**FILE**Singer Tom Waits listens as musicians testify before a state Senate panel about record label accounting practices, in Los Angeles, on Sept. 24, 2002. Waits said Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005, he has filed a lawsuit in Germany against a unit of automaker General Motors Corp. and a German advertising agency for allegedly using a soundalike in a series of European ads.(AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson)