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M ∂tley Cr ºe concert sells out at Covelli

Youngstown

M ∂tley Cr ºe/Poison, with special guests New York Dolls, have officially sold out the Covelli Centre.

A limited number of single seats are all that remain in the arena, according to a press release issued by the center late Tuesday. Those tickets can be purchased at the Covelli box office, www.ticketmaster.com, or by calling 1-800-745-3000.

The sellout is the Covelli’s second in three months, the release states.

Poison, consisting of all of the band’s original members, including Butler County native Bret Michaels, has sold more than 30 million records worldwide and has released 10 albums.

M ∂tley Cr ºe has played to millions of fans around the world, adding this summer’s tour to recent successful outings, including Cr ºe Fest 1 and 2, taking out such notables as Sixx:AM, Godsmack, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Theory Of A Deadman and many others.

For ticket and tour information and more information about M ∂tley Cr ºe, visit www.motley.com. For more information on Poison, visit www.poisonweb.com. For more information on New York Dolls, visit www.nydolls.org.

Dan Peek of rock trio America dies at 60

ST. LOUIS

Dan Peek, a founding member of the popular 1970s band America and singer of high harmonies on hits that included “A Horse With No Name” and “Ventura Highway,” has died, his father said Tuesday. He was 60.

Peek’s wife, Catherine, found him dead Sunday in bed in his home in Farmington, Mo., about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis, Milton Peek said. The cause of death was not known, and an autopsy was planned. Dan Peek suffered from arthritis, but it wasn’t known if that was a contributing factor.

Peek, whose father was in the U.S. Air Force, had met the two other members of America — Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley — while attending high school in London.

After signing a record contract, America was an almost instant sensation.

All told, America had three platinum and three gold albums, along with eight Top 40 hits, from 1971 through 1975.

Singer auctions car for tornado victims

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.

Some winning bidder soon will be cruising life’s winding road in Sheryl Crow’s 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190SL Roadster.

The Grammy award-winning singer said Monday that she’s auctioning off the classic car next month and that the proceeds will go toward helping rebuild the tornado-ravaged city of Joplin in her native state of Missouri.

Crow says she loves the car and has had it for six years but doesn’t drive it anymore.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that Crow hopes the car will fetch up to $500,000 at the Aug. 21 auction in Pebble Beach, Calif. But she says she’d be happy if it raises $100,000.

Crow was a schoolteacher before launching her singing career, and the money will go to the Joplin Schools Recovery Fund.

Schwarzenegger now open to paying support

LOS ANGELES

Arnold Schwarzenegger has amended a divorce filing and withdrawn a request that a judge terminate Maria Shriver’s rights to spousal support.

The actor and former California governor’s filing replaces a document he submitted last week that also indicated he wanted Shriver to pay her own attorney’s fees. The amended response filed Monday in Los Angeles states Schwarzenegger also is willing to pay his estranged wife’s attorney.

The former couple’s 13-year-old son remains hospitalized after a recent body-boarding accident.

Shriver filed for divorce July 1. Her petition to end the couple’s 25-year-marriage came weeks after Schwarzenegger revealed he fathered a child with a member of his household staff years ago.

Vindicator wire services