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Deaths
Poetic, of the rap group Gravediggaz, died Sunday in Los Angeles after a two-year battle against metastatic colon cancer, Launch.com reports. Poetic, whose real name was Anthony Berkeley, was 35. The cancer was diagnosed in 1999, after Berkeley collapsed in a recording studio. He was given only four months to live. He continued to record with Gravediggaz, and will be featured on the group's Aug. 23 release, Nightmare In A-Minor. He is survived by his wife, Dee Dee Hill.
"[Songwriting] is my first love," former Beatle Paul McCartney told adoring New York fans on Tuesday during his first public U.S. reading from his new book of poetry, Reuters reports. McCartney, who was knighted in 1996, said the poetry book was originally his late wife Linda's idea.