| Her name is BARBARA | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 3:05:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | Pop music is full of young divas these days, but currently on tour is the mother of them all, Barbra Streisand. Before there was Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey or Madonna, there was Babs, a one-woman entertainment juggernaut who's been calling her own shots, speaking her mind and throwing the occasional hissy fit during a career that's lasted more than 40 years. Streisand started out as a Broadway actress in the early 1960s but now ranks as the top-selling female artist in U.S. history with 71 million albums sold, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Along the way, she conquered television (with numerous performance specials), broke into the movies as both a star and a director, and even became a financial force in politics. Over the years, she's changed husbands and hairstyles, but Streisand has always seemed in complete control of her career.... | |
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| | | MTV VMAs Approach, Minus Gwen Stefani | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 9:11:12 AM by Blog57 Team | | The MTV Video Music Awards are rapidly approaching, but do they still matter? Did they ever matter? Or are the VMAs just MTV's excuse to put a huge group of popular music personalities in one room and watch the fireworks? It seems as though former No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani has caught on to the mundane side of the VMAs, and is rumored to be boycotting the event. Life Style Extra reports that Stefani is going to "boycott" the awards after she lost out a number of awards last year, which she figured she was a lock on. The New York Post quoted a source as saying "Gwen had a ton of nominations and was under the impression that she would be taking home at least one award. But every award, except for that lame best-dressed award, went to Kelly Clarkson." Rumor has it Gwen Stefani felt "set up" by the MTV producers last year.... | |
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| | | Shows revive Wildwood music scene | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 7:07:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | Bill and Ilona Dahms dropped by the Wildwoods Convention Center for a night of disco recently with Evelyn "Champagne" King, The Trammps, Peaches and Herb and the Blue Notes. They loved it. "I'd absolutely come here again to see a show," said Bill Dahms, who has a condo a few blocks away. The Voorhees couple has had lots of opportunities to rock this summer. The '70s soiree is one of a number of concerts playing the convention center's Oceanfront Arena as the Wildwoods bring back the glory days when acts played clubs or ballrooms. Poison and Cinderella performed Aug. 13. Wildwoodstock rolls in Saturday night with The Guess Who, Steppenwolf and Blood, Sweat & Tears. But the shows aren't limited to nostalgia acts. The rock band Live performed this summer, and the Bacon Brothers did a benefit for the Bancroft Neuro-Health Systems of Haddonfield.... | |
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| | | The best places to listen to music outdoors | | Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 9:06:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | What could be better than a summer evening listening to music in the dappled shade of a wood? The Forestry Commission (www.forestry.gov.uk) has been running a series of summer concerts, which culminate this coming weekend at Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury, Gloucester. Van Morrison takes the stage on Friday, followed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on Saturday (tickets still available at the time of going to press). Calke Abbey, in Derbyshire, part of the National Forest and home to herds of deer and a 900-year-old oak called the Old Man of Calke, is hosting two open-air concerts with firework finales. The line up at Calke Party Night on 11 August doesn't follow a particularly sylvan theme: The Drifters, The Rubettes, Union Gap and Limahl from Kajagoogoo. The following night is classical favourites performed by the English National Orchestra (details at www.nationaltrust.org.uk).... | |
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| | | Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz - July 19 2006 | | Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:05:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | Eleven years on from their #1 album of the same name, and a week after the death of their original singer Syd Barrett, the now three-piece Pink Floyd claim their first #1 DVD in New Zealand with the pictures (and extras) to that #1 album, P.U.L.S.E. And this is a big seller! It outsells all other DVD titles put together by four to one, going five times platinum in a single week. Pink Floyd formed in England in 1965 when Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason met at London's Regent St Polytechnic and were joined by Syd Barrett, who named them Pink Floyd after bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Most of their early material was written by Barrett who sadly passed away last week aged 60. He left the band in 1968, replaced by David Gilmour. Creative differences and legal battles ultimately saw the group become a trio of Gilmour, Wright and Mason, which is the line-up that recorded their 14-night residency at Earls Court to yield the double live CD P.U.L.S.E.... | |
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