Police: Boston singer Delp's death was suicide

Boston singer Brad Delp, who was found dead March 9, poisoned himself with carbon monoxide by sealing himself inside a bathroom with two charcoal grills, police in Atkinson, New Hampshire, said. Police originally indicated there were no signs of foul play.

The singer apparently left several suicide notes. One, paper-clipped to his shirt collar, read: "Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul." Another note taped to a garage door leading into the house said, "To whoever finds this I have hopefully committed suicide. Plan B was to asphyxiate myself in my car."

Delp also left another note at the top of the stairs warning of the carbon monoxide fumes. It added, "I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation. I have lost my desire to live."

"He was a man who gave all he had to give to everyone around him, whether family, friends, fans, or strangers," the family said in a statement posted to Boston's Web site. "He gave as long as he could, as best he could, and he was very tired. We take comfort in knowing that he is now, at last, at peace."

Kiss legend bashes modern rap for unoriginality

In an interview with hip-hop Web site AllHipHop.com, Kiss bassist Gene Simmons said modern rap artists must innovate if the genre wants to remain relevant.

"Rap came along at a time when rock became stale, and that's good," he said. "But rap better figure out something new, because the next group of guys who say 'Wassup' is not gonna be original enough. Very soon that clock will stop ticking, and it's gonna have to move to that next step or something else will come and push it out of the way as well."

The famously face-painted rocker also took exception to the language use of some of the rappers. "Also I'd like to hear a rapper who can really speak English exceedingly well, somebody who can pronounce every single word, doesn't make up his own language...I'm talking about somebody who can cross-collateralize and fiduciary-duty along with the best of them, who can speak white language better than the white man and do it to music.

"The reason I'm saying that is just to be different," he continued, "because if I'm gonna be exactly the same, then every single person, including white people, are gonna say, 'Yo wassup, my hood, my gang.' It's a cliche on top of a cliche, so the next guy that wants to come along and make a difference, be different."

McCartney ex says news media have vilified her

Heather Mills, the soon-to-be-ex-wife of Beatles bassist Paul McCartney, lashed out at the news media in a Thursday interview with the BBC. "There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down," Mills, an activist, said, according to the Associated Press. The comments came in an interview denouncing the use of farrowing crates in pig farming.

"I'm not a publicity seeker...I haven't gone around promoting things to finance my own pockets," she said. "But there are huge powers. I don't have that powerful system that he [McCartney] has. There are huge powers that create these things for reasons of their own."

Mills said she intends to fight back with help from the government. "My next campaign is going to go to the European Parliament to create a law of not misinforming the public and the size of the lie that they [the press] say should be the size of the apology."

Sick Who singer forced to cancel gig

One day before Pete Townshend spoke to a massive crowd at SXSW Wednesday, Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and the rest of The Who were forced to cancel a concert in Tampa, Florida, because Daltry had bronchitis. "I just talked to Roger and he can barely speak," guitarist Townshend told the crowd of about 9,000, as quoted by the Associated Press. "I tried to get him to come out here, but he's really, really sick."

The show has already been rescheduled for March 25 in Tampa--much to the delight of the "understanding" fans in attendance Tuesday night, according to the band. On its Web site, The Who said the show was canceled due to Daltry's "vocal challenges as a result of a medical condition."