Nicky B & other: June 2008

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Queen Latifah sues in N.Y. over cameo film role

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. actress and singer Queen Latifah sued a small film production company that helped finance the movie "The Perfect Holiday" on Wednesday, saying she had not been paid any money for the film.

Lawyers for Queen Latifah, an Academy Award-nominated actress and Grammy Award-winning singer whose real name is Dana Owens, said in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court the California-based company, Perfect Christmas Productions, had breached her contract and owed her $275,000 for a cameo role in the film.

"The Perfect Holiday," which was also produced by Owens, 38, was released in December 2007, starring Terrence Howard and Gabrielle Union. It grossed more than $5.8 million by February, 2008 in the United States, according to Box Office Mojo.

The lawsuit said Perfect Christmas Productions was believed to have been paid several million dollars by third parties for "The Perfect Holiday," which was originally known as "Perfect Christmas."

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Michelle Nichols and Vicki Allen)

Monday, 23 June 2008

Larry The Cable Guy

Artist: Larry The Cable Guy

   Genre(s):
Comedy
   Rock

Discography:

Christmas In Larryland

Year: 2007
Tracks: 20

The Right to Bare Arms

Year: 2005
Tracks: 17

A Very Larry Christmas

Year: 2004
Tracks: 28

Lord, I Apologize

Year: 2001
Tracks: 14

The man wHO added the get phrases "Git-R-Done" and "Divine, I Apologize" to the American dictionary and john Drew fans by the pickup arm truckload to his shows proved to be one of the most successful comics of the other 2000s. Dan Whitney, known better as Larry the Cable Guy, claims he was natural in the stake of an El Camino during a Foghat concert. His drawl may effectual Southern, only Larry was raised on a pig grow in Pawnee City, NE. His nurture was conservative, traditional, and churchgoing. That didn't mean that strip parallel bars were out of the inquiry when Larry reached 18 (possibly even a little earlier). Fascinated by this redneck life -- "redneck" being a term he is not only fine with, only endorses -- and always looking at to commentary on it, Larry ill-used his humourous observations to entrance his friends, wHO dared him to try on his bridge player at standup. He did in 1986 and the fans' reaction to his slow, reachable trend had him hooklike. Two age later on, he relinquished his title as funniest bellman at the Ramada Inn and set out for a life history in comedy.

His one-liner-filled act presently caught pipeline flame in the South and brought him to the attention of telecasting. Appearances on Evening at the Improv and Mirthful Strip Live increased his fan base past times rural America, just it was on the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Show on receiving set that Larry got the most exposure. His success with wireless continued when he became a regular on Jeff Foxworthy's State Countdown Show and Larry shortly started syndicating his "commentaries" to 14 markets across the nation. In 2000 Foxworthy invited the mirthful to join his Blue Collar Comedy Tour, along with Bill Engvall. The successful circuit grossed $15 zillion, sold more than 1 one thousand thousand copies when released on DVD, and turned Larry into a genius. His debut CD, Master, I Apologize, appeared in 2001 and became the Disconsolate Side of the Moon of the comedy charts -- sticking out in the Top 20 for 2 geezerhood operative.

In 2002, a Comedy Central airing of Depressed Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie became the network's highest-rated picture show in its 12-year history, tied with the DVD widely available. Larry the Cable Guy: Git-R-Done became his first-class honours degree solo DVD in 2003, and a year later on Larry, Foxworthy, and Engvall turned their circuit into the highly rated video show Bluish Collar TV. Wearing his redneckness as a badge of honour piece hating political correctness and racism evenly made Larry a tough target area for detractors, just he made news with a 2004 appearance on the good morning lecture exhibit The View. Clay Aiken fans bombarded the show and the risible with hatred e-mail when the comic declared, "I'm on the Clay Aiken diet. That's where you pop in a Clay Aiken CD and render to hold food down."

Ignoring the "contestation," Larry spread head holiday cheer up at the end of the year with his modern CD, A Very Larry Christmas, and appeared on Depressed Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again. The Right to Bare Arms appeared in March the next year. The year 2006 was devoted generally to photographic film, with Larry star in his possess feature photographic film, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, and supply the voice of Mater in the alive Disney/Pixar cinema Cars. He also appeared on the CD and DVD Depressed Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road that year, before reversive to his solo career in early 2007 with the album Good morning Constitutions. By the end of 2007 his second holiday effort, Yuletide in Larryland, hit the shelves.

Ethan Puts the "F" in Father's Day

Oxymoron

Artist: Oxymoron

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Pack Is Back

Year: 1999
Tracks: 14

Oxymoron began in the early '90s when the punk rock vista had once again been goaded to the subway and the mainstream was qualification the transition from tough rock to dirt and metal. They played a form of Oi! music that resisted the stereotypical racial issues that plagued the musical genre in the mainstream's eyes and rather was one and only of the first revivalists to punctuate that the music was static a viable force in the resistance. Continuing their efforts into the next c, the band stands as a simulation for carefully design a life history round a genre that has fallen taboo of favor with many o'er misunderstood intentions.

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Obama celebrates with 'Beautiful Day'

Barack Obama celebrated his victory in the Democratic presidential candidate race by playing a U2 track.

The Irish rock band's 'Beautiful Day' played out over the speaker system as Obama took to the podium in front of 15,000 people at the Excel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another - a journey that will bring a new and better day to America," he said.

Obama will run for the presidency this November. The Illinois senator will be the first black person to lead a major US political party in a presidential race.

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Chris Martin Compares Coldplay To U2

Coldplay's Chris Martin has bravely compared his band to U2 in an interview with The Telegraph.

Speaking to the paper, Martin compared 'Viva La Vida', their new album, to U2's 1984 release 'The Unforgettable Fire'.

"I always view our albums in terms of U2 albums," Said the singer. "Viva La Vida is our Unforgettable Fire in that it's less straightforward, more oblique. It's about sex and death and love and fear and travel and illness. There's light and there's dark."

Trying to maintain some modesty, Martin added that he doesn't in fact, think that Coldplay are the best band in the world.

"The best bands in the world today are probably Arcade Fire and Sigur R�s," he said. "I think Coldplay is only the seventh best in the world."

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Jean-Marc Zelwer

Artist: Jean-Marc Zelwer

   Genre(s):
Avantgarde
   Ethnic

Discography:

La Tribu Iota

Year: 2001
Tracks: 15

Les Dieux Sont Faches

Year: 1995
Tracks: 11

La FiancGÂ©e Aux Yeux De Bois

Year: 1990
Tracks: 11

The Jackson 5

Artist: The Jackson 5

   Genre(s):
Blues
   Rock: Pop-Rock

Discography:

Skywriter-Get It Together

Year: 2001
Tracks: 19

Soulsation! (25th Anniversary Collection) CD4

Year: 1995
Tracks: 19

Soulsation! (25th Anniversary Collection) CD3

Year: 1995
Tracks: 19

Soulsation! (25th Anniversary Collection) CD2

Year: 1995
Tracks: 22

Soulsation! (25th Anniversary Collection) CD1

Year: 1995
Tracks: 22

Destiny

Year: 1978
Tracks: 8

The Jackson 5 were one of the biggest phenomenons in pop music during the early '70s, and the last outstanding group to come out of the Motown hitmaking machine earlier Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder shifted the label's nidus to more private visions. The Jackson 5's infectious brand of funky pop-soul was a definite divergence from the typically placid, elegant Motown sound, as befitting the group's youth and the dawn of a new tenner. That juvenility, conjugate with the marketing juggernaut that sprang up behind them, unavoidably got them labeled a bubblegum group. But they were far more gifted musically than that label would suggest, specially lead isaac Bashevis Singer Michael, and their material, while gay and upbeat, didn't pimp to its audience. Solo careers and overexposure step by step attenuated the Jackson 5, just their best music still holds up surprisingly well as some of the virtually vibrant mainstream pop/R&B of its era.

In the beginning, the Jackson 5 were composed of brothers Jackie (born Sigmund Jackson, May 4, 1951), Tito (guitar, born Toriano Jackson, October 15, 1953), Jermaine (bass, lead vocals, born December 11, 1954), Marlon (born March 12, 1957), and Michael (lead vocals, born August 29, 1958). By all accounts, the Jackson family's upbringing in Gary, IN, was stern; their mother Katherine was a devout Jehovah's Witness, and their founder Joe was a stern, moody disciplinarian. Allowed few outside interests, the boys gravitated to music, which was in their blood -- prior to his caper as a grus operator for a steel party, Joe had played guitar in an R&B group called the Falcons (not the like radical that launched Wilson Pickett's career). One night, Joe ascertained that Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine had been playing his cherished old guitar without permission; though initially angry, he cursorily discovered that his sons had genuine talent, and began to gestate of a family unit singing mathematical group that might eventually get them out of their rugged wage-earning life sentence in Gary. The firstborn triad sons began playing about the expanse together in 1962, teamed with two cousins (Rebel Jackson and Ronnie Rancifer), world Health Organization were replaced by Marlon and five-year-old Michael. Supervised by Joe, world Health Organization became their managing director and began working only parttime, the chemical group good and rehearsed often, and improved as dancers, singers, and instrumentalists at a rapid rate. In particular, Michael proved himself a dynamic performing artist, soon replacing Jermaine as the featured lead vocalist, and establishing himself as a agile social dancer able to mimic talents like James Brown. At first, the chemical group was known as Ripples & Waves Plus Michael, then the Jackson Brothers, and finally the Jackson 5.

In 1966, the Jackson 5 south Korean won an authoritative local talent competition with a Michael-led rendition of the Temptations' "My Girl." Their founder, world Health Organization had been chauffeuring them to out-of-state performances, as well engaged their low nonrecreational professional gigs that class. In 1967, the group south Korean won an amateur talent competition at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater, where they earned an influential fan in Gladys Knight (in all likelihood the first person to recommend the mathematical group to Motown). At the end of the year, the Jackson 5 made their first studio recordings for the minuscule Gary-based Steeltown label, and their individual "Bighearted Boy" became something of a local score. Championed again to Motown by Bobby Taylor, a penis of the Vancouvers who'd seen the group in Chicago, and Diana Ross, the Jackson 5 finally got a probability to tryout for the label in the summer of 1968. Desperately needing new line, an impressed Berry Gordy signed the chemical group and flew them out to his new headquarters in Los Angeles, where he and his assistants groomed them to be the label's side by side breakout stars. Having lost his celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team, Gordy formed a new partnership with Freddie Perren, Fonce Mizell, and Deke Richards dubbed the Corporation, which set or so crafting material for the group.

In August 1969, shortly earlier Michael turned 11, the Jackson 5 open for Diana Ross at the L.A. Forum, and in December, they issued their debut album, Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5. On October 7, 1969, the Jackson 5 released their first individual, "I Want You Back," a Corporation paper that had in the beginning been intended for Gladys Knight. It was an inst crush, striking figure one on both the pop and R&B charts. So did their next deuce singles, "Alphabet" and "The Love You Save" (both from their second album, Alphabet), which coagulated the group's alleged bubblegum-soul sound and certified them as pop sensations. Third gear Album was released in front year's end, spawning the hit lay "I'll Be There," which non solely proved that the mathematical group (and lead vocalizer Michael) were more mature and versatile than their promising, live initial singles let on, but as well made them the first grouping in pop history to have their number one four-spot singles stumble number one. It too became the best-selling single in Motown account, outlay a stellar five weeks at issue one. And it had soundless been less than a yr since the group's national debut.

A virtual Jackson 5 cottage diligence sprang up in the wake of their success, producing everything from dolls to a cartoon designate on -- what else? -- the ABC network (during the summertime of 1971). Younger and jr. listeners were brought into the congregation, adding to an already wide attract that transcended coloration lines, and the disc label that in one case billed itself as "the Sound of Young America" could once over again place logical title to the deed. Meanwhile, next their tetrad true figure ones, the Jackson 5 opened 1971 with a couple of issue two hits, "Mama's Pearl" and the lay "Ne'er Can Say Goodbye"; "Perchance Tomorrow" was their number one single not to make the pop Top Ten, though it tranquil reached the R&B Top Five. That year, Motown executives began grooming Michael and Jermaine for solo careers that would die hard concurrently with the Jackson 5. Michael was the number one to debut on his possess (toward the end of 1971), and was an instant success; his low gear iI singles, "Got to Be There" and "Rockin' Robin," both made the Top Five, and later in 1972 he scored his starting time pop figure one with "Ben." Jermaine debuted at the end of 1972, and his starting time single, "Daddy's Home," reached the Top Ten, though the follow-ups didn't get the momentum as well as Michael.

In the meantime, the fabulously hyped Jackson 5 delirium was beginning to cool down. Their fertile LP release agenda slowed a bit, and patch their singles continued to perform reliably advantageously on the R&B charts, they were no thirster a sure-fire play for the pop Top Ten. After a comparatively lengthy drought, the Jackson 5 scored what would be their last major boom for Motown, the 1974 telephone number deuce hit "Saltation Machine," a nod to the rising sound of discotheque (it too topped the R&B charts). The group's frustrations with Motown had been building -- non only did the judge seem less interested in their vocation, just they still refused to appropriate the Jacksons to compose or choose their own material, or play their own instruments on their records. Finally, in early 1976, they leftfield Motown to sign with Epic. When the legal battles finally complete, Motown north Korean won a breach of contract settlement and retained rights to the Jackson 5 identify, forcing the mathematical group to become the Jacksons. They also missed Jermaine, whose marriage to Berry Gordy's daughter Hazel made it passing laputan for him to join his brothers. He was replaced by younger comrade Randy (innate Steven Randall Jackson, October 29, 1961), world Health Organization had been appearing (unofficially) with the group as a percussionist for some time.

The Jacksons' first base few records on Epic were somewhat temperamental affairs produced by Philly soul legends Gamble & Huff. However, the group really assumed control all over their medicine and stumble full stride on 1978's Portion, which nigh regard as the strongest studio LP the Jacksons recorded together in any incarnation. Destiny was self-produced and for the most part self-written, and its success helped boost Michael to reelect to solo work. 1979's bright Off the Wall made him a star in his own right, signifying his arrival as a mature adult creative person, just he remained with his brothers for the time being, serving them disc a Grammy-nominated follow-up to Fate in 1980's Wallow. The astonishing succeeder of Michael's following solo album, Thriller, signaled the commencement of the end for the Jacksons, just non quite notwithstanding; Jermaine rejoined the group for 1984's Triumph, the only album to feature all sixer brothers. The unmarried "State of Shock," which featured client vocalizer Mick Jagger, hit turn trey that year, and the group's ensuing circuit was a blockbuster success, despite expensive (for the time) ticket prices. Michael and Marlon both leftfield the Jacksons, the latter trying out an unsuccessful solo career; Randy, Tito, and Jackie appeared as the Jacksons on the soundtrack of Burglar, and subsequently became highly regarded session musicians. The Jacksons reconvened in 1989 for the album 2300 Jackson Street, which featured every Jackson sibling bring through LaToya on the form of address cut. However, it wasn't as successful as hoped, and to date there bear been no further reunions on record. In 1997, the Jackson 5 were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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