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Edge's Gibson Les Paul, Lennon's sunglasses, Springsteen's hand-written lyrics and a signed sax from Bill Clinton are among 200 pieces of music memorabilia in the Icons of Music Auction. The event will raise funds for Music Rising and also features a Tom Tom drum from Larry and a bass guitar from Adam. (27/03)
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If I invented a genre of music, it would contain Hammond organ solos, Necronomicon-inspired lyrics, and the drums would be played by a tank. And it seems ...
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The lilt of a girl singing of homecoming blends pleasantly with a cacophony of different melodies from keyboard, guitar and drums in a music school in ...
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Zack de la Rocha crouched in front of Brad Wilk's drum kit and surveyed the nearly 60,000 people at his feet. All around him crested a noise that had ...
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tended drum solos. Prog-rock concept albums. Kenny G. We endured all these — and much worse! — to bring you Blender's list of the 50 most talentless music ...
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CRAMMED in a van loaded with guitars, a drum kit and a couple of Fender amplifiers, and driving from one American gig to the next, the four scruffy musicians ...
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Legendary post-punkers Gang of Four have announced that they will follow the latest trend of label-less means of releasing music. On Dave Allen's Pampelmoose ...
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Rock concerts at some of the UK's most important historic buildings have put them at risk of damage from powerful bass note vibrations, according to research ...
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One minute Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese are Hollywood's hottest (and most unlikely) couple... But with a blink of an eye it's all done and dusted. ...
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Does your church sing? Or does its message fall flat in a mess of reverberation, boomy bass and muffled speech? Researchers here are investigating the ...
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Mahler's Eighth may or may not be the greatest symphony ever composed, but it's surely the loudest: at its premiere in Munich in 1910, the impresario ...
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Escalating music download sales have helped double the size of the U.K. singles market over the past three years, according to figures published by The ...
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The cultural machine of Yoko Ono has many moving parts, and none of them have slowed. Her creative work has taken her to Reykjavik, Iceland to Liverpool, ...
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Singer Kate Bush will release her first album in 12 years in November - a double album entitled Aerial.
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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ...
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If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ...
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The video game, Guitar Hero that lets anyone be a rock star, has been linked to a growing number of injuries.
Guitar Hero's been a smash hit around ...
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Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ...
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Richard Shindell, a singer-songwriter who paid his dues behind an open guitar case on the floor of Paris Metro subway stations as a street musician, has ...
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South Korean student Lim Jeong-hyun has basked in 5 minutes and 20 seconds of fame nearly 9 million times over. Lim, 22, was identified by the Media about ...
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A vodka called Hendrix Electric, which bears the image and name of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, has ignited a lawsuit between two members of the Hendrix ...
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Music publishers have quietly stepped up their efforts to shut down popular Web sites that publish lyrics to songs without their permission - and are demanding ...
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It's Saturday night in the Soho Revue Bar, a venue once advertised as the "world centre of erotic entertainment". The London club still has the red ...
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For the past few weeks, we (British radio station Planet Rock) 've been asking Planet Rock listeners to vote for the greatest guitar solo ever. We compiled ...
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Playing music on plastic guitars is big business. Guitar Hero 3 has become quite the runaway hit at retail, and with Rock Band now released, we have two ...
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The lilt of a girl singing of homecoming blends pleasantly with a cacophony of different melodies from keyboard, guitar and drums in a music school in ...
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The US Music Publishers Association (MPA) has begun licensing websites that want to reproduce guitar tabs, the notation that tells guitarists where to ...
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Zack de la Rocha crouched in front of Brad Wilk's drum kit and surveyed the nearly 60,000 people at his feet. All around him crested a noise that had ...
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It's the big irony of the electric guitar. Its body mimics the waist and curves of a woman. And yet, alone among instruments, the electric guitar is still ...
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DISTINGUISHED highlife musician Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, (OON) is dead at 71. He passed on last Friday, according to his family in a statement. It ...
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In the right hands, the bodhran and the bouzouki can still inflame the senses, and sometimes the oldest traditions can be entrusted to the care of younger ...
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The private equity vehicle run by city financier Guy Hands is fighting to meet financial targets set by Citigroup in a bid to avoid a fractious showdown ...
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The video game, Guitar Hero that lets anyone be a rock star, has been linked to a growing number of injuries.
Guitar Hero's been a smash hit around ...
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Later this year, over 30 young people from Shillong and Lucknow will travel to Rio and experience the work of Afro Reggae first hand.
In the heart of ...
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EMI is facing the prospect of an artists' revolt, with representatives of major acts Robbie Williams and Coldplay expressing concern at the current state ...
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Bankers bored of the credit squeeze are now obsessing over Guy Hands and his £4bn investment in EMI. Word is the chief executive of buy-out group ...
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Rocker Courtney Love has hit back at claims she criticised Amy Winehouse over her drug addiction. Love has denied reports she was shocked at the Back to ...
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Guy Hands has been busy since taking over EMI in September. His Terra Firma private equity group has made money on 24 of his 25 deals – the exception was ...
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The buyout of EMI could become the latest victim of the turbulence in the debt markets, as lenders to its private equity buyers threaten to pull funding ...
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EMI will drop artists it feels are not working hard enough and “unpick” its own executives' pay packages, its new private equity owner has told staff. ...
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John Lennon started it all back in 1964 when the lovable moptop assembled his Milliganesque black humour and primitive expressive drawings into his first ...
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In a move designed to fill the void created by the Recording Industry Association of America's crackdown on the formidable business of mixtapes, Universal ...
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Guy Hands' Terra Firma, on the hunt for additional equity investors in EMI, is telling prospective partners they can nearly quadruple their money in the ...
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As if digital music sales and unauthorized file-swapping weren't bad enough, now the Warner Music Group has another potential headache on its hands. Her ...
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FOR POSSIBLY THE FIRST TIME in its illustrious history, posh music magazine The Gramophone has a news story on its hands. As we reported earlier, William ...
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Walking briskly past Lincoln Center with a violin case in hand and a suitcase in tow, David Juritz looked like a busy orchestral musician arriving in the ...
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Rick Rubin, the star music producer who had a hand in three of the five albums up for album of the year honors at the Grammy Awards next Sunday, has rarely ...
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Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions ...
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No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ...
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If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ...
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The video game, Guitar Hero that lets anyone be a rock star, has been linked to a growing number of injuries.
Guitar Hero's been a smash hit around ...
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Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ...
Read
Richard Shindell, a singer-songwriter who paid his dues behind an open guitar case on the floor of Paris Metro subway stations as a street musician, has ...
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After enjoying last week as the top-selling album at the Amazon MP3 store, American Idol contestant David Cook's 2006 album Analog Heart was pulled from ...
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With record sales of 100 million and countless awards for her music, she is probably the best-selling star never to have topped the British charts. But ...
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Radiohead's In Rainbows has climbed straight to the top of the UK album chart in the week following its physical release on CD and vinyl, apparently proving ...
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South Korean student Lim Jeong-hyun has basked in 5 minutes and 20 seconds of fame nearly 9 million times over. Lim, 22, was identified by the Media about ...
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Some of the music industry's biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead ...
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A vodka called Hendrix Electric, which bears the image and name of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, has ignited a lawsuit between two members of the Hendrix ...
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Music publishers have quietly stepped up their efforts to shut down popular Web sites that publish lyrics to songs without their permission - and are demanding ...
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If you're in the mood to feel disturbed by the British music scene, a glance at the album chart usually does the trick. Sure enough, this year's bestsellers ...
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It's Saturday night in the Soho Revue Bar, a venue once advertised as the "world centre of erotic entertainment". The London club still has the red ...
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The 500-year-old cultural, linguistic and historical bridge linking Spain and Latin America has shrunk to the size of a mobile phone, at least in terms ...
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