iTunes is now offering a free download of the new ‘stripped down’ version of "(Just Like) Starting Over"

It's available on iTunes in the following stores: Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. The song is also available with the purchase of the "Double Fantasy Stripped Down" album, which was released today.

You can get the free download at iTunes by clicking here.

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Lady Gaga performed two songs with Yoko Ono live at Los Angeles' Orpheum Theater on Saturday night (October 2).

The singer joined Ono at the end of the three-hour show to duet, reports BBC News. They ended the show lying on a grand piano together.

"Thanks for being so brilliant and such an inspiration to so many women," Gaga said of Ono from the stage. Later, writing on Twitter, she stated: "We are Plastic Ono. I got to sit in as a guest musician tonight, what a legendary band and mother, Yoko."

One of the tracks performed was the Plastic Ono Band's 'Give Peace A Chance', during which Gaga changed the lyrics to reflect her support of the campaign to overturn the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy towards gay service personnel.

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Genesis singer and drummer Phil Collins says that Going Back, his new album of R&B covers, will be his last ever. "I'm not anticipating doing anything else," he said. "If I do write songs... I don't know about putting them out on an album or anything like that. I don't really have the desire to do that now."

Of his decision to quit music, the artist told Billboard, "It bothers me a lot less than people think it probably would. I've pushed my particular envelope wider than a lot of people probably remember. There's always going to be some things you wish you'd done differently, but in general I'm very proud of what I've done and there's not a lot I haven't tried."

Going Back, which recently debuted at at No. 1 on the UK albums chart (it debuted at No. 34 in the US), reflects Collins' desire to be as faithful to the songs he loves - they include classics such as Papa Was A Rolling Stone and (Love Is Like A) Heatwave - as possible. To do so, he recorded with the three surviving members of the legendary Funk Brothers, who played on hundreds of R&B hits.

"I didn't want to bring anything new to the table, really," Collins told The Huffington Post. "I don't mean that in a negative way, I just think that I wanted the record to be an operative of the period, so you would kind of have that feeling you had when you heard the song originally.

"That was an interesting project to try. My engineer and I listened constantly to the originals - when we were recording with The Funk Brothers, doing my demos, and mixing. We constantly referred back to see what it was that made those records and those songs sound so special, and sometimes, it was obviously the way they were recorded because the technology at the time was very limited."

Collins' next project is a surprising one: he's working on a book about his huge collection of Alamo and Texas Revolution artifacts. "It's a huge collection of memorabilia from the Alamo and before and after it, basically the Texas Revolution in general," said Collins, who was first inspired by Texas history as a child after seeing the Walt Disney film, Davy Crockett. "It's basically the history of all the things I've collected and putting them in the context of the revolution. It's in progress and it's entertaining."

Having written the music for Disney's film Tarzan, we wouldn't be surprised to see Collins reverse his decision to walk away from recording and write the soundtrack for...a new version of Davy Crockett.

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Pet Shop Boys are set to release a Greatest Hits compilation on November 1 featuring a new single, 'Together'.

A deluxe version of 'Ultimate Pet Shop Boys' will come with a DVD featuring live footage of the band's Glastonbury 2010 performance plus BBC TV recordings from the past three decades.

'Together' will be released as a single, although its released date has not been confirmed yet. See Petshopboys.co.uk for more information.

The tracklisting of 'Ultimate Pet Shop Boys' is:

'West End Girls'
'Suburbia'
'It's A Sin'
'What Have I Done To Deserve This?'
'Always On My Mind'
'Heart'
'Domino Dancing'
'Left To My Own Devices'
'Being Boring'
'Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)'
'Go West'
'Before'
'Se A Vida É (That's The Way Life Is)'
'New York City Boy'
'Home And Dry'
'Miracles'
'I'm With Stupid'
'Love Etc'
'Together'

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Suede are set to play London's 350-capacity Bush Hall venue on October 27.

The show will mark the release of the reunited band's 'The Best Of Suede' compilation, which is out on November 1.

Tickets to the show have sold out already. The band play London's O2 Arena on December 7.

To check the availability of Suede tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

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Sigur Ros' Jonsi has expanded his upcoming tour of North America.

Playing in support of his debut solo album 'Go', which was released earlier this year, the frontman has added six acoustic instore gigs to his schedule.

The afternoon shows will begin in Los Angeles (October 17), followed by dates in Salt Lake City (22), Austin (26), Asheville (30), Atlanta (31) and Chicago (November 3).

For more information, visit Jonsi.com.

Jonsi will play:

San Diego, CA 4th And B (October 15)
Los Angeles, CA Origami Vinyl (Instore) (17)
Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern (17)
Pomona, CA Fox Theater (18)
Oakland, CA Fox Theater (19)
Las Vegas, NV House Of Blues (21)
Salt Lake City, UT Slowtrain (Instore) (22)
Salt Lake City, UT The Complex (22)
Tempe, AZ The Marquee (23)
Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre (25)
Austin, TX End Of An Ear (Instore) (26)
Austin, TX Austin Music Hall (26)
Houston, TX Verizon Music Theater (27)
New Orleans, LA Voodoo Festival (29)
Asheville, NC Harvest Records (Instore) (30)
Asheville, NC Moogfest (30)
Atlanta, GA Criminal Records (Instore) (31)
Atlanta, Georgia The Tabernacle (31)
St. Louis, MO The Pageant (November 2)
Chicago, IL Reckless Records (Instore) (3)
Chicago, IL Vic Theatre (3)
Detroit, MI The Fillmore (5)
Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall (6)
Washington, D.C 9:30 Club (8, 9)
New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom (11)

Jonsi will also play a one-off show at London's Hammersmith Apollo on November 26.

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