Jimmy Page joins local stars in Beijing

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BEIJING -- Jimmy Page, Leona Lewis and Placido Domingo joined Chinese performers including Wei Wei, Andy Lau and Karen Mok at the 2008 Beijing Olympics' closing ceremony Sunday night.

Held at the National Stadium, as well known as the Bird's Nest, the ceremony was held before a capacity crowd of 91,000 and hundreds of Olympic athletes.

After the handover of the Olympic flag to Boris Johnson, mayor of 2012 Summer Olympics host city London, a red double-decker London bus entered the sports stadium. From the bus emerged singer Lewis and Led Zeppelin guitarist Page, wHO performed Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love." The performance culminated with an appearance by international association football star David Beckham.

The ceremony continued with South Korean male vocaliser Rain, Hong Kong distaff vocalist Kelly Chen and Chinese-American vocaliser Wang Lee-Hom who jointly performed "Beijing, Beijing, Wo Ai Beijing (Beijing, Beijing, I Love Beijing)." Domingo then performed "Ai de Huoyan (The Flame of Love)," in Chinese and English, with Chinese soprano Song Zuying.

The Genius Club

A motion-picture show about the world's superlative minds should include -- at the very least -- a modicum of intellectual discourse. What a disappointment then to have a bunch of dopes spitting out earnest soap opera dialogue. That's The Genius Club, a low-budget hopeful thriller that's anything merely smart.


In fact, writer-director Timothy Chey's failed feature sets up one implausible scenario after some other, on top side of uniformly unremarkable performing. What's leftfield to the story then? An ambitious concept that's flat from the first clich�d crease of narration.


It seems a madman (Tom Sizemore, playing to type) is holding Washington, D.C. hostage with a nuclear weapon he's ready to detonate. But if a small mathematical group of the country's highest IQs lav correctly answer high-minded questions posed by Crazy Guy, he'll call it off and spare half a million lives. So Homeland Security -- which appears to be three serious-looking college guys -- rounds up the smarties and hustles them to an empty storage warehouse in D.C. to play the game.


We've been duped. Instead of actually

New Girls Aloud album expected in November

Girls Aloud will exit their fifth studio album in November, according to a report today.

As well as organism busy on their stream tour of the UK, the girls have been in the studio working on the follow-up to Tangled Up, which was released at the end of last year.

According to The Sun, the group will freeing the album's first individual in October, before the LP itself is released the following month.

A origin told the newspaper: "The girls are really worked up about this one. They think it's their best album even. The lowest was their most successful so far and that has minded them the drive to keep going.

"They have got spent more time recording this unmatched than they have in the past because they want to get it right."



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Bob Marley and The Wailers

   
Artist: Bob Marley and The Wailers

   Genre(s): 
Reggae
   Reggae
   

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Discography:


   
 Jamaica Joint Jump Digipak

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 19


   
 Greatest Hits At Studio One

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 18


   
 Greatest Hits At 1 Studio

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 18


   
 Natural Mystic

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16


   
 Shakedown Marley Remixed

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Jungle Dub

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 24


   
 Talkin' Blues [Remaster]

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 24


   
 Rebel Music

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 10


   
 Uprising

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 10


   
 Survival

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 10


   
 Babylon by Bus [live]

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 13


   
 Exodus - Movement Of Jah People

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 10


   
 Live!

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 7


   
 Natty Dread

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 9


   
 Burnin'

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 10


   
 African Herbsman

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 16


   
 Catch A Fire

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 9


   
 Soul Rebels

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 12

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'Hottie' could heat up 'Napoleon' fans

First-time filmmaker Seth Packard's teen comedy premiering at L.A. Film Festival, writes Martin A. Grove. Full story.

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Soprano, Contralto, Tenore, Basso, Chorus, Orchest

   
Artist: Soprano, Contralto, Tenore, Basso, Chorus, Orchest

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   

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Discography:


   
 Tantum ergo in E flat major, for 4 soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra, D 962

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 1

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Steve Winwood, Nine Lives

There’s some good news and some bad news about the new album from Steve Winwood. The sleek production, laid-back grooves, deep-vein bass lines, sinuous percussion, and instantly singable tunes that have hallmarked his output since Arc Of A Diver in 1980 are all in place here. That’s the good news. If you’d like to hear Winwood’s undoubted talent break sweat a little, then it’s also the bad news.

Since reaching the platinum lined destination of 1986’s Back In The High Life there’s a sense in which Winwood has become something of a musical sleepwalker, content to languidly wander around his AOR / MOR surroundings rather than stretch and flex his muscles.

Of course his voice remains his greatest asset, possessing the apparent contradiction of being ostensibly thin and slight yet able to cut to the soul with telling effect. It’s this aspect of his work that has often carried material which would otherwise be anonymous and trivial in the hands of another artist.

I’m Not Drowning, a stripped-back blues shouter, limbers up nicely; Eric Clapton’s cameo kicks up the dust on Dirty City; Raging Sea (the second of three titles with aquatic allusions) surges with infectious licks, whilst Fly has a winsome charm that’s hard to resist.

Yet too often there’s a sense in which the individual components fail to connect effectively with each other, separated in a cloying sheen of too-glossy production.

Perhaps the worst offender is Other Shore. A bedrock of bongos, supple interleaving guitar and bass, and a wash of keyboards sway prettily behind a lyric that speaks of being free and the exhilaration of life and love. At around three minutes a sax solo gets all smoochy but the backing remains conspicuously unmoved by its ardent overtures and advances. It should be moving but isn’t.

The trouble with all of this is the album as a whole is taken at the kind of velocity that makes the queue in the post office on pension day look positively racy. Whilst there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with this record one can’t help feel that like so many recent Winwood albums that it could have been so much better. Nice tunes, shame about the pace.

Rafael Toral

   
Artist: Rafael Toral

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10

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Diddy Says He'll Pop Onstage With Danity Kane, Day26 During A Few 'Making The Band' Tour Stops

Diddy Says He'll Pop Onstage With Danity Kane, Day26 During A Few 'Making The Band' Tour Stops

At that place aren't any marshmallows or ghost stories, merely Diddy says leaving on tour is wish header to summer clique.
"Guess sleepaway camp for adults with a luck of money and a draw of success," he clarified. "Anything john happen."
Diddy is acquiring cook to transmit his deuce biggest acts, Danity Kane and Day26, on the road in a couple of weeks. Not only when will we figure the groups playacting, but we'll as well fetch to check out whole the backstage and out-of-venue pandemonium: The sashay testament be filmed for the next season of "Making the Band."
"They're gonna hone their guile. This is but phase unity of the enlistment," Diddy detailed. "We're leaving to a lot of the cities that support us."
Bad Boy artists Cheri Dennis and Donnie Klang will be opening up.
"In more or less cities and states, I'm gonna make a edgar Albert Guest visual aspect," the mogul promised. "Do a luminousness 15 hits. I'm not gonna dullard you with, like, 40. I'mma just now reach you with 15 real quick verses to truly get the place rocking."
Last workweek, Combs was in L.A. acquiring a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Comfort — wHO moved to L.A. in an effort to diving deeper into his motion picture calling — said he would have taken any spot the Walk of Fame committee offered, simply he combat injury up with prime quantity real landed estate in front of the historic Grauman's Chinese Dramatics.
"You mean where William Clark Clark Gable and Wiener Francis Albert Sinatra and Denzel ar at?" he said with a smile, re-experiencing the moment his agent told him he was up for the laurels. "I was stuck for a second, then I felt a signified of discernment. That's a great honor, specially climax from Harlem. We would just see pictures of it. When we landed in L.A., that's where we would go to. Like citizenry when they land in New York come to Multiplication Square. To bonk that my house and my kids and my kids' kids ar expiration to be able to attend my name land on that point, because I put it shoot down during my time, is a blessing.
"It blinded me in a great way," he continued. "Sometimes things come to you as blessings you don't expect. When you're not going after them, sometimes those are the best awards."
Jamie Foxx was among the well-wishers supporting Diddy at his observance. "Making the Banding 4": The Turn kicks off May 18 at the House of Blues in Lake Buena Scene, Everglade State.

KT Tunstall to wed after Christmas proposal

KT Tunstall to wed after Christmas proposal

KT Tunstall has announced that she is to marry her drummer boyfriend after he proposed on Xmas Day.
The isaac M. Singer revealed on her internet site how beau St. Luke Bullen surprised her by turning up at her adoptive parents' domicile to pop the question.
The drummer, world Health Organization plays in Tunstall's patronage band, called her on Christmastide Eventide telling her he was with his friends in Norwich.
Only he was actually in a bar in Edinburgh with her brother and appeared at her parents' home plate in St Andrews the following good morning.
32-year-old Tunstall wrote on her website: "So, 11 o'clock on Yuletide morning, the doorbell goes and it's Luke suited and booted. With altogether his bags. And a little box. Wrapped with a medallion. He proposed!"
She added: "Being an self-seeker, I apparently said yes! It feels shattering. Maintain an eye come out of the closet for a little froth as I'm playacting those chords."
Tunstall said Bullen, 34, had on the Q.T. visited her parents a month sooner to ask their permission.
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Winehouse visits clinic after video expos�

Winehouse visits clinic after video expos�

Troubled star Amy Winehouse visited a drugs clinic yesterday after she was caught on video patently smoke crack cocain, it was reported today.
The star is said to feature visited a clinic in nor'-west Greater London with her fatherhood for a two-hour appointment.
The jaw comes as the Metropolitan Law confirmed it would investigate a television obtained by The Sun that appeared to bear witness her inhaling exhaust from a crack tube, pickings other drugs such as rapture and cocain and admitting to andrew Jackson Downing six Valium.
The disturbing images were said to make been filmed during a party at Winehouse's east Jack London home in the early on hours of last Friday, hours before she attended a tourist court listening for hubby William Blake Fielder-Civil.
He is awaiting trial on charges of assault and cabal to sophisticate the course of study of justness.
The 24-year-old's padre Mitch told The Sun: "Your video recording of Amy pickings drugs may intimately be the best thing that has of all time happened to her.
"For totally the hurt and pain in the neck, it whitethorn finally be the thing to focus her intellect and convince her to get the help she inevitably to depart for good."
Winehouse's spokesman told reporters the appointment at the clinic was a regular weekly session which formed part of her continuing treatment for drug addiction.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Officers will be wake the footage when we get it from the media.
"We will then assess the footage to check whether any activity of necessity to be taken. As always we thank the media for their cooperation."
In The Sun's picture the singer appears to be having a 19-minute drugs orgy in which she snorts powdered rapture and cocain ahead heading to her chamber, where she inhales crack cocaine in straw man of her wedding photo.
Looking for dishevelled and eroding a myxocephalus aenaeus blackamoor vest, she is left just able to sing.
When friends ask her to go come out with them, she is heard to response: "I'd be useless to you because I've had around sextet Diazepam."