Not Too Quiet

Legendary Bruce Springsteen was recently fined right after his a little bit too long performance at the Glastonbury festival in Britain, said ContactMusic. Of course, abropting someone like Bruce will never work, and writing out ‘tickets’ is absolutely impossible. Usually those are very small amounts of money for people like Springsteen, but the whole idea behind ‘cutting’ of a musician because he is not stopping on time looks slightly odd. On June 27 Springsteen was closing a third day of the festival together with his group E Street Band on the Pyramid Stage. Bruce’s debut performance at the Glastonbury stage was lasting for two and a half hours, including twenty five songs out of his classic arsenal such as “Badlands”, “Born To Run”, and “Thunder Road”. Eventually he was fined due to the fact that his performance lasted on forty minutes longer than originally designed by the organizers and local authorities. After twelve o’clock at night it should be quiet in around the Glastonbury area. Come on, it’s the festival event and Mr. Springsteen is performing, law is law, but certain exceptions are definitely possible in these cases. However, festival’s top manager Michael Eavis said that he is going to pay Bruce’s fine because he believes that his performance was absolutely stunning. In 2004 Paul McCartney was also fined for a long performance.

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The Last Return

Michael Jackson’s hit’s album “Number Ones” went number one on the British national music chart. Previously, it was standing as far as the 121 place can be, but after the recent tragic events things have changed unbelievably quickly. Before, the first spot was occupied by Kasabian and it’s album “West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum”, but it just could not resist the wave of sentiments coming from every corner right now. So often death of an icon, which was not so popular anymore or was shadowed by so many unpleasant scandals, suddenly makes that icon universally big again. Also, the first ten includes “Thriller”, “King of Pop”, “Off the Wall” and “The Essential”. Besides that, British people began to show an intereset towards Jackson’s singles among which are “Man in the Mirror”, “Thriller”, “Billie Jean”, “Smooth Criminal”, “Beat It” and “Earth Song”. All of these infamous singles are within the first forty hits. Currently, a lot of people identify Jackson with an era, which was long gone (even though it was just in the 80’s and early 90’s), but now everything what may be dealing with this figure sort of comes back. The king of pop had returned for a certain period of time in order to remind of himself, probably for the last time.

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Music And Movies For Gallagher

Vocalist from the legendary British band Oasis Liam Gallagher is about to participate in the movie called “Powder”, which is based on Kevin Sampson’s book of the same title. This news came out on Wednesday this week with the help of New Musical Express, as always. Particualarly, the one who told this info is the infamous Guru Josh, very cool British post acid house musician. Following some other facts givem by ContactMusic, Gallagher will start acting in September 2009, right after the current Oasis tour. Another example of a multi oriented talent. It’s well known that Guru Josh (the real name Paul Walden) will act himself in the movie, but what role shall be granted to Gallagher will become known a little bit later. “Powder” is produced by Sampson himself, so it should turn out pretty close to the original idea. Since the issue of his book the guy always wanted to project it onto screen and finally it should come in to existance. In the past Sampson used to manage The Farm, a group from Liverpool, thence his connection with the music world is quite strong. “Powder” itself will tell about the history of the music industry and particularly about Brit pop, which obviously includes Oasis as one of the beginners of this genre.

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Being On Top

According to Forbes, Madonna had taken the first place among the richest musicians in the world. During the last twelve months, from June 2008 until the same month this year she was able to gain 110 million dollars. Such a thing could become possible with the help of Sticky & Sweet Tour, which took place in support of her eleventh studio album - “Hard Candy”. However, these statistics did not include Madonna’s spendings on a divorce with Guy Ritchie, which presumably stole seventy five (!) million dollars from her pockets. Interesting, did she spend all these money on lawyers or gave it to Ritchie? Why did the ‘guy’ agree take it from her, and anyway, why it should be so expensive after all? The second place was conquered by Celine Dion – one hundred million dollars. Third spot went to Beyonce – eighty seven million. All three are obviously don’t look very poor, especially after spending millions on divorces. Among men the richest musician is Bruce Springsteen, his “Working on a Dream” tour brought him seventy million dollars providing this musician with the fourth place. Fifth position went to an American country singer Kenny Chesney. Lots of money and lots of fame, power and respect that keeps on being recorded by Forbes.

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Time To Move

Founder of the British Glastonbury festival Michael Eavis is now thinking about taking some rest from his work. As the guy says he is planning to leave director’s position of one of the biggest music events in the world. This should happen in 2011, notes New Musical Express. Eavis also wants to give all his responsibilities to his daughter Emily and her future husband Nick. Their involvement in Glastonbury affairs is going to grow and by the time when Eavis shall leave the business a couple will start taking care over everything. However, the founder of Glastonbury had noted that even after his leave he wants to participate in the events anyway. “I still feel I have an important role to play. Even if I go I’ll worry about the drains, the rubbish, the recycling. There will be a gradual process of her and Nick taking it over,” said Eavis. The old king still wants to know what happens and no matter what stick his nose in the affairs of the future generation. Glastonbury-2009 will take place on June 26–29 and will include a lot of prominet musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, reunited Blur, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Status Quo, Madness, The Prodigy, Franz Ferdinand and many more.

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Beck Is Going To Do It Everyday

Infamous American musician Beck Hansen is now the founder of the “Record Club” project, which is planning to organize and record the album per day. This curious information was taken from Beck’s official website. It’s either very strange or very talented because how can one write so much stuff without having some special qualities to do so? The answer is dwelling in covers, not the original material.  Maybe it’s just part of the music PR and advertisiment process in order to make Beck look quite different from the rest of the music business crowd. Even by writing this article about the news means that if it belongs to PR then they’ve achieved their goal. Seriously, one album each day, very interesting thing after all. As the New Musical Express said, Beck’s “Record Club” was already joined by a singer Devendra Banhart, the band called MGMT and the famous British producer Nigel Godrich. The project will start with covering The Velvet Underground’s debut album – “The Velvet Underground & Nico”. When exactly this unique “club” shall start it’s actual recordings is not know yet. Beck believes that before going to the studio, musicians have to rehearse and try to excercise in order to make some cool covers. He did not mention what other albums these brave guys are going to cover, but had promised that it will be announced right after the club begins it’s activities.

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McCartney Writes For Cartoons

Sir Paul McCartney is going to become the author of a soundtrack for his own “High in the Clouds” tale, which came out in 2005, said BBC News. McCartney is one of those creators who can perform constantly without swithing their life towards some kind of an artistic time out. Music goes into acting (not in his case though), acting may go into writing or drawing and other things of this nature. Rob Minkoff who had produced “Lion King” and Michael Lynne famous for his co-working the the creators of “The Lord Of The Rings” are currently making “High in the Clouds” cartoon film. It’s not known so far when exactly this artistic piece will come out, but again, everything from rock music to little squirrels…  “High in the Clouds” was written by McCartney together with Philip Ardagh and became very well known all around the world among many children since 2006. McCartney’s romance with cartoons is not suppose to be something extra ordinary because such thing had already happened before. In 1984 Sir Paul wrote a song “We All Stand Together” for another anime called “Rupert and the Frog Song”. Back then in turned to be the hit. In other words if a person is talented in one thing, he is going to be talented in everything else too.

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Is It Really Over?

Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor had recently told the press that his two hour performance at the Bonnaroo festival on June 13 was the last concert in the US, said NME. This news of course sounds a little bit upsetting to those who admire this band, and especially to those who love to see them performing live. Nine Inch Nails used to spend a lot of time off the stage, not every album was produced regularly often taking years of waiting for them to come out from the studio. During the recent four years the band was on the rise again by making something new almost every year. Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction have just finished the joint tour in around the North America. The Los Angeles Times notes that the band’s summer 2009 European tour is going to be their last one. In the meantime NIN’s offical web site was recently posting some information about the fact that the band is about to take a rest from the concert activities, but did not clarify for how long and wheather it may touch it’s presence at the studio. Many journalists believe that such action can be tied to Reznor’s decision to get married. In May it became known that Reznor is engaged to Mariqueen Maandig, a singer from the West Indian Girl.

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DUI, Drugs And Doherty

There is absolutely no setting down for some rock stars, they just keep on having fun, wild parties and rebellions all the time. On the night between June 10 and 11 Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty was arrested again, this time for driving under the influence and possession of illegal substances. Also, he refused to follow everything what cops were asking him to do, said BBC News. The guy is having fun, that’s for sure. He was accompanyed with a 30–years old lady whose name was not told to the press so far. Double fun. Doherty was stopped by the Gloucester police in England on the way back from the solo acoustic concert. As BBC says, cops have decided to stop his car after noticing that it’s not following traffic rules, it simply looked too suspicious. Currently, the law enforcement people speak of his resistance to stop right away, and some total lack of sobriety on the side of his female company. She was arrested too for keeping drugs. It’s all quite interesting because the guy was already arrested only six days ago at the Geneva airport for using illegal substances during the flight. Then a singer was let loose pretty quickly after he paid a ticket. This time it may go a little bit more further due to the DUI case.

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Blur Is Coming Out

The British band Blur which publicly announced it’s reunion by the end of 2008 had eventually performed live for the first time in ten years, said Contact Music. The band was singing at it’s best on June 13. Noteworthy, in order to come back to the stage Blur musicians have chosen the same venue where they’ve been performing for the first time in their career in 1988. Damon Albarn’s group did this again right next to the Railway museum near Colchester in England. For some strange reason they’ve tried to stay away from any kind of performing, and therefore left out the main thing which creates the real rock n’ roll environment. The band lost certain connection with what people call the fan base. This show’s set-list contained twenty four songs among which are Blur’s major hits such as “Girls And Boys (“Parklife” 1994), “Country House” (“The Great Escape” 1995), “Country House” (“Blur” 1997), and “Coffee & TV” (“13” 1999). The concert itself was arrangd in the classic, chamber like style including journalists, photographers and closest friends or relatives. New Musical Expresse’s main editor was taking care of the online broadcast via Twitter. In the nearest time Blur is planning to participate at the number of major shows, and those include “Glastonbury” and “T in the Park” in London.

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New Drummer, New Life For The Pumpkins

The world famous Chicago group The Smashing Pumpkins had eventually found a new drummer, said their official web site. A new member of Billy Corgan’s band is going to be the 19–years old Mike Byrne from Beaverton, Oregon. This young drummer had already spent some time with the band’s frontman and even was able to participate during the latest demo recording process. As Corgan says, Byrne is totally fitting into the band’s requirements, very talented and progressive guy. The Smashing Pumpkins vocalist had also noted that he considers Byrne to be a drummer of the future. Seems that Mike is marching on top as fast as anyone can imagine. Nineteen and working with such a band, it looks absolutely unbelievable. Before joining Corgan he used to play with an indie group “Moses, Smell the Roses” in his home town.  Byrne had replaced Jimmy Chamberlin who has left The Smashing Pumpkins in March, 2009. While leaving the band Jimmy had commented it with no real anger in his voice, only stating that The Smashing Pumpkins is not doing what it suppose to do and that he is going to spent all the time with his new solo project Jimmy Chamberlin Complex. At the same time he remains to be in good relations with hix ex-bandmates.

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"L'Amour Et La Paix"

“L’Amour et La Paix” poster drawn by John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their famous “Bed-in for Peace” action, which took place in 1969 at the Canadian Queen Elizabeth hotel is going to appear on the auction sales, said Canwest News Service.  An auction which was of course organized by the Christie’s should occur on July 1. Another sale of Lennon’s stuff, another very common thing which repeats itself over and over again. It looks like a lot of folks out there are making big money on such things. It is expected that at least seventy thousand dollars should be squeezed out of that drawing. It seems that if something like this is getting sold out, auctioneers are just pushing it to the limits. In fact things that were created by a guy like Lennon are priceless. This poster is not going to be the only thing to get to that auction. It should also include some photograph where Lennon and Oko are standing right next to “L’Amour et La Paix”. While commenting an upcoming event one of the Christie’s representatives said that Lennon used to be extremely concerned with politics and could not stay out of it, no matter what was going on. In fact, “L’Amour et La Paix” was a couple’s reaction to political turmoil in the French speaking Quebec.

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Restrictions Over The Flying Dickinson

Iron Maiden’s leader Bruce Dickinson is not going to operate an airplane for a short period of time. A singer is a certified pilot, but during his band’s touring journey he will not be able to fly for at least twelve hours after the show, the rest is allright for him, said Blabbermouth. Stress, tiredness and other things that may be associated with the show may distort concentration that is crucial while operating an airplane. For the first time such sanctions were taken in 2008 during Iron Maiden’s “Somewhere Back in Time World Tour”. He was recommended to stay out of the cockpit for at least twelve hours after each show. Dickenson himself hoped to get the right to fly without any restrictions, but the British Civil Aviation Authority thought otherwise and recommended him to use a co-pilot’s help during the tour. Iron Maiden possesses it’s own Boeing-757, operated by Dickinson. Pretty cool thing for any band to have this kind of an airplane, especially if it’s being controlled by one of the bandmates. Even though Dickinson was somewhat upset after he had received the above mentioned restrictions. The rest of his band had agreed with the aviation authorities. “Some of the road crew were like, ‘What? After running around onstage, he is going to fly us back?”, said Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain.

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Tom York Is About To Perform... Alone

Frontman of the legendary British band Radiohead Tom York is planning to make the solo concert in the nearest time, said BBC News. Musician’s performance should take place on July 19 within the frames of Latitude music festival. The main organizer Melvin Benn has underlined the fact that he is very proud to present Tom at his festival, which is traditionally taking place in Suffolk county, England. The set list which is being planned exclusively by York himself did not go public yet, but it’s very well known that recently he was preparing some solo material. Particularly, it stopped being a secret after the release of Radiohead’s new album “In Rainbows” (2007). In other words, this guy had plenty of time to write something new and hopefully it will be absolutely cool. At the same time York’s representative had noted that musician will not release any studio album with this new material. It simply shall not go into Tom’s plans. In 2006 Tom York had released his one and the only solo album “The Eraser” which was able to reach number three on the British national music chart. Eight out of nine songs which were included in that album were personally written by York.

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Converse Shares It With Meta/DC

Famous shoe making company Converse had announced the news that it’s about to release a new line of their product, which was inspired by nothing less, but musicians. In the nearest time people will be able to see sneakers with Metallica and AC/DC photographs on them, said Aversion. Sneaker’s design that was dedicated to AC/DC will be set up within the band’s “Highway to Hell” album style (1979). In what particular way Metallica’s shoes will look like is not known yet. As Prefix notes each pair of such sneakers should go for fifty five dollars. Basically, every Metallica’s and AC/DC’s fan should strive for it, even though it may look a little bit too commercialised for many rock n’ roll lovers. Converse is not trying to do this kind of work for the first time. In 2008 they’ve produced sneakers with Kurt Cobain’s autographs and also with themes from The Ramones, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath. In addition to this, Converse’ shoe style is one of the most popular among rock music fans today. Currently, there are not so many companies that are making stuff like this, in order to get a t-shirt or jacket with ‘bands’ on it, one should make a serious search. Converse was founded in 1908 by Marcus Converse who had established his company’s headquarters in Malden, Massachusetts.

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Cook Prepares "Surreal" Once Again

Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook have announced the fact that they’re getting ready for re-releasing of their first and only joint album, said New Musical Express. The album “Surreal” which came out in 2008 was the result of their co-operation within the side project called Man Raze. The new deluxe edition of “Surreal” will not only include the original twelve tracks, but five more additional songs too. These new tracks are, “You’re So Wrong”, concert version of “Low”, dub-remix of “Turn It Up”, instrumental version of “Runnin’ Me Up” and acoustic “Can’t Find My Own Way” recorded during their performance somewhere in Britain. Sex Pistols and Def Leppard were quite different back in a day, so this co-work between Collen and Cook looks very positive. The new version’s release is going to be surrounded by Man Raze’s North American promotional tour. So far there is no information on ticket sales and venues. Man Raze was formed in 2004 by Collen, Cook and Simon Laffy from the British glam-metal band Girl. Their first concert took place on September 27, 2005 in London’s Spitz club. Certainly, tickets to that club show were sold like never before and right now it’s considered to be something out of the legendary rock n’ roll past.

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Adam Lambert May Not Join Queen

“American Idol” participant and a singer Adam Lambert said that he is not planning to become a new Queen’s frontman, noted Blabbermouth. He believes that it’s going to be better if he concentrates upon his solo career right now, instead of getting involved with any other side projects. Of course, turning into a new vocalist in such a great band as Queen would be terrific for any performer, but this guy thinks otherwise. Information on the fact that Lambert may become Queen’s new member began to circle news agencies during the last few days. Brian May had recently said that he will not be against if a young and talented musician joins them, also underlining that such vacancy is not foreseen only for Lambert. On the other hand in one of his interviews, Lambert was thinking about making some co-operative and productive work with Queen, but did not show any particular wish to sing with them all the time. “They’ve never actually offered me anything. They expressed interest in working together, but just said they’d like to have a meaningful conversation, and that’s it. It could have meant they wanted me to come to dinner with them, it could have meant they wanted to talk about the meaning of life,” noted Lambert. Actually, it’s a little bit strange because for a guy like him it would be absolutely fantastic. Well, maybe he doesn’t like Queen that much.

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Trent Against Manson

Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor had recently given an interview to a Mojo magazine where he was extremely negative towards his ex-protege Marilyn Manson, said Rolling Stone. “He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody’s face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he’s become a dopey clown,” noted Reznor. As Trent also said he used to experience some difficulties with Manson way back during their joint 1994 tour. According to Trent Reznor even at that time Manson was doing everything only to enter the fame, nothing else was interesting to that guy. However, Reznor kept on co-operating with Marilyn Manson for a while and helped him to release a number of albums such as “Portrait of an American Family (1994), “Smells Like Children” (1995), and “Antichrist Superstar” (1996). In 2000 Marilyn Manson had participated in the Nine Inch Nails video “Starfuckers, Inc”, so things were not so bad for a long time since both musicians began to have arguments. Some say that there is a degree of jelousy on both sides, some believe Manson is a star with an attitude. Besides all of this, recently Trent Reznor had enough time to say bad things about other performers as well. In his Twitter micro-blog Reznor had posted some bitterness against Chris Cornell, Prince and Weezer vocalist Rivers Cuomo.  

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Madonna And Guy

Unfortunatelly, Peter Howson was not able to sell his unique “Madonna and Guy” at Glasgow’s art dealing auction, which was organised by the McTear’s Auctioneers and Valuers, said New Musical Express. A canvas which shows naked Madonna and her ex-husband Guy Ritchie in the grotesque form did not inspire buyers to purchase it. This painting received a few requests, but none of it was able to reach the required price of fifteen thousand pounds. Surely, Howson’s painting is a little bit odd and strange, even offensive at some point. However, it’s possible that some time later, after many years will pass, it shall be worthed on the right level. Many controversial works of art such as this one did not get enough attention in the beginning, but later were considered to be something very special. “Madonna and Guy” is still avalable for purchase, however McTear’s is not going to continue to put it on auction anymore. They just lost any hope to make it big right now. “Madonna and Guy” was created in 2005 and was immediately included into Howson’s collection of paintings where Madonna is not showing any clothing. Among those who possess this artist’s other paintings are popular musicians such as Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Madonna herself.

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Ozzy Wants 50%

Legendary Black Sabbath leader Ozzy Osbourne had started the court procedure against his old collegue and the band’s guitarist Tony Iommy, said Blabbermouth. The reason for such an action is Ozzy’s disappointment over Iommy’s rights to literally own “Black Sabbath” trademark, which now legally belongs to him with the help of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. As Osbourne says, Black Sabbath guitarist had registered “Black Sabbath” as a brand without having any legal rights to do so, at least without consulting him. Ozzy is insisting on changing the registration documents and wants 50% share. What particular role is Sharon Osbourne (Ozzy’s wife and manager) playing in this process? Maybe she is involved, hence Sharon is a huge business lady and knows how to count money very well. Her strong influence on Ozzy is also quite famous. On the other hand, Iommy was not supposed to do something like this because how he could forget to include one and the only real frontman of Black Sabbath. Of course, he was (Ozzy) not the only one to participate in the band, but he was the original and without any doubt the best. In addition to this news, Ozzy also wants some of those money Iommy was making while totally possessing “Black Sabbath” as a brand. Iommy should better give something to Ozzy because truthfully it’s not really fair.

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