store.

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A 53-year-old French man was killed when a stage being built for the concert collapsed, a fire department spokesman in the southern French city said.

Another two people, one British and one American, are severely injured, and four are lightly injured, officer David Goddin told CNN.

“At this point we don’t know how it happened, but we are confident no one else is still under the rubble,” Goddin said.

“My prayers go out to those who were injured and their families along with my deepest sympathy to all those affected by this heartbreaking news,” Madonna said in a statement issued by her representative, Liz Rosenberg.

At least one Madonna show has been canceled, Rosenberg told CNN.

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LOS ANGELES – The family of David Carradine is asking a private forensics expert and the FBI to help investigate the “Kung Fu” actor’s death, attorney Mark Geragos said Saturday, the same day Thai police said surveillance footage indicated no one had entered his hotel room before he died.

Carradine’s brother Keith met Friday with the FBI and filed reports that could lead to the agency opening its own inquiry, said Geragos, who represents Keith Carradine.

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NEW YORK (CNN) — Natasha Richardson, a film star, Tony-winning stage actress and member of the famed Redgrave acting family, died Wednesday after suffering injuries in a ski accident, according to a family statement. She was 45.

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