The festival for me started Friday night. Unknown Pleasures at the academy the Wombats headlined a cross between Jimmy Pursey and Brian Wilson chek out their video see what you think
I cannot put a catagory on this lot haircut one hundred on helium? anyway brilliant
The star of the show for mme the teenagers French and very cheeky, Ian Curtis meets Morrisy!
The Gossip
In 1982, Rod Stewart was car-jacked in Los Angeles, California. The incident occurred while Stewart was standing next to his $50,000 Porsche that was parked on Sunse Boulevard in Hollywood.
In 1999 Stewart was diagnosed as having thyroid cancer, for which he underwent surgery in July 2000. Besides being a major health scare, the resulting surgery also threatened his famous voice, and he had to re-learn how to sing.Since then he has been active in raising funds for The City of Hope Foundation charity to find cures for all forms of cancer, especially those affecting children.
Stewart has remained physically active in recent years, playing in a senior football league in Palos Verdes, California and still kicking balls into the audience during concerts. When discussing the rock 'n' roll excesses he has been through in his career, he maintains that his love of playing football has been his saviour. As a fan he is a well-known supporter of Celtic F.c. and the Scotland national team, growing up in London, Stewart is said to follow West Ham United as his English side.[In appearance Stewart still maintains his trademark rooster-style haircut.
Stewart is also known for owning one of the 400 Enzo Ferraris.
On October 11, 2005, Stewart received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 2093 Hollywood Blvd.
On April 18 and April 19, 2006, Stewart was the guest artist and celebrity vocal coach on American Idol, leading the remaining seven finalists in singing entries from the Great American Songbook.
Relationships
Throughout his career Stewart has been known for his liaisons with attractive women (fathering seven children with five of them; the oldest being born in 1964 and his latest child being born in November 2005):
• 1963-1964: Art student Susannah Boffey; one daughter Sarah Thubron Streeter (born 1964) who was put up for adoption in England
• 1971-1975: Model Dee Harrington
• 1975-1977: Actress Britt Ekland
• First marriage (1979-1984), to Alana Hamilton (ex-wife of actor Georg Hamilton); one daughter Kimberly (born 1979) and one son Sean Stewart (star of A&E's Sons of Hollywood (born 1980)
• 1983-1990: Model Kelly Emberg; one daughter Ruby Stewart (born 1987)
• Second marriage (1990-2006), to model Rachel Hunter one daughter Renée Stewart (born 1992) and one son Liam Stewart (born 1994). Rod was quoted as saying that he'd rather have his penis cut off than cheat on her. He was later sued for divorce.
• Third marriage(2007-present): With his new wife, model Penny Lancaster, he had his seventh child, a boy, Alastair Wallace Stewart, on 27 November 2005. The couple married on 16 June 2007 Blooomsday on board his yatch Lady Ann MaGee moored in the Italian port of Portofino.
Part One The highlights
1960–1969
Rod Stewart had trials with football clubs including Brentford
He then worked as a grave digger. He soon switched to a career in music joining folk singer Wizz Jones this resulted in his being deported from Spain for vagrancy. [4]
In the spring of 1962, he helped to found The Ray Davies Quartet, later known as the successful British band The Kinks, as their lead singer.
After Rod Stewart's return to London, he also joined Jimmy Powell & the Five Dimensions in 1964 as a vocalist and blues harp player. He and the band recorded a single for Pye Records. Long John Baldry discovered him drunk and busking for train fare and invited him to join The Hoochie Coochie Men
Stewart then joined Shotgun Express as lead vocalist with Beryl Marsden. Shotgun Express also contained Mick Fleetwood and Peter Green who would go on to form Fleetwood Mac
Stewart then joined the Jeff Beck Group as vocalist. In 1968, their first album Truth became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic and the group toured extensively.
1969–1975
The U.S. band Cactus offered Stewart a job as lead singer but he decided instead to join The Faces (the remnants of The Small Faces after the departure of Steve Marriott) with Ron Wood. Wood had played bass guitar with the Jeff Beck Group, but wanted to switch to guitar.
The Faces released their debut album First Step in early 1970 with a rock and roll style similar to the Rolling Stones. While the album did better in the UK than the U.S., the Faces quickly earned a strong live following. Stewart would release his second album,Gasoline Alley that autumn and Elkie Brooks would go on to achieve a hit with a version of the title track in 1983. Rod's new approach was similar to his first album, as exemplified by the dynamic but haunting title track, also mandolin was introduced into the sound. He also launched a solo tour.
Stewart's 1971 solo album Every Picture Tells a Story made him a household name when the B-side of his minor hit "Reason to Believe", "Maggie May", started receiving radio play. The album and the single hit #1 in both the U.S. and the UK simultaneously, a chart first, in September. A loss of innocence tale set off by a striking mandolin part (by Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne)
YouTube classics!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmA-eUubJ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecq3C6m--d8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74a2ymzV0qg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXQARDNjR4
Tonight the concert! look out for the blog report tomorrow!
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READ CAREFULLY BEFORE CLICKING ON THE LINK:There are two identical pictures that will appear on the screen. Almost8000 people were tested to see if they could find the 3 differences andonly 19 got it. 2 visual and 1 audio (so sound needs to be on) See how observant you are and if you find all 3differences, you are one of the most elite people in the world!IT'S IN GERMAN SO PLEASE READ THE ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY; OTHERWISE YOU WON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU GOTTA DO. OK?? READ FIRST!!!
In the pilot episode of “The Sopranos,” which Home Box Office first aired on January 10, 1999, a thickening son of Essex County, New Jersey, reluctantly visits Jennifer Melfi, a psychiatrist, at her office in Montclair. His name is Anthony Soprano and he has been depressed.
Tony lives in a “French provincial” McMansion in North Caldwell with his wife, Carmela, and their children, Meadow and A.J. He works as a “waste-management consultant,” as he all too modestly informs his doctor; in fact, his interests extend to the docks, “no show” construction jobs, paving and joint-fitting unions, an “executive card game,” a sports book in Roseville, loan-sharking, coffee-shop and pizza-place protection rackets, truck hijacking, HUD scams, fell-off-the-back-of-a-truck consumer goods, a strip club in Lodi, and extensive holdings in real estate, vinegar peppers, and gabagool.
Tony Soprano, as everyone in north Jersey and beyond has come to know, is the head of the Di Meo crime family. He has been suffering from panic attacks. Business is uneven. His associates and his children lack focus. His uncle resents his authority. His wife resents his late-night romps with yet another goomah. And his mother, the Medea of Bloomfield Avenue, never loved him (and may yet give the signal to have him whacked). The pressure is really something. Just recently, he tells Dr. Melfi, he was short of breath, tingly inside—“It felt like ginger ale in my skull.” He collapsed while grilling pork sausages on the barbecue:
TONY: The morning of the day I got sick, I been thinking. It’s good to be in something from the ground floor. I came in too late for that, I know. But lately, I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.
DR. MELFI: Many Americans, I think, feel that way.
TONY: I think about my father. He never reached the heights like me. But in a lotta ways he had it better. He had his people. They had their standards. They had pride. Today, whadda we got?
And so began Tony’s quest for a renewed sense of family, heritage, coherent truths, mental health, and a prime cut of the Esplanade construction projects. “The Sopranos,” the richest achievement in the history of television, comes to an end June 10th, after eighty-six episodes. It has been with us a long time—longer than the Bush Administration (and nothing seems more interminable than that).
In his first hour onscreen, Tony, played by James Gandolfini, still had a modest shock of hair and a Gleasonesque lightness to his step. He had not yet achieved the menacing rhino plod that would come with time, anxiety, and fifteen thousand buttered bialys. We’d yet to glimpse his rages, and his accent was less mobbed up, almost refined. He sounded more Summit than Newark.
Nevertheless, to an astonishing degree the characters and the ideas––comic, dramatic, and social––in “The Sopranos” were in place from the start. Even though its creator, David Chase, never had the luxury of a novelist’s control of length and narrative destiny, he has rarely faltered. The show evolved in the manner of a sprawling social novel of the nineteenth century, constantly sprouting new plotlines, developing recurring jokes, images, and characters. Dickens would have seen a kinsman in the creator of “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri. Besides, there are fewer dull patches in “The Sopranos” than there are in “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”––all due respect.
Like John Updike’s Rabbit series or Philip Roth’s novels of the past decade, “The Sopranos” teems with the mindless commerce and consumption of modern America. The drama and the comedy are rooted in the particulars of life as it is lived from the Pulaski Skyway to Bergen Avenue, and yet the larger events of the world are never completely sealed from view. There are always televisions playing in the background––the local news in offices and hospital rooms, the “Hitler channel” in Tony’s living room—and so world politics is the undercurrent rumbling beneath the ordinary nights in New Jersey. History echoes the domestic catastrophes. As Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri put it with dire resignation, “Quasimodo predicted all of this
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert.
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Authorities put him in a juvenile detention center. In 1951, Haggard ran away to Texas with a friend but returned that same year and was arrested for truancy and petty larceny. He ran away from the next juvenile detention center to which he was sent and went to Modesto, California. He worked odd jobs - legal and not - and made his performing debut at a bar. Once he was found again, he was sent to the Preston School of Industry, a high-security installation. Shortly after he was released, 15 months later, Haggard was sent back after beating a local boy during a burglary attempt.
After his second release, Haggard saw Lefty Frizzell in concert with his friend Bob Teague and sang a couple of songs for him. Lefty was so impressed, he allowed Haggard to sing at the concert. The audience loved Haggard, and he began working on a full-time music career. After earning a local reputation, Haggard's money problems caught up with him, and he was arrested for a robbery in 1957. He was sent to prison in San Quentin for 15 years. Even in prison, Haggard was wild. He planned an escape but never followed through, and he ran a gambling and brewing racket from his cell. Merle attended three of Johnny Cash’s concerts at San Quentin. Cash inspired Haggard to straighten up and pursue his singing. Several years later, at another Cash concert, Haggard came up to Johnny and told him "I certainly enjoyed your show at San Quentin." Cash said "Merle, I don't remember you bein' in that show." Merle Haggard said, "Johnny, I wasn't in that show, I was in the audience." While put in solitary confinement, Haggard encountered author and death row inmate Caryl Chessman. Haggard had the opportunity to escape with a fellow inmate nicknamed "Rabbit". Haggard passed on the chance to escape. The escape was successful. The man who escaped later shot a policeman and was returned to San Quentin and put to death. Chessman's predicament along with Rabbit's inspired Haggard to turn his life around.
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