Topic: MUSIK - on August 13, 2007 at 11:44:00 AM CEST
Behind the Hits
Ever wonder what inspired some of your favorite songs? Here are a few inside stories about popular tunes.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 12, 2007 at 11:40:00 PM CEST
Roboter foltern eigenen Bandleader
Blechbläser, Drummer, Flying-V-Gitarrist: In der Band "Captured! By Robots" machen Maschinen die Musik. Nur Sänger Jay Vance ist menschlich - und wurde von der Band prompt versklavt. Unlängst feierten die Monster-Musiker mit Freak-Faktor zehnjähriges Jubiläum.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 11, 2007 at 9:47:00 AM CEST
World's largest guitar
The honor goes to Monster Flying V built by a team of eleven high school students and their physics teacher, Scott Rippetoe, from the Academy of Science and Technology, Woodlands, TX. This playable giant guitar weighs 2244 lbs, measures 43 feet, 7 1/2 inches long and 16 feet, 5 1/2 inches wide. This guitar which uses 8-inch thick and 25-foot long strings is recognized by Guinness as the world's largest guitar.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 6, 2007 at 10:02:00 AM CEST
Nothing compares 2 Prince
You could accuse Prince of many things - hubris, say, or self-indulgence - but you could never accuse him of being stingy. He makes his contemporaries look like pusillanimous amateurs. He gives his albums away with gig tickets or newspapers. His recorded output is practically unquantifiable, given all his aliases, unreleased tracks and bootlegs. On the first night of his run of 21 gigs at London's O2 Arena - from which he has banned all photographers - he clocks on at 8.30pm with the opening guitar notes of his most famous song, 'Purple Rain'. Everyone is instantly putty in his hands. He finally clocks off just before 3am, when he flings the salmon pink jacket he's been waving like a lasso up into the air, crowning a brass instrumental of 'Down by the Riverside'.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 2, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
Prince
Prince arrives in London for the first night of a mind-boggling 21-date residency at the former Millennium Dome with a familiar sound ringing in his ears: that of people suggesting that he's barmy.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 1, 2007 at 10:45:00 AM CEST
Eminem Publisher Suing Apple When It Should Be Suing Universal Music
We've had plenty of folks submitting to us the story that Eminem's publisher is suing Apple over Eminem songs available on iTunes. It's getting some play around the tech news and tech blog world, but everyone seems to be missing the key point.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 29, 2007 at 7:57:00 PM CEST
Yeah, play me the blues!
Art Hall, 96, strums his "piddle-fiddle," a guitar constructed from a bed pan, as he leads the string section of the Heatherwood Swingers at a wedding anniversary celebration July 7 in Boisie, Idaho.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 27, 2007 at 1:31:00 PM CEST
Waldeck - make my day
This is quite something! After nearly 3 years Waldeck releases a brand new 12”. Yes, it´s been quite a long time. For this vinyl only release Dope Noir has selected three tracks from the upcoming longplayer due for release in early summer 2007. Our musical journey begins in the Americas at the beginning of the 1920ies. Tango meets Swing. Delicous cocktails and a live that seems even richer than the thick smoke of Cuban Cigars. The title song “Make my Day” reminds of the days when Al Capone was making a fortune by selling booze.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 27, 2007 at 10:18:00 AM CEST
Bids for Keith Richards' unwritten autobiography reach £3.6m
His agent is calling it "the best rock'n'roll book of all time" and publishers obviously agree, as bids for Keith Richards' autobiography reached a whopping $7.3m (£3.6m) at an auction in New York this week.
Anticipation for the as-yet-unwritten memoirs has been building since May, when the Rolling Stone guitarist announced he was ready to put the story of his life down on paper. Fears that Richards may "do a Jagger" and renege on the deal because he can't recall enough of his infamously debauched past have been dismissed by his agent, Ed Victor, who has paired the Rolling Stone with long-time friend and author James Fox for the project. "He's known Keith for 30 years," Victor said of Fox.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 25, 2007 at 9:40:00 AM CEST
Tupac's mother fights for songs
The mother of late rapper Tupac Shakur is trying to stop his former record label selling unreleased recordings as part of a bankruptcy settlement.
Afeni Shakur is seeking an injunction in a bankruptcy court claiming Death Row Records is attempting to sell material that belongs to his estate.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 6, 2007 at 2:27:00 PM CEST
It was 50 years ago today... Sgt Pepper taught a band to play
Birth of the Beatles On July 6, 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at The Woolton Church Parish Fete where The Quarry Men were appearing. John Lennon was impressed that Paul McCartney could tune a guitar and his knowledge of rock & roll lyrics.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 6, 2007 at 2:16:00 PM CEST
Singles, Not Albums, Define Music Industry Success
Despite the tough times for albums, the music industry is slowly but surely learning the most important lesson of all: give consumers what they want, and they happily open their wallets. Digital music sales are a new business and a new way of thinking about and interacting with content. The industry should be paying closer attention to its meteoric rise and less attention to the dying, arcane album. It should absolutely drop the rhetoric about how piracy is destroying the business, because the sea change in sales patterns shows that something else is is afoot. It means that when users are sitting at a computer and looking for music, more and more each year are turning to legal download services
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