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Sunday 25 May 2008

'Pat Benatar: Ultimate Collection' to be Released June 24 by Capitol/EMI

New 2-CD and Digital Collection Features 40 Classic Hits & Signature Songs,
Including 20 Top 40 Chart Hits
Benatar To Tour To More than 40 North American Cities This Summer

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 13 -- Pat Benatar's top hits and
signature album cuts have been gathered for a new 2-CD and digital release,
Pat Benatar: Ultimate Collection, to be released June 24 by Capitol/EMI.
Among the collection's 40 tracks, totaling more than two hours of music,
are 20 Top 40 chart hits, including "Heartbreaker," "Love Is A
Battlefield," "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," "Fire And Ice," "Invincible,"
and "We Belong."

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Benatar will tour to more than 40 cities across North America this
summer, performing her top hits and fan favorites. The tour begins May 16
at Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival in Richardson, TX and includes stops
at Detroit's Rockin' On The Riverfront festival and Milwaukee's Summerfest,
in addition to headlining concerts in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and
other cities in the U.S. and Canada.

Pat Benatar first burst into international music circles with her 1979
smash, "Heartbreaker." When MTV began beaming into America's living rooms
in 1980, the Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star" was the first music
video to be broadcast by the network. Benatar's hit cover of the Young
Rascals' "You Better Run" was the second. As she sang "We Belong," the
decade belonged to Benatar, who took home an unprecedented four consecutive
Grammy Awards for Best Female Rock Performance and racked up six
consecutive Platinum and three Gold RIAA sales certifications for the nine
albums she released between 1979 and 1989, selling tens of millions of
albums around the world.

The diversity of Benatar's fanbase today, a global audience
encompassing baby boomers and their Gen X and Gen Y descendents, reflects
her music's vast and enduring appeal. Her strong yet vulnerable vocal
missives, whether hurled or gently swept over her band's solid rock
arrangements, sound as fresh and 'now' today as they did when they were
first recorded. Pat Benatar has inspired new generations of musicians as
varied as her audience, and her music is an essential entry in the American
rock canon.

PAT BENATAR: ULTIMATE COLLECTION (2-CD; digital collection)
Disc 1
1. Heartbreaker
2. I Need A Lover
3. In The Heat Of The Night
4. We Live Forever
5. Treat Me Right
6. You Better Run
7. Never Wanna Leave You
8. Hit Me With Your Best Shot
9. Hell Is For Children
10. Promises In The Dark
11. Fire And Ice
12. Just Like Me
13. It's A Tuff Life
14. Precious Time
15. Shadows Of The Night
16. Looking For A Stranger
17. Anxiety (Get Nervous)
18. Little Too Late
19. The Victim
20. Lipstick Lies
21. Love Is A Battlefield

Disc 2
1. Diamond Field
2. We Belong
3. Ooh Ooh Song
4. The Outlaw Blues
5. Painted Dessert
6. Invincible (Theme From The Legend Of Billie Jean)
7. Sex As A Weapon
8. Le Bel Age
9. All Fired Up
10. Don't Walk Away
11. One Love (Song Of The Lion)
12. Let's Stay Together
13. Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss
14. True Love
15. I Feel Lucky
16. The Good Life
17. Everybody Lay Down
18. Somebody's Baby
19. Every Time I Fall Back

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Thursday 22 May 2008

The Staples of Mavis' art: Love and social justice

Song thrush Staples honed her soulful voice as a member of the Staple Singers, the gospel-pop crime syndicate known as “God’s greatest hitmakers” thanks to Mavis-led chart-toppers “I’ll Take You There” and “Let’s Do It Once again.” In the solo phase of her career, she’s worked with admirers such as Prince, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles River and Los Lobos.
A Grammy Life Accomplishment Award winner and Tilt and Roll Hallway of Celebrity draftee, the Chicago-born singer is a favourite of hip-hop artists like Ludacris, Frappe Third power and Salt-N-Pepa, world Health Organization make totally sampled her voice on their recordings. Now touring behind her Ry Cooder-produced album “We’ll Never Call on Back,” Staples, 68, performs Friday at Berklee Performance Center. She was interviewed via e-mail pursual her give back from a circuit in Europe.
Hail: The Raw material Singers toured the public incessantly during their efflorescence in the ’60s and ’70s. How a great deal do you jaunt now?

Staples: The tours ar around the saame. The deviation is I’m a little older. Can’t run up the stairs as fast I as used to! And I’m with another loving family unit, including my sister Yvonne Staples.
The music your don, Pops, and sisters and brothers panax quinquefolius was known for its uplifting messages. How did your parents revolutionise you?
My father and mother always taught us to dear one another. To love life our friends as neighbors. Love is the way to a better world. So in our songs we’ve always american ginseng positive, inspirational and informative messages.
What was the inspiration for your latest CD, “We’ll Never Turn Back,” which revisits themes of sociable injustice that the Staples number one tackled during the civil rights drift?
The CD was inspired by what I see and read every day in the news. Pops e'er told songwriters, if they wanted to write for the Staples, read the headlines. We wanted to whistle roughly what was occurrence in the world today. In “We’ll Never Ferment Back,” the songs ar the headlines. Unfortunately, hush in the 21st century.
In your acknowledgements in the CD’s liner notes, you give thanks the Rpm. Book of Jeremiah Wright, the controversial minister associated with Sen. Barack Obama. Do you sense Rpm. Frances Wright has gotten a do-nothing hip-hop?
Yes, I cerebrate that Rev. Wright got a skunk tap. The few snippets that were shown in the news did not portray the number man. He’s a goodness man.
Do you feel Obama offers the sort of hope and positive degree messages that you bum financial backing?
Yes, I do support Obama.
Mavis Staples, at Berklee Performance Center, Friday at 8 p.m. Tickets: $28-$37; 617-876-4275.

Monday 19 May 2008

BBC announces Grange Hill will end

The BBC has announced that its shoal drama 'Grange Hill' is to

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Testament backs 'Damnation' with world tour

New off a go of sold-out shows crossways the US, thrash-metal heroes Testament [ tickets ] are cook to roll come out of the closet an extensive earth spell to livelihood their fresh album, "The Formation of Damnation." This week, the band will chief come out of the closet for a pair of shows in Confederate States America and a month-long tour of Europe. The rockers will return to N America in July for a Canadian play with Saint Jude Non-Christian priest, which includes a July 26 arrest at Ozzy Osbourne's Monsters of Rock and roll Fete in Calgary. That trek will segue into the Masters of Metallic element Turn with Testament, Judas Non-Christian priest, Heaven & Infernal region and Motorhead, which is scheduled to chat more than iI xII cities in the US and Canada through the end of Aug.Testament plans to pass the rest of the year on the international circuit, traveling through far-off lands including Dutch East Indies, Australia, Nationalist China, Dae-Han-Min-Gook and New Sjaelland. North American language dates ar included under and overseas shows privy be ground at the band's site."The Formation of Eternal damnation," which surfaced last calendar month, is Testament's first freshly studio album in club geezerhood. It likewise first Baron Marks of Broughton the number one fourth dimension in more than a tenner that original members Pat Billy goat (vocals), Alex Skolnick (guitar), Eric Peterson (guitar), and Greg Christian (bass) ar together, along with lately recruited drummer Apostle Paul Bostaph. A yoke of songs from the newly set ar streaming at Testament's MySpace page. The band is likewise revisiting about of its past offerings, having reissued 1997's "Demonic," 1999's "The Gathering" and 2001's "First Come to Still Deadly" through Prosthetic Records.

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Cowell: 'New American Idol is best yet'

The new series of American English God volition be one of the best yet, according to producer and judge St. Simon Cowell.
The singing contest, which pose next Th, showcases the best and worst of auditions from crosswise the US in a bid to rule simply one "Paragon".
Cowell dismissed meditation that the demonstrate will give birth less competition in the ratings this year due to the ongoing writers' strike in the US, saying they had discovered "three or four" stars.
He said: "I cerebrate three or four of the contestants we've got this year would have gotten recording contracts even without 'Idol'. I think they're that goodness."
He went on: "We heard a year or so ago that 'Dancing With the Stars' was mentation just about going up against us, which I think would be a error... So I think we're in the sami view as we were last year and the year ahead.
"The most important thing is that our designate has got to await bettor, it's got to be more playfulness as a read. And if it is, I think more masses will catch."
Cowell also dismissed criticism that American God was not as goodness as it used to be.
"It's an incredible vehicle for people world Health Organization want to be successful and under pattern circumstances can't get a record deal for some reason," he said.
"The theme of Carrie Underbrush wandering around without a book deal is staggering.
"You seem at shows like 'American Idol' and 'Dancing With the Stars', which I view to be 2 of the superbrands, these two shows, in my mind, seem to be getting better over the years."
He went on: "The good newsworthiness is that this is a lots better season than shoemaker's last class ... [it's] one of the strongest years that we've had in a long, long time.
"It's younger, I think the natural endowment is more current, they're more interesting the great unwashed. So I go into this season a band to a greater extent optimistic than I went in last year."