Singing sensation Leona Lewis is reportedly set to score a huge £1million fee for any future personal appearances - putting her in the same league as Sir Paul McCartney.
The Bleeding Love star has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame since winning U.K. talent show The X Factor in 2006 - and can demand huge amounts of cash to perform intimate gigs for wealthy fans.
The star has been offered a £1 million personal appearance fee to play a small set for an unknown bidder, according to the Daily Mirror.
A source tells the newspaper, "Leona is one of the most sought after stars around. She has little say in the fee charges - big money sponsors literally name their fee and her management respond accordingly.
"She is adamant much of the profit goes straight back to her favourite charities."
Lewis, who has hit the top spot in both the U.K. and U.S. album charts with her debut LP Spirit, is reportedly worth £6 million - but gives most of her money away to charity organisations.
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Monday, 23 June 2008
Simon and Garfunkel
Artist: Simon and Garfunkel
Genre(s):
Folk
Rock
Folk: Folk-Rock
Pop
Easy Listening
Rock: Folk-Rock
Discography:
Old Friends: Live On Stage (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
The Essential Simon and Garfunkel (CD 1)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
The Best of Simon and Garfunkel
Year: 1999
Tracks: 20
The Definitive Simon and Garfunk
Year: 1991
Tracks: 20
The Concert In Central Park
Year: 1982
Tracks: 19
Concert In Central Park
Year: 1982
Tracks: 19
The Simon And Garfunkel Collection
Year: 1981
Tracks: 17
Greatest Hits
Year: 1972
Tracks: 14
Bridge Over Troubled Water (remastered)
Year: 1970
Tracks: 13
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Year: 1970
Tracks: 13
Bookends (Remastered)
Year: 1968
Tracks: 14
Bookends
Year: 1968
Tracks: 14
The Sounds Of Silence
Year: 1966
Tracks: 15
Sounds of Silence (remastered)
Year: 1966
Tracks: 15
Sounds Of Silence
Year: 1966
Tracks: 12
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Remastered)
Year: 1966
Tracks: 14
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Year: 1966
Tracks: 14
Wednesday Morning, 3 Am
Year: 1964
Tracks: 12
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Year: 1964
Tracks: 15
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M (Remastered)
Year: 1964
Tracks: 15
The Graduate
Year:
Tracks: 14
The Essential Simon and Garfunkel
Year:
Tracks: 33
The to the highest degree successful folk-rock duette of the 1960s, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel crafted a series of memorable hit albums and singles featuring their choirboy harmonies, ring acoustic, and electric guitars; and Simon's acute, delicately molded songwriting. The mate constantly inhabited the more than polished end of the folk-rock spectrum, and were sometimes criticized for a certain collegial sterility. Many too feel that Simon, as both a singer and songster, didn't genuinely bloom until he began his own enormously successful solo career in the seventies. But the best of S&G's work can stand among Simon's best material, and the duette did progression musically all over the course of their five-spot albums, moving from basic folk-rock productions into Latin rhythms and gospel-influenced arrangements that foreshadowed Simon's eclectic method on his solo albums.
Paul Simon & Garfunkel's recording history in reality predated their offset mid-'60s hit by most a decade. Childhood friends piece ontogeny up together in Forest Hills, NY, they began making records in 1957, playacting (and often writing their have material) in something of a adolescent Everly Brothers expressive style. Calling themselves Tom & Jerry, their first single, "Hey Schoolgirl," actually made the Top 50, merely a series of follow-ups went nowhere. The duet split up, and Simon continued to shinny to make it in the euphony business as a songster and casual performing artist, sometimes using the name calling of Jerry Landis or Tico & the Triumphs.
By the early '60s, both Simon and Garfunkel were advent under the influence of folk music. When they reteamed, it was as a tribe couple, though Simon's pop roots would serve the act considerably in their material's synthesis of family line and pop influences. Signing to Columbia, they recorded an initially unsuccessful acoustic debut (as Simon & Garfunkel, not Tom & Jerry) in 1964, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. They once more went their separate slipway, Simon moving to England, where he played the kinfolk circuit and recorded an obscure solo album.
The Simon & Garfunkel story might have over at that place, demur for a brainwave of their producer, Tom Wilson (world Health Organization likewise produced various of Bob Dylan's early albums). Folk-rock was pickings off in 1965, and Wilson, world Health Organization had helped Dylan electrify his good, took the strongest track from S&G's debut, "The Sound of Silence," and embellished it with electric guitars, bass, and drums. It got to act one in early 1966, giving the duad the impetus to reunite and make a sober go at a transcription vocation, Simon returning from the U.K. to the U.S. In 1966 and 1967, they were regular visitors to the pop charts with some of the best folk-rock of the era, including "Homeward Bound," "I Am a Rock," and "A Hazy Shade of Winter."
Simon & Garfunkel's early albums were erratic, simply they steadily improved as Simon sharpened his songwriting, and as the couple became more comfortable and adventurous in the studio. Their execution was so clean and tasteful that it price them some hipness points during the psychedelic earned run average, which was a flake wacky. They were far from the raunchiest thing going, just managed to pull off the peachy exploit of appealing to variable segments of the pop and john Rock audience -- and various years groups, not just now limited to adolescents -- without compromising their medicine. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (late 1966) was their first very consistent album; Bookends (1968), which actually blended antecedently released singles with some new real, reflected their ontogenesis maturity. One of its songs, "Mrs. Robinson," became one of the biggest singles of the late '60s afterward it was prominently featured in one of the charles Herbert Best films of the period, The Graduate (which besides had early Simon & Garfunkel songs on the soundtrack).
It was unsurprising, in retrospect, that the duo's partnership began to weaken in the late '60s. They had known each other almost of their lives, and been playacting together for over a decennium. Simon began to find constrained by the limits of working with the same henchman; Garfunkel, world Health Organization wrote virtually none of the material, felt overshadowed by the songwriting talents of Simon, though Garfunkel's high tenor was crucial to their invoke. They started to phonograph record some of their contributions singly in the studio, and hardly played live at all in 1969, as Garfunkel began to pursue an acting career.
Their last studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, was an enormous hit, topping the charts for x weeks, and containing foursome score singles (the title course, "The Boxer," "Cecilia," and "El Condor Pasa"). It was certainly their most musically ambitious, with "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and "The Boxer" employing thundering drums and tasteful orchestration, and "Cecilia" marking one of Simon's offset forays into South American rhythms. It as well caught the confused, reflective tenor of the multiplication better than about any other popular release of 1970.
That would be their last album of new material. Although they didn't necessarily mean to break up at the time, the break from recording finally became permanent; as Simon began a solo calling that brought him as a great deal success as the S&G outings, and Garfunkel chased coincidental acting and recording careers. They did reunite in 1975 for a Top Ten single, "My Little Town," and periodically performed unitedly since without ever approaching close to generating albums of new material. A 1981 concert in New York's Central Park attracted half a meg fans, and was commemorated with a live album; they likewise toured in the early '80s, only a aforethought studio album was canceled due to artistic differences.
Coldplay: 'Religious Lyrics Come from School Assemblies'
Monday, 16 June 2008
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
The bright red and orange cover, the exclamation marks, the press shot where he's laughing like he's just watched every episode of 'The US Office'... Nick Cave's lighter side may take some fans a little getting used to, but the music connects as quick as ever.
Split between great garage rock and slow-moving menace, '...Lazarus...' begs to be listened to in halves: half of the songs when you're heading out the door for the night, the others when you get home. You can take on the world and then dive the depths afterwards.
Following on from the distortion pedal charm of last year's Grinderman side project, Cave has decided that the ringing in the ears should continue longer, and on 'Albert Goes West' and 'Lie Down Here' the equipment and eustachean tubes get some nasty treatment. At 50, he's never sounded younger.
When you've tired yourself out from headbanging to them, 'More News from Nowhere' and 'Hold on to Yourself' are so chock full of moody soundtrack ambience that you'll wonder if Cave could turn their lyrics into films.
The quality control throughout is superb and, just like with 'Nocturama' in 2003, by the close you'll be yearning for more and wishing that this had been a double album.
Harry Guerin
For a chance to win a copy of the album, click here.
Split between great garage rock and slow-moving menace, '...Lazarus...' begs to be listened to in halves: half of the songs when you're heading out the door for the night, the others when you get home. You can take on the world and then dive the depths afterwards.
Following on from the distortion pedal charm of last year's Grinderman side project, Cave has decided that the ringing in the ears should continue longer, and on 'Albert Goes West' and 'Lie Down Here' the equipment and eustachean tubes get some nasty treatment. At 50, he's never sounded younger.
When you've tired yourself out from headbanging to them, 'More News from Nowhere' and 'Hold on to Yourself' are so chock full of moody soundtrack ambience that you'll wonder if Cave could turn their lyrics into films.
The quality control throughout is superb and, just like with 'Nocturama' in 2003, by the close you'll be yearning for more and wishing that this had been a double album.
Harry Guerin
For a chance to win a copy of the album, click here.
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Speedy J
Artist: Speedy J
Genre(s):
House
Techno
Ambient
Discography:
Public Energy No 1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
A Shocking Hoppy
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
A Shocking Hobby
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
G Spot
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Jochem Paap, aka Speedy J, is a Rotterdam-based techno musician whose urbane blending of melodious electro-pop with a harder, more Detroit-fueled sharpness has been among the most highly-praised of post-rave European techno. The Dutch repp in Richie "Plastikman" Hawtin's Plus 8 judge, Paap was equally well-known as a club DJ (his nom de platter is in reference to his artistry on the cut) ahead decision making in 1997 to curtail his DJ engagements and nidus on his medicine. His 1993 debut LP, Powdered ginger, was an piquant portmanteau word of ambient textures and hard, laconic beats, and was immediately smacked with the "intelligent dance music" tag, assisted by the comprehension of a geminate of tracks on the first volume of Warp's influential (Stilted Intelligence) series. Paap has since released several follow-ups under the Speedy J byname (G-Spot, Public Energy No. 1, A Shocking Hobby) and two solo albums in an ambient series for Fax titled Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598 (just re-insert the wanting vowels for a spry translation). He's besides recorded a sprinkling of material as Public Energy for Plus 8, as easily as for his possess Beam Me Up! judge before discontinuing the latter in 1996. He is cofounder of a Dutch remix net, dedicated to bringing Dutch electronic musicians in touch with one some other and nurture collaborative projects, and late to his moratorium on the DJ circuit was known for his commitment to bringing dance-based experimental electronic music to a wider audience, playing out often in improbable combinations with groups like Cypress Hill and Henry Rollins. In addition to his original recorded put to work, Paap has besides remixed tracks for Secret Cinema and Sven Väth. [See to it Also: Jochem Paap]
Monday, 2 June 2008
Eddie Murphy marries film producer
It is reported that Eddie Murphy married film producer Tracey Edmonds on a private island in French Polynesia yesterday.
People magazine reports that the ceremony took place off Bora Bora and was attended by 25 guests.
Murphy divorced his wife of 13 years, Nicole, in 2006. The couple had five children.
Edmonds was previously married to R&B star Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds. They had two children together.
People magazine reports that the ceremony took place off Bora Bora and was attended by 25 guests.
Murphy divorced his wife of 13 years, Nicole, in 2006. The couple had five children.
Edmonds was previously married to R&B star Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds. They had two children together.
BB Celebrity Hijack details revealed
Details of the house that contestants will live in for the new series 'Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack' have been revealed.
This year no celebrities will enter the 'Big Brother' house but well-known personalities will instead act as Big Brother, setting tasks and making the rules for the housemates, who are a group of talented young people, including scientists and acrobats.
The new house will feature Banksy-style stencilling and graffiti on the walls, with 12 single beds for the housemates to sleep in.
The Diary Room chair is neon purple and the bedroom walls are decorated with a British cityscape.
The garden has an intimate hot tub instead of a swimming pool and the housemates will also have access to a gym.
Dermot O'Leary is due to present the new series with Davina McCall returning to present the summer series of 'Big Brother'.
A Channel 4 statement said: "The identity of the celebs taking part remains tightly under wraps, but their aim will be simple: putting their stamp on the activities in the 'Big Brother' house and generally causing mischief."
This year no celebrities will enter the 'Big Brother' house but well-known personalities will instead act as Big Brother, setting tasks and making the rules for the housemates, who are a group of talented young people, including scientists and acrobats.
The new house will feature Banksy-style stencilling and graffiti on the walls, with 12 single beds for the housemates to sleep in.
The Diary Room chair is neon purple and the bedroom walls are decorated with a British cityscape.
The garden has an intimate hot tub instead of a swimming pool and the housemates will also have access to a gym.
Dermot O'Leary is due to present the new series with Davina McCall returning to present the summer series of 'Big Brother'.
A Channel 4 statement said: "The identity of the celebs taking part remains tightly under wraps, but their aim will be simple: putting their stamp on the activities in the 'Big Brother' house and generally causing mischief."
Blake Shelton - Shelton Falls For Bubles Ipod Hit
Country star BLAKE SHELTON has girlfriend MIRANDA LAMBERT to thank for his hit cover of crooner MICHAEL BUBLE's song HOME - because she downloaded the tune on his iPod.
Fellow country singer Lambert was such a fan of Buble's 2005 track she put it on Shelton's iPod, so he could think of her when he heard the song on tour.
But he did more than that when the tune started becoming a favourite of his.
He tells America's USA Today newspaper, "The more I listened, the more I thought, 'That's not just an adult-contemporary record, that's a country hit, too.'"
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