The Guardian
It's worth entering the Eurovision song contest, and indeed worth losing, just to hear Terry Wogan attempt to have a huff about partiality on his way home. A 50-year career, built on wall to wall affability, and he thinks he can turn round now and have a public strop. It's a use it or lose it muscle, Tel. We're just hearing the cheery voice. (28/05)
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In a city where modern trends are the in thing, it is truly unique that people are still being swayed by voices from the past, something that bears mute ...
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The first project of its kind in the history of Iraq. Young Iraqi artists will soon have an opportunity to shine their talents through the fog of war, ...
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Few people — at 22 years old — merit an autobiography and a biopic. But Fantasia, the former "American Idol” champ with the raspy, gospel-tinged voice ...
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Paris Hilton's debut album was not exactly a triumph of artistic expression. But how much less impressive would Paris be if the thin, hyper-processed ...
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Maryan Mursal, Somalia's top night club performer in the early 1970s and currently a patriotic voice admired by Somalis in the Diaspora, says that she ...
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In the last few weeks, vlogs from Mia Rose, a disturbingly well-packaged 18-year-old singer-songwriter, have become some of the most-viewed videos on YouTube. ...
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The members of the musical troupe known as Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars are no longer refugees, living as outsiders in a strange land, engulfed in ...
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Fron Male Voice Choir from the Welsh village of Froncysyllte in the Vale of Llangollen have been given a recording contract with Universal Music, the company ...
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A YOUNG musician is to release an album from beyond the grave.
Singer-songwriter Matthew Jay, who drew comparisons with folk legend Nick Drake, died ...
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Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young ...
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The British dance-pop duo the Ting Tings are having the kind of year most musicians dream about: hit singles in the UK, a buzzed-about showcase at South ...
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THE TURKANA CULTURAL FESTIval, organised by the German Embassy, debuted recently to showcase the promise of a region that lacks the advantage of numbers ...
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The CBC is set to launch a song-writing contest open to all Canadians in hopes of finding a new theme song for Hockey Night In Canada, the head of CBC ...
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Teenagers building vast music collections by downloading songs illegally from the internet should beware. Their access to free music faces being cut off ...
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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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I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ...
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I HAVE often railed at the fact that music has become more about the visuals than the song itself. Yet, in hypocritical fashion, I'm going to tell you ...
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Tirhut range DIG Arvind Pandey does not find fighting crime and music contradictory. "A recent report in America suggests that music makes police officers ...
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Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums would play on the new system. ...
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hree interesting developments today on the issue of music pricing and price elasticity, a subject close to my heart. While one label starts flirting with ...
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There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites.
That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ...
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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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The CBC is set to launch a song-writing contest open to all Canadians in hopes of finding a new theme song for Hockey Night In Canada, the head of CBC ...
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Chinese pop and rock singers, bands and composers will have a chance to compete with peers from other Asian countries for awards worth more than 1 million ...
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Over the past few months, "multiple judges" at 9inchnails.com listened to over 200 submissions to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix contest and the ...
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Morrissey is in talks with the BBC over plans to write a song for the Eurovision Song Contest. The former Smiths frontman, pictured, who has hits such ...
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Call it the "Hips Don't Lie" effect. Last year, Epic Records held a contest offering fans a chance to help create a video for Colombian pop diva Shakira's ...
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The Eurovision Song Contest will soon be upon us once again, giving fans and detractors alike another opportunity to watch the annual back scratching -- ...
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Michael Jackson apparently flew to Japan over the weekend in order to de-jetlag in time for the super special party he's hosting in Tokyo this week. On ...
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The victory of Marija Serifovic at the 2007 Eurovision song contest caused an outpouring of national pride in Serbia, a country more used to rebuffs from ...
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Britons believe the reason their entrant in this year's Eurovision song contest placed second last comes down to politics, not a disinterest in dancing ...
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The video submissions are in and we've picked the three top videos for our contest. Check out the submitted videos and see whose shaved noggin was worthy ...
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Readers sent us videos of their best one-minute Dylan imitation and now you need to judge which one is the best. Vote for your favorite imitation! The ...
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