Rockers Slash and Alice Cooper are to be honored at the fourth annual MusiCares gala in May. Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash will receive the MusiCares From The Heart Award, while Cooper will be honored with the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award.

The prizes will be handed out at the Music Box Theater in Hollywood on May 9.

The $100-a-ticket event will feature performances from Slash, Cooper, Blind Melon and Dave Navarro's super group Camp Freddy.

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Reformed rockers Blind Melon knew singer Travis Warren was the perfect replacement for former frontman Shannon Hoon when they discovered he had a large tattoo of the late star on his back.

Becoming popular by hit single, "No Rain," the band reformed late last year and asked Warren to front them after he had been working on his own new material with bassist Brad Smith and guitarist Christopher Thorn in Los Angeles.

And the pair knew they'd found Hoon's perfect replacement the first time the singer took off his shirt - he had a 10-inch tattoo of Hoon, who died of a drug overdose...

Rockers Blind Melon have recorded their first studio album since the death of frontman Shannon Hoon in 1995.

The No Rain hitmakers recruited singer Travis Warren to replace Hoon's in the studio for For My Friends, which is due to be released on April 22.

Warren tells Billboard.com, "This record's a great rock 'n' roll record. It's kind of like Soup - the more you listen to it, the more it grows on you."

Hoon died of a cocaine overdose in October 1995.

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Happy Birthday to tennis star Serena Williams (1981), pop singer Christina Milian (1981), rapper Ras Kass (1972), "Frequency" actor James Caviezel (1968), Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon (1967; d. 1995), tv host Jillian Barberie (1966), "Krull" actress Lysette Anthony (1963), actress Melissa Sue Anderson (1962), "The Terminator" actress Linda Hamilton (1956), Australian singer Olivia Newton-John (1948), bluegrass singer Lynn Anderson (1947), Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry (1945), "The Beverly Hillbillies" actress Donna Douglas (1933), television actor Richard Herd (1932), "Emergency" actress...