The Osmonds & other: June 2008

Friday, 27 June 2008

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Artist: Andrew Lloyd Webber

   Genre(s):
Soundtrack
   Musical
   Other
   Vocal
   Classical
   Pop

Discography:

Whistle Down The Wind CD2

Year: 1998
Tracks: 11

Whistle Down The Wind CD1

Year: 1998
Tracks: 16

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

Year: 1997
Tracks: 17

Evita - CD2

Year: 1996
Tracks: 17

Evita - CD1

Year: 1996
Tracks: 14

By Jeeves

Year: 1996
Tracks: 26

Requiem

Year: 1995
Tracks: 8

Sunset Boulevard (Cd2)

Year: 1994
Tracks: 11

Sunset Boulevard (Cd1)

Year: 1994
Tracks: 18

The Premiere Collection: The Best Of Andrew Lloyd Webber

Year: 1989
Tracks: 14

Starlight Express Live (Cd1)

Year: 1989
Tracks: 19

Starlight Express (cd2)

Year: 1989
Tracks: 14

Starlight Express (cd1)

Year: 1989
Tracks: 19

The Phantom Of The Opera CD2

Year: 1987
Tracks: 7

The Phantom Of The Opera 1CD

Year: 1987
Tracks: 14

The Phantom Of The Opera

Year: 1987
Tracks: 21

Cats CD2

Year: 1981
Tracks: 9

Cats - Original London Cast (Disc 2)

Year: 1981
Tracks: 9

Cats - Original London Cast (Disc 1)

Year: 1981
Tracks: 13

Cats CD1

Year: 1981
Tracks: 13

Variations

Year: 1978
Tracks: 15

Jesus Christ Superstar

Year: 1971
Tracks: 23

Woman In White (Cd2)

Year:
Tracks: 12

Woman In White (Cd1)

Year:
Tracks: 12

SunSet Blvd (cd2)

Year:
Tracks: 13

SunSet Blvd (cd1)

Year:
Tracks: 19

Joseh and Amazing Technicolor Dr

Year:
Tracks: 22

Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948) is the well-nigh successful composer of musicals of his multiplication and also a ledgeman of molds for the type. His predecessors were for the most part American: New York-based songwriters steeped in Broadway tradition. Lloyd Webber proverb his ploughshare of shows as a child, as well, but he was born in London, the son of William Lloyd Webber, Director of the London College of Music, and was trained at the Royal Academy of Music, just the sort of space where you'd be probable to hear OK!

All the same, Lloyd Webber aquiline up with lyricist Tim Rice, and the two began work on what would be a typical project for them, a musical based on the Biblical narrative of Joseph and his coat of many colors. Titled Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, it brought in a potent rock & cast influence. After writing a second unproduced melodious, the deuce hit on the idea of committal to writing a musical based on the life of Jesus Christ from the point of sentiment of Judas (not the sort of idea probable to come to a Broadway composer) and, again, imbued with rock 'n' roll. Unable to finance a stage version, Lloyd Webber and Rice did oversee to record their show, and Christ Christ Superstar went on to gross sales in the millions all over the world. The hit musical version followed.

Harold Clayton Lloyd Webber and Rice then split, with the composer writing film stacks and working on an unsuccessful musical with playwright Alan Ayckbourne (Jeeves), after which Rice returned with some other venturesome approximation: a musical based on the life of Argentine potentate (or dictator's wife, depending on how you look at it) Eva Peron. Evita (1976) recurrent the form of Christ Christ Superstar, with its hit record album followed by a successful theatrical run in the West End and then on Broadway.

The Lloyd Webber-Rice partnership, having proved itself once more, was cut off (Rice went on to pen Chess game), and Lloyd Webber next wrote a musical revue based on T.S. Eliot's impulsive poems virtually Cats (1981). This sentence the show came earlier the album, and it's tranquil running. By this sentence, Lloyd Webber had largely abandoned the rock elements of his work in favor of what critics launch a pastiche vogue that borrowed from classic and opera sources. He had too become a brand name (and a corp, the Really Useful Company) that assured at least a modest success for subsequent shows, though critics were frequently unimpressed with his efforts.

Downgrading the status of his lyricists, Lloyd Webber went on to a series of successful shows (Song and Dance, Starlight Express) in front marking another long (and tranquil) running rack up in 1987 (1988 in New York) with a musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. Aspects of Love (1989-1990) was less successful, however. Lloyd Webber debuted a musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder plastic film Sunset Boulevard in the early '90s and it proved to be one of his rare disappointments, weakness to make either well reviews or healthy ticket gross revenue. In 1996, Alan Parker altered Evita for the screen; Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice contributed a new song, "You Must Love Me," to the production, which asterisked Madonna. "You Must Love Me" won the Best Original Song accolade at the 1997 Academy Awards.

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Monday, 23 June 2008

Helheim

Artist: Helheim

   Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black

Discography:

Yersinia Pestis

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Blod Og Ild

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Monday, 16 June 2008

Pamela Anderson And Tommy Lee Back Together

Motley Crue rocker Tommy Lee has revealed that he has reconciled with his ex-wife Pamela Anderson saying, "it’s awesome" to have the family living under the same roof again.

Rolling Stone caught up with Lee at a studio in Hollywood, where the band are rehearsing for their upcoming tour, when he dropped the news about Anderson and their two sons Brandon and Dylan.
“Pamela and the kids have moved in with me. It’s awesome, man. It’s definitely working. You can tell on the kids’ faces — they’re happy when we’re together.”
With the couple having travelled the reconciliation path on numerous occasions before, Lee made light of the situation saying, “We’ve only given it a try 800 times — 801, here we go.”
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Sunday, 15 June 2008

LiveDaily News Break, May 22: Gretchen Wilson, Miley Cyrus, The Fiery Furnaces and more

Today's edition features news and tour information about Gretchen Wilson [ tickets ], Miley Cyrus [ tickets ], The Fiery Furnaces [ tickets ] and Sweet [ tickets ]. We'll also list off the Top 5 albums on this week�s chart.* * *Country singer Gretchen Wilson has put together a summer tour that will take her through nearly 30 North American cities. The performer will kick things off June 4 in Nashville, as she joins the star-studded lineup of Marty Stuart's Late Night Jam. From there, she'll visit a host of venues from the Midwest to the East Coast through late August. * * *Miley Cyrus' upcoming album, "Breakout," will be the "Hannah Montana" star's first release under her own name. Her recent live album and last studio release both were billed as Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus projects. "Breakout," scheduled for a late-July release, features the single "7 Things," which is airing on Top 40 and Adult Top 40 radio stations.* * *Indie-rock brother-sister act The Fiery Furnaces has lined up a headlining outing ahead of the release of the band's first-ever live album, a double-CD due later this summer. The group will launch the run May 28 in Sacramento, CA, and will cap the 15-city trek with a July 27 appearance at British Columbia's Pemberton Music Festival. * * *A reconfigured version of British glam-rock icons Sweet will hit the road this summer behind bassist/vocalist Steve Priest, one of the band's original members. The outing will kick off June 12 in Los Angeles with 11 dates so far lined up over the summer months.* * *Alt-rockers Death Cab for Cutie [ tickets ]�s latest release, "Narrow Stairs," debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week, giving the group its first No. 1 album. At No. 2 is Frank Sinatra�s �Nothing But the Best,� followed by Jason Mraz [ tickets ]�s �We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things� at No. 3, �Duffy [ tickets ]�s �Rockferry� at No. 4 and Leona Lewis [ tickets ]� �Spirit� at No. 5.

Saturday, 14 June 2008

Tree

Artist: Tree

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Downsizing the American Dream

Year: 1996
Tracks: 14

Plant a Tree Or Die

Year: 1994
Tracks: 9

A Lot to Fear

Year: 1993
Tracks: 9

Tree is a hardcore punk/alternative metal band from Westwood, MA (near Boston) consisting of vocaliser River, guitar player Ooze (aka Uzi), bassist Jake, and drummer Billy Beck (aka Billy Fever). The grouping recorded triad albums for Cherrydisc -- Lot to Fear, 1994's Plant a Tree or Die, and 1996's Retrenchment the American Dream -- ahead the pronounce went under. Wonderdrug sign-language them up and issued a live album, Tuner Bootleg for the Restless Masses, in 1998 ahead releasing an LP of all-new material in 1999 coroneted Our Day Will Come. No Regrets No Remorse followed in early 2001.

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Book from 'Sex and the City' inspires real life search but it's a fake

NEW YORK - A consumer alert for the millions who have seen the feature film version of "Sex and the City" - there is no such book as "Love Letters From Great Men," from which Carrie Bradshaw reads while in bed with her beloved Mr. Big.

The closest text in the real world apparently is "Love Letters From Great Men and Women: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day," first released in the 1920s and reissued last year by Kessinger Publishing, which specializes in bringing back old works.

Richard Davies, press manager for AbeBooks.com, an online seller that features used titles, said he has received hundreds of queries about the book's existence. Enough readers have been directed to the Kessinger anthology, on AbeBooks and elsewhere on the Internet, that it ranked No. 134 on Amazon.com as of last Thursday afternoon.

In "Sex and the City," an early scene shows Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) poring through the imaginary collection, although citing real letters by Beethoven and Napoleon among others. Mr. Big (Chris Noth), later takes passages from the book as he expresses his love, by e-mail, to Carrie.

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