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20+ Years in Show Business
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Prince has a new album coming out. To read more about it, please see the Music Biz thread here
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Wanda Jackson, age 71; she's on tour this year, and has been in the music business since age 15 or 16.
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According to Terri Nunn's Wiki page, her show biz career started in the 1970s, and she is still active ("Years active: 1978–present").

(Nunn was the lead singer of 1980s band Berlin.)

Nunn is approximately 48 years old.

From the Wiki page:
  • A new live DVD/CD is due in June '09, recorded at the House of Blues.

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More reasons not to be impressed by Madonna's 25+ year long stint in show biz:

1.) Rod Stewart

2.) Air Supply

3.) The Doobie Brothers

(1) Rod Stewart booked at BOK Aug. 20
  • By Staff reports
    Published: 5/6/2009 2:25 AM

    Rod Stewart will perform at the BOK Center Aug. 20 as part of a limited engagement tour this summer.

    The performance will include songs from throughout Stewart's four decade-long career.

    Tickets will go on sale 10 a.m. Monday and will cost $125, $85, $65 and $45.
(2) Thirty years on, there's still something in the Air
  • The kings of soft rock are far from being all out of love, writes Kelsey Munro.

    You remember Air Supply. Of course you do. Lost In Love, All Out of Love, Love And Other Bruises, Young Love, the original Power Of Love made famous by Celine Dion? Every Woman In The World and Even The Nights Are Better?

    If you've been anywhere near the hits and memories airwaves in the past three decades, you probably know Air Supply songs by heart. If you're reading this, you're probably singing one right now.

    Air Supply's smooth, melodic, chart-busting 1980-1985 oeuvre practically invented easy listening. As singer Russell Hitchcock puts it: "I mean, everybody and his dog knows the songs after all this time."

    That early '80s output was so successful that last year Air Supply was the only Australian act on Billboard's All-Time Top 100 charting artists, at No.83.

    Melbourne-born Hitchcock, 59, and the British guitarist and songwriter Graham Russell, 58, met while working on a Sydney production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1975.

    They'd already enjoyed some success in Australia before Rod Stewart introduced them to American audiences in the late '70s.

    Then, starting with Lost In Love in 1980, they had seven consecutive top-five US singles. They were the biggest thing in pop. Abruptly, it all changed.

    Hitchcock, a long-time resident of Orange County, California, remembers the moment clearly. "It was '85 or '86, and it was like we never existed," he says.

    Their latest single, submitted to US radio, was returned with "horrendous comments about how awful the song was", he says.

    "It really hurt my feelings. And it just stopped. Radio was dead for us. They just want to play the old stuff."

    What you wouldn't know, unless you're a particularly avid Air Supply fan, is that the band never stopped working. This year, as well as recording their 25th studio album, Air Supply is performing a series of symphony dates with Australian orchestras, their first shows here since 2000.

    "We've been on the road every year since 1975 without a break, but if you don't have a profile on radio or TV, people think you're either dead or you broke up," Hitchcock says.

    Neither was the case.

    As the Anglophone world turned deaf ears to the soft-rock ballads, other markets embraced them. South-East Asia and Latin America, in particular, gave the band a second, enduring career.

    A live recording of a mid-'90s Taipei concert, for example, stayed around the top of the Chinese charts for four months.

    They played arenas in China, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Vietnam. As recently as 2005, Air Supply played to a crowd of 175,000 in Havana, Cuba.

    Being among the first Western pop acts to visit some of these countries, the band found the authorities occasionally suspicious.
(3) The Doobie Brothers are coming to Muskogee
  • Grammy Award winners, The Doobie Brothers [who have been around since the 1970s], will be taking it to the street in Muskogee at a special concert in June to benefit the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.

    The Listen to the Music fundraiser is at 8 p.m. June 4 in the Muskogee Civic Center. Reserve seat tickets are $55 each, plus a service charge, and are available at Reasor’s, Starship Records and Tapes, the Eufaula Food Market, by phone at 866 I GET TIX or online at GETTIX.NET. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday.

    The Doobie Brothers have sold more than 50 million records worldwide.

    Their success includes multiple Grammys, 27 chart singles, 16 top 40 hits, 11 multi-platinum albums, and 13 gold albums. The band earned the distinct Diamond Award for the sale of 10 million units of a single title, according to a media release.
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I think I mentioned Donna Summer a page or two back in this thread.

Donna Summer's A Floridian And She's Playing With "Crayons"
  • Posted by Rod Hagwood on May 15, 2009 02:49 PM

    Donna Summer is a Floridian.

    No, not a snowbird. A Floridian. With a beach house just south of Sarasota.

    "I love it," said the undisputed Queen of Disco. "We're here a lot. I did the album [Crayons] here for the most part."

    The sixtysomething singer — "I have a Grammy and I am a grammy" — will bring her tour supporting Crayons to the Hard Rock Live this Sunday.

    We chatted with Summer from her Florida beach house (home is also Nashville) about her first studio album in 17 years, her longevity in the ephemeral recording biz and her work process:

    ....Why did you decide to do an album after 17 years?

    "I was sitting around thinking I should do something. I was thinking about design school. A friend said, 'Are you out of your mind? Do an album.' But I like privacy and I like my space. I like being with my family. You have to be in the right frame of mind. You can't be like 'don't touch me' to your fans or saying 'I don't want to sign autographs.' I think I was exhausted for a lot of years. I have to take my hat off to people like Madonna. They keep doing it."
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I've got another gal to add to the list: Broadway diva Patti LuPone. Here's her bio, written by me:

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Patti LuPone was born April 21st, 1949 in Northport, NY, and is of Italian and Sicilian ethnicity. Her great-grand-aunt was celebrated opera singer Adelina Patti. Ms. LuPone's natural gift for performance was honed at Julliard, the most celebrated and elite performing arts school in America, and she is a member of the first graduating class of Julliard's Drama Division. Prior to her schooling in Julliard, she trained her voice under the direction of renowned vocal coach Esther Scott.

In 1972, she joined the Acting Company, a nationally touring theatre troupe started by John Houseman. She remained with the troupe from its induction until 1976, and appeared in 16 of their productions. During this time, she received her first Tony award for her performance in one of those plays: The Robber Bridegroom. She was 26 at the time.

She then made her Broadway debut in the play Three Sisters. In 1976, she was hired to play in the production The Baker's Wife. But, sadly, the play had been troubled from the beginning and closed down before ever reaching Broadway.

From 1977 onward, she's collaborated with David Mamet several times, appearing in 7 of his plays. In 1978, she appeared in the Broadway musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's Working.

Finally, in 1979, she achieved acclaim for originating the title role of Evita. For her performance as the First Lady of Argentina she earned another Tony award, and several other honours.

In 1983, she regrouped with the other Acting Company alumni for a new performance of one of their earlier productions: The Cradle Will Rock. It toured throughout the US, and finally ended in London's West End.

In 1985, she originated the role of Fantine in the musical Les Miserables. For her performance in the musical, she became the first American actress to receive an Olivier award. Then, in 1987, she returned to Broadway to star in the massively popular revival of Anything Goes.

In 1993, she returned to the West End to originate the role of Norma Desmond in the debut of the musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard. She was also slated to star in the Broadway production, but Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber breached contract by re-casting the role at the last minute. LuPone sued Webber and the case was settled out of court, with Webber paying the full damages for the breach of contract.

In 1995, she returned to Broadway in a one-woman show, Patti LuPone on Broadway. It netted her an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. In 1998, she was selected by legendary producer Robert Whitehead to replace his wife, the equally renowned Zoe Caldwell, in the Broadway production of Master Class. LuPone received rave reviews in New York and later took the play to the West End.

In 2001, she starred in a Broadway revival of Noises Off. During 2000 and 2001, she also appeared as Mrs. Lovett in the concert tour revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, opposite the most definitive Sweeney of them all, George Hearn. (In fact, it's the recordings of the 2000 New York concert and the 2001 San Francisco concert versions, on CD and DVD respectively, that made me aware and truly appreciative of the depth of her talent.)

She has also appeared in concert productions of other musicals, including Pal Joey in 1995; Annie Get Your Gun in 1998; Anything Goes, Candide and Can-Can in 2004; and Passion in 2005.

Between 2001 and 2007, she appeared regularly at the Ravinia Festival, starring in a series of concert presentations of Stephen Sondheim's musicals in honour of the composer's 70th birthday. Among these performances was the 2005 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, this time opposite Michael Cerveris, and the 2006 revival of Gypsy. She won another Tony award for the '05 Sweeney revival, as well as the Golden Icon Award for Best Female Musical Theatre Performance. She also won for her performance in Gypsy won the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama League Award, the Drama Desk Award, and yet another Tony award. Due to the popularity of her run in Gypsy, the production was extended and finally closed in January 2009.

LuPone also performs regularly across the country in her solo shows Matters of the Heart; Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda; and The Lady With the Torch, which sold out at Carnegie Hall.

In 2009, likely due to renewed interest in Les Miz caused by reality television contestant Susan Boyle, LuPone's 1985 recording of "I Dreamed a Dream" reached the UK Singles Chart as well as the Billboard magazine Hot Digital Songs and Hot Singles Recurrents charts in the US. She has graciously complimented Susan Boyle on the rendition, having stated that music isn't only about technique but also emotion.

She has appeared in 16 movies, and among her film credits are Driving Miss Daisy, the critically acclaimed State and Main, and The Summer Of Sam (the latter of which features her only on-screen nude scene, with Patti at the age of 50 by then).

LuPone also played Libby Thatcher on the TV drama Life Goes On, which ran on ABC from 1989 to 1993. She also starred in the made-for-TV movie The Song Spinner, for which she was nominated for an Emmy. She also played Lady Bird Johnson in the TV movie, LBJ in 1988, and married her husband Matthew Johnston on the Vivian Beaumont stage at Lincoln Center after production for LBJ wrapped.

She has made numerous guest appearances on Frasier, Ugly Betty, Will & Grace and 30 Rock. She also has a recurring guest spot on the final season of the hit HBO series Oz, and made a cameo appearance on an episode of Saturday Night Live that was hosted by Kelsey Grammer.

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So, to shorten it for Madonna's idiot fans, Patti LuPone's a four-time Tony award winner (something Madonna will never achieve because, unlike Manny, Patti can act and sing... and she does both quite well!), and portrayed Evita more than a decade before Madonna did. Patti's been rocking the stage for the past 37 years, and has been famous in the theatre world for most of that time. Ms. LuPone is a talent I truly am envious and admiring of. And, at 60, she's showing no signs of slowing down.
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I was thinking about this recently, performers who have been around longer than Madonna and don't get as much recognition.

My favorite band Depeche Mode: first album released in 1980, 26 year career, now on successful world tour. I've heard them be called synth-rock pioneers, which they are, but not Legends, like with Madonna. They're still referred to as "the EIGHTIES band Depeche Mode"!

I think Hall and Oates have been releasing albums since the 1970s, and they still go on tours.

Chicago is on tour now. They've been releasing albums since the 70s (I think).

Cyndi Lauper, been around 20+ years.

I think Janet Jackson's music career hits the twenty year mark this year.

I know this was posted a while back, just wanted to say that Depeche Mode is also my favorite band!!! B)

I've been a HUGE fan since the 80's. They have millions of times more talent than Madonna could ever dream of pretending to have or her fans wishing she had! The sad thing is that a person even tried to compare her to them musically, made me listen to a song of hers, trying to tell me it is similar to Depeche Mode. :bad:
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Koko Taylor, Queen Of The Blues, Dead At 80
  • By Gil Kaufman

    Koko Taylor, one of the giants of Chicago blues, died on Wednesday at her Chicago home at the age of 80 of complications from a May 19 surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding, according to her official Web site.

    "Koko Taylor was one of very few women who found success in the male-dominated blues world. She took her music from the tiny clubs of Chicago's South Side to concert halls and major festivals all over the world," read a tribute on her Web site.

    "She shared stages with every major blues star, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy as well as rock icons Robert Plant and Jimmy Page."

    The singer, whose signature songs included "Wang Dang Doodle" and "I'm a Woman," was known as the "Queen of the Blues."

    The daughter of a West Tennessee sharecropper, she famously boasted that she came north to Chicago in 1952 with "35 cents and a box of Ritz Crackers."

    According to the Chicago Tribune, Taylor had frequently said she wanted to die onstage while singing the blues. She almost got her wish, dying less than four weeks after her final performance at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tennessee, where she won her 29th award.

    Taylor's growly vocals and sassy onstage demeanor were an inspiration to the generations of blues singers that came in her wake. The Grammy winner (and nine-time nominee) received the NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 2004, the highest honor given to an American artist.

    Born Cora Walton on September 28, 1928, on a sharecropper's farm just outside Memphis, she was nicknamed Koko due to her love of chocolate. Like many blues originators, Taylor was inspired by gospel music and at an early age she began singing the blues with her five brothers and sister while playing on homemade instruments.

    She and late husband Robert "Pops" Taylor moved to Chicago in 1952, when Taylor was 24 years old, and after a hard day of working as a domestic scrubbing floors for rich families, she often visited the city's South Side blues clubs, where she became an in-demand guest vocalist.

    Well-known arranger/composer Willie Dixon approached her one night in 1962 and helped her get a contract with Chess Records, where he produced and wrote her million-selling 1965 smash, "Wang Dang Doodle."

    Once Chess folded, she was signed to another iconic blues label, Chicago's Alligator Records, where between 1975 and 2007 she recorded nine albums for the label, eight of which scored Grammy nominations.

    "With the passing of Koko Taylor the music world has lost a true icon," Neil Portnow, president and CEO of the Recording Academy, said in a statement.

    "The 'Queen of Chicago Blues' not only performed with many blues icons during her legendary career, but her regal bearing and powerful voice also influenced artists across multiple genres. ... Her extraordinary spirit and talent will remain with us forever through her recordings."
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Metallica and AC/DC are still going strong, and I think both of these bands were putting out albums before Madonna was. If you want to make a comparison: Madonna's last album, Hard Candy, sold less than 1 million copies in the US. Metallica's latest album sold almost 2 million copies, and AC/DC's sold about 2.1 million. Also, both of these bands do much better in catalog sales than Madonna does. Madonna's back catalog doesn't sell well at all. When was the last time someone rushed into the CD store to buy "Ray of Light" or "True Blue"?
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1- Les Paul
2- Paul McCartney

Guitar legend-inventor Les Paul dies at age 94
  • Mr. Paul enjoyed enormous success in a performing career that lasted more than 80 years, selling more than 10 million records and earning 34 gold records.

    During the early ’50s, he and his second wife, the singer Mary Ford, were among the most popular acts in show business.


    “What he was doing on those hits couldn’t have failed to influence any guitarist,” Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, a vastly different type of player from Mr. Paul, once said of him.

    Yet it was as an inspired musical tinkerer that Mr. Paul had his greatest impact. He essentially invented the technique of multi-track recording, and it was at his behest that Ampex built the first eight-track recorder. Mr. Paul’s overdubbing of his guitar playing and Ford’s singing was so unprecedented that Capitol Records billed it as “The New Sound.”
McCartney breaks Fenway Park records
  • By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR
    August 12, 2009

    Sir Paul McCartney is credited with being the most successful musician and composer in popular music history, and the 67-year-old just keeps breaking records — 50-plus years after he wrote the early Beatles hit "When I'm Sixty-Four."

    Last week, McCartney set a record for the two-night attendance at historic Fenway Park in Boston. Organizers claimed it was the highest in the ballpark's 97-year history.

    Reported Rolling Stone online: Remarking on McCartney's set list those two nights — a blend of newer tracks alongside solo and Beatles favorites — Live Nation East's Dave Marsden joked, "No one in history has ever had 33 hits in one night at Fenway Park."

    According to the Baseball Almanac, Marsden is right.

    Reports BeatCrave online, last week's two-night attendance for the McCartney solo shows was the highest in the ballpark's history.

    Also, in July, the musician set a three-night attendance record at New York's new Citi Field, reports the New York Daily News. It was an "apt parallel" to the Beatles' now legendary opening show at Citi Field's predecessor, Shea Stadium, 44 years ago.

    In related McCartney news, the Guardian UK online reports that the former Beatles member may regain the publishing rights to the majority of the band's songs — but it will probably be a few years.

    According to a clause of the U.S. Copyright Act, the news outlet reports, many of McCartney's Beatles songs will be eligible to be "recaptured" in 2018, decades after they were sold to ATV Music and then Michael Jackson.
Paul McCartney Breaks Fenway Park Record
  • By krystalclark

    It’s not enough that Paul McCartney is an original member of one of the most influential bands in music, but he also has to break records as a solo artist in his spare time. McCartney set an attendance record at Boston’s Fenway Park on August 5th and 6th. It was the highest two day attendance in the ball parks entire history.

    With a combination of hits to choose from, it’s no surprise the venue was filled to the brim.

    McCartney pulled from his arsenal of songs that span over forty years, and include hits from The Beatles, Wings, and his own solo material.

    After his impressive performance, Live Nation Boston’s Dave Marsden commented, “No one in history has ever had 33 hits in one night at Fenway Park.” There are only three more dates left on McCartney’s tour.

    He’ll travel to Atlanta, GA on the 15th, Tulsa, OK on the 17th, with a closing show in Dallas, TX on August 19th.

    There’s a reason they call them oldies, but goodies! If you think about it, in recent years all of the successful stadium tours have been dominated by artists from his generation.

    Remember when The Rolling Stones went on tour a couple of years ago and it had the highest ticket sales beating out the competition by a mile? I think Paul deserves a round off applause for this one.

    Are you surprised by McCartney’s record breaking numbers?
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I really don't know what thread to put this in, so I stuck it here. I was reading the Joni Mitchell wikipedia and it mentions women she has influenced. That would be just about every woman in rock, pop, jazz, etc. She is one of the most amazing artists of all time, in my view. Of course, madonna (small m, she doesn't deserve a capital) was influenced by her. I can't think of two people further apart and therefore, they are not comparable. Joni is a genius. madonna is a junkyard dog. Here's the wiki url and madonna's quote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell

Influences on other artists
Mitchell's work has had an influence on artists as disparate as Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, Björk, Counting Crows, Stevie Nicks, Jeff Buckley, Clannad, Elvis Costello, Dan Fogelberg, Janet Jackson, Maynard James Keenan (Tool), Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Frank Turner, Chan Marshall (Cat Power), George Michael, Morrissey, Juice Newton, Conor Oberst, Prince, The Roots, Roxette, The Sundays, Sonic Youth, Fiona Apple, Holly Brook, KT Tunstall, Seal, and Schuyler Fisk.

For instance, Prince's song "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" on the album Sign 'O' the Times (1987), pays tribute to Mitchell, both through his evocative Mitchell-like harmonies and through the use of one of Mitchell's own techniques: as in Mitchell's song "This Flight Tonight", Prince references a song in his lyrics (Joni's own "Help Me") as the music begins to emulate the chords and melody of that song. Another Mitchell reference left by Prince can also be seen on the back cover of his 1981 Controversy record, where one of the headlines reads "★JONI★".

Madonna has also cited Mitchell as the first female artist that really spoke to her as a teenager; "I was really, really into Joni Mitchell. I knew every word to Court and Spark; I worshiped her when I was in high school. Blue is amazing. I would have to say of all the women I've heard, she had the most profound effect on me from a lyrical point of view." :laugh: :laugh: What? You are comparing your lyrics to hers? How insulting can you get, you wench! :knock:

BTW...Joni was voted 72nd in Rolling Stone's "Best Guitarist OF ALL TIME." She was the only woman to make the list.

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I really don't know what thread to put this in, so I stuck it here. I was reading the Joni Mitchell wikipedia and it mentions women she has influenced. That would be just about every woman in rock, pop, jazz, etc. She is one of the most amazing artists of all time, in my view. Of course, madonna (small m, she doesn't deserve a capital) was influenced by her. I can't think of two people further apart and therefore, they are not comparable. Joni is a genius. madonna is a junkyard dog. Here's the wiki url and madonna's quote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell

Influences on other artists
Mitchell's work has had an influence on artists as disparate as Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, Björk, Counting Crows, Stevie Nicks, Jeff Buckley, Clannad, Elvis Costello, Dan Fogelberg, Janet Jackson, Maynard James Keenan (Tool), Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Frank Turner, Chan Marshall (Cat Power), George Michael, Morrissey, Juice Newton, Conor Oberst, Prince, The Roots, Roxette, The Sundays, Sonic Youth, Fiona Apple, Holly Brook, KT Tunstall, Seal, and Schuyler Fisk.

For instance, Prince's song "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" on the album Sign 'O' the Times (1987), pays tribute to Mitchell, both through his evocative Mitchell-like harmonies and through the use of one of Mitchell's own techniques: as in Mitchell's song "This Flight Tonight", Prince references a song in his lyrics (Joni's own "Help Me") as the music begins to emulate the chords and melody of that song. Another Mitchell reference left by Prince can also be seen on the back cover of his 1981 Controversy record, where one of the headlines reads "★JONI★".

Madonna has also cited Mitchell as the first female artist that really spoke to her as a teenager; "I was really, really into Joni Mitchell. I knew every word to Court and Spark; I worshiped her when I was in high school. Blue is amazing. I would have to say of all the women I've heard, she had the most profound effect on me from a lyrical point of view." :laugh: :laugh: What? You are comparing your lyrics to hers? How insulting can you get, you wench! :knock:

BTW...Joni was voted 72nd in Rolling Stone's "Best Guitarist OF ALL TIME." She was the only woman to make the list.

That information could also fit well in the "Feminist" thread.
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TORONTO — Nearly three decades into their career, the synth-pop trailblazing Pet Shop Boys are finding renewed success with their 10th album, "Yes."

And they aren't the least bit surprised.

"Yes, I thought it would get a good response because I think it's a really, really strong pop album," singer Neil Tennant told The Canadian Press in a telephone interview. "I think there were some people who sort of don't think you should be able to make a strong album when you've been around this long. "

"In fact, when you listen to ('Yes'), I think it's got a lot of energy, a pop energy, but melodically I think the first half of the album sounds like a greatest hits album. It's just one amazing melodic pop song after another. "

"And I know because musicians like it - many musicians have said to me: 'Your album's really great.' You know, musicians respond to that kind of thing."

Thus far, musicians aren't the only ones responding to the new material. "Yes" debuted at No. 32 on the Billboard 200 - the British duo's highest chart position since 1993's "Very" bowed at No. 20 - and ebullient first single "Love Etc." became the 10th track by the group to top Billboard's dance chart, a new record.

On Saturday, the Pet Shop Boys launch an extensive North American tour with a show in Montreal. Dates are also scheduled in Vancouver and Toronto.

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I heard the record, and it's excellent. My favorite track is 'All over the world'.
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  • By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR
    Published: 9/9/2009 2:21 AM

    Influential and controversial still are the buzzwords flitting around one of the most popular bands in the history of modern music.

    The New York Times said last week "The Beatles: Rock Band" is "nothing less than a cultural watershed, one that may prove only slightly less influential than the band's famous appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' in 1964. Never before has a video game had such intergenerational cultural resonance."

    Yes, 45 years later, a video game is heralded with bringing generations of family together with culturally and musically relevant and timeless music. Yes, a video game. And rock 'n' roll. More than 50 years after the Beatles formed in Liverpool.

    The "The Beatles: Rock Band" game Limited Edition will be sold at local stores such as Target and Walmart for about $250.
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At 67, Streisand Out-Sells Madonna
  • Oct 8, 2009

    Hollywood icon Barbara Streisand has regained the top spot in the sales chart at the age of 67, beating off competition from a much younger Mariah Carey and Madonna.

    With several big-name female artists competing for Number One, Barbra Streisand pulled out a stunning victory to claim the top spot of the Billboard Top 200 as a last minute surge helped 'Love Is the Answer' sell I80,000 copies, reported New York Daily News.

    The album represents her eighth No. 1 disc, and makes her the first artist ever to continue scoring No 1 albums during 5 decades.

    Carey 's album 'Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel' landed at No. 3 167,912 purchases. Paramore's album 'Brand New Eyes', opened at No.2, with sales of 175,112.

    This latest achievement also ties Streisand with The Beatles, in third place, for top 10 album first week sales.

    Sinatra has the top spot on that scale, while the Rolling Stones rate at second
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I just came across this artist.

Howard Jones has 26 years to his career. He is 54 years old.
One of his record labels was Warner.
He was the singer famed for his song "Things Can Only Get Better".

The label mostly interested in marketing and generating money from sleazy artists like madoona.

Howard Jones released ‘Soon You’ll Go’ on October 26th 2009.

The album ‘Ordinary Heroes’ will be released on November 9th 2009.

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Howard Jones Releases ‘ORDINARY HEROES’
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I remembered this musician everybody watched his show,:notworthy:

Lawrence Welk has worked from 1920 to 1982, 62 years in the music industry, his show "The Lawrence Welk Show" ran for 31 years.
He was married to one person for 61 years.

"A-one, an-a-two" :band2: :band3: :band4: :sadsong:

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Wayne Newton is being interviewed on FOX cable right now: the graphic at the bottom of the screen says he's been entertaining in Vegas for FIFTY years now.

Here's a page* which mentions it:
  • by Mary Jo Buchanan / 2009

    "Mr. Las Vegas" Wayne Newton will have the honor of waving the green flag to start the Victory Lap event. Newton is celebrating 50 years on the strip with his show at the Tropicana entitled, "Once Before I Go."
*NASCAR Issues "Rules" for Vegas Victory Lap

Wayne Newton celebrates 50 years in Las Vegas - Salt Lake Tribune

MR. LAS VEGAS, WAYNE NEWTON, CELEBRATES 50 YEARS ON THE STRIP

Wayne Newton's last show after 50 years in Las Vegas
  • Oct 30, 2009 | By: Tony Lambert

    Fans of Danke schoen may be upset as Wayne Newton has hinted that after 50 years his latest run could be his last in Las Vagas. But the singer famous with Sin City says he’s leaving himself an opening in case he wants to perform after April.

    Mr. Las Vegas as he is known says that he may retire. However that decision will not hinge on the success of his new show that opened Wednesday night at the Tropicana Las Vegas hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. It will depend on if he decides to spend more time with his 7-year-old daughter.

    Newton said “I’m enjoying my second daughter in a way that I didn’t get a chance to do the first time around, according to the Associated Press. Once Before I Go which Newton says took 2 1/2 months to write, is presented as a live memoir of Newton’s life and his career, with never-before-shared insights from Newton about personal episodes along the way.

    Newton commented “It’s challenging to keep it entertaining,” Newton said. “And that was my first prerequisite.” To read more on this story go to npr.org.
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Wayne Newton is being interviewed on FOX cable right now: the graphic at the bottom of the screen says he's been entertaining in Vegas for FIFTY years now.


And don't forget, that's just Las Vegas. He was a huge star for years before Vegas. He was a teen idol with the big hit Danke Schoen, which debuted in 1961 !!! He was 21 years old. He was a sensation, looked much younger than 21 and was on every variety show, magazine, etc. you can think of. He had to go to Vegas because the demand for his performances was overwhelming.
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Gurdas Maan: Age 52 more than 30 years experience, he initially started singing in Gurudwaras from childhood. People may not know of him or heard of this musician he is bigger than Madonna, older too and has much more experience and still tours, he is a successful actor also.

Somewhere someone had written he topped concert ticket sales in Canada, not able to get the data, highest ever than any other singer world wide.
Gurdas Mann fans showers him with money. (Link Below)

What does Madoona think of herself she only puts her hands down her pants and wiggles her crotch on stage.

Gurdas Maan - WIKI

GURDAS MAAN UK TOUR 2009

Gurdas Mann being showered with currency


The King of Punjabi Folk music AKA "The Living Legend" Gurdas Maan is back for another tour of the UK starting from the 4th of April 2009.

This magical musical extravaganza will see the biggest name in Punjabi music entertain over 35 000 fans in 6 different cities throughout the UK.

Since his 2007 sell out tour in the UK, Gurdas Maan has toured America, New Zealand, and Canada; released the biggest selling Punjabi album of the year 08’ and starred in two Punjabi films.

A legend, ambassador, icon and global superstar, Gurdas Maan has been performing in the UK since 1987. He has established himself in the Punjabi music industry with a library of great hits under his belt and amassed a huge fan base.

From his early 1980s music releases, Gurdas Maan has managed to maintain a distinct and soul stirring sound to his music. As an artist his ability to express emotions, feelings and real life issues has managed him to capture the hearts of many.

Winning numerous awards and selling hundreds of thousands of albums, Gurdas Maan has been with some of the leading music labels in the world including; HMV, T-Series, Tips Music and Sony BMG.

He is the only artist from India at this moment in time that is capable of achieving a “sell out” at the NEC Arena (Birmingham) and Wembley Arena (London). He performs as a solo artist, has no other supporting acts and can provide a 3 hour live, interactive, mesmerising and unforgettable stage show.

Recent concerts in the UK have enlisted a number of Bollywoods “A listers”. They have also been held at these high capacity arenas; however they have failed to generate the same crowd turnover as Gurdas Maan.


He is the mind, body and soul of Punjabi music and can be easily recognised as one of the world’s most talented artists, not just within India but on a global scale.

UK BOX OFFICE is proud to be associated with Gurdas Maan for his UK TOUR 2009. Tickets for this major event will be available from all listed tickets agents, the venue box office and also directly from UK BOX OFFICE
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