Glenn Hughes and Joe Lynn Turner

   
Artist: Glenn Hughes and Joe Lynn Turner

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Live In Tokyo

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 14

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El Barrio

   
Artist: El Barrio

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   Latin
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 La Voz De Mi Silencio

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 Angel Malherido

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 Yo Sueno FlaMenCo

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Mi Secreto

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


   
 Me Voy Al Mundo

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Mal de Amores

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 La Fuente del Deseo

   Year:    
Tracks: 14

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Jim Reeves

   
Artist: Jim Reeves

   Genre(s): 
Country
   Other
   Easy Listening
   

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Discography:


   
 Anthology (CD2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 20


   
 Anthology (CD1)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 20


   
 (Double Platinum) CD2

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 21


   
 (Double Platinum) CD1

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 20


   
 The Essential

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 20


   
 Gentleman Jim - 1955-1959 (cd4)

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 24


   
 Gentleman Jim - 1955-1959 (cd3)

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 25


   
 Twelve songs of Christmas

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Hurricane

   Year:    
Tracks: 22


   
 Gentleman Jim - 1955-1959 (cd1)

   Year:    
Tracks: 32


   
 Definitive Collection CD2

   Year:    
Tracks: 26


   
 Definitive Collection CD1

   Year:    
Tracks: 21

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Gentleman Jim Reeves was perchance the biggest male star to emerge from the Nashville wakeless. His mellow baritone voice and softened velvet orchestration combined to make a sound that echoed around his mankind and has lasted to this day. Detractors will call the reasoned country-pop (or plain pop), merely none toilet argue against the large interview that loves this music. Reeves was capable of singing heavy state ("Mexican Joe" went to number one in 1953), merely he made his greatest impact as a country-pop balladeer. From 1955 through and through 1969, Reeves was consistently in the country and pop charts -- an awe-inspiring fact in light of his wrong death in an plane fortuity in 1964. Not only was he a presence in the American charts, just he became country music's frontmost international ambassador and, if anything, was even more than popular in Europe and Britain than in his native America. After his decease, his fan base didn't belittle at all, and several of his posthumous hits in reality outsold his earlier singles; no less than sextet number one singles arrived in the trey days following his burial. In fact, during the '70s and '80s, he continued to accept hits with both unreleased real and electronic duets like "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me" with Deborah Allen and "Feature You Ever Been Lonely?" with his smooth-singing distaff opposite number of the plush Nashville wakeless, Patsy Cline, wHO likewise perished in an airplane crash, in 1963. But Reeves' legacy remains with lavish country-pop singles like "Four Walls" (1957) and "He'll Have to Go" (1959), which defined both his style and an entire era of nation medicine.


Reeves was born and raised in Galloway, TX, where he was one of nina from Carolina children. Tragically, his male parent died when Jim was only tenner months old, forcing his mother to farm and rear her family. At the age of quint, he was granted an sure-enough guitar, and shortly later, he heard a Jimmie Rodgers record through his elder brother. From that moment on, Reeves was captivated by country medicine and Rodgers in fussy. By the time he was 12 eld old, he had already appeared on a radio show in Shreveport, LA. Though he was transfixed with music, Reeves also was a talented jock and during his teens he distinct he was sledding to pursue a life history as a baseball player. Winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas, Reeves enrolled at the schooltime to survey speech and dramatic event, only he dropped out later six weeks to work at the shipyards in Houston. Soon, he had returned to baseball game, playing in the semipro leagues in front sign language with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1944. He stayed with the squad for trey long time in front seriously injuring his ankle joint and thereby ruining his chances of a extended athletic career.


For the next few age, Reeves went through and through a number of blue-collar jobs patch trying to decide on a professing. During this time he began singing as an amateur, coming into court both as a solo creative person and as the frontman for Moon Mullican's band. In 1949, Reeves cut a number of songs for the small self-governing Macy mark, none of which were particularly successful. In the early '50s, Reeves distinct that he would make broadcasting his occupational group, initially working for KSIG in Gladewater, TX, before establishing himself at KGRI in Henderson. Over the succeeding few age, Reeves was a disk jockey and newscaster at KGRI, moving to KWKH in Shreveport, LA, in November of 1952, becoming host of the popular Louisiana Hayride. Late in 1952, Hank Williams failed to make an appearance on the show, and Reeves panax quinquefolius in his home. His performance was enthusiastically received, and Abbott Records immediately signed him to a record contract. "Mexican Joe" was Reeves' debut single for Abbott, and it cursorily climbed to number one in the spring of 1953, disbursal nine weeks at the peak of the charts. It was followed by another number one come to, "Bimbo," later in 1953, establishing that Reeves was not a one-hit wonder; by and by that same year, he was made a full-time member of the Louisiana Hayride. During 1954 and 1955, he had four-spot early arrive at singles for Abbott and its parent caller, Fabor, before RCA gestural him to a long-run deal in 1955; that same year, he united the Grand Ole Opry. At RCA, Reeves began to develop the distinctively fluent, luxuriant, and pop-oriented expressive style of rural area that made him a ace and earned him the cognomen Gentleman Jim. Peaking at number quaternary, "Yonder Comes a Sucker" was his first gear Top Ten pip for RCA in the summer of 1955. It kicked off a remarkable streak of 40 come to singles, most of which charted in the Top Ten. Many of his singles too became pop crossovers, which indicates just how much of a pop influence there was on his music. Indeed, Reeves' vocal style derived from the crooning of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, and early in his career he abandoned cowhand outfits for upscale suits. In the march, he brought country music to a novel, urban audience.


Throughout the '50s and early '60s, Reeves racked up a number of major hits and land classics like "Little Joe Walls" (number one for ashcan School weeks, 1957), "Anna Marie" (1958), "Dismal Boy" (number iI, 1958), "Billy goat Bayou" (number one for basketball team weeks, 1959), "He'll Have to Go" (number one for 14 weeks, 1960), "Good-bye Amigo" (number iI, 1962), "Welcome to My World" (number iI, 1964), and "I Guess I'm Crazy" (number one for seven-spot weeks, 1964). "Four-spot Walls" was the turning point in his career, proving to both Reeves himself and his producer, Chet Atkins, that his main informant of achiever would come from ballads. As a resultant role, Reeves became an level bigger principal, not only in America simply throughout the earth. Reeves toured Europe and South Africa, building a strong following in countries that rarely had been open to rural area medicine in the past.


Reeves was at the summit of his vocation when his private plane crashed outside of Nashville on July 31, 1964. The bodies of Reeves and his director, Dean Manuel, were set up 2 days after and were buried in his homestate of Texas. Though Reeves had died, his popularity did non fly -- in fact, his gross sales increased undermentioned his death. Throughout the late '60s, RCA released a series of posthumous singles, many of which -- including "This Is It" (1965), "Is It Really Over?" (1965), "Distant Drums" (1966), and "I Won't Come in While He's There" (1967) -- hit number one. The antecedently unissued songs were oftentimes interracial in with previously released material on album releases, making his catalog perplexing only profitable for RCA. The flow of unreleased Reeves material did non finish during the '70s or '80s -- in fact, there wasn't a twelvemonth betwixt 1970 and 1984 when there wasn't a Reeves single in the charts, either at the elevation or in the frown regions. Reeves was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967, and 2 years later, the Academy of Country Music instituted the Jim Reeves Memorial Award. Though the inundation of unreleased substantial ceased in the mid-'80s, the cultus encompassing Reeves ne'er declined, and in the '90s, Bear Family released Welcome to My World, a 16-disc box set containing his integral recorded works.





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Busted - Ex-busted Members Lose Royalties Battle

Two former members of defunct British pop group BUSTED lost a $20 million (GBP10 million) battle for the band's song royalties at London's High Court on Friday (06Jun08).

Ki MCPhail and Owen Doyle claim they helped to pen four tracks including Year 3000 and What I Go To School For with James Bourne and Matt Willis when they formed a group called The Termites in January 2001.

The band then changed their name to Busted after signing to a management company in March that year (01).

But when MCPhail and Doyle were fired from the band 10 months later, they are alleged to have been forced by "threats" and "undue pressure" to sign away their royalty rights to Bourne and Willis.

The two songs in question then became hit singles for the remaining members of Busted, with new recruit Charlie Simpson on lead vocals.

The duo launched the lawsuit seeking $20 million (GBP10 million) earlier this year (08).

However, Judge Morgan dismissed all their claims at the latest hearing - critisising the evidence they provided in court, saying of Doyle, "(He) was not a reliable witness. He manifested a high degree of confusion and a failure to grasp the detail in relation to many of the significant events".

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Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne Sign On For One-Day Ozzfest

This summer, the annual heavy-metal circus named for one of the genre's most outspoken rebels will return, but in a scaled-down form. This year's Ozzfest won't be traveling the country, but will be a one-day destination festival, set for Pizza Hut Park in Dallas on August 9.

Headlining the day's events will be Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne himself. Also set for the main stage are System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, Hellyeah, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis, Cavalera Conspiracy, Shadows Fall, Apocalyptica and In This Moment. There will also be a special all-star tribute to slain Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott.

On the second stage, the Ozzfest camp has secured Sevendust, DevilDriver, Kingdom of Sorrow, Soilent Green, Witchcraft and Goatwhore. Meanwhile, a third stage, dubbed the "Texas Stage," will feature local favorites the Sword, Drowning Pool and Rigor Mortis.

"Ozzy just finished an 11-month world tour, so I think he deserves a summer off," Sharon Osbourne, the brains behind Ozzfest, said in a statement. "We're going to be a stadium destination festival for now — we have gone past doing the sheds every summer. We've given everyone else the blueprint and we have to keep evolving Ozzfest. This is just the beginning. Ozzy has great relationships with all of the bands that have played Ozzfest. We're the only real festival for harder-edge bands and these artists have been very loyal to us — there is lots of love on this lineup."

Tickets for this year's Ozzfest will go on sale May 31.

Rumors that Ozzfest would be diminished to a two-day destination festival began earlier this year, after Warped Tour mastermind Kevin Lyman announced the inaugural run of his Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival, which boasts a lineup featuring Slipknot, Disturbed, Mastodon, DragonForce, Airborne, Five Finger Death Punch, 36 Crazyfists, Machine Head, Black Tide, Suicide Silence, the Red Chord and Walls of Jericho. That tour will get under way July 9 in Seattle and runs through August 19 in Buffalo, New York.

Many speculated that the competition would be too much for the Ozzfest camp, which offered free admission to last year's gigs; none of the bands that played last year's Ozzfest were paid, outside of merchandise sales, and they were encouraged to play shows on off-nights. In recent years, critics have slammed Ozzfest, saying that the festival's influence and grandeur has started to wane.






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Co-star gave Pitt marriage insight

Actor and comedian Omid Djalili, who met Brad Pitt on the set of 'Spy Game' in 2000, claims that he gave the actor marriage advice after he married Jennifer Aniston.
The comic star revealed to the Daily Express newspaper: "I did a scene with Brad in the back of a taxi and it was only a few days after he had married Jennifer. I chatted to him for hours giving him advice about the three stages of marriage."
He continued: "Stage one is perfection - blind love. Stage two is the difficult stage because you start to despise everything about her. If you can deal with the baggage you can possibly get to stage three - a harmonious marriage."
Pitt and Aniston were married in July 2000 in Malibu and Djalili told the newspaper: "After six weeks Brad came up to me and said, 'I'm definitely in stage two Omid!'"
Rumours of marital problems surfaced in 2004 as Pitt filmed 'Mr and Mrs Smith' alongside Angelina Jolie.
Aniston, 39, filed for divorce in March 2005. A month later, Pitt, 44, was seen with Jolie in Kenya. Earlier this week it was claimed the couple are planning to marry in an intimate ceremony this summer.

Jimmy Fallon - Late Night Update Fallon To Replace Obrien

Officially introduced Monday as the successor to Conan O'Brien on NBC's Late Night
when O'Brien moves over to the Tonight show next year, Jimmy Fallon joked
that his elementary school principal, Mr. Nostradamus, had listed him in his kindergart
en yearbook as "most likely to take over for David Letterman." As many people are
aware, Mr. Nostradamus has been a bit off with other predictions over the years,
but TV writers had been predicting for weeks that Fallon would be named Late Night
's host (and, of course, Letterman did indeed once host the show himself, jumping
to CBS after the powers-that-be at NBC passed him over for Jay Leno to succeed Johnny
Carson.) Still up in the air is the question of what will happen to Leno when the
game of musical chairs plays out next year (precisely when that will be has not yet
been disclosed). At Monday's news conference, NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman
said that he was looking to find an inducement to keep Leno at NBC, but he acknowledged that
he might not be able to do so. "I think it's a reach," he said.

13/05/2008

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Britney on psychiatric hold for 14 days

Britney Spears will remain in a hospital psychiatric ward for another 14 days, sources close to the star have revealed.
Spears was to be released from UCLA Medical Centre's psychiatric hospital yesterday but doctors at the ward determined that she should remain, the source reportedly said.
Court Commissioner Reva Goetz ruled the day after Spears was taken to hospital that her father, James Spears, would be Britney's conservator.
Along with attorney Andrew Wallet, he is also conservator of the popstar's multi-million dollar estate.
Goetz granted the conservator access to all Spears' medical records, as well as the right to restrict her visitors and to provide her with around-the-clock security.
Goetz also issued a restraining order, keeping Sam Lutfi, the pop singer's friend and sometime manager, away from her.

Stereophonics

   
Artist: Stereophonics

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Alternative
   Pop
   ROck: Alternative
   Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Pull the Pin

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 You Gotta Go There To Come Back

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 17


   
 Private Session

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 17


   
 Just Enough Education to Perform

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 Performance and Cocktails

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


   
 Word Gets Around

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12

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A bright new noise in U.K. alternative stone in the '90s and into the new millennium, Stereophonics ar comprised of vocalist/guitarist Kelly Jones, bassist Richard Jones, and drummer Stuart Cable (until the latter's replacement by Javier Weyler). They were formed in Cwmaman, South Wales, in the first place as the teen overcompensate band Tragic Love Company. Early reviews cited the Manic Street Preachers as their well-nigh obvious influence, and their initial mess of singles struggled to disabuse cynics of this whim.


Yet in Jones, Stereophonics possess an able author as well as a singer of some distinction, a fact that was only truly acknowledged next the release of their debut LP. One of the low bands on Richard Branson's young V2 label, they were signed by top dog executive Jeremy Pearce in August 1996 in front the label was officially up and linear. They made their debut in November with "Looks Like Chaplin" b/w "More Life in a Tramp's Vest," which later became a single in its possess right. They entered the charts for the low time with "Local Boy in the Photograph" and didn't look back. Each of their subsequent singles sold increasingly bettor, culminating in a U.K. Top Ten placing for their debut record album, Word Gets Around, and Top 20 honors for "Traffic." The latter's resigned themes provided the perfect platform for Jones' plaintive vocals. A reissue of "Local Boy in the Photograph" besides made the Top 20, in the same calendar week as they received a Brit Award for Best New Group. As a singles band, they seem overburdened with wealth -- "The Bartender and the Thief" duly became a British wireless staple through the closing months of 1998, followed the adjacent year by the full-length Public presentation and Cocktails.


The band's third studio attempt, Scarcely Enough Education to Perform was initially slated to go by the abbreviated J.E.E.P.; withal, Daimler-Chrysler objected to the plan and claimed ownership of the actual word Jeep. In September 2003, Stereophonics returned with their most dependable material to date on You Gotta Go There to Come Back. Not even a calendar month after the long-player's domestic expiration, the band announced the loss of creation phallus Cable. Frontman Jones said Cable had had issues committing himself to the band ever since Just Enough Education to Perform. Stereophonics planned to transport on as duet piece ex-Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman sat in on drums for several tour dates. Speech. Sex. Violence. Other? appeared in 2005. It as well marked the debut of drummer Javier Weyler. The band's first live album, Live from Dakota, arrived in spring 2006. After an extensive tour, including performances in Moscow and Latvia, the group returned to the UK and released iII formats of their single "It Means Nothing" two weeks earlier Perpetrate the Pin stumble shop shelves in mid-October 2007.





Bears hunt video game stocks

Disney checks out graphic novel biz

Will create titles as basis for film projects

Disney is getting into the graphic novel business, with a plan to adapt the works into movies.


Walt Disney Studios has created Kingdom Comics and signed a multiyear deal with writer-actor Ahmet Zappa, exec Harris Katleman and writer-editor Christian Beranek to oversee the fledgling division.


The aim is to create titles that will be the basis of new film projects for the studio as well as re-imagine and rejuvenate movies from the Disney "vault," the company's library of live action films.


No writers or artists have been announced, though the trio are on the hunt for new and established talent to create the books. Kingdom has a first-look deal with Disney Publishing Worldwide to distribute the publications. If Disney chooses not to publish a book, Kingdom will explore other venues.


The studio will pluck titles, putting them into development on a case-by-case basis.


"Some of these exciting publications will be inspired by films and characters in the vast and storied Disney library, while other original graphic novels are sure to spark great ideas for future Disney classics," studio president Oren Aviv said. "Our vision for Kingdom Comics is to bring a fresh, contemporary approach to Disney properties that already have a strong connection with moviegoers and readers all over the world, and to add to that storytelling legacy."


Zappa started out as an actor on such shows as "Roseanne" and "Growing Pains." This led to feature film work and a run as a host on many popular reality shows. In 2006, he sold the rights to his first novel, "The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless," to Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. He is writing the second installment in that series and is executive producing a feature version of "Fraggle Rock" with the Jim Henson Co.


Katleman served as president and CEO of 20th Television from 1980-92, during which time the studio developed such landmark programs as "L.A. Law," "The Simpsons," "In Living Color," "NYPD Blue," and "Doogie Howser, M.D." (in association with Steven Bochco Prods.). Following his tenure at 20th Television, he joined Mark Goodson Prods. as COO, followed by a stint as COO and partner in Jonathan Goodson Prods., in which he still maintains a partnership. His recent credits include executive producing the syndicated shows "Forgive or Forget," "House Calls" and "Dirty Rotten Cheater."


Beranek formed his own publishing company, Silent Devil, in 1996, producing such titles as "Dracula vs. King Arthur" and "Super Frat." He parlayed that success into consulting for companies such as Universal Music Publishing, Harley Davidson, AOL, and Mazda on graphic novels and their value as both intellectual properties and marketing devices.


As a writer, he penned the origin of John Doe for the New Line/Zenescope series "Seven" and recently finished a draft of the "Dracula vs. King Arthur" screenplay.

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Belle Epoque

   
Artist: Belle Epoque

   Genre(s): 
Dance: Pop
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Now

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 8


   
 Bamalama

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 5


   
 Miss Broadway

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 4

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Robert Frank's "The Americans" and Megan Chance's "The Spiritualist"

"The Americans"

by Robert Frank

Steidl, 180 pp., $39.95

The 83 black-and-white photographs in Robert Frank's "The Americans" are bound by an intense sense of loneliness, whether they evoke a New York City cocktail party; a St. Petersburg, Fla., bus bench; or a funeral in St. Helena, S.C. Originally published in 1958, the book — just reissued in a 50th anniversary edition — focuses on people in the middle of their lives, lost, trying to come to some sort of reckoning.

Frank's genius was to see America unfiltered, much like Walker Evans (whose "American Photographs" is an obvious precursor to "The Americans") and Dorothea Lange. There are no tricks here, no posing or false glory, just a sense of desolation, "(t)hat crazy feeling in America," as Jack Kerouac writes in his introduction, "when the sun is hot on the streets and the music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral."

What's most remarkable is Frank's timing, the way he caught the republic at exactly the moment it was becoming the country in which we live today. In these pages, we can see it — the postwar world yielding to something else entirely, as clear as the teenagers making out in a public park in Ann Arbor, Mich., or the newlyweds embracing, full of lust and desperation, in the lobby of the City Hall in Reno, Nev.

Reviewed by David Ulin

Los Angeles Times

"The Spiritualist"

by Megan Chance

Three Rivers Press, 432 pp., $14.95

Atmospheric and intriguing, this novel by Indianola (Kitsap Peninsula) author Megan Chance is set in upper-class New York society of the 1850s, where the working-class Evelyn has married a member of the prestigious Atherton family. To general astonishment, her husband — a recent convert to spiritualism and an enthusiastic partaker in séances — is found murdered and cast into the East River. Rapacious Atherton relatives try to seize the victim's money and assets by pinning the murder on Evelyn, who must act fast to find the real killer.

The novel has an almost palpably dark and wintry feel, and it's not initially clear whether the little group of spiritualists (headed by the charismatic Michel Jourdain) is composed of charlatans or visionaries. As Evelyn pursues her inquiries (where was her husband in the last days before his murder?), she enters a dark underworld that teaches her some shocking truths about his death — and his life. Then she has to find her own way forward, in a way she could never before have imagined.

Reviewed by Melinda Bargreen

Special to The Seattle Times

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