Liam Gallagher forms new band ‘Beady Eye’

May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

London, May 26 (ANI): Liam Gallagher has reunited with his former ‘Oasis’ band mates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock to form new band ‘Beady Eye’.

‘Oasis’ members had parted ways after guitarist Noel Gallagher separated before a concert in Paris over differences with brother Liam.

The group has uploaded their new pic on the Oasis website, reports the Telegraph.

Liam had said last year: ”” If we don”t come up with something else by the time we”re ready to release the album it”ll be Oasis.

””I”m not going to call myself something ridiculous just for the sake of it.”” (ANI)

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Unseen Beatles photos go on display

April 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

London, April 28 (ANI): A collection of unseen photos of The Beatles just before they rose to fame is to go on display.

The 37 shots of the Fab Four on a tour with Helen Shapiro in 1963 were unearthed after languishing in an attic for almost 50 years.

Photographer/journalist Paul Berriff discovered the pics at his home in north England.

“I started to root around in my attic and I found this box of about 800 negs (negatives), and in it were shots of these old pop groups in ”63. I was absolutely knocked out when I saw the quality and realised I should do something with them,” the Daily Express quoted Berriff as saying.

Berriff took the pics after the boy band gave him unlimited access on tour when he was a teenage snapper – just months before Beatlemania gripped the world.

The photog had stored the negatives at his home, along with hundreds of other images of musicians in the 1960s.

The photos, which chronicle the band members rehearsing onstage, smoking in their dressing room, and relaxing with drinks and snacks backstage, will go on display at London”s Menier Gallery on Apr 28, (10). (ANI)

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Abba stars hint at reunion

March 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

London, March 26 (ANI): Millions of Abba fans around the world have a reason to smile – the legendary Swedish pop group has hinted at a reunion for a one-off performance.

But in an interview with The Times today, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the male half of the Swedish group, offer a beguiling change of tone.

When asked by The Times if they were willing to give a performance – perhaps with an orchestra – that could be aired across the globe, Benny Andersson replied: “Yeah, why not?”

“I don”t know if the girls sing anything any more. I know Frida [Anni-Frid Lyngstad] was in the studio.” Then a little later: “It”s not a bad idea, actually,” he added.

Björn Ulvaeus suggested the band could croon their record Super Trouper”s last track.

He said: “We could sing The Way Old Folks Do.”

The pair”s comments may offer little more than a glimmer of hope, but they are in contrast to previous statements by the band members, who split in 1982.

Only two years ago Ulvaeus said: “We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to regroup. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were – young, exuberant, full of energy and ambition.

“I remember Robert Plant saying Led Zeppelin were a cover band now because they cover all their own stuff. I think that hit the nail on the head.”

Andersson has also previously derided talk of a reunion. “We”d need a good reason to re-form and I just don”t see one. We could never recreate the old days. I”d rather be remembered for the way we were 30 years ago,” he said.

Abba have enjoyed a renaissance. One in four British households owns the DVD of a film version of the Mamma Mia!, the musical inspired by their works. They have sold 370 million records, and sell about three million each year.

Abba had consistently topped the music charts between 1972 and 1982 and even inspired the musical Mamma Mia!

In 2000, quite famously, they turned down a 1 billion dollar deal to reunite for a 100-date tour.

At the time Ulvaeus had said: “This is the budget of a small country so we had to give it some thought. In the end we decided that, whatever offer was on the table, it would be stupid to re-form and utterly ludicrous to change the images people all over the world have of us.” (ANI)

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Noel Gallagher calls brother Liam ‘f***ing moron’

September 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Aug 31 (ANI): Noel Gallagher has slammed his brother Liam for his new fashion venture, and called him “f***ing moron”, after splitting from the band Oasis.

“They say never work with children and animals. No one mentioned f***ing morons though, did they?” the Sun quoted him as having told a friend.

The guitarist believes that the frontman’s launch of his own new clothes label, Pretty Green, has gone to his head.

He reportedly added to his pal: “I think all that modelling malarkey has gone to his head. It’s a pleasure to give him time and space to work on his autumn/winter collection.”

Meanwhile, Liam has gone for a trip to Lake Como in Italy with his wife Nicole Appleton, Oasis bass player Andy Bell, and his girlfriend, reports the Sun.

Sources believe that the singer’s alcohol habits led to the division of the band, and differences with his brother.

An insider said: “Liam has been drinking heavily for the duration of the tour and regularly got very abusive and personal. He has taunted Noel’s girlfriend, Sara, other band members and the crew.

People have been frightened to go near him. He is one very angry man who needs to sort his issues out.” (ANI)

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Doherty confirms The Libertines reunion in 2010

August 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Aug 21 (ANI): Rocker Pete Doherty has confirmed that his former band The Libertines will reform next year.

The Babyshambles frontman is so serious about the project that he doesn’t even mind using look-alikes if the others don’t join in.

However, ex band members’ bassist John Hassall and drummer Gary Powell are already in for the show.

Now, the band is only waiting for Carl Barat to decide the schedule for the reunion gig.

The Sun quoted Doherty as saying: “Maybe I could reform The Libertines without him, like he did without me.”

“I’ll put an advert in NME: ‘Carlos lookalike required’,” he added. (ANI)

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Macca, John Lennon ‘planned Beatles reunion’

July 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

New York, July 13 (ANI): Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon had come very close to reuniting The Beatles, according to a new book.

In his new book “Paul McCartney: A Life,” Peter Ames Carlin says that Macca missed making music with Lennon so much that he made a surprise midnight visit in the spring of 1974 to the Burbank studio where his former band mate was recording, the New York Daily News reports.

The ‘Imagine’ singer was apparently high on cocaine and said while tuning his guitar, “Someone give me an E, or a snort.”

The former band members then got Stevie Wonder to play electric piano and jammed till early morning.

Lennon followed up McCartney’s initiative by inviting him and his wife Linda to join him and then-girlfriend May Pang at his rented Malibu pad to talk about a reunion.

Pang told the author that she heard Lennon talk about getting “the guys back together” for a fall concert.

However, the reunion plans died down once McCartney told Lennon that he’d recently met with John’s then-estranged wife, Yoko Ono, and that she wanted to see him.

When Yoko came back into the picture, the concert was off.

The book is expected to be out by November.

Meanwhile, Sir Paul McCartney is set start his three-night stand at Citi Field in New York. (ANI)

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Duncan James admits being a bisexual

July 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, July 12 (ANI): Boy band Blue’s Duncan James has come out of the closet to admit that he is a bisexual.

“I was living a secret life. I went through a process of asking what the f*** am I?Am I gay? Am I straight? Am I bi? That’s why I was so frightened about talking. Now, in my early 30s, I know who I am and I’m proud of who I am. I don’t want to hide anymore,” the News of the World quoted him as saying.

The news is expected to shock the pop star’s female fans all over the world.

However, it took a lot of guts for the star to open up about his sexuality.

He said: “I’d never talked to my mum about sex and relationships. It was quite a taboo subject because we came from a Catholic upbringing.

“One night towards the end of the trip, I knocked on my mum’s door before she went to bed. I was looking down and avoiding her eyes. I said, ‘I need to talk to you’.

“She said, ‘Oh my God, what’s wrong, are you all right?’

“I responded, ‘I need to tell you something. I’ve been in a relationship with a guy and I’m really confused about it. I haven’t been able to talk to anyone for a couple of years.’

“She hugged me and couldn’t believe it. She said, ‘I thought you were going to tell me you were dying or something. Hundreds of people have had things with guys as well as girls. I love you, that doesn’t matter to me.’

The singer then went on to disclose it to his band members who supported him.

He added: “I told Simon first. He went straight away, ‘Is that all you’re worried about? I love you man. That’s cool. You’re not alone. It doesn’t change anything for us.’

“I spoke to Lee next then Ant. They were really supportive too. After that I actually felt quite comfortable with myself.”

He had his first relationship with a person of the same sex in 2001, the year the band were celebrating their first three No1 hits – All Rise, Too Close and If You Come Back.

He said: “I’d never been intimate with a man. I’d been quite happy having girlfriends.

“But I met a guy. He was my friend at first but we took the friendship to the next level.

“Up until that point I’d never had those feelings towards a guy before. But this person came into my life and put a spanner in the works. I definitely loved him. It was my first experience like that.

Duncan still likes women, he added: “I can still look at women now and think they’re sexy.

I love being intimate with a woman, I love breasts. I do think girls can be a lot more emotional.”

James, who was looked at as a womanizer until now, has a four-year-old daughter, Tianie-Finne James with former girlfriend Claire Granger.

He has been to linked a string of women in the past including Geri Halliwell, Tara Palmer Tomkinson, Martine McCutcheon and ex-Big Brother winner Kate Lawler. (ANI)

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Here’s your chance to win ‘The Beatles’ first contract

July 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, July 2 (ANI): If you are a die-hard Beatles fan, here’s a chance for you to win the first contract signed by the Fab Four-all you have to do is to guess the estimated price of the document today. n the newly launched competition, contestants have to pay 10 pounds to guess the value of the contract.

And the winner would get to take the highly prized document home, reports the Telegraph.

The fab four’s prospective manager, Brian Epstein, offered to sign the band after he was blown away watching them perform in Liverpool’s Cavern Club.

John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr signed the contract in 1962.

The contract bears a mistake where Lennon wrote his name in the wrong part, and it was also signed by some band members’ parents, due to their young ages.

However, the agreement has only changed hands a couple of times over the decades and was acquired for The Imagine Corporation at Christie’s auction house.

Currently insured for 500,000 pounds, the documents is regarded as an irreplaceable piece of musical heritage.

Competition entrants will have to pay 10 pounds for the chance to estimate the contract’s value, as estimated by a panel of experts, if it had been put up for auction in April 2008 at a London auction house.

The winner, who will be announced in around six weeks time, has to match the panel’s estimated value.

One can enter the competition by visiting imagine.uk.com. (ANI)

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Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame

June 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, June 20 (ANI): Rockstars Jon Bon Jovi and Ritchie Sambora have been inducted into the US Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The gala, which celebrated 40 years of inductions, was held last night in New York.

Hugely overwhelmed by the recognition, Jon Bon Jovi said: “It’s the closest thing to immortality that we’re ever going to see here,” The BBC reports.

The two band members also joined hand to play their all time classic, ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’.

Crosby, Stills and Nash were felicitated with similar award, while Jason Mraz received the award for the most promising talent.

Welsh singer Sir Tom Jones also performed at the event. (ANI)

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Noel Gallagher says Oasis a rudderless ship facing bad times

May 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, May 5 (ANI): Oasis’ Noel Gallagher has dubbed the band as a rudderless ship, which is facing bad times while touring South America.

The guitarist, on his blog on the band’s official MySpace page, said conflicts between the band members might brew up a storm.

“We speak at bad times for the Oasis tour,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

“Bad times. We are a rudderless ship at the minute. And there’s a f****n’ s**t-storm on the horizon. I guess all will be revealed in due course,” he added.

He continued: “Strange atmosphere. I wouldn’t mind but we’re in South America! Playing massive stadiums and there’s a bit too much hrmph-ing going on for my liking. Shame really.” (ANI)

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Beatles’ Harrison forged bandmates’ signatures to please dying fan

May 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, May 2 (ANI): Late Beatles member George Harrison is said to have once forged the signatures of other band members, just to make a dying fan’s wish come true.

Harrison forged the signatures of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on photos sent to leukaemia victim Ann Bartlett, 16.

Ann and a pal, living in Barnet, North London, in the mid 1960s, had given the drawings of their idols to a neighbour, who happened to be the group’s dentist.

Harrison, who died of cancer in 2001, is thought to have realised he could not get all the signatures in time and so copied them himself.

“I’d heard in London that George was the master forger of the group,” the Sun quoted Ann’s dad Harry, now in Rickinghall, Norfolk, as saying.

And yesterday the two black-and-white pictures fetched 1,300 pounds to boost research into the disease.

“It adds a certain something and it’s actually quite nice,” Andrew Bullock, of auctioneers Keys in Aylsham, added. (ANI)

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Tipsy Lily Allen does not know which Kings Of Leon member she proposed

April 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Apr 27 (ANI): Brit pop singer Lily Allen has revealed that she once called up a Kings Of Leon member while drunk and proposed to him but does not know whom she asked.

Allen, 23, who met one of their management team after performing in the US last week, pestered him to call one of the four band members, and then spoke to him herself.

“I love you. I want to marry you,” the Sun quoted her as having told one of the rockers.

The singer, who had split from art tycoon Jay Jopling, 45, earlier this year, blames it all on the drink.

“I was really drunk,” she said.

“We played in Boston on the same night. I wanted to see them,” she added. (ANI)

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Girls Aloud plan their own range of eating products

April 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Apr 18 (ANI): Brit band Girls Aloud members Cheryl Cole, Sarah Harding, Nadine Coyle, Kimberly Walsh, and Nicola Roberts are reportedly planning to launch their own range of eating products. he hit band are contemplating calling their range Love Machine grill.

“They’ve spoken about doing a low-fat cooking device similar to George Foreman’s lean, mean grilling machine,” British tabloid The Sun quoted a source as saying.

The band have decided to bank upon the low-fat virtue of the eating products.

“They think there’s a real gap in the market for it,” the source added. (ANI)

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Spandau Ballet reunites for world tour

March 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Mar 26 (ANI): Eighties pop group Spandau Ballet is reuniting for a world tour, band members told reporters at a press conference on the HMS Belfast in London.

The band, which gave hits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, will begin a world tour in the autumn, announcing an initial eight dates across Ireland and the UK, starting in Dublin on 13 October.

All five original members of the band got together publicly for the first time since they split in 1989.

“This is my other family really and I just missed them for the last 20 years,” the BBC quoted Gary Kemp, the group’s songwriter and guitarist, as saying.

“I wanted to get together just to have a chat about all those great experiences we had. To be able to make some new experiences is a really great opportunity and that’s what we plan to do,” he added.

Kemp’s bassist brother Martin said: “Families go through terrible times sometimes and they argue. But in the end we’ve got back together – which is the main thing.”

Hadley said they had buried the hatchet after ‘the realisation that time is a great healer’.

The band said that the world tour will focus on greatest hits, but if it goes well they will consider writing new material together. (ANI)

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Andy Serkis to re-record hits with The Blockheads

March 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, Mar 04 (ANI): Hollywood actor Andy Serkis will soon be hitting the studios with The Blockheads to re-record late rocker Ian Dury’s beloved tunes.

Andy, who has been signed up to portray the late Blockheads frontman Ian Dury in a biopic, will rehearse classic tracks with The Blockheads band members.

The band members have given their blessings to Andy, and are thrilled about assisting him in re-recording their hit tracks.

“Andy Serkis’ll do a great job… We’re recording 12 songs for the film; it’ll be live and really retro and straight ahead,” Contactmusic quoted The Blockheads band member Mick Gallagher as saying.

Meanwhile, Andy recently confessed that Ian Dury’s ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful’, Part 3 was among his favourite tunes of all time. (ANI)

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U2 members against Bono’s political campaigning and charity work

February 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Feb 18 (ANI): U2 vocalist Bono has revealed that his band members fear that his political campaigning and charity work might dissolve the Irish group.

The 48-year-old singer admitted that his band members guitarist The Edge, bass player Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. are against his political and charity work.

“It’s dangerous. And it worries Larry, and it worries the whole band, if truth be told,” The Herald Sun quoted him as saying.

“But, you know, here’s the thing – they thought, all of them, Larry, Edge, Adam, that my campaigning would sink the ship,” he added.

The band was particularly against their frontman meeting former US President George W. Bush.

“Edge pleaded with me right at the start not to meet Bush,” said Bono.

However, ‘The Get On Your Boots’ singer insists that he is giving his 100pct to the band.

“When I’m with U2 doing U2 work, they have me 100 per cent or we would not be here now,” he said.

“I give my time to my family, my band and my interest in the wide world. It all seems to be fuel for me. My engine seems to be working better these days,” he added. (ANI)

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U2 to preview new album on BBC Radio 1 later this month

February 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, February 14 (ANI): Irish rock band U2 will be performing songs from their new album ‘No Line on the Horizon’ on BBC Radio 1 later this month.

An announcement made in this respect said that Bono and other band members will play three songs for a session in the Radio 1 Live Lounge on February 27, before appearing on Chris Evans’ Radio 2 show later that day.

According to reports, their Live Lounge appearance coincides with DJ Jo Whiley’s return to Radio 1 after five months’ maternity leave.

“Time has flown and I’m very excited about getting back to my show and being reunited with my radio family,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

“It’s always a bit nerve-racking going back after having a baby but having U2, one of the world’s biggest bands, playing in the Live Lounge and debuting new songs from their very fine latest album is especially thrilling,” she added.

U2′s new single ‘Get On Your Boots’ is scheduled for release on February 16. (ANI)

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Coldplay’s Chris Martin lands in lawsuit over plagiarism claims

February 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, Feb 5 (ANI): Coldplay’s lead vocalist Chris Martin and his band members are being served with a lawsuit by musician Joe Satriani over plagiarism.

In the lawsuit, Satriani claims that Coldplay lifted his 2004 instrumental, “I Just Wanna Fly,” for the basic melody of “Viva La Vida,” which Coldplay in turn has disputed, with a rebuke on their website.

But that hasn’t stopped Satriani or his attorney Howard King of King Paterno, from claiming that Coldplay has dodged being served, and that the Grammys are the easiest forum at which to strike while the iron is hot.

“We have warned their British lawyers that we have hired a fleet of process servers lined up to dog the band everywhere they go this weekend in the hopes of serving them,” Fox News quoted King as saying.

King has even promised to have camera crews roaming around with the process servers to get the whole thing on tape. (ANI)

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Cheryl Cole lands Nadine Coyle in trouble after “tiger fur coat” revelation

February 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, Feb 1 (ANI): Cheryl Cole has landed ‘Girls Aloud’ bandmate Nadine Coyle in hot water after making an outrageous claim that she owns a tiger fur coat.

The X Factor judge made the announcement in an interview by an 11-year-old fan in a magazine, reports the Daily Star.

When the girl asked band members about their favourite item of designer clothing, Nadine, 23, launched into a bizarre anecdote about a 5,000-pound worth “white and black tiger” coat she keeps at home.

And Cheryl, 25, enraged animal rights campaigners by insisting: “It’s real fur.”

Here’s how the conversation went:

Nadine: “I was so stupid one time, I bought this coat. I thought it was 500 pounds but they rang it up and it was five grand! I bought it. I’ve still got it sitting in my house.”

Cheryl: “It must be fur, is it fur?”

Nadine: “It’s fur.”

Cheryl: “There you go, it’s real fur.”

Nadine: “It’s like, er, tiger, like a white and black tiger.”

Cheryl: “Tiger? Nadine, no!”

Nadine: “It’s not fur, it’s like hair.”

Cheryl: “It’s got to be fur at that price.”

A spokesman for the band insisted Cheryl was only joking.

He said: “You’ll see it’s Cheryl that said it was real fur – Nadine didn’t know what it was made of. Nadine is in America now, so I can’t ask her about the coat but I doubt she knows what it is made of.” (ANI)

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