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Los Angeles, California (CNN) — At any given time, it’s hard to hide a 6-foot-1-inch man wearing eyeliner. It’s even more difficult when that man is Adam Lambert and you’re trying to prevent 2,400 middle school students from discovering that he’s set foot on their campus.

And so, the 2009 “American Idol” runner-up waited patiently in an underground parking garage until the bell rang, and then he quickly made his way to Mrs. Fuller’s Contemporary Rock Band class.

The 28-year-old entertainer opened the door to the classroom and poked his head in. “Hey, guys! Hi!” he exclaimed as 45 budding musicians whistled and pounded on their desks in a teenage show of welcome.

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“Due to injuries Steven Tyler sustained last week when he fell from the stage during a concert in Sturgis, South Dakota, doctors have advised the lead singer to take the time to properly recuperate from the accident that resulted in a broken shoulder and stitches to his head,” the band said in a statement.

The accident happened August 5 during a concert at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in western South Dakota.

Tyler was dancing during “Love in an Elevator” when he fell. He was airlifted to a local hospital for initial treatment before returning to Boston, Massachusetts, for treatment with his own doctors.

“Words can’t express the sadness I feel for having to cancel this tour,” said guitarist Joe Perry. “We hope we can get the Aerosmith machine up and running again as soon as possible.”

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He was 75.

The cause was non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to Don Wilson, who co-founded the Ventures with Bogle in the 1950s.

“He had a special sound that nobody could ever re-create. He was totally unique as a guitar player,” Wilson told CNNRadio.

Wilson and Bogle learned how to play guitar while working as construction workers in the 1950s in their native Tacoma, Washington. The pair formed the Ventures in 1958.

“We had a lot of time on our hands after work, so we’d get together and play,” Wilson recalled. “A year and a half later, we had a number two hit called ‘Walk — Don’t Run.’ ” The group first heard the song on a Chet Atkins record.

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Broadway did what Broadway does best to open Sunday night’s 63rd annual Tony Awards – delivering an electrifying musical number that starred Dolly Parton, Elton John, Liza Minnelli, the casts of West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Pal Joey, Shrek, 9 to 5: The Musical, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages and Billy Elliot and finished off with a love-in: a rousing rendition of “Let the Sun Shine” from the new best-revival production of Hair that got all 6,000 attendees inside Radio City Music Hall dancing in their seats.

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At one end, a T-shirt proudly exclaimed: “I’m here for the opening bands.”

At the other end, a collection of merchandise was printed with a single name, “Macca.”

Most of the 43 acts in Friday night’s lineup were buzzworthy indie artists. But topping it off was one of the most commercially successful musicians of all time: Macca. Paul McCartney.

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It was all parody — DiBergi was director Rob Reiner, and cohorts Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer played the heavy-metal musicians in Spinal Tap — but for a fictional band, Spinal Tap has had a long afterlife.

The film gave birth to several catchphrases, including one — “up to 11″ — that’s made it into the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

There are Web sites devoted to the Tap, including at least one, http://tap-albums.s5.com/, that offers a complete discography of the fictional band’s nonexistent albums.

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TORONTO – Billy Bob Thornton’s band has canceled the rest of its Canadian tour after the actor compared the country’s fans to mashed potatoes with no gravy in a testy interview that caused a sensation online.

The Boxmasters opened for Willie Nelson on Thursday in Toronto, where they reportedly were booed and met with catcalls of “Here comes the gravy.”

A note posted on Nelson’s Web site Friday said the Boxmasters were canceling the rest of their Canadian dates “due to one band member and several of the crew having the flu.”