The fan fatigue led the former Beatles drummer to post a sometimes angry sounding short video clip on his Web site telling fans that any mail sent to him after Oct. 20 will not be read or answered. British television stations broadcast the video on Tuesday.

"It's going to be tossed," he says on the video. "I'm warning you with peace and love, I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be

While the comeback pop princess revealed last month that she was planning on hitting the road next year, a source now tells me that things are getting serious. Spears just signed a deal with the mega huge live entertainment company AEG to produce the whole shebang, my source says.

No word on when an official announcement will be made or when tickets will go on sale, but Spears revealed during an interview with New York radio station Z100 in late September that she's hoping for a worldwide tour, not something limited just to the U.S. 

Reps for Spears did not return calls or emails.

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But the frontman of new rock quartet Hot Leg has quite an act to follow. The Darkness' huge U.K. success saw the band's 2003 U.K. chart-topping debut album, "Permission to Land" (Atlantic), sell 1.4 million copies domestically, according to the Official Charts Co.; Nielsen SoundScan puts U.S. sales at 710,000.

The band also collected five top 10 U.K. singles, three BRIT Awards and an Ivor Novello songwriting award. However, after second album "One Way Ticket to Hell ... an

The only problem: according to Radiohead's management, Yorke hasn't recorded anything new with Bjork, although the possibility remains that his contribution to the single, "Nattura," is a sample or was taped at some point in the past.

No additional information about the nature of the collaboration was available about the single, which shares its name with an organization devoted to protecting Iceland's environment. Bjork played a benefit concert with fellow Iceland natives Sigur Ros on behalf of Nattura this summer

The pop singer has been nominated in two categories -- best new act and most addictive track for "I Kissed A Girl," which topped America's Billboard Hot 100 chart for seven weeks.

Presenters at the 15th annual event, which takes place in a different European city each year, will include Grace Jones, Solange Knowles, Sugababes and German rock act Tokio Hotel, which was last month named best new act at the mothership MTV Video Music Awards in Hollywood. Performers include Pink, Duffy, The Killers, Kid Rock and Beyonce.