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Artist: Terry Riley: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Ethnic Easy Listening     Discography:      Moscow Conservatory Solo Piano Concert    Year: 2001    Tracks: 6      Imbas Forasnai    Year: 1994    Tracks: 6      Persian Surgery Dervishes    Year: 1993    Tracks: 2      Reed Streams    Year: 1968    Tracks: 3      Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight, Vol. 1    Year: 1968    Tracks: 5      Music for the Gift - Bird of Paradise - Mescalin Mix    Year: 1963    Tracks: 12      In C - 25th Anniversary Concert    Year:     Tracks: 1      A Rainbow in Curved Air    Year:     Tracks: 2 Minimalist open up Terry Riley was among the to the highest degree revolutionary composers of the postwar epoch; famed for his kickoff appearance of repeating into Western medicine motifs, he besides masterminded early experiments in tape recording loops and delay systems which left wing an unerasable mark on the experimental music produced in his waken. Riley was congenital June 24, 1935 in Colfax, California, and began playing professionally as a solo piano player during the 1950s; by the midsection of the decennium he was poring over composition in San Francisco and Berkeley, where among his classmates was comrade minimalist innovator La Monte Young. Influenced by John Coltrane and John Cage, he began exploring receptive temporary expedient and cutting edge music, and in 1960 composed Mescalin Mix, a musique concrète bit composed for the Ann Halprin Dance Company consisting of tape measuring stick loops of various go under up sounds. By the early '60s, Riley was on a regular basis holding solo reed organ performances starting time at 10:00 pm and continuing until sunrise, an obvious forerunner of the overnight tube raves to follow decades later. After graduating Berkeley in 1961, his next major work was 1963's Music for the Gift, composed for a play written by Ken Dewey; among the first pieces e'er generated by a tape delay/feedback system, it employed two tape recorders -- a setup Riley dubbed the "Time Lag Accumulator" -- playing a loop-the-loop of Chet Baker's interpretation of Miles Davis' "So What." The loop effect sparked Riley's interest in repeating as a way of musical expression, and in 1964 he accomplished his most far-famed act, the minimalist breakthrough In C; a bit constructed from 53 disunite patterns, it was a watershed composition which provided the conception for a modern musical grade assembled from mesh repetitious figures. In time, Riley besides well-read to play saxophone, introducing the legal instrument into his supposed all-night flights; these larger-than-life improvisational performances became the base for his to the highest degree successful recordings, 1968's Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band and the following year's A Rainbow in Curved Air, the music's cyclical patterns and etheral atmospheric static predating the rise of the ambient conception by several age. In 1970, Riley made the number 1 of many trips to India to study below vocal original Pandit Pran Nath, with whom he frequently performed in the years to come up; some other collaborator was John Cale, a pairing which resulted in the 1971 LP Church of Anthrax, arguably Riley's to the highest degree widely-known transcription outside of experimental euphony circles. Throughout the 1970s, he besides taught composing and North Indian Raga at Mills College in Oakland, California. A geminate of early-'70s live performances -- 1 in L.A., the other in Paris -- resulted in the 1972 album Farsi Surgery Dervishes, a work of ruminative simple machine music clearly prescient of the spell level-headed to survey. Around the like time, piece on staff at Mills, he befriended David Harrington, violinist of the Kronos Quartet; their camraderie yielded a add up of nine string quartets, the keyboard quintette Crows Rosary and The Sands, a concerto for string quartette and orchestra licenced by the Salzberg Festival in 1991. Another Riley/Kronos collaboration, 1989's Salome Dances for Peace, was even nominated for a Grammy. Recording less and often as the age passed, Riley agreed to phase a execution celebrating the silver medal day of remembrance of In C which was then released in 1990.

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Artist: Achim Reichel: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock Folk     Discography:      Wahre Liebe    Year: 1993    Tracks: 12      Regenballade    Year: 1991    Tracks: 9      Melancholie und Sturmflut    Year: 1991    Tracks: 11      Klabautermann    Year: 1991    Tracks: 10      Eine Ewigkeit Unterwegs    Year: 1988    Tracks: 10      Best of    Year:     Tracks: 17 German isaac Merrit Singer, songster, musician, and producer Achim Reichel enjoyed a long and varied vocation that began during the beat bunce of the '60s, when he founded the Rattles, and carried on well into the next millenary, by which time he was still recording albums and playing large-scale stone concerts. Born on January 28, 1944, in Wentorf bei Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Reichel began his music calling in 1960, when he, as a singer/guitarist, formed the Rattles with bassist Herbert Hildebrandt in Hamburg. The dance orchestra, along with the Lords, proven one of Germany's leading beat bands of the twenty-four hours, for example touring England with the Rolling Stones in 1963 and touring Germany with the Beatles in 1966. Reichel left wing the ring in 1966 later several albums, including Pull im Star-Club Hamburg (1964), Liverpool Beat (1965), and Hurra! Die Rattles Kommen (1966), and later entered the Bundeswehr (i.e., the German armed forces). Upon Reichel's going away from the military, he formed some other dance orchestra, Wonderland, whose debut single, "Mocow" (1968), was a Top 15 attain. Next he formed the observational solo project A.R. & Machines, which debuted with Perish Grüne Reise (1971) and followed with a succession of Krautrock-fashioned albums: Echo (1972), 3 (1972), 4 (1973), and Autovision (1974). In 1975, Reichel released Digital audiotape Shanty Alb'm, a shockingly straightforward ingathering of sea shanties that was a clxxx degree turn away from the experimentation of A.R. & Machines; too of note, the record album was song in German, different his late releases, and was billed to himself quite than a group cognomen, deuce characteristics that were common to his serial albums as well. Reichel's embrace of volksmusik, particularly of the magnetic north, continued in the few eld that followed, with albums including Klabautermann (1977) and Regenballade (1978), the latter of which was critically praised. In the wake up of Regenballade, Reichel, in conjunction with Frank Dostal, formed the label Ahorn in hopes of showcasing German-language rock bands of the day. Along with the advent of Ahorn, Heiße Scheibe (1979), a showcase for contemporary writers and Reichel himself, reflected his interest in moving out of the past and into the present. Also during the mid to late '70s, Reichel strained as a producer, on the job with such bands as Novalis, Kiev Stingl, Neil Landon, and Emsland Hillbillies. During the early '80s, Reichel released a trio of straightforward rock'n'roll albums that were song in German and critically praised: Ungeschminkt (1980), Blues in Blond (1981), and Nachtexpress (1983). Reichel too toured for the first clip in days, mounting encouraging tours for both Blues in Blond and Nachtexpress in 1982 and 1984, respectively. In 1983, amid all of this natural process, "Der Spieler" (from Blues in Blond) became his first solo hit single, charting at number 27 and coming into court on the ZDF-Hitparade. "Packer Kutte" (from Nachtexpress) too made the ZDF-Hitparade in 1983; Reichel himself made a total of 3 personal appearances on the TV usher that twelvemonth. In 1986 he acted as a camber robber, Paul, in the celluloid Va Banque; released an album, Eine Ewigkeit Unterwegs; and appeared once again on the ZDF-Hitparade, this clip in support of his tally "Eine Ewigkeit Unterwegs." After another go, Reichel recorded a solo record album, Fledermaus (1988), and reunited with the Rattles for Hot Wheels (1988), a reunion album; some other solo album (Was Echtes) and Rattles reunion (Painted Warriors) followed in 1989 and 1990, respectively. The nineties were some other successful and productive decennium for Reichel, as he continued cathartic albums and touring, and began to chart with regularity. All-new studio albums included Melancholie und Sturmflut (1991), Wahre Liebe (1993), Oh Ha! (1996), and Entspann Dich (1999); hit singles from these albums included "Ciao Heya He" (1991), "Kuddel Daddel Du" (1992), "Auf der Rolltreppe" (1992), "Amazonen" (1993), and "Wahre Liebe" (1993); thither was as well the live album Große Freiheit (1994), an attended TV concert special commemorating Reichel's 50th birthday, the solo best-of Herz Ist Trumpf (1997), and the A.R. & Machines best-of Echos aus Zeiten der Grünen Reise (1998). Reichel continued his activity in the ensuing x, cathartic Billy Wilder Wassermann (2002), a return to volksmusik; 100% Leben (2004), a live CD/DVD commemorating his 60th birthday; and Volxlieder (2006) -- all of which charted. Moreover, he published a songbook, 100% Leben, via Gorilla Musik-Verlag.

Massachusetts Faces $13.3B In Unfunded Retiree Health Care Costs, According To Report

Simon Wickham-Smith and Richard Youngs

   
Artist: Simon Wickham-Smith and Richard Youngs

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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 Metallic Sonatas

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 15

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Scott Hamilton and Bucky Pizzarelli

   
Artist: Scott Hamilton and Bucky Pizzarelli

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   

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 The Red Door (...Remember Zoot Sims)

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10

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Charlize Theron - Theron Opened Up About Dads Death To Aids Orphans

CHARLIZE THERON broke her vow never to discuss her late father's death when she returned to her native South Africa in March (08) and met with children orphaned by AIDS.

When she was just 15, the actress watched her mother shoot dead her abusive dad in self defence.

Theron, now 32, has always refused to discuss the incident - but opened up to the kids she encountered at a mobile Aids testing and counselling clinic she helped to fund in Kwazulu-Natal.

She explains, "These kids deal with death every day. Many of them do not have one or both parents, and I thought (talking about my father) was a way for me to say, 'Whether you have one parent or zero parents, you can turn that negative into a positive.'"

And she explains she has turned the tragic experience into a positive lesson: "My father had a horrible disease. He was an alcoholic. I could have been one of those adults who go through life not taking responsibility and saying, 'I didn't have a (good) example (of a father).' But actually, I had the best example. I had the example of what not to do. It was up to me to choose a life and to live that life."

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Artist: Joel Mull

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Other
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 Sunny Hills EP

   Year: 2007   
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 Unknown EP

   Year: 2003   
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Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III Preview: Does The Year's Most Anticipated Hip-Hop LP Live Up To The Hype?

We can all breathe a sigh of relief. Lil Wayne has teased us for a couple of years, but now the gates on his highly guarded project are opening. Tha Carter III is really coming out, and we definitely won't be talking "grand opening, grand closing" on June 10. Despite his album leaking and the music industry suffering from an overall decline in sales, some experts are expecting Wayne to sell a million in his first week.

It's easily the most anticipated hip-hop LP since 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' five years ago. Weezy has earned every last accolade (including a space on our latest "Hottest MCs in the Game" list). It's not catching the vapors if you talk highly of someone who's really that great — great, not good. During the last three years, Wayne has grown to be the MC who challenges his listeners the most. He's been unorthodox in subject matter, flows, song structure, collaborations and beat selection. Predictability isn't on his radar. He hasn't been in the same neighborhood as conventional for quite some time.

Have there been some suspect verses, some suspect songs here and there on the litany of mixtapes we've heard him on over past two years? Of course. How could there not be? It feels like we've heard hundreds of songs from him in that time frame. Other MCs have made a plethora of records as well, but we only hear their best work — or what they feel is their best work. Wayne hasn't had that luxury. His product has been so sought-after that his material has always been bootlegged.

Records like "I'm Me" and "I Feel Like Dying" have become instant classics simply through word of mouth and Internet blog talk. At his concerts, tens of thousands recite these underground tunes like they've been top-ten hits. And we already know what's up when he does it officially. TCIII's first single, "Lollipop," is one of the biggest records of the year, going to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "A Milli" is so huge on the streets, it feels like a #1 record.

Last week, Tha Carter III leaked. That's to be expected within two weeks of any hot album's release. Universal hasn't panicked and pushed up the date. The only tears on Wayne's face are tattooed. Everyone knows what they have on their hands: the first pure hip-hop classic of 2008.

This writer has had the chance to preview some of the records during this two-year-plus journey to Tha Carter III. Last summer, it was Cool & Dre playing a rough instrumental of "Phone Home," a furious ode to Wayne's seemingly superhuman ability to destroy every vocal booth. Dre made a movie right in the studio, telling me about a hook he had in mind that went, "Phone home! Phone home! If you feel like you're the best doing the Weezy We." The over-6-foot master producer did his Wayne-inspired jig, jumping and pointing one finger in the air, while the always, well, cool Cool smiled in approval. On the finished record, the rap extraterrestrial — straight from "planet Weezy" — channels his inner outer-limits inhabitant: "We are not the same, I'm a Martian/ Hip-hop is my supermarket/ Shopping cart filled with fake hip-hop artists."

Wayne himself rapped some lyrics from "Dr. Carter" for MTV News back in January while shooting pictures for his
album artwork. Then he played "Lollipop," "A Milli" and a record that turned out to be "La La" on his tour bus around NBA All-Star Weekend. Needless to say, this writer never felt nervous about Birdman Jr. living up to the hype. Not just the hype of the album — the expectations for this project are probably some of the loftiest since Snoop dropped Doggystyle. But Wayne is also living up to the hype of being at the peak of his artistry and setting the standard for all other MCs this year, yesssirrr.

If Tha Carter III were a piece of architecture, it would be a cross between a rugged project building, a lush condominium complex and a fun house.

He starts off with "3 Peat," which is entertaining at every turn with its background violins, B-boy humor and soulful, unsystematic melody. "Swallow my words, taste my thoughts/ And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me," Weezy raps. "It's the New Orleans nightmare, money so old it's growing white hair."

Who better than Just Blaze to produce the second collaboration between Wayne and Jay-Z? "Mr. Carter" immediately reels you in with a sample that goes, "Hey Mr. Carter/ Say where you been?" Hov and Weezy engage in a back-and-forth of lunchroom rap. Which is not to say that anything they're saying is elementary. Quite the contrary. The track is a lyrical slugfest that will undoubtedly have all the kids at school debating who killed it the best. And the winner is ... us. Young Carter's opening verse describes how the four seasons hate him because he has all of their signature traits. Later, elder Carter declares that he has no problem eventually passing the torch to Wayne: "I'm right here in my chair/ With my crown and my dear Queen B/ As I share mic time with my heir .../ Go farther, go further, go farther/ Is that not why we came?/ If not, don't bother."

Incidentally, "Comfortable" seems to be inspired by one of Beyoncé's big songs. It gives the man's perspective of dealing with a girl who thinks she's "irreplaceable." Babyface takes over on the hook, coming from obscurity and sounding as crisp as he did when he sang about paying some girl's rent back in the '80s. Face warns the woman not to take their relationship for granted: "If you don't love me, someone else will." Weezy F. Baby comes in saying, "To the left, to the lefty/ If you want to be my guest, you can step."

From its title, "Tie My Hands" sounds like another one of Wayne's freaky tales, especially when you see that ladies' man Robin Thicke is the track's guest. Instead, the New Orleans Fireman spits social commentary about tragedy in his hometown: "They try to tell me keep my eyes open/ My whole city underwater, some people still floatin'/ Then they wonder why black people still votin', 'cause your president's still jokin'/ Take away the football team, the basketball team, now all we got is me to represent New Orleans/ No governor, no help from the mayor/ Just a steady beatin' heart and a wish and a prayer."

Album closer "Misunderstood" gives a humanistic look at Dwayne Carter and ends with a calm but seething invective against the Rev. Al Sharpton and anybody else who has protested hip-hop music.






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Music Impresario and Long-Time Humanitarian Quincy Jones Comments Publicly About China and the Darfur Crisis and His Role as an Artistic Advisor to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

LOS ANGELES, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a keynote speech
delivered today at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to the Committee of 100's 17th
Annual Conference, a yearly gathering of influential United States Citizens
of Chinese descent, music impresario and long-time humanitarian Quincy
Jones commented for the first time publicly about his positions as they
relate to China's role in the Darfur crisis and his role as an artistic
advisor to the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

During the approximately hour-long presentation, Jones, who over the
past 6 months has been meeting and having discussions with key Chinese
dignitaries and experts on the crisis in Darfur including former UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan, former United States Secretary of State Colin
Powell and Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Wang
Guangya, among others; commented on the urgency of bringing an end to the
crisis in Darfur, the opportunity that China has to help bring an end to
the crisis in Darfur, his history using the arts and entertainment to build
bridges and bring people of differing opinions together, and his intention
to stay involved with the 2008 Olympic Games as an artistic advisor to the
opening ceremonies with the hope that a continued dialog with all the
parties involved will effect immediate change in the conditions in Darfur.

Key excerpts from Quincy Jones' April 19th keynote speech
to the Committee of 100: "The arts and entertainment bring people together. They allow the ties
between us to flourish and grow, even during times when differences between
governments arise. The creative expressions of artists like my good friend
and brother, Yo-Yo Ma, help build bridges between cultures, giving us a
better and more peaceful understanding and appreciation of each other."

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" ... I'm sure you know that China is at a crucial crossroads. There
are complex and polarizing issues surrounding the Olympics that affects and
touches the entire world community... and stirs up emotions and inflames
passions. I'm talking, of course, about the situation in Tibet and in
Darfur."

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"I don't think anyone would want the burden of Tibet & the Dalai Lama
and Darfur on their lap. But China's leadership took on the challenge of
the Beijing Olympics knowing that the spotlight and focus would be on them,
warts and all. Because the spotlight is on them, they now have the chance
to show leadership and wisdom to change the world for the better.

I'm deeply concerned about Tibet, but on a human scale... and my own
experiences with the African continent... Darfur is screaming out at me the
loudest."

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"China is part of an international community of nations - all of whose
responsibility it is to stop the genocide in Darfur, as well as coming to
the aid of the over 2.5 million people who have been displaced."

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"The more we can make things right in the world, the better the world
is going to be. That's why I stay engaged... because together we can do a
lot of things we can never do alone.

Over the past couple of months, I've received dozens of protest letters
from various groups, here and abroad, begging me to boycott the Beijing
Olympics. The pressure from all directions has been extremely intense. But
it's not my intention to withdraw from the Olympics. It's just not my
style... because I care too much about Darfur and China and if I can stay
in the game with others like us, I feel we can make a difference."

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"I also believe that boycotting the Olympics could isolate China and
the United States, and make the situation worse. The world will be safer if
we address human rights as part of the world community.

It's been my experience that you can never expect a difficult situation
to change by demanding it... nor can the United States or any other nation
be self-righteous and tell people what to do when they have not always been
a responsible player on human rights, nor walked the talk."

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"I had the privilege of meeting with Ambassador Wang yesterday in New
York, and I applauded him from a front row seat for his role in attempting
to obtain consent from the Sudanese government for the hybrid UN African
peace enforcers -- UNAMID to be allowed into the country.

After consulting with many of my close Chinese friends before our
meeting, I told the Ambassador that I do believe China has significant sway
over the Sudanese government in Khartoum... and that influence gives China
the chance to be a hero in the eyes of the world by exerting its moral
authority to help halt the genocide by achieving one or more of the
following:

First -- take a formal Government stance that reiterates the Special
Representative of China on Darfur Liu Guijin's call for helicopters... and
immediately for China and Sudan to publicly support the efforts to speed up
the deployment of UNAMID troops on the ground and humanitarian workers to
the region.

Second -- Make a public appeal to Khartoum to get a handle on the
Janjaweed militia and halt all attacks on civilian populations. In
addition, publicly call on Khartoum to end all bombings immediately and
pursue a real political solution with the rebels.

And third -- in spite of the Special Envoy's claim that China only
provides 8% of Sudan's total arms imports, and that the United States deals
arms to Sudan as well, take the lead and publicly pledge that going
forward... not a single weapon will be sold to anyone on any side of the
conflict by any country in the world."

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"After meeting with the Ambassador, I'm more hopeful that progress can
be made to showcase the best of China through the Olympics... rather than
it being shrouded in controversy and potential violence and boycotts all
the way through."

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"But China cannot do alone what the United States and Europe have not
been willing to do for five years. By pointing the finger mainly at China,
those who passionately want peace in Darfur wind up helping Western
governments evade responsibility on a humanitarian crisis they could do far
more to stop. A great state seizes the opening to be a peacemaker as China
did in the difficult Six-Party Talks, which lessened the tension between
the United States and North Korea... and moved things in a more positive
direction.

China has been extraordinary in its economic growth for more than a
decade... though history has shown that a state becomes a leader not only
by its economic, technological and military advantages, but also by helping
the disadvantaged. It gives voice to the voiceless and cares about all
human beings."

Quincy Jones first saw the power of the arts to effect social change
beyond entertainment in 1956 when he toured as musical director, trumpeter
and arranger of the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra's State Department Tour.

His long history of humanitarian work began in earnest in the 1960's
and 70's, as one of the key supporters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s
Operation Breadbasket. In 1985, he helped pioneer the model of using
celebrity to raise money and awareness for a cause with "We Are the World."
The song raised more than $63 Million for Ethiopian famine relief and more
importantly shined a spotlight on the Ethiopian drought, prompting the U.S.
Government responded with over $800 million in aid.

In 1999 Quincy Jones joined Bono and Bob Geldof during a meeting with
Pope John Paul II as a part of the Jubilee 2000 delegation to end third
world debt. The delegation's visit resulted in $27 billion in third world
debt relief for Bolivia, Mozambique, and the Ivory Coast.

In 2004, in front of a live audience of more than a half-million
spectators, Jones launched the We Are the Future initiative with a concert
featuring Carlos Santana, Alicia Keyes, Josh Groban, Oprah Winfrey, Norah
Jones and a host of other entertainers from around the world.

The initiative has established Municipal Child Centers in the cities of
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Asmara (Eritrea), Freetown (Sierra Leone), Kigali
(Rwanda) and Nablus (Palestine) where youth are being trained to run child-
based programs in health, nutrition, Information and Communication
Technology (ICT), Sports and Arts.

In 2007, Jones and the Harvard School of Public Health joined forces to
advance the health and well-being of children worldwide through Project Q,
a strategic initiative of School's Center for Health Communication. Through
the strategic use of media, Project Q challenges leaders and citizens of
the world to provide essential resources to enable young people to achieve
their full potential.

A centerpiece of Project Q is the Q Prize, which recognizes
extraordinary leadership by public figures and social entrepreneurs who are
championing the needs of children. The inaugural Q Prize was awarded in
January 2007 to Scott Neeson, founder of the Cambodian Children's Fund, and
over $600,000 was raised in support of Neeson's work.

Through his personal foundation, The Quincy Jones Foundation, Jones
raises awareness and financial resources for initiatives that support
global children's issues in areas of conflict, malaria eradication, clean
water and efforts to restore the Gulf Coast (post-Katrina). Philanthropic
partners include Malaria No More, Millennium Promise, and R&B singer
Usher's New Look Foundation.


Contact: Arnold Robinson
Rogers & Cowan
310/854-8193
arobinson@rogersandcowan.com

Blade Runner star enters rehab

Actress Sean Young has entered rehab for alcohol abuse following an outburst in which she was heckling from the audience at the Directors Guild of America awards.
The 48-year-old actress was escorted from the ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles after heckling director Julian Schnabel, who was nominated for his film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'.
A statement from Insignia PR said that the actress "voluntarily admitted herself...for treatment related to alcoholism".
The statement added: "It is understood that Young has struggled against the disease for many years."
Young rose to fame following her performance in Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner' and a couple of years later she played Michael Douglas' wife in 'Wall Street'.
She'll return to the big screen opposite Billy Zane in the drama 'The Man Who Came Back' and alongside Juliet Landau in the thriller 'Darkness Visible'.

System Of A Down - Tankian Takes To The Broadway Stage With New Musical

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman SERJ TANKIAN is secretly working on a new musical with playwright STEVEN SATER.

The rocker is reportedly turning Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound into a stage spectacular, and he has already written eight tunes for the project.

Tony Award winner Sater is among the names behind Broadway hit Spring Awakening. The new musical will open in Boston, Massachusetts before moving to New York. No dates or theatres have been announced.

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Hieroglyphix

   
Artist: Hieroglyphix

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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 Destiny / Rhythm Is Back

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 2

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Hilton fortune to go to charity

Paris Hilton's potential inheritance has dramatically diminished after her grandfather announced plans to donate 97% of his $2.3bn fortune to charity.
80-year-old Barron Hilton, the son of the man who founded the hotel chain and made the family fortune, will place the money in a charitable trust that will eventually benefit the Conrad N Hilton Foundation, raising its total value to about $4.5bn.
In a statement the foundation said: "Barron Hilton, chairman of the foundation, intends to contribute 97% of his entire net worth, estimated today at $2.3bn, including the created trusts, at whatever value it is at the time of his passing."
His wealth includes the $1.2bn Barron Hilton stands to earn from both the recent sale of Hilton Hotels Corp - started by his father Conrad in 1919 - and the pending sale of the world's biggest casino company, Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
Paris Hilton was not immediately available for comment on her grandfather's plans for his fortune.
Jerry Oppenheimer, who profiled the Hilton family in his 2006 book 'House of Hilton', has said Barron Hilton is embarrassed by the behaviour of his socialite granddaughter Paris and believes it has sullied the family name.
The Conrad N Hilton Foundation supports projects that provide clean water in Africa, education for blind children, and housing for the mentally ill. Its aims, based on Conrad Hilton's will, are "to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute".
"Speaking for the family as well as the foundation, we are all exceedingly proud and grateful for this extraordinary commitment," said Steven Hilton, one of Barron's sons and president and chief executive of the foundation.
Conrad Hilton established the foundation in 1944 and when he died in 1979 left virtually all of his fortune - including, according to media reports at the time, a 27% controlling stake in Hilton Hotels - to the charity.
But Barron Hilton challenged the will and after a nearly decade-long legal struggle reached an out-of-court settlement to split ownership of the shares with the foundation in 1988, The New York Times reported.
The hotel group was sold for $20bn in October to private equity firm Blackstone Group, while the acquisition of Harrah's - of which Barron Hilton was a board member until 2006 - is due to be completed by Apollo Management and TPG Capital in early 2008.

Hilary Duff - Duff Wows Writers With Film Extremes

The men behind HILARY DUFF's new movie WAR INC. felt sure they'd have to rewrite some scenes when the squeaky-clean actress landed the lead - because they'd be too crude for her.

But the game actress/pop star shocked them by going through with the risque scenarios - which included performing mock fellatio on a fuel pump and dropping a live scorpion down her pants.

Writers Jeremy Pisker and Mark Leyner say, "We wrote a scene where her character gives a blow job to a gas nozzle, and when we got Hilary to do the movie, we thought, 'Well, we've got to rewrite that.' But she did it."

And co-star John Cusack admits her fake fellatio was better than the one on paper: "She did it in a more sly way. She licked it (the nozzle) like an ice-cream cone. She did better than the script."

When it came to the scorpion scene, Duff, who plays a wildchild Eastern European pop star in the film, had nothing to lose.

She explains, "I had done so much for this film by then, I couldn't really say no."

But Duff admits she was a little concerned her tough-talking, wild character would upset her fans: "I have to have this foul mouth, be this rude and crude girl who tries to be sexy but she's so young and kind of vulgar."

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Channel 4 - Cps And Police To Apologise For Documentary Smear

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and West Midlands Police are to publicly apologise for accusing the makers of a Channel 4 documentary of distorting scenes of alleged extremism.

A joint press release issued by the force and the CPS in August 2007 claimed a Dispatches programme broadcast in January of that year had misleadingly edited footage of Muslim preachers and clerics to create an impression of extremist views.

But after communications watchdog Ofcom rejected the claims of distortion in November and Channel 4 threatened to launch a libel action over the allegations, the police have confirmed they are to apologise at the high court this Thursday.

A donation from the force and the CPS of £50,000 will be given to the Rory Peck Trust - which protects freelance journalists - while a further £50,000 will go to Channel 4 to cover legal costs incurred during the dispute.

The documentary, entitled Undercover Mosque, had featured a preacher claiming that women were born deficient, with another shown celebrating the Taliban's killing of a British Muslim soldier in Afghanistan.

The police had accused the Dispatches programme makers of "heavily editing" the footage and said the documentary could undermine "community cohesion" and "feelings of public reassurance".

Kevin Sutcliffe, deputy head of current affairs at Channel 4, said the apology was "a total vindication of the programme team in exposing extreme views being preached in mainstream British mosques".

"Channel 4 was fully aware of the sensitivities surrounding the subject matter but recognised the programme's findings were clearly a matter of important public interest," he added.

"The authorities should be doing all they can to encourage investigations like this, not attempting to publicly rubbish them for reasons they have never properly explained."


15/05/2008 08:52:27

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Shayne Ward

   
Artist: Shayne Ward

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 If That's OK With You (Moto Blanco Remixes)

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 5


   
 Breathless

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 Shayne Ward

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


   
 That's My Goal

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3

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Pop vocalist Shayne Ward rocketed to fame via the U.K. gift show window The X Factor. Born October 15, 1984, in Manchester, England, Ward number one surfaced in the little-known grouping Destiny before earning attention in some other television system amateur contest, Popstars: The Rivals. Eliminated from the final 30 contestants, he signed with managing director Louis Walsh prior to entering competition on The X Factor in 2005. Tabbed by bookies as the favourite to advance the programme, Ward eked out triumph over rivals Journey South and Andy Abraham by a margin of 1.2 percent of the overall viewer right to vote. His debut single, "That's My Goal," followed in December 2005, selling 313,000 copies in its first-class honours degree mean solar day of gross revenue and topping the U.K. pop charts over the Christmas holiday. "No Promises" followed in the springtime of 2006, reaching the number two bit and scope the point for Ward's self-titled debut LP.