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African wellness workers playacting male circumcision in an effort to curb the spread of HIV motive better tools and more than training to avoid high rates of complications, according to a World Health Organization work published Monday in the WHO Bulletin, Reuters Health reports. The authors conducted the written report among 1,007 participants, 298 of whom were physically examined by the authors. The researchers likewise intervened when they ascertained complications. According to the study, complications such as bleeding, infection, excessive pain and erectile dysfunction occurred in as many as 35% of males circumcised in Kenya's Bungoma territory by traditional practitioners, with an estimated 6% of patients experiencing lifelong problems.
Although male circumcision is practised universally in Bungoma, the study aforesaid many clinicians in Bungoma were non trained formally and lacked clean and sharp instruments. The study also establish that the rate of complications in public clinics was 18%. The study's findings have "raised questions" about how quickly male person circumcision should be included as part of HIV prevention strategies supported by WHO and UNAIDS, according to Reuters Health. The study authors said extensive training and resources ar needed to "build the capacity of health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa" in front male circumcision can be included in prevention strategies. They added that the high rate of complications "should likewise serve as an alarum to ministries of wellness and the international health community that focus cannot only be on areas where circumcision prevalence is low." The authors over that wellness workers should be provided with preparation in sterilization techniques, surgical procedures, nuisance management, postoperative care and counseling around wound care before male circumcision is implemented on a wide scale (MacInnis, Reuters Health, 9/1).
The study is available on-line.
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Sunday, 7 September 2008
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Solange, SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St Dreams
It must be tough having a famous sister, especially if you desire to follow in her footsteps. Sure a long-familiar surname may open doors, but think of the inevitable comparisons you'd let to last and the media's constant coverage of any sibling rivalry.
Solange Knowles (sister of Beyonc� has, so you won't receive her surname on the cover of her debut album Solo Star or her up-to-the-minute offering, SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St Dreams. And to reinforce the fact that Solange is identical much her own adult female, she kicks off her new album with a plea to listeners to judge her on her own merits and leave big sis.
Fair enough. But if she wants people to let her ''starlight shine on its own'' and efface Beyonc� from their minds, maybe it would be better to get on with showing us what she can do instead of wasting time on God Given Name, a laid-back electronic soul caterpillar tread whose message has the same potential difference to sicken as J-Lo's Jenny From The Block.
Fortunately things amend enormously when Solange gets down to business with the fantastically soulful T.O.N.Y, followed by the retro vibe of Dancing In The Dark, and the 60s-esque pop of IWouldveBeenthe1. Other standout tracks confirm Solange's vocal stylings ar worth checking out: the infectiously upbeat Sandcastle Disco, The Supremes-inspired I Decided and its funky remix by the Freemasons, addition 6 O'Clock Blues produced by Mark Ronson.
Ronson and the Freemasons aren't the only cock-a-hoop names on the album either. Solange has really gone to town delivery together a wealth of producing, committal to writing, and recording talent to complement her own including Lamont Dozier, Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo Green, Pharrell Williams, Lil Wayne, and Q-Tip.
As well as playing with Motown-esque grooves, Solange makes an pleasure trip into ambient electronics on a few tracks. And while Cosmic Journey would be fine if the trip were half the length, Solange is definitely at her best when putting a modern spin on sounds from the 60s and 70s.
A solid album which you�ll enjoy more with each hearing, SoL-AngeL might just have you asking, ''Beyonc� who?''.
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Monday, 18 August 2008
22% Of Survey Respondents Have Reduced Number Of Physician Visits To Save Money During Economic Downturn, Survey Finds
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Twenty-two percentage of respondents to a survey have reduced the number of times they visit their physician because of the current economic climate in the U.S., according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The poll of 686 consumers, released on Tuesday and conducted in July, likewise found that 11% of respondents aforementioned they had reduced the amount of prescription drugs they take or the dosage of those medications to make them last longer. The survey ground that 85% of respondents had non made whatever change to their health insurance policies, while 2% had canceled their insurance coverage entirely.
Over the yesteryear several days, U.S. residents have been paying more of their health caution costs, chiefly because employers are requiring employees to contribute a greater share of health insurance premiums and copayments, or they are ever-changing or reducing benefits, the Chronicle reports. Michael Potter, a family physician and head of the San Francisco chapter of the California Academy of Family Physicians, said, "There's a lot of evidence that the more patients are required to pay more for their care, the more that they get economic decisions about what to take or what not," adding, "While some of that may be perfectly reasonable and acceptable, what I worry about is people not acquiring care that is truly essential for their health."
Chris Ohman, CEO of the California Association of Health Plans, aforesaid, "We recognise from past economic downturns that employers and individuals tighten their budgets as a whole, but they certainly tighten their wellness budgets," adding that although health fear costs bear increased at rates oftentimes double or triple the rate of inflation for years, the squeeze feels more meaning as the economy worsens.
The survey did not examine inside information behind consumers' decisions, and it does not track any changes in consumer behavior because NAIC has not conducted similar surveys in the past (Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/13).
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Twenty-two percentage of respondents to a survey have reduced the number of times they visit their physician because of the current economic climate in the U.S., according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The poll of 686 consumers, released on Tuesday and conducted in July, likewise found that 11% of respondents aforementioned they had reduced the amount of prescription drugs they take or the dosage of those medications to make them last longer. The survey ground that 85% of respondents had non made whatever change to their health insurance policies, while 2% had canceled their insurance coverage entirely.
Over the yesteryear several days, U.S. residents have been paying more of their health caution costs, chiefly because employers are requiring employees to contribute a greater share of health insurance premiums and copayments, or they are ever-changing or reducing benefits, the Chronicle reports. Michael Potter, a family physician and head of the San Francisco chapter of the California Academy of Family Physicians, said, "There's a lot of evidence that the more patients are required to pay more for their care, the more that they get economic decisions about what to take or what not," adding, "While some of that may be perfectly reasonable and acceptable, what I worry about is people not acquiring care that is truly essential for their health."
Chris Ohman, CEO of the California Association of Health Plans, aforesaid, "We recognise from past economic downturns that employers and individuals tighten their budgets as a whole, but they certainly tighten their wellness budgets," adding that although health fear costs bear increased at rates oftentimes double or triple the rate of inflation for years, the squeeze feels more meaning as the economy worsens.
The survey did not examine inside information behind consumers' decisions, and it does not track any changes in consumer behavior because NAIC has not conducted similar surveys in the past (Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/13).
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Friday, 8 August 2008
Dionne Warwick
Artist: Dionne Warwick
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Retro
Other
Pop
Rock
Jazz: Funk
Easy Listening
Jazz
Discography:
My Friends and Me
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Friends In Love
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Legends CD3
Year: 2005
Tracks: 16
Legends CD2
Year: 2005
Tracks: 18
Legends CD1
Year: 2005
Tracks: 18
Just Being Myself
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Essential: 40th Anniversary Tour Edition
Year: 2004
Tracks: 23
An Evening With Dionne Warwick
Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
Heartbreaker: The Very Best of Dionne Warwick
Year: 2002
Tracks: 24
The Very Best of Dionne Warwick
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
What The World Needs Now Is Love vs. the Hip Hop Nation United
Year: 1998
Tracks: 1
Sings Cole Porter
Year: 1990
Tracks: 13
Greatest Hits 1979-1990
Year: 1989
Tracks: 14
The Woman in Red
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Heartbreaker
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
The Best Of
Year:
Tracks: 10
It is easier to define Dionne Warwick by what she isn't rather than what she is. Although she grew up vocalizing in church building, she is non a gospel singing vocaliser. Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan ar unclutter influences, just she is non a idle words singer. R&B is excessively office of her oscilloscope, only she is non actually a soul vocalizer, either, at least non in the gumption that Aretha Franklin is. Sophisticated is a intelligence frequently used to discover her musical coming and the music she sings, simply she is not a singer of standards such as Lena Horne or Nancy Wilson. What is she, then? She is a pop isaac Bashevis Singer of a form that peradventure could only make emerged out of the Brill Building environment of post-Elvis Presley, pre-Beatles urban pop in the early '60s. That's when she dependant up with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, songwriters and producers wHO wrote their unusually complicated songs for her aching, in time uninvolved alto spokesperson. Warwick is ineluctably associated with those songs, level though she managed to build a life chronicle after expiration Bacharach and David that john Drew upon their style for other memorable recordings, such that she clay a alone name in popular music.
Marie Dionne Warrick was born into a gospel-music family. Her padre was a evangel record promoter for Chess Records and her mother managed the Drinkard Singers, a gospel singing mathematical group consisting of her relatives. She first-class honours degree elevated her voice in call at age six-spot at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ, and shortly after was a fellow member of the choir. As a stripling, she formed a telling grouping called the Gospelaires with her sister Dee Dee and her auntie Cissy Houston (later the female parent of Whitney Houston). After graduating from heights school day in 1959, she earned a music encyclopaedism to the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, CT, simply she too spent time with her grouping recording background vocals on sessions in New York. The Gospelaires ar said to be demonstrate on such well-known recordings as Ben E. King's "Spanish Harlem" and "Outdoor stage By Me." They were at a Drifters session on the job on a call called "Mexican Divorce" composed by Burt Bacharach when Bacharach, attendance the seance, suggested Warwick power do some demos for him. She did, telling songs he had written with lyrist Hal David. Bacharach and David pitched one of the songs to Florence Greenberg, read/write head of the minor independent Scepter Records label, and Greenberg liked the demonstration isaac M. Singer enough to sign her as a recording artist. Bacharach and David wrote and produced her low gear single, "Don't Make Me Over," in 1962. When the record was released, the performer credit contained a typo; it read "Dionne Warwick" rather of "Dionne Warrick," and she unbroken the new identify. (Her sister Dee Dee finally became Dee Dee Warwick as well.)
"Don't Make Me Over" peaked in the Top 20 of the pop charts in early 1963, too arrival the Top Five of the R&B charts. Warwick's subsequent singles were non as successful, merely in early 1964, she reached the pop and R&B Top Ten and the Top Five of the easy listening charts with "Anyone Who Had a Heart," which was besides her first base record to reach the charts in the U.K. (There, such singers as Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield sometimes would cover her records in front her possess versions had a fortune to turn hits.) "Walk on By" followed it into the Top Ten of the pop, easy hearing, and U.K. charts in the spring of 1964, and it hit routine one on the R&B charts. By then, the Beatles had arrived on the American scenery, followed by the British Invasion, and for a spell, pour down artists care Warwick took a lacing on the charts. Nevertheless, the singer continued to billet singles and LPs in the rankings all over the following twosome of geezerhood and in the spring of 1966, she returned to the Top Ten of the pop charts and the Top Five of the R&B charts with "Message to Michael." Other, more meek hits followed, including the most successful U.S. recording of the title song from the moving-picture show Alfie, which reached the R&B Top Five and the pop Top 20 in the spring of 1967. That summer, Warwick topped the R&B LP charts with her gold-selling Here Where There Is Love album and by the fall, Scepter had amassed enough chart singles to issue Dionne Warwick's Golden Hits, Pt. 1, her low-pitched gear album to gain the toss off Top Ten.
Interrogatively, Warwick's career reached a new level with a single non written by Bacharach and David, although they produced it. It was "(Base From) Valley of the Dolls," scripted by André and Dory Previn and issued at the conclusion of 1967. The record reached the Top Five of the pop, R&B, and easy listening charts. Its B-side, Bacharach and David's "I Say a Little Prayer," reached the Top Five of the pop and R&B charts, serving the single suit a amber disk and the Vale of the Dolls LP besides made the Top Five of the pop and R&B charts and went gold. With that, Warwick was on a roll. Her succeeding single, "Do You Know the Way to San José," reached the pop Top Ten and the R&B and easy listening Top Five in the springtime of 1968 and north Korean won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Performance, Female. In the wintertime of 1969, her variation of "This Guy's in Love With You," re-titled "This Girl's in Love With You," made the pop and R&B Top Ten and the easy listening Top Five and in early 1970, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" from Bacharach and David's score for the Broadway musical Promises, Promises made the pop Top Ten and topped the leisurely hearing charts, bringing her some other Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female.
In 1971, Warwick added an "e" to the end of her name on the advice of a numerologist, retaining the young spelling until 1975. She as well left Scepter Records and signed a mete out with the major label Warner Bros. that included Bacharach and David as her author and producer. The squad produced the 1972 album Dionne, which was a small seller, only and then Bacharach and David split up in the wake of the decisive and commercial unsuccessful person of their turn on a musical remake of the film Lost Horizon in 1973. Due to her contractual commitment, Warwick was forced to sue her old partners. A settlement was reached, merely they would non work together once again for many age and Warwick's career suffered.
Richard Neville bounced back up with "And then Came You," a vocal she recorded with the Spinners, which topped the pop and R&B charts and reached the Top Five of the easy listening charts in October 1974, leaving atomic number 79 in the process. It proven to be a one-off success, merely Warwick (like a shot without the "e") signed to Records in 1979 and returned to the Top Five of the pop adult contemporary (once easy hearing) charts with "I'll Never Love This Way Again," produced by labelmate Barry Manilow and featured on her number 1 platinum-selling track record album, some other LP but titled Dionne. "Deja Vu," as well from the album, was a Top 20 pop and numeral one adult contemporaneous hit. "I'll Never Love This Way Again" won Warwick her one-third Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; "Deja Vu" won her her twenty-five percent for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Female.
Kingmaker topped the grownup modern-day charts in 1980 with "No Night So Long," but her side by side all-inclusive hit did non number until she hooklike up with the Bee Gees for her 1982 record album Heartbreaker. Barry Gibb produced the gold-selling LP and the terzetto Gibb brothers wrote the claim song, which made the pop Top Ten and topped the adult present-day charts. In 1985, Warwick was reconciled with Bacharach and she organized a charity transcription of his and Carole Bayer Sager's vocal "That's What Friends Are For" to benefit AIDS, featuring Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder, in addition to herself. The record topped the down, R&B, and grownup contemporary charts in the wintertime of 1985-1986, the album Friends on which it was included went atomic number 79, and the song earned Warwick her fifth Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. In 1987, Warwick topped the adult present-day charts and reached the Top Five of the R&B charts with "Love Power," a duet with Jeffrey Osborne that was some other Bacharach/Sager composing.
Richard Neville enjoyed less commercial success later on the late '80s. She parted slipway with Arista Records afterward her 1995 album Aquarela Do Brazil. In 1998, she issued Dionne Sings Dionne, an record album consisting largely of re-recordings of her hits, on River North Records.
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Scotsman McAvoy hits Hollywood action with "Wanted"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Scottish actor James McAvoy bursts onto Hollywood's blockbuster movie scene on Friday with his new film "Wanted," but don't expect the actor best known for art-house cinema to start playing the part of a Tinseltown superstar.
McAvoy portrays a buff assassin in the high-tech action thriller, but gives credit to his stunt double for making him look cool. He squirms when asked about kissing co-star Angelina Jolie and delights in his character's panic attacks.
"The perfect condition for an actor to have to portray," he told Reuters.
After breakthrough roles in a pair of award-winning dramas aimed at art houses -- "The Last King of Scotland" and "Atonement" -- the 29-year-old said "Wanted," which is adapted from a violent comic book series, spoke to his inner boy.
"I got to satisfy the 16-year-old boy's yearning to break things and jump up and down and beat people up," McAvoy told Reuters. "It was a very physical film and I had to get fit and go to the gym, which I don't really enjoy."
McAvoy's character Wesley is a sloped-shoulder slacker who wallows in the misery of a cubicle-bound job, an overbearing boss and a cheating girlfriend.
Then Fox (Jolie) shows up to tell Wes that greater things await him: he must take over for his long-lost father, killed while working for the Fraternity, a centuries-old league of supersensory assassins.
Fox and Fraternity leader Sloane (Morgan Freeman) whip Wesley into shape by beating him nearly to death so he can avenge his father's death. The beatings are brutal, as is the emotional toll on Wesley, and McAvoy said he had to dip into his reserves to pull it all off.
McAvoy portrays a buff assassin in the high-tech action thriller, but gives credit to his stunt double for making him look cool. He squirms when asked about kissing co-star Angelina Jolie and delights in his character's panic attacks.
"The perfect condition for an actor to have to portray," he told Reuters.
After breakthrough roles in a pair of award-winning dramas aimed at art houses -- "The Last King of Scotland" and "Atonement" -- the 29-year-old said "Wanted," which is adapted from a violent comic book series, spoke to his inner boy.
"I got to satisfy the 16-year-old boy's yearning to break things and jump up and down and beat people up," McAvoy told Reuters. "It was a very physical film and I had to get fit and go to the gym, which I don't really enjoy."
McAvoy's character Wesley is a sloped-shoulder slacker who wallows in the misery of a cubicle-bound job, an overbearing boss and a cheating girlfriend.
Then Fox (Jolie) shows up to tell Wes that greater things await him: he must take over for his long-lost father, killed while working for the Fraternity, a centuries-old league of supersensory assassins.
Fox and Fraternity leader Sloane (Morgan Freeman) whip Wesley into shape by beating him nearly to death so he can avenge his father's death. The beatings are brutal, as is the emotional toll on Wesley, and McAvoy said he had to dip into his reserves to pull it all off.
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Golden Space Needles awarded
'Blossoms' takes best film; 'Em' gets grand jury prize
Audience members gave Doris Dorris' "Cherry Blossoms -- Hanami" the best film Golden Space Needle Award at the 34th Seattle International Film Festival, which ended Sunday. The jury's grand prize went to Tony Barbieri's "Em."
At the 25-day fest, the jury awarded a special jury prize to writer-director Russell Brown for "The Bluetooth Virgin."
Within the fest's New Directors Showcase competition, the grand jury prize was awarded to Yves-Christian Fournier's "Everything Is Fine," while the special jury prize was bestowed on Anna Melikyan's "Mermaid."
The grand jury prize for documentary was presented to Isaac Julien's "Derek," and special jury prizes were awarded to Raphael Mathie's "Combalion" and Timothy Hotchner's "Accelerating America."
The short film winners were Rebecca Dreyfus' "Self Portrait With Cows Going Home and Other Works: A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy" in the documentary category, with Christina Voros' "The Ladies" picking up the special prize; Luis Cook's "The Pearce Sisters" in the animation category, with Kim Slate's "Home" winning the special prize; and Atul Taishete's "Rewind" in the narrative category. Narrative special jury prizes were handed out to Amy Gebhardt's "Walnut," Paddy Considine's "Dog Altogether," Teemu Nikki's "A Mate" and Steph Green's "New Boy."
John Grigsby's "Introduction to Lucid Dreaming" and Adam Keker's "On the Assassination of the President" earned honorable mentions for inventive filmmaking.
Rose McAleese's "Disorder" claimed the FutureWave Jury's Grand Jury Prize WaveMaker Award. Honorable mentions went to Misami Kubo's "4th Floor"; Meng Mao, Eli Shalcross, Charlie Shelton, and Matt Yaggy's "Driving to the New Age: American Automobiles and You"; and Dave Riff's "New Perspective."
Anthony O'Brien's "Perfect Sport" was the MyFestival Feature Film winner, and John Burish's "Robbie's Withdrawel" was the MyFestival Short Film winner.
MyFestival special recognition awards went to Jason Goodman's "Eternal City" and Kirsten Alaqidy's "Hot Wind: America's Fallout Casualties."
In addition to "Cherry Blossom -- Hanami," other audience winners that scored Space Needle Awards were:
Best documentary: Denny Tedesco's "The Wrecking Crew"
Best director: Amin Matalqa for "Captain Abu Raed"
Best actor: Alan Rickman for "Bottle Shock"
Best actress: Jessica Chastain for "Jolene"
Best short film: Andreas Utta's "Felix"
Lena Sharpe Award, given to the film by a woman director that receives the most votes from the public: Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River."
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Phil Collins' model daughter lands TV job
Phil Collins' 18-year-old daughter Lily has landed a job as a television presenter for Nickelodeon.
The teenager, who currently works as a model, is studying broadcast journalism at the University of Southern California.
Collins will act as a roving entertainment correspondent for the children's channel, reporting from the sets of Nickelodeon television series, movie premieres, awards shows, concerts and other celebrity events.
Last year the young model was a guest correspondent on the network's 'Slime Across America' tour.
She also helped out with E! Entertainment's red-carpet Oscars coverage last weekend.
The teenager, who currently works as a model, is studying broadcast journalism at the University of Southern California.
Collins will act as a roving entertainment correspondent for the children's channel, reporting from the sets of Nickelodeon television series, movie premieres, awards shows, concerts and other celebrity events.
Last year the young model was a guest correspondent on the network's 'Slime Across America' tour.
She also helped out with E! Entertainment's red-carpet Oscars coverage last weekend.
Friday, 6 June 2008
Heater Mills advices woman seeking divorce
London (ANI): Setting herself as an example, Heather Mills has offered an advice to a woman on how to deal with divorce. The 40-year-old former, who recently bagged 24 million pounds from ex husband Sir Paul McCartney in a divorce deal, gave suggestions to a woman enduring a 'painful' split. "Be strong like me. It might take a few years, but you can come out the other side and be a better person," The Sun quoted Mills, as saying. The unnamed woman said: "I guess she knows what she's talking about." Mills recently launched a taunting attack on the former Beatle, wishing him luck with his 'three girlfriends.' In her first television interview since winning a 24.3million-pound divorce settlement, Mills accused the veteran singer of having three girlfriends.
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Steven Tyler checks into rehab for 'safe environment'
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler said today (May 29) that he decided to check into rehab to find "a safe environment to recuperate".
The veteran rocker has been undergoing medical treatment and physical therapy for foot problems, which Tyler said have taken their toll on him physically and emotionally.
�??The doctors told me the pain in my feet could be corrected but it would require a few surgeries over time,�?� he said in a statement.
�??The �??foot repair�?? pain was intense, greater than I'd anticipated. The months of rehabilitative care and the painful strain of physical therapy were traumatic. I really needed a safe environment to recuperate where I could shut off my phone and get back on my feet."
Tyler added that he has no intention of letting this slow his band down. "Make no mistake, Aerosmith has no plans to stop rocking. There�??s a new album to record, then another tour.�?�
Tyler battled drug and alcohol abuse problems in the 1970s and 1980s, successfully completing rehab in 1986.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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The veteran rocker has been undergoing medical treatment and physical therapy for foot problems, which Tyler said have taken their toll on him physically and emotionally.
�??The doctors told me the pain in my feet could be corrected but it would require a few surgeries over time,�?� he said in a statement.
�??The �??foot repair�?? pain was intense, greater than I'd anticipated. The months of rehabilitative care and the painful strain of physical therapy were traumatic. I really needed a safe environment to recuperate where I could shut off my phone and get back on my feet."
Tyler added that he has no intention of letting this slow his band down. "Make no mistake, Aerosmith has no plans to stop rocking. There�??s a new album to record, then another tour.�?�
Tyler battled drug and alcohol abuse problems in the 1970s and 1980s, successfully completing rehab in 1986.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
Find out more about NME.
Sunday, 25 May 2008
Johansson unveils her debut album
Scarlett Johansson played her debut album, 'Anywhere I Lay My Head', to journalists at a listening party in New York yesterday.
Billboard reports that the launch took place at Joe's Pub in the city.
'Anywhere I Lay My Head' features 10 covers of Tom Waits songs and one original track, 'Song for Jo'; it will be released on 20 May.
Johansson said that she had originally planned to record an album of standards but then decided to celebrate Waits' material.
"His melodies are so beautiful and his voice is so distinct," she said.
Johansson said that her interpretations of the music legend's songs have met with his approval.
"I sent him some of the early, early recordings, and he said, 'Go ahead'. I've heard he's very pleased," said the star.
While Johansson has no plans at present to do live shows, she said the idea of possibly doing a festival date with the musicians who worked on the album would be intriguing.
The full tracklisting for 'Anywhere I Lay My Head' is:'Fawn''Town with No Cheer''Falling Down''Anywhere I Lay My Head''Fannin' Street''Song for Jo''Green Grass''I Wish I Was in New Orleans''I Don't Want To Grow Up''No One Knows I'm Gone''Who Are You?'
Billboard reports that the launch took place at Joe's Pub in the city.
'Anywhere I Lay My Head' features 10 covers of Tom Waits songs and one original track, 'Song for Jo'; it will be released on 20 May.
Johansson said that she had originally planned to record an album of standards but then decided to celebrate Waits' material.
"His melodies are so beautiful and his voice is so distinct," she said.
Johansson said that her interpretations of the music legend's songs have met with his approval.
"I sent him some of the early, early recordings, and he said, 'Go ahead'. I've heard he's very pleased," said the star.
While Johansson has no plans at present to do live shows, she said the idea of possibly doing a festival date with the musicians who worked on the album would be intriguing.
The full tracklisting for 'Anywhere I Lay My Head' is:'Fawn''Town with No Cheer''Falling Down''Anywhere I Lay My Head''Fannin' Street''Song for Jo''Green Grass''I Wish I Was in New Orleans''I Don't Want To Grow Up''No One Knows I'm Gone''Who Are You?'
Sister Sledge
Artist: Sister Sledge
Genre(s):
Rock
disco
Other
Discography:
Sister Sledge
Year: 1986
Tracks: 11
All American Girls
Year: 1981
Tracks: 10
Love Somebody Todeay
Year: 1980
Tracks: 8
We Are Family
Year: 1979
Tracks: 15
Best known for their work with Chic in the late '70s, siblings Debbie, Kim, Joni, and Kathy Sledge -- together with Sister Sledge -- reached the tallness of their popularity during the disco earned run average just had been recording since the early '70s and were placid active in the former '90s. The mathematical group was formed in Philadelphia in 1971, when the sisters' ages ranged from 12 to 16, and they recorded their first single, "Time Will Tell," for the Philly-based Money Back label. (For the first few days, the group called itself Sisters Sledge.) In 1972, Sister Sledge signed with Atco and recorded its instant single, "Weatherman," which was followed by the Jackson 5-like "Mummy Never Told Me" in 1973.
Sis Sledge's offset national hit came in 1974, when "Making love, Don't You Go Through No Changes on Me" reached number 31 on the R&B charts and the Philadelphians recorded their debut album, Circle of Love. Their second album, Together, was released in 1977 and contained the issue 61 R&B hit "Smash hit Boy." It wasn't until 1979, when Chic leaders Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards produced We Are Family, that Sister Sledge really exploded commercially. "He's the Greatest Dancer" and We Are Family's title song both soared to number one on the R&B charts, and the latter (a number iI pop smash) was adopted as a composition by the World Series-winning Pittsburgh Pirates.
Sis Sledge's succeeding album, Dear Somebody Today (1980), was as well produced by the Rodgers/Edwards squad, and the single "Got to Love Somebody" became a number six R&B hit. In 1981, Sister Sledge switched producers and worked with Narada Michael Walden, wHO produced 1981's splendid All American Girls. The title song was a number three R&B strike, and in 1982, Sister Sledge had a number 14 R&B strike with a cover of Mary Wells' "My Guy" that appeared on The Sisters. But after that, the foursome's popularity washy, and it never had another Top 20 strike in the U.S. -- although 1985's "Frankie" (a number 32 R&B strike in the States) became a bulge number one hit in England. Sister Sledge left Atlantic for estimable in 1985, but its members kept in use in the nineties. Epic released Kathy's debut solo record album, Heart, in 1992, and 1997 found the sisters transcription a risk-taking date, African Eyes, arguably one of the finest albums they of all time recorded.
Good Charlotte 'Family' Support Paris Hilton
Rockers Good Charlotte have given guitarist Benji Madden's girlfriend Paris Hilton a warm welcome into their family, after showing up to watch the heiress shoot the first episode of her new reality TV series.
Earlier this week, Madden and his fellow bandmates were present to lend their support to Hilton as she began filming My New BFF (Best Friend Forever), a TV competition in which 20 hopefuls compete for the chance to be the socialite's confidante.
And, in an entry posted Friday on her weblog, Hilton admits she is grateful for the group's encouragement: "Him (Madden) and his friends came out to support me. I love how he's always there for me, he always knows how to make me smile. Life is amazing, couldn't be happier, excited for what the future holds."
Updating his own blog on the same day, Madden hints fans will be pleased with the programme: "When you are part of the GC (Good Charlotte) family, everybody comes out to support. We had a fun night watching them shoot the show.
"I can't ruin the surprise too much with the show, but I can tell you it's really funny."
Earlier this week, Madden and his fellow bandmates were present to lend their support to Hilton as she began filming My New BFF (Best Friend Forever), a TV competition in which 20 hopefuls compete for the chance to be the socialite's confidante.
And, in an entry posted Friday on her weblog, Hilton admits she is grateful for the group's encouragement: "Him (Madden) and his friends came out to support me. I love how he's always there for me, he always knows how to make me smile. Life is amazing, couldn't be happier, excited for what the future holds."
Updating his own blog on the same day, Madden hints fans will be pleased with the programme: "When you are part of the GC (Good Charlotte) family, everybody comes out to support. We had a fun night watching them shoot the show.
"I can't ruin the surprise too much with the show, but I can tell you it's really funny."
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