Briefly: Britney Spears, Live Aid, Cake, Enuff Z'Nuff

China's Culture Ministry has approved Britney Spears ' first tour of China, but will be keeping a close eye on the pop star's wardrobe.

In approving Spears' appearances, the ministry said that "relevant departments will carry out strict reviews of Britney Spears' performance clothing," according to the state-run China News Service.

Spears will play five concerts in Shanghai and Beijing sometime next year, CNS reported.

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U2 frontman Bono and others involved with 1985's Live Aid benefit concert said on Tuesday (6/1) that, despite recent reports, there are no plans for a second Live Aid concert.

"We would love to be talking about Live Aid II, but the sums of money we are dealing with are in the billions of euros, not the millions," Bono reportedly told the European Union's development ministers in Dublin. "It would help, but not fix the problem."

Jamie Drummond, the executive director of DATA, a group co-founded by Bono to advocate for Africa, said in a statement that "Bono and Bob Geldof are both focused on campaigning in the run-up to the G8 to pressurize wealthy countries into giving more effective aid and debt cancellation and changing international trade rules so that Africa has a chance to fight AIDS and extreme poverty and earn its own way to a prosperous future."

The first Live Aid concert took place in London and Philadelphia in 1985, and organizers claimed it raised $200 million for food aid to Ethiopia.

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Sacramento's Cake will issue a new album titled "Pressure Chief" on Sept. 7, according to the band's official website.

The album, Cake's fifth, is the band's first since 2001's "Comfort Eagle."

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Former Enuff Z'Nuff guitarist Derek Frigo, 36, was found dead on Friday (5/28) outside his girlfriend's Beverly Hills, CA, home, according to published reports. The cause of death wasn't immediately known.

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