During the tribute to reggae legend ; Bob Marley 2013 Grammy Awards, you may have heard echoes of Sting's former band the Police in Bruno Mars' soul-soaked "Locked Out of Heaven" - the syncopated chirps and the frenetic sonic echoes of Synchronicity are shamelessly (and addictively) shot throughout the song. And Mars has even called himself out on the fact that the explosive song owes its musical roots to the Police. "I grew up listening to the Police. I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs," Bruno told MTV News in 2012. "I remember performing a song like 'Roxanne,' and you play those first couple of chords, and you hit that first note, and you watch the whole bar ignite..."

"This is the Italian wedding Patti [Scialfa] and I never had," Bruce Springsteen joked in a charming, self-deprecating and passionate speech as he accepted the MusiCare’s 2013 Person of the Year honors last night at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Earlier in the evening, the New Jersey rock legend had in fact offered up a serving of his mother’s lasagna; It was part of a bounty – including a ride in the sidecar of Springsteen’s Harley Davidson, a face-to-face guitar lesson, eight concert tickets, a personal backstage tour and one of Springsteen's iconic Fender Telecasters autographed by Sting, Elton John, Neil Young, and, erm, Katy Perry – being auctioned off to benefit the MusiCares charity, a wing of the Grammy Awards’ governing body, the Recording Academy, that provides emergency financial and healthcare support for the music community...