Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Filed under: Rock Almanac Spinner.com : On This Date in 1978: The film version of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' featuring Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees in the title role, in which they performed the songs of the Beatles, is released.The Almanac Advises for July 24: "Beware... Read more
SlipperyBrick (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Disco Stu doesn’t rock just any speakers. They have to be Disco-licious and authentically groovy like these Saturday Night speakers that resemble a south park character. Put on your boogie shoes and your finest polyester and get ready for some funkadelic tunes pumped through two afros. They won’t connect to your 8-track or Hi-Fi, but [...]
GingerSnaps (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
When I was a kid, my brother who is four years older than me had to drive me to school every morning. He and I had very differing tastes in music back in those days. I was all about the Bee Gees, KC & The Sunshine Band, Donna Summer, and later Amy Grant [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The European Commission moved Wednesday to break up a system of national monopoly organizations that collect money for composers and song writers when their music is used on radio and television, in nightclubs or over the Internet.
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The European commission will tomorrow defy a high-profile lobbying campaign by composers and songwriters and order a new pan-European system of selling online music rights. Songwriters marshalled by Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees and including Bryan Ferry, Paul McCartney and Mark Knopfler have enlisted French president Nicholas Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel to back their campaign. But despite...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The order knocks down a major obstacle in front of an iTune roll-out across Europe.
English Webster (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Here it is if you missed it. And here's more proof from my friend Mort, sent via text message from the shetach (the "field").... At a wedding. They are dancing the hora to "9 to 5" and to the Bee Gees. Five minutes later... It's getting worse. The band is a string quartet of blondes in bikinis playing trance on electric violins. "Revenge of the Nerds" Israeli-style." This kind of stuff can't be made...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Ventriloquist Terry Fator, who won NBC's "America's Got Talent" last August, brings his act to Newport on Wednesday.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Stay in Touch: Since he was knee-high to a grasshopper he has hung out with everyone from John Denver to Cyndi Lauper and Hugh Jackman.
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
At a hip cafeteria in central Srinagar groups of young men and women sit around sipping cappuccinos and cafe lattes. Background music is the Bee Gees and Bryan Adams, the dress code is jeans and T-shirts for men and traditional but elegant salwar kameez for women. There are very few headscarves. It's a scene which would have been unthinkable in Indian-administered Kashmir a few years ago. For almost...
Fark.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
2008-07-11 07:15:57 PM Did they find any nails in there too? 2008-07-11 07:23:32 PM Looks more like Bush, which is pretty much the same thing for about 23% of the US population. 2008-07-11 07:24:05 PM Ice Cream Jesus would be a cool name for a band./cool, get it'//I slay myself. 2008-07-11 07:41:45 PM So is it spumoni or spimoni? 2008-07-11 07:53:54 PM It looks like a blurry closeup of weed. 2008-07-11...
Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Labour's annual Sports Dinner and Auction raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for the party's campaign fund last night at Wembley Stadium. The dinner saw sports stars, celebrities, Cabinet Ministers, and guests turn out in force to celebrate British...
Uncoached (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
I’ll tell you what happened to Ogre. He was just in one of the worst movies of all time: Hancock. The guy has ballooned to at least 300 lbs and looks crazier and scarier than ever. His real name? Donald Gibb. That’s nearly as bad as Fred Palowaski. [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
How is pop music used to break down prisoners?
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
David Gray has lambasted American interrogators for allegedly using his music to help extract information from internees in Iraq. Why might his music be chosen and what effect on prisoners is music meant to achieve?
