Here’s the Music Video for the new Eve single titled “Give It To You” featuring jamaican singer Sean Paul.
Charges have been dropped against the man accused of shooting Kinks singer Ray Davies because the star failed to appear in court for a second time. Davies said he was given only a few days’ notice of last Thursday’s case, which has been closed by prosecutors. The singer, 63, was shot in the leg while on holiday in New Orleans in 2004. He had chased two men who stole his girlfriend’s bag, police said. May be he has completely forgotten about the pain and hence forgot about appearing in the court as well. He could also be suffering from a memory loss, as if a person has been shot in the leg or for that matter anywhere on the body he won’t be forgiving the shooter at any cost, Ray might have had a soft corner for the shooter and now the case is history. The courts should call him and check whether he was really shot and check it with the gun shot mark.
Hey, Usher u need to to understand one thing u can’t expect to treat your moms and people who’s been their for u, like u know what! And expect God to turn the other cheek and bless u for your wrong doing. Usher you have a lot to learn from women a women who love’s you is going to keep it real with you. Believe it! Keep your head up. Always remember don’t forget were you come from and even though it seems though moms get on are nerves she always knows what’s best for us. Keep it real with ur self and God will do the rest. I hope that you realize that your folks wasn’t against her, but their eyes was open wider then your eyes was. Love will have you blind don’t be a fool chilly was the realist. Out here never heard nothing negative but ya’lls split. But remember you will always have ups and down no matter what GET YOUR BUTT UP AND SHAKE IT OFF! Make ur money because she sure in the **** ain’t giving a **** not even about her children. What is she going to do with yours! God got your back. Love ur self.
Keith Richards’ impending autobiography has fuelled a multi-million dollar publishing right conflict. Bidding for the the Rolling Stones rocker’s life story has reached nearly $7.5 million. London based literary agent Ed Victor has been conducting the auction in New York this week, inviting has three houses to offer their bids. The memoir, which will probably give people instant access to his two arrests and more so his personal relationship, is being co-authored by the rocker’s friend and noted non-fiction author James Fox. I am totally uninterested in knowing bout his memoirs, coz it’s going to be just like any other celeb’s autobiography, it will have all the ingredients that make a boring yet reveling, like their would scandals that he would tell us and blame his former partners for his sometimes bad behaviors and tell us why he went into depression and so forth, which what autobiographies are made. ya he could tell us a few surprises but really I am not the one buying an expensive book on him.
Peter Criss has had more than his share of goodbye Kisses.He’s on his third marriage, and his third breakup from Kiss, the glam-rock legends he co-founded 34 years ago. Best known for crooning the ballad “Beth,” about how the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle ends a marriage, the drummer has made peace with his tamer life as another transplanted New Yorker who moved to the Jersey shore.
Now 61 and about to become a grandfather, the jungle cat has become more of a house pet, with a solo album full of heartfelt ballads, “One For All,” coming out Tuesday.
Many of his songs deal with the pain of the breakups he’s endured.
“I sing about the band, I sing about the good times, the bad times,” Criss said in an interview. “I’m re-creating me to be comfortable with me again. This is about what I’ve really felt. I tore a lot out of my heart to get to this.”
Much of the album is light-years away from what he recorded with Kiss, such as a cover of Stephen Sondheim’s “Send In The Clowns.” Criss got the idea soon after ending his final Kiss tour.
After quitting the band in 2000, Criss signed up for a summer tour in 2003 under the impression that his dearest friend, guitarist Ace Frehley, would be there as well. But talks with Frehley fell though and Kiss put road manager Tommy Thayer into Ace’s makeup and had him play Ace’s solos note-for-note each night — a move that still rankles many Kiss fans.
“Ace not being there was tough for me,” Criss said. “So that last night, I just knew it was my last night with the band. I think they knew it, too. It just wasn’t working without him. Putting other guys in our costumes and makeup is to make money. It’s not the real deal. It’s not The Lone Ranger, not Hopalong Cassidy, it’s not Santa Claus.”
Rod Stewart was treated to a song and dance routine by Penny Lancaster and her friends on the eve of their wedding. The rocker, 62, wed long-term girlfriend Lancaster, 36, on a yacht off the Italian Riviera resort of Portofino last month. However the night before their nuptials, Lancaster and six friends dressed in white to perform a dance routine to Lady Marmalade’s Go Sister and Hot Legs – and Stewart was impressed by his wife’s musical talents. Why not, with so much money he could have paid the best in the business. Penny might have told him instead of splurging the money on some raunchy girls why not pay her and her friends the same money to perform for him. She would have taken the same money from his pockets and spent a night with her friend treating her friend to a sexy dance at their favorite boys’ striptease club the very next night.
Kelly’s numbers seem to be a bit down lately so let’s make certain to not leave her “perched” at number 5! “My December” is on its way to me and I anticipate hearing a collection of songs that showcase her great talent and voice. Whether or not the latest CD is a bit darker, edgier or intense matters not one iota to me. Kelly has already realized a tremendous measure of success when you think about where she came from and where she’s gone since winning the title of American Idol in 2002. While Clive Davis may have had a point in advising her not to release a CD which bears her own creations/co-ceations but no matter who is right or wrong, Kelly is exercising her right as an artist to take a fairly large risk at this juncture in her career. It may not make great business sense to Clive Davis but it does make great artist sense to Kelly Clarkson. We’ll have to wait until hindsight gives both of them perspective and real numbers. I am thrilled that she’s one gutsy rocker who is unafraid!
Iggy Pop is on his knees, prostrating himself to a Texas audience illuminated by the pale glow of cell phones and digital cameras.
A microphone cord is braced between his teeth like a bone, and his hands hang limply, palms down, beneath his chin, like he’s begging.
Camera flashes are rippling across his face and down a bare torso which still looks like a tangled mass of muscle and chewed wire — a battleground between the inevitabilities of age and the restorative powers of fitness.
With the wire in his mouth, it almost looks as if he’s being electrocuted. But Stooges fans know this pose: Iggy wants to be someone’s dog.
“No fun to be alone,” Iggy Pop is singing in Austin. But the crowd, pawing at his arms and screaming into his microphone, has long since rushed the stage.
Former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has quashed hopes for a future Smiths reunion, insisting Morrissey is impossible to even contact, let alone coax into reforming. Inside The Smiths last night (July 19) alongside drummer Mike Joyce, who refused to pass comment on the elusive star.
“He makes himself unavailable. He only communicates in postcards. But I suppose time is a great healer, and can change your perception of people,” Rourke told fans, implying they would have to patch up their relationship before any reunion could take place.
The bassist made a cheeky joke about the singer’s enigmatic sexuality when asked if Morrissey ever had any groupies, quipping, “He had a delivery once and the boy was in there with him for a good 10 minutes, but apart from that, I don’t think so.”
Meanwhile, Joyce claims in the documentary–which also features talking heads including the Kaiser Chiefs, Buzzcocks, and the Fall’s Mark E. Smith–that once guitarist Johnny Marr left the band, he realized how difficult Morrissey could be to work with.
The crunch, for Joyce, apparently came when the band and crew were sitting down for a meal.
“Morrissey was giving me the eye as if to say, ‘We need to have a word,’” recalled Joyce. “So he took me aside and said, ‘Who are these people we’re eating with?’ I said, ‘Well, they’re the producer, the engineer, the bassist, guitarist, and me.’ He said, ‘I don’t want to eat with these people.’ What do I do? Tell them to piss off and not eat with us? That was the brief.”
has played a comeback show after cancelling a number of concerts at the last minute.
The singer axed an appearance at Liverpool’s Summer Pops on July 4 and then pulled out of performances at Britain’s T In The Park and Oxegen Festival on July 7 and 8, citing “exhaustion.”
However, Winehouse played the Eden Sessions last night (July 17) in Cornwall, England.
The singer is also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for her album Back To Black. British bookmaker Ladbrokes has said she is the 5/2 favorite to win the prize, reports London’s Daily Mail.
Amy Winehouse has been advised to rest by a doctor after cancelling her second concert in a week. Her latest postponement follows reports in the British press that she had been seen drinking out in London despite being unwell.
Hootie & the Blowfish are again delaying the start of their summer tour as lead singer Darius Rucker recovers from a staph infection in his left knee.
Rucker, 41, has undergone three surgeries to clear the infection and is still trying to rehabilitate the knee, the band said in a statement Tuesday.
They canceled four shows and postponed eight more. The band already postponed the first 13 shows of the tour that was set to begin June 29.
The tour will now start Aug. 10 on Hilton Head Island.
Hootie & the Blowfish will keep a date to play three songs Friday in their hometown of Charleston on CBS’ “The Early Show.”
The canceled shows are in Roslyn, Wash.; Jacksonville, Ore.; Ventura, Calif.; and Turlock, Calif.
The postponed shows are in Kelseyville, Calif.; Temecula, Calif.; Anaheim, Calif.; San Diego; Livermore, Calif.; Glendale, Ariz.; Tucson, Ariz.; and Albuquerque, N.M.
The Police and Genesis are the rock reunions getting most of the attention this summer. Two other bands with smaller but rabid followings Crowded House and Squeeze are also getting back together after taking dramatically different paths.
Squeeze’s partial reunion is an exercise in nostalgia and a business calculation. Crowded House is trying to make a mark with new music after its two surviving original members bonded again over the death of their drummer.
Crowded House’s new CD comes less than a year after release of a DVD and disc of the band’s 1996 farewell concert before hundreds of thousands of fans outside of the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
Crowded House began unraveling when drummer Paul Hester quit in 1993. Drummers are in the background of many bands, but it was hard to miss Hester’s outsized personality in case you did, he’d leave his kit to perform handstands across the stage. Chief songwriter Neil Finn and bassist Nick Seymour dissolved the band a few years later.
Hester committed suicide in 2005. Such tragedies are always hard to explain, but Finn does not feel the lack of the band in Hester’s life had anything to do with it. Hester even knew before he died that the three men might work together again.
In the cases of both Crowded House and Squeeze, age melted away some of the annoyances that had broken them apart.
“I just feel like being in a band again,” Finn said. “It is true that more tolerance and appreciation of difference now exists. When we were younger we wanted each other to be like ourselves but now we realize with a band it’s the difference that creates the interest.”
Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other counts Sunday in the shooting of a woman in a trendy Manhattan neighborhood.
At the rapper’s arraignment, a judge granted the prosecution’s request for bail to be set at $250,000. Remy Ma was jailed while the judge reviewed her bail offer.
Police found a woman with a gunshot wound to her lower torso early Saturday in the Meatpacking District, which is usually crowded with late-night revelers on weekends.
Three blocks away, officers discovered a luxury SUV owned by Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith. The vehicle was involved in a single-car crash and abandoned, police said.
The victim, Makeda Barnes-Joseph, 23, was hospitalized in stable condition Sunday. Prosecutors said she and the rapper knew each other.
Remy Ma turned herself in Saturday night. She was charged with attempted murder, assault and weapon possession.
“I ask everyone to keep an open mind,” said Scott Leemon, her attorney. “Things are not always as they seem.”
Remy Ma, 26, is promoted on her Web site as an up-from-the-streets artist who escaped the hard-knock life of the Bronx to become a hip-hop star. She was nominated for a Grammy as part of the Terror Squad for the 2004 summer smash “Lean Back.” She also earned the Best Female Hip-Hop Artist award at the 2005 BET Awards.
Morrissey has slated Madonna’s penchant for wearing fur. The former Smiths front man was playing the Norva venue in Norfolk, Virginia, last week (July 9) when he verbally attacked the singer from the stage.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if she made that African boy she adopted into a coat and wore him for 15 minutes, then threw it away,” he declared.
The gig was organized by PETA–People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals–of whom Morrissey is a long-standing supporter.
The show was held close to the organization’s base, with the singer declaring: “I’m very gratified to be so close to the international headquarters of the People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals.”
However, Morrissey was not in a completely vitriolic mood, later joking about himself and his legacy.
Including several Smiths song in the set, including “The Queen Is Dead,” “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want,” “Girlfriend In A Coma,” and “How Soon Is Now?,” ahead of 1985 hit single “The Boy With The Thorn In His Side” he told the audience, “If you turn your head you’ll see a black hole you can’t escape from. That’s the past.”
After weeks of controversy, Prince’s new album Planet Earth has finally been released free with British newspaper the Mail on Sunday. An estimated three million copies of the record were distributed on today in a deal thought to be worth $500,000 to the musician.
The stunt has been criticized by a string of high street retailers in recent weeks, who brand the giveaway “an insult” to stores. This the consumer’s biggest delight and these retailers and music companies are crying foul to their own prospective customers. I have bought music CD’s worth hundreds of pounds in the last couple of years alone and if I can receive one for free with a newspaper then I would be happy. This is certainly marketing stunt but who cares until it’s benefiting the customer. Lately he hasn’t had success in the UK so if there is good music in the album then it eventually helps him gain ground in the UK. It’s a win win situation for all associated in this deal.
More than 500 scuba divers and snorkelers listened to a local radio station’s four-hour broadcast Saturday, piped in beneath the sea in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Musical selections at the annual Underwater Music Festival included the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” and Jimmy Buffett’s “Fins.”
This year, two local musicians — singing in the station’s studio — premiered songs, and opera was added to the program for the first time.
“We even played ‘Songs of the Humpback Whale,’” said festival organizer Bill Becker. “But thankfully, no whales came.”
Some divers wore costumes and imitated musicians including Elton John, Sammy Hagar and Sonny and Cher.
“I think it’s totally unique,” said Louise Trewavas, of London. “Not only do you have this amazing spectacle, you have all the fantastic fish that come to listen and take part in the festival.”
The event at Looe Key reef also had a serious side. Public service announcements about coral reef preservation were played between musical selections.
John Popper has been granted a conditional dismissal in a marijuana case that resulted in his arrest in March.
The misdemeanor charge of possession of pot and drug paraphernalia will be dropped if Popper avoids getting caught with marijuana for at least a year, said Deputy Prosecutor Ted Sams, adding that such agreements are common in misdemeanor drug cases in Adams County.
Popper gained fame as a harmonica player and front man for Blues Traveler. The band won a Grammy Award for the song “Run-Around,” which Popper composed.
Popper, 40, of Snohomish, and Brian Gourgeois, 34, of Austin, Texas, who was driving, were arrested and released on their own recognizance March 6 after a state trooper said Popper’s Mercedes sport utility vehicle was clocked at 111 mph on Interstate 90 near Ritzville.
The car was searched after the trooper said he smelled marijuana. Besides some pot, more than a dozen firearms were found in the car but were legally owned. A weapons charge over brass knuckles and a knife that were found in the glove box was dropped when Popper agreed to surrender them, Sams said.
Gourgeois was charged with reckless driving and the status of that case remained unclear.
Popper is on tour and couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday.
His lawyer, Carl E. Hueber, told The Spokesman-Review of Spokane he wanted to talk with the musician before commenting. A publicist for Popper didn’t return a call to the newspaper Wednesday.
British singer Bryan Ferry has apologized for remarks he made in an interview with a German newspaper in which he praised Nazi iconography as “just amazing” and “really beautiful.”
The 61-year-old lead singer of Roxy Music told Germany’s Welt Am Sonntag newspaper last month: “The way that the Nazis staged themselves and presented themselves, my Lord!
“I’m talking about the films of Leni Riefenstahl and the buildings of Albert Speer and the mass marches and the flags — just fantastic. Really beautiful.”
In a statement issued Monday, Ferry said he was “deeply upset” about the negative publicity the interview triggered, and added:
“I apologize unreservedly for any offence caused by my comments on Nazi iconography, which were solely made from an art history perspective.
“I, like every right-minded individual, find the Nazi regime, and all it stood for, evil and abhorrent.”
Jewish leaders in Britain, some of whom had condemned Ferry’s comments and questioned whether he should be dropped by the Marks & Spencer retail chain that employs him as a model, welcomed Ferry’s clarification.
“We do welcome the fact that he has issued a swift comment that there was no intention to condone the Nazi regime,” said Jeremy Newmark, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council.
“Nevertheless, his choice of language was deeply insensitive,” he added.
Lord Greville Janner, vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, told Reuters: “His apology was total, appropriate and absolutely necessary. I hope that he will never make the same mistake again.”
Rock star Sting quit taking cocaine in the early 1980s, because it blocked up his sinuses. The singer is grateful the illegal drug disagreed with him and he avoided a dependency on it, like so many of his contemporaries. The Police frontman tells Mojo, “I’m sure cocaine is horrible. It makes you feel uncomfortable in your skin. I was lucky I couldn’t get much of it into my system because it always blocked up my sinuses. Glad he found out that there was no point in taking drugs or else he would be lying in a corner in his top floor pent house like a sicko. I wish cocaine did that to everyone. Good for Sting that he quit. Ya, it might have meant that he might turn into a soulful singer singing if he kept having cocaine. And as if cocaine was a soul that came out of the grave and told him that it wasn’t to be good friends with sting and therefore just quit life with cocaine.
Rock singer Chrissie Hynde is such a strict vegetarian, she will only vote for animal-loving politicians. The Pretenders frontwoman is a fierce defender of animal rights and views people’s diets as a reflection of their character. A meat eater could never live with you, Nothing like a big juicy well done 20 lb roast with gravy and all the veggie’s ringing the side’s of the plate. Well okay, being a veggie is really a good thing and shall in the long run help you avoid major diseases but there a millions of people who just love the taste of meat you cannot stop them from having a nice meal can you. She says, “I wouldn’t vote for anyone who eats meat. It’s not a trivial matter. The only way to go forward is not to condone making profits from killing, or from exploitation. Vegetarianism transcends everything, as far as I am concerned. I could never live with a meat eater.”