NEW YORK (AP) — The five-year-old Alaskan yodeler who grew up to be a multiplatinum recording artist is sharing her story. Jewel will publish her autobiography on September 15. It’s called “Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half The Story.” Jewel will cover her childhood on a homestead in Alaska, her homelessness in Los Angeles, her big break and rise in the music business, and the pain and loss she’s suffered on the way. Jewel will also release an album called “Picking Up The Pieces” on September 11.

LONDON (AP) — Natalie Imbruglia (im-BROO’-lee-ah) had wanted to do an album covering the music of her favorite female artists. Then she realized what an uphill battle that would be. Imbruglia says even though she loves the songs, she knew she would be compared to every artist she was covering. She says it wasn’t much fun anyway. Imbruglia decided to cover only male artists like Cat Stevens, Tom Petty, Damien Rice and Zac Brown Band for her new album, “Male.” She says it became fun again and now listeners will just enjoy the music for what it is. “Male” is out now.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Case Western Reserve University and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are going to spend a week studying and celebrating Smokey Robinson. Both venues will host a week’s worth of interviews, panel discussions, films and educational programs centered on Robinson and his music. The week will culminate with a tribute concert in Robinson’s honor on November 7 in Cleveland. The artists who will perform have not yet been announced. Robinson plans to attend but not perform.

NEW YORK (AP) — The “SpongeBob SquarePants” musical will have a bit of an urban flair….and a country flair…and a rock flair. John Legend, Lady Antebellum and David Bowie are among those who will contribute original songs to “The SpongeBob Musical.” So will Cyndi Lauper, The Flaming Lips, T.I., Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, Panic At The Disco and Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith. The production will be staged in Chicago starting June 7 with intent to move to Broadway.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 10 years ago, The Edge of U2 started a charity to help the musicians there. A decade later, he’s proud to point to the accomplishments that his Music Rising charity has done. Music Rising says in a statement it has given $5 million in musical instruments to 30 Gulf Coast schools, became the largest purchaser of Hammond organs to replace ones in churches hit by the hurricane, and helped create a $1 million music curriculum at Tulane University. The Edge says he felt music would be crucial to the healing process, and he wants to support the New Orleans music scene “so it can do its magic for many generations to come.”

LONDON (AP) — Jethro Tull, meet Jethro Tull. Tomorrow, singer Ian Anderson will visit the burial place of 18th century agriculturalist Jethro Tull in Lower Basildon, a small town in southern England. Anderson is working on a rock opera about Tull’s life.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joe Walsh jokes he used to think he could make more money by not writing a book than by writing one. Walsh tells Billboard magazine he has been working on a memoir for about a year and he’ll put it out when it’s done. Walsh says, “Some of it’s really funny. Some of it is what happened. Some of it is other people telling me what I did and some of it is just plain my humor.”

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — If all had gone as planned, we would have never heard the song “Sunshine” by Jonathan Edwards. He tells Portland magazine he only came up with that song because an engineer had accidentally recorded over another song they had been working on. Edwards says the engineer asked him to come up with something else that was three minutes long. Edwards recorded “Sunshine” on the spot with vocals and bass, then added the 12-string guitar and drums later. Edwards says even if he never has another hit, he’ll be “thrilled to leave this world remembered for that one song.”

LONDON (AP) — Looking to get your hands on a piece of ABBA history? If could happen — if your pockets are really deep. A grand piano that was played on some of ABBA’s biggest hits is going up for auction in London. The sale is being conducted by Sotheby’s — and the piano is expected to fetch between $928,000 and $1.2 million when it goes up for bids on Sept. 29. The piano was played on ABBA hits like “Waterloo,” ”Dancing Queen” and “Money, Money, Money.”

UNDATED (AP) — Stevie Wonder knows basketball talent when he sees it — even if he can’t literally see it. Former NBA star Darryl Dawkins was fond of remembering that it was Wonder who gave him his nickname “Chocolate Thunder.” Dawkins has passed away. He was 58 years old — and in a recent interview, he took pride in the fact that Wonder gave him the nickname after sensing that Dawkins had such unique talents on the basketball court.