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80s rockers assume fresh identity
Rebecca Allison
Saturday February 21, 2004
The Guardian
Image is often the key to success in the music business. So how do 1980s rockers revamp their product to ensure a second bite of the cherry?
Simply by pretending to be someone else.
Last Sunday's chart saw the debut single from an unknown teenage rock band enter at number 28 after selling more than 4,000 copies in its first week.
The accompanying video which was aired on music channels including MTV revealed the Poppyfields as a fresh-faced foursome heading for success.
Appearances can, however, be deceptive.
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37 years on, fans finally hear lost work by master of pop
Richard Williams
Saturday February 21, 2004
The Guardian
Pop music's great lost masterpiece was revealed in all its eccentric splendour in London last night when Brian Wilson, the 61-year-old founder of the Beach Boys, presented the world premiere of Smile, a 1967 project which was intended to top the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band but was abandoned in a welter of psychotropic drugs, warring egos and shattered confidence.
Multiple ovations were the reward for a pristine performance of the 45-minute song cycle by Wilson and his 18 musicians, who reproduced the groundbreaking complexity and sophistication of a work inspired by the friendly but intense transatlantic rivalry between the Beach Boys and the Beatles at a time when pop music was evolving at an unprecedented rate.
Wilson spent hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars in a Hollywood recording studio assembling Smile. To the outside world, the 24-year-old Californian was a pop genius at the top of his form: a year earlier he had created Pet Sounds, an album that still appears at the top of most all-time-greatest polls, and Good Vibrations, an epic single which sold millions around the world.
The sudden collapse of the Smile project mirrored Wilson's own disintegration. At what appeared to be the zenith of the Beach Boys' popularity, he entered a period of withdrawal lasting 30 years, during which he was in and out of psychotherapy and made only infrequent appearances on the concert stage and in the recording studio.
Two years ago, however, he returned to action at the head of a band of younger musicians devoted to recreating the most difficult and adventurous of his compositions. When he arrived in London two years ago to perform Pet Sounds in its entirety, Wilson received standing ovations suffused with a degree of affection few performers can have experienced.
His audiences fully understood not just the fundamental nature of his contribution to the evolution of pop music, but the troubled nature of his personal life.
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Elvis....snoring.
Elvis is my dog, a Jack Russell....at birth his mother chewed his tail off for some reason, but he still wags his hips, thus Elvis was a natural. :P
Awwe ... that's cute :)
Julian Bream - Bach Lute Suites
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i can't find the source now but have read there's a very vocal 10% (or so) in most online forums (i know that's very true for my own). but i could be wrong, it happens occasionally.
That sounds about right slum goddess.
Tis a shame really that more people dont participate. I'm sure everyone has opinions about the various postings, so in theory everybody has something to contribute.
I'm sticking with the typing theory... while they may have something to add... the thought of having to do all that typing is just too daunting.
Slow typists welcome
Bad speelers welcome too :)
(I am both of these ...so keep me company)
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They'll be nuked to smithereens long before that.
We're all doomed...... doomed I say.
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*waddles off to the naughty corner*
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This is almost as addictive as the Kevin Bacon game
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Googlism for: mikehunt
Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about mikehunt yet.
They'll probably ban ya too rofl
shut up
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Googlism.com will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! Search for your name here or for a good laugh check out some of the popular Googlisms.
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So Who was better?
now Davy Spillane - Pipedreams
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(I grew up 15 miles from gettysburg)
that's quite an address (groan)
Save hassle and go with default... unless it's white!
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What's the point of being unlisted if your number can be accessed through Google?? Surely they got something wrong there. I would have thought if you are unlisted it should be opt in rather than opt out.
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:)
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Are The Cure still alive?
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Google has added the convenience of US street address and phone number lookup to the information we provide through our search box. You'll see publicly listed phone numbers and addresses at the top of results pages for searches that contain specific kinds of keywords.
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nope.... doesnt work.... looks like we have to stick to stalking the hard way
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WOW.... what to search for.... I'm impressed!
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Got any tips to help decide what to search for first?
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Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
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LOL.... nice idea... I bet he''ll make a tidy sum from the insanity
there have been a spate of reality tv programs in Britain. People seem obsessed with watching other peoples lives in different situations, however mundane. This guy has made the mundane interactive. I'd still rather watch paint dry.... but each to his own.
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Anybody know how to change the smtp server in thunderbird?? It's in the advanced tab in 'server settings' for the mail account but doesn't seem to have an option for adding a new one. Heyulp!
Edit: oops ! meant to post that in tech talk ... soz
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I've been using Firefox for a few days now. So far it's glitch free and hopefully it'll stay that way. I like the tabs which was why I used Opera a lot too. Sadly, neither can handle web pages that use 'document.all' (whatever that is). and you get a nice blank page.
Kate Rusby
in World/Ethnik
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Kate Rusby
At first - much to her amusement - they called her a folk babe. Then she was some sort of crusader for a brave new young folk world. Now she's also an international star, an award-winning songwriter, a sensible married lady and an actress (!) Oh, and the funniest woman in Barnsley. Probably.
A new Kate Rusby album is now something of an event. And not just for the
folk audience which originally took her to its heart when she first started
playing with the family ceilidh band when she was 12 and played her first solo gig at Holmfirth Festival at 15. After just over a decade as a musician and singer she's now made six albums, plus a couple with the all-female band The Poozies.
An established artist who's cut through all the usual silly notions about genres and musical barriers, performing "folk music for people who don't like folk music", while retaining the love and credibility of her original fan base and blending the traditional songs learned from her parents as a kid with her own intuitive songwriting.
Kate Rusby's Official Web Site