This article contains minorTotally Killer spoilers.
A young woman lays back on a waterbed, playfully tossing double entendres at her boyfriend. The sounds of “Lady in Red” by Chris De Burgh leak into the room from the party outside, adding an air of mystery to the masked man who emerges from the shadows. Still ready for sex, the young woman teases the masked man about his disguise, but when he doesn’t respond, she realizes that he’s not her boyfriend.
The masked man produces a knife and begins stabbing her stomach, pushing her back down onto the waterbed. Springs stream from the liquidy mattress, and blood splatters on Sears Portrait Studio glam pictures hanging on the wall.
If that description sounds like it comes from a slasher flick from the 1980s, then director Nahnatchka Khan achieved her goal. Her Blumhouse film Totally Killer follows a masked killer in 1987, borrowing...
A young woman lays back on a waterbed, playfully tossing double entendres at her boyfriend. The sounds of “Lady in Red” by Chris De Burgh leak into the room from the party outside, adding an air of mystery to the masked man who emerges from the shadows. Still ready for sex, the young woman teases the masked man about his disguise, but when he doesn’t respond, she realizes that he’s not her boyfriend.
The masked man produces a knife and begins stabbing her stomach, pushing her back down onto the waterbed. Springs stream from the liquidy mattress, and blood splatters on Sears Portrait Studio glam pictures hanging on the wall.
If that description sounds like it comes from a slasher flick from the 1980s, then director Nahnatchka Khan achieved her goal. Her Blumhouse film Totally Killer follows a masked killer in 1987, borrowing...
- 10/6/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Tina Turner played for many dignitaries throughout a music career that spanned over six decades. Her fans spanned far and wide, including Princess Diana and her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. However, did she ever have the chance to perform for Queen Elizabeth and the members of the royal family? Here’s what we know.
Queen Elizabeth and Tina Turner in side-by-side photographs | Samir Hussein/WireImage/Steve Rapport/Getty Images Tina Turner once performed for the royal family in the late 1980s
In 1989, Tina Turner was a guest of the royal family and a special guest at the Royal Variety Performance. The event took place at the London Palladium.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip attended the musical and variety show at the time. The event took place in November 1989.
The performers of the historical evening included a mix of actors, entertainers, singers, and musicians. Turner was joined by a who’s who of talent,...
Queen Elizabeth and Tina Turner in side-by-side photographs | Samir Hussein/WireImage/Steve Rapport/Getty Images Tina Turner once performed for the royal family in the late 1980s
In 1989, Tina Turner was a guest of the royal family and a special guest at the Royal Variety Performance. The event took place at the London Palladium.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip attended the musical and variety show at the time. The event took place in November 1989.
The performers of the historical evening included a mix of actors, entertainers, singers, and musicians. Turner was joined by a who’s who of talent,...
- 5/25/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the departure of an iconic vocalist. Some of them stayed in their bands for years, while others lasted just a few months. In the end, however, they all found out that replacement singers can themselves be replaced. This edition features former Yes singer Benoît David.
In the fall of 2008, Yes stunned their fans when they announced that founding vocalist Jon Anderson...
In the fall of 2008, Yes stunned their fans when they announced that founding vocalist Jon Anderson...
- 2/8/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Christmas is quickly approaching and the nation is hastily compiling playlists of the best festive bangers to get in a much-needed good mood.
While all Christmas songs are at least partly embarrassing by nature of being Christmas songs, there are some cool kids out there – your “Fairytale of New York”s, your “Christmas Wrapping”s.
The songs on this list, however, are decidedly not that. They’re cheesy, cringey and, occasionally a little bit weird, which is a mood I think you should go for over the festive period. If you’re genuinely embarrassed to be seen singing along to any of these, you’re in the right place.
Here are 10 of the best Christmas songs we’re all ashamed to admit we secretly love, perfectly timed for you to terrorise your family and friends with over the coming weeks…
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” – Band Aid
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While all Christmas songs are at least partly embarrassing by nature of being Christmas songs, there are some cool kids out there – your “Fairytale of New York”s, your “Christmas Wrapping”s.
The songs on this list, however, are decidedly not that. They’re cheesy, cringey and, occasionally a little bit weird, which is a mood I think you should go for over the festive period. If you’re genuinely embarrassed to be seen singing along to any of these, you’re in the right place.
Here are 10 of the best Christmas songs we’re all ashamed to admit we secretly love, perfectly timed for you to terrorise your family and friends with over the coming weeks…
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” – Band Aid
Back in...
- 12/16/2022
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - Music
Christmas is quickly approaching and the nation is hastily compiling playlists of the best festive bangers to get in a much-needed good mood.
While all Christmas songs are at least partly embarrassing by nature of being Christmas songs, there are some cool kids out there – your “Fairytale of New York”s, your “Christmas Wrapping”s.
The songs on this list, however, are decidedly not that. They’re cheesy, cringey and, occasionally a little bit weird, which is a mood I think you should go for over the festive period. If you’re genuinely embarrassed to be seen singing along to any of these, you’re in the right place.
Here are 10 of the best Christmas songs we’re all ashamed to admit we secretly love, perfectly timed for you to terrorise your family and friends with over the coming weeks…
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” – Band Aid
Back in...
While all Christmas songs are at least partly embarrassing by nature of being Christmas songs, there are some cool kids out there – your “Fairytale of New York”s, your “Christmas Wrapping”s.
The songs on this list, however, are decidedly not that. They’re cheesy, cringey and, occasionally a little bit weird, which is a mood I think you should go for over the festive period. If you’re genuinely embarrassed to be seen singing along to any of these, you’re in the right place.
Here are 10 of the best Christmas songs we’re all ashamed to admit we secretly love, perfectly timed for you to terrorise your family and friends with over the coming weeks…
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” – Band Aid
Back in...
- 12/16/2022
- by Isobel Lewis
- The Independent - Music
BMG, the world’s largest international music company outside the three ‘majors’, has struck a sub-publishing agreement for India with Turnkey Music & Publishing, one of the country’s only standalone music publishing companies.
BMG’s music publishing catalogue comprises over three million songs, made up of works by legends including George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Roger Waters, Ray Davies, Buddy Holly, Paul Anka, Diane Warren, Kurt Cobain and Chris DeBurgh as well as contemporary superstar songwriters, including Lewis Capaldi, Bebe Rexha, Kings Of Leon, Juice Wrld, and thousands of others.
Some of the greatest songs in music history are represented by BMG, such as ‘Another Brick In The Wall’ (Pink Floyd), ‘Walk This Way’ (Aerosmith), ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ (Tears For Fears), ‘Wild World’ (Cat
Stevens/Yusuf Islam) and ‘Come As You Are’ (Nirvana).
BMG also owns the publishing of catalogues including Virgin, Chrysalis, Stage Three,...
BMG’s music publishing catalogue comprises over three million songs, made up of works by legends including George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Roger Waters, Ray Davies, Buddy Holly, Paul Anka, Diane Warren, Kurt Cobain and Chris DeBurgh as well as contemporary superstar songwriters, including Lewis Capaldi, Bebe Rexha, Kings Of Leon, Juice Wrld, and thousands of others.
Some of the greatest songs in music history are represented by BMG, such as ‘Another Brick In The Wall’ (Pink Floyd), ‘Walk This Way’ (Aerosmith), ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ (Tears For Fears), ‘Wild World’ (Cat
Stevens/Yusuf Islam) and ‘Come As You Are’ (Nirvana).
BMG also owns the publishing of catalogues including Virgin, Chrysalis, Stage Three,...
- 10/29/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Nowadays it’s hard for any superhero show to stand out on television. Through three seasons on Netflix, however, The Umbrella Academy has discovered that it sure does help to have a banging soundtrack.
Fittingly for a TV series based on a comic written by a musician (My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way), The Umbrella Academy knows its way around a tune. Season 1 was highlighted by an instant classic group dance session to Tiffany. Then the 1963-set season 2 upped the ante with a whole host of period-appropriate songs. For season 3, Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman wanted to make sure music played just as big a role.
“I write a lot of songs already into the script. And I encourage my writers to do the same thing,” Blackman tells Den of Geek. “Sometimes they make sense in the scene. Sometimes they’re a little weirdly subversive. And sometimes it’s just...
Fittingly for a TV series based on a comic written by a musician (My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way), The Umbrella Academy knows its way around a tune. Season 1 was highlighted by an instant classic group dance session to Tiffany. Then the 1963-set season 2 upped the ante with a whole host of period-appropriate songs. For season 3, Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman wanted to make sure music played just as big a role.
“I write a lot of songs already into the script. And I encourage my writers to do the same thing,” Blackman tells Den of Geek. “Sometimes they make sense in the scene. Sometimes they’re a little weirdly subversive. And sometimes it’s just...
- 6/22/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Looking to craft the perfect Valentine’s mix for your beloved? Be sure to steer of clear these romantic cheddar bombs, all of which give love a bad name.
Chris de Burgh, “Lady In Red”
It’s kind of fitting that this song was a hit in 1986, the height of the greed-is-good, conspicuous consumption Eighties; it’s the ultimate trophy-wife ballad (barely edging out Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight”). The fake-glitz muzak sound is perfect for a cheaply sentimental song about a guy whose appreciation of the woman beside him...
Chris de Burgh, “Lady In Red”
It’s kind of fitting that this song was a hit in 1986, the height of the greed-is-good, conspicuous consumption Eighties; it’s the ultimate trophy-wife ballad (barely edging out Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight”). The fake-glitz muzak sound is perfect for a cheaply sentimental song about a guy whose appreciation of the woman beside him...
- 2/13/2020
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Now that Game of Thrones' most recent season has come to a close, it's been pretty hard to accept the fact that we won't be seeing Jon Snow, the saddest, sexiest bastard in all of the seven kingdoms, on our TV screens every Sunday. Luckily, Jon's offscreen alter ego, Kit Harington, is currently filming the movie The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, where he was spotted listening to music during some downtime in between shooting scenes. What's on his iPod, we wonder. What music might the great Jon Snow jam out to when he's not taking down Ramsay Bolton or fulfilling his destiny to save the world? We have a few ideas: "Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi "The Wall" by Bruce Springsteen "Zombie" by The Cranberries "Don't Hold the Wall" by Justin Timberlake "Daddy Lessons" by Beyoncé "Winter Song" by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michelson "Sometimes...
- 7/21/2016
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
How many songs does it take to encompass a relationship? Precisely 11. Anna Kendrick and James Corden showcased their vocal chops in an adorable skit called "A Soundtrack to a Love Story" on The Late Late Show, Wednesday night. The live musical rom-com kicked off with Kendrick belting "I Say a Little Prayer" (of My Best Friends Wedding fame) before transitioning to a meet cute set to Chris de Burgh's "The Lady in Red." Kendrick, 30, and Corden, 37, transitioned through various sets as their faux relationship progressed, dueting to the Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face" and landing in bed for Boyz II Men...
- 6/23/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
How many songs does it take to encompass a relationship? Precisely 11. Anna Kendrick and James Corden showcased their vocal chops in an adorable skit called "A Soundtrack to a Love Story" on The Late Late Show, Wednesday night. The live musical rom-com kicked off with Kendrick belting "I Say a Little Prayer" (of My Best Friends Wedding fame) before transitioning to a meet cute set to Chris de Burgh's "The Lady in Red." Kendrick, 30, and Corden, 37, transitioned through various sets as their faux relationship progressed, dueting to the Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face" and landing in bed for Boyz II Men...
- 6/23/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
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BBC Three put Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding’s wilfully shambolic live act and radio series, The Mighty Boosh, on TV…
Part of The Mighty Boosh’s delight comes from its unlikelihood as a TV sitcom. Its boundless Day-Glo imagination isn’t an immediate fit with the constraints of the form. A sunshine simpleton and his awkward, jazz-obsessed colleague meet mythic monsters and talking animals while performing expertly observed musical parody? It’s not exactly My Family.
As comedian, writer, and director of Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding’s 1999 Edinburgh show Arctic Boosh, Stewart Lee, put it, “No television exec would ever have gone ‘What we need is a kind of purple head with tentacles coming out of it which speaks like a member of the Small Faces’”.
And yet a television exec did. Granted, probably not in those exact words. After Danny Wallace opened the door...
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BBC Three put Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding’s wilfully shambolic live act and radio series, The Mighty Boosh, on TV…
Part of The Mighty Boosh’s delight comes from its unlikelihood as a TV sitcom. Its boundless Day-Glo imagination isn’t an immediate fit with the constraints of the form. A sunshine simpleton and his awkward, jazz-obsessed colleague meet mythic monsters and talking animals while performing expertly observed musical parody? It’s not exactly My Family.
As comedian, writer, and director of Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding’s 1999 Edinburgh show Arctic Boosh, Stewart Lee, put it, “No television exec would ever have gone ‘What we need is a kind of purple head with tentacles coming out of it which speaks like a member of the Small Faces’”.
And yet a television exec did. Granted, probably not in those exact words. After Danny Wallace opened the door...
- 2/16/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Hadrian's wall, Culloden, the poll tax, Jacob Rees-Mogg: yes, England has inflicted an awful lot of angst and pain on Scotland down the centuries – but, look, we still don't want you to leave
1 Sorry for calling every last one of you "Jock". We now know it's offensive, especially if you're a woman.
2 So sorry for the years of heartless Conservative governments that you never voted for that ripped the heart out of the Scottish mining, steel and shipbuilding industries, butchered public services and imposed an unwonted, dismal neo-liberal ethos on a land to which such a callous political and economic philosophy was inimical.
3 And for making you guinea pigs for Margaret Thatcher's disastrous poll tax, inflicting it on you a year before England and Wales, and then – somehow! – forgetting to backdate the rebate for the tax when it was abolished in the early 90s.
4 Sorry for the 1746 Dress Act that banned tartan,...
1 Sorry for calling every last one of you "Jock". We now know it's offensive, especially if you're a woman.
2 So sorry for the years of heartless Conservative governments that you never voted for that ripped the heart out of the Scottish mining, steel and shipbuilding industries, butchered public services and imposed an unwonted, dismal neo-liberal ethos on a land to which such a callous political and economic philosophy was inimical.
3 And for making you guinea pigs for Margaret Thatcher's disastrous poll tax, inflicting it on you a year before England and Wales, and then – somehow! – forgetting to backdate the rebate for the tax when it was abolished in the early 90s.
4 Sorry for the 1746 Dress Act that banned tartan,...
- 2/20/2014
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s here! ABC’s latest promise to scare, seduce and confuse - 666 Park Avenue. The show starts off at the symphony where a gentleman feverishly plays his violin while the imposing Gavin Doran (Terry O’Quinn) gazes intently on the musician’s fingers as they bleed. Bleed. Soon homeboy high tails out of the show with his bandaged phalanges to get home and pack. Underwear? Check. Passport? Check. Destroy haunted violin? Donezo. This violinist is ready to get the hell out 666 Park Avenue. But he finds his departure cut short when he receives a mysterious phone call. You see, he made a deal with the devil. He bet a fiddle of gold against his soul that he thinks he’s better than you. He thought he’d escape only to find himself vacuumed into the mail slot at 999 Park Avenue. Yup, 999. It’s called 666 because that’s what happens...
- 10/1/2012
- by Damian Bellino
- The Backlot
One Direction have revealed their favourite Valentine's Day songs. The group shared tracks they feel are the best to romance the ladies with, choosing songs by Chris Brown and Chris De Burgh. Liam Payne told Amazon that Michael Buble's 'End of May' is what he would choose for a romantic date, while Zayn Malik picked Chris Brown's 'With You'. Niall Horan selected Van Morrison or Michael Buble's version of 'Crazy Love', (more)...
- 2/10/2012
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
Wg Sebald's sprawling novel The Rings of Saturn has inspired a movie. The composer of its soundtrack tells Ben Beaumont-Thomas why only mashed-up Schubert would do
"The book is very ghost-like," says Leyland James Kirby. "So the music is ghost-like too. It can be easily ignored." This seems a strange thing for a composer to say of his music, but then Kirby is talking about the soundtrack he has written for a film inspired by a very strange book: Wg Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, a sprawling work based around a walk Sebald took along the East Anglian coast and the thoughts it provoked in him. Taking in everything from the Holocaust to outer space, from Chinese trains to crappy hotels, the 1995 novel so struck film-maker Grant Gee that he retraced the writer's footsteps, talking to people along the way, and turned the results into a film called Patience (After...
"The book is very ghost-like," says Leyland James Kirby. "So the music is ghost-like too. It can be easily ignored." This seems a strange thing for a composer to say of his music, but then Kirby is talking about the soundtrack he has written for a film inspired by a very strange book: Wg Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, a sprawling work based around a walk Sebald took along the East Anglian coast and the thoughts it provoked in him. Taking in everything from the Holocaust to outer space, from Chinese trains to crappy hotels, the 1995 novel so struck film-maker Grant Gee that he retraced the writer's footsteps, talking to people along the way, and turned the results into a film called Patience (After...
- 1/26/2012
- by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
- The Guardian - Film News
Pete Townshend, The Feeling and Boy George were part of a star-studded line up that rocked the Royal Albert Hall for The Prince’s Trust Rock Gala supported by Novae.
The music extravaganza, hosted by Edith Bowman and Patrick Kielty, raised vital funds – and the roof – for the youth charity’s vital work with disadvantaged young people. The fundraiser comes in the wake of news that more than a million 16 to 24 year-olds are out of work, the highest number since records began in 1992.
A long list of Prince’s Trust supporters performed at the Rock Gala – the tenth in The Trust’s history – including singer songwriters Chris De Burgh, Nik Kershaw, Julian Lennon, Cerys Matthews, Alison Moyet and Joss Stone , rock legends Kenney Jones, Mark King and Midge Ure, urban saxophonist YolanDa Brown, classical music star Charlie Siem and comedian and musician Tim Minchin.
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The music extravaganza, hosted by Edith Bowman and Patrick Kielty, raised vital funds – and the roof – for the youth charity’s vital work with disadvantaged young people. The fundraiser comes in the wake of news that more than a million 16 to 24 year-olds are out of work, the highest number since records began in 1992.
A long list of Prince’s Trust supporters performed at the Rock Gala – the tenth in The Trust’s history – including singer songwriters Chris De Burgh, Nik Kershaw, Julian Lennon, Cerys Matthews, Alison Moyet and Joss Stone , rock legends Kenney Jones, Mark King and Midge Ure, urban saxophonist YolanDa Brown, classical music star Charlie Siem and comedian and musician Tim Minchin.
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- 11/25/2011
- Look to the Stars
The Only Way Is Essex star Mark Wright has claimed that he is going to go two weeks without intimacy with a woman. Wright made the celibacy vow on last night's series three Towie launch show. The nightclub promoter had a tearful and emotional exchange with his best friend James 'Arg' Argent in the ITV reality soap. He confessed that since splitting up with long-term partner Lauren Goodger, he had been spending his days watching romantic drama The Notebook and listening to Chris de Burgh's 'Lady In Red'. "I need to change it to watching The Hangover and listening to 'Don't Wanna Be A Player No More'," said Wright. "I've got to move on from it... But I don't want to have another girl. I don't want to text another girl, I don't want to have sex with another (more)...
- 9/26/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Lady In Red singer Chris De Burgh is riding high on the music charts with a charity song recorded with a couple of teenagers who lost their mother to ovarian cancer.
Lonely Sky is currently available on iTunes, with all profits going to St Anne’s Hospice, where the mother of Ben and James Hazelby was cared for before she died last year. The boys were awarded the chance to record the song with the iconic singer during a Noel Edmonds Christmas TV special earlier this month, and the tune has already reached number 11 on the charts.
“We’re absolutely over the moon – there’s no words to describe it,” said the boys’ father, Paul Hazelby. “I had a feeling it was going to do well but none of us were prepared for this. It’s just fantastic. The boys are being recognized and they are loving it. Life has...
Lonely Sky is currently available on iTunes, with all profits going to St Anne’s Hospice, where the mother of Ben and James Hazelby was cared for before she died last year. The boys were awarded the chance to record the song with the iconic singer during a Noel Edmonds Christmas TV special earlier this month, and the tune has already reached number 11 on the charts.
“We’re absolutely over the moon – there’s no words to describe it,” said the boys’ father, Paul Hazelby. “I had a feeling it was going to do well but none of us were prepared for this. It’s just fantastic. The boys are being recognized and they are loving it. Life has...
- 12/31/2010
- Look to the Stars
Dear Sarah:
Excellent days to you my warrior princess!
I just wanted to congratulate you on your sexy and smart new reality show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska!"
I want to thank you for bringing Alaska to my attention. As I am Canadian, I honestly thought it was a made-up country that existed only on a Risk board, like Kamchatka. But what I discovered was that it was a real country, full of real people who shoot rifles, handle bloody fish heads, dogsled, appear on Bill O'Reilly from the TV studio in their own fortress/mansion, people who, "Don't retreat, just reload." It's a pretty cool place, Sarah, and I thank you for introducing me to it.
I also want to thank you for being pretty. You have awesome hair, Sarah. It's as beautiful as Mt. McKinley, and I think I'd like to make a nest out of it to curl up into each night.
Excellent days to you my warrior princess!
I just wanted to congratulate you on your sexy and smart new reality show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska!"
I want to thank you for bringing Alaska to my attention. As I am Canadian, I honestly thought it was a made-up country that existed only on a Risk board, like Kamchatka. But what I discovered was that it was a real country, full of real people who shoot rifles, handle bloody fish heads, dogsled, appear on Bill O'Reilly from the TV studio in their own fortress/mansion, people who, "Don't retreat, just reload." It's a pretty cool place, Sarah, and I thank you for introducing me to it.
I also want to thank you for being pretty. You have awesome hair, Sarah. It's as beautiful as Mt. McKinley, and I think I'd like to make a nest out of it to curl up into each night.
- 11/19/2010
- by Michael Murray
Kings of Leon are the kings of the European album charts for a second consecutive week - their "Come Around Sundown" keeps Robbie Williams' hits album off the top of the European Albums countdown. The album has sold over 250,000 copies in the two weeks since its release, and is currently in the top five in Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Portugal and Norway.
Williams' "In and Out of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990-2010" stays put at two on the new chart and Shakira's "Sale El Sol" is unmoved at three. Michael Buble's "Crazy Love" is enjoying a rebirth on the chart in its 54th week and has returned to the top five at four and Andrea Berg's "Schwerelos" enters the new countdown at five.
But the talk of the chart is the return of Chris De Burgh, whose "Moonfleet" album shoots up from 93 to nine. Meanwhile, Rihanna has shot to...
Williams' "In and Out of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990-2010" stays put at two on the new chart and Shakira's "Sale El Sol" is unmoved at three. Michael Buble's "Crazy Love" is enjoying a rebirth on the chart in its 54th week and has returned to the top five at four and Andrea Berg's "Schwerelos" enters the new countdown at five.
But the talk of the chart is the return of Chris De Burgh, whose "Moonfleet" album shoots up from 93 to nine. Meanwhile, Rihanna has shot to...
- 11/6/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
A Metropolitan Police firearms officer has been accused of inserting song titles into his oral evidence at the inquest into the death of barrister Mark Saunders. An investigation was launched by Independent Police Complaints Commission (Ippc) after the officer, who could have fired the shot which killed Saunders, was reportedly reprimanded by his superior shortly after his testimony on September 27. A transcript of the officer's evidence allegedly contained song titles including 'Enough is Enough' by Donna Summer, 'Point of No Return' by Buzzcocks, 'Line of Fire' by Journey, 'Quiet Moments' by Chris de Burgh, 'Kicking Myself' by As Tall As Lions and 'F**k My Old Boots' by the Membranes, The Guardian reports. (more)...
- 11/2/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
While Facebook may be peddling its vanilla morals to the rest of the world with its ban on aureolae and pot leaves, more subversive stuff may be slipping through the net. An AP report highlights the rise of the use of social networks such as Facebook and YouTube as tools for the cause by Kashmiri resistance fighters.
Delhi-based writer Shuddhabrata Sengupta sees this move as inevitable. "The struggles on the streets and in the corners of cyberspace have a mutually complementary nature," he told Associated Press. And the rebels see it the same way, too. "I am an anonymous soldier of Kashmir's resistance movement, using Facebook and YouTube to fight India," says a 23-year-old called Ahmed, who regularly confronts Indian police, armed with just a scarf and a cameraphone.
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As well as fighting Indian security forces, Ahmed and his cohorts, who call themselves "sangbazan," make video montages of footage they...
Delhi-based writer Shuddhabrata Sengupta sees this move as inevitable. "The struggles on the streets and in the corners of cyberspace have a mutually complementary nature," he told Associated Press. And the rebels see it the same way, too. "I am an anonymous soldier of Kashmir's resistance movement, using Facebook and YouTube to fight India," says a 23-year-old called Ahmed, who regularly confronts Indian police, armed with just a scarf and a cameraphone.
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As well as fighting Indian security forces, Ahmed and his cohorts, who call themselves "sangbazan," make video montages of footage they...
- 8/27/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
This Is England '86 is a brand new drama coming to Channel 4 this September. It revisits the gang from the hit film This Is England three years on.
It's 1986 - the year Chris de Burgh is at number one, Top Gun is filling the cinemas, VHS is trumping Betamax, the World Cup is raging in Mexico and over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed.
As Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) sits his last school exam, the realisation dawns that adulthood beckons and in mid-80s England he's going to have to find his own way in the world. Luckily life has dealt a surprise hand to his friends too and no one is quite where they thought they would be. Woody, Lol, Smell, Gadget, Milky - they are all looking for love, a laugh, a job and something that resembles a future.
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Music In Trailer By Wayne Smith, Track: Under Me Sleng...
It's 1986 - the year Chris de Burgh is at number one, Top Gun is filling the cinemas, VHS is trumping Betamax, the World Cup is raging in Mexico and over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed.
As Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) sits his last school exam, the realisation dawns that adulthood beckons and in mid-80s England he's going to have to find his own way in the world. Luckily life has dealt a surprise hand to his friends too and no one is quite where they thought they would be. Woody, Lol, Smell, Gadget, Milky - they are all looking for love, a laugh, a job and something that resembles a future.
Trailer
Music In Trailer By Wayne Smith, Track: Under Me Sleng...
- 8/16/2010
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
Ten weeks of competition, and it all comes down to this: The "Dancing with the Stars" finals! Monday night, Olympic skater Evan Lysacek, Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger and Espn sportscaster Erin Andrews delivered their A-game with an unprecedented two out of four final dances on the first of the two-night finale. First up, Erin and her pro partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy danced a saucy samba, ending with a bookend kiss on Judge Len Goodman. Len joked, "I always wanted to be kissed by a man with a beard," then commended Erin on the dance, saying, "The improvement from the last time you danced the samba is fantastic. It was full of energy. Wonderful." He gave them a perfect score of 10. Judge Bruno Tonioli observed, "We wanted fun, we got it." He gave them a 9. And Judge Carrie Ann Inaba agreed about the fun, saying, "The movements were sharper, crisper. It was fantastic,...
- 5/25/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
This morning Big Brother called “the most vocal housemate” to the Diary Room.
The housemates debated who this was and Sisqo was sent to the Diary Room, where he was told he had a chance to win luxury treats for the other housemates.
The task: Big Brother played 6 tracks and Sisqo, the most vocal Housemate, had to sing along to each track with the help of lyrics appearing, karaoke-style on a screen in front of him.
However during each track there were 3 occasions when the lyrics disappeared from the screen.
Rules: For every song the most vocal Housemate sings fully and completely, including those lyrics that do not appear on the screen, they will win the group a hamper of luxury treats. But, if they sing the incorrect lyrics, the track will stop and Big Brother will move onto the next track and they will have failed to win that hamper.
The housemates debated who this was and Sisqo was sent to the Diary Room, where he was told he had a chance to win luxury treats for the other housemates.
The task: Big Brother played 6 tracks and Sisqo, the most vocal Housemate, had to sing along to each track with the help of lyrics appearing, karaoke-style on a screen in front of him.
However during each track there were 3 occasions when the lyrics disappeared from the screen.
Rules: For every song the most vocal Housemate sings fully and completely, including those lyrics that do not appear on the screen, they will win the group a hamper of luxury treats. But, if they sing the incorrect lyrics, the track will stop and Big Brother will move onto the next track and they will have failed to win that hamper.
- 1/17/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Part 3: From Kick-Ass to new digital technology
Kick-ass
Meet the new class of slacker superheroes
Although 2009 was notably free of Super- and Spider-Men, with only the underwhelming Watchmen to fill the gap, 2010 sees the return of the comic-book hero big time, but with a sneaky twist: next year's crop don't have a single superpower between them. First out of the gate is Matthew Vaughn's scabrous Kick-Ass, adapted from Mark Millar's graphic novel, about a teenage boy (played by Aaron Johnson), who dreams of being a masked vigilante and winds up crossing paths with real-life caped crusaders Big Daddy (Nic Cage) and Hit-Girl (Chloe Moretz), a ferocious, foul-mouthed father-and-daughter double act. Following that comes Edgar Wright's long-awaited Hot Fuzz follow-up Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, based on a series of comics by Bryan Lee O'Malley and starring Michael Cera as a lovelorn slacker who has to defeat...
Kick-ass
Meet the new class of slacker superheroes
Although 2009 was notably free of Super- and Spider-Men, with only the underwhelming Watchmen to fill the gap, 2010 sees the return of the comic-book hero big time, but with a sneaky twist: next year's crop don't have a single superpower between them. First out of the gate is Matthew Vaughn's scabrous Kick-Ass, adapted from Mark Millar's graphic novel, about a teenage boy (played by Aaron Johnson), who dreams of being a masked vigilante and winds up crossing paths with real-life caped crusaders Big Daddy (Nic Cage) and Hit-Girl (Chloe Moretz), a ferocious, foul-mouthed father-and-daughter double act. Following that comes Edgar Wright's long-awaited Hot Fuzz follow-up Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, based on a series of comics by Bryan Lee O'Malley and starring Michael Cera as a lovelorn slacker who has to defeat...
- 1/2/2010
- by Pete Cashmore, Will Dean, Priya Elan, Stuart Heritage, Bobbie Johnson, Malik Meer, Rebecca Nicholson, Alex Rayner, Sam Richards, Steve Rose, Kathy Sweeney, Richard Vine, Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
Chris de Burgh has branded a critic "bitter" after he received a negative review. Peter Crawley criticised the singer's performance in Dublin in an article for The Irish Times. According to the BBC, he wrote that "certain toes will never uncurl after this experience", and said that Chris de Burgh's name "summons a rush of associations, some of which carry a shudder". However, de Burgh wrote a letter to the newspaper, in which he said: "You certainly arrived with the word 'prejudice' burned into your furrowed brow." He continued: "Your churlish review is an insult to all those who enjoyed their night out, and in these days of collapsing newspaper sales and an entire new generation on the way who will get their information (more)...
- 9/14/2009
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Lady GaGa has extended her reign over the UK albums chart, notching up a third week on top with debut disc The Fame. Kings of Leon bounce back to two with Only By The Night, while Doves slip to three with Kingdom of Rust. The highest new entry of the week comes from veteran pop singer Chris De Burgh, who debuts at four with Footsteps. Meanwhile, Lily Allen rebounds from six to five with It's Not Me, It's You, while Beyoncé climbs from ten to seven with I Am... Sasha Fierce. The top ten albums in full (click where possible for our reviews): 1. (1) Lady GaGa: (more)...
- 4/19/2009
- by By Nick Levine
- Digital Spy
LONDON -- Universal Music Group International said Wednesday that it is digging deep into its back catalog to make about 100,000 deleted European recordings available exclusively via Internet digital download. The first group of 3,000 tracks, available starting in mid-February, will include recordings made during the past 40 years in the U.K., France and Germany. Featured artists include Nirvana, Marianne Faithfull, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll, Chris De Burgh, Big Country, Jacques Brel, Nana Mouskouri, Eddy Mitchell and Brigitte Bardot. "Over the next three to four years, we aim to reissue perhaps as many as 10,000 albums for downloading, which amounts to more than 100,000 tracks. This program will offer material that in some cases goes back to the early days of recorded music," said Barney Wragg, senior vp at UMGI's eLabs division.
- 1/18/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BRUSSELS -- The music industry will launch a new bid Tuesday to persuade the European Union to slash VAT on recorded music, as it uses the glitz of star players to make a political point. In recent days, Tom Jones, Sir Elton John and Julio Iglesias have joined some 1,150 artists putting their names to a petition appealing to ministers to cut the taxes, which range from 15% to 25% on CDs. Other high-profile names include Coldcut, Chris De Burgh, Zucchero, Axelle Red, Lords of Acid, Nana Mouskouri, Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini, Johnny Hallyday and Barbara Hendricks, as well as European music sector lobbies the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and independent label group Impala. The campaign emphasizes the musical and geographical range of the signatories, from international to local artists and from classical and pop to techno and rap.
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