Monday 30 June 2008

Minogue and Martinez back together?

Rumours that singer Kylie Minogue has rekindled her romance with actor Olivier Martinez began circulating yesterday after the pair were photographed together.
Martinez was spotted having dinner with Minogue, her parents Ron and Carol and a group of friends in Paris.
Press photographs show the pair hugging and laughing together during dinner.
One picture also shows Minogue lying on Martinez's shoulder at the restaurant.
Reports claim that the actor brought flowers for Minogue and took his dog Sheba along to the gathering.
Minogue previously said that she became so attached to the dog during her battle with breast cancer that she often travelled to Paris just to visit it.

Dr John - Dr John Is Peaking At 67 After Three Decades On Drugs

Rocker DR JOHN is peaking at the age of 67 - eighteen years after kicking his heroin habit.

The pianist was addicted to the deadly drug for a staggering 34 years, and claims it seriously hindered his music-making.

He says, "(Being straight) gives me more time for music. When you're out there ripping and running in the streets, you don't have a lot of time to do a lot of things. I was always scratching and scrambling, trying to do 40 things to support in a narcotic habit."




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Southern Death Cult

Southern Death Cult   
Artist: Southern Death Cult

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Southern Death Cult   
 Southern Death Cult

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 15




The first incarnation of the goth punks and later metallic element heroes known as the Cult, Southern Death Cult formed in late 1982 approximate Leeds. Led by Ian Lindsay (subsequently Astbury), and including guitarist David Burrows, bassist Barry Jepson, and drummer Haq Quereshi, the group became a braggart diagnose in goth rock early in their beingness, and released their first base single Moya/Fatman in December 1982. Early the following year, Southern Death Cult toured with Bauhaus -- on what turned out to be the goth kings' parting spell -- only then abruptly disbanded. Astbury stirred on to Death Cult (and subsequently, the Cult) spell Burrows, Jepson, and Quereshi became Getting the Fear (subsequently Into a Circle). Beggars Banquet compiled several roger Sessions and outtakes onto a self-titled album, which was released in 1983 and eventually issued in the U.S. most 15 geezerhood later.






Giraffe

Giraffe   
Artist: Giraffe

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   



Discography:


Giraffe Lp   
 Giraffe Lp

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11




 






Aerosmith - Tyler Out Of Rehab


AEROSMITH rocker STEVEN TYLER has completed his stint in rehab - celebrating his release by grabbing courtside seats for the Boston Celtics' basketball game on Tuesday (17Jun08).

The singer checked into a facility in Pasadena, California last month (May08), prompting speculation he had slipped from sobriety, 20 years after he kicked hard drugs.

Tyler later revealed he was in rehab on doctor's orders because of a foot injury.

But he appears to be recovering well, and looked happy and healthy as he cheered on his team against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Celtics went on to win 131-92 - and were crowned the new NBA Champions.

According to website TMZ.com, Tyler is continuing to undergo outpatient treatment until he is back to full health.





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Johnny Cash's parents' home for sale on eBay

The former home of Johnny Cash's parents has been put up for sale on eBay, with bids starting at $1.4m.
The house, which is located in Tennessee, includes a gold record from Cash's album 'The Man in Black'.
Ray and Carrie Cash lived at the ranch from 1969 until their deaths, while several members of the Cash family have resided in the property over the years.
Johnny and June Carter Cash lived there briefly while an elevator was installed at their nearby home in Hendersonville, about 15 miles northeast of Nashville.
Current owner Floyd Robinson bought the four-bedroom ranch four years ago but has said he is moving to Florida for health reasons.
He has said the buyer will also get to keep the Johnny Cash memorabilia in the house, including a gold 'I Walk the Line' record, guitars owned by the legendary country singer and a locket with pictures of the star and his wife.

Patrick Swayze - Swayze Winning Cancer Fight


Cancer-stricken actor PATRICK SWAYZE is "winning the battle" against the potentially fatal disease.

The Ghost star was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year (08), but after undergoing treatment at Stanford University Medical Center in California and maintaining a healthy diet, he claims to be making a good recovery.

He says, "My treatments are working and I am winning the battle.

"I am juicing (drinking fresh fruit juice) every day along with other treatments and all I can say is that it's working fine and really well."





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BB housemates await eviction night

The two 'Big Brother' housemates nominated for tonight's eviction are reacting to the countdown in very different ways.
Mohamed seems unconcerned that he could be leaving tonight, singing The Beatles' 'Let It Be'.
When asked in the Diary Room to sum up his time on the show so far, he described it as "flamboyant", "fun" and an "experience you'll never have again".
The other eviction nominee, Sylvia, has been emotional and tearful about the prospect of leaving tonight; the odds of her being evicted are 1-33.
In the Diary Room she said: "I feel like my journey is not finished yet. I'm gonna really miss a lot of people in here who I really believe are my friends."
 
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Mike Patton

Mike Patton   
Artist: Mike Patton

   Genre(s): 
Experimental
   Avantgarde
   



Discography:


Collected Psyche II   
 Collected Psyche II

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7


Collected Psyche   
 Collected Psyche

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 19


Pranzo Oltranzista   
 Pranzo Oltranzista

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


Adult Themes For Voice   
 Adult Themes For Voice

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 34




 





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Piers Morgan - Morgans Apology To Mccartney


AMERICA'S GOT TALENT judge PIERS MORGAN has apologised to former BEATLE PAUL MCCARTNEY for introducing him to ex-wife HEATHER MILLS.

The former tabloid editor claims it was he who set the singer up with Mills, but insists he didn't know she would turn out to be a "grasping, gold-digging little bimbo".

Speaking to U.S. DJ Howard Stern, he says, "I was fooled into thinking that she was a good person...

"I'm not sure if Paul knew she was missing a leg at the time."

The pair, married in 2002, began their divorce proceedings in 2006 after they split in May of the same year (06). They have joint-custody of their four-year-old daughter, Beatrice.





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Edwin Starr

Edwin Starr   
Artist: Edwin Starr

   Genre(s): 
R&B: Soul
   Retro
   



Discography:


War and Peace   
 War and Peace

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 12


The Hits of Edwin Starr, 20 Greatest Motown Hits   
 The Hits of Edwin Starr, 20 Greatest Motown Hits

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 20


The Hits Of - Motown Soul 1966 - 1974   
 The Hits Of - Motown Soul 1966 - 1974

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 20


Stronger Than You Think I Am   
 Stronger Than You Think I Am

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 8


Motown Soul   
 Motown Soul

   Year:    
Tracks: 20




Rightly venerable for the storming protest classic "Warfare," Edwin Starr didn't really demand some other shoot to reach fabled condition in soul circles, so electrifying was that single performance. Starr first made his identify as "Federal agent Double-O-Soul," and when his contract was transferred to Motown, he forthwith became one of the roughest, toughest vocalists on the crossover-friendly label, with his debt to James Brown and the Stax soul shouters. Even if zip else ever so matched the phenomenon of "Warfare," Starr had several Top Ten hits on the R&B charts over the recent '60s and early '70s, and also enjoyed a brief renascence during the disco era.


Starr was innate Charles Hatcher in Nashville, TN, on January 21, 1942 (his cousin was deep psyche singer and songwriter Roger Hatcher). He grew up in Cleveland and formed a doo guinea quintette called the FutureTones while quiet in high shoal. They south Korean won legion local natural endowment competitions and regular recorded a single for a belittled pronounce, only Starr was drafted into the military in 1960, stalling the group's impulse. When he returned in 1962, he well-tried to get things going over again, just to no avail; rather, he wound up connexion Bill Doggett's group as a featured vocaliser in 1963. Two eld later, Starr wrote what he felt was a surefire make in the spy-themed "Federal agent Double-O-Soul," and left Doggett's band to sign with Ric Tic Records and settle in Detroit. "Agent Double-O-Soul" attain the R&B Top Ten afterwards in 1965, and just now missed the kill Top 20. Starr capitalized on the song's freshness appeal by coming into court onstage in a sight costume complete with toy dog gunman, only proved he was no one-trick pony by reversive to the Top Ten a yr later with "Stop Her on Sight (S.O.S.)."


Motown head Berry Gordy afterwards bought verboten Ric Tic and took over its creative person roster, with Starr the crown gem. Contract negotiations took some time, simply Starr rebounded with his biggest attain yet in 1969's "25 Miles," which reached the Top Ten on both the pop and R&B charts. The follow-up, "I'm Still a Struggling Man," wasn't as successful, and Starr was something of a disregarded humankind for various months. When he returned to the studio, it was with producer Norman Whitfield, who'd been reinventing the Temptations as a psychedelic soul move. Whitfield had co-written a strident anti-war protest song, "Warfare," for the Temps' Psychedelic Shack LP, and in spite of development ask for a single release, Motown didn't want the grouping to ask such an belligerent stance. Whitfield recut "War" with Starr, and the resulting variant was arguably the most rabble-rousing strain Motown always released. It zoomed to the big top of the pop charts in 1970, and its chorus line -- powered by Starr's guttural delivery -- clay a catch idiom even today.


The followup single, "Stop the War Now," was blatantly derivative, only made the R&B Top Five anyway, and Starr went on to land some other pregnant hit with "Funky Music Sho' Nuff Turns Me On." In 1974, he handled the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Infernal region Up in Harlem, a continuation to the James Brown-scored Inglorious Caesar (Brown had originally been slated to do the followup as well). The lack of promotion signaled that Starr's years with Motown were likely numbered; he charted once again in 1975 with "Pain in the neck," and bade word of farewell to the label with "Who's Right or Wrong." He recorded albums for little labels, including 1975's Liberate to Be Myself on Granite and 1977's Afternoon Sunshine on GTO, ahead finding a new habitation on 20th Century in 1978. Here he shortly reinvented himself as a disco music isaac M. Singer, grading his biggest hits in years with 1979's "Contact lens" and "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio"; his final release with the label came in 1980.


Starkey affected to the U.K. during the '80s, transcription a Marvin Gaye tribute record album for Streetwave and a fistful of singles for Hippodrome over 1985-1986. His involvement in the Ferry Aid charity project lED to a deal with Virgin and a seance with the hot production team of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, just he didn't study to their high tech dance-pop expressive style and alternatively affected to Ian Levine's Motown revival meeting label Motorcity from 1989-1991. Later he guested on dance remakes of his past hits by Utah Saints ("Funky Music") and Three Amigos ("25 Miles"), just otherwise recorded little until his death in 2003.